8 Recent Movie Deaths That MUST Stay Permanent
The Grim Reaper's call has to be a permanent one for this movie characters.
In any medium of entertainment, death has a habit of not always being a permanent arrangement. Whether in movies, TV shows, books, comics, video games etc., the call of the Grim Reaper isn't always as final as we'd like.
At times, a resurrection or a faked death is fine. It's just that it often becomes an overplayed trope that is an easy, lazy 'out' for people to fall back on - the result of which being that a shocking, jaw-dropping death instead becomes another plot point resolved somewhere down the line.
Over the past couple of years, cinema has served up some major deaths that hit home in a big way.
And that's really the point of a big-screen death, right? To hit you hard, be impactful and conjure up some genuine emotion. If you know said death isn't really going to stick, you stop caring, and the concept of death becomes redundant.
This is all the more prevalent in franchises, of course. A one-and-done, standalone movie usually doesn't have the scope to reverse major deaths.
Yet with cinematic franchises, that's where the temptation comes to bring somebody back from the grave, even it should've never happened.
At time of writing all of the following are six feet under.
Let's hope it stays that way.
8. Yondu (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2)
He may have come across as one of the bad guys in James Gunn's first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 cemented that Yondu's heart had been in the right place all along.
Played by Michael Rooker, this whistling Ravager had always had his eye on Peter Quill and had done his utmost to do what he could for Star-Lord. Quill's own father may have been absent, but Yondu was the one doing his best to provide some semblance of a father figure for the cocksure Earthling.
Like some of the other deaths featured here, Yondu's demise in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was one based around sacrifice. And it's only then, in Yondu's final moments, that Star-Lord realises he's been looking in the wrong places for fatherly love. Rather than chasing around after Kurt Russell's Ego, he should've been recognising the affection and warmth of Yondu.
If this particular death wasn't to stick, it would just feel cheap and lazy. More importantly, there really is no place in the Guardians' story for Yondu anymore. Of course, Michael Rooker is phenomenal to watch, but bringing him back just because Rooker is so damn good, that would be a totally weak move.