Characters Killed Off Because Of Their Awful Behavior

in some cases whether it's out of malice or necessity tv writers decide the best way to say goodbye to an actor is to straight up annihilate the character here are a few tv and film characters who were killed off because of an actor's awful behavior between 1987 and 1989 the late j thomas played a recurring role of hockey player eddie labeck on the hit sitcom cheers lebeck is a hockey player for the boston bruins who gets involved with the tough no-nonsense waitress carla played by rhea pearlman and eventually the pair tied the knot sadly their wedded bliss doesn't last long the bruins fire eddie because of his age so he's forced to take a job as a skating penguin in a traveling ice show in a season 8 episode we learned the former hockey player was killed in a bizarre zamboni accident according to cheers writer ken levine the hockey player's demise was the result of the actor saying the wrong thing while the wrong person was listening in a 2006 blog post levine explained that at the same time thomas had a recurring role on cheers he was also a dj in los angeles when a caller asked him on the air what it was like working on cheers thomas joked that it was quote brutal because he had to kiss ria pearlman according to levine pearlman happened to be listening to the show and as a result thomas was never seen on cheers again a few years before he was chopping through orcs as gimli and peter jackson's lord of the rings series john reese davis played professor maximilian arturo on the science fiction series sliders jesus marion joseph i think i've just seen god and i could have sworn he was driving a cadillac arturo acts as mentor to quinn played by jerry o'connell as they and their friends use wormholes to travel to parallel universes in the season three two-parter exodus arturo sacrifices himself to save quinn taking a bullet meant for the younger hero nearly two decades after his departure from sliders reese davis told digital spy that the real reason he took the bullet wasn't to save quinn but to save himself from bad writing he says the writers on sliders didn't have the vision to realize the full potential of the series he also called the scripts quote incomprehensible gibberish reese davis went on to say that he clashed with the writers on a regular basis the actor recalled in an interview i would go to the writers and complain but they say john why don't you just say the words as written i say i tell you what i will actually say the words as written when you can actually write intelligent sentences rhys davis wasn't clear about whether he was fired or quit but either way he says his conflicts with writers were to blame for his departure beginning in 1988 roseanne aired for nine seasons ending in 1997 then in 2018 roseanne enjoyed what was initially an extremely successful revival with the original cast on board and hit ratings the new roseanne looks set to possibly enjoy many more seasons i have an announcement i'm having a baby a baby what then in july 2018 roseanne barr tweeted a racist insult about valerie jarrett a former advisor to president barack obama soon after abc fired barr and canceled the series but while it was the end for roseanne it wasn't the end of the character's story in october 2018 the counters premiered featuring all of roseanne's cast minus barr the first episode reveals that the conor family matriarch has died at first a heart attack was blamed for her death but later in the premiere we learned she died from an opioid overdose rosanna the connor's showrunner bruce helford said the choice to kill her character was made to make her departure permanent alfred also went on to say that the manner of her death was meant to be one that was relevant and could inspire discussion for the greater good about the american working class barr apparently didn't agree after the premiere she wrote a long response to her character's demise on the connors saying the choice was too grim in morbid for a family-oriented show in the matrix films one of the most conspicuous absences after the first movie is tank played by marcus chong in spite of being one of the few good guys to survive the original film his character was killed off between movies and doesn't appear in either the matrix reloaded or the matrix revolutions the reason tank dies is that when he was approached to reprise the role chong decided on an absolutely bizarre negotiating strategy the writer director team of the wachowskis reportedly wanted chong to return and offered him 250 000 to do so but depending on which version of chong you ask that was either way too much or not nearly enough chung wanted 1 million to reprise the role of tank but the wachowskis refused so chong had his lawyer deliver a letter in which the actor said that he would return for the sequels either for 500 000 or for free chong wrote i will do it for free because i love the project and i want to protect the role and the integrity of the wachowski's vision instead the wachowskis decided the franchise could survive without tank unfortunately for everyone involved it wasn't the last the wachowskis heard from chong he was arrested for threatening the filmmakers and he later unsuccessfully sued warner brothers aol time warner and the wachowski's production company for breach of contract slander and fraud for eight seasons charlie sheen played jingle writer charlie harper on the cbs sitcom two and a half men but in the season nine premiere it's revealed that harper dies an utterly ridiculous death when a helicopter drops a grand piano on top of him sheen's character is then replaced by internet tycoon walden schmidt played by ashton kutcher while the manner of harper's death likely surprised plenty of viewers the fact that he died surprised no one long before he was even cast on two and a half men sheen had built himself a disturbing reputation that included drug abuse and domestic violence in february 2011 sheen hammered the final nails in the character's coffin with vicious attacks on the two and a half men creator chuck lorre when sheen appeared on the alex jones show and hurled anti-semitic insults directed at lori and posted an open letter rant on tmz in early march warner brothers announced enough was enough and sheen was fired from two and a half men however the season nine premiere proved not to be quite the end of charlie harper in the two-part series finale it's revealed charlie stalker neighbor rose faked his death and has been keeping him as a prisoner in the pit for the last four years harper escapes but he's once again killed by a helicopter that drops a grand piano on him for nine seasons the late soul singer and actor isaac hayes lent his voice to the character chef on comedy central's controversial animated show south park chef would often deliver wisdom to the show's heroes wisdom that usually involve breaking into a soul song but in 2006 hayes asked to be released from his contract hayes cited what he called the show's quote intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs as his reason for departing hayes a scientologist didn't directly reference the season 9 episode trapped in the closet which criticized scientology but many including south park creators trey parker and matt stone assumed that episode is what he was talking about in an official statement from comedy central stone pointed out what he saw as hazes hypocrisy writing isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of christians muslims mormons or jews he got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show however we should point out that hades's son has said that his dad had a stroke in 2006 and that the church of scientology pinned this letter in his name so perhaps the actor wasn't responsible for the letter regardless in the season 10 premiere parker and stone made sure that hayes knew how they felt about his departure after his hiatus chef returns to south park as a member of the super adventure club a blatant stand-in for scientology at the end of the episode chef is on a rope bridge as it's struck by lightning the bridge breaks he catches on fire falls down a cliffside and winds up impaled on a branch then he's shot and mauled by both a mountain lion and a bear of the things actress shannon doherty is known for working and playing well with others isn't one of them she was reportedly the source of plenty of behind the scenes chaos on the set of the teen drama beverly hills 90210 including a fistfight with co-star jenny garth in 2015 doherty's 90210 co-star tori spelling admitted that she asked her father 90210 producer aaron spelling to fire doherty a request he honored regardless aaron spelling tapped dougherty again for charmed a supernatural drama about witch sisters who used their powers to fight evil doherty played the oldest of the three sisters prue and was joined by alyssa milano as phoebe and holly marie combs as piper but while the series lasted eight seasons and won an impressive cult following doherty was only there for the first three in the season three finale prue was murdered by a demon assassin shacks played by michael bailey smith this time while doherty's departure was because of all the wrong kinds of drama she refused to get the proverbial acts for unspecified reasons dardy and co-star milano had stopped speaking to one another during the course of the series when milano demanded dardy be fired the latter reportedly heard about it through the grapevine rather than be fired doherty not only quit she directed all hell breaks loose the season three finale in which prue meets her end by the end of the sitcom community almost half of the actors in the original lineup of greendale community college's most well-known study group had moved on but one of the only characters who literally didn't survive the series was chevy chase's piers hawthorne while piers had a penchant for faking heart attacks throughout the show in order to get out of trouble apparently his final one was the real deal according to community creator dan harmon the main reason for hawthorne's death was that chase and his character were a little bit too much alike good evening i'm god and here's the news the last straw fell during the filming of the season 4 episode advanced documentary filmmaking during filming chase apparently went on an angry rant which included a racial slur afterwards nbc and chase came to the agreement season 4 would be chase's last though he made a cameo in the season 5 premiere as a hologram his death was announced later that season harmon has since gone on record that the rant during season 4 was just the tip of the iceberg not only did chase have a history of leaving the set before filming was completed but in a 2018 new yorker interview chase's co-star donald glover said that the older actor would often make racist cracks and glover between takes including suggesting that the audience only found glover funny because he was black in the first two seasons of cbs's police procedural criminal minds mandy patinkin played expert criminal profiler jason gideon early in season three potenkin left the show abruptly and joe montene stepped in as the new profiler david rossi so why the change up potenkin had asked to be released from his contract after failing to show up at a table read then further down the road in the show's 10th season it was revealed that gideon had been murdered off-screen by a suspect from one of his earliest cases in a 2012 interview with the new york magazine potenkin opened up about his departure from criminal minds saying that working on the show was one of the biggest mistakes he'd ever made apparently playing a criminal profiler was having too many damaging side effects on potential's mental and spiritual well-being potential went on to say it was very destructive to my soul and my personality he also suggested that criminal minds and 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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 25 2020