10 Movie Characters Who Should Never Have Died
6. Sam - I Am Legend
Perhaps the best boy to have ever graced the world of film, Samantha was main man Robert Neville's German Shepherd in I Am Legend. One of the few survivors of the dreaded Krippin Virus, Sam is a fierce and loyal friend to Robert and the two are shown to have built up the same daily routine over three years before the events of the film kick off.
Having been bitten by an infected dog released by a Darkseer, Robert and the audience are thrown into a state of absolute despair for most of the remainder of the film. Though he holds back initially, Robert is forced to put Sam out of her misery as the infection slowly starts to take ahold of her.
One of the most infamously tear-jerking moments in all of cinema history, it was a death that really showed the desolate and harshness nature of this post-apocalyptic world, but it was certainly not a moment many people wished to see. Given the fact as well that things really start going wrong for Robert after Sam dies, there's plenty of reasons why Sam could have found a way through her bite dilemma.