10 Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Secretly Died In Movies
7. Marla Singer - Fight Club
David Fincher's Fight Club is of course host to one of the most iconic plot twists in cinema history, that the narrator protagonist (Edward Norton) and his suavely destructive new pal Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) are in fact the same person, the latter being a second personality in the former's mind.
The film's wilfully unreliable nature has invited countless theories and interpretations over the years, though perhaps none more interesting than the assertion that the protagonist's lover Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) also does not really exist.
The "evidence" is myriad - that Marla dresses similarly to both the narrator and Tyler at various points, that she was probably the "person" who packed a dildo in the narrator's luggage, and that Tyler saved Marla from committing suicide to keep all three of them alive (because if Marla dies, they all do).
Hell, there are even theories that Marla represents a gender crisis within the narrator, so make of that what you will.
And while a film as multi-faceted as Fight Club clearly thrives on its ambiguity, the "Marla is dead" theory is as valid as any other.