Lost ‘The Black Pearl’ episode, the show had a serious difficulty in seamlessly incorporating new characters. The Black Pearl episode added the high school teacher Arnt until he blew himself up with Nitroglycerin in the same episode. Killing him made that episode great and shocking but the writers rarely were able to incorporate a new character in that show and that made me miss him more.
He died great, he just should have been around longer.
We just convince Obi-Wan that she can’t bear the anguish – which shouldn’t be hard, since she genuinely would’ve died of a broken heart – such that he’ll wave his hand and liltingly intone her into temporarily forgetting any personal troubles until she’s strong enough to deal with 'em.
In typical Kenobi fashion, he of course never figures she’s ready, and so spends the rest of his life refusing to set her straight; she thus throws herself wholeheartedly into working to restore democracy and the republic, occasionally mentioning that Many Bothans Died To Bring Us This Information.
I’ll do that.Skald will be able to save the life of the lovely Ms Port…er… Mrs Ballarina. Furthermore, I would love to see how the producers will Retcon the fact that Darth Vader missed the fact that the the leader of the rebellion he is trying to crush of his own wife, you know the one he turned to the dark side to save.
Aw, those orange lenses filter stuff out to make him lousy with faces: you get infrared and ultraviolet, but you lose all the fine details. No, he’s really only at his best if you obligingly wave a glowing laser sword around, or fire bright raygun blasts – at which point he’s mostly relying on his spidey-sense anyway.
His dying wish is to see Luke just for once with his own eyes – because, with that headgear on, it might as well be Keira Knightley standing in front of him.
I would like to see Detective Jimmy Shaker not get gunned down in a hail of bullets by his comrades on the police force. Sure he was a complete assbag and engineered the kidnapping of Tom Mullen’s son, but he was beaten, his plans to ransom the boy were thwarted, and the son was returned to his parents unharmed. Does a kidnapper deserve to die via suicide by police gunfire? He should go to jail for his crimes instead.
This would be pretty easy to resolve. Once his fight with Mullen is over and he’s beaten but then desperately grabs the officer’s gun, have another policeman taze him or subdue him quickly with tear gas. No hail of gunfire is necessary.
Ooo–I’d also want to save Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Can I save a character who has yet to die to die in a movie but is going to in a few years? If so (Hunger Games trilogy spoilers):
Prim did not deserve to die, especially not at fourteen.
Naevia’s friend Diona on Spartacus: God’s of the Arena. She’d already escaped, for God’s sake. No need to drag her back and execute her. (There were a few Spartacus characters worth saving, but that one was particularly egregious.)
Mrs. Landingham gets to come back to the office and brag about her spiffy new car.
Thing is he WANTED to go, as he explained to Paul. I wouldn’t necessarily want to save Delacroix (the book explained his crime: he was a rapist who killed six people by setting a building on fire to try to cover up the rape), but if it’s allowed to adjust HOW someone dies, I’d at least make sure the sponge was wet as it should have been.
You’ve got your cast confused. 
And make it so that the two of them are into each other? Can you imagine the same level of sexual reparte between the two of them that Ziva and Tony have? :head explodes:
As part of some long term plan by Palpatine that doesn’t come off right, she’s secretly frozen in carbonite instead of dying, replaced with a fake body (a nonviable clone, say) and the ship carrying her to an undisclosed location is somehow lost until she’s rediscovered and unfrozen by Luke Skywalker after the OT. No one knows she’s alive until after the OT, so the change has no effect.
I’d build an actual bridge to Terabithia for Leslie one day while the kids are at school so she doesn’t slip, die, and ruin, for me, what should’ve been a wonderfully sweet movie.
Tonks and Remus. They left a kid.
Little Bill in Unforgiven…he was building a house
Llewelyn Moss. I don’t necessarily want to save his life, so much as have his death not suck as much. At least have him die onscreen, ferchissakes.
Tough call. Robert Picard deserved better than to burn to death off-screen in ST:Generations, and really, what business does anyone on Earth in that century have dying in a house fire anyway?
On the other hand, there’s the alternate ending to Aliens to consider, in which Ellen Ripley, while tired, is far too paranoid to simply go into cold sleep without ensuring that the Sulaco is devoid of two molecules of xenomorph DNA to rub together, let alone leave an egg lying around, in which case not only do she, Newt and Hicks live happily ever after and quite possibly together, but Alien[sup]3[/sup] never happens, an outcome which is made of titanium-plated win.
This is a great idea for a thread because a lot of the above likable people needed to die to advance the plot and how they died is important.
The incident surrounding Tasha Yar’s death was stupid and ignoble, all three different versions of them. Compounded by her awkward final episode where she experiments with the universes’ most advanced vibrator.