re: Character deaths that still tick you off today (Spoilers, obviously)

Don’t know how this hasn’t been mentioned-


And while it technically wasn’t a death, he never got to go back to his life so he might as well have died and it still pisses me off-

What a shite way to end the show.

Sacha in "Enemy at the Gates."

I lost interest in Luke Cage after they killed off Cottonmouth. I watched the next episode or two and stopped watching.

Old Dan and Little Anne

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It's amazing what passed for kids books back then...they were trying to teach you hard lessons of life and not just fantasy.

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I don't think Bridge to Terebithia was trying to teach kids so much as it was trying to reflect their lived experiences.

Jesse has a ton of stuff to unpack when Leslie dies. Remember, he feels tremendous guilt about her going alone that day because he went on a trip with the teacher he had a crush on. There's a whole reckoning about male/female friendships and relationships that lurked behind the rest of the book that ties into that.

Add on that Leslie and her family were atheists, so he has to reconcile his religion's view of her death against his own feelings.

Children who experience loss face those same questions every day, and that particular book is a way for those children to see a fictional peer deal with the same problems. I would encourage any adult who hasn't read it previously or recently to revisit it, seeing death from a child's perspective is very grounding and, yeah, bring a box of tissues because it will wrend your soul in two.

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Walter White

It’s my favorite series ever, but THE PERFECT ending was to have everyone he loved dead and finding out that his cancer was cured. The final scene is him sitting in his old classroom having to live with the consequences of his actions.

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Almost 100% agreement with you. Cancer cured, family lost, and he's the undisputed king of the Southwest meth trade.

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Same here.

Currently rewatching the Wire, and as far as a death that "ticks me off," DeAngelo is a good candidate. Stringer sets the whole thing up, and he's going around consoling everyone as if he feels bad about Dee killing himself. Banging Dee's baby momma. Lying straight to Avon's face. Dee was so close to being free of Avon and his world, but he still got got... Disheartening to watch.

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I consider that episode (with Omar’s testimony and Dee’s death) to be one of the most underrated episode of TV I’ve seen.

The mother in How I Met Your Mother.

Ma Petite from American Horror Story: Freak Show

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STILL heated about how Omar goes down.

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He had to.

Its the whole theme of the show. The circle of shite never ends. There's always a new Omar, a new Bubbles, etc.