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

By Sabrina Reed

The 100 -- "The Last War" -- Image Number: HU716a_0159r.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Lola Flanery as Madi -- Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.
The 100 -- "The Last War" -- Image Number: HU716a_0159r.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Lola Flanery as Madi -- Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved. /
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10. Madi Griffin

Like Clarke, Madi got shafted in season seven and was nearly unrecognizable. The young girl we met in season five who killed the Eligius prisoners that were about to murder spacekru was nowhere to be seen. Instead, the writers reduced her to a scared child who only wanted to live a normal life and couldn’t seem to make decisions.

It’s not that we begrudge Madi wanting to break from a culture that demanded she sacrifices her childhood, and potentially her happiness, in order to lead grown adults at the tender age of twelve. It’s that her fierce sense of protectiveness and importance to the narrative vanished when the writers stopped caring about her story in any significant way.

And when Madi did return to the focus of a storyline it was to once again be the victim of Clarke’s decision to kill people in order to keep her safe including Bellamy , a man she knew to be her mom’s best friend and who she trusted because of all the stories she heard about him from her.

Madi’s inability to shoulder the weight of Clarke’s willingness to sacrifice all she holds dear to protect her is what led Madi to surrender her mind to Cadogan. Consequently, she lost motor function and became trapped in her own body.

Clarke spoke of her as if she were already dead introducing an uncomfortable element into the show that suggested because Madi was now disabled, her life was essentially over. Mind, Madi could hear her mother despite being unable to respond and if Clarke had used the M-Cap machine she may have been able to speak with her in some form.

Not only was this sad but when she ascended in “The Last War,” Madi chose to live out her existence as some kind of hive-like sentient mind light instead of returning to Clarke because she didn’t want a life a life where there was no one her age to fall in love with. It was a nonsensical ending for a character that deserved so much better than what the final season gave her.

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