Trope Talk: Character Deaths

It's tragic! It's deep! It's a looming threat to your heroes in every dangerous endeavor! And for some reason it's weirdly hard to convince your audience you really MEAN it!

One example I didn't think to include in the video is Eren Jeagar from the early episodes of Attack On Titan. Sure, this show hadn't shied away from murdering main-ISH characters, and a lot of the early appeal of the show was how brutal, bleak and desolate the reality of the situation was - but when the ACTUAL PROTAGONIST loses an arm and a leg and gets eaten on his first major mission, the resounding response from the fanbase was "ha, bullshit" and lo and behold, he was one confusing superpower away from being fine again. It kind of took a lot of the stakes away from a show that had gotten BIG on how high those stakes were.

At the risk of making the comment section too depressing, comment your favorite well-executed character death and, if you have one, a fakeout death that actually had you convinced!

And bro, if you're reading this, YOU'D BETTER CLICK "SHOW LESS" ON THIS DESCRIPTION BEFORE YOU SPOIL YOURSELF.

EXAMPLES USED, ROUGHLY IN ORDER: InuYasha episode 43, Fairy Tail episode 47, Berserk, assorted X-Men comics, Lazarus pits, Damien Wayne's resurrection, Elektra's resurrection in Netflix's Daredevil, old-school Marvel goodness, Gwen Stacy's clone Joyce Delaney, The Joker, Jean Grey (Phoenix mode), Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Elfquest, old-school DC goodness, Justice League (Hereafter part 1), Doctor Who (Season 8 Episode 5), Destroy All Humans, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh!, The Matrix, Ghost In The Shell, Robocop, Fairy Tail episode 244, [SUPER SECRET EXAMPLE], Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist (all versions)
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SUPER SECRET EXAMPLE: My Hero Academia manga, chapter 76
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