8 Main Character Deaths That Killed Great TV Shows

8. Lexa - The 100

During her painfully short stint on The 100, warrior Lexa was one of the show's most compelling characters, and due to her leadership, strength, and budding romance with series lead Clarke, she seemed destined to stick around.

But it wasn't meant to last. Just as she started to get comfortable with the show's ensemble and confess her love for Clarke, Lexa was anticlimactically killed off by a stray bullet, in what can only be described as a lazy way to hurt its lead and crush an endearing same-sex love story.

With Lexa gone, The 100 scrambled to fill the void she left, but nothing worked. Like Clarke, the audiences never recovered from her death, and her absence was the first nail in the coffin for a series that would fall inexorably downward with each passing season.

If only Lexa had been given the role she deserved, The 100 wouldn't have ended up becoming such a mess.