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

12. Finn’s slaughter of the villagers

It seems only right to include The 100‘s first violent en masse killing of innocents on our list. Up “Human Trials,” mass death in the show was either a consequence of technology failure, self-sacrifice, or an act of war. But then Finn took a gun into a grounder village he believed was holding his friends hostage and started firing when a grounder he’d rounded up tried to escape. He only stopped once he saw Clarke enter the village but by then 18 grounders were dead.

The 100, for the majority of its run, dealt with heavy subject matter such as trauma and its effect on the human psyche. In large part, the series explored how far its characters were willing to go to protect one another and what actions would push them to the brink. Survival sits at the core of the show’s narrative but so does a willingness to sacrifice the lives of others to save the people you love.

Finn’s slaughter of the grounder villagers is one of the only depictions of a senseless murder in the show. It was reactionary and meaningless in the sense that he seemed to have lost the ability to control himself. Therefore, his killing spree was a manifestation of the stress his mind had been under since being dropped on Earth and witness to war and death.

Ultimately, Finn paid for his actions, but we’ll never forget the look on his face as all of those people died.