For me, it was always Optimus Prime from The Transformers movie.

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    Yeah, but that’s not so something you usually do in stories, because it is a bad reading experience. At most people sacrifice themselves for something and their sacrifice turns out to be in vain. But authors dont just go killing off a protagonist, because they put a lot of work into them and their death needs to have a certain value

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      Sure. But perhaps not giving it any value could also be a strong point. The fact that it was so senseless made it all the more painful, to me. I honestly hurt more for that death than any other in the books.

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        That’s what I mean with dying for something but not achieving that. Just having him die randomly felt very jarring, but not in a good way since it didnt really felt connected to the story