[ONTD Original] Fictional Deaths That Didn't Actually Happen

[flyingpigs_live]

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[ponyboy]

gus had one of the best deaths ever tho, sorry about it.

[lamppost1911]

That tie adjustment was *chef’s kiss*

[ponyboy]

i tend not to ignore canonical deaths lmao. way more fun to work with it.

[setsuna16]

Hey, look at that OP! You made your original!

Also, finding all these gifs, kudos to you.

As for me, as someone who is a wannabe writer, I basically think that deaths should stay. They were written for a reason.

[floatinglately]

i feel like character deaths are a good example of how i want something different out of fanfiction than out of the original work. like as a reader of books even as a teen i completely understood that it made sense for sirius black to die and i also understood the fact that it devastated me was a sign that it was a good choice, and i never wanted the books to have made a different choice on that topic. i just ALSO wanted to read 1 million fanfictions about sirius and remus being trauma-bonded forever boyfriends after the war. and thanks to the power of the internet, i could! lmao

(sorry for using an HP example yes i know about jkr but the books remain extremely famous… also sometimes a character death IS stupid writing but my threshold on this is higher than a lot of people’s)

[setsuna16]

Your thought process makes complete sense to me.

[melancolour]

If sirius's death made sense thematically, it was terribly executed. Tripped and fell in a death portal is one of the stupidest things I've ever read, and is one of the highlights of JKR's weakness as an author. The books are also full of her her bigotry peaking through, but I maintain that she failed in executing a quality cohesive narrative, and OOTP was where it really started to show.

[war_machine_rox]

Fuck yeah James Norrington should have lived! At the very least been the new Davy Jones. It was set up perfectly.

I'm still mad lol

[deja_vu822]

I feel like the major one for me that I can think of atm would be Poussey from OiTNB. It was so fucking cruel, I would prefer to think it didn't happen.

A smaller one is Will Gardner from The Good Wife. I'm not really even that emotional about it, it's just like....why???

[lamppost1911]

The Poussey death was brutal.

I was a casual Good Wife viewer and I remember his death taking over the office the next day. I came to ontd thinking his death was expected and my coworkers just weren’t on the internet but users here confirmed that it was a complete shock and I was kind of sad I didn’t experience the shock, lol.

[ginainabottle]

Will’s death was great and I’ll die on that hill lol it was brutal bc it was so realistic, no narrative build up to prepare us, no hints, nothing. if I remember correctly the actor didn’t want to return so they went with the seemingly obvious choice (killing off the character) that wasn’t obvious at all in the context of the show. As a Will/Alicia shipper, yes, it fucking blew, but it was really well done. Kalinda and Diane seeing his body had me sobbing.

[deja_vu822]

Yeah, I don't totally disagree because that show was definitely well written and acted. It just reminded me of when Eric Foreman committed suicide on House after they'd never shown anything leading up to it and House never found a reason for why he did. Like the point was very clearly to show how unpredictable life is and how things happen that don't make any sense to us, and I understand that, but I want narrative from a fictional tv show tbh!!