Movie Deaths That Pissed Everybody Off

Movie deaths are a dangerous thing. They can be very powerful in a story, but they can also anger your entire audience. While it’s pretty much necessary to sometimes kill off a character, it makes sense to treat your character with the proper respect and actually have the death scene work for the story – not against it.

Let’s take a look at some movie deaths that pissed people off for various reasons.

Scott Summers
Leader of the X-Men gets vaporized by his somehow-not-dead girlfriend in what’s generally considered to be the worst plot in all the X-men movies. Not to mention we all know they killed him off to leave room for Wolverine (the bigger actor) to confess his feelings for Jean Grey for some added emotional impact.

General Zod
Superman doesn’t kill, period. It’s one of his things. He realizes that especially someone with his power shouldn’t take a life. Or at least he does in the comics. In the DC Universe, he just snaps Zod’s neck whenever he pleases.

Luke Skywalker
I’m so glad we waited 30 years to see Luke on the silver screen again, only to have him disappear as a nod to Yoda and Obi-Wan’s deaths. Apart from keeping Kylo Ren at bay for a whole three minutes, there was zero use for his Force projection act and subsequent death, however. Also, there’s so much backstory left to uncover. Why kill him off now?