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Extra's and ancillary characters in sci-fi/horror you most feel bad fo

Jayson

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You can pick from movies ot tv shows. Are there any "characters" and I use the word losely that you have ever felt bad for even though they have almost no debt ,do to the fact they aren't important to the story. I got a long list of these type of characters but I will list 5 for right now.

1Nerdy guy at arcade in "Terminator 2" who gets caught in the crossfire of the fighting terminators. Doesn't help that I always think he might be Melvin from "Head of the Class' because he looks sort of like him.

2 All zombies. Zombies can be scary or creppy but I also feel kind of bad for two reasons. I feel bad in the sense that they are basically just dumb animals who doesn't on some level deserve some of the horrific deaths they endure. I also feel bad for the human being that they use to be. It's kind of sad to think about how the zombie use to be real person and they proably had a horrible death themselves due to the fact they are zombies now.

3 Johnny Deep's mom in "Nightmare on Elm Street." How horrible would it be to walk in and see your child turn into a blood tornado.

4 Every victim who didn't have a speaking part of barely a speaking part in "1000 corpses" or "Devil's Reject." What a nightmare place to spend your last moments on earth.


5 The family that die's on mother's day on "Millenium" This was the ep with the disease that comes from birds. A normal everyday family is celebrating mother's day and they all drop dead one by one and the camera pans over to card that says "Happy Mother's Day." It's both kind of funny because of it's intention and that is to wish the audience a happy mothers day but I still felt bad for the family.


Jason
 
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ALL those RED SHIRTS who died under Captain Kirk's command! (he was a menace);)
 
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I always felt sorry for Barclay in TNG, although he sort of redeemed himself in voyager.
 
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The old guy who befriended the little boy in The Shining. He was nice, he didn't deserve an axe in the gut.
 
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Peter Silberman (movies)/Silverman (TSCC) from Terminator.
 
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Poor Morn on DS9. A hopeless drunk who never got to say a word.
 
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2 All zombies. Zombies can be scary or creppy but I also feel kind of bad for two reasons. I feel bad in the sense that they are basically just dumb animals who doesn't on some level deserve some of the horrific deaths they endure. I also feel bad for the human being that they use to be. It's kind of sad to think about how the zombie use to be real person and they proably had a horrible death themselves due to the fact they are zombies now.
I'd like to second this one. It's even worse in Left 4 Dead because, if you go by developer intent, those 'zombies' are still alive, just infected with a behavior-altering disease like rabies (though this doesn't explain tanks, boomers, or smokers, admittedly).

You generally kill more than a thousand of these in a single campaign too. :eek:
 
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The monster in Cloverfield -- bollocks to the yuppies.
 
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Braca in Farscape - Sure he was Scorpius' boy, but he always seemed to get the short end of the stick.

The "Cake Girl" in The Matrix Revolutions - Manipulated like that just so that the Merovingian could make a point (and have some fun)
 
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Boba Fett. The first time I realized that not every second of anything Star Wars would be cinematic brilliance was when he died like a retarded chump, screaming like a little girl. I don't care that it was the Wilhelm, it still sucked. Poor Boba Fett...then his resurrection in the PU was even more embarrassing.
 
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all those super-powered people Sylar kills just to make him look cool...
 
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not every episode is sci fi but I have to go with Butters.
 
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