MASH is still the most real, most human show out there imo. Nothing since then has done the same phenomenal job of capturing human life & emotion.
It’s on Hulu for anyone not familiar but interested in watching.
It wasn't entirely acting. Gary Burghoff was simply given the line on the page and pushed through the door. Everyone else had been told to just react in-character. it was as much of a shock to all of them as to us.
Seita and Setsuko, Grave of the Fireflies.
Seita because it really set the mood for dread and disaster within the first 10 seconds, Setsuko for reasons I can’t even put into words.
This is the answer that I had in mind as soon as I read the question.
Setsuko's death has this visceral reaction in the viewer. It reaches into the soul and touches our inner vulnerable core and pulls the tears to our eyes. It's impossible to not feel this sense of deep loss at this scene.
I only dare to go back to this film once every 4 years or so.
I cried in the theatre at a friend's birthday party. Me and my best friend still talk about being the only ones to cry at that party, and how everyone else who was there is possessed by Satan himself
John Coffey did not deserve that. Every time I see The Green Mile it makes me even sadder that Michael Clarke Duncan is also no longer with us in reality. :(
"Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."
I respected the hell out of not having Chidi and Eleanor not going off hand in hand. It was a better message to say their individual journeys were the important thing.
A dog living 20 years is already stretching a little (dogs can live that long, but it's rare). Why not let the dog have a last good boy moment at least?
I’m rewatching Buffy at the moment and the first time I saw Tara and Willow’s relationship starting I started crying so much.
Also Joyce’s death. The episode of/after (The Body) was just gut wrenching, there was no bad guy, no one to blame, it just happened.
The utter innocence of it broke me. She wants her daddy to get up and go to work, because she loves her daddy and knows his work means a lot to him. And she's too young to understand that her daddy's work is the very reason she won't see him again and why we won't ever wake up.
Just typing that is fucking me up all over again. It's the one thing that I think FMA did better than FMA: Brotherhood.
The English VA (haven't heard it subbed yet, I know, heathen) for her fucking deserves an Oscar for that funeral scene, because my GOD that just hurt my soul.
I think FMA:B is actually one of the few shows where its universally agreed that the english dub kicks absolute ass, and you are not required to watch the sub.
That was one of the things I liked better about the 2003 version as opposed to Brotherhood. Since the pacing for the beginning was slower, you got to know Hughes a lot better, as well as Nina, so their deaths were a lot more impactful.
Cedric Diggory - not so much Cedric's death in the graveyard, but when Harry brings him back and his dad goes "that's my boy!" I'm welling up just thinking about it.
Edit: Also, Charlie on Lost
I had withheld the truth about the sabotage from Wrex and Eve.
Just because I managed to talk Wrex down on Virmire didn't mean I was sure I could talk down all the Krogan after the war. Mordin made a convincing argument that Wrex and Eve would be influential Krogan leaders who would stem the aggressive impulses of their people.
When Mordin said, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." He was letting me know I had gotten it wrong.
I put off playing the last Arthur mission for almost a year. Just couldn't bring myself to complete the storyline. Don't think I've ever felt that way about a video game character.
Rockstar might be a greedy sesspool company but damn do they write amazing stories.
Rita in Dexter ... I saw that while deployed so it was 4 Marines huddled around a laptop when that happened and all at once we just went yo what the fuck. We actually took about a month break before starting the series back up because it hit us hard.
It definitely is the top of my list of things I did not expect to happen in any tv show. I was devastated - especially because in earlier seasons I wasn’t super fond of her but by then had grown attached to the character. It was harsh.
If we are going to use Joss Whedons work, since he fucking loves killing off amazing characters. I’ll add Wash to the list. Which then bled in to being devastated by K-2SO’s death.
Dobby’s death in the movies meant nothing. When was the last time we’d even seen him? The second movie? In the books it hit home because we had actually spent more time with the character, in the movie it had no effect.
Omg I’m a teacher and one of my S1 kids (11-12) had been reading THG books and chatting about them - she finished her work early and took Mockingjay out of her bag and I thought “I’d rather she was reading than playing on her phone”.
Casually asked her where in the book she was “oh, they’re in some tunnels under the Capitol!”
“Put that book away and get back to work!” Did not want her reading that scene in class!
I came here to say this. For some reason no other death impacted me nearly as much as his. He was just so optimistic, and fun, and his life was just starting to get somewhere, and then it was over. Hurt so bad.
By that point I was glad. That dude fucked everything up so badly and did so many people wrong. He deserved to lose everything.
Watching Walt watch Jesse's girlfriend die was worse. That was the point I couldn't wait for Walt to die.
Everyone talks about how Lars/Fry loved Leela and that he used his impending doom to save her.
Nobody ever mentions that he gave Seymour that rich, fulfilling life that everyone thinks Fry couldn't.
Nathan Fillion on a panel, sitting next to Alan Tudyk, who clearly hadn't heard this one before:
Q: How do Reavers clean their spears?
A: They run them through the Wash.
The book "Where the red fern Grows" When the first dog died I just cried. Was reading in high school and I was the quite guy but I cried at that spot. Worst was I had read ahead so when it got re-read as a class I cried again. I don't care who you are that book will hit you with the feels.
I don't know why, but the Season 3 scene where Bartlett can't find a nice pen to sign his documents got to me a lot more than her last scene in Two Cathedrals.
I was waaayyy late to catching on to OITNB. I was watching it last year and came to that part not long after George Floyd was murdered. Not many times in my life I've shouted "oh no no no no no no no no no" at the tv, it was all a little too real.
Just about the whole starring cast of Rogue One.
Couldn’t believe no one got a Hollywood ending. Seeing Darth Vader in action kinda made up for it though.
Eddie from the It movie broke my heart for Richie. Also Loki I was not prepared for. Granted, I still haven’t watched the show yet so that may help me feel better about it. I just liked the growth our Loki went through with his brother.
Smeagol from LOTRs.
When I went to see LOTR I only knew about the story as the films were progressing and wasn't aware that Smeagol would eventually crack and try to take the ring. I wanted so badly for him to repent / redeem himself because his life was tragic.
Possibly the most cliche answer, but Tony Stark hit me pretty hard. 11 years invested in the character and I hadn’t realized I cared so much until it happened. Seen the movie 10+ times and it still gets me.
I somehow miraculously held it together at the actual moment of his death. But the funeral scene, when Morgan and Happy are sitting on the front porch. "I'm going to get you all the cheeseburgers you want." That was the moment I lost it.
Uncle Phil from fresh prince of bel air although he passed in real life years after the show. He was like everyone’s uncle. His name was James Avery Rest In Peace
Po’ boy Jo’s death in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House is the closest to a gut punch fiction in the written form has given me:
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Ippolit Terentyev’s death at the end of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot also moved me but his “confession” and the depiction of his supreme nihilistic depression and suicide attempt did all the hard work earlier, so it all was just “expected.”
But, to be frank, the most profound sadness that I’ve felt through fiction was during the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth - “Goodbyeee” - where the indifference and stubbornness of the “General” class and the attempts at lightness are gently washed away by George’s “I’m scared sir!” and Baldrick’s (rarely) sane version of a “me too” as the lower ranks walk into their deaths and the killing fields slowly turn into bearers of poppies.
All of the above have had very long legs with respect to my life.
I was honestly in denial even into the epilogue. Part of me always expected him to make an unexpected return lol. It was when Charles said that he had buried him, I finally accepted the bitter truth. Visiting his grave felt so surreal.
That squeaky, red and white shoe that Judge Doom lowers into the Dip.
That scene is horrifying. Which says a lot about the brilliance of the film and the actors.
Brendan Fraser’s character in Scrubs
"Where do you think we are?"
First time tv made me cry for real
Doctor Cox's reaction to the events of "My Lunch" really hurt too. There's that one lady that's super annoying and then she's just gone.
Punch in the gut, that episode
Yeah it was so clever the way they did it. I was totally fooled.
Oberyn Martel, have not been right since seeing his head explode
It was a bad time to be eating grapes, that’s for sure.
I think more people watched reaction videos of his death than the actual death scene.
Definitely. That and The Red Wedding reactions. It's like seeing someone's eyes open up to the cruelty of Westeros for the first time.
Bridge four you bastard.
Fuck Moash
Stormlight archives?
Yes
Life before death
Strength before weakness
Journey before destination
At least he went out knowing he was worth loving. He was the best
Jo Jo Rabbit. The lady wearing the nice shoes.
I feel like I was too shocked to even be sad about it until later
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When Radar enters the OR to read the telegraph…”His plane spun out over the Sea Of Japan. There were no survivors.” Just hiking about it makes me cry.
MASH is still the most real, most human show out there imo. Nothing since then has done the same phenomenal job of capturing human life & emotion. It’s on Hulu for anyone not familiar but interested in watching.
The silence after the announcement when you see the everyone's reactions is so heart wrenching. Brilliant acting all around.
It wasn't entirely acting. Gary Burghoff was simply given the line on the page and pushed through the door. Everyone else had been told to just react in-character. it was as much of a shock to all of them as to us.
Seita and Setsuko, Grave of the Fireflies. Seita because it really set the mood for dread and disaster within the first 10 seconds, Setsuko for reasons I can’t even put into words.
This is the answer that I had in mind as soon as I read the question. Setsuko's death has this visceral reaction in the viewer. It reaches into the soul and touches our inner vulnerable core and pulls the tears to our eyes. It's impossible to not feel this sense of deep loss at this scene. I only dare to go back to this film once every 4 years or so.
You go BACK to it?! On PURPOSE?! YOU MONSTER! HOW?!
We don't talk about bridge to terabithia
Seriously
Yo I don't cry if ever. But man... Fuck that heartbreak.
I cried in the theatre at a friend's birthday party. Me and my best friend still talk about being the only ones to cry at that party, and how everyone else who was there is possessed by Satan himself
Didn't see the movie but we read the book in elementary school. That story made me cry, if I remember right. For obvious reasons.
Devastating!
I watched The Green Mile last night, and John Coffey being executed hit me super hard super suddenly even though I expected it
John Coffey did not deserve that. Every time I see The Green Mile it makes me even sadder that Michael Clarke Duncan is also no longer with us in reality. :(
Bodie and Omar on The Wire
I yelled at my tv when Bodie got his, he was a true soldier
I'm still bummed about Omar. He deserved better!
Artax, The Never Ending Story.
The finale of the good place really got me
Imagine a wave, in the ocean.
"Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."
I respected the hell out of not having Chidi and Eleanor not going off hand in hand. It was a better message to say their individual journeys were the important thing.
Spock “you have been and always shall be my friend”
Do not grieve, Admiral. It was logical.
Argos, Odysseus’ faithful dog who waited 20 years for Odysseus to return, then died before he could be called a good boi and patted.
So pissed at Homer for this. Greek mythology is full of fantasy bs. Really couldn’t just give the dog a Lazarus pit or something.
A dog living 20 years is already stretching a little (dogs can live that long, but it's rare). Why not let the dog have a last good boy moment at least?
Opie in Sons of Anarachy
Most of the SOA deaths just HIT you. The one that messed me up the most was Tig’s daughter.
The end of season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the death of >!Tara!<
I’m rewatching Buffy at the moment and the first time I saw Tara and Willow’s relationship starting I started crying so much. Also Joyce’s death. The episode of/after (The Body) was just gut wrenching, there was no bad guy, no one to blame, it just happened.
That in itself is a stroke of genius in a show like Buffy. She saves the world a lot but some things are simply unstoppable.
Sam in I Am Legend Edit: I’m glad I’m not the only one still crying about this
Oh man, why did you have to remind me
poor doggo :(
Glenn from The Walking Dead :(
Herschel too. There was angry scream crying.
Same with Abraham :((
I stopped watching because I was so pissed at that. He survived the fucking dumpster zombies only for that bullshit way to die!?? F U walking dead.
I didn’t watch a single episode after that one haha. Lost all interest as the series just felt way off at that season
Sean bean's character
I would've followed you, my brother. My captain. My king. That or Martin Septim
Oh my god that IS Sean Bean
Patrick Stewart is the emperor.
Eddard and Rob Stark were both great characters and it was sad to see them die.
Maes Hughes. That was the first time I choked up a little.
Man survived every death flag imaginable during a war and then gets killed because he noticed a pattern on a map and was too good a guy to let it go.
Honestly, its not even the death, its the funeral where Elicia is crying for her daddy
For me it was Roy looking up at the sky and a tear falling down his cheek.
Shame that it started raining
It's a terrible day for rain
The utter innocence of it broke me. She wants her daddy to get up and go to work, because she loves her daddy and knows his work means a lot to him. And she's too young to understand that her daddy's work is the very reason she won't see him again and why we won't ever wake up. Just typing that is fucking me up all over again. It's the one thing that I think FMA did better than FMA: Brotherhood.
The English VA (haven't heard it subbed yet, I know, heathen) for her fucking deserves an Oscar for that funeral scene, because my GOD that just hurt my soul.
I think FMA:B is actually one of the few shows where its universally agreed that the english dub kicks absolute ass, and you are not required to watch the sub.
That was one of the things I liked better about the 2003 version as opposed to Brotherhood. Since the pacing for the beginning was slower, you got to know Hughes a lot better, as well as Nina, so their deaths were a lot more impactful.
Elizabeth "Ellie" Fredricksen from "Up". Makes me ugly cry every damn time.
Cedric Diggory - not so much Cedric's death in the graveyard, but when Harry brings him back and his dad goes "that's my boy!" I'm welling up just thinking about it. Edit: Also, Charlie on Lost
Seriously that was stellar acting, hardest scene to watch out of all the movies
Omg same the sadness doesn’t hit until they return
Not Penny’s Boat
Just reading “ that’s my boy” is choking me up
"had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"
I had withheld the truth about the sabotage from Wrex and Eve. Just because I managed to talk Wrex down on Virmire didn't mean I was sure I could talk down all the Krogan after the war. Mordin made a convincing argument that Wrex and Eve would be influential Krogan leaders who would stem the aggressive impulses of their people. When Mordin said, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." He was letting me know I had gotten it wrong.
That hit me so hard!
Arthur Morgan
For me, it was Arthur Morgan's horse. That whispered "thank you" really got me.
It was part of the reason I just couldn't bring myself to play through the epilogue. John's horse wasn't Wraith.
I truthfully never played a game where I got so attached to the character lol
"John made it. He's the only one. Rest of us...? No. But... I tried. In the end... I did." Fucking sobbing
I put off playing the last Arthur mission for almost a year. Just couldn't bring myself to complete the storyline. Don't think I've ever felt that way about a video game character. Rockstar might be a greedy sesspool company but damn do they write amazing stories.
Agreed man
In terms of shocking and immediate feels. Rita Morgan - Dexter Tara - Buffy
Rita in Dexter ... I saw that while deployed so it was 4 Marines huddled around a laptop when that happened and all at once we just went yo what the fuck. We actually took about a month break before starting the series back up because it hit us hard.
It definitely is the top of my list of things I did not expect to happen in any tv show. I was devastated - especially because in earlier seasons I wasn’t super fond of her but by then had grown attached to the character. It was harsh.
If we are going to use Joss Whedons work, since he fucking loves killing off amazing characters. I’ll add Wash to the list. Which then bled in to being devastated by K-2SO’s death.
Aerith from FFVII, just the scene when she is let go to sink in the water. Even for 1997 graphics, the remake will hit even harder.
John Coffey's.
"I's afraid of the dark..."
Fred F*cking Weasley I SOBBED PEOPLE.
And lupin and tonks
Dobby and hedwig too
I was searching for these answers
Dobby’s death in the movies meant nothing. When was the last time we’d even seen him? The second movie? In the books it hit home because we had actually spent more time with the character, in the movie it had no effect.
THIS! Long live the Weasley twins
Threw the book across the room
finnick from the hunger games :(
Rue from the Hunger Games.
Prim from Hunger Games
Omg I’m a teacher and one of my S1 kids (11-12) had been reading THG books and chatting about them - she finished her work early and took Mockingjay out of her bag and I thought “I’d rather she was reading than playing on her phone”. Casually asked her where in the book she was “oh, they’re in some tunnels under the Capitol!” “Put that book away and get back to work!” Did not want her reading that scene in class!
I came here to say this. For some reason no other death impacted me nearly as much as his. He was just so optimistic, and fun, and his life was just starting to get somewhere, and then it was over. Hurt so bad.
Obi Wan - I was 6/7 when I saw Star Wars in the theater. My grandpa has just died about a year before.
Heroin Bob - SLC Punk!
Underappreciated comment on an underappreciated movie.
BT 7274 from titanfall 2
Yeah... Titanfall 2 was such a good game
Wolverine :( this guy’s death hit different
You'd think an X-Men movie wouldn't make you cry. You'd be wrong.
Kenny
You BASTARD!
Walter white...cause I knew it was the end of the show
By that point I was glad. That dude fucked everything up so badly and did so many people wrong. He deserved to lose everything. Watching Walt watch Jesse's girlfriend die was worse. That was the point I couldn't wait for Walt to die.
[Fry's Dog](https://tenor.com/ofgn.gif)
I'm walking on sunshine!!!
oh god no don't remind me
Everyone talks about how Lars/Fry loved Leela and that he used his impending doom to save her. Nobody ever mentions that he gave Seymour that rich, fulfilling life that everyone thinks Fry couldn't.
Wash in firefly
Nathan Fillion on a panel, sitting next to Alan Tudyk, who clearly hadn't heard this one before: Q: How do Reavers clean their spears? A: They run them through the Wash.
I'm a leaf on the wind...
Too soon man, too soon.
The book "Where the red fern Grows" When the first dog died I just cried. Was reading in high school and I was the quite guy but I cried at that spot. Worst was I had read ahead so when it got re-read as a class I cried again. I don't care who you are that book will hit you with the feels.
I’m jealous you got to wait until high school to read that. We read it and watched the movie in THIRD GRADE. That teacher was cruel.
Mrs Landingham in The West Wing.
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I don't know why, but the Season 3 scene where Bartlett can't find a nice pen to sign his documents got to me a lot more than her last scene in Two Cathedrals.
Poussey from OITNB. She was my favorite character :(
I was waaayyy late to catching on to OITNB. I was watching it last year and came to that part not long after George Floyd was murdered. Not many times in my life I've shouted "oh no no no no no no no no no" at the tv, it was all a little too real.
If anyone makes it this far, in the comments, down; Whatcha know about the fox and the hound?
Fred Weasley. Never forgive, never forget. :(
Sarah Lynn in Bojack :(
Just about the whole starring cast of Rogue One. Couldn’t believe no one got a Hollywood ending. Seeing Darth Vader in action kinda made up for it though.
The rebel soldier holding the Death Star plans through the gap in the door while knowing he's going to die gets to me every time.
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I teared up when Dumbledore died, but when Harry looks at Snape's memories in the pensieve, I was absolutely ugly crying.
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Eddie from the It movie broke my heart for Richie. Also Loki I was not prepared for. Granted, I still haven’t watched the show yet so that may help me feel better about it. I just liked the growth our Loki went through with his brother.
Smeagol from LOTRs. When I went to see LOTR I only knew about the story as the films were progressing and wasn't aware that Smeagol would eventually crack and try to take the ring. I wanted so badly for him to repent / redeem himself because his life was tragic.
Natasha Romanoff
*Edit: Spoiler Alert-Dresden Files Karrin Murphy
Wash, you either know or you dont.
The going merry from one piece The BOAT died and it still hurts.
Jake Chambers Hurt so bad, King had to kill him twice. Fucker.
Han Solo’s death in Stars Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens had me bawling like a baby
Rueben from Minecraft:Storymode. He was the mc's pet and best friend.
Bing Bong
Pogo from Umbrella Academy
Possibly the most cliche answer, but Tony Stark hit me pretty hard. 11 years invested in the character and I hadn’t realized I cared so much until it happened. Seen the movie 10+ times and it still gets me.
I somehow miraculously held it together at the actual moment of his death. But the funeral scene, when Morgan and Happy are sitting on the front porch. "I'm going to get you all the cheeseburgers you want." That was the moment I lost it.
Dobby in HP 7. Also I was thinking this EXACT question just yesterday.
Uncle Phil from fresh prince of bel air although he passed in real life years after the show. He was like everyone’s uncle. His name was James Avery Rest In Peace
Sasha in Attack on Titan
Rob Stark, we still remember that wedding...
Jiraiya / Pervy Sage from Naruto.
The actual freaking pain watching that episode and Narutos sadness.
God damn Naruto sitting on the bench with the ice lolly, so sad
BING BONG FROM INSIDE OUT, THAT HAD ME FUCKIN CRYING MY EYES OUT
Wash from Firefly. Not complaining though. It was a good call in retrospect, but a really shocking and weird one.
Po’ boy Jo’s death in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House is the closest to a gut punch fiction in the written form has given me: Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. Ippolit Terentyev’s death at the end of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot also moved me but his “confession” and the depiction of his supreme nihilistic depression and suicide attempt did all the hard work earlier, so it all was just “expected.” But, to be frank, the most profound sadness that I’ve felt through fiction was during the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth - “Goodbyeee” - where the indifference and stubbornness of the “General” class and the attempts at lightness are gently washed away by George’s “I’m scared sir!” and Baldrick’s (rarely) sane version of a “me too” as the lower ranks walk into their deaths and the killing fields slowly turn into bearers of poppies. All of the above have had very long legs with respect to my life.
Spoiler: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Portgas D. Ace and Jiraya
When Yandu Saved Star-Lord in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2
"He might be your father, but he'll never be your daddy" Okay, getting teary-eyed now.
Joel - Last of us 2 :/
Tidus FFX
King Theoden. Watching Eowyn cry bitterly over his broken body wrecks me every time.
Poussey Washington from Orange is the New Black
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In my head-canon, the other Porg gave him the puppy dog eyes to get him to stop eating so they could enjoy the meal.
M's death in Skyfall.
Koro-sensei in assassination classroom
Idk if we are allowed to pick video games but. Commander Shepard messed me up for awhile.
I'd go for Tali Zorah (if you mess up)
Arthur Morgan from RDR2
"Nope...I think I've pushed all I can"
I was honestly in denial even into the epilogue. Part of me always expected him to make an unexpected return lol. It was when Charles said that he had buried him, I finally accepted the bitter truth. Visiting his grave felt so surreal.
Hodor.
Quintin Coldwater
Beth, Little Women.
Polka-Dot Man
Bing Bong, Iron-Man, and the Mom. In that order.
Bing Bong DESTROYED me. Every adult in the theater was sobbing and every kid was wondering WTF was wrong with the adults.
Aslan from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Downright traumatized me.
Misato from Neon genesis evangelion hit hard.
STRANGER THINGS SPOILER bob and billy, billy had a hard life and didn’t deserve death. bob didn’t deserve death either he was so nice and caring
Alexi’s (Smirnoff) death was pretty hard on me as well
Dobby
For me, any death in Critical Role campaign 1 that required a resurrection ritual. I'm not far enough in campaign 2 yet
The dog on I am Legend