It's always sad when a beloved character dies in a TV show or movie, but at least sometimes we get a beautiful death or memorial scene. Maybe they die as a hero, or maybe there's a heartfelt goodbye scene.
Other times...the character's death genuinely comes across as careless and cruel, like it's an afterthought. And it's genuinely infuriating. Here are 21 that bother me the most!
Also, I'm going to take this opportunity to complain about how many times I had to lighten all the images in this post to even make them visible. These character deaths were so unceremonious, they didn't even bother making the scene light enough for us to see it happen.
1. On True Blood, when Tara was killed offscreen:
2. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Part 2, when Finnick was killed by lizard-thingies after surviving not one, but TWO Hunger Games:
3. In Supernatural, when Dean was killed by a nail after FIFTEEN seasons of fighting demons, Death, and God himself:
4. In Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, when Padmé died of a broken heart despite having two children who needed her and expressing that she still had hope for Anakin:
5. On The Vampire Diaries, when Damon killed Tyler while under Sybil's control:
6. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, when Fred basically died offscreen:
7. As did Lupin and Tonks:
8. And Lavender's fate wasn't even confirmed:
9. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Anya died of a stab wound at Sunnydale High in the series finale:
10. In Avengers: Endgame, when Natasha sacrificed herself for the soul stone:
11. On Angel, when Cordelia died offscreen in a hospital after spending half a season in a coma (which none of the main characters even visited her during):
12. Also on Angel, when Fred died in a single episode after being struck ill with the spirit of Illyria:
13. On The 100, when Bellamy was shot dead by Clarke:
14. On Pretty Little Liars, when Maya died offscreen — and it turned out she hadn't even been killed by any of the main villains, but by some guest star stalker who had absolutely nothing to do with the main plot:
15. And when Wren was revealed to have died offscreen:
16. On Game of Thrones, when Jon stabbed Daenerys:
17. In Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi: when Luke died by depleting his life force through astral projection:
18. On Orange Is the New Black, when Tiffany overdosed falsely thinking she'd failed her GED:
19. In Glass, when David Dunn/The Overseer — a superhuman — was drowned in a flooded pothole.
20. On How I Met Your Mother, when Tracy was revealed to have died in the finale and it turned out the whole show was a buildup to Ted and Robin being together:
21. And finally, let's end on one that was just unnecessarily cruel: when the kids' babysitter Zara was killed in a brutal minute-long sequence in Jurassic World:
