Saddest TV Deaths Of 2019
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CANDY, POSE
When the feisty ballroom veteran was senselessly murdered, even Pray Tell — who never missed a chance to tease her — was devastated. But she gave us one last showstopper of a performance: a triumphant fantasy sequence with her lip-syncing to "Never Knew Love Like This Before."
Date of Death: July 9, 2019
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QUENTIN, THE MAGICIANS
Q heroically banished the monster and his evil sister, but in the process, he also sacrificed his own life as his ex Alice watched on in anguish. And there's no spell that can undo that level of pain.
Date of Death: April 17, 2019
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ASHER, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
The student formerly known as Doucheface had become a beloved member of the Keating Five, evolving from a full-blown frat bro to a big-hearted lawyer in the making. Asher's decision to turn on his friends was questionable, to be sure — but we still hated to see him go.
Date of Death: Nov. 21, 2019
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JACK, SUPERNATURAL
Losing a child is never easy, so when God snapped his fingers and killed Dean, Sam and Cas' surrogate "son," it was a devastating loss for the characters and viewers.
Date of Death: April 25, 2019
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RIZ, MAYANS MC
It's always tough to watch the Mayans lose one of their own; it was even tougher to watch a distraught Taza kill his closest friend, hoping to spark a war with the Vatos Malditos. (That war was sparked, though, so... silver lining?)
Date of Death: Oct. 29, 2019
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COREY, ALL AMERICAN
The gutteral wail that Spencer released upon discovering his father's lifeless body will haunt us forever.
Date of Death: Nov. 25, 2019
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LOGAN, VERONICA MARS
His death via car explosion came mere hours after he and Veronica finally tied the knot and that's just plain cruel.
Date of Death: July 19, 2019
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KARL, WHY WOMEN KILL
We expected to hate Karl for much of the dramedy's first season, considering he'd been cheating on wife Simone. But even as their marriage dissolved, Simone and Karl maintained a deeply loving friendship, and we could hardly stand to watch Simone end her ex's life before AIDS got the best of him.
Date of Death: Oct. 17, 2019
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THATCHER, GREY'S ANATOMY
Bittersweet is the only word to describe the passing of Meredith's estranged father. Though it was a case of too late, if not too little, they managed to get some closure in their contentious relationship before he slipped away while listening to her describe the grandchildren he'd never get to know.
Date of Death: Jan. 31, 2019
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BILLY, STRANGER THINGS
It wasn't just Max who was wrecked when the Mind Flayer did away with her brother. Thanks to the glimpses that Season 3 gave us of the boy that the bully had once been — and the fact that he died a hero's death, sacrificing himself to protect El — we were pretty torn up, too.
Date of Death: July 4, 2019
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HENRY, THE WALKING DEAD
Nearly a dozen characters lost their heads to the Whisperers in Season 9's penultimate episode. But the casualty that really made us ache — sorry, Tara and Enid — was young Henry. Even if his demise didn't break his parents, Ezekiel and Carol, we knew that it would certainly break their hearts.
Date of Death: March 24, 2019
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FRED, RIVERDALE
This one hit extra hard, because it was a double whammy: We not only mourned the loss of Archie's steadfast dad — hands down, the best parent in Riverdale — in a roadside accident, but also the loss of actor Luke Perry, who died earlier this year following a stroke.
Date of Death: Oct. 9, 2019
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JORAH, GAME OF THRONES
The fallen knight died as he'd lived: in service to the queen who didn't return his steadfast love. (At least she had the good grace to be really broken up about it afterward.)
Date of Death: April 28, 2019
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MAD SWEENEY, AMERICAN GODS
Death was the only way the leprechaun could get out of his contract with Wednesday, so he came at the old man with the full force of his Irish ire. Too bad that also meant he impaled himself on his own spear, which Shadow wielded in defense of the wily Allfather.
Date of Death: April 27, 2019
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PENNSATUCKY, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Believing she had failed her GED exam, the former drug addict relapsed and suffered a fatal fentanyl overdose. Even more devastating than Taystee finding her on the laundry room floor was finding out that she actually passed her exam.
Date of Death: July 26, 2019
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OTIS, CHICAGO FIRE
The firefighter's demise was made all the more heart-wrenching by his last words, spoken in Russian to his best friend: "Brother, I will be with you, always."
Date of Death: Sept. 25, 2019
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CAPTAIN ANDERSEN, THE ROOKIE
Zoe and Nolan thought they were responding to a random burglary, but wound up handcuffed at poolside by a gang leader's hair-trigger son. Pitched into the pool by her captor, Zoe not only broke her thumbs to get free, she swam to the top and engaged the baddies in a shootout — only to get felled by a bullet to her neck.
Date of Death: March 19, 2019
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SMURF, ANIMAL KINGDOM
Talk about going out with a bang! After the dying queenpin's plan to get herself killed went up in smoke, she threatened to shoot oldest son Pope if he didn't pull the trigger on her. When he couldn't, grandson J stepped up and popped her, bringing an end to her mind games and pressing "reset" on the whole show.
Date of Death: Aug. 13, 2019
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LAKEISHA, POWER
The poor woman probably should've started planning her funeral the moment she first caught feelings for Tommy. And her death was made even sadder by the fact that Tasha, her former bestie, delivered the killshot.
Date of Death: Oct. 13, 2019
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JESSIE, THE RESIDENT
The Resident's sophomore year ended with a doozy of a cliffhanger, leaving us to wonder whether Nic's father or sister had just flatlined. But we were especially gutted to learn that Jessie was the casualty, given how hard she'd tried to overcome her drug addiction.
Date of Death: May 6, 2019
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DORIS, HAWAII FIVE-O
All Ma wanted was, you know, a little somethin' in exchange for all that she had given up over the course of her career as a spook. But in pursuit of that illicit payday, what she wound up with instead was a belly full of cartel crony Lucia's blade.
Date of Death: Nov. 9, 2019
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LASALLE, NCIS: NEW ORLEANS
"Country Mouse" met his maker not only in the noble pursuit of his brother's killer, but more specifically in the course of protecting the life of a woman he didn't even know. A do-right guy to the end.
Date of Death: Nov. 5, 2019
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SWANNY, SEAL TEAM
Having finally got up the nerve to seek proper treatment for his TBI, Clay's mentor figure learned that because it was never formally diagnosed, Uncle Sam wouldn't foot the bill. And that wasn't news the vet could live with.
Date of Death: April 24, 2019
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QUEEN ANGELLA, SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER
Angella's sacrifice may have saved Eternia, but it also means that her daughter will now have to rule the kingdom without her.
Date of Death: Aug. 2, 2019
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ABBY, THE 100
Clarke's relationship with her mother has always been at the heart of The 100. Now that Abby is gone, what do we have left?
Date of Death: July 30, 2019