10 Movies In 2017 That Killed The Wrong Character

1. Sir Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins) - Transformers: The Last Knight

The Death: And finally, we have Sir Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins), an astronomer and historian with an inexplicable amount of knowledge about the Transformers' time on Earth, not to mention the secret society of people - including Leonardo da Vinci, Stephen Hawking and...Shia LaBeouf - who help keep their existence a secret (but not very well, evidently).

Anyway, Burton meets his maker when the military assaults the Decepticons at Stonehenge. Burton fires his gun at Megatron (Frank Welker), who promptly turns and blasts Burton with his fusion cannon. Burton then gets a brief final moment with his ninja robot butler Cogman (Jim Carter) - yes, really - before dying, content that he went out like a trooper.

Who Should've Died Instead: Literally any other supporting character could've taken Burton's place and the movie would be all the better for it.

As hilarious as it was seeing a near-80-year-old Anthony Hopkins get blown up by a Transformer, the fact that Hopkins was the best thing about the movie meant that he also should've lived to fight and dump exposition another day.

So, who would taken his place? Josh Duhamel's returning Colonel Lennox would've made a lot of sense, or as this was reportedly Mark Wahlberg's final Transformers movie anyway, why not have him take the hit instead?

Either way, killing Hopkins off was a terrible idea, considering how much charm he brought to this film and how he could've been a ludicrously entertaining franchise mainstay for the rest of his career. What a waste.

Which 2017 movies do you think killed the wrong character? Shout them out in the comments!