10 Movie Deaths Only Explained Outside Of The Films

Everything wrapped up in a nice little package... kind of.

by Ewan Paterson
Azazel Dead Days of Future Past
Fox

When it comes to film, nothing is more irritating that when a character gets killed off-screen, or in-between features. Some characters are so unfortunate that they don't even get a simple explanation for why they passed on - the audience are just meant to nod along in agreement, take it on the chin, and get on with the rest of the story.

Though filmmakers have their reasons for disposing of these heroes, villains and supporting characters in between features, it's no less frustrating for fans - especially if they've developed a strong following along the way.

Whether it be because stars have passed away or left the project, running times constraining just who can be included in the feature itself, there's an abundance of characters who've ben left short-changed by this particular trope, leaving fans to search other media to find the answers as to why, exactly, they never returned on the big-screen.

It’s frustrating and interesting in equal respects, and with countless novels, spin-offs and marketing campaigns to go off, the amount of deaths that’ve been explained outside of the films really is silly.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.