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

11. The Mt. Weather genocide

Since we’re on the topic of mass killings, we can’t do a list of saddest deaths in The 100 and not include the Mt. Weather genocide. While the society itself was abhorrent, the slaying of over 300 people including children and the Mountain Men helping Bellamy to set the Skaikru and grounder captives free, was hard to stomach.

We spent a good portion of the season with Maya Vie, a young woman who worked in the medical ward assisting with decontamination and quarantine breaches. It was her knowledge of the facility and courage to embrace her family legacy of rebelling against the blood treatments taken from unwilling grounders that enabled Skaikru to defeat Mt. Weather. But it came at a cost.

Though she chose to break from a societal system that kidnapped grounders to use as living blood banks, she, at one point, was not only a part of that system but helped it succeed. As such, Maya was not granted a living redemption by the narrative, and she died in Jasper’s arm.

The Mt. Weather genocide was difficult because it was the first time an entire society was killed and three of our heroes made that decision. They literally pulled a lever and hundreds of people died of radiation. Talk about a season-ender with “Blood Must Have Blood Part 2.”