10 Heartbreaking Deaths of Movie Characters We Never Even Knew
Gone before we ever got a chance to know them.
Is there anything in the cinema that can evoke an emotional reaction quite like a death scene? Films can forge genuine connections between their characters and the people watching, and so to lose someone like that can be incredibly difficult.
For example, fans had gotten to know Tony Stark over more than ten years, which is what made his death in Avengers: Endgame so devastating. Then, there are others who may have only been around for an hour or two, but still formed enough of a connection to be mourned.
To garner such a response to a work of fiction is impressive, but arguably even more difficult to achieve is doing so when the audience hasn't even had a chance to get to know the deceased beforehand.
Innocent children have been killed in horrible ways, countless soldiers have lost their lives on the battlefield, and even great, lumbering dinosaurs have caused audiences to weep without enjoying any significant screen time, if any at all. Some of the characters on this list were killed before anyone watching even had a chance to learn their names.
10. A Herd Of Apatasaurus - Jurassic World
Coming over a decade after the third movie in the Jurassic Park trilogy, Jurassic World brought the iconic franchise back to the big screens, and although Jurassic Park III was far from a critical triumph, Chris Pratt and co. had some big shoes to fill.
It almost goes without saying that in terms of the beasts on Isla Nublar, the new film needed something big, bad, and scary to even come close to the T-Rex and the Velociraptors from movies past. Enter the Indominus Rex, a genetic hybrid created from splicing together the DNA of both.
The dinosaur was immediately posed as a threat, as it outsmarted security in order to escape, but how to make it even more intimidating? How about it taking down an entire herd of six huge Apatosaurus for nothing more than sport?
When Owen Grady (Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) found the behemoth bodies strewn across a field, it not only showed the ruthlessness of the Indominus Rex, but it was the first time Claire truly saw these creatures as more than just assets, more than numbers on a spreadsheet. There were six beautiful animals laying dead, and it's hard not to be moved by that.