17 Finales That Really KILLED

FATALITY: Tory Ash

STATUS: Dead

TWIST: She dies off-screen, in hospital. A hard way to send off a spectacular character.

Drawing some inspiration from the late Amy Winehouse, Tory's death by grande mal seizure after a drug overdose (when she had just got clean) was meant to hit the audience (and Jamal) in a meaningful way and it did. She was a fabulous character and will be missed.

FATALITY: Anika Calhoun

STATUS: Super dead

TWIST: She's poisoned with her celebratory drink, hallucinating ghosts and taking a deadly fall onto a glass table. A spectacular way to end a hard character.

Anika hadn't developed any new tricks in the last few seasons, always working against the Lyons no matter who she had to ally with. There might be something one could say about shattering expectations here but I'm not sure I could do it justice.

FATALITY: Tom Keen

STATUS: Dead

TWIST: Apparently, Liz sees and talks to his ghost.

Tom was a lot of things to a lot of people throughout The Blacklist and its spin-off The Blacklist: Redemption. His inclusion on this list even though he doesn't actually die IN the finale is warranted since the major season reveal is made in Liz's chat with his ghost at his grave.

Keen managed to come back from a lot of things in his life. But since our last sight of him is as a ghost, we can assume he's well and truly gone now.

FATALITY: Monica Graham

STATUS: Dead

TWIST: No twist. Just sad.

The staging of Monica's murder by an apparent drive-by was brilliant in its timing and tone.

She and Erin are sharing their plans for the weekend and Monica has just confessed that she's going on a romantic getaway with her ex-husband.

The old spark is there. She's giddy. She's hopeful. And then she's dead.

Erin's shock is so believable because we're right there with her.

FATALITY: Seg-El, Superman's grandfather and MAIN character of the show

STATUS: Trapped in the Phantom Zone, lost to all known space and time

TWIST: Obviously, people do come back from the Phantom Zone.

In celebrating the fact that one of his plans actually worked, sucking Brainiac into the Phantom Zone portal, our intrepid hero, Seg-El, sort of forgot about Brainiac's ability to sprout tentacles at will and gets dragged in as well.

Once the portal closes, Dru-Zod smashes the controls to prevent either of them ever coming back and the sigil on future Superman's cape changes from that of the House of El to that of the House of Zod. Ominous.

FATALITY: David Rosen

STATUS: Really dead

TWIST: His was the very last death in a series with an incredibly high body count.

Despite the "white hats" Olivia Pope and Associates purported to sport, off and on, throughout the seven seasons, David was really the only consistent "good guy" on the team.

His moral compass often led him into conflict with Pope & Assoc. and his rare moments of exercising the "means to an end" philosophy cost him his true love.

He spoke truth to power and took pride in being no man's b*tch but rather the b*tch of the United States of America.

In a dramatic coincidence, the only good guy was poisoned and suffocated by Cyrus Beene, seemingly the only baddie who hadn't actually killed anyone himself.