People die. Characters die. This is perhaps life’s most unfortunate fact: that people will die and leave the rest of us behind. It’s incredibly rare that any dramatic television series lasting over three seasons will never kill a main or recurring character, and all those deaths have driven a stake through the heart of fandom: Joyce on Buffy, Lady Sybil on Downton Abby, Charlie on Lost, Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, Jen on Dawson’s Creek, Nate on Six Feet Under — but when the person who dies is a lesbian or bisexual character, queer fandom takes it pretty hard.
The history of lesbian representation on television is rocky — in the beginning, we seemed exclusively relegated to roles that saw us getting killed/attacked or doing the killing/attacking. And until the last five or so years, lesbian and bisexual characters seemed entirely unable to date an actual woman or stay alive for more than three episodes, let alone an entire run, of a show. Gay and lesbian characters are so often murdered on television that we have our very own trope: Bury Your Gays. We comprise such a teeny-tiny fraction of characters on television to begin with that killing us off so haphazardly feels especially cruel.
Not every death listed below was wholly uncalled for. In many genres, like soap operas and shows about vampires, zombies, criminals, or games of thrones, characters are killed on the reg. That’s a different trope — Anyone Can Die. Furthermore, shows composed entirely of queer characters will inevitably kill one. But regardless, they still add to the body count weighing down our history of misrepresentation.
And, due to the recent untimely death of Lexa on The 100, this week seemed like a good one to count down everybody we have lost over the years.
This list contains every television death of an OPENLY lesbian or bisexual or queer female character on a television show. With a handful of exceptions, these are all characters who appeared for more than one episode. The exceptions were deemed exceptional because something about the characterization still fits in with the Bury Your Gays trope. Victims-of-the-week from crime procedurals (Law & Order, Cold Case, CSI, Criminal Minds or older shows) or patients-of-the-week from hospital dramas (Chicago Hope, E.R.), aren’t on this list, as that is an entirely different kind of list, but recurring characters from those shows are on this list. Nor is subtext on this list, because we’re not gonna give Xena showrunners Queer Character Credit for a character they refused to make openly queer when she was really so obviously queer. You know? [ETA: Okay, I’ve added Xena after doing further research and because if one more commenter takes up space on this thread — a thread I’m using to find more characters to add, and also to engage with thoughtful/funny readers who have opinions and feelings — to tell me that I “forgot” Xena without reading this introduction, I will become the 200th dead lesbian and the cause of death will be “Walked off a cliff with a commenter in her arms. Murder-suicide.” But Xena will be the one and only inclusion based on subtext.] Also, although I’ve done tons of research, I haven’t personally seen all of these shows, so mistakes may very well exist, and feel free to politely inform me of them in the comments, or tell me about characters I may have missed — it’s especially helpful if you can tell me the cause of death and the year.
Unsure if this needs to be said but… SPOILER ALERT.
Special thanks to the LezWatchTV Database for providing info on shows I haven’t seen or heard about directly!
Every Regular or Recurring Lesbian or Bisexual Female Character Killed On Television
Julie, Executive Suite (1976)
Cause of death: Hit by a car. Her love interest had just walked into traffic after realizing her lesbianism and Julie was chasing her.
Franky Doyle, Prisoner: Cell Block H (1980)
Cause of death: Shot by a police officer after escaping from prison
Sharon Gilmour, Prisoner: Cell Block H (1980)
Cause of death: Pushed down the stairs by a corrections officer
Karen O’Malley, Casualty (1987)
Cause of death: Head Injury
Cecília, Vale Tudo (1988)
Cause of death: Car Accident
Cicely, Northern Exposure (1992)
Cause of death: Shot by a gunman employed by the town’s evil overlord who doesn’t want to let the lesbians change his town. The shot was intended for her girlfriend Roslyn, but Cicely, who was already sick, blocked the bullet and died in Roslyn’s arms, thus magically healing the town’s long-simmering feuds and leading them to re-name the town “Cicely.”
Talia Winters, Babylon 5 (1995)
Cause of death: Activated a sleeper personality that wiped out her actual personality, effectively killing her
Beth Jordache, Brookside (1995)
Cause of death: Genetic heart condition, died in prison
Susan Ross, Seinfeld (1996)
Cause of death: Toxic envelope glue
Naomi “Tracy” Richards, Band of Gold (1996)
Cause of death: Stabbed herself
Lucy, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
Cause of death: Caught thieving and hanged
Kathy, NYPD Blue (1997)
Cause of death: Shot by a hit man hired by her girlfriend Abby’s ex, who wanted to get rid of Kathy so she could get back together with Abby. Abby was pregnant at the time.
Sondra Westwood, Pacific Drive (1997)
Cause of death: Murdered by a serial killer
Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1998)
Cause of death: Blasted by an alien-possessed alien
Sonia Besirky, Lindenstraße (1998)
Cause of death: Drug overdose from medication given to her by her ex-lover’s husband
Leila and Rafaela, Torre de Babel (1998)
Cause of death: Explosion in a shopping mall
Susanne Teubner, Hinter Gittern (1999)
Cause of death: Shot during a bank robbery (she was a customer)
Shaz Wiley, Bad Girls (2000)
Cause of death: Bomb, died in resulting fire
Laura Hall, Shortland Street (2000)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Diamond, Dark Angel (2001)
Cause of death: Used as a lab rat for research that killed her
Xena, Xena the Warrior Princess (2001)
Cause of death: Beheaded
Beate “Bea” Hansen, Hinter Gittern (2001)
Cause of death: Injuries from an explosion
Jule Neumann, Hinter Gittern (2001)
Cause of death: Suicide
Frankie Stone, All My Children (2001)
Cause of death: Murder Mystery!
Bridgit, 24 (2001)
Cause of death: Shot by a man in front of her girlfriend
Tara Maclay, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002)
Cause of death: Shot in the heart by a stray bullet
Kelly Hurst, Family Affairs (2002)
Cause of death: Pushed down the stairs by her lover’s husband
Megan Hartnoll, At Home With The Braithwaites (2003)
Cause of death: Electrocuted in the bathtub
Juliet Becker, The Bill (2003)
Cause of death: Stabbed
Tina Greer, Smallville (2003)
Cause of death: Impaled through the chest on a large piece of wood during a fight with a male character
Sandy Lopez, E.R. (2004)
Cause of death: Injuries sustained from fighting a fire in an abandoned warehouse
Al Mackenzie, Bad Girls (2004)
Cause of death: Poisoned
Hanna Novak, Verbotene Liebe (2004)
Cause of death: Stroke, died in her girlfriend’s arms
Ines Führbringer, Hinter Gittern (2004)
Cause of death: Throat slit, died in girlfriend’s arms
Thelma Bates, Hex (2004)
Cause of death: Murdered by a demon
Flora, Deadwood (2004)
Cause of death: Beaten by a man who then forced a woman to shoot her with his gun
Brenda Castillo, Charmed (2004)
Cause of death: Stabbed with a cursed blade by a man, causing her to rapidly age and then die
Tosha, The Wire (2004)
Cause of death: Shot during a heist gone wrong
Marissa Cooper, The O.C. (2005)
Cause of death: Car crash after being driven off the road by her drunk ex-boyfriend
Servilla, Rome (2005)
Cause of death: Stabs herself in front of her rival house, inhabited by the mother of her lover
Dusty, Queer As Folk (2005)
Cause of death: At a benefit at a gay club when a bomb went off
Dana Fairbanks, The L Word (2006)
Cause of death: Breast cancer
Helena Cain, Battlestar Galactica (2006)
Cause of death: Shot by her ex-lady-lover
Manuela Wellmann, Hinter Gittern (2006)
Cause of death: Stabbed, died in girlfriend’s arms
Maya Robertson, Hex (2006)
Cause of death: Hit by a car
Natalie, Bad Girls (2006)
Cause of death: Bludgeoned to death with a brick
Gina Inviere/#6, Battlestar Galactica (2006)
Cause of death: Set off a nuclear weapon
Eve Jacobson/Zoe McAllister, Home & Away (2006)
Cause of death: Inside a building when it was blown up
Van, Dante’s Cove (2006)
Cause of Death: Killed by the Shadows
Angie Morton, Stritctly Confidential (2006)
Cause of death: Suicide. Jumped off a building.
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Mo Ryan, on Variety, mentioned this post today in her article.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/opinion/the-100-lexa-jason-rothenberg-1201729110/
I’M FAMOUS
WE’RE ALL FAMOUS
You’ve been mentioned on Buzzfeed, too.
I think it’s kinda funny that I’m reading on a lot of lesbian blogs about people saying they aren’t going to watch and blog about 100 anymore when a lot of those same people didn’t seem to get why their trans readers were upset about them continuing to support and blogging about PLL after they played the crazy killer trans trope and then killed CeCe.
It’s sad to think of how much shorter the list of alive lesbian and bisexual characters would be.
Um, hello? Anyone else here who just ran screaming from AE?
Welcome, friend!
Hi! Thanks! Are you from AE or is everyone really that friendly around here? :)
I’m QueerGirlBlogs over at AE, but yes! Everyone is really that friendly around here! lol
That’s awesome. I’m all for friendly. Oy, every time I think I can’t get more pissed about this issue, some fresh shit hits the fan! I don’t want this whole movement to peter out because of stupid infighting in our own community.
Welcome, Nicole.
Give it just a little time, after all Trish BendOver posted that crap just today.
Hello! Oh geez I’ve been staring at the screen for 10 minutes wondering where everyone was. Then I remembered the refresh button… I swear, I used to create my own websites. Using HTML. How was that easier than these boards?
I can’t even believe her post! WTF?
Don’t worry, it’s a new place for you, you just need to give it a little time to familiarize with it.
Take a look around meet, the women that make this the most amazing place in the world
http://www.autostraddle.com/meet-the-team/
You’ve just been spoiled by Disqus automatically showing you new comment messages. :D
I like that AS doesn’t use disqus though because I hate going on to a site that uses it and getting that red notification button thing about activity on comments I have long since stopped giving any f*cks about.
Ran screaming away from there a week ago. TBH I don’t know what is the bigger betrayal…Jroth or AE’s response.
Hmm I don’t know. I feel betrayed by him as a Jew + betrayed by AE as a lesbian. If that makes sense.
I had to stick around AE b/c all the folks in the comments were so amazing. I don’t know what I would’ve done without them! Kind of like The 100… I love the cast to bits but hate the showrunner.
OMG Trish & Jroth are the same person!
AE’s been going down for a long time.
I drop the shit out of that place because I needed a little more, politics is the key word and I can find this here.
Man I was super shocked to see all the extremely harsh words in this comment thread, but then I actually read the article and the responses…just…yikes is all I can say.
Same…
I m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ran away too (╯°□°)╯︵ uǝllǝɹǝʇɟɐ
Welcome.
Well, yes.
I went over there to see if she updated her article, hoping hard that she had taken it down, and instead she wrote an editor’s note doubling down!!
Of course she did. Of course. She. Did.
Oh what the fuck. She’s a fucking pitbull! We’ll seriously need a crowbar to pry her jaws off of this one.
This is all getting to a point where I’m going to lose my ability to deal with it. We’ve got our grief over Lexa, the snowballing anger at Jroth as more evidence of queerbaiting bullshit is posted daily, the ups & downs of articles being published in mainstream media that come with the barrage of straight people telling us to calm down, shut up, and get over it, and now this shit with Trish. We’re literally fending off attacks on all fronts – as another name gets added to this list! And of course, all of this in addition to our real life stresses.
If we come out of this situation without requiring medication for anxiety, depression, ulcers, or high blood pressure, it’ll be a goddamn miracle.
Yeah, the more I think about that article, the angrier I get. Simply supporting queer folks wanting diversity in the media should not have been that complicated! But no, they managed to somehow add a layer of crap to the crap we’re already trying to fight. Gaaah!!
Lol, ok, I’m done. Walking away from the madness. I just…ugh.
This list is probably going to keep growing as more queer media consumers continue to remember the tragic deaths of our favorite queer-on-screen ladies…
Here is one I don’t think your list has so far:
Doctor Marina Ranieri del Colle — Terapia D’Urgenza (Italian version of Hospital Central)
Death (or at least plausibly mortal wound?) by gunshot from upset mother whose child had died despite Dr. Ranieri’s care.
The series ends with the scene of the shooting, in the parking lot of the hospital, where Marina lies, bleeding out and cradled in her lover’s arms.
^^ Terapia d’Urgenza ended in 2009
Links to pics:
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj320/nik_for_blog/48kiss1.jpg
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj320/nik_for_blog/01-1.jpg
added!
How about Felice Schragenheim, the lesbian German Jew who died in a concentration camp in the 1999 movie, Aimée & Jaguar. Its based on a true story. If its true does it count?
This list is just tv shows.
For Charlie from Supernatural, she was fridged. She only died to propel one of the lead male protagonist’s story forward.
On the list when it was at 76 and has the neo-nazi bathtub detail.
Ur fucking stupid if you think that was the main reason why they cut her.
First- Thank you. Now I can just point to this list and end the argument.
Second- I would mention that Admiral Cain from Battlestar Galactica was shot by her ex-lover Gina Envierre, who later triggered a nuke. (I would also put them one after another. just saying.)
i did mention that, actually, originally! but so many commenters told me i was wrong about who shot her and the nature of their relationship that i changed it to just “shot” so that they would stop arguing. :-(
I’m one of the heavy weight fans (like- buying props from the show fan). This is what happened. couldn’t find a vid on youtube of just this part, but it’s on 3:21 in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvrahWIFZnc
if you just wanted yo stop the arguing though, I get it. As long as we both know we are right ;)
I have another: Sky from the episode “Midnight” in Doctor Who. Possessed by an alien and shoved out the shuttle into lethal radiation.
Single episode characters aren’t generally counted on this list
Wow! I am in the UK, and went to bed, and it’s all gone wild over here. In regards to the AE thing – I discovered this site by following Heather Hogan and her PLL recaps, and have found so much more to love about it. I love that it’s political, I love that you are way more open to bisexual and trans women that AE are(as a bi woman I often get upset reading the comments over there) Also in regards to race – did they miss the epic list that Reise did about the Oscar’s being racist?(which I LOVED by the way)
Anyway, I have a sort of suggestion, but having checked the clips you might not say it counts. Its Game of Thrones and I think I merged bits from the book and the show in my head. Here are some links and I will let you decide :)
http://www.lesbian-interest.com/daenerys-doreah-game-thrones-lesbian-scene/
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Doreah
I’d like to submit as an exception to the “recurring characters only” rule: Hilla Doehner, from ep 2:17 of Quantum Leap (struck in the head with a shoe by her lover Stephanie, when trying to leave her for a man. Hilla was pregnant at the time.)
The reason for the exclusion is that this death is notable in the context of the show: Sam Beckett leaps around through time trying to right wrongs (which are decided on by God) – and is tasked with bringing Stephanie to justice, when it would have been just as simple to leap him in a few days earlier and save Hilla’s life. In that context, Hilla’s death is approved by the in-universe PtB.
Sorry, some further info:
Year: 1990
Picture: http://quantumleappodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/bfi_thumb/Good-Night-Dear-Heart1-2z3kslthfs3oze648elp1m.png
Definitely a single episode character, but in a show where Sam is regularly tasked by God to save lives, in this episode he arrived in time to catch her murderer, not save her life.
Definitely she should be here, because, come on, the show is developed with one concept and then they turned around the story just to killed a lesbian?
I’d keep my eye on Black Sails. The three important women are bisexual (well, Max is probably a lesbian but having been a prostitute did not get that choice). It’s an anyone can die show (other than characters who are alive in Treasurr Island), but still.
Of the only two recurring women to have died, Charlotte was also a prostitute so her sexuality is unknown but she was never shown with women, and Miranda Hamilton/Mrs. Barlow was straight, but was part of a polyamorous relationship in which both she and her gay husband shared a male lover. That doesn’t quite meet the criteria but may still merit mention.
She was shot in the head and then her body was desplayed to and defiled by the crowd for a crime she did not commit.
yeah black sails isn’t doing well for it’s female characters at all. or its gay characters in general [flint/miranda’s husband]
—r*pe mention below—
not to mention that in season 1 Max is violently raped, repeatedly,by tons of men, by order of charles vane for some reason i can’t remember, but mostly had to do to with the fact that he was mad at her for banging his ex-girlfriend Eleanor.
so if a list is ever made of lesbian/bi characters getting sexually assaulted, she should be on it.
At least Susan Ivanova, Talia Winters’ lover on Babylon 5, ended very well, as head of an interstellar peace keeping force.
And Julie Mao is in an ongoing series sci-fi series, where death by sci-fi is sometimes reversible.
But an excellent list, with the possible exception of counting Sara Lance.
Guh. Still so so bitter and upset about seeing Lexa on this list.
Honestly, the only acceptable lesbian deaths on television were Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus!
…
Because they came back to life two episodes later.
Then had gay cuddles.
…All dead lesbians should come back to life by miraculous, sparkly deux ex machina.
I honestly don’t know how I feel about the inclusion of Victoria Hand and Isabelle Hartley from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D on this list because while they are both women-loving women in the comics (and as far as I know might even be a couple?) this is not mentioned in the show at at. Like… not at all, ever. Their sexuality is never mentioned, not even in passing – despite the fact that it would have been really easy; you’d just have to have a character like Coulson or Bobbi Morse say something like “I’m sorry about the death of your (ex) girlfriend Victoria Hand” to Isabel Hartley or something. But it’s never even hinted at, as far as I can remember, it isn’t even subtext. So I personally wouldn’t count it as representation, just like I don’t count Dumbledore.
this was addressed already in previous comments, multiple times —
oliviactually: “Seeing Agents Hand and Hartley from SHIELD on this list is bitterly ironic, cause the showrunners specifically said that one of the reasons they erased both character’s queer sexualities from the show is because they didn’t want to become known as the show with two dead lesbians. Yeah, fuck that show.”
Catherine: “That is why I don’t understand how they made the list but some other characters didn’t”
oliviactually: “Well, I’d support them being on this list if only because it’s a big f-you to the showrunners who explicitly wanted to avoid this outcome, which is bullshit homophobic erasure.”
Riese: “precisely”
I don’t know if you’re including movies, but if you do:
Paulie from Lost & Delirious (can’t remember the year) killed herself after her girlfriend Tori left her because Tori was afraid of her conservative parents’ reaction.
Also Roxy from Basic Instinct (I think 1992) died in a car crash while trying to attack her girlfriend’s affair.
This is a list of tv shows.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME. “I don’t know if you’re including movies”. HAVE YOU READ THE TITLE?
(also rip comment filter you were good while you were up).
Another new dead queer woman of color: http://www.afterellen.com/tv/478929-queer-woman-color-killed-tv-last-night?utm_source=sc-twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post
#stopthetrope2k16
jesus christ.
added.
AND she was disabled and couldn’t do her job because of her disability. Just trope after trope. I just hope no one said anything about her being ‘free now’ or something.
wait Riese I just looked into it and apparently Kira is just a one off character in this episode ?
yeah, she is (thanks for looking out! y’all are my thread heroes) but that’s okay — i think her death, much like emily in teen wolf, still fits into the trope. she was introduced JUST to be killed! mostly i wanted to avoid characters that were like — there for another reason. like it was a guest star actress, or it was a show that literally killed a person every single week (a procedural or medical drama).
…and the author can’t even bother to name the actress who actually played the dead queer character, just the actors for the straight characters around her.
Idk if this has been commented already, but Paulie Oster in Lost and Delirious (2001), she commits suicide after her girlfriend breaks up with her
This is a list of tv shows.
OMG is the comment filter dead, Riese? How did this get past it?
Here lies Reise. She was killed dead by comments saying “what about Lost and Delirious?” Her courage and her voice will be sorely missed.
No but I wasn’t saying Riese was the comment filter, she literally set up a comment filter, every comment mentioning that movie were awaiting moderation lol.
I know, I still think this comment thread might be the death of her. Figuratively speaking of course :)
I don’t know how it got through the filter!
(happenend last night) 2016 Kira on “the magicians” (assisted suicide)
Delia, who was Patsy’s girlfriend on Call the Midwife. Gets hit by a car while riding a bicycle. Dies literally the same day they finally say screw it to 1950s morality laws in England and move in together.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/call-midwife-fans-outraged-patsys-5303005
Also, the fact that Lucy Lawless is on this list THREE TIMES……..
She doesn’t die! She loses her memory. But the show runners listened, and she now has it back and is currently living happily with Patsy. :)
Delia isn’t dead…
“she enables the spiritual growth of a white woman in another realm and then asks the white woman to kill her in real life, which she does”
AAAAAAH THIS IS SO SO SO FUCKED UP.
If it’s relevant (since you included it for Charlie) Victoria Hand was also murdered by a Neo-Nazi. But neither Victoria nor Isabelle Hartley were actually lesbians on the show. They were in the comics but there was never even subtext about their sexuality on the show so imo they don’t count as lesbian characters at least not on tv. Because anyone who hasn’t read the comics wouldn’t suspect anything about these two being non-straight. The showrunners deliberately never included their sexuality because apparently they didn’t want to be the show that killed two lesbians since they knew they were gonna kill them off. Which is shitty too but basically I don’t think those two deserve to be on this list because they were never lesbian characters in the tv show and i wouldn’t count them as representation.
Isabelle and Victoria’s inclusions was addressed already multiple times but here’s the discussion again —
oliviactually: “Seeing Agents Hand and Hartley from SHIELD on this list is bitterly ironic, cause the showrunners specifically said that one of the reasons they erased both character’s queer sexualities from the show is because they didn’t want to become known as the show with two dead lesbians. Yeah, fuck that show.”
Catherine: “That is why I don’t understand how they made the list but some other characters didn’t”
oliviactually: “Well, I’d support them being on this list if only because it’s a big f-you to the showrunners who explicitly wanted to avoid this outcome, which is bullshit homophobic erasure.”
Riese: “precisely”
Can I add Nellie from the BBC series Tenko (1981)to the list who fell in love with a fellow POW – was “moved to another camp” season 2 and had died off screen of typhoid (I think) by season 3.
Yes, please add Nellie. This very early example belongs here for sure! All documented at tenkotv.com with photo, arch and death spelled out.
ARC, Nellie’s unlucky-in-love, dead-for-straight-people-feels story arc is at tenkotv.com
Reading through the list again, I’m disgusted by how many women in this list were killed by ex-boyfriends/husbands/stalkers. Like, genuinely sick to my stomach. Sigh. :(
“Domestic violence is a leading cause of death for women ages 15-44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. It is a leading cause of death of pregnant women, mortality research shows. And African American and Native American women are at the highest risk of intimate partner homicide.”
Quoted from this article:
http://womensenews.org/2008/07/intimate-violence-remains-big-killer-women/
Yeah, I know. That’s part of why I’m upset. It’s just a terrible reminder of how awful men can be and how stuff like this happens all the time in real life.
Silvia Castro León, Los hombres de Paco (2010)
Silvia was shot at her wedding and died trying to talk her new wife Pepa through performing the surgery to save her life while awake
She’s on the list. I think since it was first posted.
Yes but how she died is incorrect
how?
Another female character from AHS Hotel that is shown to be bisexual is Hypodermic Sally. Although I don’t know if she counts since she dies in the first episode but lives on throughout the season as a ghost.
In case she counts:
Full name: “Hypodermic” Sally McKenna
Show Title: American Horror Story: Hotel
Year of Death: 2015
Cause of Death: Pushed out of a window
Link to image: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/americanhorrorstory/images/5/52/Paulson-001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150923042734
Link to Evidence: http://www.bustle.com/articles/134043-sally-reveals-her-backstory-on-ahs-hotel-its-the-stuff-nightmares-are-made-of
Thank you for all the work you put in on this project. This is a brutal article.
Not sure how characters from exclusively LBT shows like L-Word and QAF can be included in a Bury your Gays trope?
Also, technically speaking, shouldn’t be Rose Quartz on this list, or are we not counting cartoons?
DANA
DANA
DANA
DANA AND OH YES WHAT WAS THAT DANA.
from the article intro:
“Furthermore, shows composed entirely of queer characters will inevitably kill one. But regardless, they still add to the body count weighing down our history of misrepresentation.”
The Rose Quartz suggestion is interesting for various reasons:
* We’re not sure if “reincarnation via being part of her son” really counts as a death
* The romantic angle between her and Pearl is largely subtext for now
You should add Patricia O’Farrell and Veronica Cortes from “La Reina del Sur.” Patricia gets into a car accident with Veronica in the passenger’s seat, upset because she finds out Veronica is an infiltrated DEA agent. Veronica dies instantly, and later Patricia kills herself. :(
What about Shaw from Person of Interest! She kissed Root before walking into a bulletstorm
[SPOILER ALERT FOR PERSON OF INTEREST]
they shot her up some, but later in the season we see Shaw shot up but alive in Samaritan captivity.
LOOK HAROLD
SHAW IS STILL ALIVE
AND I AM NOT GIVING UP
ON TRYING TO FIND HER
YOU HEAR ME
HAROLD
YOU HEAR ME??
WOOF.
(that was my attempt at channeling Bear in case you couldn’t tell…)
She’s not dead. She has been shown to be alive twice since then and will appear in the next season.
Shaw is alive and she will come back and her and Root will live happily ever after and go on lots of hacking and killing bad guy adventures with Bear. That is the only ending I will accept.
(SPOILERS)
Shaw isn’t dead, just MIA in the hands of Samaritan, so I don’t think she counts (yet).
I’m sure someone’s mentioned this before, but I feel like these women were A.) Majority WoC, and B.) Killed off in many cases exceptionally more brutally/cruelly than straight women are in fiction, and C.) Often killed as “punishment” for rejecting men in some way. Now, one could argue that the men are meant to be ‘villains’, an I’d more or less agree. Except that when it happens as often as it does, it takes on a slightly voyeuristic and creepy level, where it’s almost like a cruel warning that this is what will happen if we don’t make ourselves available.
Helena G Wells from Warehouse 13 died by a bomb. Although she does come back to life later on she still died
i’ve addressed this suggestion already in one of the other 10 times somebody made it
I got to the Janet King part and thought it was an attempt at joking levity – but it is true? Raaaah no. Unless (and please let it be unless) the actress wasn’t available and Janet’s sexuality won’t be swept away. But urrrrgh I could be lacking faith.
I get that people are mad about Lexa. It was predictable because of the actress and availability, and it was handled all kinds of wrong but the show is a violent one so I knew it was going to happen.
None of these pissed me off as much as Kate in Last Tango though. Basically a family show, where the most violent thing was a slammed door, and after all the time it took for that relationship to happen, she gets killed off screen on her wedding day? Come on!