For me, it was always Optimus Prime from The Transformers movie.
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Kamina
The last one i remember is the Going Merry from One Piece
I probably haven’t seen The Neverending Story in 25 years, but I still think about Artax from time to time. Fuckin’ Swamp of Sadness…
It was so traumatizing, death by depression. But, overall, as a little fruity kid about the same age as Bastian when it came out, TNS was the closest thing to affirmation of my own little fruity existence I could find. We easily traumatized fruity kids don’t usually get represented well in action films.
For real. That moment in that movie is basically telling you that you cannot save your best friend from crippling sadness and depression. The horse and the boy love each other but it doesn’t matter in the end.
I was allowed to watch that movie waaay too young, and I know it’s the same for others my age, but I was pissed when I learned that one of my friends let her 5 year old watch it because she’d seen it when she was 5, and apparently forgot or didn’t care that the horse dies?? Like how can you forget that?? And then the 5 year old heard us talking about the movie and the FIRST thing she says is “Remember the horse?” in this sad little voice. Way to traumatize your kid.
Dangit! Two people now have totally eclipsed what I was gonna add with something that just takes more wind out of my sails!
I definitely need something to cuddle now.
Dumbledore
I was pissed that Snape was the stupidly obvious traitor all along. Weak, bad writing, angry at childish plot “twist”.
Well…
Snape is the best part of the latter books. He’s well rounded, motivated, and a fully fleshed out character.
The rest of the world and half the people in it feel like cardboard shuddering in the breeze by that point.
The plot twist was that Snape wasn’t a traitor, and killed the dying Dumbledore to save Draco Malfoy from becoming a murderer.
Mordin Solus from Mass Effect.
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”
