Curated playlist
Fictional murdered people
- Obi-Wan KenobiAlec Guinness later said he begged George Lucas to kill Obi-Wan Kenobi. Lucas agreed.
- Qui-Gon JinnQui-Gon Jinn dies in The Phantom Menace, yet his voice keeps returning. Liam Neeson voiced him in later films.
- GokuSon Goku, the hero of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, made his debut on the 3rd of December 1984. The first chapter, titled Bulma and Son Goku, ran in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. On the page stood an eccentric boy with a monkey's…
- PalpatinePalpatine's first name stayed off screen for decades. Fans learned it was Sheev only in the 2014 novel Tarkin.
- Gus FringGustavo Fring sells fried chicken in the American Southwest, and the chicken is the least dangerous thing he sells. He is a fictional character played by Giancarlo Esposito in the Breaking Bad franchise. He is one of the main antagonists…
- Gwen StacyGwen Stacy is a college student in Marvel's Spider-Man comics, and her murder in 1973 is still argued over by readers and writers. In 2004, the artist John Romita Sr. looked back on the uproar. Fans had threatened him, writer Gerry Conway…
- SarumanTolkien did not know Saruman existed when he began The Lord of the Rings. He grew out of a plot problem.
- Grand Admiral ThrawnAs his bodyguard turned on him, Star Wars villain Thrawn said it was so artistically done.
- Han SoloHan Solo was first written as a green-skinned alien with gills. George Lucas's earliest draft gave him no nose.
- Padmé AmidalaPadmé Amidala sponsored the motion that opened the way for Palpatine to become chancellor.
- Alfred PennyworthAlfred Pennyworth, the butler who serves Batman in DC Comics, has been dead in the main DC Universe continuity since 2019. As of 2026, he has not returned. That loss weighs heavily because of how much the character has carried across more…
- Rorschach (character)Rorschach, whose real name is Walter Joseph Kovacs, is the masked vigilante at the center of Watchmen, the graphic novel series DC Comics published in 1986. The very first character to appear in that series is a red-haired man carrying a…
- Supreme Leader SnokeAndy Serkis first played Snoke without knowing what Snoke looked like. He stood on a 25-foot podium for his first day.
- Vecna (Stranger Things)Vecna kills by making his victims relive the worst moments of their lives. He is the main antagonist of the Netflix series Stranger Things, played by Jamie Campbell Bower. The character debuted in the show's fourth season as a malevolent…
- Satoru GojoSatoru Gojo, often called The Honored One, is a fictional sorcerer from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. In August 2024, Shueisha held its fourth Jujutsu Kaisen character popularity poll, and Gojo came first with…
- Spawn (character)Spawn, the antihero of Image Comics, debuted in Spawn #1 in May 1992, and that first issue sold 1.7 million copies. The hero is Albert Francis Simmons, called Al, who is better known simply as Spawn. Todd McFarlane created him. Simmons…
- Elektra (character)Elektra Natchios first appeared in Daredevil #168, a Marvel Comics issue dated January 1981, and her creator never planned for her to return. Frank Miller wrote that issue as essentially a filler story. He meant it to be her only…
- Daenerys TargaryenDaenerys Targaryen stepped into her husband's funeral fire and walked out unburned.