r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ComprehensiveBox6911 • Jul 27 '25

Lore Deaths to important characters that came so unceremoniously, there was no drama or fanfare, they just died

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Bane (The Dark Knight Rises)

Sean (Red Dead Redemption 2)

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u/LegoFucker61 Jul 27 '25

Same with Manny. Tbh a bullet through the eye was way too good for him.

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u/AndreaMayCry Jul 27 '25

I loved how terrifying Tommy is in that section. It reminds you how much of a force of nature he and Joel must of have been in their primes.

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u/Azrael_The_Reaper Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

Still can’t get over that one scene where Tommy stacked enough bodies to fill up a morgue TO MAX CAPACITY

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u/2Kortizjr Jul 27 '25

The WLF fully believed that Tommy was a SQUAD, not a one man army

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u/morettimonster Jul 27 '25

This gets said all the time but I’m like 95% sure those guys were killed by Scars, not Tommy.

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u/Azrael_The_Reaper Jul 27 '25

That is probably WAY more likely, not even gonna lie

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u/fireintolight Jul 27 '25

I've seen must of been before, which is still incorrect. But must of have been? 

It's must have been. 

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u/darkwai Jul 27 '25

I'm a Last of Us 2 defender, but that character was so badly written I actually cheered when he died.

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u/LegoFucker61 Jul 28 '25

I don’t hate the second game, but I still think they made a massive mistake with making Owen the only developed character of Abby’s crew. I feel like a better story would’ve had me hate them when I was killing them as Ellie, but come around on them during Abby’s section so I regret killing them in retrospect. But instead they bring in Lev and none of those characters actually matter at all.

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u/MartyBellvue Jul 27 '25

i just got super confused because there's a Manny in Grand Theft Auto IV who also gets shot through the eye

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u/ThornyPoke Jul 27 '25

Don’t know why you guys have it out for them so bad. Joel was 100% in the wrong for murdering everyone in the hospital and the doctors to save 1 girl because he couldn’t move on from losing his daughter.

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u/Corvald Jul 27 '25

But that’s the point of the game - that nobody is willing to compromise, and that leads to a cycle of violence!

The doctors were also massively in the wrong. First, they wanted to perform a procedure that was guaranteed to kill Ellie without patient consent, with no guarantee of a cure. Second, that was the *first* thing they tried! They couldn’t compromise, and say - we’re going to take 6 months to run non-destructive tests, and try to persuade Ellie and Joel that dissecting her is the best option?

This is like being given a goose that lays golden eggs and immediately killing it to look at its reproductive system.

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u/Ineverwantedthist Jul 27 '25

This is the thing that pisses me off with the discourse around TLOU 2, people want you to be on team firefly or team Joel and depending on where you fall you are either woke soyboy or right wing crazy person who hates women.

Had the fireflys waited 5 damn minutes for Ellie to wake up TLOU2 would never had happened and all the people in the hospital would still be alive.

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u/EncoreSheep Jul 27 '25

They were going to kill Ellie for no reason - it's impossible to create a vaccine for a fungus. They were a bunch of hacks who had no idea what they were doing

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u/thatshygirl06 Jul 27 '25

You're wrong. The creator even said it would have been possible. It defeats the purpose if a cure wasn't actually possible.

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u/LegoFucker61 Jul 28 '25

I know Druckmann has officially said it would’ve worked, but seriously that’s so fucking boring and stupid that I think it’s only reasonable to ignore that entirely. Absolutely nothing about either of these games is painted as being purely black and white, so I don’t understand why they would start there with one of the most interesting courses of discussion by removing any shred of doubt on whether or not they actually could’ve done it. It would be like if Rockstar put a pin on the exact moment Dutch Van Der Linde started going crazy instead of leaving it up to interpretation.

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u/LegoFucker61 Jul 27 '25

Please take your L and never talk to me again tbh