10 Movies Where The Hero Was Dead All Along
7. Last Christmas
Paul Feig's seasonal schmaltz-fest Last Christmas follows Kate (Emilia Clarke), a downtrodden retail worker whose life is turned around after a chance encounter with a handsome, charming stranger, Tom (Henry Golding).
Yet Tom is ultimately a bit too perfect to the point that it's suspicious, which nevertheless does little to quell the shock factor of the film's big twist, that Tom has actually been dead the entire time.
More to the point, Tom was killed the year prior in a traffic accident and Kate, who was herself deathly ill at this time, received his heart via a transplant. And so, the film is a quite literal adaptation of the Wham! classic "Last Christmas."
And so, Kate has been seeing either a hallucination of Tom or his spirit, depending on your perspective, with the film sensibly never confirming his presence one way or another.
As much as rom-coms rarely feature true heroes, and as completely insane as the film's twist is, Tom's tragic death nevertheless gave life to another person, and that's definitely heroic.