9 Insulting Ways Characters Were Killed Off Between Movies

8. Brody Dies Of "The Fear" - Jaws: The Revenge

You don't need me to tell you that the original Jaws is one of the greatest thrillers of all time, as Steven Spielberg blended great human drama between a cast led by Roy Scheider's Martin Brody, and pant-s******g terror cultivated by a massive, mostly-unseen shark.

Of course, being a major blockbuster more than it is a horror movie, the characters overcome their initial fear of being chomped to death by hundreds of sharp teeth, head out, blow up the shark, and live happily ever after.

Well, only if you make the smart decision to not watch any of the dreadful sequels, that is. Getting more and more ridiculous with each movie, the victory of the first film is continually undermined, to the point where Jaws: The Revenge actually picks up with Brody's family, and reveals that after the events of Spielberg's classic, Martin actually died...

... of fear.

When the shark returns, Brody's son claims his dad died of a regular heart attack, to which his mother replies: "No. He died from fear. The fear of it killed him."

Fear. Of a shark. That he blew up. Couldn't he have, like, just not gone in the ocean ever again?