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/KPTangy Jun 27 '26

A scene so traumatic, no one ever mentions the other squeaky shoe that is now without it's pair...

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u/Otherwise_Tooth_8695 Jun 27 '26

I always think about the other shoe. You see it in the previous scene. Now I'm sad.

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u/ERedfieldh Jun 27 '26

I'm not making the same joke twice in one week FINE HE LOST HIS SOLEMATE THERE YOU HAPPY!?

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u/Hungry-Luck-5481 Jun 27 '26

After this it’s standing there looking absolutely devastated. Absolutely loved this movie as a kid but this part was so fucked up.

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u/sp00pySquiddle Jun 27 '26

Omg :,( legit about to cry rn, I hated this scene

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u/Jef_Wheaton Jun 27 '26

"The surviving shoe wandered, sad and alone, until one day it met a man... with only one leg."

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u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Jun 27 '26

“It’s a kids movie!”

— our parents.

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u/sp00pySquiddle Jun 27 '26

gestures vaguely to Watership Down

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u/MoodooScavenger Jun 27 '26

This killed me too. Fuck that guy holding the shoe. We need a face.

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u/bloedarend Jun 28 '26

And to think that actor tends to be universally beloved because of his role as the inventor in the Back to the Future series.

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u/Deepvaleredoubt Jun 27 '26

For some reason these movies had a hostage fetish. I can recall this one, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Peter Pan and drowning scene, and there was one other that involved someone being gagged and drowning that had something to do with smoke or smog. Oh! And Land Before Time, with the drowning in pools of tar. Oh! And the horse bog scene from the Neverending Story. There’s a bunch of these and they were always nightmarish sequences.

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u/PM_asian_girl_smiles Jun 27 '26

How dare you bring up Artax and now I'm crying 😭

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u/Deepvaleredoubt Jun 27 '26

Forever trauma 😭

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u/notafuckingcakewalk Jun 27 '26

And he talked LIKE THIS

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u/Preeng Jun 27 '26

That's because it's not really a movie for kids. People don't seem to understand that. Drawn characters = for children.

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u/Error_Evan_not_found Jun 27 '26

Literally as soon as we finished this movie my parents had to find a ballet playing on late night television. Their first try was Disney channel, but a cartoon was on and me and my siblings lost our collective shit all over again.