10 Movie Deaths That Completely Ruined You
4. Serenity - Hoban Washburne
After an unjustly short series of 14 episodes building up a world that brilliantly embodied the space western in all its whacky, techy glory, fans were so hooked that they demanded more. Setting up adverts in an attempt to find another network, funding the DVD release, and then raising money for it to be implemented across U.S. Navy ships - the Browncoats are a serious bunch, but without them, Serenity would have never been born. A crime the consequences of we would never know.
It’s important to realise just how attached the fandom had become to Firefly and its characters upon release of the follow up movie, and how entirely horrific it was, and still is, to watch one of the most beloved get impaled on screen. After safely landing the Serenity spaceship amidst an air attack that saw them about to crash, pilot Hoban Washburne doesn’t even get to finish his gosh dang sentence before Joss Whedon drives a giant Reaver spear through his chest. It’s the only way he should go - in a blaze of glory flying through impossible odds - whilst simultaneously the worst thing ever.
Watch it and tell me you don’t want to cry watching his badass wife break down trying to wake him.