10 Movie Characters Who Should Never Have Died

10. Padme Amidala - Star Wars

Queen/Senator Padme Amidala was introduced in the first two Star Wars prequels as being a strong-willed and independent beacon of hope in the Republic, more than able to hold her own against her enemies across the Galaxy.

But whilst Revenge of the Sith might be the best film in the prequel trilogy, it gives viewers the very worst of Padme. Her first scene in the movie delivers the crucial plot of her pregnancy, but after that she is reduced to just a handful of scenes in the background. The fearlessness and bravery that made her one of the most likeable characters in the saga is pretty much gone, and her shoehorning at the showdown on Mustafar feels very out of place.

Finding herself on the wrong end of an Anakin Skywalker force choke, Padme is taken to a medical facility on Polis Massa and gives birth to two babies, Luke and Leia. Obi-Wan Kenobi is then told by a medical droid that, although physically she is fit and healthy, they are beginning to lose her.

It's a poetic moment that Padme loses the will to live at the exact moment Anakin is reborn as Darth Vader, but it really doesn't make too much in the way of sense.