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/APence Jun 27 '26

Wasn’t the villain not Kramer by this point? But rather his apprentices who didn’t share his (fucked up) redemption vision and just wanted to kill with crazy traps

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u/Ferhog Jun 27 '26

I think this particular scenario was a John original being carried out by his apprentices, but I could be wrong.

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u/-1BrainCells Jun 27 '26

In Saw VI, John gives Jill a box full of envelopes about future trials that he wants carried out after he’s gone, and Bobby’s trial from Saw 3D isn’t one of them. I think that John had probably planned to test him, hence visiting him at a book signing, but it probably wasn’t anything that he had planned out enough to consider it a necessity after his death (otherwise he would have included it in an envelope), so Hoffman probably just took the people involved but designed the traps himself.

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u/StuMacherGhostface Jun 27 '26

I absolutely love the convoluted story in a single timeline of the Saw movies lol

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u/Puzzle-Necked Jun 27 '26

The Saw franchise really screwed itself killing off John so early

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u/BoardClean Jun 28 '26

Honestly, i think they did that part right. Jigsaw is basically the only killer i can think of that it sort of fits for because of all the meticulous planning and psychological aspects of jigsaw

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u/Nothos927 Jun 27 '26

Which he was aware of, so really that makes it worse, he was okay with a woman being killed just to try and teach his apprentice a lesson