When characters die on TV, it can have a huge emotional impact on you as a viewer. Whether that’s despair or joy entirely depends on the character, but either way, if it turns out they’re not actually dead, it can feel really hollow and manipulative.
Here are just some of the TV characters that really should have stayed dead…
1.
Hopper on Stranger Things
2.
Big John on Outer Banks
3.
Ali on Pretty Little Liars
5.
Michael on Prison Break
6.
Michael on Jane the Virgin
7.
Glenn on The Walking Dead
9.
Rumple on Once Upon a Time
10.
Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
13.
The Mountain on Game of Thrones
14.
The entire crew on Red Dwarf
What fakeout character death frustrated you the most? Let us know in the comments!