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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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8. Abby Griffin

Granted Abby’s character changed so much from season to season, and Clarke adopted her worst traits as a mother, but her death in “Adjustment Protocol” was brutal.

The Sanctum plot consisting of body-snatching was unsettling, to begin with as was Abby’s choice to go along with it to keep a version of Kane that no longer inhabited his original body. As such, the narrative lashing back and subjecting Abby to the same fate as the man who sacrificed his life for Kane’s make sense but it was still a shocking and awing moment.

When she entered the room and it was clear that wasn’t Clarke’s mom anymore, and we got chills. The 100‘s intensity elevates each season, as does the trauma they put Clarke through, and taking her mother in this manner was a lot.

Remember, Clarke had been body-snatched herself and would have died had she not been saved by Bellamy. She only got to hug her mom and check-in before going off to save the day as Clarke is wont to do in most of the series. She, however, could have never guessed it would be the last time she would see Abby. And then she had to push her mother’s body out of an airlock and into space in order to stop the Lightborns from killing more people so they can live for hundreds of years.

The further we get into this list, the worse it gets, y’all. It’s like walking down tragedy lane and reminiscing just how much this show put its characters and audience through. And we’re only halfway done.

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