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Grab your tissues, because we're about to revisit cinema's most heartbreaking farewells! Join us as we count down the most gut-wrenching goodbyes and tragic deaths in movie history. From selfless sacrifices to star-crossed lovers, these emotional finales left audiences devastated and forever changed how we experience film.
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00:00I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or who I'm gonna meet.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most emotional deaths or exits of our favorite movie characters.
00:13Beware of spoilers.
00:14You could be happy here. I could take care of you. I wouldn't let anybody hurt you.
00:22Number 10, Tony Stark's Sacrifice, Avengers Endgame.
00:25Hey, you said one out of 14 million we win, yeah?
00:29Tell me this is it.
00:32If I tell you what happens, it won't happen.
00:35This saga built on sacrifice and countless farewells finally reached its peak, and nothing hits harder than Tony Stark's final moment in Endgame.
00:43We already endured painful losses across the Avengers film, Black Widow, Vision, Gamora, to name but a few.
00:49Yet when Tony stepped up, we just weren't ready.
00:52Guess what, Cap? We lost, and you weren't there.
00:56But that's what we do, right?
00:59Our best work after the fact, what are the Avengers?
01:02We're the Avengers, not the pre-Vengers.
01:04Okay, right?
01:05In that climactic last battle, Tony pulls the unthinkable.
01:09He seizes the Infinity Stones, reminds us just who he is, and then snaps Thanos out of existence.
01:14And I am Iron Man.
01:25The victory was epic, but at what cost?
01:28He risked his life to save those he loved.
01:31As the reality sank in, Tony faded, sharing his last breath with Rhodes, Pepper, and Peter Parker at his side.
01:37Heartbreaking? Yes.
01:38But at least we saw Tony's evolution from selfish playboy to the universe's ultimate savior.
01:43What am I even tripping for?
01:44Everything's gonna work out exactly the way it's supposed to.
01:51I love you 3,000.
01:55Number 9.
01:56Spock's Selfless Act
01:57Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan
01:59Sometimes the saddest goodbyes are born from pure selflessness.
02:03And in The Wrath of Khan, it's Spock's sacrifice which proves this to be true.
02:07I've been, and always shall be, your friend.
02:12With the Enterprise on the brink of collapse, he doesn't hesitate.
02:15Calm and resolute, he immobilizes Dr. McCoy, steps into the irradiated engine room, and restores the warp drive.
02:22Single-handedly, he saves the entire ship, knowing full well he won't survive.
02:27Jim, I think you better get down here.
02:32Bones?
02:34Better.
02:34Sorry.
02:35Then comes the gut punch.
02:37Captain Kirk rushes down only to find his best friend trapped and collapsing behind the glass.
02:41Helpless Kirk listens as Spock, in his dying moment, tells him not to grieve, reminding him it was only right to give his life for others.
02:48The needs of the many outweigh.
02:54The needs of the few.
02:57Or the one.
02:58We were shattered because it wasn't just the death scene, but the heartbreaking loss of the franchise's moral compass.
03:04Number 8.
03:04Bob and Charlotte's Unspoken Connection.
03:06Lost in Translation.
03:08The ending of Lost in Translation captures heartbreak through silence.
03:11Bob and Charlotte meet in Tokyo, two strangers finding each other in their loneliness and vulnerabilities.
03:15They build a fleeting connection, and just when we were invested, Bob prepares to leave Tokyo.
03:35Their first parting feels hollow, as if something vital was left unsaid.
03:38Then comes one last chance.
03:40Bob finds Charlotte in a crowd as he's leaving, and we get that moment.
03:44He hugs her tight and whisper words we'll never hear.
03:51This should be a beautiful final moment, but we're left confused.
03:55Was it love, or something more?
03:56We don't know, and maybe we never will.
03:58This goodbye aches not because of what happens, but because of everything that never did.
04:03I don't want to leave.
04:06So don't.
04:07Stay here with me.
04:10We'll start a jazz band.
04:12Number 7.
04:13Dobby's Emotional Death.
04:14Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.
04:16Dobby's come to rescue Harry Potter, of course.
04:19Dobby will always be there for Harry Potter.
04:22Sometimes, even the smallest characters leave the biggest hole in our hearts, and nothing proves that more than Dobby's death.
04:28Once a timid house elf, he proves his courage when he helps Harry Potter and his friends escape Malfoy Manor.
04:33How dare you defy your masters?
04:36Dobby has no master.
04:40Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends.
04:46Just when freedom was within reach, tragedy strikes as Belflick's knife fatally hits Dobby.
04:51On the beach, in Harry's arm, he whispers how beautiful it is to be free and with friends, and then he dies.
04:57It's such a beautiful place to be with friends.
05:07Dobby is happy to be with his friend.
05:12It's agonizing to watch Harry grieve, digging his grave by hand without magic as if burying family.
05:18For fans, Dobby's passing hurts deeply.
05:20It's a devastating reminder of loyalty, sacrifice, and how even the purist hearts aren't safe in war.
05:25Number 6, Oskar Schindler's departure.
05:27Schindler's list, not even the horrors we see in Schindler's list, hit as hard as Oskar Schindler's farewell.
05:33Once a profiteering Nazi industrialist, he turned into an unlikely savior.
05:37Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
05:44Using his factories, he sheltered and saved about 1,000 Jews from certain death.
05:48But when the war ends, Schindler figures the Red Army will brand him a criminal, forcing him to flee.
05:53I am a criminal.
05:56At midnight, you'll be free, and I'll be hunted.
05:59His Jewish workers whose lives he saved present him with a letter attesting to his heroism, meant to ensure his safe passage.
06:06But instead of pride, Schindler breaks down.
06:08He grieves, blaming himself for not doing more, remembering those he couldn't save.
06:12I could have got more out.
06:16I could have got more.
06:18I don't know if I just...
06:22I could have got more.
06:23Even after his departure, that final breakdown remains with us as a touching moment that shows even heroes carry unbearable guilt.
06:30Number 5, Malcolm Crowe's Realization, The Sixth Sense.
06:34Some twists leave you stunned, and The Sixth Sense delivers one with a shocking revelation at the end.
06:39I see dead people.
06:41We first meet Malcolm Crowe as a respected child psychologist who was shot in the opening by a patient who felt betrayed.
06:47Malcolm then devotes himself to helping a new boy, Cole, a child haunted by his ability to see the dead.
06:53What do you think these ghosts want when they talk to you?
07:03I want you to think about it, Cole.
07:05Malcolm sees echoes of his shooter on Cole and is determined to help him, seemingly as some form of redemption.
07:10Everything leads us to that jaw-dropping reveal.
07:13Malcolm never survived the shooting.
07:15He's been a ghost the whole time, believing he was alive, just as we did.
07:19Watching him realize the truth, tell his wife he had to help someone, and then finally let go, it's heartbreaking.
07:24I think I can go now.
07:31Just needed to do a couple things.
07:33Number 4, Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund's Undying Love, Casablanca.
07:37The whole world crumbling, we picked this time to fall in love.
07:41Yeah, it's pretty bad timing.
07:42Michael Curtis's 1942 romantic drama isn't just a classic, it's a timeless display of how love and war collide.
07:48Before the war, Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund were lovers in Paris, until Ilsa vanished, leaving Rick bitter.
07:54Imagine Rick's surprise when he sees Ilsa years later in his cafe in Casablanca.
07:58But this time, she's with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a resistance leader hunted by the Nazis.
08:03Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
08:09The spark between Rick and Ilsa is undeniable, but the reality is cruel.
08:13She must stand by Laszlo, and Rick knows it.
08:16In the misty runaway finale, Rick uses his influence to help Ilsa escape with her husband, choosing duty over his own happiness.
08:23Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
08:31Someday you'll understand that.
08:34No, no.
08:38He's looking at you, kid.
08:39Their final goodbye was moving, a love we knew was real, yet forever out of reach.
08:44Number three, Jack Dawson's final moment, Titanic.
08:47Few cinematic endings broke hearts like Jack Dawson's in Titanic.
08:51A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
08:56But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me.
09:02In every way that a person can be saved.
09:05He wasn't even supposed to be on the ship.
09:07He literally won his tickets in a poker game.
09:09Jack meets Rose DeWitt Bucheter, a high-class girl trapped by her controlling fiancée and mother.
09:15Poor little rich girl.
09:17What does she know about misery?
09:19No.
09:21No.
09:21That's not what I was thinking.
09:23What I was thinking was, what could have happened to this girl to make her think she had no way out?
09:28Despite all disproval, they fell deeply in love.
09:31Then tragedy strikes.
09:32The ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
09:34In the chaos, they cling to each other on the railing, refusing to let go.
09:38Jack doesn't think of himself.
09:40He makes Rose promise him she'll survive at any cost.
09:43In the icy water, he lifts her onto a floating board, surrendering his own chance at life.
09:49You're gonna die an old, an old lady, warm in her bed.
09:55Not here.
09:57Not this night.
09:59Not like this, do you understand me?
10:01By the time rescues arrive, Jack has frozen to death, leaving Rose and all of us devastated.
10:06Number 2.
10:07E.T.'s Farewell.
10:08E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
10:10Mercy, Dad.
10:14Because I love you.
10:18Honestly, we're almost driven to tears by E.T.'s emotional ending.
10:22A lonely boy, Elliot Taylor, stumbles upon a stranded alien and offers friendship.
10:27Soon, what starts as curiosity blossoms into an unshakable bond.
10:31Once so strong, even Elliot's siblings join in to protect their new friend.
10:34When E.T. flatlines, it's Elliot's connection that sparks his revival.
10:38But the closer their bond grows, the clearer becomes that E.T. can't stay.
10:51Together, the kids defy the authorities in a daring escape, racing to get E.T. to his ship.
10:56In that heartbreaking moment, Elliot begs him to stay.
10:59But E.T. gently promises he will always be there before stepping onto his ship.
11:12Watching him blast off, we're left mourning their lost friendship.
11:15Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
11:18Erwin Wade, saving Private Ryan.
11:20Because he was so terrified of dying.
11:31Leslie Burt, bridge to Terabithia.
11:33Her sudden death caught us all by surprise.
11:36Mr. Keating, dead poet society.
11:54He bids his students farewell, despite their protest.
12:06Roy Batty, Blade Runner.
12:14In his final moment, he saves his enemy's life.
12:16All those moments will be lost in time.
12:26Like tears in rain.
12:33Thomas J. Sennett, my girl.
12:35Veda grieves as he died trying to find her moon ring.
12:38Put his glasses on.
12:40Put on his glasses.
12:43He was going to be an agrobat.
12:46He's gone, sweetheart.
12:47He's gone.
12:53Veda, wait!
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13:10Number 1.
13:11John Coffey's sad demise, The Green Mile.
13:14Set in the 1930s, this movie leaves us completely shattered with John Coffey's farewell.
13:19Please, boss.
13:22Don't put that thing up on my face.
13:26Don't put me in the dark.
13:29I was afraid of the dark.
13:32Coffey, portrayed by Michael Clark Duncan, has been condemned to death for a crime he never committed.
13:37Underneath his large, imposing frame lies a gentle soul with a miraculous gift.
13:41He can heal with a touch.
13:42What did you just do to me?
13:46I helped it.
13:49Didn't I help it?
13:51I just took it back so.
13:53He uses this gift selflessly, even healing the very guards watching over him.
13:58The head guard, Paul Edgecombe, moved by his compassion, realizes the truth of his innocence
14:02and offers to help him escape.
14:03When I stand before God and he asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I going to say?
14:18Yet Coffey, wary of carrying the world's pain and cruelty, chooses to stay.
14:22In that haunting final moment, Paul claps his hands, tears falling, before carrying out the sentence.
14:28We're distraught.
14:29Watching Coffey die felt like watching the world lose its life.
14:32Which of these characters' final moments was the most despair-inducing?
14:35Let us know in the comments section down below.
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