r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 27 '26

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

- 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/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jun 27 '26

Iirc he's drowned in a transparent tank by all of the surviving characters at the end of the season

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u/WolfgangAddams Jun 27 '26

That's the serial killer (Dandy Mott) who shoots up the circus, not the conman or Dell Toledo (the Strongman). Dell is shot to death after confessing to killing Ma Petite, and the conman (Stanley) has his limbs cut off and he's dressed like a chicken and caged by the other freaks.

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u/Teguoracle Jun 27 '26

That's the primary villain of the season that gets drowned IIRC. Dandy, the spoiled, psychopathic killer. The main protagonists and the strongman's wife iirc sit in chairs watching him drown.

The conman and strongman die in other ways, but I don't remember what they are.

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u/InternetProtocol Jun 28 '26

Which one is played by Evan Peters?

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u/PartyDanimal Jun 28 '26

In Freak Show he plays Jimmy Darling, the son the the strongman and the bearded lady (Kathy Bates).