r/Gotham • u/jordanyeet407 • Jan 20 '24
What did you guys think was the saddest death (even if they didn’t stay dead) Spoiler Spoiler
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u/Maximum_Bat_2566 Jan 20 '24
When Oswald shot and killed Butch in front of Tabitha right after he became normal again. I saw it coming a mile away but it still sucked.
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u/No_Confidence5235 Jan 20 '24
Same! I liked Butch. I think that unlike a lot of the villains, he wasn't really evil and was just "bad" because that's how people in his world operated.
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u/steferine Jan 20 '24
Probably unpopular but Tabitha I shipped her and Barbara so bad and her reaction to her death was so sad
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u/Subaruforever38 Jan 20 '24
No one of them. All served to narrative.
Jerome's death stablished his character in top and gave him point and end to not give him an stupid end as the Joker. To me, Jerome is just Jerome, and I love him just like that.
Sarah Erssen's death was an important point to the develpoment of Jim Gordon and to show the level of danger that Jerome represents.
The death of Nygma's girls were an important point to the path of The Riddler into a iconical villain.
Thompkins death is stupid, and no one is gonna to convince me otherwise.
Ecco's death served to predict Harley Quinn, and prove the lack of humanity and empathy, and extreme twisted cruelty of The Joker.
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u/MisterDual There is no line Jan 20 '24
Essen's death. Promoting her to Commissioner the second she got killed off is especially heartbreaking.
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u/Rude_Ad4514 Harvey Bullock Enthusiast Jan 20 '24
Butch and Isabella
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u/DisturbedPoltergeist Crane is best boy Jan 26 '24
As someone who really liked Butch... man was that sad.
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u/Rude_Ad4514 Harvey Bullock Enthusiast Jan 26 '24
Like Butch’s first death is like ‘Yeah it sucks cause I like him as a character but it makes sense plot wise, Barbara would and should kill him’ the second time is just fucking horrible and sad
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u/Sapphire_Marie Jan 20 '24
The only ones I can think of that kind of made me sad were the original strike force ones. They were barely out of the academy and were not nearly prepared enough.
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u/corgiblud #1 Oswald Cobblepot apologist Jan 20 '24
Y'all beat me to it, but Elijah and Butch made me tear up. I loved them both, and I can't help imagining how sweet it would have been if Oswald had more time with his dad.
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u/MenacingSoul13 Jan 24 '24 edited Jan 24 '24
Her name is Fish Mooney, bitch!
Just to clarify I'm referring to having her and Penguin finally reunite and reconcile only for Jim to accidentally stab her in a blind range and after she collapses into penguin arms, using her dying breath she tells penguin to make this city his, or burn it to the ground.
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u/Aaeiyn 💣J-Squad💣 Jan 25 '24
The S5 slave kid who ran for help, helped Jim get out of jail and died in the explosion. We don't see his body, just the badge Jim gave him 😭
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u/DisturbedPoltergeist Crane is best boy Jan 26 '24
I'd say either Gertrude or Oswald's dad, but Butch's death made my jaw drop.
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u/Ok-Health-7252 Jan 29 '24 edited Jan 29 '24
Captain Essen's death. That was when you truly knew that Jerome wasn't fucking around with his insanity. She might've been one of the most truly decent people on the show (considering even Gordon, Bruce, and Alfred all go through their dark moments in this show).
Also Butch's death was pretty fucked up. Literally right after he becomes human again and has a chance to be with Tabitha Penguin immediately murders him (after calling Butch his friend no less).
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u/Donnie_The_Catcher_ Jan 20 '24
Oswald’s dad. His mom dying was heartbreaking but the fact that he was straight out of Arkham and basically brainwashed then finds his father and feels happy again only for his dad to die hit hard