For me, it was always Optimus Prime from The Transformers movie.

  • @Shard
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    31 month ago

    Put in there just as a cheap way to get emotional reactions from the audience, it’s the story telling equivalent of having the dog in the story die.

    • VindictiveJudge
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      31 month ago

      Technically, Sirius is the dog in the story.

    • MaggiWuerze
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      21 month ago

      Especially since his death didn’t really do anything. He didnt sacrifice himself or saved anyone and his death wasn’t discussed much after the initial shock. I assume he had to be out of the picture so Harry could go Horcrux hunting, without him interfering

      • @CookieMonsterDebate
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        226 days ago

        To me it just felt like the unfairness of real life. Sometimes people get a shit hand of cards at life, and their death is just quiet and pointless and has no sense or reason to it.

        • MaggiWuerze
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          126 days ago

          Yeah, but that’s not so something you usually do in stories, because it is a bad reading experience. At most people sacrifice themselves for something and their sacrifice turns out to be in vain. But authors dont just go killing off a protagonist, because they put a lot of work into them and their death needs to have a certain value

          • @CookieMonsterDebate
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            26 days ago

            Sure. But perhaps not giving it any value could also be a strong point. The fact that it was so senseless made it all the more painful, to me. I honestly hurt more for that death than any other in the books.

            • MaggiWuerze
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              125 days ago

              That’s what I mean with dying for something but not achieving that. Just having him die randomly felt very jarring, but not in a good way since it didnt really felt connected to the story