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Poll: Scenes or Sequences Where Characters Accept Their Death

In some movies characters agree to be killed or kill themselves because of reasons which force them to do so. No matter what kind of reason it is, the death is freely chosen at the end. To make sequences like these authentically, it needs good acting.

Which of these sequences was done best by all involved actors? (The descriptions are covered with spoiler bars for not spoiling it for you.)

Discuss here.

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Results of 328 votes:

  1. 1.

    The Green Mile (1999)

     
    SPOILER: John Coffey, big as a grizzly bear, caused no trouble on the walk to the electric chair, but did some miracle healings before his last walk.
  2. 2.

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

     
    SPOILER: The Terminator demands the destruction of the chip that controls him, which automatically leads to his disintegration (equal to a human's dead). He was forced to do that by the programming of…
  3. 3.

    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

     
    SPOILER: Tony Stark accepted his death by snapping the glove with all the stones as the one and only scenario Doctor Strange figured out for saving half of the universe beings.

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