10 Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Secretly Died In Movies

1. Hedwig Robinson - Hedwig & The Angry Inch

John Cameron Mitchell's deliriously entertaining musical comedy follows transgender punk rocker Hedwig (Mitchell) and her titular band as they tour the U.S. while following her former bandmate Tommy (Michael Pitt), who became a successful rock star by stealing her songs.

Near the end of the film, however, Hedwig and Tommy appear to reconcile, after which they accidentally crash his limo, resulting in a media swarm surrounding the pair.

Hedwig is then suddenly catapulted to fame in her own right, with the remainder of the movie comprising a series of surreal musical interludes wide-open to interpretation.

A popular theory among fans of the cult classic musical is that Hedwig was killed in the limo crash, and the jumbled ambiguity of the film's final 10 minutes is, yes, a dying dream.

It would certainly explain not only the heightened nature of the closing musical sequences, but also Hedwig's sudden and improbable rise to fame.