Jay
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
Death – Pummeled to death by Ivan Drago
Donald Gennaro – Jurassic Park
Death – Eaten by a T-Rex while sitting on the toilet
Hans Gruber – Die Hard
Death – Falling from Nakatomi Tower
Darth Vader and The Emporer – Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Death – Darth Vader by Force Lightning and the Emporer being dumped down a shaft (although we thought!)
Emil Antonowsky – Robocop
Death – Toxic waste and hit by car combo
Judge Doom – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Death – Dip
Sonny Corleone – The Godfather
Death – Shot to death
Major Arnold Ernst Toht – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Death – Melting caused by the opening of the Ark
Tina – A Nightmare on Elm Street
Death by – Killed in a dream
Russell Frankin – Deep Blue Sea
Death – Surprise shark attack
Gilbert Kane – Alien
Death – Chest bursting alien
Sergeant Elias Gordon – Platoon
Death – Gunshot
Marvin – Pulp Fiction
Death – Shot in the face (by accident)
Private Leonard Lawrence & Gunnery Sergeant Hartman – Full Metal Jacket
Death – Murder-Suicide
Tod Voight – Terminator 2
Death – Metal knife arm of T-1000 while impersonating Janelle Voight
Quint – Jaws
Death – Shark Attack
Major T. J. “King” Kong – Dr. Strangelove
Death – Riding a nuclear bomb
Jack Dawson – Titanic
Death – Selfish people and freezing to death!
LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw – Top Gun
Death – Faulty Aircraft canopy
The Wicked Witch of the West – The Wizard of Oz
Death – Melting due to severe allergy to water!
Mustafa – The Lion King
Death – Falling into the canyon and trampled by a stampede
Thelma and Louise – Thelma and Louise
Death – Driving into the Grand Canyon
Private Mellish – Saving Private Ryan
Death – Knife inserted very slowly into the heart
Private Vasquez and Gorman – Aliens
Death – Grenade
Miles Dyson – Terminator 2
Death – Gunshot wounds and then explosive
Consec Scanner – Scanners
Death – Head explosion
Sulley – Commando
Death – Being dropped off a cliff
James “One” Shade – Resident Evil
Death – A laser grid
Ricky Baker – Boyz N the Hood
Death – Drive-by
Sarah – Cliffhanger
Death – Falling to death
Tommy – The Shawshank Redemption
Death – Shot by corrupt prison guards
Jimmy Malone – The Untouchables
Death – Tommy Gun
Frank Nitti – The Untouchables
Death – Pushed off the roof of the court building (Revenge for the above)
Eli Sunday – There Will Be Blood
Death – Bowling ball
The Clown Shoe – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Death by dip
Nicky and Dominick Santoro – Casino
Death – Beaten then buried alive in a cornfield
Dillon – Predator
Death – The Predator
Russel Casse – Independence Day
Death – Kamikaze into a spacehip
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big – Live and Let Die
Death – Inflation
Ben – The Night of the Living Dead
Death – Gunshot while being mistaken for a zombie or not?
Lieutenant Tay – Rambo – First Blood Part 2
Death – Explosive arrow
Thomas J. – My Girl
Death – Bee stings
Walter Donovan – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Death – Choosing the wrong holy grail
Finally….
Artax – The Neverending Story
Death – Giving up and drowning in the swamp of sadness
