10 Actors Who Demanded To Be Killed Off Popular TV Shows

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00:00Few things hit harder in the world of TV than the death of a popular character.

00:05Death can be a fantastic way of furthering a plot, adding wrinkles to other characters,

00:09or providing a definitive ending to the arc of the person who lost their life.

00:14The following 10 performers all requested that their alter egos bite the dust,

00:18and for the most part, their wishes were granted.

00:20And so, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture,

00:23here with 10 actors who demanded to be killed off of popular TV shows.

00:27Number 10. Adewale Akinoye Agbaje in Lost

00:32The show that had everyone questioning everything,

00:35Lost remains a strong talking point amongst TV lovers, even though it wrapped up in 2010.

00:40The island was full of memorable characters,

00:43but few had as big an impact in such a short space of time than Mr. Echo.

00:47Portrayed by British actor Adewale Akinoye Agbaje,

00:51Echo was a Nigerian former drug lord-turned-priest

00:54who ended up stuck on the island after Flight 815 went down.

00:57The strong and silent type, Echo became a firm favourite,

01:01as he was the one most comfortable with life on the island.

01:03The irony of that statement is that in real life,

01:06Akinoye Agbaje was far from content.

01:08The actor had moved out to Hawaii to film the show,

01:11but really didn't like being there.

01:13He wanted to move back home to London,

01:15and so asked for his character to be removed from the show.

01:18Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse gave in to his demands

01:21for the character to receive a tragic death,

01:24having him brutally murdered by the smoke monster.

01:26Christ, tell us how you really feel about him leaving.

01:29Number 9. Paul Wesley in The Vampire Diaries

01:33People pretended that they watched The Vampire Diaries

01:35for the gripping plot or the compelling characters,

01:38but they actually just stuck around for those sexy Salfator brothers.

01:41They can bite our necks any day.

01:43Damon, played by Ian Somerhalder,

01:45and Stefan, played by Paul Wesley,

01:47became cultural icons across the show's 171 episodes.

01:51In the show's big finale,

01:53Damon got to live out the rest of his life happily with Elena.

01:56As for Stefan, well,

01:58the younger brother elects to sacrifice himself

02:00to save the town of Mystic Falls,

02:02reuniting with his loved ones in the afterlife.

02:05It was a shocking moment for fans of the show,

02:07and it gets even more so once you know that Wesley himself suggested this fate.

02:11The actor wanted Stefan to suffer for his actions in life,

02:15and thought that death was the only consequence he deserved.

02:17He even told Seventeen,

02:19I was very happy he died.

02:21Stefan's surmise makes a lot of sense in storyline,

02:23as well as giving the noble character a worthy end.

02:26Plus, it happened in the series finale,

02:28so it's not like Wesley missed out on any paychecks.

02:31Number 8. Emma Coalfield in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

02:34Another death to take place in a series finale,

02:37another show with the word vampire in the name.

02:40Coincidence? Yeah, probably.

02:42The massively influential Buffy the Vampire Slayer

02:44aired its final episode in May of 2003,

02:47and it went out in style.

02:49Chosen featured a huge battle sequence

02:51between Buffy and her gang of assorted weirdos,

02:54and the first evil.

02:56The fight claims many victims,

02:57including several uber vamps, Spike and Anya Jenkins.

03:01First introduced in the show's third season,

03:03Anya became a firm favourite,

03:05especially when romantically paired with Xander.

03:07Unfortunately for the long-time character,

03:09his beloved gets sliced open by a vampire

03:12in this episode's giant fight.

03:13Emma Coalfield, the actor behind Anya,

03:16actually approached series creator and dodgy man Joss Whedon

03:19about bringing the character to an end.

03:21At this point, there was a chance the show could have continued,

03:24but Coalfield was ready to move on.

03:26I was all for it, she said of the character's death.

03:28I thought that would be a poetic way to have her end,

03:31sacrificing herself for people she could never understand.

03:34We couldn't have put it better ourselves.

03:36Number 7. Aiden Turner in Being Human

03:39Usually, it's never a good sign when a role gets recast on a TV show.

03:43However, in the case of British supernatural drama Being Human,

03:47it might have been one of the best things to ever happen to it.

03:50Aiden Turner took over the role of vampire John Mitchell

03:53on the show after the pilot episode.

03:55Turner really made the most of this chance,

03:57helping the show become extremely popular.

03:59His stock as an actor immediately went on the rise,

04:02which is ultimately what killed off his character on Being Human.

04:05Turner got the role of Keeley in The Hobbit series of films

04:08and announced he was leaving the show.

04:09He wanted Mitchell to be killed off, thinking it would bring his arc to a satisfying end.

04:14And so that's exactly what happened.

04:16After going on a massacre, Mitchell asked his friend George, a werewolf,

04:19to kill him out of mercy.

04:21George obliges, like any decent friend would.

04:24Damn, between this and The Hobbit,

04:25Aiden Turner's characters don't have the best of luck, do they?

04:28Number 6. Jessalyn Gilsig in Vikings

04:31As much as we wish it didn't,

04:33sometimes real life can get in the way of a great TV show.

04:36That's what happened to the History Channel's axe-swinging, skull-crushing,

04:40mead-drinking extravaganza Vikings.

04:43More specifically is what happened to the character of Siggy Haraldson.

04:46The wife of Earl Haraldson,

04:48Siggy eventually grows incredibly fond of series lead Ragnar Lothbrok and his family.

04:53So much so that when this led to her deciding to move out of Ireland,

04:56where Vikings was filmed, thus ending her tenure on the show.

05:00Number 5. Frank Delane in Fear the Walking Dead

05:03Fear the Walking Dead first aired in 2015.

05:06and served as a prequel to AMC's monster zombie hit.

05:10The narrative began during the early days of the apocalypse,

05:13but it has since caught up to its older sibling with several stories running parallel.

05:18It also features main show star Morgan,

05:20which is great because Lenny James is never a bad thing.

05:23Another character on the show.

05:24Number 5. Frank Delane in Fear the Walking Dead

05:27Fear the Walking Dead first aired in 2015.

05:30and served as a prequel to AMC's monster zombie hit.

05:34The narrative began during the early days of the apocalypse,

05:37but it has since caught up to its older sibling with several stories running parallel.

05:42It also features main show star Morgan,

05:44which is great because Lenny James is never a bad thing.

05:47Another character on the show is Nick Clark, as played by Frank Delane.

05:50Well, that should actually be was Nick Clark,

05:53because he got himself shot in the show's fourth season.

05:56What did he go and do that for?

05:57According to showrunner Andrew Chambliss,

05:59it was because Delane wanted to pursue other opportunities.

06:02He said,

06:02One of the first things we were tasked with when we came on to run season four

06:06was to really find a story that would give Nick a fitting send-off.

06:09To be fair, they definitely achieved this,

06:11as Nick's death was a really surprising moment on the show.

06:14As for Delane,

06:15he got to star in a series alongside Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston,

06:18so it was a win for everyone.

06:20Number 4. John Francis Daley in Bones

06:23For all the corpses that turn up at the Jeffersonian,

06:26very few main characters on Bones have actually bitten the dust over the years.

06:30Vincent Nigel Murray, the world's most annoying intern,

06:33famously met his end at the hands of a sniper,

06:35and the other major casualty on the show

06:38was the team's resident psychiatrist, Lance Sweets.

06:41The lovable shrink became entranced in the show's DNA,

06:44which is why it came as such a shock

06:46when he was gunned down in the premier nerd's dream.

06:49Number 3. Julian Glover in Game of Thrones

06:52With the astronomical frequency of character deaths on Game of Thrones,

06:56you'd think that an actor wouldn't get the chance to actually ask to be killed off.

07:00However, that's the exact situation Grand Maester Pycelle found himself in on the HBO Juggernaut.

07:06Pycelle was one of the most powerful men in all of Westeros

07:09as a member of the Small Council and trusted advisor to several kings.

07:12He, like most other powerful people in Thrones,

07:15meets a brutal end when he is repeatedly stabbed by his replacement Qyburn's Little Birds.

07:20Actor Julian Glover must have been oddly thrilled to read the page in the script when this happened,

07:25as he was not having a good time anymore.

07:27It's not interesting to go on doing this, and what's going to happen to him?

07:31A pretty boss way to quit a show, all things said and done.

07:34Number 2. Patrick Dempsey in Grey's Anatomy

07:37If you've ever heard the words Grey's Anatomy used in that order,

07:41then you've also definitely heard the word McDreamy shortly thereafter.

07:44Unless you've only ever heard of the 19th century medical textbook,

07:47in which case you must be extremely confused right now.

07:50McDreamy was the nickname given to Derek Shepard,

07:52one of the leading figures of the 19th century.

07:57He was extremely popular, somewhat down to the strong writing of his character,

08:01but mostly because he was really hot.

08:03Fans McDreams were shattered when Derek met his end in a car crash.

08:07Meredith Grey was even pregnant with his child at the time.

08:11How could Shonda Rhimes do this to us?

08:13Well, actually, it was actor Patrick Dempsey who did this to us.

08:16He was the one who said he wanted out,

08:18actually saying that he wished he'd left the show sooner.

08:21It was a very time-consuming gig,

08:23and the star just wanted to spend a little more time with his family.

08:26But what about your family on the show, Patrick?

08:28What about Meredith and your unborn child?

08:30What about them?

08:31Okay, breathe.

08:32It's just a TV show.

08:34Number 1. Dean Norris in Breaking Bad

08:36On a show stuffed with great characters,

08:38it's a real testament to actor Dean Norris that Hank Schrader said,

08:43he showed up as a mirror to his brother-in-law, Walter White,

08:47and is one of the many people with lives that Walt is jealous of.

08:51He starts out as an obnoxious jock,

08:53but viewers learn to love his more vulnerable traits as the series went on.

08:56Then, in the show's final season,

08:58Hank came face-to-face with Jack Welker.

09:00After a brave last stand against the neo-Nazis,

09:03Hank makes one last defiant speech

09:05before Jack murders him right in front of Walt.

09:08It's a fantastic scene and a heroically fitting end to his story.

09:11In reality, the reason why this happened was far less exciting.

09:15Norris got cast in Under the Dome,

09:17so needed to leave Breaking Bad to go film that.

09:20He asked the showrunners to kill him off in the first part of the show's last run,

09:24to which they said no.

09:25Thankfully, that season was split in two anyway,

09:28so Dean had his cake and ate it too,

09:30and we got to see the most badass departure in Breaking Bad history.

09:34And that concludes our list.

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