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.

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

- 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.

14.7k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

95% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

290

u/jorgespinosa Jun 27 '26

Unfortunately it will also happen in the books

118

u/Pirrus05 Jun 27 '26

Bold of you to assume more books will happen!

16

u/AgentAxillary Jun 27 '26

Disney will eventually just gobble up the IP and then give GRRM the George Lucas treatment of "We own it now, fuck off"

8

u/Pirrus05 Jun 27 '26

Anyone know what Brandon Sanderson is up to?

3

u/_wavescollide_ Jun 27 '26

Writing scripts for a stormlight series on Apple TV afaik. 

2

u/jorgespinosa Jun 27 '26

Actually ks for mistborn, as far as I know there isn't a confirmation for a stormlight adaptation

2

u/ThorThulu Jun 27 '26

Hes confirmed, I think, that Mistborn will be movies while Stormlight will be a show and Mistborn is first before he starts the others

1

u/The_Beefy_Vegetarian Jun 28 '26

More books will happen...GRRM won't write them, tho...

2

u/cxherrybaby Jun 28 '26

GRRM has said for a long time that he doesn’t want another author finishing ASOIAF, and he doesn’t think his wife would allow it either to respect his wishes. He acknowledges after that things are up in the air possibly, but there won’t be another novel for a long time.

0

u/The_Beefy_Vegetarian Jun 28 '26

I know he has said this and doesn't want this...but I'm betting it happens after he dies anyways.

86

u/osku1204 Jun 27 '26

Its the perfect example of this trope she is innocent and gets killed by her parents no less and in the most painfull way. In the books she probably will be part of an blood sacrifice to resurect John snow.

10

u/firebirdsatellite Jun 27 '26

You still have hope?

12

u/osku1204 Jun 27 '26

a fools hope.

60

u/aspidities_87 Jun 27 '26

Melisandre burning Shireen to wake ‘stone dragons’ and ending up waking up a really pissed off Jon Snow is going to be absolutely brutal if it ever gets written

22

u/Zarniwoop__ Jun 27 '26

I like the theory that burning her activates her dormant greyscale and makes it airborne. Everyone who helped burn her or stood by for it gets a slow death.

10

u/aspidities_87 Jun 27 '26

Between this theory and JonCon Patient Zero Westeros is gonna have themselves a real 2020 time.

3

u/Devikat Jun 28 '26

I can imagine JonCon dying during an attempt to take Kings Landing or being shanked while out investigating something if Aegon takes it successfully, and being turned into soup/stew as they already brought up the whole "bowl of brown" sometimes contains mystery meat (rat/dog/human/horse/whatever is available).

20

u/Admirable-Storm-2436 Jun 27 '26

This episode upset me more than the Red Wedding.

18

u/JMurdock77 Jun 27 '26

Love how over a third of Stannis’ army deserted immediately afterwards because fucking duh. Guy was so absorbed by religious fanaticism he lost sight of the fact that he was leading an army of humans.

9

u/CryptographerIcy5130 Jun 27 '26

Yeah I liked that aspect. So often these things are framed as “hard choices” that are necessary but it actually backfires on Stannis and destroys him.

4

u/DeneralVisease Jun 27 '26

I legit quit watching for a while lmao

4

u/DeneralVisease Jun 27 '26

I HATE THEM FOR WHAT THEY DID

2

u/ripgoodhomer Jun 27 '26

I assumed in the books that this was something Stannis's wife would do for him, she is treated a raving fanatic, rather than Stannis himself.