# Frank Underwood died on the way to his home planet **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419 "2017-11-12T13:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/21 "2017-11-12T18:26:00Z")
I think Clare’s declaration of “My turn” should make for a fairly easy and believable transition without Frank. I would think this would be a good time for his transplant to fail, fatally… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/22 "2017-11-12T18:34:35Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > You say this about the man best known for playing Silent Bob? Also known for playing a character named “Kevin Smith,” who is somewhat less taciturn. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/23 "2017-11-12T18:48:28Z")
Joan Severance rolls over, looks at Ken Wahl and says “I just had the strangest dream about Mel as president”. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/24 "2017-11-12T18:54:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Duplicate a classic death of the past? > > While talking walk through an open elevator door where the elevator itself is not there. > Have him die leaving Korea in a helicopter crash over the Sea of Japan. > While grand marshal, he could be “shelled” to death by a rogue elephant in the parade. Or eaten by a malevolent oil slick on the planet Vagra II. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/25 "2017-11-12T21:36:42Z")
Assassinated by a madman trying to impress Kevin Spacey. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/26 "2017-11-12T23:33:28Z")
Frank Underwood continues to be in the series, but now he is played by Dick Sargent. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/27 "2017-11-13T00:51:17Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _And **like** that [poof!], he’s **gone**._ Actually I think it was more the age and willingness than the orientation. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/28 "2017-11-13T01:03:03Z")
Frank Underwood’s home planet? You mean K-PAX? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/29 "2017-11-13T01:09:05Z")
I haven’t watched the Netflix version of House of Cards since the first season, but the original UK trilogy ended the character quite decisively. So Netflix might be able to copy that. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/30 "2017-11-13T01:11:51Z")
He gets hit by a car and someone comes along and breaks his neck to put him out of his misery. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/31 "2017-11-13T01:21:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Maybe Frank gets shot in the face, wakes up looking like (and played by) David Hasselhoff. Ooh! I _ **get** _ this one! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/32 "2017-11-13T01:40:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I haven’t watched the Netflix version of House of Cards since the first season, but the original UK trilogy ended the character quite decisively. So Netflix might be able to copy that. That’s what I was thinking (hoping) would happen eventually. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/33 "2017-11-13T02:02:47Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#): > > Frank Underwood continues to be in the series, but now he is played by Dick Sargent. But surely he was cremated? Well, yes, but you see him in an ashtray here, a bit of dust on the table there … ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/34 "2017-11-13T02:38:39Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Actually I think it was more the age and willingness than the orientation. That joke took me longer than Detective Dave Kujan, you were already driving away in your Jaguar. The coffee cup broke, it just said “Poof!” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/35 "2017-11-13T03:41:42Z")
He’s dead, with subtle hints growing less subtle that Claire may have had something to do with it. She needs her own house of cards. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/36 "2017-11-13T04:52:00Z")
How about there is mounting evidence that he is sexually abusing young men which leads to an indictment. Evidence is overwhelming so he goes off to prison after a plea bargain (a plea bargain so there needn’t be a trial which a TV show would want to have the actor appear in). Art imitates life. ---
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/37 "2017-11-13T07:50:53Z")
Maybe he’ll be killed off, and the last we see of him is his head in a box. Delivered to the middle of the desert. By Gwyneth Paltrow. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/38 "2017-11-13T12:38:27Z")
He could just walk upstairs, and never come back down. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/39 "2017-11-13T19:51:46Z")
The plot thickens… [Kevin Spacey Can’t Be Ousted from ‘House of Cards’ Over Allegations; No Morals Clause in Contract](https://theblast.com/kevin-spacey-morals-clause-contract-house-of-cards/) > [@](#): > > Sources close to the situation tell us the actor does not have a morality clause in his contract that would trigger a suspension or termination from the production based upon personal actions. Maybe just have him as a ghost in the background that nobody reacts to. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419/40 "2017-11-13T20:48:02Z")
He never appears on-set (and in-scene) with any of the characters ever again. Instead, he’s off to Fresno to care for his ailing mother (or whatever family relation you prefer, if it’s known his mother is already gone) and you only see him in brief split-screen telephone calls to other characters back on the main scene. Until the contract is ended and you ditch him like a plague blanket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419.md?page=3)