20 People Share What They Believe Are The Saddest TV Deaths Of All Time

We all hate it when a character we like dies. But some deaths hurt more than others.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• July 28, 2022

Let's face it, some characters are written so poorly that it's impossible to take them seriously when they say or do ludicrous things. Storytellers make mistakes too, and when they do, we are left with fictional characters who are exactly that—not real.

Even worse, their implausible actions might destroy an otherwise excellent book, TV show, or movie by shattering the suspension of disbelief. Fortunately, that's not always the case, and occasionally, we may identify with fictional characters in such a way that we can even learn from them and develop as people.

In fact, we can become so closely bonded to them that we begin to feel their pleasures and sorrows ourselves. And then - the writers kill them off.

And we are left in disbelief. Why would they want to do that to us?

What did we do to them to make us suffer so much? We've all seen a TV show character we loved killed off in a TV show, and it hurts.

it really does. People on Reddit are sharing TV deaths that hurt or shook them the most, and we have selected some of the most interesting answers.

Take a look, we know you will agree with most Redditors:

Someone asked:

1. The transplant patients in Scrubs

2. Sadly, this was based on a real event...

3. Blackadder and coming out of the trenches to face the German machineguns in WWI...

4. Buffy's mom

5. It hurts because it was so unexpected... and that makes it so real.

6. Poor Mr. Hooper

7. Alan Alda talking about baby's death in MASH

8. Adriana in Sopranos

9. Too many deaths on Lost...

10. Dr Wilson on House MD

11. Sybil in Downtown Abbey

12. Andrea in Breaking Bad

13. Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings

In 2019, the number of original scripted television series in the United States hit 532, up from 495 in the previous year. And who knows how many TV shows have been made since the beginning of television.

That makes the number of characters we saw on the TV screen close to … gazillion, we guess. One would say we would be used to seeing characters dying by now.

But it’s something that always makes us sad.

14. David Tennant from Dr.Who

15. The kid on The Wire

16. Chidi in The Good Place

17. Rita from Dexter

18. Sadly, the character died because the actor died. John Spencer's death ended Leo McGarry's character

19. So many good people...

20. People are still sad about Dr Frasier from Stargate SG-1

We all hate it when a character we like dies. But some deaths hurt more than others. There is no doubt that the TV characters’ deaths that hurt the most are the ones that were forced because the actors passed away.

Yes, it’s one thing not seeing your favorite character, but not seeing your favorite actor at all… that really hurts. For instance, John Ritter and John Spencer died during the shooting of TV shows.

Knowing that we won’t be able to enjoy some new characters they are portraying is simply awful. We sure loved them...

Damjan