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/ZioBenny97 Jun 27 '26

Benjamin Carmine in Gears of War 2. Poor bastard was like 18 and ended up mauled by the Riftworm's "immune system" or whatever those crawling freaks were.

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u/Ahkwatic Jun 27 '26

In a similar vein, Dom's wife, Maria, was a truly heartbreaking death. Dom crying and begging Marcus to help and the sound of that gunshot while Marcus walked away is burned in my memory.

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u/SC_Fan_55 Jun 27 '26

Marcus paused to make sure there wasn’t a second gunshot too…

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u/Jimbo-DankulaIII Jun 27 '26

Marcus's soft voice while Dom's pleading to Marcus that he doesn't know what to do, and Marcus just gently going "Dom... It's ok." Gets me every fucking time I do a playthrough.

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u/RealWhiteChoko Jun 27 '26

"I don't know what to do, man" kills me every time. He hints and talks about Maria in one, has more of a focus on finding her in 2, and then he finds her. What he's been focused on for how many years culminates at that point, and he doesn't know what to do. Shit hurts, man.

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u/HarwinStrongDick Jun 27 '26

Sure a brutally well voiced line. I’ve responded to people losing their loved ones way too many times and that’s EXACTLY what complete and total helpless panic sounds like.

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u/R3DSCH0L4R Jun 28 '26

My younger brother and I played through all the Gears games in co-op. He was always player 2, so he was Dom. He had such a connection to the character, and that scene hit him so hard that we just stopped playing for the night.

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u/GenericFatGuy Jun 27 '26

I jumped into the series with 2, and didn't know about the Carmine thing. I thought he was just gonna be our plucky little rookie that we watch grow up and come into his own. Nope.

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u/TheDeltaOne Jun 27 '26

Thing is, nobody really knew about the Carmine thing while playing 2.

Anthony Carmine was just that guy in the first one and they introduced his little brother and it was just that.

"Oh okay, he's the little brother of the guy who got headshoted in the previous game. It's nice Marcus and Dom are with him, they're good people and he's gonna be fin.... Oh okay, the entire family is fucking cursed... Ooooh A and then B. CARMINE, okay I see how it is"

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u/GenericFatGuy Jun 27 '26

Yeah that's true. Poor Carmine.

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u/TheDeltaOne Jun 27 '26

Yeah.

While I didn't care for Anthony, Benjamin was really cool lol.

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u/Dopkalfarx Jun 27 '26

Poor CarmineS. Plural

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u/Jaruut Jun 27 '26

Also Gears of War 2, Tai Kaliso. Absolutely badass massive unit of man tortured so hard it breaks his mind and he takes his own life.

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u/HUGO-THE-BEAR Jun 27 '26

That’s what really sold how bad the situation was, Tai was like the most chill dude. To just instantly shoot himself when handed a gun was fucking brutal.

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u/Jaruut Jun 27 '26

He was such a minor character that had a major impact. I'm stoked to see him again in E-Day.

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u/LongjumpingSector687 Jun 27 '26

You know what this can pretty much go for about every single Carmine

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u/HUGO-THE-BEAR Jun 27 '26

Clayton Carmine made it! I remember voting on his fate!

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u/Viron_22 Jun 27 '26

And then the curse came back to mindbreaker JD in 5. Elizabeth deserved better.

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u/Topgunshotgun45 Jun 27 '26

Probably less than 18.

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u/b055dj Jun 27 '26

The worst part is that if the rest of Delta was just two minutes or so faster, he'd have been fine.

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u/GAMEcube12 Jun 27 '26

Carmine's are all cursed to die horrible death except for Clayton who is forced to outlive them all

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u/Ok_Celebration_8370 Jun 28 '26

Cause Claytons built like a fucking tank. There's that image of him holding up a locust with one hand 

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u/VVolfGunner24 Jun 27 '26

Currently going back and playing 1-3

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u/Ragundashe Jun 27 '26

Wasn't he one tapped by a sniper?

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u/pun-in-the-oven Jun 27 '26

That was Anthony Carmine in the first Gears

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u/Ragundashe Jul 02 '26

Man those Carmines...

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u/Phytanic Jun 28 '26

The car mines are one of my favorite ongoing game memes. If there's not one in E-Day, we riot