10 TV Characters We REALLY Didn't Want To Die

We all know that death is a part of life. We might hate it, we might cry about it, we might dread it, but whatever we do it's going to come eventually.

Even the wonderful world of television isn't safe from the unruly and upsetting deaths. In fact, television revels in it. TV shows love nothing more than making us fall in love with their well-written and developed characters only to have them blasted to smithereens right under our noses. They fully endorse it. They do their very best to make it happen. They go out of their way to break our hearts and ruin our lives all in the name of good television.

These deaths hurt because TV is supposed to be an escape. Bad things aren't supposed to happen in the television world, especially to the people that we like the best. We watch television for entertainment, to see the bad guys get their comeuppance and the good guys to run off into the sunset.

Sadly, just like the real world, TV doesn't quite work like that either. Whatever we do we are always going to be subjected to the deaths of our most beloved characters. Read at your own risk.

Stranger Things isn't the type of show to kill off their main characters. For one, the four main leads are kids and killing little children doesn't really happen with Netflix originals. And it wouldn't really make sense because without these characters, Stranger Things would be nothing.

That just leaves one option: kill their best friends.

Barb was pals with the more popular Nancy, therefore it made sense to Stranger Things creators, The Duffer Brothers, to just get rid of her because nobody would care. That's what they thought anyway.

What they didn't expect was a national outcry. Hashtags such as #SaveBarb and #Justiceforbarb made their way around the world. Barb memes became the latest trend. Heck, she even featured in Jimmy Fallon's opening montage for the Golden Globes. What they didn't realize was that Barb was everybody watching at home. We were Barb! The main character's nerdy friend who doesn't have much luck with romance.

You would think such a public display of affection would convince the Duffer Brothers to bring her back. Sadly, they didn't, even though the show is about a made-up monster where literally anything could happen because it is magic. Oh Barb, you had so much potential.