thekidsgirl said:

Damn, damn, damn!!!!!!!!

Ottensen said:

Oh well, Grandma's going to chime in here with James Evans from "Good Times"

I don't watch TV, but if it "would have happened" it would have hit head lines. Fonzi dies in a motorcycle accident, and all in the family's Archie bunker dies of aids.

Okay, I sorry to have crashed your topic.

Game of Thrones - the bloke who played 006 in Goldeneye, Sean Bean. Guess they couldn't afford him for the whole series or were they just following the book? Is there a book?

The whole cast of Blakes 7. Way to make sure it never saw a repeat!

Doctor Who. Any of 'em. Never saw that coming.

iloveannie said:

Game of Thrones - the bloke who played 006 in Goldeneye, Sean Bean.

that guy is so friggin hot!!!! loved him in the first Lord of The Rings and in Silent Hill

missfee said:

Jimmy on "Boardwalk Empire"

Christopher on "The Sopranos"

Ralphie on "The Sopranos"

Bobby on "The Sopranos"

Phil on "The Sopranos"

Dr. Green on "ER"

Adebesi on "OZ"

Kareem Said on "OZ"

In my Smokey and Craig voice "DAMMMMMMMN" I caught bits and pieces of last season and it's quite evident that I missed a major morsel of Boardwalk Empire

Kenny

Gunsnhalen said:

MattyJam said:

Can't believe no-ones mentioned Rita's death in Dexter.

Oh man! good one

That was a very fucked up ending

truly shocking

free2bfreeda said:

most shocking? when tony soprano beat

Ralph Cifaretto to death and then he and Christopher cut him up and bagged his body.

i stopped watching sopranos after that as i found that so shocking. i must revisit the series.

also Omar in the wire was one of the best for shock.

Another great one is "Macon County Line" or maybe it was "Return to Macon County" but I think it was "Macon County Line".

Anyway, these teens get in all kinds of trouble in Macon County, Georgia. I can't remember what they did, but the cops wanted them bad. They were going to kill the kids, as I recall.

The kids finally get away. All they have to do is cross the Macon County Line and they are home free. And there's the county line, right ahead!

They cross it! They are ecstatic with joy! So ecstatic that they forget to look both ways before crossing the train tracks just on the other side of the county line.

BOOM! As they are laughing with glee, they get smashed to smithereens by a train!

It was awesome.

Surely the most shocking ones would be the ones where the actor playing the character suddenly died. Nevermind the audience, those times even the writers of the show were taken by surprise!

I know there are plenty of examples of this, but I can't think of any good ones at the moment.

PurpleJedi said:

I cannot believe that no one has yet mentioned THE most impacting and shockingly significant death of a character in ALL of moviedom.

SERIOUSLY.

You all dissapoint me.

Allow me....

I was 10 years old when I watched this with my mom. She screamed so loud I had nightmares.

prodigalfan said:

Cotton in King of the Hill

funkycat00 said:

prodigalfan said:

Cotton in King of the Hill

Roberta Brown on Family Guy

StonedImmaculate said:

I was 10 years old when I watched this with my mom. She screamed so loud I had nightmares.

I remember that! And WHO SHOT JR? It was torture waiting to find out.

PurpleJedi said:

I cannot believe that no one has yet mentioned THE most impacting and shockingly significant death of a character in ALL of moviedom.

SERIOUSLY.

You all dissapoint me.

Allow me....

These UTCM gifs never get old

That poor girl tied between the two trucks in The Hitcher (original, Rutger Hauer version).

I was like, "oh yeah, she'll be rescued outta there, for sure!"

retina said:

Surely the most shocking ones would be the ones where the actor playing the character suddenly died. Nevermind the audience, those times even the writers of the show were taken by surprise!

I know there are plenty of examples of this, but I can't think of any good ones at the moment.

Phil Hartman

I forgot what they actually did about the character but the real life scenrio tops the list of shocking to me.

What makes a TV character death shocking is that you don't expect it. With today's mass media and 24/7 media, you already get the heads up on what actor is leaving a particular show, so you already know that the TV character will be killed off, so it takes the shock value out of it. TV character deaths like Dr Mark Greene (ER) and Detective Bobby Simone (NYPD Blue) weren't shocking, just heartbreaking. Back in the day, a TV character being "killed off" was due to an actual death of the actor themselves.

That's why Henry Blake's death on MASH was such a shock, historically because they were one of the first TV shows to "kill off" a TV character. So it's the most shocking death ever.

The Sopranos were loaded with surprising character deaths. I think the most shocking death of all of them was Ralphie, that was totally unexpected. Adriana death pissed me off, but it wasn't shocking, you already knew her fate. Christopher's death was bone chilling, but typical of the relationship between him and Tony. Bobby's death was shocking to me he was on of the few characters that I actually liked, and he beat the shit out of Tony, so he won brownie points from me.

Kareem Said was an unexpected death on Oz

Sylvia Costas and Andy Jr (although he wasn't a regular character) NYPD Blue

Sandy and Det Eddie Torres NY Undercover

Rex Van de Kamp Desparate Housewives

Omar Little The Wire

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Tom Cruise's character dying on the train at the end of Collateral. He had it coming but it was still unexpected and a little sad. The man was just trying to do his job.

Jimmy Olsen on Smallville

Nate from Six Feet Under

Clive Owen in Children of Men

thatruth said:

What makes a TV character death shocking is that you don't expect it. With today's mass media and 24/7 media, you already get the heads up on what actor is leaving a particular show, so you already know that the TV character will be killed off, so it takes the shock value out of it. TV character deaths like Dr Mark Greene (ER) and Detective Bobby Simone (NYPD Blue) weren't shocking, just heartbreaking. Back in the day, a TV character being "killed off" was due to an actual death of the actor themselves.

That's why Henry Blake's death on MASH was such a shock, historically because they were one of the first TV shows to "kill off" a TV character. So it's the most shocking death ever.

The Sopranos were loaded with surprising character deaths. I think the most shocking death of all of them was Ralphie, that was totally unexpected. Adriana death pissed me off, but it wasn't shocking, you already knew her fate. Christopher's death was bone chilling, but typical of the relationship between him and Tony. Bobby's death was shocking to me he was on of the few characters that I actually liked, and he beat the shit out of Tony, so he won brownie points from me.

Kareem Said was an unexpected death on Oz

Sylvia Costas and Andy Jr (although he wasn't a regular character) NYPD Blue

Sandy and Det Eddie Torres NY Undercover

Rex Van de Kamp Desparate Housewives

Omar Little The Wire

Oh man Andy! that was a great way to end season 3. With Sipowicz just isolating himself from everyone including his baby.