If there is any scene in a movie that’s going to be memorable and stay in your mind long after the film has ended, then it’s probably going to be a death scene.
It may be the untimely death of a beloved protagonist or the vengeful death of the antagonist. Some of these deaths are heartbreaking, some of them are pure redemption and some can be seen as shocking or just plain silly!
Here are 44 of the most memorable deaths in cinema.
I’ll never forgive or forget that shoe being dipped in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’
Apollo Creed – Rocky IV
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Death – Pummeled to death by Ivan Drago
Donald Gennaro – Jurassic Park
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Death – Eaten by a T-Rex while sitting on the toilet
Hans Gruber – Die Hard
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Death – Falling from Nakatomi Tower
Darth Vader and The Emporer – Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
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Death – Darth Vader by Force Lightning and the Emporer being dumped down a shaft (although we thought!)
Emil Antonowsky – Robocop
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Death – Toxic waste and hit by car combo
Judge Doom – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Death – Dip
Sonny Corleone – The Godfather
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Death – Shot to death
Major Arnold Ernst Toht – Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Death – Melting caused by the opening of the Ark
Tina – A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Death by – Killed in a dream
Russell Frankin – Deep Blue Sea
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Death – Surprise shark attack
Gilbert Kane – Alien
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Death – Chest bursting alien
Sergeant Elias Gordon – Platoon
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Death – Gunshot
Marvin – Pulp Fiction
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Death – Shot in the face (by accident)
Private Leonard Lawrence & Gunnery Sergeant Hartman – Full Metal Jacket
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Death – Murder-Suicide
Tod Voight – Terminator 2
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Death – Metal knife arm of T-1000 while impersonating Janelle Voight
Quint – Jaws
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Death – Shark Attack
Major T. J. “King” Kong – Dr. Strangelove
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Death – Riding a nuclear bomb
Jack Dawson – Titanic
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Death – Selfish people and freezing to death!
LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw – Top Gun
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Death – Faulty Aircraft canopy
The Wicked Witch of the West – The Wizard of Oz
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Death – Melting due to severe allergy to water!
Mustafa – The Lion King
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Death – Falling into the canyon and trampled by a stampede
Thelma and Louise – Thelma and Louise
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Death – Driving into the Grand Canyon
Private Mellish – Saving Private Ryan
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Death – Knife inserted very slowly into the heart
Private Vasquez and Gorman – Aliens
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Death – Grenade
Miles Dyson – Terminator 2
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Death – Gunshot wounds and then explosive
Consec Scanner – Scanners
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Death – Head explosion
Sulley – Commando
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Death – Being dropped off a cliff
James “One” Shade – Resident Evil
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Death – A laser grid
Ricky Baker – Boyz N the Hood
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Death – Drive-by
Sarah – Cliffhanger
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Death – Falling to death
Tommy – The Shawshank Redemption
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Death – Shot by corrupt prison guards
Jimmy Malone – The Untouchables
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Death – Tommy Gun
Frank Nitti – The Untouchables
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Death – Pushed off the roof of the court building (Revenge for the above)
Eli Sunday – There Will Be Blood
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Death – Bowling ball
The Clown Shoe – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Death by dip
Nicky and Dominick Santoro – Casino
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Death – Beaten then buried alive in a cornfield
Dillon – Predator
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Death – The Predator
Russel Casse – Independence Day
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Death – Kamikaze into a spacehip
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big – Live and Let Die
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Death – Inflation
Ben – The Night of the Living Dead
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Death – Gunshot while being mistaken for a zombie or not?
Lieutenant Tay – Rambo – First Blood Part 2
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Death – Explosive arrow
Thomas J. – My Girl
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Death – Bee stings
Walter Donovan – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Death – Choosing the wrong holy grail
Finally….
Artax – The Neverending Story
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Death – Giving up and drowning in the swamp of sadness