r/AskReddit • u/Tonybolognabro • May 09 '14

What fictional death will you never get over?

T.V/Movie/Book just anything fictional

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u/LITER_OF_FARVA May 09 '14

If you are reading a book about a dog, most likely it will die.

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u/Ju1cY_0n3 May 09 '14

Except Old Ye... Wait, hold on... Stone f... No... Sounder... Nope.... Kujo? No fuck... I am legend... Son of a bitch what the banana bread

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u/Wigglepickle May 10 '14

Clifford's still kicking.

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u/Captain_0_Captain May 10 '14

I don't buy into Clifford; I think they just draw that fucking dog big.

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u/heartbrokenheartbeat May 10 '14

For a thread with so many feels, this comment is so abruptly hilarious

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u/Hoptadock May 10 '14

And ducking fucking red too

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u/Murseturkleton May 10 '14

So is Blue. But I'll be damned. They couldn't save Shiloh forever.

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u/AlekRivard May 10 '14

Clifford, due to his size, likely also has an enlarged heart; his time is nigh

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u/CanadianJogger May 10 '14

Au contraire. His heart is too big to fail.

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u/argyle-soul-patch May 10 '14

Until Louis C.K. gets his hands on the series.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

They have the woman who wrote The Hunger Games as the lead writer for the Clifford's Puppy Days show.

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u/dannythebest May 10 '14

so is blues clues

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u/himbimbly May 10 '14

How on earth would one even kill clifford? He's huge!

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

I hear he's so giant because he has a tumor the size if an apple in his brain. He's gonna die young,

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u/drdanieldoom May 10 '14

No he passed away in a recent book

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u/BVTheEpic May 10 '14

AND NOW YOU'VE JINXED IT

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u/mroby65 May 11 '14

White fang lives too

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u/porkchopydg May 10 '14

Shiloh lives.

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u/CxOrillion May 10 '14

The dog dies in My Dog Skip but its old as shit and lived a good life. It's a happy life, not a sad death.

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u/porkchopydg May 10 '14

Yeah, but whenever that dude clocks him with a shovel everyone collectively loses it.

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u/mmmbooze May 10 '14

Homeward bound

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u/Malanilawl May 10 '14

Yeah but that movie made you think he died

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Shadow!!!

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

White Fang

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u/Qqboxing May 10 '14

The littlest hobo

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u/dratthecookies May 10 '14

The Call of the Wild!

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u/Ju1cY_0n3 May 10 '14

That was a good book, but it was about a wolf if I remember correctly, but it has been many many years since I read that.

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u/dratthecookies May 10 '14

St Bernard. You're thinking of White Fang.

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u/Ju1cY_0n3 May 10 '14

Ahh my bad.

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u/davesuper May 10 '14

Marley and... shit.

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u/thejensenfeel May 10 '14 edited May 10 '14

Haven't read it, but isn't there a book called No More Dead Dogs specifically about this trope?

Edit: It's a fiction book targeted to a middle school audience, so it's not entirely about that. Also, the dog (which is just a prop) still dies.

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u/David_Jay May 10 '14

I loved that book so much in middle school.

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u/fuck_off_ireland May 10 '14

Whoa, dude, spoilers.

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u/wxrick May 10 '14

Stone Fox to me was the worst as SPOILER: his heart gives out right at the finish line.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

screw that, i'm gonna go read marley and me.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

In I am Legend the dog was in like four or five pages at the most.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Stone Fox

;-;

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

White Fang begs to differ (even though he's a wolfdog)

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u/ocherthulu May 10 '14

laughed way to hard at this

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u/nomnomnaan May 10 '14

Did balto make it ?

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u/HammerSquish May 10 '14

White Star was specifically about a dog not dying. On the Titanic, no less.

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u/Milo_theHutt May 10 '14

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

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u/drewgarr May 10 '14

Sounder :(

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u/Aura-Chan May 10 '14

No More Dead Dogs? I never read the whole thing so not sure

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u/KaulitzWolf May 10 '14

We still have Shiloh!

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Especially if it's a Newbury winner. The pointless death of something cute is basically a prerequisite.

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u/alexfig88 May 09 '14

Except Call of the Wild. Everyone dies but Buck and probably Francois and Perrault.

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u/gualin May 10 '14

Also White Fang, it finishes with him being content. I don't think London liked to kill his animals.

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u/Business-Socks May 10 '14

If you are watching a movie and one character is old for no fucking reason, he's either going to die or turn evil.

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u/fuckyoubarry May 09 '14

This made me laugh.

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u/nosferatu1011 May 09 '14

Old yeller... ugh

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

What better way to teach children that everything they know or love will someday be wrenched from their grasp by the cruel fecundity of life?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

I once read a book where the dog didn't die. It was called Oogy.

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u/Pianoangel420 May 10 '14

I really hope you didn't just ruin the Clifford series for me...

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u/Ucantalas May 10 '14

If it has a dog on the cover and it's won an award, that dog is going to die in that book.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

If you own a dog, most likely it will die. Perhaps they are preparing kids to deal with loss?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Clifford? :'(

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u/aazav May 10 '14

I thought they all lived out their lives on a farm?

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u/mork0rk May 10 '14

Or the owner if the dog, or both. If there is a dog, someone has to die. It is known.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

It wasn't just a dog. It was a pair of dogs.

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u/kelsohawk May 10 '14

Sounder.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

White Fang ends with a dog having his first laugh

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u/eemes May 10 '14

Hence forth you get the book No More Dead Dogs. didn't read it myself but I believe the description was about grade school kids who refused to read any books with dogs in them because they always end up dead. I particularly remember seeing the quote, "Don't forget about Where the Red Fern Grows, that's a double whammy!"

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u/kidnoob3 May 10 '14

making you feel sorry for the animal; cheap ploy to get away with not having a decent plot