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were a surprise but not the welcome kind
welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
unexpected movie deaths that made us cry
for this list we'll be looking at
shocking big screen deaths that
triggered some water works
naturally there will be spoilers
throughout
let's roll number 10 phillip coulson
the avengers someone dying in a joss
whedon project
is about as unexpected as a tony stark
quip but phil coulson passing in the
avengers
still hits hard despite being in a
flying fortress with some of the
universe's strongest heroes
coulson is still unceremoniously stabbed
by loki
you like this we started working on the
prototype after you sent the destroyer
even i don't know what it does
want to find out
up to this point the avengers was more
about banter and clashing egos
than life or death battles and coulson's
demise
acts as an emotional anchor for not only
the heroes but also the rest of the
story
phil coulson died still believing
in that idea
in heroes coulson does eventually come
back to the mcu
but that does not diminish this moment's
impact
you're going to lose
am i it's in your nature
number nine mary margaret maggie
fitzgerald
million dollar baby at first glance
clint eastwood's million dollar baby
might seem like just another boxing
movie in the vein of something like
rocky however that changes around
halfway through the story
once maggie is injured in the ring and
rendered mostly immobile
the sports flick gives way to an
emotionally draining drama about
perseverance
family and love frankie must have called
every hospital in america
looking for somebody who'd tell him they
could fix her
came close twice till they checked her
over
million dollar baby is exhausting to
watch and offers
no easy solutions when frankie finally
honors maggie's wish for death
any lingering traces of million dollar
babies feel good sports roots
are long gone and the only things left
are tears and anger
he gave her a single shot
it was enough adrenaline to do the job a
few times over
we didn't want to going through this
again number eight
rachel dawes the dark knight christopher
nolan's the dark knight trilogy
is relatively grounded compared to most
superhero films
but the movies are not exceptionally
dark or grim good evening
ladies and gentlemen
we are tonight's entertainment
built up as the dark knight's main love
interest rachel dawes is killed off in a
moment that shocks bruce wayne harvey
dent
and audiences under the assumption that
batman will always find a way
to save the day you'll have to choose
he's at 250 522nd street and she's
uh on avenue x that's just
which one you're going after what
heightens this death's impact is that it
does not seem initially hopeless
but the joker's proclamation that batman
can only save rachel or
dent proves to be prophetic
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okay
harvey it's okay it's all right listen
number seven captain john h miller
saving private ryan the protagonist of a
war movie dying is hardly unexpected
especially in one as intense as steven
spielberg's 1998 epic
however the way captain miller falls is
devastating and
shocking
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tom hanks's captain survives staggering
odds in a final battle against german
soldiers
only to be shot by a prisoner minutes
before allied forces arrive to turn the
tide
saving private ryan paints miller and
his soldier's mission to save james ryan
as
at best unwise you know if going to
ramel and
finding him so he can go home if that
earns me the right to get back to my
wife well then
then that's my mission this idea is
emphasized
greatly by the fact that the hero's
final action in the war
is to weekly fire at an approaching tank
number six
jack twist brokeback mountain set during
a time when same-sex relationships were
not as openly accepted
brokeback mountain has an air of tragedy
from the second ennis and jack begin to
develop feelings for one another
there's a one-shot thing we got going on
here
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there's nobody in business but ours
you know i ain't queer
me neither more than a decade passes as
both men get married and have kids
meanwhile ennis rejects jack's attempts
to start a life together but you didn't
want it in us
so what we got now is brokeback mountain
everything's built on that that's all we
got boy one day ennis receives news
confirming that jack has passed away
the reveal is harrowingly understated
especially since brokeback mountain
leaves it ambiguous as to what exactly
happened to jack
if the tears do not flow during this
moment then they will
when ennis visits jack's parents and
finds a pair of familiar shirts
number five rosie jojo rabbit
due to its satirical tone and sam
rockwell's boundless charm
jojo rabbit's tragic beats end up
landing like a ton of bricks
oh yes that's a wonderful idea yes i
give my full permission for you to send
this ten-year-old child into war
or someone get to see the gun and i'd be
more than happy to fight in the front
get in line kids set in germany during
world war
ii jojo is a young nazi enthusiast whose
imaginary friend is hitler
his mother secretly opposes the war
movement and has a jewish girl hiding in
their attic
so it was only a matter of time before
something gave way
she was born on the seventh that's the
first
he was helping us i'll be back
they'll figure out she's dead then i'll
be dead that happened when jojo found
his mother dead in a public square
a moment that is surprisingly quiet for
the film
rosie is the most inherently good person
in jojo rabbit
and her death is devastating i just
didn't want you to know anything that
could get you in trouble
but now i have nothing
no one number four hobenwash washburn
serenity joss whedon's characters are
generally on borrowed time but in
writing wash's death and serenity
whedon seems to delight in being extra
cruel this landing is going to get
pretty interesting defying interesting
oh god oh god we're all going to die
firefly's cinematic finality has action
comedy twists
and two noteworthy deaths along with
shepard book
wash serenity's pilot does not survive
to the end
credits after braving a battlefield and
securing a crash landing
wash is punished for a success with a
vicious spear to the chest
baby maybe no baby come on you gotta go
come on
we gotta move the death is sudden and
serenity barely gives anyone time to
process the loss
as there's still work to be done wait
wash
where's watch he ain't coming
musical ram crates number three
radio raheem do the right thing spike
lee's 1989 drama tackles racism and
racial conflict within the context
of a brooklyn neighborhood and revolves
around an italian pizzeria's wall of
fame
that lacks any black representation hey
hey
you want brothers on the wall get your
own place you can do what you want to do
tensions escalate until a fight breaks
out between saul
the owner of the pizzeria and radio
rahim and his friends
leading to the cops arriving on the
scene to break them up
however one officer ends up choking
raheem to death
despite pleas to stop from both the
crowd and
other cops it's a moment that's
simultaneously
totally unexpected yet depressingly
familiar
and it serves as the instigating factor
for a riot
in the movie
number two thomas j senate my girl
while death is a common theme of many
coming-of-age stories
my girl handles the subject more
directly than most
as an eleven-year-old girl who lives in
a funeral home and whose mother died
shortly after giving birth to her
vada is fully aware that nothing lasts
forever
being willow stop your tears
there is something to calm your fears
you think death has ripped you forever
apart
and i know he'll always be in your heart
but her friendship with thomas j
brought a touch of innocence to the
protagonist's world so it is super
shocking when the news breaks out that
thomas has died
due to an allergic reaction he was
allergic to bees
he's okay isn't he
there were just too many of them the
funeral scene after this gut punch
is also heartbreaking as my girl does
not attempt to soften veda's grief
one could drink let me tell him
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his face hurts and where is his glasses
he can't see without his glasses
before we unveil our top pick grab some
tissues because here's a few more
honorable mentions that'll make you bawl
your eyes out
neil perry dead poets society a
heartbreaking death that hurts as much
as a punch to the face okay it's okay
doc
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his father did it he was funny
ophelia pan's labyrinth whether the
underworld is real or
imaginary this death is still
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devastating
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leslie burke bridge to terabithia
because a character so full of life just
randomly dies off-screen your friend
leslie is dead
she drowned in a creek this morning
apparently she tried to swing across on
a rope and it broke
i think she had her head yondu udanta
guardians of the galaxy volume 2 because
quill deserved to spend more time with
his real daddy
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h the grand budapest hotel because it
happens out of nowhere
and feels unexpectedly real there are
still
faint glimmers of civilization left in
this barbaric slaughterhouse that was
once known as humanity
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number one malcolm crow the sixth sense
hard as it might be to go into the sixth
sense blind nowadays
the film's legendary twist is nothing
short of a crushing
master stroke you haven't told bedtime
stories before
ah not too many now we have to add some
twists and stuff
after being shot by a patient in the
opening sequence dr malcolm crowe
takes on the case of a child who can see
dead people as a way to make amends
for failing his former client malcolm
decides to try and help this new boy
because he feels that if he could help
this new boy
be like helping that other one too
although the sixth sense dropped some
subtle hints foreshadowing its twist
the reveal that crow has been dead the
whole time comes as a huge shock
i see people
they don't know they're dead
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how often do you see them the death
scene
is so unexpected the impacted character
needs around 90 minutes to realize
it even happened doesn't hurt anymore
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