Walking Dead (show): Glenn

Glenn and Maggie were the only thing worth rooting for at that point and losing one of them ruined the last thing interesting about the show.

My mom quit Game of Thrones because they killed the dog in the first episode

L's Death in DeathNote. Near was cool and all, but the entire story after L dies felt like an epilogue rather than a continuation of the plot.

Joel’s death in The Last of Us. It was a bad idea in the second game and it had the same effect on the show.

Ragnar in Vikings. None of his sons had the same charisma and the show just fell flat to me. I still try to finish the show from time time but I still haven't managed to.

Not a show, but a movie spin-off. When they killed Wash in Serenity. I knew I wasn't going to like it as much as the tv shows.

I put off watching the last season of DS9 for a while, after they killed off Jadzia Dax in a really forced way. The worst part was that there was another episode that season where she almost died and it would've been a much more personal and appropriate way for her to go, but instead she's randomly at the wrong place when the big bad shows up doing main plot stuff and that's it. It was incredibly disappointing. Apparently there was some drama with contract shenanigans behind the scenes, so they ended up having to write it in last minute.

I did eventually come back and watch the last season and I'm glad I did, but I legit almost dropped it.

L from Death Note.

Kinda got boring for the other half, although Near-Mellow was okay after a while.

Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) in House of Cards. Until her death, I didn't realize she was the only reason I was watching the show.

Sweets in bones. I hated him when he showed up. Then he won me over and then he's gone :(

Glen in the walking dead. I was already on the posts during the governor arch. But Glenn fucking broke me.

Woodhouse and then Malory in Archer. i actually really enjoyed the coma seasons, but they’re damn good proof that you can’t come back home after you jump the shark.

When Mulder went away to wherever he went in later seasons of X-Files.

Not one person in particular, but I gave up on 'The 100' after the space people decided to massacre the locals about two weeks after landing.

It seemed like the show was just one massacre after another at that point.

Shayla from Mr. Robot. I just lover her so much for some reason.

The only one for me was Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey. I don't recall now exactly why, but reading the plot overview, I think it was because the aristocrat/commoner tension was what held my interest. The show was mostly a period soap opera with some social commentary elements. With his death, it felt like losing the drama and keeping the melodrama. (Although that plot line was mostly wrapped up by the end of the 3rd series, too.) I don't recall being angry, or deciding not to watch further, I just never got around to it.

Hildur (played by Silje Torp) in "Vikingane" ("Norsemen" in English).

Janice in Barry. I will probably go back to watching the series, but the finale kind of ruined the things.

Uhhhggg that one anime with the two brothers and the mechs with drills.

I could not handle when sunglasses bro died. He was literally the only reason I liked that show, which I know is kind of the point because the little bro doesn't even like his own show when his brother is gone, but fuck!

Couldn't do it, man.

John, John, John, John John John John John John and the rest. No consequences ever.

Oh, and I almost quit Angel multiple times back when it was a new episode every week. The first one because the actor died, I understood and it was sad but not worth quitting. The next because Charisma got pregnant? (Even though I didn't know why Cordy was killed off then) Then the character of Fred, but at least she got a new character that I grew to really like. But hated how Wesley's death happened. Darla's death was pretty epic though. That show was so all over the place.

Marissa Cooper. Fight me.

There were a lot of questionably sadistic choices made by the producers in Game of Thrones, but when the >!orphans!< were strung up burned to death I said to my parter 'ok that's last warning. The show isn't good enough to endure this crap'.

Then the red wedding happened next season and it was full of sadism - unsuspecting soldiers gruesomely and gleefully murdered by their comrades, >!foetus stabbed in the womb!<.

And that was the last Game of Thrones episode I watched. I don't have any desire to revisit it.

A fantastic production in every other sense, ruined by extreme sadism at every corner.

Sora. The last (latest?) entry of the kingdom hearts series was a slog of pointless, elongated, wish fulfillment cutscenes. It wasn’t his “death” that made me uninterested in whatever the future brings, but it did provide an easy out.

There's an anime in its 3rd season right now, that when a character death from the manga happens... I'll stop watching soon after. Does that count?

Jake, from the Dark Tower. Not because of Jake, but because of Oy. 😭😭😭

I wish Rita was looking at the same moon at the same moment, I like that - connected by light 

There was a fairly decent martial arts manhwa called Bowblade.

Awful writing. Just awful.

Idk, but I know what character death made me watch the rest of the series that I would stop otherwise.
It's Tuvix ofc.

It didn't stop me watching the show, but in Batwoman S2 when Oshun kills the manipulative psychologist in such a petty asshole-ish way, it just ruined so much intrigue for me and I stopped caring about him as a character.

The show had a lot of other problems, and pivoting into ACAB drivel (oh but its private security being criticized not cops so its totally different lolololol) really made me want to give up. But S3 dialled up the sapphic angst so I was determined to get that far.

Then it got cancelled anyway. So I guess killing off half the interesting characters made everyone stop watching it anyway.p

Barristan Selmy in GoT Rita in Dexter

He should have died under that dumpster.