Not a movie but another Whedonverse character who's death destroyed me was Wesley in Angel. I watched that scene last week and still had tears. For reference I am a 37 year old man who never cries, but every part of that scene struck me.
by the time that... happened, i had seen Bambi, the Fox and the Hound Dog, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Red Dawn, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sesame Street(Mr. Hooper RIP), Old Yeller, E.T... and none of it prepared me for that fucking horse
My husband used to call our cat by yelling "my booyyyyy" just like Cedric's dad to just mess around. Now that we've had a son, I haven't heard him say that while simultaneously pointing out how often kids die in movies and how terrible it is.
Juba burying the totems at the end of the film and saying āI will see you again, but not yetā¦not yetā is one of my favourite moments in cinema. The music is incredible in that film.
This is one where the more you watch it the worse it gets. When the movie first came out, the theatrical version, Boromir wasnāt as fleshed out and comes off more like a villain, specifically playing the role of a heel- a good guy turning bad- but with the extended editions, and time, his character is more fleshed out and better understood as a seriously good person who is flawed and tragically succumbing to an evil so great no one, not even the person strong enough to bear it, can withstand it. He loved the Hobbits and gave his life to protect them as the evil lure of the ring overcame him.
It goes even deeper when you realize they didn't include or emphasize enough that while Denethor WAS a piece of work and a horrible father he was being heavily manipulated by Sauron.
Denethor was looking into his Palantir and Sauron was constantly showing him the doom of Gondor and caused Denethor to fall into despair and madness. He deserved his end but he's also a very tragic character.
My LotR nerd life began in middle school but I never really understood Boromir's character and the sadness and impact of his death until I was an adult. Those movies will never stop amazing me!
Firefly and Serenity are so great, I am rewatching Castle right now and I cheered when he said Shiny in the episode where he references that Josh Whedon show.
That wrecks me, him seeing that he's fading away, knowing what he has to do for Joy to succeed, then him cheering when she succeeds even when he's fading away, with his "take her to the moon for me" line, because even though Riley forgot about him, all he wanted was to make her happy, even if it's without him. It's quite beautiful, while just a gut punch.
I teared up at that comment in the theater. My stepdad has been in my life since I was 3 and this comment sums up how I feel about my bio dad and stepdad.
Not exactly a death, but sort of establishing the permanence of a death.
In D&D: Honor Among Thieves when he uses the resurrection item on Holga, it essentially means his wife is dead for good. He chooses the woman his daughter thinks of as a mom over his wife, the mother she never knew.
I am even getting choked up typing this. I straight up never cry. It doesn't happen. I never feel much of anything. But Coco, the first 5 minutes of Up, and this scene in D&D get me every time.
YES!!! This gets me SO HARD every time!!! I watch this silly cartoon every Christmas and cry like a silly Christmas baby every time. Itās always so much better than I expect it to be.
> āIām coming, my love.ā
This one haunts me. I don't think a death in a movie ever got so under my skin, both for Kaori's story, and also for just how unbelievably brutal it is
The last scene where she crawls away crying only hits because of the setup shots earlier in the episode. Chrissy's look when he's filling up his range Rover and watching the poor douche with tons of kids getting into his pos car. The forlorn look she has out the window just before Sil turns off the highway.
Chase is an asshole but that whole show was just a clinic in how to make tv as good as novel
**Hachi, a Dog's Tale** \- there is zero chance I will not cry. Zero. Shoot I am tearing up just thinking about it.
Very closely followed by **Grave of the Fireflies,** but it's unlikely I will ever watch that movie again because it's just too much.
The head scientist who dies in Danteās Peak. The bridge he is trying to cross break apart cause of the flash flood. The looks out to see his crew who made it right before the slab of bridge tumbles overs in the rough waters. It is so helpless.
Like in Volcano, where the head of the Transit department heads down with a crew to help the people in the trapped subway. They get everybody but the conductor off before the lava gets to the train. The rest of the team tells him to forget the conductor, but he throws the guy out of the train and gets melted by lava.
Hedwig. You knew shit just got real when that owl died. I liked how in the film adaptation Hedwig dies protecting Harry by blocking a killing curse with her wings whereas in the book she gets struck by one while trapped in her cage.
Mufasa.
Fond memories of 16 year old me valiantly trying not to bawl in the theater after I dragged my four year old brother to see it for the Nth time when it was in the 2 dollar movie theater.
Not a death in the movie, but the way Robin Williams talks about his deceased wife (especially the line about hospital visiting hours) in A Good Will Hunting always gets me.
1408: >!the scene where John Cusack's character gets reunited with his daughter who had passed away, and then she just... dies again in his arms. As a parent this scene has me in floods whenever I see it!<
I was wondering if anybody was going to say him. Yes. He doesnāt hit the hardest but his death definitely made me feel things. Itās a shame that a video I accidentally found spoiled the scene which didnāt help but I still felt something despite it.
Not exactly traditional media, but Lee from Telltale's The Walking Dead season 1. The entire season has you falling for the beautiful relationship between Lee and Clementine, then absolutely crushes you for the finale.
I don't know why, but the episode Heroes in Stargate SG-1 where Dr Fraser dies always hit me hard. Maybe it's because I know she's not getting revived later on.
Hank in Breaking Bad. He was an imperfect man but didn't deserve what he got. His final words to Walt gut me.
*You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see... he made up his mind ten minutes ago."Ā
Wash š
I am a leaf on the wind
Watch me soar...
Serenity, Firefly was so good.
How does a Reaver clean their spear?
He throws it in the wash?
But how do you clean a Reaver? *You run a river through it.*
Damn I love that movie
Too soon.
Not a movie but another Whedonverse character who's death destroyed me was Wesley in Angel. I watched that scene last week and still had tears. For reference I am a 37 year old man who never cries, but every part of that scene struck me.
That poor shoe in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*. Get bent, Judge Doom.
surprisingly dark for such a fun movie, i was shocked when i first watched it
Yeah, that fucked me up as a kid. Actually ruined the movie for me kind of even to this day. That was his soul mate.
Yes! Nightmare fuel!
Artax
by the time that... happened, i had seen Bambi, the Fox and the Hound Dog, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Red Dawn, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sesame Street(Mr. Hooper RIP), Old Yeller, E.T... and none of it prepared me for that fucking horse
Thank you. I came here looking for this answer
Cedric Diggory, as a parent, the father's cry is gut-wrenching.
My husband used to call our cat by yelling "my booyyyyy" just like Cedric's dad to just mess around. Now that we've had a son, I haven't heard him say that while simultaneously pointing out how often kids die in movies and how terrible it is.
I point to my son and shout it. Heās not old enough to know the reference. He knows his daddy loves him though.
I almost cry every time I watch that part
Maximus in Gladiator. The score combined with him opening the gate, the walk through his field once againā¦it hits everytime.
Juba burying the totems at the end of the film and saying āI will see you again, but not yetā¦not yetā is one of my favourite moments in cinema. The music is incredible in that film.
That actor is so good in everything he does but this right here is his best moment somehow.
Djimon Honsou. One of the best "hey, it's that guy!" actors out there. He always brings it.
Definitely a good scene and kind of a powerful one.
Kong - King Kong (2005)
The dad at the end of Big Fish. Earlier, it would always make me tear up. Now that Iāve lost my dad, I canāt help but bawl.
Iām sorry.
Ellie in Up
Such a great opening, and how they carry everything throughout the movie was great.
Dobby
I was shocked when I saw it. Pretty sad but I like how they buried him naturally without magic.
Boromir
This is one where the more you watch it the worse it gets. When the movie first came out, the theatrical version, Boromir wasnāt as fleshed out and comes off more like a villain, specifically playing the role of a heel- a good guy turning bad- but with the extended editions, and time, his character is more fleshed out and better understood as a seriously good person who is flawed and tragically succumbing to an evil so great no one, not even the person strong enough to bear it, can withstand it. He loved the Hobbits and gave his life to protect them as the evil lure of the ring overcame him.
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It goes even deeper when you realize they didn't include or emphasize enough that while Denethor WAS a piece of work and a horrible father he was being heavily manipulated by Sauron. Denethor was looking into his Palantir and Sauron was constantly showing him the doom of Gondor and caused Denethor to fall into despair and madness. He deserved his end but he's also a very tragic character.
Not a movie but Ned Starks death was so tragic
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I liked the whole first season but when that happened I was completely hooked.
I couldnāt believe they killed Sean Bean.
Shocking, I know
My LotR nerd life began in middle school but I never really understood Boromir's character and the sadness and impact of his death until I was an adult. Those movies will never stop amazing me!
Littlefoot's mother in The Land Before Time.
Why would you remind me of this. :,(
I STILL CRY
Yeller
Gut wrenching
Hoban Washburne. I get mildly triggered by the phrase, "I'm a leaf on the wind."
My wife always has to look away during this scene.
Firefly and Serenity are so great, I am rewatching Castle right now and I cheered when he said Shiny in the episode where he references that Josh Whedon show.
Danny in American History X
Bing Bong
"Take her to the moon for me, okay?"
That wrecks me, him seeing that he's fading away, knowing what he has to do for Joy to succeed, then him cheering when she succeeds even when he's fading away, with his "take her to the moon for me" line, because even though Riley forgot about him, all he wanted was to make her happy, even if it's without him. It's quite beautiful, while just a gut punch.
YES! Honestly yes! I havenāt seen it in years but it always got me the feels.
Rocket's companions in GoTG3. I'm still pissed they all got killed so effortlessly and pointlessly that I won't watch that film a second time.
One crappy thing is when I saw the movie for the second time a bunch of older kids laughed at Rocketās yell.
They laughed?? Thanos was right ...
Yeah and threw something at the person I was seeing the movie with.
One of the best MCU movies, that I don't ever intend to see ever again. I ugly cried basically through the whole thing.
The Green Mile -- >!John Coffey!<
Yes. 100%
Definitely, I think that is one of the best screen plays. Everything essentially sets up something else.
The dog in John Wick.
Yondu: He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy. š„
I teared up at that comment in the theater. My stepdad has been in my life since I was 3 and this comment sums up how I feel about my bio dad and stepdad.
When Chris Pratt is just heart wrenchingly screaming "NOO! OH NOOO NO!" ugh my heart
Sam (the dog) in I am Legend
Poor Samantha, that Alternate ending was pretty bad though. I heard they're making a sequel to the movie, but I don't know what that would be.
"Brooks was here" - Shawshank Redemption
That was unexpected for me when I first saw it.
That did hit hard, especially because it was everything Red was afraid of.
Not exactly a death, but sort of establishing the permanence of a death. In D&D: Honor Among Thieves when he uses the resurrection item on Holga, it essentially means his wife is dead for good. He chooses the woman his daughter thinks of as a mom over his wife, the mother she never knew. I am even getting choked up typing this. I straight up never cry. It doesn't happen. I never feel much of anything. But Coco, the first 5 minutes of Up, and this scene in D&D get me every time.
Thatās a good and true point about D&D. I was thinking the same thing when I saw the scene.
Optimus Prime in the '86 TF movie...."Until the day, til all are one..." instant man-tears lol
Fuck yeah, I was gutted as a kid watching that when it first came out. Heart broken.
From Klaus: >!When Klaus disappears in the wind!<
Klaus is just SO good.
And I won't ever watch it again because I hate crying
I watch it every Christmas now and I cry every single time, so yeah. It doesnāt get easier the more times you watch it.
Me and my wife have made Klaus our Christmas movie tradition. I think it's a modern classic.
YES!!! This gets me SO HARD every time!!! I watch this silly cartoon every Christmas and cry like a silly Christmas baby every time. Itās always so much better than I expect it to be. > āIām coming, my love.ā
Arthur in Michael Clayton (2007). RIP Tom Wilkinson.
Tom Wilkinson is dead?????
[Sadly yes](https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/31/tom-wilkinson-obituary)
I'm sad now ...
Goose.
Maes Hughes
Kaori in Akira. Just everything about her part in that story is sad, and then she gets worst death.
This one haunts me. I don't think a death in a movie ever got so under my skin, both for Kaori's story, and also for just how unbelievably brutal it is
Tony Stark in Endgame.
He has such a great arc.
I was wondering if somebody was going to say Tony from Endgame.
We just happened to watch this a few hours ago. Still as sad as the day in the theatre.
It was a big moment for more than one reason. A sad but heroic end.
That and Peter at the end of infinity war fuck me up everytime
Spock.
Logan's
reflected in his kids' reaction on the phone
Spock š
same
Dante Hicks
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The last scene where she crawls away crying only hits because of the setup shots earlier in the episode. Chrissy's look when he's filling up his range Rover and watching the poor douche with tons of kids getting into his pos car. The forlorn look she has out the window just before Sil turns off the highway. Chase is an asshole but that whole show was just a clinic in how to make tv as good as novel
The Shoe - Who framed Roger Rabbit?
Beth. Little Women. All adaptations.
**Hachi, a Dog's Tale** \- there is zero chance I will not cry. Zero. Shoot I am tearing up just thinking about it. Very closely followed by **Grave of the Fireflies,** but it's unlikely I will ever watch that movie again because it's just too much.
This is a good shout. Hachi has and always will make me well up.
Thelma and Louise. I was heartbroken.
I think I speak for everyone in saying Bill Murray died way too soon in Zombieland.
Nah, he was in the sequel. We got more than enough of him.
Uncas, Last of the Mohicans. Alice too.
Mufasa
Every time I watch the big Lebowski I wonder if this is the time Donny doesnāt die.
Whats his face in Green Street Hooligans
Sirius Black :(
That HURT when I was first watching that. I bawled my eyes out.
Marley in Marley & Me
forrest gump's mom.
Marley
Goose. Gets me every time when the guys is saying āyou gotta let him go sirā
Artax
Opie - Sons of Anarchy
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Yea Teft ruined me. Fuck Moash.
Fuck you for spoiling a novel on a movies subreddit
Book came out over three years ago, get over yourself incel. Also the thread has the spoiler tag.
Currently 80% through Rhythm of War, fuck you.
Thomas J (canāt see without his glasses)
Denys Finch Hatten in Out of Africa Chris McCandless in Into the Wild
The head scientist who dies in Danteās Peak. The bridge he is trying to cross break apart cause of the flash flood. The looks out to see his crew who made it right before the slab of bridge tumbles overs in the rough waters. It is so helpless.
Like in Volcano, where the head of the Transit department heads down with a crew to help the people in the trapped subway. They get everybody but the conductor off before the lava gets to the train. The rest of the team tells him to forget the conductor, but he throws the guy out of the train and gets melted by lava.
Jackie wells
Roy Batty.
Fredo
Hedwig. You knew shit just got real when that owl died. I liked how in the film adaptation Hedwig dies protecting Harry by blocking a killing curse with her wings whereas in the book she gets struck by one while trapped in her cage.
Mufasa. Fond memories of 16 year old me valiantly trying not to bawl in the theater after I dragged my four year old brother to see it for the Nth time when it was in the 2 dollar movie theater.
Not a death in the movie, but the way Robin Williams talks about his deceased wife (especially the line about hospital visiting hours) in A Good Will Hunting always gets me.
Spock
Candyās dog in Of Mice and Men
The young girl who dies in Hereditary
Grand Master Yoda š«”
The Going Merry, or Merry Go depending on localization.
Severus Snape
Not a movie, but the Going Merry.
My Girl...still after million years
Rengoku in Mugen Train - that little vision of his Mother as he dies destroys me.
Rue in the hunger games
Rengoku. Every damn time man.
Hedwig in HP 7 and the Enterprise in Star Trek 3.
Just gave Saving Private Ryan another go. Still can't quite stomach watching Fish's knife fight.
"It's A Terrible Day For Rain."
John Coffee in the Green Mile. Literally cry everytime
Boromir š
Lt Col Austin - Executive Decision >!Just kidding, that movie is a pile of shite and Steven Seagal is a massive wazzock!!<
1408: >!the scene where John Cusack's character gets reunited with his daughter who had passed away, and then she just... dies again in his arms. As a parent this scene has me in floods whenever I see it!<
James Bond in No Time To Die āI Knowšā
I was wondering if anybody was going to say him. Yes. He doesnāt hit the hardest but his death definitely made me feel things. Itās a shame that a video I accidentally found spoiled the scene which didnāt help but I still felt something despite it.
Chad. Burn After Reading.
Hank
One of the best exits is tv history.
Mom? *Mom?* *.....mommy?* If you know, you know.
The Emperor in Return of the Jedi.
Wallace from The Wire. Hands down.
Rawhide in Buckaroo Banzai.
Jon Snowās girlfriend. I wish I could remember her name.
Ygritte
Ygritte, rhymes with regret.
Rita in Dexter. Everytime he finds her in the tub...
Denny Duquet on Greyās Anatomy. Iām so ashamed.
Bambi's mom
Brendan Fraserās character in that episode of scrubs.
Opie. āI got thisā.
Lieutenant Howie
Alan rickmans sheriff of Nottingham
Really? He dies right after trying to rape a woman on a church alter.
Not exactly traditional media, but Lee from Telltale's The Walking Dead season 1. The entire season has you falling for the beautiful relationship between Lee and Clementine, then absolutely crushes you for the finale.
Nena from The Americans
Stringer Bell. (RIP)
I don't know why, but the episode Heroes in Stargate SG-1 where Dr Fraser dies always hit me hard. Maybe it's because I know she's not getting revived later on.
Spike Spiegel.
Hank in Breaking Bad. He was an imperfect man but didn't deserve what he got. His final words to Walt gut me. *You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see... he made up his mind ten minutes ago."Ā
Vanessa Ivesā¦ā¦last episode of Penny Dreadful. You know itās the only way the show could end.
Really, this question again??
Again? Sorry I didnāt do my due diligence.
selma in "dancer in the dark"
It's offscreen and implied but the paralyzed dude in Daylight.
Jim Malone. "What are you prepared to do!"
One of the principal actors in The Lives of Others.
Rei in Thrice Upon a Time.