You'll Never Recover from These Seriously Devastating TV Character Deaths

Hodor from Game of Thrones

The unfortunate demise of everyone's favorite disyllabic gentle giant Hodor (Kristian Nairn) utterly destroyed fans of the show. During Hodor’s final moments, he helped Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) and others escape from a wight-filled cave while the King of the Six Kingdoms warged to a moment from Hodor’s past. In Bran’s vision, the audience learns that Hodor, once named Wyllis, was able to speak perfectly fine until he heard a call from the future—hold the door. Ouch.

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