Given the holiday season, the child has repeatedly asked if we can watch some scary movies together. Though she wasn’t quite up to ‘Ghostwatch’, we did manage to get through most of the Paranormal Activity series, after which she kept telling me how sad she felt for boyfriend Micah. Where my jaded adult sensibilities saw a jerkface who made everything worse, Widget saw a young man frightened by things he couldn’t control, who tried to fix a problem and [SPOILERS] got killed horribly for his efforts. It’s a valid read, and it does give more emotional heft to the end of the first film, which does beg an interesting query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still feels bad for young Ferro Lad, even though he chose his eventual fate to save someone he considered more important, asking: What deceased fictional character had, in your opinion, the most terrible demise?
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The citizens of Alderaan.
Actually, I think I’m going to go with Steven Carter, the grandson of Jack Harkness in “Torchwood: Children of Earth”. While he was sacrificed to save the rest of the children of the world, he was just a kid who didn’t ask for that situation. And it looked quite unpleasant.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Steven_Carter
Poor kid.
Because of that incident, I don’t like Captain Jack.
Can’t stand the character.
A colonist of planet LV-426 (Aliens). You get captured by a monster, placed in a cocoon, have an larval alien shoved down your throat. If you’re lucky, you die in an explosion, if not, an alien tears its way out of your body.
In a film filled with over the top violence Emil’s fate, dunked in toxic waste and then exploded by a van, stands out as particularly gruesome.
D’oh! In Robocop of course.
David from Shaun of the Dead, getting gored by a horde (hey, a rhyme!) of zombies, while your ‘friends’ just watch is pretty terrifying.
Sean Bean’s character from the Black Death had his arms and legs ripped off by horses. That is pretty brutal.
I have to agree. Not only was it terrible. I felt bad for Sean Bean and it made my stomach flip.
Kenny from South Park.
Gehenna – Firestorm’s girlfriend and co-Firestorm, during Blackest Night. There she is, safe as a disembodied voice in her boyfriend’s head, when she is pulled out of him, and has her heart ripped out right there, consumed with fear.
Perhaps it’s not the most gruesome death ever but it stuck in my mind.
Sue Dibny in Identity Crisis. A moment of happiness pondering Ralph’s surprise when he finds out that she is pregnant cut short by a psychopath.
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Judith Grimes smothered by her mother’s dead body.
Alex Dewitt who was strangled and shoved into a refrigerator by Major Force for little reason other than to further the Green Lantern plot.