10 Sci-Fi Movies Where Everyone Dies

The first of untold numbers of new, non-saga Star Wars media, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took everyone by surprise by turning what was essentially plot hole grout into one of the most celebrated features of the entire sci-fi space epic franchise.

Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), daughter of Death Star architect Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) - who designed the fatal flaw in the space station - joins a rogue squad of rebels, scoundrels and defectors in an effort to bring down the Empire, who ruined her childhood, killed her mother and abducted her father. And the rest, as they say, is history.

That's right, this is the crew who steal the station's plans seen in A New Hope and, though it never really needed saying, much less have a 133-minute feature film dedicated to it, we assumed that most if not all involved in the mission to retrieve those plans had suffered an untimely end at the Empire's hands.

As a Rebel fleet amass above Scarif, the Rogue One squad storm an Imperial base on the planet and are picked off by Stormtroopers, succumbing to a hail of blaster fire and grenades. Luckily, Jyn transmits the plans in the nick of time, before Grand Moff Tarkin blasts the base off the face of the planet with a shot from the fully operational Death Star's superlaser, incinerating them all.

It could only really end one way, but that doesn't make it any less shocking.