8 Movie Characters Who Foreshadowed Their Own Deaths

8. Grace Augustine (Avatar)

James Cameron's Avatar was not afraid to kill off its main characters, and this lent the film an element of unpredictability, which helped compensate for the simplistic and slightly formulaic nature of its core story.

Killing off Sigourney Weaver's Grace Augustine was a genuinely surprising move - especially considering the long history shared between the actress and her director - but a quick line much earlier in the film actually hinted at her death way before it happened.

Throughout Avatar, Grace is absolutely fascinated by the blue-skinned Na'vi and their wildly different culture: she's on Pandora to study and learn, as opposed to the military, who are there to shoot stuff.

At one point, she states "I'd die to get a sample" while talking about the Tree Of Souls, a willow-esque point of spiritual importance to the Na'vi. And later on - after taking a bullet - she's moved to this tree to be healed, but succumbs to her wound and dies.

So while she never did get a sample, the closest she ever came to retrieving one was when she was on death's door.