8 Actors Pissed Off By Their Movie Character Deaths

Captain James T. Kirk is one of sci-fi's most iconic characters.

During his years of service aboard the Enterprise, he dodged the Grim Reaper time and time again, getting himself out of countless impossible situations, including those specifically designed to end in his failure.

It's hard to imagine what could kill a man so bold and resourceful, and the writers tasked with doing so surely had an impossible task of their own to complete.

Well, yes, but they didn't really rise to the challenge. They just dropped a bridge on him, and that's all she wrote for Kirk.

William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk for nearly 30 years, wasn't particularly happy about it, either.

He claims he was told that if he refused to star, they'd simply kill the character off-screen, and so the actor came back to die.

Shatner also claims that the reasons for killing Kirk were purely financial instead of for any real narrative purpose, and his final performance as the legendary Captain was less than enthralling.

"Oh, my" indeed, Kirk. "Oh, my" indeed.