A fictional character’s death can be “satisfying” for a lot of reasons…like, maybe it’s a part of their redemption arc. Or maybe it’s done in such a poetic way, it made you emotional. Heck, maybe they just sucked and it was fun to watch them get their just desserts.
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Well, all forms of satisfying character deaths were on display recently, when redditor u/Liteboyy asked, “What character death was satisfying to you?” The responses ranged from beautiful to brutal, but they were all fair.
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So, with that in mind, here are just a few of the fictional character deaths that people actually found themselves enjoying, instead of grieving:
Also, WARNING: Like…this post is entirely about dead characters. So, uh, SPOILERS. Yeah.
“Referring to his ‘final death.’ That is how to ‘kill’ a character without ruining everything they have worked for. I’m sure most of us saw it coming in that finale episode. It wasn’t a surprise. It was just extremely bittersweet. The entire finale was dignified and exactly what we wanted for each of those characters. His (and the other) ‘deaths’ were simply a well-earned happy ending.”
“It was just so poetic, I almost cried. With ‘Baby Blue’ playing in the background…he died where he felt the most alive: a meth lab. Truly the best ending I’ve ever seen to anything.”
“The way all the Terminators died in the first two movies. It felt good because it was that kind of terrifyingly intense villain you thought was undefeatable finally dying.”
“A perfect, fitting end for him. He died a slave to the ring, but I think death was the only way to truly free him from it. The ultimate redemption. Having lived so long, dead inside for so many years, it seemed only fitting to physically die simultaneously with the destruction of the object that bound him to that miserable life.”
“Specifically, how he dies in the book: ‘Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality.’ It shows that, in the end, death comes for all of us, and he was no exception. Of course, the movie managed to ruin that by giving him an ash-confetti death…”
“I was on the fence about the movie from the start, but when he died and I almost screamed, I realized I was finally on board with what I was watching, so in that sense it was satisfying.”
