# Does anyone die more frequently than Sean Bean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806 "2012-07-20T02:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/21 "2012-07-21T00:47:48Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Are there any movies where he doesn’t die? > [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > He was Zeus in some movie and didn’t die 🙂 That’s the only one I remember. The Lightning Thief. I swear there used to be a chart that showed what movies Sean Bean lived and died in, but I can’t find it anywhere now. He has died\* a lot\*, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/22 "2012-07-21T01:44:46Z")
\*\*Does anyone die more frequently than Sean Bean? \*\* Jean Grey, but only in the comics. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/23 "2012-07-21T02:35:13Z")
Wile E. Coyote? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/24 "2012-07-21T02:37:18Z")
He didn’t die in _National Treasure_. But he did get arrested. ---
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/25 "2012-07-21T02:42:00Z")
He doesn’t die in “Silent Hill”. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/26 "2012-07-21T03:33:40Z")
What’s hilarious is the number of ways he dies. He’s not just shot a lot, he’s impaled, stabbed, drawn and quartered, beheaded, exploded, hung, crushed, drowned, stampeded, etc. At a certain point, it seems like they would run out of creative ways to kill him. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/27 "2012-07-21T04:02:03Z")
This comment on the You Tube summarizes it nicely: > [@](#): > > Surely having Sean Bean cast in a film is almost a spoiler in itself? > FroogleyAndy ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/28 "2012-07-21T05:45:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > \*\*Does anyone die more frequently than Sean Bean? \*\* > > Jean Grey, but only in the comics. Um, didn’t she die in two of the movies? Am I misremembering? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/29 "2012-07-21T06:51:05Z")
They are all way down the list according to [ChaCha](http://www.chacha.com/content/infographics/which-actors-have-died-the-most). Even the Deppster has 10 deaths to his name. Bruce Willis among his 11 deaths was twice killed by his then wife, Demi Moore. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/30 "2012-07-21T06:58:04Z")
I guess the Outlaw Josey Wales was wrong. Dying \*is \*much of a living. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/31 "2012-07-21T10:32:47Z")
Liam Neeson used to be a pretty good bet for least-likely to survive the film… ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/32 "2012-07-21T11:50:59Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > They are all way down the list according to [ChaCha](http://www.chacha.com/content/infographics/which-actors-have-died-the-most). Even the Deppster has 10 deaths to his name. Bruce Willis among his 11 deaths was twice killed by his then wife, Demi Moore. Doesn’t include Game of Thrones, which would move him to #10. Don’t know if he has been killed on anything else not listed Brian ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/33 "2012-07-21T13:53:37Z")
In years past Heston was cited as someone who died a lot. I don’t know in how many movies. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/34 "2012-07-21T14:32:41Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > What movie is the first (before the titles) example in that montage from? I, too, would like to know which movie this is from. Whoever said Sean Bean isn’t leading man handsome has got to be a man. He’s as fuckably handsome as they come. I believe it’s his stupid name (which he picked and wasn’t born with) that’s held him down. Again, let me repeat, Sean Bean is mighty, mighty fine. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/35 "2012-07-21T15:44:49Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Whoever said Sean Bean isn’t leading man handsome has got to be a man. He’s as fuckably handsome as they come. I believe it’s his stupid name (which he picked and wasn’t born with) that’s held him down. While I _definitely_ am not going to comment on his sexual desirability to women, I would certainly say he has a definite strength to his looks. There’s boyish energy combined with world-wise experience and steely will (though his characters emphasize various aspects of these). ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/36 "2012-07-30T20:31:33Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Michael Shanks? > > OK, so it was only in _Stargate SG-1_, but he did seem to die an awful lot in it. 😃 Similarly, Adrian Paul on Highlander. Hell, half the characters on Highlander. Double hell, it’s the damn premise for Highlander. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/37 "2012-07-30T20:33:41Z")
Michael Imperioli got it in both Goodfellas and Last Man Standing. I thought he was finally going to live through The Sopranos. So close. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/38 "2012-07-31T03:44:59Z")
Man this meme never made any sense to me, because the only thing other than game of Thrones that I had seen Bean in was _Bravo Two Zero_, in which he survives. ---
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/39 "2012-08-15T05:42:48Z")
Fwiw, he played a very convincing transvestite last night in a stong drama: [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/interviews/a397956/sean-bean-accused-qa-playing-a-transvestite-was-a-big-leap.html](http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/interviews/a397956/sean-bean-accused-qa-playing-a-transvestite-was-a-big-leap.html) ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-die-more-frequently-than-sean-bean/628806/40 "2012-08-15T08:23:52Z")
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