Sometimes there ’s a graphic symbol that the writers do n’t know what to do with , or who ’s hit a dead end . What do you do with this superfluous lineament ? How do you up the ante ? defeat them . And then have them come back evil ( or unspoilt ) , with raw tycoon , or deeply troubled . Here are the 10 persona most better by dying .
Since this listing is all about characters dying , there are going to be spoilers out front . You ’ve been warned .
1 . Rory Williams , Doctor Who
It ’s not that Rory was a speculative character before he died . It ’s that he really came into his own afterwards . Rory ’s return as an Auton was strange , and the struggle between his Auton computer programming and his human store and emotions was critical to the story . Coming back from the dead this means also transformed him into the “ Last Centurion . ” The image of him guarding the Pandorica with Amy inside for one C is very poignant , and it could n’t have happened if he had n’t died .
2 . Fred , Angel
Although Fred spent most of the show as a relatively normal , if very smart , human being , she became something altogether unlike once she die . Infected with the individual of the Old One Illyria , Fred died when it became clean-cut there was no cure . Only she kind of did n’t — since Illyria outride and fill on Fred ’s memory , emotions , and personality traits . So she became a sort of Fred + super demon , making her a wholly new and fascinating character .
3 . Elizabeth Weir , Stargate Atlantis
Similarly to Rory above , Weir was n’t a bad part before her decease . It ’s more that the writers seemed to have more interesting things for her to do after she exit . She was the drawing card of the Atlantis expedition in time of year one through three , but sacrifice herself for it in time of year four . She was institute back as a Replicant copy , salvage the Atlantis team , led a rogue faction of replicators , examine to ascend , failed , save up Atlantis , decided her own faction could no longer be trusted , and led them through the Stargate into space .
4 . Laura , American Gods by Neil Gaiman
When the protagonist Shadow feel out his married woman has died , he toss a charming Au coin onto her grave accent . And , oops , she comes back as an only - sorting - of - active creature . Now , she ’s adequate to of chase Shadow down and saving his life . And killing . She ’s also really good at killing now . At the climax of the novel , she even impales Loki and kills him .
5 . Alex Millar , Being Human ( UK )
Alex started as a erotic love interest for the vampire Hal Yorke , which lead to her being catch and killed . She returns as a ghost and help preserve aliveness and shoot down wickedness . Since ghosts are created by bare business in Being Human , Alex also deals with judge to figure out what that was . The mental confusion she feels after learning that what she thought was her unfinished business was n’t , also bring raw layer to her character . Death was especially secure to this eccentric , who blend in from a recur type to a main castmember after her death .
6 . Duke Roger , in the Song of the Lioness serial publication by Tamora Pierce
Duke Roger is a reasonably stock baddie when he first appears . He ’s a phallus of the royal class who wants the throne for himself — which he plans to accomplish by kill his cousin , the pate prince . He fail , is chance on by Alanna , and she kills him in a duel . Except her brother Thom brings him back , and he sucks the magic from Thom . As is so often the event for the resurrect , he comes back crazy . He does n’t desire the crapper anymore , he wants the whole kingdom destroyed in a magical earthquake . Points for originality , there , we approximate .
7 . Owen Harper , Torchwood
Owen does n’t have a caboodle to do in the first season of Torchwood . He ’s fundamentally introduced as a guy who use his access to alien artefact to get women to have sex with him . And his character does n’t really see all that much growth after that . But in season two , something really interesting happens to Owen : he dies . When he ’s rise by Jack , his body stays in a state of expiry . Suddenly , Owen is confront with being unable to enjoy food or sex but also ineffective to feel pain sensation . This gave the eccentric a wad more profundity than he had before .
8 . Chuck , Pushing Daisies
The fact that Chuck has break fuels a lot of this series ’ ongoing plotlines . She ’s conflicted about whether to narrate her aunts she ’s alive . Olive thinks she faked her death and is constantly snooping , which could end up break the whole secret . Mostly , it also generates the dispute inherent in her and Ned ’s unresolved sexual tension — since him relate her would stamp out her again .
9 . Duncan Idaho , Dune
Duncan Idaho begin the serial as Duke Leto ’s ambassador to the Fremen . By the conclusion of Dune , he ’s kill holding off the foeman while Lady Jessica and Paul scat . Idaho paying back as the ghola ( essentially clone ) “ Hayt ” in Dune Messiah . This version has a much more complicated , and interesting , life history . He ’s a pawn in a number of plans , some of which require destroying the emperor butterfly and some of which involve currying favor . At the same time , he ’s recovering the memory of his original self , including , horrifically , the present moment he decease . Over the row of the series , gholas of Idaho show up a lot , all with much more interesting stuff to do than the master .
10 . Castiel , Supernatural
count , this whole list could have been populate with ways Supernatural fibre died , add up back , and were change for the good — but Castiel may be the best model . When we first meet Castiel , he ’s a exacting and somewhat ruthless angel who pick Dean out of Perdition , and he winds up bring into the other holy man ’ programme to bring about the Apocalypse . Dean get down to raise doubts about this dreadful charge in “ Cas ” — but it ’s only after Castiel look an arcangel and gets swash all over Chuck ’s flat that he starts to think for himself . And that ’s also when he commence to become the funny , zany , conflicted soul we ’ve all grown to hump . ( And we still do n’t know why Cas stay fresh coming back from the utter ! )
Thanks to Charlie Jane Anders ( especially for the information on Castiel ) , Rob Bricken , Annalee Newitz , and Meredith Woerner for their input .
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