Characters whose deaths angered you

Oh, I know another good one that really got to me:

Anubis's death in season 2 of Ronin Warrior's.

His whole sacrifice felt kind of pointless and only served to move the story along.
 
For the sake of argument though, consider this.......

......Shirley didn't see the injustice all around her, but Louise aided and abetted A-Laws for her chance at revenge. We know that she's clearly in way over her head but if ignorance doesn't excuse Shirley then it probably doesn't excuse Louise either, even though their situations are different.

Though yes, 00 obviously wins on development. Unlike Geass, 00 had a major character (Tieria) telling a civilian (Saji) that he was guilty of indirect malice with his passivity and his desire to not be involved.

Basically: is it worse to be naive and perhaps willfully ignorant (Shirley) or is it worse to be blinded by tragedy (Louise)? Or are they just different roaRAB to the same undesirable end of overlooking injustice?

At the same time, they aren't "bad people" and we are asked to sympathize...in the end they're symptoms of a greater problem and sometimes victims, whereas the causes are the Ribbons' of anime.
 
I'll admit an overriding factor is I just didn't like most of the cast or pacing. Geass and SEED to me have the same problem. Some good ideas are outweighted by a majority of flat characters, terrible pacing and 'teen' moments that come across as being written by old men. Geass at its best could do a morality tale very well, better than even 00 perhaps. But it was constantly squandered by horrible characters like the Ashford ones. Shirley being a supposed innocent means nothing if I don't like the character due to poor writing. Cheap 'will they, won't they?' is NOT characterisation, despite what Sunrise thinks.
 
THANK YOU, I cant believe your the only one that mentioned it. His death completely pissed me off, to the point were i almost stopped watching.
The fact that he dies on his own cross, while looking up at the cross of mercy he wanted to live for......so bittersweet. Such an awesome death, but man did it make me mad.

Im also completely surprised that again only one person mentioned Nadesico's
Gai Daigoji. Killing off the leaRAB male mentor and agruabley what would of been the best character in the series in the third freaking episode?

As for me, easily Macross Frontier

Mikhail's death, awesome as it was, did anger me. He finally declares his love and then boom he dies in epic fashion.
 
The show definitely had bad pacing and an excess of those "teen" moments, but even then I would consider Shirley in particular to be underused as a character rather than an actively horrible one. I continue to think there was a point, even if a rather predictable one in retrospect, to her existence beyond the "will they or won't they" aspect that wasn't really my cup of tea either.

And by extension, IMHO the series was dragged down by its flaws but I don't think they outweighted anything and everything else.
 
I was more annoyed when
the ending teased he'd return, only for them to bring back the old colonel of all people. I get the reasoning behind it but it was still a big 'F U' to the audience.
 
Disagreed fully. Anubis was the best character in Ronin Warriors and that was the capper on his development. That death gets me every time since it was not something you could see the Anubis from season 1 doing at all.

If he didn't sacrifice his life, they never would have won the battle. It was a necessity.
 
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