The greatest scientific discipline fable heroes populate on the sharpness , skimming the jagged cakehole of death every day . “ Scifi hero ” is a high - risk profession , so you should n’t expect your graven image to exist forever . But at the very least , you may go for your hero gets a good last – a hero ’s expiry – instead of go out like a punk rock . So it ’s too bad that some of our most favorite blank adventurer have been stuck with halt death . Here ’s our list of the 12 scifi hero deaths that made us palpate like instead of our hero cheating decease , death screw our hero . With despoiler .
12 ) Shepherd Book . I almost mentioned Wash here , since his end in Serenity trouble me hugely – but at least Wash ’s end made sense in context . Wash gets to die heroically , pilot the ship through a crazy dogfight over a scary planet , then gliding a dead ship to a landing ( almost ) everyone can walk away from . His last is jarring and shocking , and it feels like we get to love him all over again before saying goodbye .
But Shepherd Book on the other bridge player — he finger like a throwaway character in the motion picture , and his death is passably unpointed . He ’s just there to mouth a few words about spiritism and then get wasted . And his destruction , unlike Wash , is strictly there for game - hammer purposes . He ’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru — he dies so that Mal can earn that there ’s no style to blot out from the Operative any longer , and he ’s too mad to keep hiding . It ’s the plot - machine destruction that allow Mal turn to the camera and ( fairly much ) say “ Now it ’s personal . ” He ’s Mal ’s lady friend in a icebox . Shepherd Book deserve so , so much more than that .
11 ) Marcus Cole in Babylon 5 . He ’s madly in dear with Susan Ivanova , but never gets anywhere with her . Until at long last , he sacrifice his liveliness to write hers , using an foreign twist to transport all his life energy to hers . say thespian Jason Carter :
“ The sarcasm of it all is that I give my life in ordering that someone else might go who then leave the show ! ” Carter laugh , referring to Claudia Christian ’s decision to drop out as Ivanova at the of B5 ’s quaternary season . “ I mean , what was the degree about that then ? It kind of clear my heroic act a little pointless , I thought . ”
Carter actually filmed two version of the story : one where Cole died , and one where he was cryogenically frozen . And later on , we regain out the frosty version of Cole ’s fate was the existent interpretation , and creator J. Michael Straczynski wrote a story where Cole gets quicken and gets to live on a barren planet with a clone of Ivanova . Aww . ( Runner up : I nearly put Boone from earthly concern : The Final battle in this slot . )
10 ) Pantha . Actually , she can serve as a stand - in for every great funnies character who ’s had a throwaway death in a major crossing over . It never fails : some character who used to be popular or star in their own book falls from gracility , until he / she turns into cannon cannon fodder . All in the name of showing how bad - ass the later bad - guy is , like Eclipsokilling off the Will Payton version of Starman , or Max Lord pip Blue Beetle in the head . Or Black Goliath randomly dying off in Civil War . But short sometime Pantha may be the worst . One of the most be intimate New Titans character in the 1990s , she ’d fallen into obscurity by the fourth dimension Infinite Crisis came around . So she willy-nilly pose in the room of Superboy Prime ’s backhand stroke . He spends a few control panel afterwards staring at her rolling head and trying to assert he did n’t really mean to do that . Way to prove you ’re not stupefied , Superboy Prime .
( Oh , and another laughable - book runner up : I almost threw Superman in here , because his 1992 “ destruction ” was really cheap and weird . He and Doomsday just punch each other a whole lot , and then they ’re both beat . Except that they ’re not . )
9 ) Carson Beckett . Actually , there have been so many end on Stargate that left us unsatisfied , fromJanettoMartouftoHer - ur(who shoulda been a challenger ! ) . But at least none of those other characters werekilled by an exploding tumor , which on the face of it is the cutting edge in space terrorist act . Watson has a tumor that was due to explode and kill everyone and Beckett insists on removing it rather of place Watson in isolation . He gets it out in time , but then it blows up and kill Beckett and the bomb - disposal squad . And yes , I know Beckett later come back , but it ’s his dead ringer or something .
- The Lone Gunmen . They were coolheaded enough to get their own short - go spin - off series , but then they died ( or possibly bull their destruction ) in an instalment that did n’t even have Mulder and Scully in it . Inthe sequence “ chute The Shark , ” the Lone Gunmen return to the show after the end of their own spin - off , only to get locked in a room with a virus bomb .
7 ) Sacred Trinity in the Matrix : Revolutions . Mostly , her death is weak because she gets killed and then keeps talking for another ten minutes . ( Thanks to Meredith for the suggestion . )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwmksGc43Ac
6 ) Cpl . hayseed in Aliens 3 . He ’s one of the coolest characters in Aliens , step up and bring bursting charge after everything goes rotten . He stands up to the slimy Burke and listens to Ripley when she says they have to pass over out the extraterrestrial . But what does that get him in the third movie ? An off - CRT screen expiry at the movie ’s beginning , with just his name on a electronic computer concealment to reassert that he died . ( Thanks again to Meredith for this one . )
5 ) Louanne “ Kat ” Katraine . She was one of my favorite character on Battlestar Galactica , maybe because she was the only one who ever really call Starbuck on all her shit . So I was bummed when she gotturned into a drug nut , and then it turned out she ’s an fake who stole the name Louanne Katraine and is involved in run contraband . She may even have helped the Cylons pass through human high society prior to the attacks . Even though I usually be intimate Jane Espenson ’s authorship , I really did n’t care the episode “ The Passage , ” in which Kat suddenly experience a whole new backstory as a moon-curser , before being “ redeemed ” by sacrificing her lifespan in a radiation sickness theater . It felt sort of cheap , as if the show was turning one of its coolest fiber into a whole dissimilar somebody before disposing of her .
4 ) Judge Giant . He was one of the coolheaded part in the Judge Dredd universe — until he got shot in the back during a bacchanal in the “ Block War ” plot line . It was a quick , discarded inexpensive death for such a cool graphic symbol . Writer Alan Grant later apologise , according to Wikipedia : “ When we save the demise of Giant , I thought it was a expectant estimate to pop him off in such a casual , instinctive ( for a evaluator ) way . But when the reader outcry came , I was startled and forced to see thing from their point of view . ”
3 ) Cyclops in X - Men 3 . This was a cheap end , except that it ended up being very expensive — it totally cost the movie my interest and hanging of disbelief . I spent about an hour after Cyclops break assuming they ’d faked his death for some cause , and expecting him to crop up up at a vital moment . And when I finally accepted that water flea had died off screenland , at the hand of his true love , who had gone batshit after being rack up with a plot hammer , I was so incredulous I could barely pay up aid to all the waffling and wailing over whether Rogue was going to get Mutant - begone discussion or not . ( Did she ? I ca n’t even commend . )
2 ) The Sixth Doctor . When the BBC fired Colin Baker as the star of Doctor Who , they asked him to come back so they could vote down him off and regenerate him into a new actor . Not surprisingly , he say no thanks . In that instance , the classy thing would have been to introduce the new Doctor already settled in the role , and pretend the Colin Baker Doctor had died off - screen . ( As a bonus , that approaching would have countenance you to indite out Bonnie Langford ’s Mel at the same time . ) rather , they put a curly blond wig onto the new Doctor , Sylvester McCoy , and had him profess to be the sometime medico for long enough to blur his look . And short quondam Colin ’s Doctor give way , not saving the universe , but bang his nous on the TARDIS console while the Rani was germinate pew - pew lasers at the time machine .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VFy_htBc10
1 ) Captain Kirk . Actually , I pretty much desire to make Captain Kirk come one through 10 on this tilt , since his death in Star Trek : Generations was the gilded criterion for disappointing ending .
He last concord to result the glad horse - barn paradise to help Captain Picard deal with Malcolm McDowell , who really should n’t have impersonate much of a challenge for one Captain , let alone two . mayhap if it was Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell ( before the discourse ) or even Get Crazy Malcolm McDowell . But cranky honest-to-god Malcolm McDowell ? Why why why ? McDowell basically beats the turd out of Kirk . It could have been worse . It could have been the original version they shot :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQZWdzDwTo
Trek moon curser up : Trip in the final episode of endeavor . Why did he have to sacrifice his life when faced with a band of standard - issue thugs ? Normally , he would have defeated the low - economic rent space - crooks with one pinky and some technobabble , but on the spur of the moment it becomes a matter of life and death because it ’s the terminal episode .
incentive : I had to add Boba Fett from Star Wars : regaining Of The Jedi , becuase asRickotronand Bonniegrrl point out , he totally gets the curt end of the lightsaber . He gets build up up as this super - coolheaded bounteousness huntsman , and then he just sort of gets pink into the mouth of the desert beastie . Yuck . And Star Wars runner - up position goes to Mace Windu and all the Jedi who get zapped by Clone Troopers in Revenge Of The Sith .
https://gizmodo.com/12-weakest-deaths-in-science-fiction-history-5049753
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