I REALLY WANT DEADPOOL TO SHOW UP WITH THE AVENGERS AT SOME POINT AND NOT EVEN DO ANYTHING JUST KINDA BE REHEATING SOMETHING IN TONY’S MICROWAVE AND EVERYBODY’S ALL SERIOUS AND HE’S JUST EATING IN THE BACKGROUND AND NODDING ALONG AND THEN THEY ASK WHAT THE FUCK HE’S DOING THERE AND HE JUST CASUALLY JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW YELLING SOMETHING LIKE “SPIDEY CATCH ME” AND THEN YOU JUST HEAR A SPLAT AND HEAR HIM YELL “WHAT THE SHIT PARKER”
He has to be reheating a chimichanga though.
WHAT THE SHIT PARKER
This would play in perfectly considering deadpool is dating death, the person that thanos is destroying the universe to impress
Don’t have them die of old age after a long, fulfilling life. Many people don’t even think of this as sad (note that this can still work if you have enough of the other factors).
Leave one of their major goals unfinished. The more enthusiastic they are about completing the goal, the sadder.
Give them strong relationships with other characters.
Make them fight against whatever is causing their death. Their ultimate loss is sadder if they struggle.
Kill them in the middle of their character arc.
Don’t describe their funeral in detail. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that long descriptions of funerals kill the sadness.
That’s enough Satan’s publisher…
>B)
7. If possible, try to kill them off in the middle of the story, so we had time to like them and we will have time to let the loss settle in.
8. Also, place surviving characters in a situation where having the deceased person there would help them get out. You can choose whether you will point this fact out or if you want the audience to make the connection themselves.
9. Make them die by sacrificing themselves to save someone they love from a danger created by the antagonist.
based on a few deaths that made me blub like a baby…
10. have their loved one, broken hearted, tell the team to stop fighting because “its over.”
11. have their pet come looking for them.
12. have their loved one perform a popular song at their funeral so it makes the fans cry whenever it’s played.
13. family witnessing the death and/or blaming themselves.
~ Mulan
so… let’s add some frustration to your dear readers’ sadness, shall we?
14. kill the character in the middle of making a joke, smiling, or expressing/experiencing joy/happiness.
15. make the character’s death slow and painful, but make them unable to call out for help even though they can literally see the other characters nearby.
16. after killing the character, have others think the character had betrayed them so they’d always hate them and remember them as traitors and never say nice things about them… Give your readers no chance to have group-therapy with other characters by making them the only ones who know the truth.
17. right before their death, show a side of them nobody has seen. (someone who is always tough and brave being genuinely scared of dying alone; someone who is always laughing being in tears before dying, etc.)
18. make them the only person who knows a big important secret that would help other characters in the story.
19. have them being lied to before dying. (thinking they’ve been betrayed; thinking they weren’t loved; thinking they’ve lost their loved ones, etc)
20. make the character very enthusiastic/passionate about a certain goal, constantly put stress on their goal, have them die unexpectedly before they can reach their goal.
and the best one…
21. have another beloved character kill them–better be a close friend to your character, one that absolutely nobody suspects, one that everyone can’t help but love, one who is always enthusiastic about things and encourages your character. THEN
reveal the truth only later when it’s too late and the a-hole character has already escaped.
have a cowardly character know the truth and never tell anyone else
have another character find out the truth and have them die before revealing it to others.
have the said character ^ not actually die, but go through something so they’d forget the friend of the deceased character is actually an asshole.
This way only your readers will know the truth, thus the frustration would be… most enjoyable for you.
Satan out.
22. Have the character have to kill someone they truly love because there is no possible way to avoid it and it has to be done. Then
Reveal later on there was a way to save them without killing them through some rare method that no one knows about that you discover mid or late story.
Have the character who killed off their friend/lover/family member put int he same position where they have to be killed.
Have the rest of the characters cure them because they now know the cure even if the cure is some horrible ritual.
Have the character not wanting to be cured because of the trauma they have over killing their friend/lover/family member, but no one listened and cures them anyway.
Have them be horrified over killing other character and yet they got to be cured and lived.
23. Make one of the characters have something that will slowly kill them over time such as month and years. And
Make sure to have some fluffy moments between the angst. This is to make those angstier sad moments even sadder.
Make sure other characters who love the character have to be there as the person’s healthy slowly worsens day by day or month by month. Eventually kill them off.
24. Have them never find the character because they think they went home or that they left for some happy reason, but they die on the way home and no one ever finds out they died except the reader.
25. Have them die a tragic death, but upon dying no one remember they existed, but are sad for some reason regardless of the reason.
26. Have a method that slowly kills them off. But they die early just as everybody becomes adjusted to the idea of them dying slowly.
27. Have the character controlled by an outside force. While another character tries to break the connection, the character fights their loved one. Just as the connection is broken, the loved one kills the character.
28. Have their death be in vain. Whatever it was that they were fighting, whatever they were trying to accomplish, they die believing they succeeded but in reality it was pointless. This will make the audience frustrated at the death because it was pointless in their eyes.
29. Don’t confirm the death. Have them die in a way that the characters don’t know confirm the kill. Casually mention an empty casket funeral maybe. this will give audience hope that maybe they didn’t die until the end of the series when they never do come back.
