# Does anyone else hate it when the main character dies at the end? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413 "2004-02-27T04:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/41 "2004-02-28T08:10:09Z")
The one movie that freaked me out with the leads dying at the end was [Easy Rider](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/) ---
**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/42 "2004-02-28T08:21:03Z")
I wish Tolkien could have streched it out until Aragorn died and Arwen was left alone without him. Who could fathom what it would be like had he lived long enough to write such a great story. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/43 "2004-02-28T08:32:05Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Also, I know the movie \*\*dungeons and dragons \*\* really sucked, though they pulled this as well. There was an annoying theif in the movie, possibly one of the wayans bros, who at one point gets killed. One of the better moves on the part of the movie, I felt(for several reasons). Of course, at the end, the thief if brought back, rendering any sacifice moot. It’s Dungeons & Dragons. A quest ro Raise a dead comrade is a common thing (and unless the DVD added an ending where there was anything more than a hint that Snails’ soul was still hanging around, that’s what we’re dealing with). Hell, they could easily be high enough level to have a Cleric in their party who could cast it (assuming they ran into a Cleric) by the end of a second movie. The movie sucked in a lot of ways, but suggesting Snails could be brought back is only keeping with the licence. (Snails, BTW, was played by Marlon Wayans.) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/44 "2004-02-28T20:39:15Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Also, I know the movie \*\*dungeons and dragons \*\* really sucked, though they pulled this as well. There was an annoying theif in the movie, possibly one of the wayans bros, who at one point gets killed. One of the better moves on the part of the movie, I felt(for several reasons). He was SO f\*\*\*ing annoying! When I saw this at the theater, my friend and I actually cheered aloud when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/45 "2004-02-28T20:56:04Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I haven’t seen it for 10 years and really don’t have the notaligia that most people do for it, but it didn’t bug me so much. I guess because it was pretty much a childern’s movie mixed with the christ story so it didn’t matter so much. > > THough I agree that it bugs the hell out of me more the most part. It worked well enough in the Matrix because of the Premise, but I can’t think of numerous examples where it pissed me off quite a bit. > > Anyone ever play the SNES game “Final Fantasy II(J IV)”? I liked the game, but I still got really pissed off by the fact they pulled this stunt I don’t know how many times with different characters, which really robbed “sacrifices” of any meaning because I knew I’d find all of them alive again eventually. Probably the most blantent example of betrayel I’ve ever seen(and despite that, its still one of my favorite FF games. I must be insane). I have the game, but haven’t played it yet. I’m still somewhat ambivalent about Aeris’ death in FF7. In some ways, I can understand why her death was necessary, but in other ways, I don’t think that the game was fair because it put so much emphasis on her in the first disk. Of course, her death wouldn’t have had so much impact if the player didn’t invest so much time and emotion in her, but I still felt cheated. I also didn’t like levelling up her limit breaks, getting her final limit break, and then not being able to use it much at all. Cait Sith only has two limit breaks, why does Aeris get seven at four different levels like almost all the other characters? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413/46 "2004-02-28T23:45:11Z")
> [@Crazy150](#): > > This is my first post, so be gentle, but nothing bothers me more than when the main character of a story, movie, play, etc. dies in the end. Or at the beginning! Fucking “Citizen Kane”… :mad: 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-it-when-the-main-character-dies-at-the-end/231413.md?page=2)