In The Expanse(decent watch btw) this character, who survives in the books, was killed off because the actor was found out to be a sex pest. The problem however, is that the character was a good guy and they killed him very unceremoniously off screen, something that never would have happened if his death was planned for story reasons.

Other examples of this happening? Where the fictional character is punished because of real life reasons. Not just casting changes or deaths, but outright malicious writing like this.

>sex pest
>its a jeet
every time

he got lucky to get out when he did season 5 is unwatchable garbage

>>211984567 (OP)
The Michael character in Lost comes to mind
>WAAAAAAALLT!!!!

>>211984567 (OP)
Two and a Half Men and Charlie Sheen.

>>211984643
You are doing Weinstein a disservice with this post

>>211984745
True

>>211984776
Haven't watched Lost yet, what did the actor do?

Chef from South Park.

>>211984567 (OP)
>very unceremoniously off screen
It was on screen, and something CONSTANTLY talked about as a hazard throughout the entire series. They were worried the whole time saving Avasarala that she'd stroke out. It's not some random made-up death no one else suffers. He takes Fred Johnson's death in the books. Fred dies in that exact way. If it wasn't Alex, not a single person would have been shown to stroke out in the show.
>who survives in the books
I liked Alex, but let's be honest here: he doesn't do anything else noteworthy. He flies that ship and whines about the family relationship he fucked up.

>>211984567 (OP)
I remember reading Walter Hill added the scene of one of the warriors getting killed by a train because he didn't like the actor.

Elongated Man from The Flash. Fairly popular character, there were even talks about giving him and his spy girlfriend a spinoff. Then the actor got cancelled for edgy tweets and they wrote him out in-between seasons.

In his last appearance they even said he got splashed with acid (off-screen) and had to wear a Daft Punk helmet until he healed. Producers said they would recast since the character could shapeshift, but ultimately just wrote him and his girlfriend out entirely as having moved away to start their own detective agency, and only brought her back a couple of times while he was always busy with other cases.

>>211984567 (OP)
Sliders is the ultimate for this.
>Professor is diagnosed with terminal illness; Also have him get shot and forced to be left behind to die as the gang slide to safety
>Wade is kidnapped and taken to a Kromag breeding camped to be raped to death
All because the writer was upset at the actors

>>211984898
Bringing him back as a Nazi Zombie was just diabolical.

Kevin Spacey in House of Cards. Robin Wright, as good as she is, couldn't carry the final season alone especially when the writers pivoted toward a story about feminism.

>>211985097
>Hill saw Thomas G. Waites as the next James Dean, and the director "invited the young actor to the Gulf and Western to watch movies like Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden for inspiration." During the screening, Hill offered Waites a drink, which Waites refused, resulting in a rift between the two that grew worse during the grueling summer shoot. At one point, Waites threatened to report the working conditions to the Screen Actors Guild, forcing Paramount to provide a second trailer for the eight Warriors to share.

Finally eight weeks into principal photography, when the tension on set between Waites and Hill reached the breaking point, Hill demanded that stunt coordinator Craig Baxley improvise a stunt scene in which Waites' character would be killed. "Stunned, Baxley demurred. Such a critical scene would take careful planning. But Hill was insistent. 'I don't give a shit how you kill him,' Baxley recalls the director saying. 'Kill him.'" Baxley found a crew member who resembled Waites and staged a scene in which the character is thrown off a subway platform in front of an approaching train. "It was like someone cut my soul out and left a shell", Waites remembers. He would later demand that his name be removed from the cast altogether; he remains uncredited to this day. Both Waites and Hill have expressed regret over how the situation was handled and since made up.

>>211984971
They showed his body if that's what you mean but the death itself was off screen. The cause of his death was fine, although it would have made more sense for someone who isn't a seasoned pilot. But how it was handled, visually, musically, the other characters reactions, all of it was a fuck you to the actor and would have been handled differently if his death was planned for story reasons and not irl reasons. Everything you are saying is basically true but a complaint for the books as well. I'm here to laugh and filmmakers being petty cunts.

>>211984567 (OP)
Entire final season of Transparent
The Connors

>>211985439
Lmao this shit right here is what I made the thread for. This is hilarious.

>>211985500
>>211984898
>>211984776
What did the actors do?

>>211985439
>Here kid, have a drink
>No thanks boss
>You made a mistake junior
what a world

>>211985435
Makes you wonder what the timeline where Hillary won would have done for the show.

>>211987229
>the next James Dean
>invite him over for reel and chill with drinks
He wanted to fuck him in the ass

>>211985651
The Chef VA was a scientologist who got mad when South Park did a scientology episode.
He left the show over it, so Matt and Trey did an episode where they bring Chef back one last time using only canned voice lines from previous episodes strung together.
In the episode Chef is brainwashed by the Super Adventure Club into a pedophile. The boys undo his brainwashing but at the last moment Chef decides to go back to the Super Adventure Club. At which point he gets eaten by a mountain lion.

>>211984643
Sorry to rain on your parade, but he's unfortunately Iranian.

>>211987519
Yeah this sounds like Walter Hill was hitting on him.

Michael Pitt in Boardwalk Empire.
Killed off at the end of S2 after being the deuteragonist the whole show.

>>211984567 (OP)
Did this guy actually do anything bad? From what I understand all he did was try to fuck adult female fans. What's so wrong with that? It was during the peak of metoo so I guess that played a part in it. >>211984971 makes some good points though, he really was a pretty useless character and being honest his performance was pretty bad too. Definitely the worst in the entire show.

>>211990471
I forgot to mention, killed off because he was very difficult to work with and they grew tired of him. He also got recast in Hannibal between seasons for a similar reason, luckily his character had been severely mutilated in his last appearance so it wasn't as jarring since the character was all makeup anyway.

>>211984567 (OP)
Dorian Harewood getting Eightball killed because he tried renegotiating his contract for more money because of Kubrick reshooting everything a million times

>>211990586
He was never charged with anything.
It's just roasts being insufferable as usual.

>>211990453
>cumskin
Always found this insult so pathetic. They tried to come up with a parallel to shitskin, but the best they could do was cum. Shit is universally hated while people are pretty ambivalent about cum.
Cracker is a pretty pathetic white insult too. >haha, your people oppressed mine with whips
You'd think they'd have come up with something better by now.

>>211985439
Completely unrelated to the thread, but Walter Hill is one of those guys who if I see his name, I know I'm gonna have a good time.

>>211990586
I guess he didn't tip the whores well enough.

>>211990905
The letter N has more power than all white slurs combined and it's their own fault because they gave us this power lel.

>>211990686
>>211990586
Yeah I think he was quite literally just a sex pest as in just a pest. Nothing illegal or anything like that, just a little too annoying at the height of metoo. But as other anons have pointed out he wasn't that important to the show and he got out just in time so it wasn't a big deal.

>>211984567 (OP)
He wasn't killed "off screen" he was killed abruptly, and it was bullshit. But they at least showed his death and it fit into the shows sci fi setting.

Rip Torn being fired from 30 Rock for breaking into a bank.

>>211991247
That was also the reason they cut him from MIB3

>>211985460
>but the death itself was off screen.
You wanted them to show him having a stroke or something? What's he supposed to do, sit in his chair and drool, have half his face go limp. How do you depict a stroke/aneurism on tv?

>>211991247
sorry what

>>211991399
It's subtle things like the music and timing. I literally knew after watching that scene that the actor did something and looked it up and was right. I should not have gotten that from a character death if irl events had no influence.

Roseanne

>>211987519
oh... hadn't thought of that
well now I'm sad

>>211990905
>>211991158
you ok bro

>>211984567 (OP)
>sex pest
so like every hollywood producer/director

The actor who played Icheb on Star Trek: Voyager, Manu Intiraymi, had a few hot takes like
>it's okay to be a little racist if you're just joking, I call my friends slurs all the time and we laugh
>Kevin Spacey did nothing wrong because gay guys are super promiscuous, all the young dudes he ran with probably did it consensually because he was famous and MeTooed him afterward for the same reason
and the perennial
>YWNBAW

In Star Trek: Picard, Seven of Nine is first seen on a brutal revenge mission because a cartel had ripped Icheb's organs out while he was still alive (a brief scene of Icheb's death is displayed with a different actor)

>>211985281
Forgot the worst part: him being fired was orchestrated by the n-word cunt who played Iris, who had a habit of trying to get any popular supporting cast character fired out of jealousy and had friends in the press going full poochie on her behalf, demanding on her behalf thst the show should revolve around her not Flash. Then it turned out, she had even WORSE tweets than the guy who played Ralph but by that point she has successfully bullied the writers into making her the star of the show and nearly every plot revolving around her

>>211995721
Damn, did they just load him into an MRI machine and then powerwash it out when they were done?

It's more petty since it happened in the last episode, but Anya in Buffy has a quick death that's barely acknowledged because the actress wouldn't fuck Joss Whedon

>>211996090
I remember reading a blind item that she's a total bitch and the girl who plays Frost is a racist. Racism is no good but maybe if she really was that much of a cunt on set, being called a jigaboo is called far.
I hate capeshit but loved the Flash and the rubber man character was doing his best Jim Carrey. It was fun. His tweets were just like everyone else's during those years where edginess peaked. They were pretty funny. Shouldn't have been cancelled.

>>211996090
She got mogged by her daughter

Nobody mentioned the matrix guy disappearing off screen and his cousin or whoever taking his place as the operator in reloaded

>>211997383
a cute

>>211985358
>Wade
I think also the other actress they brought later on was a bitch. The main cast by the end was lame as fuck. I didn't even finish the series.

>>211996168
>"I have to go now; my people need me"
>Note: Sal Romano died of AIDS on the way back to his favorite bathhouse

>>212001922
kek

>>211996168
>>212001922
>they bring Kinsey back for a late season guest appearance but not Sal, who was a major side character for the first three year
Really makes you wonder if that rumour he made fun of Weiner's kid is actually true

>We should try being more faithful to the books-ACK!

>>211990586
>From what I understand all he did was try to fuck adult female fans.
Might be my memory messing with me but wasn't one of them underage and that's why it kinda blew up in his face? Plus iirc he was bothering the staff and crew a lot with his shov vagene attitude and the producers just got tired of the complaints

The guy who played Julian in the Shield murdered his wife so they gave him a gay storyline as punishment.

>>212003936
I think that happened after the show, anon.

no one gives a shit about this actor, the character was interesting from the books but this dude aint it, never was, never will be

The Expanse ended at S3
S5+ is unwatchable slop

Homicide: Life on the Street having one detective randomly commit suicide because the actor complained about BTS stuff and writing another detective off and eventually having him be murdered by having his head blown off because he was played Daniel Baldwin whose coke addiction was getting embarrassingly worse.

All the characters from the end of Aliens that Fox didnt want to pay to be in the sequel.