The TNT drama “Legends” premiered Wednesday night, and so far its star, Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”), is still alive.
While such a reveal wouldn’t be surprising for another lead actor, the 55-year-old Brit has an unusually high track record of getting offed on-screen.
Even TNT has noticed, using the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean to promote the new show, and producing a Funny or Die video featuring the actor adding a few of his own ideas for what he assumes is his character’s impending death.
In “Legends,” Bean plays Martin Odom, an FBI operative who assumes various identities — “legends” — to outwit villains, and the actor has promised viewers that he remains “relatively intact” in the first season.
But you can’t blame fans for being worried — Bean has died in films and on TV more than 20 times in his career, all of which have been lovingly edited into a fan-made death reel.
Here’s a look at his 10 most memorable character deaths.
‘Game of Thrones’ (2011)
Ned Stark, we hardly knew ye. The family patriarch was shockingly beheaded at the hands of Prince Joffrey — while his young daughters watched in horror — in the ninth episode of the HBO’s drama’s first season.
‘Black Death’ (2010)
Bean’s medieval English knight character suffers death by dismemberment as he’s tied between two horses who strain his limbs until he’s torn to pieces.
‘Henry VIII’ (2003)
After the King tricks Bean’s Robert Aske into incriminating himself for treason in this ITV miniseries, his character is sentenced to a gruesome death by being strung up before the townspeople.
‘Equilibrium’ (2002)
In a futuristic society where art, literature and music are banned, Bean’s character is shot in the face through a book, executed by Christian Bale’s high-ranking cleric for saving a book of Yeats poems.
‘Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001)
As the warrior Boromir, Bean didn’t make it past the first installment of the J.R.R. Tolkien film trilogy, in which he was shot up with arrows by the Uruk-hai leader Lurtz.
‘Don’t Say a Word’ (2001)
‘GoldenEye’ (1995)
Bean played villain 006 in this James Bond flick, who meets his demise when Pierce Brosnan’s 007 pushes him off the side of an antenna platform and he falls 500 feet to his death.
‘Patriot Games’ (1992)
Here Bean was cast as terrorist Sean Miller, who’s out for vengeance against Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) for killing his brother. But it’s Miller who meets an untimely end by getting impaled on an anchor at Ryan’s hands.
‘War Requiem’ (1989)
In this film with no spoken dialogue, Bean plays a German soldier who’s stabbed to death with a bayonet.
‘Caravaggio’ (1986)
