Most surprising deaths of a television show character

[caj]

CBR posted a nice article about this subject (I have a link to the story below)

In your opinion, what was the most shocking death of a tv show character?

https://www.cbr.com/shocking-charact...ash-community/

[sunofdarkchild]

Tasha Yar Star Trek TNG. Main cast members never died in a Star Trek show before, and certainly not in an almost random manner before the first season was done.

Ned Stark Game of Thrones. You thought he was the main character? Not even that could have him from being Sean Beaned.

Teri Bauer 24. There was a time before Jack Bauer had to suffer for all eternity, then the closing shot of Season 1 happened.

[Cyke]

Cartoon edition:
As a kid, Morph's death (and yes, he died) in X-Men blew my mind.

I suppose along those lines, virtually every Transformer death in the 86 movie as well. Sure, they died in a movie, but they all started out as TV characters.

Also, Infinity Train on Cartoon Network/HBO also deals with character deaths.

[The Gold Stream]

maude flanders from simpsons
susan ross from seinfeld

the whole cast from dinosaurs

also henry blake and that baby from m*a*s*h

[caj]

Lori Grimes on The Walking Dead - I didn't read the comics so I'm not sure if or when she died there, but I did not see her death coming at all on the tv show. And especially not the way she died. Quite a shocker.

[AndrewCrossett]

Tara on Buffy. Joyce, also on Buffy. Henry Blake on MASH (the original "shock death"). Charlie on Lost. Several of the characters on Game of Thrones. Bobby on Supernatural. (Yeah, I know, everybody dies on Supernatural... sometimes many times... but Bobby was a core character and a real fan favorite.) The Lone Gunmen on X-Files.

[babyblob]

Lori Grimes on The Walking Dead - I didn't read the comics so I'm not sure if or when she died there, but I did not see her death coming at all on the tv show. And especially not the way she died. Quite a shocker.

It was shocking but I was happy about it. I couldnt stand her character on the show.

For me even though I watched it 20 years later was Blake on Mash as said before. I was like why he is going home!

The Transformers movie was traumatic for me. I couldnt believe all these cool robot guys dying.

[Zero Hunter]

Lori Grimes on The Walking Dead - I didn't read the comics so I'm not sure if or when she died there, but I did not see her death coming at all on the tv show. And especially not the way she died. Quite a shocker.

Her death in the comics was rougher and more sudden. In the comic she was running away from the governor's people when they stormed the prison when she was shot in the back. She was also holding baby Judith who was also killed by the gunshot.

[babyblob]

maude flanders from simpsons
susan ross from seinfeld

Maude was shocking. Susan not so much. She didnt gel with the cast, was nothing like them, and her own fiancé hated her. With the way the show was it was not shocking to kill her in some off handed dumb way.

[The Gold Stream]

Maude was shocking. Susan not so much. She didnt gel with the cast, was nothing like them, and her own fiancé hated her. With the way the show was it was not shocking to kill her in some off handed dumb way.

i think the series killing off a quasi major character was the surprising part for me, not the situation itself or the plot

[Surf]

Cartoon edition:

I suppose along those lines, virtually every Transformer death in the 86 movie as well. Sure, they died in a movie, but they all started out as TV characters.

A surprise is one thing, unknowingly paying cash money (as in a 1980's ticket price and in the case of my Aunt, she paid for 4 tickets that day) for that same said surprise is 3-D. That **** jumped the center line.