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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Aug 30, 2019 17:48:12 GMT -5
I'm sure it counts since both the death itself and confirmation of it were off-screen but Zack Snyder killing off Dick Grayson. Hell, he killed off Jimmy Olsen in a deleted scene from the same movie.
EDIT: Didn't read the previous comment.
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Post by chrom on Aug 30, 2019 18:16:28 GMT -5
The Night King.
Being built up for so long and he goes out like a bitch. The only thing missing to cement it was him falling into The Yamcha Pose. Making everything that had been built for so long all for nothing and virtually pointless.
Why? Because D&D could not stop gushing over and giving a blowjob to Arya who up there with The Uchihas is the worst character ever.
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Post by Rave on Aug 30, 2019 18:18:44 GMT -5
I know a lot of fanatical Torchwood fans went insane when Ianto died in the Torchwood: Children of Earth series. Ah, back when death in Doctor Who actually meant something. Ianto's death annoyed me, but it wasn't the thing that turned me off Torchwood. It was f***ing Gwen Cooper still living that did that.
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Post by Tenshigure on Aug 30, 2019 18:24:23 GMT -5
Zara was the female assistant that got the "Full Blown Villain Gratuitous Death in an 80's Action Movie Style" right? That was some bullshit. I have a friend who totally had a Mandela Effect with that scene, he was sure the younger kid shouted AWESOME after that. I think they wanted to replicate the T.rex attacking the lawyer in JP1. But that character deserved it.. he was greedy and a coward who bailed on the kids at the first sign of danger. If Zara was meant to be a bitch they did a poor job of establishing it, I think she has one snide comment but that’s out of frustration of being forced to be a babysitter, then the kids abandon her.. not the other way round. Zara's one and only offense was being the assistant to a self-centered bitch that happened to be the FMC of the damned film. How dare she be frustrated at her wedding plans and her fiance's bachelor party (no seriously, that's what she was talking about on the phone when the kids ran off), when you've got a pair of kids going through a traumatizing situation of their parents getting divorced, and their aunt can't bother to spend even 5 minutes with them!
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 30, 2019 18:24:36 GMT -5
The Night King. Being built up for so long and he goes out like a bitch. The only thing missing to cement it was him falling into The Yamcha Pose. Making everything that had been built for so long all for nothing and virtually pointless. Why? Because D&D could not stop gushing over and giving a blowjob to Arya who up there with The Uchihas is the worst character ever. I hear this a lot, and I’m not asking to argue, but I’m genuinely curious. To you, what would have been a satisfying conclusion to that arc?
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Post by chrom on Aug 30, 2019 18:36:58 GMT -5
The Night King. Being built up for so long and he goes out like a bitch. The only thing missing to cement it was him falling into The Yamcha Pose. Making everything that had been built for so long all for nothing and virtually pointless. Why? Because D&D could not stop gushing over and giving a blowjob to Arya who up there with The Uchihas is the worst character ever. I hear this a lot, and I’m not asking to argue, but I’m genuinely curious. To you, what would have been a satisfying conclusion to that arc? You wanna have Arya kill him? Fine, have it take place during a Battle with Jon when he's about to kill him and she saves his life. Have The Night's King actually be effective and doing something. He didn't do anything at all and the stuff he did do was non factors. He gets his own Dragon which is suppose to be equal to a Atomic Bomb and it only exists as background fodder. Show us why he's Dreaded all over and why The Living had to band together to fight him and why the other White Walkers served him.
Don't have him go out like a level 1 Kobold in Baldur's Gate you could beat with your bare hands and no gear equipped whatsoever. Don't make the tales regarding him, Lightbringer and The Prince that was Promised nothing more than pointless filler because you're too lazy to finish the job that you took on.
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Post by hotshotalex on Aug 30, 2019 18:38:53 GMT -5
I’m surprised no one has brought up Stephen King.
King does this a lot for me where I’ll fall in love with a character and bam horrible death.
Off the top of my head Nick in The Stand.
And Oy in The Dark Tower. The Dark Tower had a lot of major characters die at the end but man none of them hit my harder than Oy.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 30, 2019 19:40:06 GMT -5
Someone on here pointed out Darwin was a much better fit to be the mutant inspiration for the Sentinels, instead of forcing Mystique into that role. So if not totally writing him off like they did, they could have at least referenced him later on. That would be me. I mean, the Sentinels are literally using Darwin's power. Any I’ll put in Jimmy Olsen from “Dawn of Justice” .. if you didn’t know that journalist that gets shot near the start despite not being named was supposed to be Jimmy. I can’t remember who said it but they said it best that it was a bullshit thing the writers did to show that “this isn’t your Daddy’s Superman movie”. Not even a journalist. In the extended edition he introduces himself to Lois as "Jimmy Olsen, CIA." Get the f*** outta here. You introduce Jimmy Olsen as a badass CIA agent and have him shot in the face in the next scene? f***ing Zack Snyder.
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 30, 2019 19:44:45 GMT -5
Not me, but I know one poster here hates a certain death from Funky Winkerbean.
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 30, 2019 19:49:05 GMT -5
Rockstar games deciding to kill off Johnny Klebitz and making the entire Lost MC be complete jobbers. John Marston in RDR. It was beautiful storytelling and cinematics, and damn near made me tear up, but John was so cool that I didn't want to play as his son, who lacked said coolness imo. I see a pattern. What does Rockstar have against people named "John"?!
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 30, 2019 19:56:47 GMT -5
I hear this a lot, and I’m not asking to argue, but I’m genuinely curious. To you, what would have been a satisfying conclusion to that arc? You wanna have Arya kill him? Fine, have it take place during a Battle with Jon when he's about to kill him and she saves his life. Have The Night's King actually be effective and doing something. He didn't do anything at all and the stuff he did do was non factors. He gets his own Dragon which is suppose to be equal to a Atomic Bomb and it only exists as background fodder. Show us why he's Dreaded all over and why The Living had to band together to fight him and why the other White Walkers served him.
Don't have him go out like a level 1 Kobold in Baldur's Gate you could beat with your bare hands and no gear equipped whatsoever. Don't make the tales regarding him, Lightbringer and The Prince that was Promised nothing more than pointless filler because you're too lazy to finish the job that you took on.
I do think there was only one way it ended since they showed Jon taking out one of NK’s lieutenants with a Valyrian Blade in “Hardhome”. They could have made it Jon rather than Arya, but I think they went for the extended battle sequence of that episode rather than the throwdown between them. I’m not saying it was a good call, but amidst the many, many problems of the last season, I thought that was a weird one for many people to be fixated on. The fight between the living and the White Walkers was always less interesting than the fighting between the houses, and the “final” showdown being with Cersei and the Golden Company was the right call, although the producers nerfed them to an extreme degree.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 30, 2019 20:10:14 GMT -5
You wanna have Arya kill him? Fine, have it take place during a Battle with Jon when he's about to kill him and she saves his life. Have The Night's King actually be effective and doing something. He didn't do anything at all and the stuff he did do was non factors. He gets his own Dragon which is suppose to be equal to a Atomic Bomb and it only exists as background fodder. Show us why he's Dreaded all over and why The Living had to band together to fight him and why the other White Walkers served him. Don't have him go out like a level 1 Kobold in Baldur's Gate you could beat with your bare hands and no gear equipped whatsoever. Don't make the tales regarding him, Lightbringer and The Prince that was Promised nothing more than pointless filler because you're too lazy to finish the job that you took on.
I do think there was only one way it ended since they showed Jon taking out one of NK’s lieutenants with a Valyrian Blade in “Hardhome”. They could have made it Jon rather than Arya, but I think they went for the extended battle sequence of that episode rather than the throwdown between them. I’m not saying it was a good call, but amidst the many, many problems of the last season, I thought that was a weird one for many people to be fixated on. The fight between the living and the white walkers was always less interesting than the fighting between the houses, and the “final” showdown being with Cersei and the Golden Company was the right call, although the producers nerfed them to an extreme degree. The logical conclusion, IMO, should've been Jon kills the Night King, fulfilling his vow when he took the black, and Arya kills Cersei and Jaime, finishing her list and avenging her family. From there they could still run with Daeny as the Mad Queen and Jon killing her, but at least then Cersei would've gotten the death she deserved and the Night King wouldn't have been a damn consolation prize.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 20:37:45 GMT -5
Jesus in The Walking Dead. This affected me more than Carl’s death, who I never liked.... Jesus had so much left to give to the show. I get they wanted a big death to introduce the Whisperers... but why not Aaron?
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Daenerys heel turn and death in Game of Thrones. HATED HATED HATED this. I was so pissed off watching the last two episodes of GOT.
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Stanis’ daughter in GOT... completely sudden and out of character for him to allow that to happen. Made no sense.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 30, 2019 20:39:26 GMT -5
Someone on here pointed out Darwin was a much better fit to be the mutant inspiration for the Sentinels, instead of forcing Mystique into that role. So if not totally writing him off like they did, they could have at least referenced him later on. That would be me. I mean, the Sentinels are literally using Darwin's power. Any I’ll put in Jimmy Olsen from “Dawn of Justice” .. if you didn’t know that journalist that gets shot near the start despite not being named was supposed to be Jimmy. I can’t remember who said it but they said it best that it was a bullshit thing the writers did to show that “this isn’t your Daddy’s Superman movie”. Not even a journalist. In the extended edition he introduces himself to Lois as "Jimmy Olsen, CIA." Get the f*** outta here. You introduce Jimmy Olsen as a badass CIA agent and have him shot in the face in the next scene? f***ing Zack Snyder. CIA agent? So on top of everything else, Snyder borrowed from the Abrams script.
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Post by Tenshigure on Aug 30, 2019 20:45:27 GMT -5
Beth in The Walking Dead. Not just because her death was so damned stupid, but the idiot social media team for the show spoiled it immediately after the East Coast airing (not even before the West Coast aired), and spoiled the damned thing for everyone who wasn't watching it in the first airing.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 30, 2019 20:54:11 GMT -5
That would be me. I mean, the Sentinels are literally using Darwin's power. Not even a journalist. In the extended edition he introduces himself to Lois as "Jimmy Olsen, CIA." Get the f*** outta here. You introduce Jimmy Olsen as a badass CIA agent and have him shot in the face in the next scene? f***ing Zack Snyder. CIA agent? So on top of everything else, Snyder borrowed from the Abrams script. Yup. Lois is the only journalist present, IIRC, everybody else is a CIA undercover agent, which then makes more sense for the U.S. government to be a tad pissed off when shit goes south.
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Post by Rave on Aug 30, 2019 21:18:43 GMT -5
Seeing all the Game of Thrones vitriol makes me very glad I bailed after the stupidity that was the Sansa rape episode.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Aug 30, 2019 23:39:05 GMT -5
JLC in Halloween: Resurrection. I know this was most likely due to Jaime Lee Curtis' request, but to die 20 minutes into the film? BS.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 31, 2019 1:48:34 GMT -5
I didn't like seein' Donny go. But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we - ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 31, 2019 3:08:51 GMT -5
Omar in The Wire was the biggest for me. I didn't mind Omar's death. In fact I would say its the only time where giving such a popular character a anticlimactic death on purpose actually works. Hans Solo in Force Awakens, killed him off way to early in this trilogy, I wanted him to least be in one more movie The only problem with his death was how it could be seen coming from a mile away.
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