What's the saddest you've ever got over the death of a fictional character? (WARNING, spoiler city)

For me it was with Lexie from Greys Anatomy. I was sad for weeks after.

GAH, I'm a chump. I cried so hard after Amy Pond died...

Even though I expected it to happen, Han Solo. I couldn't stop crying in the movie theatre, and I was disturbing the person next to me...

Chelsea's final scene. I had to enter Salty Spitoon to feel manly again.

Roland. At least the saddest I remember. I probably cried harder at more fictional characters as a kid. Maybe.

I was playing with my BF when we finished "Where Angels Fear To Tread", and I probably made him incredibly uncomfortable because all he could hear on his end was ugly sobbing.

It still hurts. Everytime.

The first one I can remember was the ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

They killed off Eli Vance right before the credits and the last thing we see before the credits was his daughter Alyx's reaction to his death. We also hear her crying over the credits.

I've been waiting for Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 just so I can avenge his death. It's been 9 years since I played that game.

Mona Sax in Max Payne 2. Mostly because of the soundtrack.

Amy didn't die though,she lived out her years with Rory

(makes sense in context,believe me)

The murder of Splinter and the Fugitoid's death from TMNT 2012 messed me up BAD. (...Yes I cried over the deaths of cartoon characters...)

Also Nina and Alexander from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 version). That was just plain unfair. :(

edited 20th Aug '16 8:58:31 PM by Winterbornbree

Does what happened to Homura in Rebellion count? Nearly three years on, it still hurts.

Fred Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I actually tossed the book at the foot of my bed and cried for a good 20 minutes before I could pick it up and continue reading. I don't think it helped that it was something like 2:30 in the morning at the time.

Aeris from Final Fantasy VII and Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid.

Freaking Van Hohenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist. As happy I was at the ending, his death still saddens me. At least we got a heartwarming and heartwrenching end out of it.

edited 20th Aug '16 7:12:50 PM by Revaryk

Well, to name a few:

• Hershel Greene from The Walking Dead TV Show. It was just so tragic and horrifying, and it happend to one of the show's best characters too.

• Kyoko Sakura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I mean, this is a character who I started out hating due to how horrible of a person she was, but then she started making a slow but sure Heel–Face Turn and we found out why she was like that, and she ended up becoming a more complex and interesting character then she first appeared to be. She ended up becoming my favorite character in the show, so of course her death in Episode 9 had me really upset.

• Taromaru in the School Live anime. For one thing, I always get sad when bad things happen to dogs, in fiction or real life, but it's worse here because the anime pulls a Hope Spot on you, making both you and the other characters think he'll be alright...... But then he dies anyway. Massive feels everywhere.

• Spike Spiegal from Cowboy Bebop. Seriously, you spend the entire series with this awesome, great and interesting character, and the show literally ends with his death. At least he got a big Dying Moment of Awesome though. "Bang".

Two moments, both from games, that I felt really hit me: the main character at the end of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers and Chloe Price at the end of Life Is Strange.

edited 21st Aug '16 10:17:53 AM by DarkDestruction

I didn't think Spike died it is open to interpretation if he died or not. He collapses at the end but if you didn't want him to die he could've gotten medical attention after the credits play.

I think the director admitted that he left it open to interpretation.

Probably Alaska Young or Edward Bloom.

edited 21st Aug '16 5:31:02 PM by HamburgerTime

Zero from Mega Man Zero 4. I don't count the one from Mega Man X 5 because that one wasn't permanent. I didn't cried physically, but as some people say, one can cry from the inside.

edited 21st Aug '16 6:06:33 PM by ClownToy

Freaking Bing-Bong man. ("Take her to the moon for me, ok?") I went into the movie not knowing this was going to happen to him (though I was aware he was a character in the movie at this point) and I broke down when we lost him. And I'm speaking as someone who doesn't usually cry at movies easily. (I just get crestfallen at best.)

edited 21st Aug '16 8:04:55 PM by kablammin45

Oh jesus, where do I start.

• James in Fallout 3.
• The Crying Child in Five Nights at Freddy's 4.
• Luke in The Walking Dead Season 2.
• Jay's dad in Men in Black 3.
• Fucking anyone in the genocide run of Undertale.
• And Pablo in Nan Quest.

Basically, I'm a crybaby bitch.

Just one thing ever really got to me as being the saddest I ever was over a fictional character's death.

Fry's dog Seymour. He waited, dammit.....

Lady Fuchsia

I just thought of another one. This is the absolute fucking saddest I ever got with a fictional character. I was crying for like 10 minutes.

Terry Hintz from LISA

Pyrrha Nikos. I knew from the set-up of the scene that she's going to die trying to bring Cinder down, but it still hit me hard. She was my favourite character, and the one I identified with the most. The jokes in Youtube comments and the like don't make it any easier.

Also, Mass Effect 3 has quite a few on my first playthrough. Thane's death was bad. Seeing Samara kill herself was even worse. The first time, I couldn't make peace between the geth and the quarians, so I had to choose. I picked the geth. I didn't expect for the geth victory to require Legion to sacrifice itself. Nor that Tali would kill herself. And I definitely didn't expect the Paragon prompt to do nothing.

And since I got Grunt killed in the Suicide Mission, I had to deal with Urdnot Dagg's sacrifice. It hit me as hard as the rest of them, even though I didn't get to spend much time with him. Or rather, it was because of that. Unlike Grunt, who pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save his most trusted friend, Dagg does the same for a pretty much complete stranger. Also unlike Grunt, his death is entirely on-screen, and there's no way for him to survive.

When I was 18, I had gone over to a friend's house to watch a movie but before we could start he was called in to work. So instead, I wound up watching Bridge to Terabithia with his mom and younger sister. When the little girl fell off the bridge, all three of us were in tears. For context, I'm a giant burly dude, crying at a kids movie. Still makes me sad.

edited 26th Aug '16 10:38:20 PM by Brotodile