Live Poll: Heroes Don't Always Die in Hero

By courtesy announce the movie in which the death occurs before the description.

If this one overflow I'm gonna be pretty impressed.

I have made a ton of research, it seems to be very rare for a good-guy to die like a coward or in any stupid way. Usually, when heroes die, they die in sacrifice or by doing their best.

Not shown in the movie but described as a letter was read out loud, Mr. Roberts death in the movie of the same name.

It should be requirement - It has to be shown in the movie.

John Wayne, as Sgt. Stryker, gets shot in the back by a sniper’s bullet in “The Sands of IMO Jima” . The ending to the film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_8BJ...

BTW, I agree with Siobhan (scary avatar), the title needs to be changed. FYC : Heroes Don’t Always Die a Hero’s Death

I'm going to try to do my best to expand this list because I think this is a great idea.

A really good example from one of my all-time favorite movies - Lonely Are the Brave. Major spoiler ahead - at the very end of the movie after successfully outsmarting and outrunning a whole posse of lawmen, the fugitive hero's horse is spooked trying to cross the highway and they get hit by a truck.

Pulp Fiction - a bit of a stretch, because Vincent Vega is only an anti-hero at best, but he does die trying to take a bathroom break.

Into the Wild - Christopher McCandless, an idealistic but inexperienced wannabe survivalist, dies because of making a careless mistake (he ate a poisonous plant and starved).

No Country for Old Men - anti-hero (sort of) Llewelyn Moss is "shockingly killed offscreen by assassins" (ScreenRant)

Lawrence of Arabia - T.E. Lawrence dies in the prologue due to a motorcycle accident after speeding on a country roadway.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - not technically a "death", but when McMurphy is lobotomized it's a pretty bleak and unheroic end for him.

Silence (2016) - The main character, Rodrigues, who risked everything to find his mentor, facing religious persecution, eventually gives up and apostatizes (i.e. publicly renounces his faith). He dies of old age decades later, a shell of his former self.

The Dark Knight - Harvey Dent literally dies as a villain, so there's that.

Vanishing Point - spoiler alert! Kowalski commits suicide by driving straight into a police barricade at high speed.

Ran (1985) - the elderly warlord Hidetora, after being betrayed by his sons, succumbs to madness and runs off a cliff. (Similar to the death of Lord Denethor in The Return of the King).

Hamlet (there have been several movie adaptations) - Hamlet dies after having done far more harm than good in his attempts to avenge his father.

Some of these are a bit of a stretch, but I think some of them would be perfect for this list. I'll post more later if I think of any.

I'd say being killed in your bathroom is pretty un-hero-like...

I don’t know if you want this one because he was a bit of a jerk in the movie and the movie is not that well known, but it was Sen. William J. Tadlock’s (Kirk Douglas) iron will that keeps the Oregon Liberty wagon train moving in “The Way West” (1967). While he is hanging on a rope off a cliff and ordering the wagon train to hiring up the horses and get moving, an insane woman cuts the rope and he falls to his death.
While this video was dubbed into Spanish, it shows his death scene as coming quick and unexpected.

FYC: Manuel 'Cheyenne' Gutiérrez (just say Cheyenne) death in “Once Upon A Time In The West”. He finally dies from a gunshot wound.
“The Dirty Dozen” Take your pick! Probably Franco. He survives the mission only to get shot in the back.

FYC: Vincent Kane's in The Ninth Configuration 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081237/mediaviewer/rm3777059840

I will replace the image list with a title list. Some of these images contain major spoilers.

New list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls098121583/

 
I will add https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/mediaviewer/rm2344753920 - "THE GREEN MILE"

FYC:

1. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) in No Country for Old Men (2007)
2. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) in Braveheart (1995)
3. Billy (Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Departed (2006)
4. Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
5. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) in Spartacus (1960)
6. David Dunn (Bruce Willis) in Glass (2019)
7. Professor Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
8. Professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
9. Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) in Reservoir Dogs (1992)
10. Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
11. Héctor (Gael García Bernal) in Coco (2017)
12. Bubba Blue (Mykelti Williamson) in Forrest Gump (1994)
13. Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) in The Shining (1980)
14. Julian (Julianne Moore) in Children of Men (2006)
15. Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) in 1917 (2019)
16. Thomas Wayne (Bruce Wayne's father)

FYC:
Donnie Darko (2001) is got to be one of the best deconstructions/reconstructions of heroic death ever. He goes to sleep, knowing he will be crushed to death by an aircraft engine from nowhere and yet he laughs at the irony of its all, literally at the face of death, knowing he saves the world he likes and people he loves. It's both spectecularly heroic moment and yet literally no one actually knows how much of sacrifice he made for them to live. Deeply symbolic, very thought-provoking, mesmerizing. 

And then this. Man, I love this movie. 

cinephile,

Please correct these minor typos.

#7 Add a period.
Wyatt and Billy are randomly murdered by a couple of hillbillies
Wyatt and Billy are randomly murdered by a couple of hillbillies.


#11 Add punctuation.
Chris McCandless poisoned himself accidentally, he then starved
Chris McCandless poisoned himself accidentally; he then starved.

#14 Add a period.
Jon Snow is stabbed six times, but he got resurrected
Jon Snow is stabbed six times, but he got resurrected.

I love this poll and have spent the past several days trying to decide on my vote but it just occurred to me that perhaps asking for the "favorite" death is maybe not the exactly right word? 

I don't think it's a big deal but I'm wondering if something like "Which death was the most heartbreaking to you?" would be more precisely accurate?  'Just a thought. 'Great poll either way.
 : )