10 Movie Fates Worse Than Death From 2021
Sure, dying sucks. But these 2021 movie fates are somehow a whole lot worse...
Death, much like in life itself, is an inevitable part of the cinematic experience. It doesn't matter whether you're taking in The Lion King for the 400th time or settling down for the latest horrific slice of gory mayhem to pulse into theatres, fans are frequently forced to confront the visual of a being passing on to the other side.
Yet, while these various ways of biting the dust are usually fairly difficult to watch - if they're happening to a character we care about that is - movies have also been known to throw certain situations into a story that make meeting your maker look like a walk in the park.
2021 in particular has been a year rich with shudder-inducing moments that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, with what feels like a lifetime's worth of jaw-dropping turn-of-events all invading our eyeballs after a soul-crushing global-health-crisis-induced break away from the cinema. Be warned, this list isn't for the faint of heart.
From torturous human anatomy traps to a reality that will change the way you look at the back of your head (when/if possible), these particular cinematic scenarios will no doubt keep you up at night until 2022 rears its head.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
10. No Time To Die - Watching The Love Of Your Life Explode (After Being Infected With Nanobots)
A lot was made of the potential fate of Daniel Craig's 007 coming into his long awaited final outing in No Time to Die. Would he simply hang up his suit and pass the mantle over to Lashana Lynch's MI6 agent Nomi? Or would it be in fact Bond's time to... you know?
As it goes, the latter turned out to be the case. But the act of the agent with a license to kill paying the ultimate price, after being infected by nanobots that would kill his love and daughter if he ever got physically close to them, in the closing stages of the epic finale wasn't the actual most painful fate on show here. That unwanted honour fell to Léa Seydoux's Dr. Madeleine Swann.
Safe from Safin's missile base island, Madeleine was forced to watch on from a distance as the love of her life and father to her daughter Mathilde spoke his final words to her via radio as a deluge of missiles rained down on the iconic spy. Helpless to aid Bond, the sight of Madeleine painfully accepting her new world without him acts as one of the most heartbreaking beats and fates of the entire series.