10 Totally Unnecessary Deaths In Horror TV Shows

10. Anya - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Beginning life on Buffy The Vampire Slayer as one of the monsters of the week, Anya grew to become one of the most beloved members of the cast... which is why her death was so insulting to the fans, not to mention to actor Emma Caulfield Ford.

Vengeance demon Anyanka had taken the form of a Sunnydale High student, Anya Jenkins, in order to enact her particular brand of 'woman scorned' hoodoo upon Xander Harris after he'd cheated on Cordelia Chase. Her plans thwarted, Anyanka found herself trapped in 'Anya''s body, doomed to live out the rest of her life as a mortal woman.

Eventually falling in love with Xander, Anya became a valued member of Buffy's gang. Part of the charm of the character was her barely controllable accessing of human emotions after centuries as an immortal and her hilarious bluntness.

Although Anya and Xander's relationship would go south in the end, she was with them all in the series finale, fighting the First Evil's forces under Sunnydale. That is, until she was unceremoniously sliced in the back by a sword in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it death scene that (in the days before pausable streaming television) a whole lot of people actually did miss, being confronted with her staring corpse in the final minutes of the episode.

To add insult to injury, when Xander finally found out that the woman he loved had died saving some schmuck's life, his only response was "that's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing." Wow.