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23rd November 2020
Movie Characters Who Died Unnecessarily Brutal Deaths
“Pain and Death are a part of life, to reject them is to reject life itself,” to quote Havelock Ellis, famous physician, writer, and progressive thinker. In a classic case of art imitating life, the big screen reflects the same pain and death back at us. Of course, not all movie deaths are created equal. Certain gruesome ends may seem justified when a character is evil or annoying, and our primitive lizard brain is rooting for karma and just desserts. Some characters are introduced just to be fodder and aren’t given much of a personality because we aren’t meant to invest in them (think, "the Black guy dying first trope" in every '90s horror movie.) And some movie deaths are just hilarious.
Whether it’s a convenient plot device ridding the story of a character that’s outlived its usefulness, deus ex machina style, or the writer/director just working through some stuff in their personal lives, these characters really did not deserve the treatment meted out to them.