11 TV Characters Punished By Death For Their Actor’s Behaviour

3. Charlie Harper (Twice) - Two And A Half Men

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Charlie Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television at the height of Two and a Half Men's success, earning around $1.8 MILLION per episode, before his hugely public meltdown led to his departure.

The show was placed on hiatus on 2011 while Sheen underwent a substance rehabilitation program, but not long after his contract was terminated after making derogatory remarks about creator Chuck Lorre. It was after his dismissal that Sheen went on to make his claims of having 'tiger blood' and being a warlock, but in show he was killed off rather unceremoniously, with his character Charlie Harper struck by a train in Paris.

It's retconned in the series finale, however, when it turns out he was alive the whole time and locked in Rose's basement, only for him to escape, ring Alan's doorbell, and have a piano dropped on him, killing him a second time.

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