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What was the fake-out death?:

There's been like fifty, which one?

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

I can no longer survive in any other ecological niche

Eleven/El:

What was the fake-out death?:

SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS FINALE

Literally got sucked into a wormhole BY CHOICE so she didn't have to keep running her whole life from people who want to experiment on her but then they reveal that MAYBE actually what happened is her sister, who can create illusions, just made it LOOK like she got swept away in the wormhole (mind you, before she, Kali, the sister, died which would mean having her own fakeout death to HELP WITH EL'S FAKE OUT DEATH EXCEPT KALI ACTUALLY DID DIE JUST NOT RIGHT WHEN SHE THOUGHT WE DID) and El escaped and went into hiding

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Note that I said MAYBE. The thing is, we don't actually know if it was a fake out death. The whole telling of her fake out death is told as speculation by Mike to his friends 18 months after the event when he finally put some context clues together, but they end the whole thing by saying they don't actually know if it's true that it happened to her or if she did really die that day, and the show shows El going off to some far away small town where she won't be hunted but it's left extremely vague whether that actually happened or if it's just visuals for Mike's storytelling.

SO THEY FAKED OUT THE FAKE OUT DEATH! THEY LEFT IT AMBIGUOUS! WE DON'T KNOW IF SHE DIED OR NOT! WHICH IS ARGUABLY WORSE THAN JUST "yeah she died" OR JUST CONFIRMING THAT SHE DID IN FACT ESCAPE AND ABANDON HER FRIENDS TO SAVE HERSELF (AND FUTURE KIDS)

Leo Hölzer

What was the fake-out death?:

At the end of the last episode, a bomb exploded and one of the last shots was him being unresponsive in someone else's lap. And then the outro happened. This show gets one episode evers year.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Emperor Palpatine

What was the fake-out death?:

He appeared to die in Return of the Jedi (1983) only to come back in In The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Survived being thrown down a bottomless pit on an exploding space station and went into hiding for over 30 years

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

It was a stupid recon that made absolutely no sense whatsoever

Feels like the writers had no idea how to end the sequel trilogy

Leo Hölzer

What was the fake-out death?:

At the end of the last episode, a bomb exploded and one of the last shots was him being unresponsive in someone else's lap. And then the outro happened. This show gets one episode evers year.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Goofy

What was the fake-out death?:

Hit by a boulder while saving King Mickey from almost-certain death.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

I mean. It’s Disney. Death is not a terribly strange concept for Kingdom Hearts itself but it typically happens to villains, so when you’re twelve years old and watching beloved Disney dog (and possibly devoted father depending on the canonicity of spinoff media in kingdom hearts) GOOFY be treated as actually definitely dead, complete with heartrending reactions from other Disney characters, it sticks with you! You do like three different fights after this! They remove all his equipment! And then he rolls in perfectly goddamn fine afterwards!

I will admit I mostly submitted this because it’s hilarious out of context but that actually did stick with me pretty hard. I remember being actually stunned/upset as a kid.

Eleven/El:

What was the fake-out death?:

SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS FINALE

Literally got sucked into a wormhole BY CHOICE so she didn't have to keep running her whole life from people who want to experiment on her but then they reveal that MAYBE actually what happened is her sister, who can create illusions, just made it LOOK like she got swept away in the wormhole (mind you, before she, Kali, the sister, died which would mean having her own fakeout death to HELP WITH EL'S FAKE OUT DEATH EXCEPT KALI ACTUALLY DID DIE JUST NOT RIGHT WHEN SHE THOUGHT WE DID) and El escaped and went into hiding

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Note that I said MAYBE. The thing is, we don't actually know if it was a fake out death. The whole telling of her fake out death is told as speculation by Mike to his friends 18 months after the event when he finally put some context clues together, but they end the whole thing by saying they don't actually know if it's true that it happened to her or if she did really die that day, and the show shows El going off to some far away small town where she won't be hunted but it's left extremely vague whether that actually happened or if it's just visuals for Mike's storytelling.

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What was the fake-out death?:

There's been like fifty, which one?

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

I can no longer survive in any other ecological niche

Diego

What was the fake-out death?:

After they're ambushed, Diego is left gravely injured and tells Manny and Sid to leave him there so they can take the baby back to the humans before it's too late, then he passes out.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Leo Hölzer

What was the fake-out death?:

At the end of the last episode, a bomb exploded and one of the last shots was him being unresponsive in someone else's lap. And then the outro happened. This show gets one episode evers year.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

As I said, the show gets one episode per year and they ended the episode on that. The next episode still isn't out, but presumably he's not dead since he appears on promo photos for the next episode and his actor posted on Instagram about him being alive (three months after the episode aired), but technically there still isn't any actual confirmation for the viewers. We had to wait a whole year.

Dexter Morgan

What was the fake-out death?:

dexter dies at the end of new blood via bullet to the chest but somehow survives to wake from a coma in resurrection.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Pell:

What was the fake-out death?:

Exploded by giant bomb (he flew it into the sky so it wouldn’t kill everyone)

He flew up into the air with a bomb to save the people and the bomb blew up with him still holding onto it.

He sacrificed himself to fly away with a bomb strong enough to level AN ENTIRE CITY and it exploded in his claws, full force point blank

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

He literally just emerges from a cabin a few days later and is like “hey guys I’m ok!”. This is after this arc ends and he has no relevance to the plot after this. Live Action One Piece fans are sweating.

Because it erased the emotional impact of his death! I really hope things will happen differently in the live action. And not in the 'more believable way for him to survive' way.

He was just... fine like two minutes later. City leveling bomb and he just got a couple cool scars

Emperor Palpatine

What was the fake-out death?:

He appeared to die in Return of the Jedi (1983) only to come back in In The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Survived being thrown down a bottomless pit on an exploding space station and went into hiding for over 30 years

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

It was a stupid recon that made absolutely no sense whatsoever

Pikachu

What was the fake-out death?:

Petrifaction

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Not only was this another example of the Pokemon Movies doing an extra resolution after the main threat ended. But it was a cheap attempt to recapture the emotions of the first movie

Eleven/El:

What was the fake-out death?:

SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS FINALE

Literally got sucked into a wormhole BY CHOICE so she didn't have to keep running her whole life from people who want to experiment on her but then they reveal that MAYBE actually what happened is her sister, who can create illusions, just made it LOOK like she got swept away in the wormhole (mind you, before she, Kali, the sister, died which would mean having her own fakeout death to HELP WITH EL'S FAKE OUT DEATH EXCEPT KALI ACTUALLY DID DIE JUST NOT RIGHT WHEN SHE THOUGHT WE DID) and El escaped and went into hiding

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Note that I said MAYBE. The thing is, we don't actually know if it was a fake out death. The whole telling of her fake out death is told as speculation by Mike to his friends 18 months after the event when he finally put some context clues together, but they end the whole thing by saying they don't actually know if it's true that it happened to her or if she did really die that day, and the show shows El going off to some far away small town where she won't be hunted but it's left extremely vague whether that actually happened or if it's just visuals for Mike's storytelling.

Goofy

What was the fake-out death?:

Hit by a boulder while saving King Mickey from almost-certain death.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

I mean. It’s Disney. Death is not a terribly strange concept for Kingdom Hearts itself but it typically happens to villains, so when you’re twelve years old and watching beloved Disney dog (and possibly devoted father depending on the canonicity of spinoff media in kingdom hearts) GOOFY be treated as actually definitely dead, complete with heartrending reactions from other Disney characters, it sticks with you! You do like three different fights after this! They remove all his equipment! And then he rolls in perfectly goddamn fine afterwards!

I will admit I mostly submitted this because it’s hilarious out of context but that actually did stick with me pretty hard. I remember being actually stunned/upset as a kid.

Harry Hart:

What was the fake-out death?:

He gets shot in the head point blank.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

It devastated Eggsy. You can hear his scream and he becomes really reckless as a result of his mentor's death (and even states that he would rather be with Harry (aka die) than join the bad guys.

There is no real good explaination for why he survived. He just pops up in the 2nd movie and it's just some spy bullshit

They kill Roxy in the 2nd movie... was she also supposed to come back in the 3rd movie that got scrapped? I just hate how they repeated the same trope twice

It cheapens the impact of his death. Harry's death was the emotional gutpunch of the movie, the moment where the fun spy adventure turned real and had actual consequences.

Gandalf the Grey

What was the fake-out death?:

Balrog pulled him into endless pit of death

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Oh it didn't it was awesome and cool I just think it would be funny to put Gandalf in here cause its probably gonna be full of anime twinks.

Diego

What was the fake-out death?:

After they're ambushed, Diego is left gravely injured and tells Manny and Sid to leave him there so they can take the baby back to the humans before it's too late, then he passes out.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Glenn Rhee

What was the fake-out death?:

he gets attacked by a hoard of zombies only to find out he survived by slipping under a trash bin

Glenn is shown swarmed by a hoarde screaming while zombies are seemingly ripping out his intestines. Turned out he was pinned under Nicholas' dead body and that's what the zombies were eating.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

they made a big show of him getting swallowed up by like a hundred walkers, which at the very least shouldve left him bitten like youre telling me AAALLL them walkers and not a single one got a bite in anywhere?? and then afterwards its like "lol no he was just under the trash bin!" and then they just end up killing him not long after anyway so its like what was the actual point. OH and during the fake death they showed him getting ripped apart and screaming but turns out it was a walker on top of him? or something? it was so convoluted.

Why was he screaming like he was being eaten??? He survived by crawling under a dumpster.

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What was the fake-out death?:

There's been like fifty, which one?

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Dexter Morgan

What was the fake-out death?:

dexter dies at the end of new blood via bullet to the chest but somehow survives to wake from a coma in resurrection.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

dexter dies at the end of new blood, a show that was made to rectify the original dexter's ending because fans hated it. in new blood we have a full arc ending with dexters death which quite frankly needed to happen, especially with the symbolism of deb his dead sister he's been hallucinating the entire run rejecting his hand in the after life after he's spent the whole season being tormented by her ghost for the guilt he feels over her death. and then that just all gets undone for ANOTHER spin off show, one without deb which just makes no sense because their two characters NEED each other in their fucked up little dynamic. all because fans hated THAT ending too like yall gotta just accept an ending at this point my god

Bobby Nash

What was the fake-out death?:

Not the real death. The Fake out one with exploding car.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

It lulled us into a false sense of security when he was revealed to be alive. Only to die in the next episode

Li Shang:

What was the fake-out death?:

He falls into a chasm after saving Mulan from falling

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Zero

What was the fake-out death?:

In X5, he was bisected across nearly every possible ending. Then the space station he was in crashed to Earth.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

X5 was supposed to be the end of the X series, so Zero’s death was supposed to be a bit more permanent. But in X6, they brought him back with the excuse that, and this is a direct quote, he “hid himself while he tried to repair himself”. …WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!? The real reason they brought him back was because he was the most popular character in the series.

Leo Hölzer

What was the fake-out death?:

At the end of the last episode, a bomb exploded and one of the last shots was him being unresponsive in someone else's lap. And then the outro happened. This show gets one episode evers year.

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Emperor Palpatine

What was the fake-out death?:

He appeared to die in Return of the Jedi (1983) only to come back in In The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Survived being thrown down a bottomless pit on an exploding space station and went into hiding for over 30 years

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

It was a stupid recon that made absolutely no sense whatsoever

Feels like the writers had no idea how to end the sequel trilogy

Jim Hopper:

What was the fake-out death?:

Getting blasted by a laser but it turns out he just ducked a little and missed it??

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

Ziva David

What was the fake-out death?:

her home was bombed and she was presumed dead. Since her daughter survived, the main cast didn't look into the explosion for alternative narrative

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

because the death was done to allow one of the other main characters to leave the show (being the father) which was mean to her because it was all about how the act impacts him and not likely considering her story or anyone else's. Anyway I totally called it (no body, no death) but it took years for the show to make it canon. I assume there was some issues about the actress returning either when they [fake] killed her or later but she did and now there's a full spin off [streaming series] with her alive and breathing! It was a whole thing about shock and dismay and pain and relief when Ziva did make her return after being forced to allow everyone to think her dead. And to make it seem plausible that the main agent, Gibbs, didn't come look for her they claimed he was too grief struck at losing another 'daughter' to do so? weak. But I kept my faith for YEARS and it paid off so it sucks for my peeps who have to listen to my superior bragging when they believed her death.

tldr: sucks because I felt a little crazy, sucked because it was disrespectful to the character and likely actress, sucked because the rational when she came back was weak, sucks because the people I watch NCIS with now have to forever listen to my superior attitude about the whole thing.

Pell:

What was the fake-out death?:

Exploded by giant bomb (he flew it into the sky so it wouldn’t kill everyone)

He flew up into the air with a bomb to save the people and the bomb blew up with him still holding onto it.

He sacrificed himself to fly away with a bomb strong enough to level AN ENTIRE CITY and it exploded in his claws, full force point blank

Why did the fake-out death suck so much?:

He literally just emerges from a cabin a few days later and is like “hey guys I’m ok!”. This is after this arc ends and he has no relevance to the plot after this. Live Action One Piece fans are sweating.

Because it erased the emotional impact of his death! I really hope things will happen differently in the live action. And not in the 'more believable way for him to survive' way.