Character Deaths

Have you ever read a book or watched a show where a a character dies and you just get all kinds of feels from it, but it helps move the plot along? Like Mufasa in The Lion King for example. By golly, that death hurt so bad, but if he didn't die, Simba wouldn't have run away, Scar wouldn't have become king, and so on. Some character deaths matter and they hurt and you cry, but they make sense. But then... there are some character deaths where you're just angry like, "WAS THAT ACTUALLY NECESSARY??? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?!! YOU COULD HAVE GONE SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE ELSE WITH THAT BUT KILLING THEM!!!" And that's what I'm going to talk about today. Well, more specifically I am going to rant about a few of the worst I have experienced in my past. The ones that cut my heart out and smashed it into the dirt.

I could only think of three off the top of my head.

First up is Fred from Harry Potter (and the Deathly Hallows). Who didn't cry when he died? You must be inhuman if you didn't. Just... WHY??? How could JK Rowling DO that!? The twins were like my favorite part of the books. The fantastic duo! They were inseparable! And then she goes and kills one of them? *cries* It didn't progress the plot along in any way except to be a part of the killing off a bunch of people in the battle at Hogwarts (I mean, a load of beloved characters died. Like Remus and Tonks too!). But why did it have to be Fred!? The only purpose it served was to hurt us readers. And it did its job well! Argh!

OK, next is Gabriel from Supernatural. So practically everybody dies at least once in this show, but this death... no. Just no. When the angels die, there's no bringing them back (at least so far) because they don't really have souls or bodies per say, so I know he's gone for good. And... I can't! *sobs* He was just such an awesome character! He was in all the best episodes. And he wasn't supposed to die! He always escaped death. He always had a trick up his sleeve (that's why he got away with pretending to be the Trickster for so long). But no. It just came out of nowhere. It didn't move anything along at all. It just happened. Out of the blue. You think everything's going along fine and then... he gets killed! Ugh! Noooo! No reason to kill him off whatsoever. Why do I watch this show with these sadistic writers? Always killing the best characters. Gah! WHY!?!!

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Lastly, the mother/Tracy from How I Met Your Mother. I cannot even begin to describe how much I did not like the ending to this show. The show itself was awesome, one of the best. But the end... :/ Anyways, killing off the mother at the end so that Ted could go pursue Robin once more. Just ugh! No! It makes me so angry! Like it did progress the plot along, but in a completely unnecessary way. The whole point of the show was so Ted could end up with the mother. Not to find out that she's been dead during the entire narration and that Ted's still in love with Robin (like he has been through the entire show! Ugh! Just get over her already!). No! Just no! How could they do that?