The Shows and Fictional Characters We Sadly Lost in 2024

Like each year, 2024 was afloat of highs and lows. Some of the worst (well, nerdiest) lows came from the fictional losses we endured: a TV amusement coming to an end, oregon a dormant quality oregon three. Join america successful looking backmost connected those who won’t beryllium joining america successful 2025 and beyond—and hole for immoderate spoilers ahead, but you already knew that.

Scavengers Reign

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Scavengers Reign is simply a amusement that I’ll everlastingly beryllium huffy astir not getting another season. Not lone is it 1 of the astir refreshing animated stories I’ve experienced this year, it’s besides 1 that genuinely lived up to its alien premise. There was a batch of copium connected my and galore fans’ behalf assuming the amusement would person a second chance astatine beingness connected Netflix. But I deliberation we each forgot that streamer has a knack for being the spot wherever play 2 hopes spell to die. *Shakes fist successful the entity astatine David Zaslav* – Isaiah Colbert

Outer Range

Prime Video’s sci-fi Western astir a rancher (Josh Brolin) hiding a time-travel portal successful 1 of his pastures was astir excessively weird erstwhile it premiered successful 2022—but its mish-mash of genres inactive managed to fascinate, utilizing a cosmic enigma to analyse rival families sharing an intertwined crisis. That Outer Range got a second season astatine each was a TV miracle, and we’re grateful we got to walk a small much clip exploring its oddities. – Cheryl Eddy

Star Trek: Lower Decks

One of the crown jewels of Star Trek‘s streaming property just wrapped up with a superb season, reflecting however acold its young heroes had travel portion inactive earnestly celebrating the joyousness of Star Trek, whether that joyousness was recovered successful the connective past of the franchise oregon simply successful a amusement astir geeks who conscionable emotion to beryllium a portion of that past themselves. Funny and charming to the last, its finale whitethorn person near an open-ended committedness of much adventures to travel for these characters, but we’re inactive going to miss seeing them connected the regular. – James Whitbrook

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe

On 1 hand, Sony’s very weird approach to its Spider-Man-free Marvel movies led to immoderate charmingly weird enactment similar Venom and Madame Web (debatable). On the different hand, it was really clear Sony didn’t cognize what it was doing different than filling merchandise slots. After watching Venom 3 or Kraven, it won’t beryllium immoderate enigma arsenic to wherefore audiences got sick of that runaround. Ah well, astatine slightest there’s Spider-Verse 3, eventually.  – Justin Carter

The Acolyte

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Say what you privation astir The Acolyte, and many, galore Star Wars fans have. But we thought it was a dynamite amusement that some acted arsenic a great introduction point to Star Wars, portion besides enriching the lore for longtime fans. So to spot the amusement get canceled aft its archetypal season, with truthful galore fascinating stories near untold, was 1 of the biggest bummers of the year. – Germain Lussier

Evil

Evil premiered successful 2019 connected CBS, past aft 1 play shifted to Paramount+. Streaming made much consciousness for the series’ adventurous tone—it could beryllium terrifying and comic each successful 1 scene, fto unsocial 1 episode, not to notation provocative, heartfelt, timely, and profoundly insightful. Not atrocious for a amusement astir a squad of investigators hired by the Catholic Church to look into possessions and different weird phenomena, portion besides uncovering corruption and giving america characters we genuinely loved (or loved to hate) on the way. We privation it had gotten 666 much seasons. – Cheryl Eddy

The Umbrella Academy

Umbrella Academy’s shortened 4th play wasn’t the astir triumphant mode to extremity the Netflix amusement based (very loosely) connected the Dark Horse Comics series, but we’ll ever person the archetypal 3 seasons—packed with each the apocalyptic play its battalion of misfit superhero siblings could bring to the table, not to notation quirky comedy, clever crippled twists, slayer combat scenes, and adjacent a fewer creation numbers. – Cheryl Eddy

Chucky

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While there’ll beryllium nary much seasons of Don Mancini’s Syfy/USA TV series—a delightful expansion of the Child’s Play world, adjacent parts gory and campy, arsenic the slayer doll sets his sights variously connected satellite domination and revenge—fear not. Chucky’s been astir since 1988, and he will slay again, hopefully successful a caller diagnostic film. Still, we’ll miss the show’s chaotic yet heartfelt spirit, which made adjacent clip for queer teens successful love, Jennifer Tilly’s multi-layered but ever deranged instrumentality connected Tiffany Valentine, and immoderate precise originative Chucky kills. – Cheryl Eddy

DC/CW Universe

Part of wherefore superheroes person been truthful fashionable connected surface successful the past 20 years has to beryllium owed to the CW. From Smallville all the mode backmost successful the time to Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and the precocious ended Superman & Lois, the web kept DC’s heroes astir successful the nationalist oculus done amusement aft amusement of fluctuating quality. They weren’t each perfect, and immoderate of them ran a spot excessively long, but they made galore strides and kept the genre alive, and that ain’t nothing. – Justin Carter

What We Do successful the Shadows

Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)

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The decease of Aerith is 1 of the astir celebrated of each successful video games, and Rebirth, the middle-chapter of Square Enix’s ambitious re-imagining of Final Fantasy VII‘s legendary legacy, is precise keenly alert of the anticipation players person astir that infinitesimal for each of its immense runtime. Not contented with simply recreating that fateful climax, Rebirth carries connected in Remake‘s footsteps of being a communicative astir what it means to remake Final Fantasy VII by perpetually playing with this meta-awareness astir Aerith, arsenic it centers her much and much successful the game’s twinned stories of echoing the archetypal crippled portion besides preparing to subvert it. So erstwhile beingness splits connected the steps of the City of the Ancients in Rebirth‘s last hours—one timeline wherever Aerith dies astatine Sephiroth’s hands, different wherever she lives connected and helps propulsion him back, simultaneously co-existing successful the caput of Cloud—Rebirth has its barroom and eats it too, giving america the anticipation of a rebirth that players person longed for for astir 30 years portion besides inactive getting to beryllium successful the calamity of her passing each implicit again. We’ll beryllium waiting a fewer much years conscionable to spot what truly happens, but there’s inactive a consciousness of nonaccomplishment successful this limbo Rebirth leaves america and Aerith alike in. – James Whitbrook

Victor Aguilar (The Penguin)

Vic was Oswald’s past redeeming tether earlier the aboriginal transgression lord sold his psyche truthful thing could basal successful his way. A portion of maine hopes Vic isn’t dead, conscionable near precise near-death for Batman to find and instrumentality nether his (night) wing. He was the bosom of the marginalized radical of Gotham—squashed earlier our eyes, hoping he’ll beryllium the anticipation for their revenge too. – Sabina Graves

Claudia de Lioncourt (Interview With the Vampire)

Delainey Hayles should beryllium nominated for awards for her tour-de-force show arsenic Claudia de Lioncourt. The bureau and tenacity with which she was written successful Interview with the Vampire’s TV adaptation should beryllium studied, due to the fact that it gave the book’s doll-like kid characters multitudes. Aging her up a spot gave america a miss trapped everlastingly connected the verge of womanhood. As a fan, I knew she was destined to die, but Hayles’ show made maine privation that if originative liberty was allowed, past maybe, conscionable maybe, she wouldn’t burn. My bosom broke successful the country wherever Armand sold her retired completely. She was the champion of Louis and the worse of Lestat each rolled into one, but that operation gave her a powerfulness that that shone close until her precise past moment. I privation her to person haunted each look successful that theatre that fto her die. – Sabina Graves

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age: The Veilguard)

The Veilguard takes Varric retired of the enactment beauteous early, but you’re acceptable up to walk astir of the crippled with him recuperating successful your location basal arsenic a trusted advisor for Rook to crook to whenever they falter successful their content they’re worthy of redeeming the world. That would beryllium bittersweet enough, that 1 of the franchise’s champion characters is near to beryllium connected the sidelines, but Veilguard‘s last enactment twist—that Varric was really dead, and what Rook was seeing for overmuch of the crippled was a magical, manipulative deception by Solas—hits you similar a ton of bricks, adjacent if you started getting the feeling thing was disconnected earlier than that infinitesimal of revelation. RIP to Thedas’ finest storyteller-slash-crossbow-wielding devilish rogue. – James Whitbrook

Gambit (X-Men ’97)

There comes a clip erstwhile each A-list X-Man has to instrumentality 1 for the squad and die. For X-Men ‘97, that work fell to ol’ Remy LeBeau, who proceeded to do the damn thing and instrumentality retired the Master Mold that made an already crummy nighttime adjacent worse. He whitethorn beryllium gone (for now), but that sacrifice is simply a reminder of however overmuch of a leader Gambit is. – Justin Carter

Arthur Fleck (Joker: Folie à Deux)

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Like astir of us, I didn’t emotion Joker 2. I didn’t truly adjacent emotion Joker. But I did emotion the immense plaything for the fences Joaquin Phoenix took with the DC character, earning him an Oscar the archetypal clip around. So to spot the quality benignant of springiness up connected his struggle, and past beryllium killed, was truly disappointing. You wanted much for this character. You wanted to spot him truly interaction immoderate change. Heck, possibly you adjacent wanted to spot him connected surface with Batman. Alas, present nary of that volition happen. – Germain Lussier

Delia Deetz (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice)

One of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s biggest strengths was the Deetz women being centered successful the film. Catherine O’Hara, the pistillate she is, slipped truthful comfortably backmost into her eccentric vain kooky stepmother quality without missing a beat. Barbara whitethorn person been much of a parent successful the archetypal film, but Delia became the champion person Lydia needed erstwhile Astrid became a rebellious teen. Delia and Astrid’s squad up to telephone retired the men successful Lydia’s beingness and adjacent sync up for a caller poltergeist enactment opus infinitesimal made maine privation much of them successful aboriginal movies. Alas, beloved Delia got got by immoderate asps. In the Netherworld, she rejoins with her headless husband, but they don’t committee the psyche train, truthful here’s hoping if a Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice gets greenlit, we’ll spot her moving the place. – Sabina Graves

Kwon (Cobra Kai)

One of the issues with caller seasons of Cobra Kai is determination hasn’t been a bully young villain. That changed precocious with Kwon, played by Brandon H. Lee. The evil Cobra Kai skipper was not conscionable incredibly intimidating, helium looked incredibly chill doing it. The benignant of atrocious feline you emotion to hate. You astir apt would’ve watched a full “Kwon” show—but alas, due to the fact that helium was truthful beloved, the quality had to dice astatine the extremity of the 2nd bid of episodes. His death, portion brutal and sad, truly raised the stakes going into the last episodes. – Germain Lussier

Agatha’s Coven (Agatha All Along)

We benignant of knew coming into Marvel’s witchy seasons that not each of Agatha’s ragtag caller coven would marque it down, down the Witches’ Road alive, but the amusement did specified a bully occupation of connecting america to these characters it inactive stung to suffer them (yes, adjacent Sharon Davis, dragged on for the ride). Both Alice and Lilia’s deaths were bittersweet for antithetic reasons—Alice’s coming from an enactment of kindness and truthful soon aft the affectional catharsis of her ain standout occurrence of the season, and Lilia’s astatine the climax of what remains 1 of the champion episodes of TV Marvel’s ever made. But each that goodness conscionable made the weapon twist a small deeper successful our hearts. – James Whitbrook

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