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For me, it was always Optimus Prime from The Transformers movie.

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My horse in Red Dead Redemption 2. I captured and tamed it from wild the moment I was able.

R.I.P Coffee!

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Shiii- I was blanking on answers (trauma response maybe), but this reminded me of the Minecraft horse I lost one time. I mean, I am, and was, a grown man playing a block game for fun, but that horse dying. Oof.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Gurren Lagan SpoilersKamina

[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Hedwig and Fred Weasley

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] tht@social.pwned.page 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BT in titanfall 2, one of the only scenes that made my shed a tear

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago

That's a good one.

Saw it coming a mile away (i.e. from the start thanks to the protocol that says to protect the pilot), but it was such a good execution.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Charlie from all dogs go to heaven.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of people hate on Sword Art Online, but in the second season...

Tap for spoilerWhen Yukio dies, and the last thing she sees is the all the players flying overhead in tribute to her... I was already crying, but that left me ugly crying. It hit real hard, way harder than I expected.

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[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 8 points 1 week ago

Marley from Marley and Me

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

The dragon from Dragonheart. It was my first time being sad from a movie.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

John Marston. There are a lot of character deaths that really hit me hard. Hank from Breaking Bad comes to mind.

But man, John's death just hits so deeply. I played RDR a good 4 or so years after its release, so I knew it was coming. Even then, it barely felt real. And you better believe I was frantically trying to mark all those Pinkertons to help John get through it.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Tali/Legion decision is brutal if you made mistakes in ME2 and 3.

Carter from Person of Interest.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I started reading Dragonlance novels around 10 years old. When I got my hands on the third main one (IIRC), one of the main characters who's a knight died and that impacted me for quite some time.

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[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Optimus Prime was a real shock for sure. For me it’s any animal death.

  • Artax from The Neverending Story
  • The dogs from Where the Red Fern Grows
  • There’s a scene in the Sci-fi novel Armor where a puppy falls in a well and its owner, a child, unable to rescue it ,has to kill it by dropping stones on it to spare it drowning. I read that a long time ago, probably in the 80s, and it still haunts me.
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[–] sockman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Charlie in Lost sticks with me

And for my Stormlight fans >!Teft's death still hurts. He had grown so much...😭!<

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I still think about Aeries/Arith from FF7. Such a senseless death. It makes no sense. Literally was done just to elicit a response from the player. This segment alone is why I am upset that the second game in the Rebirth series isn't on PC; I really want to know if that scene is going to be altered due to the weird storyline branches that come from the time-travel/alternate reality shenanigans that so far as I've seen from the first game, only Arith knows about.

The only other one I really think about randomly is your own character in Fallout 3. Fuck you Fawkes! I don't believe in fate. Now get your green ass in there so nobody has to die!

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've kept this vague, but still, SPOILERS ahead for The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. SPOILERS. I'll see if I can get the damn spoiler tag working, but SPOILERS.

EDIT: No dice, I can't seem to get the spoiler tag working on Interstellar.

At the very end of the ninth and final book of the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie, your favorite character (possibly just of the series, but they might be your favorite fictional character ever) that you've spent three books getting to know and love and cherish is fucking executed in front of people they love and then you find out that execution was orchestrated by the second best character in the entire nine book series. It felt like my heart was being ripped up and I fukken wept like a small child. My partner was angry and depressed for months because this character stood for so much that was good and hopeful and then they just fucking died in such a horrible way. Joe Abercrombie is a fucking amazing writer for being able to elicit an emotional response like that and he's a bastard for doing so. The moment is totally earned and I'd highly recommend the books. Just make sure you're in a good place emotionally before you start the last one.

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[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

The last one i remember is the Going Merry from One Piece

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

SPOILERS, dude.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Chewbacca

spoilerHe sacrificed himself to save Anakin Solo on Sernpidal.
At the start of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, before the galaxy even knew of the enemy they would soon be facing, the Millenial Falcon was on Sernipdal to pick up a shipment. Sernipdal's moon was falling, actually being pulled down by a Vong lifeform that manipulates gravity. The Falcon was being loaded with evacuees and Anakin Solo was hit by a blast of wind taking him away from the ship. Chewy chases Anakin down, scoops him up, and rushes back to the Falcon. He's just able to get Anakin into the ship when another shockwave hits, knocking Chewy away from the Falcon. With no time left, Han is forced to take off or lose everyone on board. Chewbacca understands and as a last defiant act he throws his arms wide and bellows out a might rookie roar.

Chewbacca's death hit me damn hard when I read that book. Recalling it now to write this even brought tears to my eyes. A hero so noble and mighty it took a moon to defeat him.

Anakin's death later in the same series was pretty awesome but not as wrenching emotionally.

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire. The episode was amazing and the send-off was beautifully written but, boy, was it sad.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Life is strange - Kate's Suicide

I honestly think you got robbed if you managed to save her on your first play through

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Grave of fireflies. Just... Yeah.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 spoiler:

Tap for spoilerJackie Wells. Damn that broke me up; the whole buildup in Act1 to that scene was so artfully done. So immersed. Really felt like I lost my anchor and best friend in that fucked up life.

I’ll ride his Arch til the day I can’t. Not a scratch.

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[–] Mars2k21@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Jiraiya from Naruto Shippuden. Felt like my own family member passed when they killed him off.

Edit: Also, Sergeant Johnson in Halo 3.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Nagisa Furukawa. Messed me right up.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Kanan from Star Wars Rebels.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Not my most, but also not already in the thread:

Duella's in BSG.

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