Nobody was prepared for these TV deaths. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the live action TV characters whose sudden deaths had us clutching our pearls. We’ll be including major spoilers — so consider this your warning.
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00:00 - This...
00:01 This is Lucille.
00:04 And she is awesome.
00:09 - Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:10 And today we're counting down our picks
00:12 for the live action TV characters
00:14 whose sudden deaths had us clutching our pearls.
00:17 We'll be including major spoilers.
00:19 So consider this your warning.
00:21 - She's not breathing.
00:22 - She's unconscious.
00:23 - No, I can't.
00:25 She's not breathing.
00:28 - Number 30, Mrs. Landingham, The West Wing.
00:32 You might think a show that took place in the White House
00:34 would be knee deep in heavy topics.
00:36 But The West Wing often skewed toward the warm and fuzzy.
00:40 So when President Bartlett's beloved secretary,
00:43 Mrs. Landingham, was abruptly written out
00:46 after a deadly car crash,
00:47 it was a notable departure in tone.
00:49 - They ran it at a high speed.
00:51 - Charlie's show, right?
00:53 - No.
00:55 - She's dead.
00:57 - Never afraid to speak her mind
00:59 while still respecting the Oval Office,
01:01 Mrs. Landingham was a breath of fresh air.
01:04 Coming at a time when Bartlett faced mounting scandals
01:07 and political opposition,
01:08 her death marked a turning point
01:10 for Bartlett's presidency and his faith.
01:13 - Put Mendoza on the bench.
01:14 We're not fighting a war.
01:15 I've raised three children.
01:17 That's not enough to buy me out of the doghouse.
01:21 - Number 29, Terry Bauer, 24.
01:24 The first season of this groundbreaking
01:27 and controversial series
01:28 features counter-terrorist unit agent Jack Bauer
01:31 attempting to rescue his kidnapped wife and daughter.
01:34 Their captors are a group looking to frame Bauer
01:37 for an upcoming political assassination.
01:39 He stops them, of course, but his success is short-lived.
01:43 - Bauer's mom.
01:44 - I thought she was here with you.
01:47 I'll go find her.
01:48 - Okay.
01:49 - Just stay here with the guards, okay?
01:50 - Okay.
01:51 - The season finale ends with him
01:52 finding his wife, Terry, shot to death.
01:55 The image of him cradling her body
01:57 as the clock strikes midnight
01:58 is something first-time watchers will never forget.
02:01 In the world of "24,"
02:02 even when the protagonists win,
02:04 it will always come at a cost.
02:07 - I'm so sorry.
02:08 So sorry.
02:10 - Number 28, Villanelle, "Killing Eve."
02:14 She could speak several languages.
02:16 She could vanish without a trace.
02:18 She could kill with machine-like accuracy and efficiency.
02:21 But even world-class assassins have to die sometimes.
02:25 - And this is why you're here?
02:27 - You know why I'm here.
02:33 You want this as much as I do.
02:35 - Still, Villanelle's series-long
02:37 obsessive romantic relationship with Eve Palastri
02:40 had enough viewers rooting for her
02:42 to get away with her crimes
02:43 and settle down with the MI5 agent.
02:46 But all that came crashing down
02:47 in the last minutes of the series finale
02:49 when Villanelle was taken out by a sniper
02:52 as she and Eve embraced.
02:54 - I did it, Eve.
02:56 - Don't you mean we did it?
03:02 - Yeah, but mostly me.
03:04 - The last we see of her
03:05 is her body sinking to the bottom of the Thames.
03:08 Fans weren't just shocked.
03:10 Many were outraged.
03:12 Number 27, Omar Little, "The Wire."
03:15 - You work in a Stanfield corner,
03:18 which means you're working for a straight-up punk.
03:21 You feel me?
03:22 - Taking place on the streets of Baltimore,
03:24 HBO's series about the drug trade,
03:26 the institution of the police,
03:28 and city life broke a lot of ground.
03:30 Stick-up man Omar Little is a myth unto himself.
03:33 He's feared, but the show gives him a moral clarity,
03:36 a complexity, and even a tenderness
03:39 that made audiences love him.
03:41 [laughing]
03:44 - All in the game, yo.
03:48 All in the game.
03:50 - When his time finally came,
03:52 it was at the hands of a very young,
03:54 up-and-coming drug dealer looking to prove himself.
03:57 After all the dangerous situations he'd been in, though,
04:00 who knew he'd die just buying cigarettes
04:02 at the local corner store?
04:04 Number 26, Rosalind Shays, "L.A. Law."
04:08 Every good drama needs a villain.
04:10 For almost five seasons of "L.A. Law,"
04:12 Rosalind Shays more than fit the bill.
04:15 - You don't have to preface anything, Leland.
04:18 Your answer is no.
04:20 - But all her conniving and manipulations
04:22 finally caught up with her.
04:23 Her totally bizarre, kind of funny,
04:25 and altogether unexpected death
04:27 may be one of the most talked-about TV moments of all time.
04:30 Rosalind's end seemingly came out of nowhere.
04:33 One minute she was having a conversation
04:35 with Leland McKenzie,
04:36 and the next she was tumbling down an open elevator shaft.
04:40 - I don't resent you, Leland.
04:41 If anything, maybe I resent myself.
04:44 For staying with a man who doesn't love you.
04:46 - I really don't want to talk about it.
04:48 [screams]
04:50 - Not only did it mark the end of a great character,
04:52 but it made an entire generation of TV lovers
04:55 extremely cautious every time they catch an elevator.
04:59 Number 25, James Evans, "Good Times."
05:03 Times definitely were not good
05:04 behind the scenes of this Norman Lear sitcom.
05:07 After the third season,
05:08 lead actor John Amos was allegedly fired from the show
05:12 Rather than recast the role of James Evans,
05:15 the producers decided to kill him off.
05:17 At the start of season four,
05:18 James Evans was preparing to relocate the family
05:21 from Chicago to Mississippi.
05:23 - We regret to inform you that your husband,
05:26 James Evans, was...
05:28 killed in an automobile accident.
05:33 - Oh, my God!
05:35 - But they wind up receiving news of his death
05:37 in a car accident during their going-away party.
05:39 The episode comes to a screeching halt.
05:42 In one fell swoop,
05:43 the Evanses lost their patriarch
05:45 and the cast lost a key member.
05:47 It was an unceremonious exit for a beloved character.
05:51 - Damn, damn, damn!
05:55 - Number 24, Tanya McCoy, "The White Lotus."
05:59 Jennifer Coolidge dazzled viewers with her performance
06:02 as an endearingly strange, narcissistic heiress
06:05 in the first two seasons of "The White Lotus."
06:07 Her death became a possibility
06:08 as the second season chugged along,
06:10 as she found herself the unwitting target
06:12 of a group of hitmen implied to be hired by her new husband.
06:16 - And a minion!
06:18 - This isn't a bathroom, is it?
06:21 It's a bedroom.
06:24 You need some help?
06:25 - The plot comes to a head on a yacht in the Mediterranean,
06:28 where the generally helpless Tanya
06:30 takes down her would-be murderers.
06:32 Then she falls and sustains a fatal head injury
06:35 while climbing into a lifeboat.
06:37 - Hey!
06:38 - It's a death that creator Mike White
06:43 described fittingly as, quote, "derpy."
06:46 Number 23, Marvin Erickson Sr., "How I Met Your Mother."
06:50 Marshall Erickson has been expecting to get bad news
06:53 all throughout this devastating episode.
06:55 As he and his wife Lily struggle
06:57 with possible fertility issues,
06:59 they await the results of testing.
07:01 Things are looking up when he gets the results,
07:03 and he's just about to call his dad with the good news
07:05 when Lily finds him.
07:07 - Something's happened.
07:08 Um, your father, he had a heart attack.
07:12 He didn't make it.
07:16 - The audience learns with Marshall
07:18 that his father has passed away from a sudden heart attack.
07:21 Viewers had just seen Marvin Sr. earlier in the episode.
07:24 Then he was gone.
07:26 Marshall's emotional whiplash feels all too real.
07:29 - I'm not ready for this.
07:32 Number 22, Dan Conner, "Roseanne."
07:35 There were few things that could have restored fans' love
07:38 for the once hilarious and relatable sitcom
07:40 after its somewhat disastrous ninth season,
07:43 which saw the working-class family winning the lottery.
07:46 - We won the lottery!
07:49 [screaming]
07:51 - Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
07:53 We won the lottery!
07:54 - Killing off the beloved dad was certainly not one of them.
07:57 In the last few minutes of the finale,
07:59 Roseanne revealed that several of the events of the series
08:02 never took place
08:03 and that Dan had actually died from a heart attack.
08:06 - I lost Dan last year when he had his heart attack.
08:10 He's still the first thing I think about when I wake up.
08:17 - His suddenly empty chair at the table
08:19 was a gut punch to viewers.
08:21 It didn't erase the weirdness of the season,
08:23 but it did remind us of what the series could do at its best.
08:27 Number 21, "Susan Ross, Seinfeld."
08:31 Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's sitcom
08:33 took nothing too seriously, not even death.
08:36 In an iconic episode from the show's seventh season,
08:39 George Costanza's fiancée dies in the cheapest way possible.
08:43 No, that's literally what happened.
08:45 George is too cheap to buy wedding invitations
08:47 with good adhesive,
08:48 leaving Susan to seal and mail them all by herself.
08:52 She ends up getting poisoned from the toxic adhesive.
08:55 - We found traces of a certain toxic adhesive
08:59 commonly found in very low-priced envelopes.
09:02 - Seinfeld wasn't exactly the kind of show
09:04 to throw a character death at you out of nowhere,
09:06 but they dealt with it in the show's characteristic manner.
09:09 The core cast of four move right along
09:11 to the acceptance stage of grief
09:13 and go out for coffee.
09:14 - What can I tell you?
09:16 - All right.
09:18 - Come on, let's get some coffee.
09:21 - Number 20, "Eddie Munson, Stranger Things."
09:24 "Stranger Things" has had several surprise deaths
09:27 during its run,
09:28 and while Bob's heartbreaking death
09:30 also had many of us in shock,
09:32 we're going for a more recent one.
09:34 Eddie Munson was a breakout character
09:36 in the show's fourth season,
09:37 with his charisma and quest for justice
09:40 endearing him to many.
09:42 - What do you say, Anderson?
09:44 Are you ready for the most metal concert
09:49 in the history of the world?
09:52 - In the end, however,
09:53 the Hawkins gang's risky plan
09:55 results in Eddie's downfall.
09:57 The Upside Down is not a place
09:59 you want to spend a ton of time,
10:00 unless you don't mind getting into it
10:02 with some bats.
10:03 Eddie's sacrifice to save Dustin
10:05 and ensure the team's success
10:07 is probably the most metal thing
10:09 he's ever done.
10:10 Rock on, Eddie. Rock on.
10:12 - Say I'm gonna look after them.
10:14 Say it.
10:17 - I'm gonna look after them.
10:23 - Oh, good.
10:25 Number 19.
10:26 Derek Shepard. Grey's Anatomy.
10:29 - Ma'am.
10:30 Ma'am, is this the home of Derek Shepard?
10:33 - It is.
10:34 He's my husband.
10:36 - I'm afraid there's been an accident.
10:40 - Yeah, they really killed McDreamy.
10:42 Dr. Derek Shepard is on his way
10:44 to the airport when he witnesses
10:46 a car crash.
10:47 After saving multiple people,
10:49 he gets back in his car
10:50 and pulls out into the road
10:52 when he's distracted by his phone.
10:54 Unfortunately, he's struck by a truck
10:56 soon after and taken to the hospital.
10:59 Frustratingly, both he and Dr. Penny Blake
11:02 know that he needs a CT scan,
11:04 but he can't speak and she's ignored.
11:07 By the time his doctors learn what he needs,
11:09 Derek is brain dead,
11:11 and he's taken off life support.
11:13 Meredith's goodbye still breaks our hearts.
11:16 - It's okay.
11:19 You go.
11:21 It will be fine.
11:29 - Number 18, Zoe Barnes, House of Cards.
11:35 Zoe Barnes is an up-and-coming journalist
11:37 whose relationship with the unscrupulous politician
11:40 Frank Underwood helps advance her career.
11:43 However, during a clandestine meeting
11:45 with Underwood in a subway station,
11:47 she seals her own doom.
11:49 - Have you thought about what we discussed?
11:52 - I think you're right.
11:53 We should start with a clean slate.
11:56 - What about our text messages?
11:58 - To clear the air between them,
11:59 Zoe deletes all evidence on her phone
12:01 of their connection.
12:02 She also voices her suspicions
12:04 about odd details in the death of Peter Russo,
12:07 whom Frank murdered, unbeknown to her.
12:10 - I haven't discussed this with anyone.
12:12 I wanted to ask you first.
12:14 - I have no idea what happened that night
12:16 except that Peter started drinking again.
12:18 I don't know who was or wasn't there.
12:20 I wish I was.
12:21 - Rather than subvert her investigation,
12:24 Frank simply pushes her in front of an oncoming train.
12:27 With hindsight, this one became obvious,
12:29 but in the moment, we're all nearly as shocked
12:32 as everyone on that train platform.
12:34 Number 17, Logan Roy, Succession.
12:38 As the patriarch of the wealthy Roy family,
12:41 the prospect of Logan dying
12:42 is in the back of the audience's minds
12:44 from the beginning.
12:45 It's in the series title, after all.
12:47 However, we still weren't prepared for when it happened.
12:50 The way this all unfolds over a phone call from Tom
12:53 is perhaps what makes it all so surprising.
12:56 - Is he okay?
12:57 Who's with him?
12:58 - Um, he had a very serious...
13:02 - Serious what?
13:03 - It is very, very bad.
13:05 - It seems very bad.
13:06 I'm so sorry to call you like this.
13:07 - We find out in real time what happened to Logan,
13:10 exactly the way Kendall and Roman find out.
13:13 Their reactions are some of the most realistic
13:15 we've ever seen on TV,
13:17 and it makes for a particularly harrowing experience
13:20 for everyone, including the audience,
13:22 who feels like they're right there with the brothers.
13:25 - I, uh...
13:28 It's okay.
13:29 Um...
13:31 And, and, and, and I love you.
13:34 - Number 16, Howard Hamlin, Better Call Saul.
13:38 The eponymous Saul Goodman, or Jimmy McGill,
13:41 and Kim Wexler enjoy pulling schemes together,
13:44 but their plan to humiliate Howard Hamlin's reputation
13:47 ends in unmitigated disaster.
13:49 The duo make it seem as if their smarmy,
13:51 yet well-meaning former boss is on drugs,
13:54 ruining his reputation.
13:56 Howard goes to confront them at their apartment.
13:58 - And my clients and peers will whisper
14:00 that Howard Hamlin's a drug addict.
14:02 - You're right.
14:03 - I've worked my way through worse.
14:05 Debt, depression, my marriage falling apart.
14:09 - He delivers a speech, holding a mirror up
14:11 to show how far they've gone,
14:13 and claiming that while he'll rebound,
14:15 he'll make it his mission to expose them.
14:18 Tragically, he's not their only visitor.
14:20 Jimmy's client, Lalo Salamanca,
14:22 an unhinged cartel boss, arrives, too.
14:26 - Howard.
14:27 Howard, you need to leave.
14:30 - Who are you?
14:31 - Me?
14:32 Nobody.
14:33 - Howard doesn't realize the danger he's in
14:36 until it's too late.
14:37 Lalo's unceremonious execution of Howard
14:40 leaves Jimmy, Kim, and all of us at home
14:43 completely shook.
14:45 Number 15, Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby Smith, lost.
14:50 Ana Lucia is faced with a dilemma.
14:52 Her group of plane crash survivors
14:54 have a prisoner from one of the mysterious
14:56 island inhabitants who have kidnapped
14:58 and killed many of them.
15:00 However, as she tells Michael Dawson,
15:02 she couldn't bring herself to kill the man.
15:04 Michael has quite his own history
15:06 with the others, so he offers to do it instead.
15:09 - They took my son right out of my hands.
15:11 They took my son and...
15:13 I'll do it. Give me the gun.
15:18 I'll kill him.
15:20 The utter shock that comes from watching
15:22 Michael about-face in this scene is unmatched.
15:25 As if Ana Lucia's death wasn't enough of a blow,
15:28 even Michael looks taken aback by how
15:30 instinctively he shoots Libby.
15:32 Knowing that she was really just in the wrong place
15:34 at the wrong time always makes us sad.
15:37 - Michael.
15:38 - Michael.
15:40 It's okay. He made it, Libby.
15:42 It's okay. It's all right.
15:44 Number 14, Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey.
15:48 This period drama has a surprising number
15:50 of unexpected deaths.
15:52 While Lady Sibyl's death in childbirth is traumatic,
15:55 it wasn't quite the most startling of them all.
15:57 Matthew and Mary Crawley welcome their first child,
16:00 a boy.
16:01 It's a joyous occasion for the happy couple,
16:03 as well as the rest of the household.
16:05 - You'll be my Mary always.
16:07 Because mine is the true Mary.
16:11 Do you ever wonder how happy you've made me?
16:16 As Matthew drives back to Downton from the hospital, though,
16:19 that happiness comes to an untimely end.
16:21 A truck appears on the road coming the other way.
16:24 Matthew swerves to avoid it and,
16:26 in an insane twist, dies in the wreck.
16:29 - And I wonder what I've done to deserve it.
16:32 - I agree.
16:34 But then we don't always get our just desserts.
16:38 Vehicular accidents happen all the time in real life,
16:41 but none of us were expecting to see Matthew
16:43 meet his end behind the wheel.
16:45 Number 13, Poussey, Washington.
16:48 Orange is the New Black.
16:50 During a peaceful protest in a prison cafeteria,
16:53 Poussey, Washington intervenes when things turn physical
16:56 between her friend Suzanne and one of the guards,
16:59 Bailey.
17:01 - Get her to say it.
17:03 - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
17:05 - Just let me talk to her!
17:07 - Hey, stay down, you (beep)
17:08 - Come on, man.
17:09 - I'm trying to help.
17:10 - Bailey subdues Poussey,
17:11 but he does so by getting her on the ground
17:13 and putting a knee on her back.
17:15 Watching this scene after knowing about very real
17:18 and horrific instances of police brutality
17:20 ending in tragedy makes it even more unbearably disturbing
17:24 than it already was.
17:25 Poussey's last words are all too familiar
17:28 and even at the time of this episode's airing,
17:31 viewers were up in arms and in tears
17:34 over the character's unjust death.
17:36 (sobbing)
17:41 Number 12, Lawrence Kutner, House.
17:44 A promising and entertaining part of Dr. Gregory House's
17:48 diagnostic medicine team,
17:50 Lawrence Kutner is a fun guy and seems to enjoy his work.
17:53 But when he doesn't show up to work,
17:55 House sends doctors Foreman and 13 to find out why.
17:59 Upon their arrival,
18:00 they find him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
18:03 - There's nothing on his calendar.
18:05 His page is still here.
18:07 - The team and House are devastated
18:09 and confused by Kutner's death,
18:11 though they don't all show it in the same way.
18:14 They question why he did it
18:15 and why he never reached out
18:17 and why they never noticed signs that anything was wrong.
18:20 It's so out of left field, yet it also feels true to life.
18:24 Since not everyone is an open book.
18:26 ♪ Rest, even as you ♪
18:30 ♪ Are starting to feel the way I used to ♪
18:37 Number 11, Anatoly Ranskhov, Daredevil.
18:41 In the titular Daredevil's attempts to get to Kingpin,
18:44 Wilson Fisk,
18:45 he runs afoul of Anatoly and his brother Vladimir,
18:49 leaders of the Russian mafia in New York.
18:51 While they're initially too proud to ask for Fisk's help,
18:54 eventually Anatoly decides to accept Fisk's offer.
18:58 However, he does so by interrupting Fisk's date.
19:01 - What is this?
19:03 - We need to go.
19:05 Now.
19:06 I'm sorry.
19:07 - I want to tell you my brother and I,
19:08 we gratefully accept-
19:09 - Wesley will take care of you.
19:11 - Put him in a car.
19:13 - Anatoly discusses the incident
19:14 with Fisk's right-hand man, Wesley,
19:17 but is dragged out of the car by Fisk,
19:19 who angrily beats the gangster repeatedly,
19:22 before smashing his head in with the car door.
19:25 The suddenness of Fisk's attack,
19:27 as well as the brutality of Anatoly's death,
19:30 makes this a murder that's both surprising
19:32 and hard to watch without losing our lunch.
19:35 - Take what's left of him and send it to his brother.
19:38 It'll start a war.
19:40 I'm counting on it.
19:44 Number 10, Mark Green, ER.
19:47 Dr. Mark Green is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
19:51 So while his death isn't entirely unexpected,
19:54 it's still a gut punch.
19:55 Mark relocates to Hawaii
19:57 and reconnects with his daughter, Rachel.
19:59 One night, he wakes up and speaks to her,
20:01 encouraging her to be generous with her time, love, and life.
20:05 - Be generous with your time, with your love.
20:15 Even though we don't know it for sure,
20:17 the conversation feels somewhat like goodbye.
20:19 Rachel slips a pair of headphones on her dad,
20:22 playing him Israel Kamakavikavole's rendition
20:25 of "Over the Rainbow" as he drifts back to sleep.
20:28 Visions of himself in the empty hospital back in Chicago
20:31 lull Mark into a quiet passing.
20:33 It's enough to make anyone ball.
20:35 - And the dreams that you dream of, dream really do come true.
20:47 Number nine, Will Gardner, The Good Wife.
20:50 The foreshadowing is there.
20:52 We see Jeffrey Grant eyeing the guard's gun.
20:54 We see his interpretation of the situation
20:57 and the panic in his demeanor.
20:58 It's unsurprising then when we cut to Diane's courtroom
21:01 and gunfire is heard.
21:03 What is surprising is who goes down.
21:06 - Did the lawyers get out?
21:07 - I think one ran behind the judge's bench,
21:09 but there could be two others.
21:10 - Will!
21:11 - Damn it, Kalinda, back off.
21:12 I have bosses in there.
21:14 The moment happens off screen,
21:16 with the camera focusing on Diane and Kalinda's reactions
21:19 and the slow discovery that Will's been shot.
21:22 His fate is left very much up in the air
21:24 until Kalinda finds his body at the hospital.
21:27 It's a jaw-dropping loss, to say the least,
21:30 and one that we continued to feel
21:32 throughout the remainder of the show.
21:34 - Will's dead.
21:35 - There's a shooting in the courthouse
21:40 and he got caught up in the crossfire.
21:42 I need to speak to Alicia.
21:44 Number eight, Adriana LaServa, The Sopranos.
21:47 Deaths are frequent on this mafia series,
21:50 but they still manage to surprise us.
21:52 Adriana LaServa is the girlfriend of Christopher Moltisanti,
21:56 Tony Soprano's heir apparent.
21:58 However, she becomes an informant to the FBI
22:01 against her will.
22:02 Eventually, she confesses to Chris,
22:04 hoping they can run away together.
22:06 - They wanted me to wear a wire, but I wouldn't do it.
22:09 But now there was a murder, Christopher,
22:13 and they know about it.
22:14 - The furthest thing from her hopes transpires.
22:17 Distraught at the news, Christopher reacts violently,
22:20 but ultimately lets her off.
22:22 She's soon picked up by Silvio, however,
22:24 and the pair go for a drive.
22:26 It's during this drive through remote woods
22:28 that Adriana gradually realizes what's in store for her.
22:31 When they stop, she tries to flee, but to no avail.
22:35 - No, no, no, no!
22:40 - There are a lot of mafia hits in TV shows,
22:45 but this one still haunts us.
22:47 Number seven, Henry Blake, M.A.S.H.
22:50 Colonel Henry Blake is the first commanding officer
22:53 of the M.A.S.H. unit the series follows.
22:55 After acquiring enough points to receive an honorable discharge,
22:58 Blake prepares to leave for home.
23:00 He says his goodbyes, which are both silly and emotional.
23:04 - So long, Hawk.
23:06 - I'm afraid just a handshake won't do it, Henry.
23:10 - And that's it. Life appears to go on.
23:14 However, during a routine operation,
23:16 Radar comes in and makes an announcement.
23:19 Blake's plane was shot down on his way home.
23:21 No survivors.
23:23 - We're shot down over the Sea of Japan.
23:27 It's Spunion.
23:31 There were no survivors.
23:35 - The audience's shock was mirrored on the faces of the actors,
23:38 since most of them weren't told until just before shooting.
23:42 It's an older series, but this staggering reveal still hits today.
23:46 - M.A.S.H. 4077 bids Henry Blake a reluctant and affectionate farewell.
23:52 Number six, Rita Morgan, Dexter.
23:55 Dexter Morgan may be a serial killer who kills serial killers,
23:59 but he hopes to connect with his humanity,
24:01 particularly through his bond with his wife, Rita.
24:04 After planning a vacation with her,
24:06 he has just one last thing to do, kill the Trinity killer.
24:10 - I accept. Nothing.
24:13 Nothing is inevitable.
24:16 It's already over.
24:18 - But Arthur Mitchell is resigned when Dexter kills him.
24:21 It's already over, he says.
24:23 When Dexter returns home, he gets a message from Rita
24:26 saying she came back for her ID.
24:28 - Hey, sweetie. I'm a dope.
24:30 I was in such a rush to get Harrison organized,
24:32 I forgot my ID for the plane.
24:34 So I'm zooming home for it.
24:35 Means we'll be on a later puddle jumper,
24:37 but we'll still be there waiting for you.
24:39 - Then Dexter hears his son crying.
24:41 All at once, Arthur's words make sense.
24:44 It's a brutal twist that no one saw coming,
24:47 and it's traumatic for both Dexter and the audience.
24:51 Number five, Joyce Summers, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
24:55 - Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, MOM!
25:00 - A show like 'Buffy' has plenty of shocking deaths.
25:03 While Tara's untimely demise is also surprising,
25:07 even her death pales in comparison
25:09 to how unexpected Joyce's is.
25:11 One day, Buffy comes home to find her mother dead.
25:14 There's no one to blame, no supernatural cause.
25:16 She suffered an aneurysm and passed away.
25:19 It's straightforward and heartbreaking
25:21 and manages to ground the show in a way that it often isn't.
25:25 Buffy's devastation and the grief she
25:27 and those around her experience feels unnervingly true to life.
25:31 - Joyce?
25:32 - They're coming for her.
25:33 No, no, we're--
25:34 - Joyce!
25:35 - We're not supposed to move the body!
25:37 - In fact, the whole scene,
25:43 from Buffy convincing herself
25:44 that she can give her mom CPR
25:46 to throwing up in a corner
25:48 is unnervingly true to life.
25:50 Number four, Rob and Catelyn Stark, 'Game of Thrones.'
25:54 - I'm sure you endured yours with grace.
25:56 - O'Nett forbade it.
25:59 He said it wouldn't be right
26:00 if he broke a man's jaw on our wedding night.
26:02 - 'Game of Thrones' has one shocking death after the other.
26:06 We've done an entire list on the subject,
26:08 and although Oberyn Martell's brutal death
26:10 in his duel with the Mountain also turned our stomachs,
26:13 there's no beating this infamous moment.
26:15 At the wedding of Robb Stark's uncle, Edmure,
26:18 things start to feel off.
26:20 Clues start piling up
26:21 until everything explodes into chaos.
26:24 - I haven't shown you the hospitality you deserve.
26:30 My king has married,
26:31 and I owe my new queen a wedding gift.
26:35 - Robb's wife, Talisa,
26:36 and their unborn child are killed.
26:38 Robb is shot by crossbows
26:39 and stabbed by one of his right-hand men,
26:42 Roose Bolton.
26:43 His men are slaughtered wholesale.
26:45 Finally, his mother Catelyn is killed, too.
26:47 The Red Wedding is one of the most shocking
26:49 and traumatic events in television history,
26:52 and it'll be a long time before we get over it.
26:55 Number three, 'Gustavo Fring,' 'Breaking Bad.'
26:58 - What kind of man talks to the DEA?
27:02 No man.
27:05 No man at all.
27:07 - 'Breaking Bad' is a thrilling series
27:09 with shocking developments around every corner.
27:11 Although Gustavo Fring killing his henchman, Victor,
27:14 also made us leap out of our seats,
27:16 the death of the man himself takes the cake.
27:18 The calculating meth kingpin is locked in a battle of wills
27:21 with protagonist Walter White.
27:23 Walter goes to Gus' old enemy, Hector Salamanca, for help.
27:27 The elderly Hector appears helpless
27:29 as Gus arrives to kill him in his nursing home.
27:32 - Is that how you want to be remembered?
27:36 - Nice chance to look at me, Hector.
27:42 - However, Hector repeatedly rings the bell on his wheelchair,
27:45 revealing that Walt has strapped a bomb to it.
27:47 Even the ensuing explosion doesn't appear to work on Gus at first.
27:51 Then we see his face, or lack thereof.
27:54 It's an astonishing end to one of television's best villains.
27:58 Number two, 'Tara Knowles,' 'Sons of Anarchy.'
28:02 - Tell them I'm ready.
28:03 - I have to bring you in.
28:04 Another no-show, it'll be dead.
28:06 - Nope, I want to meet with you first
28:07 to make sure the deal is what they promised.
28:09 - This gang drama delivers some real shockers throughout.
28:12 Despite how gruesome and unexpected Opie's death is,
28:15 we're going with Tara's.
28:17 Tara wants to leave the life her husband, Jax, leads
28:20 to protect their boys.
28:21 Jax agrees to turn himself in in exchange for her
28:24 and the kids' protection.
28:26 - I can't protect her with that.
28:28 - I won't need it.
28:29 - Nothing will happen to her or my boys.
28:33 - She's free to take them anywhere she wants.
28:36 Tragically, a series of misunderstandings
28:39 and a lack of communication leads Jax's mother,
28:42 Gemma, into believing that Tara sold them all out.
28:45 When Tara arrives home, Gemma is waiting and attacks.
28:48 The utter brutality of the moment still gets to us,
28:51 and it firmly turned nearly every viewer
28:53 against Gemma for good.
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29:11 Number one, Glenn Rhee, "The Walking Dead."
29:14 Death is a constant in "The Walking Dead."
29:17 Even so, fans were still unprepared
29:19 for when Negan made his debut.
29:21 From the last episode's cliffhanger,
29:23 it seemed at least one death was inevitable here.
29:26 - You can breathe.
29:28 You can blink.
29:30 You can cry.
29:32 Hell, you're all gonna be doing that.
29:35 - The tension is truly unbearable,
29:37 especially after we know someone's been killed.
29:39 We just don't know who.
29:41 Finally, it's revealed that Abraham was beaten to death,
29:44 and Glenn suffered a similar horrific fate.
29:47 - I need you to know me.
29:51 So...
29:57 Back to it.
30:00 - The gratuitously graphic scene shocked
30:03 not only Glenn's loved ones, but TV viewers in general.
30:06 Glenn's death nearly broke the fan base
30:08 and marked a major turning point for the series.
30:11 Which sudden TV death will you never get over?
30:14 Tell us in the comments.
30:16 - My father's last words to me are, "I love you."
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