10 Movie Characters Destroyed By The Fourth Wall

7. Stefan - Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Black Mirror Bandersnatch Fionn Whitehead
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The entire conceit of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is that the viewer - or is it player? - is able to influence the story by making decisions at various branching intervals, as an evolution of classic choose-your-own-adventure stories.

Bandersnatch follows young computer programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) as he attempts to adapt a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game, and promptly begins to lose grasp of his own sanity.

In typical Black Mirror fashion, most of Bandersnatch's endings don't go well for Stefan, and regardless of audience intent, he typically ends up either dead, in jail, or having lost his mind.

Though it's only natural that more committed fans tried to seek out a true "happy" ending for Stefan, he's pretty much condemned to suffer no matter how many times you try to spare him a grim fate.

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