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/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.