Okay, I don’t know why I’m writing this, but it was something that came to me in the middle of the night, like all weirdo blogs that I do. So I bow to the muse once again and throw down what I think are the best fictional heroic deaths that I’ve seen or read about(soon I’ll be following this with the best deaths inflicted by heroes). Please peruse and then argue with me about it in the comments section. If you are afraid of being out’ed as a geek then don’t hesitate to send me a email debating the validity of said “Death Scenes” with your own! Spacekicker@gmail.com
Heroic Deaths:
Dyson – Terminator 2.
Yeah I know, whaaaaa? Stick it! This guy had a well to do life, a family, and he was on the cutting edge of Technology. He didn’t know he was indirectly responsible for the end of the world (and with the third movie we prove the death was needless, but let’s ignore that for now). So this crazed chick, a girlish boy and a monster cyborg with an Austrian accent rolls into town and takes him on their hit and run operation at cyber dyne. There he is, shot, dying, holding the remote detonator so that our heroes can get out alive. Can you hear that? That’s him struggling for breath, sweat beading on his fore head. BOOOM!!! That’s the way to go kids.
Darth Vader – Return of the Jedi
I was toying with Obi Wan. Wan was the bad muther that stood there and told Vader to kill him and know and he’ll be haunting his mechanized butt in blue neon for ages to come. That’s crap. Vader did it right. The scourge of the galaxy is watching his son being turned into jiffy pop in front of him. He looks to the Emperor, melted face, then to his Son, back and forth, back and forth. Then he picks up the old fart and tosses him with one hand while his systems are shorted out and he’s a goner. Yeah, the man in black trades it all in for some neon blue. Kickin!
2nd Crichton-Farscape
For you gimps that haven’t seen the series, this is it. The most gut wrenching death scene by a hero. Here’s the setup, U.S. Astronaut Jon Crichton is launched into another galaxy, banded together with a group of outlaws and is trying to find a way home. One episode he is split into two people. The SAME two people. There is no wrap up. This thing goes on for a bunch of episodes, splitting the team in half, with one Jon Crichton on each adventure. Aryn Sun falls in love with one of them, the one that exposes himself to too much radiation and dies. Heartbreaking, crazy and sci fi at its best.
Dark Phoenix – Uncanny Xmen issue 137
Obviously the death that rocked the Marvel universe for along time (that is until we found out that it really wasn’t her). She’s marvel Girl, she dies once and comes back with some unruly amount of power, next thing we know there is a club that is influencing her and BAMMO! The chick is dark, dark enough to engulf worlds. Soon she’s on trial for her homicidal side and kills herself with her true love looking on. It was heart wrenching and the last good thing that Chris Claremont ever wrote.
Rutger Hauer Blade Runner
My boss threw this one out to me. Rutger Hauer is a android with a soul, or does he have a soul? That’s the whole question throughout the movie. He’s not really a bad guy, he’s a sentient being that wants to know about his own mortality, and now there is this weak, Harrison Ford guy trying to kill him – I mean what gives? There’s only so much juice in the droid anyhow. So there he is, ready to kill Deckar, but he doesn’t. Now who’s the more humane, huh Meat puppet?!
Wesley’s Death (last episode of Angel)
Wesley Wyndam Price. Never has a character made such an amazing journey. A nerdy Watcher, stickler for the rules to a full fledged bad arse demon killing machine/minor sorcerer and amazing genius. He has his throat cut, after trying to save a child, his friends abandon him, and then his true love dies in his arms really before he could have any sort of relationship with her!!! What kind of crap is that?! So there he is, trying to stop the Apocalypse, succeeding, but at what cost? Well it’s a death list, so you figure it out!
Nada-They Live
You’ve never seen this movie. You aren’t cool enough to see this movie. You know why? Cuz it starts former WWF superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper. Nevermind it’s a true gem of a film. Nevermind it’s directed by master cinema chef John Carpenter OHHHHHh NO, nevermind that! Nevermind that it has the GREATEST fight scene put to celluloid. So if you do happen to get the guts to step out of your superficial hole and see something that is awesome, this is it. It’s all about 80’s consumerism, capitalism and a remark on Reaganomics (which I love). Aliens live amongst us, they are blocking us from seeing them by means of a Satellite dish. But the main character, Nada, is having none of that S#@! He rolls to the top of the building where the dish is found, is shot, and as he lays there snatching the last moments of earthly air he fires his gun, disrupts the signal and waves a magnificent middle finger to the formaldehyde aliens trying to move in on our world. Score one for the good guys!
Spock’s Death (Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan)
Oh here it comes “Star Trek is lame!” “Star Trek is stupid” NO- YOU ARE STUPID!! You were probably weaned on some Next Generation politically correct crap. Not the whorin around Captain James Tiberius Kirk and his Motley band of space explorers. So in this, the most magnificent installment, Kirk and the crew are set upon by the guy from Fantasy Island, Ricardo somethinoranother (I can’t spell it, sue me), and it doesn’t look like he’s getting out alive. But leave it to the emotionless half elf Spock to do the unthinkable. He Vulcan grips a couple of guards, slips into the radiation place and gets the ship out of there. Kirk runs down to say “hey thanks!” but Spock is on his way out with these parting words “I am, and always will be your friend…live long and prosper” If we all could have such cool last sayings we might live again like he did in the third film.
Braveheart
He layed waste to a country because of his wife’s merciless death. He rallied the countrymen to his side as he fought for freedom. And then, as he is being disembowled, does he do what most of you freakin hippies would do? Does he recant???? NOOOOO. He screams out “Freeeeeeeedom” to which YOU break down knowing you don’t even know what that word means. You start weeping because you are a 1/3 yeah I said a 1/3 of a man that this soldier of God was.
Sturm Brightblade
This character had a deep and lasting impact on me when I picked up the Dragonlance Chronicles my 7th grade year of Jr. High. He was the son of a knight. He wore his fathers armor and rode around with a band of misfits trying to make sense of a world that was plunged into war. He isn’t a knight, not yet. He probably won’t be able to be one because of the politics involved. But then, the Dragons attack. Everyone runs except for him. “Est Mithas Oth Sularus” My Honor is My life. A former friend kills him on the back of a blue dragon and I’m a Jr. High boy with a couple tears in my eye. Lesson Learned : -Even if people don’t think you are a knight, act like one and you are probably more of one than they are or ever could be.
And that my friends…is my list!
