When you sit down to watch a movie, there’s a fairly good chance that at least one of the characters on screen isn’t going to make it to the end credits, whether it’s a gory horror or even a family-friendly kids movie (Lion King, we’re looking at you).
But what are the most common ways that movie characters meet their demise? Is it always a brutal, dramatic way to go?
We’ve analysed thousands of films to reveal the most common causes of death in Hollywood!
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We counted the number of times that each cause of death was listed on the Cinemorgue Wiki which lists over 50,000 movie deaths.