10 Franchises That Killed Off The Wrong Person

5. Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) - Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Why She Shouldn't Have Died:

In order to distract the First Order while the remaining rebels flee to the abandoned base on Crait, Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) stays behind on the Raddus, jumping into lightspeed directly in the path of Snoke's (Andy Serkis) Star Destroyer the Supremacy, obliterating them both in a beautiful, silent spectacle.

Though this death scene is undeniably badass and arguably the coolest moment in all of The Last Jedi, it's dampened a little by the fact that the audience isn't particularly attached to Holdo, and there's clearly a character far more deserving of a savage last stand.

Who Should've Died Instead:

That character, of course, is General Leia (Carrie Fisher), who ironically survives dying numerous times throughout the film even if it would've serviced the real-life events surrounding the film extremely conveniently.

More to the point, with the film's theme of letting the past go, having Leia sacrifice herself in such brutal fashion would've been the perfect capper on her legacy in this franchise. Instead, we got her slightly confusing death in The Rise Of Skywalker, which was achieved through trickery that just didn't really work.