The great thing about science fiction and phantasy is that they ’re full of surprisal — you just never know what the universe will have in store . Like , sometimes , a totally random , surprising , shameful demise .
Last hebdomad , we celebrated thegreatest death scenes in science fiction — but here are some of our pet whole random , didn’t - see - that - come demise from skill fiction and phantasy .
10 Coolest Death Scenes in Science Fiction History
Russell Franklin from Deep Blue Sea
This is really the unadulterated case of this figure of speech — Samuel L. Jackson is in the middle of a stirring , awesome speech communication about how we ’re give out to get our Irish bull together and deal with these killer mutant sharks , and we ’re not going to crusade any more and — bite . Oh well .
Ilana from Lost
It ’s especially great because she keep telling everyone that she have it off how to handle explosive , and — oops .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-DRpqTM9p4
Doc Arzt from Lost
Oh , and speaking of surprising deaths involving explosives … poor Doc Arzt . When you look at it , he actually keep open Jack , Locke and the sleep from blowing themselves up . He give himself for the goodness of the others . ( And Lost might have been a very dissimilar show if Jack and Locke had blown themselves to smithereens and Arzt had survived — just imagine what sort of Candidate Arzt would have made ! )
Clemens in Alien 3
Just when Ripley ’s found someone to lean on … he randomly gets killed by an Alien and dragged into an air vent . Poor bastard .
Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter serial .
We all know Cedric , who was a stalwart friend and a Quiddich captain , and Harry ’s worthy opponent in the Tri - Wizard Cup . Until he dead snuff it — the movie rendering pull off to make Cedric ’s end feel really random and out of nowhere . Way more random than Dumbledore , whose decease is pretty telegraphed for quite some time .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXb9pEVJJyw
Nan on True line
True line always specializes in stochasticity , including random sudden death — but it was specially shocking in the case of Nan , because she was a part we ’d actually grown to care about . And then she was gone !
Carolyn Fry in Pitch Black
She seems like the co - admirer of the film , along with Riddick , and she stimulate it right up to the end — and then she commence it . The first time I saw Pitch Black , this really caught me off guard . Thanks toAngusMfor paint a picture this !
Donald Gennaro , That Lawyer on the Toilet in Jurassic Park
Poor guy . He does n’t even get a chance to try out and reason with the dinosaur . See also : the unfortunate sudden demise ofRobert Muldoon .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMOg_2yLuc
The guy jumping off a construction in Kick - Ass
Okay , so the trailers gave this surprisal away — but it ’s still pretty suspect . Because he goes splat , just when you think he ’s about to do something awesome .
Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer .
Sigh . Poor Tara . Just when she and Willow were finally find felicity , it was all snatched away . Buffy had flock of shocking out - of - nowhere death , like Buffy ’s mummy Joyce . And Anya , in the last installment — although at least that was the last sequence , so you sort of knew there would be decease . Why does Joss Whedon do this ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOu-5ebDpc
rinse in Serenity
Speaking of Joss and random deaths … At least Wash gets to go out at his moment of maximal greatness , when he ’s just proved how awe-inspiring he really is . With the flight , and the face of steel , and the nerveless catch phrase . And then — zoink . There ’s also poor Shepherd Book , but we all sorta saw that one coming .
Ballard on Dollhouse
And rounding out the Whedon trifecta , there ’s pathetic Paul Ballard , who at long last nonplus to be with the woman he loved , even though his love for her had been scooped out of his Einstein , but he still was proceed to make it work , we felt sensibly sure . And then — manna from heaven . There ’s also Summer Glau’srandom headshotin the previous episode . fundamentally , a surprising death is never really a surprise in a Joss Whedon show or film .
The Guy Getting Eaten by the Underground Monster in large Trouble in Little China
Because it ’s mad , John Carpenter - style .
Derek Reese on Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles
He ’s manage to outsmart those metal bastards on many unlike occasions , but all of a sudden one of them catches up to him when we least gestate it . The Terminator blow Uncle Derek off and scantily misses a step .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kckx-uuQkWI
Bill Murray in Zombieland
To be fair , this one is a celebrity cameo , so it ’s not too shocking that he does n’t stick around . But it ’s still a bit startling when Bill bites the dust , and his final rue ? Garfield .
The Urban Free Flow Gang in Punisher : War Zone
As a agency of deprave the “ everybody does parkour across the rooftop ” figure of speech in modern action movies , conductor Lexi Alexanderdecided to have one of the parkour gangster irrupt randomly in mid - strain . Because parkour is kind of tedious without the great unwashed going splat .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiac-l9KYws
The Warrior Woman in Mad Max II : The Road Warrior
Virginia Hey ’s Warrior Woman is one of the most awful character in Road Warrior , and it ’s shocking when she suddenly gets shot with multiple arrow by that evil mohawk gallant , on top of the tanker . She ’s actually wearing sensible armour , unlike a circumstances of post - apocalyptical badass woman , and it still does n’t write her . Alas . You may have to get across over to Youtube to watch the video .
Tasha Yar in Star Trek : The Next Generation
It ’s a fearful sequence , but you have to admit the all casual death of a independent fictional character is pretty amazing . Armus , the Skin of Evil , just put Yar down like he ’s swatting a microbe . And then taunts Deanna Troi about it for half an hour .
tripper Tucker in Star Trek : initiative
Speaking of atrocious instalment where someone unexpectedly bite it — you really do n’t think they ’re actually go to snuff Trip out in the final sequence , even when he does the whole “ self - sacrifice ” piece . And then … he ’s conk . WTF ? Thanks toSans_FIfor this one .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0pcChyV6o4
Dan Turpin in Superman : The Animated Series
Darkseid is really a total dickhead … he ’s already leaving , but the righteous Inspector Turpin dares to give him some guff on his style out the threshold — so Darkseid randomly slaughters him with an Omega Beam . Argh . Thanks toOMGWTFLOLBBQBYE
A certain person in A Dance With Dragons .
I ’m not die to advert who actually has a shocking , out - of - the - sorry death in A Dance With Dragons , except to say that it ’s not the one you ’re in all probability think of . It ’s the one that proves that if you trip the light fantastic with dragons , you ’d better stay out front of the air .
Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1
She ’s in the middle of take care to a wounded crewmember , when she randomly gets shot through the chest by a Jaffa … the fact that it ’s shot in the “ found footage ” style and you ca n’t see what ’s go on too well , and you hear Daniel Jackson yell for assistance , only makes it bad .
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