Top 20 Most Shocking TV Deaths Ever

okay welcome to Miz Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 most shocking TV deaths for this list we'll be looking at the most surprising traumatizing emotional and unexpected deaths on television to be clear we won't be including animated shows as those deserve a list of their own also given that we'll be discussing character deaths there will be plenty of spoilers ahead if there's a TV demise your astonished didn't make our list stun us with your picks in the comments number 20. Eddie Munson stranger things stranger things has had several surprise deaths during its run and while Bob's heartbreaking death also had many of us in shock we're going for a more recent one Eddie Munson was a breakout character in the show's fourth season with his Charisma and Quest For Justice endearing him to many what do you say I understand are you ready for the most metal concert in the history of the world in the end however the Hawkins gang's risky plan results in Eddie's downfall the upside down is not a place you want to spend a ton of time unless you don't mind getting into it with some bats Eddie's sacrifice to save Dustin and ensure the team's success is probably the most metal thing he's ever done rock on Eddie rock on say I'm gonna look after them say it oh my God number 19 Derek Shepherd Gray's Anatomy ma'am ma'am is this the home of Derek Shepherd it is my husband I'm afraid there's been an accident yeah they really killed McDreamy Dr Derek Shepard is on his way to the airport when he Witnesses a car crash after saving multiple people he gets back in his car and pulls out into the road when he's distracted by his phone unfortunately he's struck by a truck soon after and taken to the hospital frustratingly both he and Dr Penny Blake know that he needs a CT scan but he can't speak and she's ignored by the time his doctors learn what he needs Derek is brain dead and he's taken off life support Meredith's goodbye still breaks our hearts [Music] you go [Music] I'll be fine [Music] number 18 Zoe Barnes House of Cards Zoe Barnes is an up-and-coming journalist whose relationship with the unscrupulous politician Frank Underwood helps Advance her career however during a clandestine meeting with Underwood in a subway station she seals her own Doom have you thought about what we discussed think you're right you should start with a clean slate [Music] what about our text messages to clear the air between them Zoe deletes all evidence on her phone of their connection she also voices her suspicions about odd details in the death of Peter Russo whom Frank murdered unbeknown to her I haven't discussed this with anyone I wanted to ask you first I have no idea what happened that night except that Peter started drinking again I don't know who was or wasn't there I wish I was rather than subvert her investigation Frank simply pushes her in front of an oncoming train with hindsight this one became obvious but in the moment we're all nearly as shocked as everyone on that train platform number 17 Logan Roy succession as the patriarch of the wealthy Roy family the prospect of Logan dying is in the back of the audience's minds from the beginning it's in the series title after all however we still weren't prepared for when it happened the way this all unfolds over a phone call from Tom is perhaps what makes it also surprising you see okay is it who's with him uh very serious serious what it is very very bad it seems very bad I'm so sorry to call you like this we find out in real time what happened to Logan exactly the way Kendall and Roman find out their reactions are some of the most realistic we've ever seen on TV and it makes for a particularly harrowing experience for everyone including the audience who feels like they're right there with the brothers I I it's okay um and I love you number 16 Howard Hamlin Better Call Saul the eponymous Saul Goodman or Jimmy Mcgill and Kim wechsler enjoy pulling schemes together but their plan to humiliate Howard Hamlin's reputation ends in unmitigated disaster the duo make it seem as if they're smarmy yet well-meaning former boss is on drugs ruining his reputation Howard goes to confront them as their apartment and my clients and peers will whisper that Howard Hammond's a drug addict you're right I've worked my way through worse dead depression my marriage falling apart he delivers a speech holding a mirror up to show how far they've gone and claiming that while Hill rebound he'll make it his mission to expose them tragically he's not their only visitor Jimmy's client Lalo Salamanca an unhinged cartel boss arrives too Howard how would you need to leave who are you me nobody Howard doesn't realize the danger he's in until it's too late Lalo's unceremonious execution of Howard leaves Jimmy Kim and all of us at home completely shook number 15 Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby Smith lost Anna Lucia is faced with a dilemma her group of plane crash survivors have a prisoner from one of the Mysterious Island inhabitants who have kidnapped and killed many of them however as she tells Michael Dawson she couldn't bring herself to kill the man Michael has quite his own history with the others so he offers to do it instead they took my son right out of my hands they took my son and oh do it give me the gun kill him the utter shock that comes from watching Michael about face in this scene is unmatched as if Anna Lucia's death wasn't enough of a blow even Michael looks taken aback by how instinctively he shoots Libby knowing that she was really just in the wrong place at the wrong time always makes us sad go oh my God it's okay he made it Libby it's okay it's all right number 14 Matthew Crawley Downton Abbey this period drama has a surprising number of unexpected deaths while lady Sybil's death in childbirth is traumatic it wasn't quite the most startling of them all Matthew and Mary Crawley welcomed their first child a boy it's a joyous occasion for the happy couple as well as the rest of the household you'll be my Mary always because mine is the true Mary you ever wonder how happy you've made me as Matthew drives back to Downton from the hospital though that happiness comes to an untimely end a truck appears on the road coming the other way Matthew swerves to avoid it and in an insane twist dies in the wreck and I wonder what I've done to deserve it I agree but then we don't always get our Just Desserts vehicular accidents happen all the time in real life but none of us were expecting to see Matthew meet his end behind the wheel number 13 poussey Washington Orange is the New Black during a peaceful protest in a prison cafeteria poussey Washington intervenes when things turn physical between her friend Suzanne and one of the guards Bailey but he does so by getting her on the ground and putting a knee on her back watching this scene after knowing about very real and horrific instances of police brutality ending in tragedy makes it even more unbearably disturbing than it already was poussey's last words are all too familiar and even at the time of this episode's airing viewers were up in arms and in tears over the character's unjust death yeah number 12. Lawrence Kutner house a promising and entertaining part of Dr Gregory House's diagnostic medicine team Lawrence Kutner is a fun guy and seems to enjoy his work but when he doesn't show up to work house sends doctors foreman and 13 to find out why upon their arrival they find him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound nothing on his calendar Paige is still here the team and house are stated and confused by kutner's death though they don't all show it in the same way they question why he did it and why he never reached out and why they never noticed signs that anything was wrong it's so out of left field yet it also feels true to life since not everyone is an open books [Music] number 11 Anatoly ranskahov Daredevil in the titular Daredevil's attempts to get to Kingpin Wilson Fisk he runs a foul of Anatoly and his brother Vladimir leaders of the Russian mafia in New York while they're initially Too Proud to ask for fisk's help eventually Anatoly decides to accept fisk's offer however he does so by interrupting fisk's date what is this we need to go now I'm sorry we want to tell you my brother and I we gratefully accept Wesley will take care of you Anatoly discusses the incident with fisk's right-hand man Wesley but is dragged out of the car by Fisk who angrily beats the gangster repeatedly before smashing his head in with the car door the suddenness of fisk's attack as well as the brutality of anatoly's death makes this a murder that's both surprising and hard to watch without losing our lunch brother it'll start a war I'm counting on it number 10 Mark green ER Dr Mark green is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer so while his death isn't entirely unexpected it's still a gut punch Mark relocates to Hawaii and reconnects with his daughter Rachel one night he wakes up and speaks to her encouraging her to be generous with her time love and life the generous Chris your tie With Your Love even though we don't know it for sure the conversation feels somewhat like goodbye Rachel slips a pair of headphones on her dad playing him Israel kamakavi kavole's rendition of Over the Rainbow as he drifts back to sleep visions of himself in the empty Hospital back in Chicago LOL Mark into a quiet passing it's enough to make anyone ball the dreams that you dream of Dreams Come True number nine Will Gardner The Good Wife the foreshadowing is there we see Jeffrey Grant eyeing the guard's gun we see his interpretation of the situation and the panic in his demeanor it's unsurprising then when we cut to Diane's courtroom and gunfire was heard what is surprising is who goes down off screen with the camera focusing on Diane and kalinda's reactions and the slow discovery that Will's been shot his fate is left very much up in the air until Kalinda finds his body at the hospital it's a jaw-dropping loss to say the least and one that we continued to feel throughout the remainder of the show Will's dead [Music] there's a shooting in the courthouse and he got caught up in the crossfire I need to speak to Alicia number eight Adriana La cerva The Sopranos deaths are frequent on this mafia series but they still managed to surprise us Adriana liserva is the girlfriend of Christopher moltasanti Tony Soprano's Heir Apparent however she becomes an informant to the FBI against her will eventually she confesses to Chris hoping they can run away together they wanted me to wear why but I wouldn't do it about it the furthest thing from her hopes transpires distraught at the news Christopher reacts violently but ultimately lets her off she's soon picked up by Silvio however and the pair go for a drive it's during this drive through remote Woods that Adriana gradually realizes what's in store for her when they stop she tries to flee but to no avail thank you there are a lot of Mafia hits in TV shows but this one still haunts Us number 7. Henry Blake Mash Colonel Henry Blake is the first commanding officer of the mash unit the series follows after acquiring enough points to receive an honorable discharge Blake prepares to leave for home he says his goodbyes which are both silly and emotional so long hawk I'm afraid just a handshake won't do it Henry and that's it that's it for during a routine operation radar comes in and makes an announcement Blake's plane was shot down on his way home no survivors shut down Over the Sea of Japan spun in there were no survivors the audience's shock was mirrored on the faces of the actors since most of them weren't told until just before shooting it's an older series but this staggering reveal still hits today mesh 4077 Henry Blake a reluctant and affectionate farewell number six Rita Morgan Dexter Dexter Morgan may be a serial killer who kills serial killers but he hopes to connect with his Humanity particularly through his bond with his wife Rita after planning a vacation with her he has just one last thing to do kill the Trinity Killer I accept nothing nothing is inevitable it's already over Mitchell is resigned when Dexter kills him it's already over he says when Dexter returns home he gets a message from Rita saying she came back for her ID hey sweetie oops wasn't such a rush to get Harrison Oregon up here but then Dexter hears his son crying all at once Arthur's words make sense it's a brutal twist that no one saw coming and it's traumatic for both Dexter and the audience number five Joyce Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer mom mom mom mom mom mom mom a show like Buffy has plenty of shocking deaths while Tara's untimely demise is also surprising even her death pales in comparison to how unexpected Joyce's is one day Buffy comes home to find her mother dead there's no one to blame no Supernatural cause she suffered an aneurysm and passed away it's straightforward and heartbreaking and manages to ground the show in a way that it often isn't Buffy's Devastation and the grief she and those around her experience feels unnervingly true to life Joyce they're they're coming for her no no we're Joyce we're not supposed to move the body in fact the whole scene from Buffy convincing herself that she can give her mom CPR to throwing up in a corner is unnervingly true to life number four Rob and Catelyn Stark Game of Thrones I'm sure you enjoyed yours with Grace oh not forbated he said it wouldn't be right if he broke a man's Jewel on a wedding night Game of Thrones has one shocking death after the other we've done an entire list on the subject and although Oberyn Martell's brutal Death In His duel with the mountain also turned our stomachs there's no beating this Infamous moment at the wedding of Rob Stark's Uncle edmure things start to feel off Clues start piling up until everything explodes into chaos I haven't shown you the hospitality you deserve my King has married and I owe my new Queen a wedding gift Rob's wife Talisa and their unborn child are killed Rob is shot by crossbows and stabbed by one of his right-hand men Bruce Bolton his men are slaughtered wholesale finally his mother Catelyn is killed too the Red Wedding is one of the most shocking and traumatic events in television history and it'll be a long time before we get over it number three Gustavo Fring Breaking Bad what kind of man talks to the DEA no man no man at all Breaking Bad is a thrilling series with shocking developments around every corner although Gustavo Frank killing his henchman Victor also made us leap out of our seats the death of the man himself takes the cape the calculating meth Kingpin is locked in a battle of wills with protagonist Walter White Walter goes to Gus's old enemy Hector Salamanca for help the elderly Hector appears helpless as Gus arrives to kill him in his nursing home is that how you want to be remembered last chance to look at me actor however Hector repeatedly rings the bell on his wheelchair revealing that Walt has strapped a bomb to it even the ensuing explosion doesn't appear to work on Gus at first then we see his face or lack thereof it's an astonishing end to one of television's best villains Number 2. Tara Knowles Sons of Anarchy tell them I'm ready bring you in another no-show it'll be dead nope I want to meet with you first to make sure the deal is what they promised this gang drama delivers some real Shockers throughout despite how gruesome and unexpected Opie's death is we're going with Tara's Tara wants to leave the life her husband Jack's leads to protect their boys Jax agrees to turn himself in in exchange for her and the kids protection I can't protect her with that I won't need it nothing will happen to her or my boys she's free to take the money where she wants tragically a series of misunderstandings and a lack of communication leads Jax's mother Gemma into believing that Tara sold them all out when Tara arrives home Gemma is waiting and attacks the utter brutality of the moment still gets to us and it firmly turned nearly every viewer against Gemma for good if we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Glenn ree The Walking Dead death is a constant in The Walking Dead even so fans were still unprepared for when Negan made his debut from the last episode's Cliffhanger it seemed at least one death was inevitable here you can breathe you can blink you can cry hell you're all gonna be doing that the tension is truly unbearable especially after we know someone's been killed we just don't know who finally it's revealed that Abraham was beaten to death and Glenn suffered a similar horrific fate I need you to know me so back to it the gratuitously graphic scene shocked not only Glenn's loved ones but TV viewers in general Glenn's death nearly broke the fan base and marked a major turning point for the series agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from Ms Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos

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Length: 21min 57sec (1317 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 09 2023