20 TV Characters Who Died In 2019

A final sendoff to the small-screen icons we lost over the year.

Tabitha Gotham
Warner Bros.

With 2019 drawing to a close, the time has come to take stock of the year's television events - in particular their body count. A lot of characters have left us, some from explosive final seasons, others from the tragic deaths of the actors portraying them.

Whether they were series mainstays with storied histories, characters who had only featured in a small handful of episodes or anything in between, they all undoubtedly made an impact on the various series that they featured in, and their deaths will likely resonate long after their physical presence is gone.

Now I could be incredibly lazy and populate this entire list with characters from Game Of Thrones and knock off for an early lunch, as the show's 8th and final season killed off its characters with the zeal of an exterminator who has just happened upon a gigantic wasp's nest in a client's attic, but I like to imagine I put slightly more effort in than that.

So let's have ourselves a look back at the final year of the decade and give one last hurrah to all those characters who breathed their last.

20. Jim Hopper (Sort Of) - Stranger Things

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Netflix

By now we're all pretty convinced that Hawkins Police Chief Jim Hopper didn't actually die in his heroic sacrifice at the end of Stranger Things' 3rd season.

From the mid-credits scene in which 2 Russian soldiers refer to their American prisoner, through Murray Bauman's cryptic answer machine message, to visual clues in the season 4 teaser that was dropped shortly after season 3 aired, there's a wealth of evidence to suggest he'll be returning.

After a truly incongruous personality change between seasons 2 and 3 which turned him from capable police chief to shouty man-child, Hopper is eventually forced to sacrifice himself in order to close the gate to the Upside-Down.

Seemingly disintegrated, he is declared dead and hailed as a hero. However with twists and turns being the series' trademark, can we really trust what we've been told?

 
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