10 Totally Unnecessary Deaths In Horror TV Shows

For those of you reading this who aren't familiar with The CW's long-running monster-hunting franchise: Supernatural's Winchester brothers die and are resurrected a lot.

Well, in the series finale, Dean dies yet again. Coming an episode after all the dangling plotlines had been resolved and so serving as a kind of epilogue to the whole show, 'Carry On' saw Dean impaled on some rebar jutting from a beam.

Cue a bizarre, yet bizarrely affecting 7 minute death scene, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki acting their absolute hearts out (with Dean standing bolt upright the whole time), followed by Sam living out a happy life (in montage, naturally) with a wife and son before dying of old age and joining Dean in a miraculously perfect Heaven together.

It's a deeply flawed ending. That cringeworthy final eighteen minutes essentially implies that the only thing stopping Sam from having a proper life was his doofus big brother, which is a weird capstone to put on their relationship.

Honestly though, Dean's death isn't that much better. By this point the character had been killed and brought back 111 times (!!), stripping the tactic of any impact, while the supposed finality of the act was immediately undercut by seeing Dean in Heaven almost straight away.

Thanks to the weird passage of time Up There, Dean only had to wait for that montage to end before seeing Sam again - for him, only a few minutes after he'd passed on.

It's a cheap and manipulative ending - and completely inconsequential.