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The Greatest Deaths in Cinematic History

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1. Rambo (2008)
Character: Burmese Jeep Driver

Demise: By far the new king of spectacular cinematic deaths. After commandeering a Jeep with a mounted machine gun, Rambo points the huge calibre weapon at the driver and lets rip, resulting in an explosion of innards and one less mouth to feed for the Burmese military.
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2. Total Recall (1990)
Character: 'Escalator guy'

Demise: Some unsuspecting commuter is ruthlessly gunned in the back by several different men when used as a human shield by Arnie.
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3. RoboCop (1987)
Character: Emil Antonowsky

Demise: This henchman gets splashed by 'toxic waste' and quite simply begins to melt uncontrollably. He meets his final demise when hit by a truck which liquifies him on impact.
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4. The Godfather (1972)
Character: Sonny Corleone

Demise: The highlight of the film. Heir to the criminal empire, Sonny suspects nothing as he pulls up to a toll both on the freeway. Seconds later rival henchman appear in every booth and surrounding car and spray him with machine gun fire from their faithful Tommy Guns.
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5. Starship Troopers (1997)
Character: Shujumi

Demise: A psycho trooper goes postal on the battlefield and is swiftly ended by the arachnids. Pretty much the first human to die on the attack on Klandathu.
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6. Resident Evil (2002)
Character: One

Demise: The commando team leader meets a hilarious demise at the hands of a laser grid which dices him. He would have survived had he taken a few steps backwards.
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7. Seven (1995)
Character: Victim of Lust

Demise: The prostitute. You never see her die, but the inferences of how she must have met her demise turn your stomach.
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8. Platoon (1986)
Character: Sgt. Elias Grodin

Demise: One of the most iconic poses in history, let alone cinema. Grodin is finally defeated and sinks to his knees after seeing the evacuation helicopter leave without him. Brutally betrayed by his own squad, he makes it back against all odds to the landing zone but is finally overcome by the chasing hordes.
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9. Troy (2004)
Character: Hector

Demise: After a superb scripted fight, Achilles manages to get the better of Hector - the people's champion. It doesn't end there for the poor man as he is dragged behind his chariot across the desert and initially denied a proper burial.
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10. Sin City (2005)
Character: Yellow Bastard

Demise: The sick paedophile pervert who finally meets a deserved end when Hartigan punches his face into nothingness. Superb.
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11. The Fly (1986)
Character: Seth Brundle

Demise: A prolonged and ultimately tragic and painful death for the brilliant scientist, who after everything, fails in his desperate attempt to return to a human and ends up fused with components of his transportation machine. A shotgun blast to the head finishes the deal.
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12. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Character: Hapless Cops

Demise: Two ordinary cops respond to reports of a heist and are utterly annihilated by Mr White before they even get a chance to leave their car.
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13. The Last Samurai (2003)
Character: Katsumoto

Demise: During a heroic last stand, Katsumoto managed to overcome hundreds of men in a rifle regiment, thunder through the reserves in a dashing cavalry charge, breeze past incoming cannon fire and is only stopped by revolutionary technology - a Gatling gun on the battle field. Even then, he gets so tired of killing other people, he decides that he has to kill himself.
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14. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
Character: 'Injecting Henchman'

Demise: After a gruelling battle with Ting, he is knee dropped with such ferocity that he smashes through a wooden platform, which is then crushed under the head of a giant statue. Jaw dropping endage.
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15. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Character: Jesus Christ

Demise: Probably the longest death scene ever. The lord and saviour is repaid for his saving of humanity by being gruesomely tortured and crucified. No pleasing some people.
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16. Fargo (1996)
Character: Carl Showalter

Demise: Something we've all dreamed of doing to Steve Buscemi at some point - killing him with an axe and then feeding his remains through a wood chipper.
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17. Scarface (1983)
Character: Tony Montana

Demise: It's how I want to go. In a coke-fuelled psychosis, Montana picks up his faithful M16 assault rifle - with underslung grenade launcher - and obliterates half of an invading army of gangsters who are hell bent on killing him. He finally succumbs to a hail of bullets and it blown from his balcony into a pool below. Heroic!
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18. Equilibrium (2002)
Character: Brandt

Demise: One of the biggest tools in recent years, Taye Diggs' character is the ultimate suck up who - after preparing himself for an ultimate battle with Preston - is instantly killed by one lightning quick slash from his opponent.
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19. The Marine (2006)
Character: Angela

Demise: Cena takes no prisoner as he breaks into the passenger door side of a juggernaut, grabs this girl by the hair, then throws her into the path of an oncoming bus. Hilarious stuff.
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20. Desperado (1995)
Character: Navajas

Demise: Wearing a grimace that could destroy the Berlin wall, Navajas fills El Meriachi with knives before being rudely interrupted by hired goons in a heavily armoured car. He annihilates about four more bad guys before meeting his demise.
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21. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kin... (2003)
Character: Denethor

Demise: A beautiful death. Denethor manages to set himself on fire, run screaming through the higher echelons of Minas Tirith and then throw himself off of the top of the city. Rib tickling.
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22. My Girl (1991)
Character: Thomas J. Sennett

Demise: McCauly Culkin gets stung to death by bees and everyone on the planet without a Y chromosome cries. Gave me a fear of bees throughout most of my childhood, until science cured that irrationality!
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A list of great character deaths in movie history. The deaths listed here are chosen for their pure unadulterated gore, hilarity, ridiculousness or poignancy. Or maybe a mixture of the above. As a result, there might be some spoilers hidden away, but not every film has the most obvious death as a nomination.

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Posted: 5 years, 3 months ago at Mar 10 19:29
Good list - You have some of my favs on there.. my personal favs are

:The Random Cop in 'Volcano', jumping in a river of Lava
:The heroic death of D'Atagnan in Man in The Iron mask
:Dr X's Complete Anhilation in X3
:Walken blowing Hopper's face off in 'True Romance'
:The Lawyer on the toilet in JP1

and last but not least, my ultimate fac...which I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU FORGOT as he is the God of the death scene..Sean Bean in LOTR...fighting on despite walking through a wall of arrows!!
Posted: 5 years ago at Jun 11 7:44
For deaths on screen I felt Mel Gibson's death in Braveheart made quite the impact. And for deaths off screen the red coated little girl in Schindler's List and Roberto Benigni in Life is Beautiful. Just my two cents.
Posted: 4 years, 9 months ago at Sep 2 2:46
Great List, but how could you forget "300"'s King Leonidas' death. Truly a great screen death. Though technically you never see him die...
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Jan 2 20:50
Excellent!!

I only wished Anakin Skywalker died at the end of the third Star Wars film - that would be a classic death!
Posted: 3 years, 1 month ago at May 6 10:45
Great list! I also like Léon (Jean Reno) and Norman Stansfield's death (Norman - Gary Oldman) in the film "Léon: The Professional"
Posted: 3 years, 1 month ago at May 6 11:41
Awesome list and some great deaths. One of my favorites not listed is Bills death in 'Kill Bill'. It was quite and almost entirely bloodless which I thought was a very cool way to end a tale of bloody revenge.
Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Aug 7 11:31
great and well put-together, good job
Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Aug 23 14:26
Oooh yes, the prostitue died Se7en terrible :S
Posted: 2 years, 5 months ago at Jan 11 14:16
In Reservoir Dogs, You Should Have Included The Mexican Stand-off In Which Joe & Nice Guy Eddie Die!

That Was Great...
Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Sep 10 9:42
Great list.

However, you've forgotten the single greatest death of all time. BRAVEHEART'S WILLIAM WALLACE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 8 months, 4 weeks ago at Sep 22 1:37
Nice list.
Posted: 8 months, 4 weeks ago at Sep 22 17:03
Uh, great list !
Posted: 7 months, 1 week ago at Nov 9 20:03
you have to also add Two Face's death in The Dark Knight. you could also have Batman's death in Dark Knight Rises, but you may have not interpreted it that he died. Also, you could have Ra's al Ghul's death in Batman Begins. Also, the main guy's death in The Prestige.
Posted: 7 months, 1 week ago at Nov 9 20:03
you have to also add Two Face's death in The Dark Knight. you could also have Batman's death in Dark Knight Rises, but you may have not interpreted it that he died. Also, you could have Ra's al Ghul's death in Batman Begins. Also, the main guy's death in The Prestige.
Posted: 7 months, 1 week ago at Nov 9 20:04
huo yuanjia's death in Fearless?

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