6 TV Character Deaths We Will Never Get Over

These episodes might be too painful to watch twice. Spoiler and Kleenex alert.

1. Sansa Stark - Game of Thrones

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Is she everyone's favorite character? Maybe not, but she's been there from the beginning, and her eventual fate is going to hit audiences like a sword to the gut. The eldest daughter of House Stark saw her fair share of ups and downs, but no one will be able to predict this season's shocking twist.

In a profound deviation from the course set for Sansa by the novels, this upcoming season will force Arya — and we the audience — to watch helplessly as her sister Sansa has her throat torn out by the very dire wolf she forced Arya to abandon after it attacked Joffrey in Season 1. Dramatic irony? Sure. But are we ready for it? Not even a little bit.

2. Barry Allen - The Flash

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The Flash became CW's surprise hit, in no small part thanks to Grant Gustin's effortlessly likable performance as a lovable loser granted the ability to run at lightning speed. The show's joyful portrayal of super-heroics was a breath of fresh air — especially weighed against its grim-and-gritty counterpart Arrow — making it all the more brutal when Barry Allen gets impaled through the heart by one of Captain Cold's icicles in Season 3.

Fans will never forget his unrequited love interest, Iris, pulling up his mask and the last flicker of recognition vanishing from Barry's eyes as he manages to barely whisper one final word: "You."

3. Michael Scott - The Office Revisited

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Just because you know it's coming doesn't make it any less painful. Over the course of 7 unforgettable seasons, Steve Carrell played Michael Scott as a character oblivious to life's risks — from roasting his own foot on a George Foreman Grill to threatening to leap off the Dunder Mifflin building when a team building exercise got way too real.

However, Carrell's return to the role that launched him will be bittersweet, as fans watch him electrocute himself into a coma in the upcoming TV movie The Office Revisited, and stay with him through the end as Pam pulls the plug in the backdoor pilot for The Office 2.0.

4. Grover - Sesame Street

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Sesame Street has long served as a tool for parents to introduce difficult conversations to their children — from the Emmy-honored "Goodbye Mr. Hooper," to the divorce of Snuffleupagus' parents. However, never before will a death be so heartbreaking to a child as in the case of Grover, himself a child (or at least childlike character), who will be killed off later this season to teach kids a lesson that even their peers, or they themselves, must die — some much sooner than others.

Grover is slated to be replaced with a pink muppet named Xingjuan who loves using tablet computers, safely and in moderation.

5. Michelle Obama - The Obama Administration

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President Obama has made no secret that the popularity of the First Lady far exceeds his own — and why shouldn't it? Above the fray of politics, she has been a symbol of hope and inspiration for not just working mothers, but all American citizens who dream of a country united to build something greater.

A whole generation of kids grew up watching Michelle Obama on TV, and it will shake them to their core when, live on CNN, during a photo-op at a booming Toledo steel plant, she is suddenly crushed by an anvil.

6. Bruce Wayne - Gotham

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This one is really going to catch us off guard. When Fox announced that Gotham would be a prequel chronicling the pre-Batman era of the titular fictional metropolis, fans were intrigued. But the slow, torturous death of boy-billionaire Bruce Wayne at the hands of new villain "The Ogre" will shock fans who, perhaps foolishly, assumed that the prequel would follow the basic tenets of Bruce Wayne's comic book destiny — at the very least, surviving long enough to become Batman.

From Detective Jim Gordon stumbling on his tiny lifeless body in the warehouse, to Alfred pounding so hard on Bruce's casket that his fist cracks the veneer, this character's death will be more than devastating. It will drastically redefine the show's role in the larger Batman mythos and prove that in a city as dangerous as Gotham, no one is truly safe.