10 Franchises That Killed Off The Wrong Person

Why He Shouldn't Have Died:

It's a miracle that Serenity even exists. Joss Whedon's cowboys-in-space TV series Firefly managed to accrue a cult audience, but that was long after it had gone off the air, with Fox cancelling it after the first season.

Somehow, Whedon convinced Universal to make a movie spin-off, despite the relative unpopularity of it on the small screen. There was even talk of it becoming a franchise. Which is why Alan Tudyk's Wash - the titular ship's pilot - and Ron Glass as Shepherd Book were killed off.

They didn't wanna appear in any sequels. So one beloved character gets killed off brutally, and the other barely appears before being dispatched off-screen.

Who Should've Died Instead:

Ideally nobody. Firefly and Serenity had one of Whedon's most balanced and interesting ensembles since Buffy, but if somebody had to die, it probably should've been Adam Baldwin's Jayne. His was the only character who consistently resisted any sort of development, and also maybe then people wouldn't take the actor's opinions so seriously.

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