Ranked: The 15 Saddest Deaths on CW’s The 100

2. Bellamy Blake

*deep breathes* Once again, putting aside behind the scenes matters, a man of color was killed violently on The 100 and this time it was the male lead. Regardless of how you feel about Bellamy, getting shot in the heart by his best friend Clarke after falling prey to a cult was just not it in terms of satisfying character deaths.

Not only was Bellamy noticeably absent for the majority of the final season, his death in “Blood Giant” made absolutely no sense. Clarke shoots him after he already handed off Madi’s sketchbook to a fellow disciple, and she doesn’t even manage to get the sketchbook back in the end. He just dies alone, betrayed by one of the people he loves most, and no one but Madi is even mad about it.

Bellamy makes it onto our list as a sad death because it was a pathetic end to his character on a show that spent a good portion of its narrative time on him and his storylines. Talk about throwing character development and a whole missing persons plot that ended up being useless in the garbage for the sake of shock.

Not to mention, no one he loved tried to save him from himself with more than a singular conversation about his choices. It was bizarre. Echo, Octavia, and Clarke spent more than half the season trying to reunite with Bellamy, but when they finally did all the fight went out of them when he actually did need saving.

The plot clearly usurped character here and it was glaringly obvious.