Several mentions of that still-ongoing book series by George R.R. Martin as well as dumbed down TV series I have not watched and do not care about, yet nobody brought up
Sandor Clegane. Haven't watched the TV version but in the books he's equal parts terrifying and sympathetic. Hell, in my heart of hearts I still have hope he survived and ducked out of sight. Or at least is having a confused warg afterlife with Stranger the stallion.
I can't be the only one missing him.
EDIT: And by missing him I mean having no confirmation of his demise or current whereabouts.
Yeah, Oberyn Martell was fantastic for his brief appearance. The guy just oozed an attitude of confidence and, despite the personal nature of the vengeance he was seeking, seemed like he just could not give a shit about anything. I'm also going to be gutted when Tywin Lannister departs the show. He's a great character in both versions but I prefer the TV version as he feels more three dimensional.
General Hughes from FullMetal Alchemist and Brotherhood...
In FullMetal Alchemist, when he died, I was devastated since he was (to me) an important character... He was that perfect comic relief that doubled as someone you could trust with your life...
In Brotherhood, I still felt he didn't have to die... But, luckily, the series post-Hughes's death made his death more justifiable and meaningful... and I was always glad when they showed more flashbacks of him with Roy Mustang...
Hughes... Your wife and daughter miss you... and so do I... *sniffs* (Yes, I know he acted the same in both series... Brotherhood just gave more flashback moments with him, in my opinion...)
Edit: Almost spoiled my (short) retrospective of the character...
Well, Brotherhood followed the manga page to page almost, so in that version, he actually HAD to die. It was the 2003 series that changed fucking everything, and maybe he would not have had to die in that one.
Well, he still had to die in the 2003 version... (mainly for plot reasons...) although it handled his post-death poorly compared to Brotherhood... I still like both series as a whole, though, which is why I mentioned both versions... (even though Brotherhood had the better [satifying] conclusion...)
He's one of my favourite characters out of Hunter X Hunter, he was Gon's father's apprentice and learned every he knew about being a Hunter from him and was pretty decent guy who loved animals. During the beginning of the Chimera Ant arc, Kite, Gon and Killua went out to exterminate the Ant Queen before the King was born, but Kite was brutally killed by one of the Royal Guards, Neferpitou. Afterwards, Pitou used his body as a puppet to train new soldier ants, turning him a zombie
This is what drives Gon for the rest of the arc to bring him back to normal and also led to him showing a dark side as he wanted to kill Pitou so badly, he was willing to led an innocent girl die, however it was too late as Kite was already long dead. And despite his short screen time, he showed how great a person he was and strong he was as well
Dude, try telling us which series you are talking about before spoiler tagging!
Shinjiro Aragaki, forever a badass, taking death like a fucking boss! He died saving Ken, who is a lamer character gameplay wise (he is a good character, but come on, its fucking Shinjiro)
Well, I might as well close this thread right now... WAIT! I got one!
Lee from Front Mission 3! Granted, the guy dies only in one scenario, but still, the way he dies is kinda awesome. So, if you go for Chinese campaign Lee will be one of your very first allies, but if you go for USA campaign he will keep hunting your party until the very end!
Mike. I don't know why I started liking him, probably his no shit attitude, how he always knew what to do in a situation, and his adorable relationship with his grand-daughter. I guessed he wasn't going to see the end of season 5 (but then again, who will? Saul probably will, but anyone else from the main cast? Maybe Marie), but Walt killing him for standing up to him made me dislike Walt a bit more. I don't like what Walt's done, but I'll always remember the character being the one who jumped in at the deep end to help his family.
Doesn't excuse poisoning Brock, though. Or killing 10 people in 2 minutes to cover his sorry arse.
Others of mention (SPOILERS):-
John Marston - Red Dead Redemption. 2K have stated that it's part of a franchise now, so I guess it counts. One of two games I have nearly cried over.
Lee Everett/Kenny - The Walking Dead. Not confirmed whether Kenny is really dead, but I hope to GOD he isn't. The second of the two games I have nearly cried over.
Merle Dixon - The Walking Dead (TV series). Being a fan of the comics, I detested what the writers did to Andrea's character, but Merle (despite his racism) was a great character in season 3, picking sides with the man with the advantage over the living and dead until his loyalty to family swayed him. His death was pretty damn sad, too.
Mordin - Mass Effect series. Tying for favourite ME character along with Urdnot Wrex (depending on whether he lives or dies), Mordin was nervous yet loveable, singing Gilbert & Sullivan and killing enemies like the best of them. The Krogans will not forget your sacrifice, o intelligent being of Salarian variety.
Come on there is only one person (ignore the "my opinion = fact" vibe) who can win this!
The boss! (mgs)
I can't do spoiler tags on my phone (computer is a brick) but if know the story of the boss you'll know what a bad ass she is.
I think her story was just so perfect and the way it was revealed was the only time in gaming I've been moved by a game. I never cried or anything but I was like "whaaat? But but but...."
Mike. I don't know why I started liking him, probably his no shit attitude, how he always knew what to do in a situation, and his adorable relationship with his grand-daughter. I guessed he wasn't going to see the end of season 5 (but then again, who will? Saul probably will, but anyone else from the main cast? Maybe Marie), but Walt killing him for standing up to him made me dislike Walt a bit more. I don't like what Walt's done, but I'll always remember the character being the one who jumped in at the deep end to help his family.
Doesn't excuse poisoning Brock, though. Or killing 10 people in 2 minutes to cover his sorry arse.
Others of mention (SPOILERS):-
John Marston - Red Dead Redemption. 2K have stated that it's part of a franchise now, so I guess it counts. One of two games I have nearly cried over.
Lee Everett/Kenny - The Walking Dead. Not confirmed whether Kenny is really dead, but I hope to GOD he isn't. The second of the two games I have nearly cried over.
Merle Dixon - The Walking Dead (TV series). Being a fan of the comics, I detested what the writers did to Andrea's character, but Merle (despite his racism) was a great character in season 3, picking sides with the man with the advantage over the living and dead until his loyalty to family swayed him. His death was pretty damn sad, too.
Mordin - Mass Effect series. Tying for favourite ME character along with Urdnot Wrex (depending on whether he lives or dies), Mordin was nervous yet loveable, singing Gilbert & Sullivan and killing enemies like the best of them. The Krogans will not forget your sacrifice, o intelligent being of Salarian variety.
<spoiler=Use><spoiler=fucking><spoiler=tags>please.
I had half of that shit set to DVR, just writing SPOILER doesn't draw the eye away from the bold text.
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<spoiler=Farcry 3>Vaas, from Farcry 3. By far most interesting character from recent memory. After he died, the game was pretty much over to me.
Several mentions of Game of thrones yet nobody brought up
Sandor Clegane. Haven't watched the TV version but in the books he's equal parts terrifying and sympathetic. Hell, in my heart of hearts I still have hope he survived and ducked out of sight. Or at least is having a confused warg afterlife with Stranger the stallion.
For fuck's sake, if you are going to spoil things that haven't appeared on the show yet, call it A Song of Ice and Fire, not Game of Thrones. You just spoiled that for me.
Chris was my favourite character... his carefree attitude, and the fact that he was always so happy! Even when he died! I love how content he was at the time of death, that he remembered his girlfriends name!
I also like the way that his death was told through the eyes of everone else. It had been a while since his own episode, so you don't even know that he is ill until just before it happens. It is also a great story because of how close they all were. Through the 2 series the group had started to drift apart, and a few rifts had appeared. Tony's brain damage managed to slow the rate of this, but Cassie's spiral had started it again. Chris was the character who was keeping them all together due to his impartial neutrality with all of the goings on.
Incidentally, when thinking about it now, it was actually a good time for him to die, and it needed to happen. Chris was the character who was holding them back too. He was the embodiment of their youth, and how they used to be. He represented their wild lifestyles and their irresponsibility and his own future was inevitably going to fail. His passing, coupled with the end of their schooling, allowed the others to branch out and live their own lives.
BTW... I have't seen series 7 yet, so I haven't seen the 'what happens next' part, so please don't spoil that for me!
Killing Chris can be argued to make a modicum of thematic sense, as evidenced by the fact that you just did. Freddie's death in S4 is similar; it's a series all about the notions of symbolic death and rebirth, and Freddie's refusal to change from his teenage ideals (that he can still save (the world / his mother / Effy) is ultimately what gets him killed, in the same way that Emily learns the lesson that Sophia couldn't at the start of the series.
So, Chris can be argued to make sense. Freddie can be argued to make sense.
But what S7 did to my favourite TV creation of all time, Naomi Campbell, is unforgivable.
I freaking love Naomi Campbell. Apart from the fact that I saw a massive amount of myself in her, her storyline and her growth from idealistic isolationism to realising that love is worth it, the way she went from sarcastic sentence fragments in 301 to heartfelt outpourings of emotion in 408 was incredible.
Killing her off was bad enough. Killing her with cancer in the most unpleasant and unnecessarily brutal manner was horrible. Killing her off with cancer in a way that had literally no connection to the story? Utterly, utterly ridiculous. Here's how little Naomi's cancer meant to anything - they never even told us what cancer she had. She got cancer and then she died. And what's the story? It's not about how the love of her life deals with accepting death, it's not about Naomi desperately trying not to tell Emily; it's about how Effy is pissed that she feels bad about Naomi not paying rent but doesn't feel right asking her because cancer. What a load of shit.
And it only got worse when they got to the end of Cook's episode. He gives some final speech about the duality of life and death, which would be fine if there had actually been any life during S7, but when S7 sees one person killed with cancer, one drowned, two shot and one hanged, while Cook happily walks away into the sunset, it becomes clear that the message of the whole series is actually "just be Cook, because that's the only way to get out of here scot free".
Whilst a lot of people in here need to learn to use spoilers (mine own could've been better if I had referred to it as ASOIF instead of GOT, but at least I named clarified which book), those people complaining about the poor spoilers aren't helping at all.
If you're quoting someone who has not spoilered correctly, how about applying the tags yourself or snipping the quote? Otherwise you're just posting the same mistake again.
Sniper Wolf, who died in MGS. She has a great backstory that's elaborated in the most heartbreaking soliloquy when she lies dying in the snow after the sniper fight. "I wasn't waiting to kill someone ... I was waiting for someone to kill me."
Several mentions of Game of thrones yet nobody brought up
Sandor Clegane. Haven't watched the TV version but in the books he's equal parts terrifying and sympathetic. Hell, in my heart of hearts I still have hope he survived and ducked out of sight. Or at least is having a confused warg afterlife with Stranger the stallion.
Whilst a lot of people in here need to learn to use spoilers (mine own could've been better if I had referred to it as ASOIF instead of GOT, but at least I named clarified which book), those people complaining about the poor spoilers aren't helping at all.
If you're quoting someone who has not spoilered correctly, how about applying the tags yourself or snipping the quote? Otherwise you're just posting the same mistake again.
You clarified which book, after you said who had died. You still completely failed utilising the spoilertags properly. You just spoiled it for me and the other person.
I think you've got the wrong person here. Check my first post on page 1; it's post 22.
I clarified which book in the spoiler tags before I mentioned who died, which was spoilered. The only other thing in my post was saying that I was replying to the OP - who didn't specify which book he was talking about (or even that he was talking about the book as opposed to the TV series). That's his failing however, not mine, as anyone spoiled by that part of my comment somehow (again, I noted which book I was talking about in the spoiler tag) was already spoiled by the OP.
If I say I'm mentioning something that happens in book 3 part 2 and you've not read book 3 part 2 but you click on the spoiler tags anyway, you've only got yourself to blame.
Stringer Bell from The Wire. Cold, calculating, intelligent, well-read and educated. Carried on his friend's drug business to the best of his ability - better even than the friend did, considering he got very little police attention. All played by an excellent British actor, Idris Elba. Holy shit, amazing combination for one character.
Several mentions of Game of thrones yet nobody brought up
Sandor Clegane. Haven't watched the TV version but in the books he's equal parts terrifying and sympathetic. Hell, in my heart of hearts I still have hope he survived and ducked out of sight. Or at least is having a confused warg afterlife with Stranger the stallion.
You think you could have clearly said which book you were spoiling? Nice fucking job.
V TheSystem V said:
Breaking Bad Season 5 pt. 1 spoilers
Mike. I don't know why I started liking him, probably his no shit attitude, how he always knew what to do in a situation, and his adorable relationship with his grand-daughter. I guessed he wasn't going to see the end of season 5 (but then again, who will? Saul probably will, but anyone else from the main cast? Maybe Marie), but Walt killing him for standing up to him made me dislike Walt a bit more. I don't like what Walt's done, but I'll always remember the character being the one who jumped in at the deep end to help his family.
Doesn't excuse poisoning Brock, though. Or killing 10 people in 2 minutes to cover his sorry arse.
Others of mention (SPOILERS):-
John Marston - Red Dead Redemption. 2K have stated that it's part of a franchise now, so I guess it counts. One of two games I have nearly cried over.
Lee Everett/Kenny - The Walking Dead. Not confirmed whether Kenny is really dead, but I hope to GOD he isn't. The second of the two games I have nearly cried over.
Merle Dixon - The Walking Dead (TV series). Being a fan of the comics, I detested what the writers did to Andrea's character, but Merle (despite his racism) was a great character in season 3, picking sides with the man with the advantage over the living and dead until his loyalty to family swayed him. His death was pretty damn sad, too.
Mordin - Mass Effect series. Tying for favourite ME character along with Urdnot Wrex (depending on whether he lives or dies), Mordin was nervous yet loveable, singing Gilbert & Sullivan and killing enemies like the best of them. The Krogans will not forget your sacrifice, o intelligent being of Salarian variety.
Not intending to be dickish, I just thought that with Breaking Bad still airing right now and people may be seeing what all the fuss is about, they wouldn't want that spoiled for them. My sincerest apologies. I do apologise for both Walking Deads, really should have spoiler tagged those too, but the other 2 have been out for over a year, so didn't think it'd do any harm.
So yeah, sorry. I'll learn from my mistakes and be at peace with the forum gods.
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