Movie deaths are often essential to the plot, but some actors have had their characters discarded more often than others. English actor Sean Bean has been the been Hollywood's biggest cannon fodder and as a result, there have been plenty of internet jokes about him.

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However, Bean is not alone. There are a few other actors whose characters rarely make it to the end. Luckily, there is not a single actress is on the list. Sorry guys. Just like James Bond, Hollywood actresses have no time to die. Here are actors whose characters always have tragic ends.

Gary Busey

Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story

Gary Busey has died more than 20 times in movies. That's a little bit too much. In fact, there was a time that people were so used to seeing him die that in the Saturday Night Live 25th anniversary special, host Billy Crystal spotted him and screamed, "Gary Busey! You are alive!"

Busey even got killed by Dolly Parton—the nicest person ever— in Wild Texas Wind. You've got to be really bad to be killed by Dolly. His deaths at the hands of musicians-turned-actors don't end there. Rappers Ice-T and Snoop Dogg killed him too in Surviving the Game and Hot Boyz respectively. Busey has also met his end in other popular movies like Predator 2, Lethal Weapon and Point Break.

Lance Henriksen

Lance has more than 30 deaths in his resume. That's quite prolific. His most memorable death came courtesy of Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target when a grenade was shoved into his trousers. Kaboom! Say hello to Adolf Hitler in hell Lance.

His characters have also met their ends in Scream 3, The Terminator, Alien vs. Predator and Pumpkinhead. But despite his many movie deaths, Lance has been safe as a voice actor. He has lent his voice to animated shows such as Disney's Tarzan and Superman.

Nicolas Cage

The Wicker Man Remake Nicolas Cage Bees

As one of the popular action stars of the 90s, Nicolas Cage did plenty of killing himself. Sadly, he's been killed way more times. His deaths tend to be iconically cringy too. For example, in The Wicker Man, a group of women in a cult covered his face with a tiny "cage" containing hundreds of bees.

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In Vampire's Kiss, he was stabbed with a stake and in Leaving Las Vegas he drank to his death. Not to forget Kick-Ass where he was burnt pretty bad. We get the feeling that so long as Cage continues making movies, the messy death statistics will rise even further.

John Hurt

John Hurt as The War Doctor regenerating in the TARDIS

His name doesn't do him any favors. Screenwriters always do their best to hurt John Hurt's characters. He's had 43 on-screen deaths in total. The most gruesome one came in Alien where he was the first victim. He got his chest torn apart by an alien creature. Even hardcore horror fans found it painful to watch that scene.

However, Hurt's career has been generally good. He got nominated for an Oscar for his role in Midnight Express. And in 2015, he was knighted by the queen of England for his outstanding services to film and drama. So, he is in fact, Sir John Vincent Hurt.

Michael Biehn

Like Sean Bean, seeing Michael Biehn's name in the opening credits always serves as a spoiler that his character will get killed. It's not a matter of "if" but "when." In The Terminator, he was brutally discarded while in The Abyss, he imploded. Val Kilmer also gave him a Call Of Duty head-shot in Tombstone.

And it keeps getting better. In Stiletto, he bowed out courtesy of a crowbar to the skull. The man simply cannot catch a break. On the positive side, his bank account looks good, given that he has appeared in over 50 movies and TV shows. Keep doing what you do best Michael.

Tommy Flanagan

Tommy Flanagan as Chibs in Sons of Anarchy

Sons Of Anarchy star Tommy Flanagan probably gets paid per minute. The longer he lasts, the more money he makes. Flanagan has had over 20 career deaths. He even got mercilessly eliminated in a superhero movie. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, his character gets dragged through an airlock and thrown into space. How cruel. Even Thanos got a better death than that.

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Screenwriters also enjoy discarding his characters with arrows. In Braveheart, he plays the Scottish rebel Morrison who ends up getting shot by arrows. And as Cicero in Gladiator, he meets his death courtesy of arrows too. Moving on, in Alien vs. Predator, he happens to be one of the many victims while in Sin City, a samurai prostitute decides she'sd rather see him lifeless than satisfied.

Oscar Issac

Isaac is aware of how often his characters die so in Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, he was determined to change this. When his character Poe Dameron flees the First Order together with John Boyega's Finn, their TIE fighter hits the sand. Poe survives but in the initial script, he was going to be one of the movies' main deaths. It was only after Isaac's complaints that Abrams agreed to alter the script.

Previously, he wasn't so lucky. In one of his first-ever films All About the Benjamins, he gets fatally shot. He was also killed by the X-Men in X-Men: Apocalypse. He probably had no complaints there because he was a villain. His characters have also committed suicide in a number of films.

Mickey Rourke

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Rourke mostly meets his end by getting shot. He has been a bullet recipient in dozens of movies including Killshot (quite obvious), The Courier, Passion Play, F.T.W, Stormbreaker, Fall Time, and Domino. His movie deaths currently stand at 33. Give the man a medal.

Wait! There's more shooting courtesy of the greats. The legendary rapper Tupac Shakur guns him down in Bullet (1996). Quite a title considering Rourke's statistics and what eventually happened to Tupac in real life. In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Willem Dafoe also decides to shoot Rourke in the back. Didn't they see only cowards shoot people in the back? Samuel L. Jackson also fires several bullets at him in White Sands.

Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo snarls as he looks off camera

Danny Trejo always looks tough enough to handle any danger and resulting violence but looks can be deceiving. The characters he plays mostly end up getting killed in a violent manner. Tortuga (Trejo) got his head cut off and placed on top of a tortoise in the second season of Breaking Bad.

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In Desperado, he was a ruthless hitman named Navaja but he still ended up dead. He also met his death via the brutality of Charles Bronson in the iconic Death Wish. It goes on. He gets blown up in Gary Busey's Bulletproof and suffers a rather bloody end in Predators. Robert De Niro also told him goodbye in 1995's Heat.

Sean Bean

Sean Bean has died so many times in movies and TV shows that he's had enough. The actor recently declared that he won't be accepting any more roles that involve his character going to the afterlife. There's even a website dedicated to his TV and movie death.

From GoldenEye to Game Of Thrones, Bean's characters always fail to survive to the very end. Even the actor himself wonders why people are so obsessed with the deaths. He told the Daily Mail, "Maybe it's the quality of my death people are fascinated by." He also named his favorite character death: "I liked Lord of the Rings. Big death."

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