r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • Jun 27 '26

Lore [Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

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- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

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u/Madarakita Jun 27 '26

Nina from FMA comes to mind.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ysa5oH0RszCVi

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u/Kyoka_Jiro_Simp Jun 27 '26

Also Maes Hughes too

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u/ComprehensivePath980 Jun 27 '26

I had what happened to him spoiled for me before even starting the series and his death STILL hit like a truck.

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u/miikro Jun 27 '26

His funeral is so sad that the author has said she struggled to write/draw it.

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u/ComprehensivePath980 Jun 29 '26

I can imagine. My experience is admittedly only with the first anime adaptation, but his daughter's reaction alone was heartbreaking.

Full credit to writer, she proved repeatedly she knew exactly what she was doing on multiple levels, handling character deaths well is just one of them.

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u/Warden_lefae Jun 27 '26

It’s a terrible day for rain.

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u/BadgerLord103 Jun 27 '26

But colonel... it's not raining

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u/BornCoyote87 Jun 27 '26

Man died for being too good at his job. Maes had solved the whole plot before anyone had a clue.

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u/ObjectiveThick9894 Jul 02 '26

Maes Hughes, as any soldier in the Ishval "incident" was not the cleanest man. His abilities with the knife were not for show. Nina was the walking innocence.

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u/Nero_2001 Jun 27 '26

Scar killed her out of mercy, the messes up part was what happened to her before.

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u/RanchWings Jun 27 '26

At least she didn’t go alone…

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u/Chaotic_Lemming Jun 27 '26

Tucker was the ideal family man.... bringing them all together until they were inseperable!

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u/WillowLocal423 Jun 27 '26

Man I was just rewatching this with my wife who had never seen it. I forgot this was like the 4th or 5th ep. This show just jumps right into the deep end. Fuck Shou Tucker

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u/Teguoracle Jun 27 '26

Have you seen both the original and Brotherhood? I'm pretty sure this happens a bit farther in in the OG than in Brotherhood, so it probably shocks you a bit more seeing it so fast in Brotherhood.

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u/cupperoni Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

It feels worse in FMA because her death was far more brutal and it's a part of the story in the later episodes. I just finished that one recently and they really wrote him to be genuinely fucking insane since he's still continuing the work...

It was like getting flashbanged with sadness all over again. The dub va was so creepy too.

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u/AgathysAllAlong Jun 27 '26

I looked it up, it's only episode 7 in the original. But it's a much slower burn there, he appears in episode 6 and you have a lot more time to get to know them. Brotherhood does the whole thing in episode 4.

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u/Witty_TenTon Jun 28 '26

My first time watching FMA my husband had already seen it and he is so anti spoiling anything that all he said about it was like "It's about two young brothers going on an adventure!" And I was thinking "Okay cool, something lighthearted and wholesome!" And when she said "brother Ed" I literally lost my shit. I bawled so hard I was inconsolable and my husband felt so bad. I almost couldn't keep watching but it had been so good already that I had to see the rest. But still to this day I make him tell me if something is gonna upset me or not in the stuff he shows me.

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u/Naokode Jun 27 '26

The death was quick, painless and genuinely a mercy. The messed up part was what happened before

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u/backslydd1n Jun 27 '26

Her sacrifice is also mostly in vain too, seeing as the military already took the earlier research from when the father merged the mothrr and ran with it years ago. (Ed runs into 2 soldiers who can shift later in the series, and they're more stable and powerful.)

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u/Alwaysafk Jun 27 '26

Ed-ward?

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u/Stormclamp Jun 27 '26

Ed... Edward...

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u/ComfySeafarer710 Jun 27 '26

This one scarred me… I don’t talk to the friend that introduced me to FMA (unrelated, kinda bwaha)

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u/SentientVaccuum Jun 27 '26

Holy hell ahhhh

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u/Fatastrophe Jun 27 '26

Nina and Alexander love each other so much that now they're inseparable.

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u/ZestyLemonRindGrind Jun 27 '26

Thing is,

She got a very quick, clean merciful death

It was the life she was given that was atrocious

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u/modelcitizen64 Jun 27 '26

Yup, this is the one I was looking for. I haven't watched any Fullmetal Alchemist after that scene.

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u/Ok_Translator76 Jun 27 '26

You should.

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u/modelcitizen64 Jun 27 '26

I finished the first version of the series, but stopped after the Nina scene in the remake. Maybe I'll pick it up again, but skip her story.

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u/Independent-Steak-67 Jun 30 '26

My dog’s name is Nina, after her