For me, it's Dixie on AMC. I waited 18 years for Tad and Dixie to have a child together, and just as we were going to get that, tiic dropped the bomb and fired Cady McClain. Dixie's death was the last day I watched AMC, and I don't miss it at all, after being a loyal fan for 30 years

Eve shouldn't have died. I loved her and Ian. PC were idiots for killing Eve off and putting Ian with Lucy. It was gross and is probably what killed PC. Lucy and Kevin were PC's signature couple. Breaking them up was a mistake.

I agree and it also killed off their central heroine. Lucy lost her main rival as well. Eve being killed made Alison the central heroine and while she was good, it wasn't the same. PC screwed over the Eve/Ian fanbase and the Lucy/Kevin one.

I also think Karen shouldn't have died either. It was pointless.

Frankie Frame and Ryan Harrison from AW were two horrible mistakes, as was Carl Hutchins.

Most of the others were mentioned already.

AMC

Dixie Cooney

Gillian Andrassy

Simone Torres

Natalie Dillon

B&B

Becky - she was so much better than Amber, but we all know that Marissa Tait had to leave because Adrienne Frantz was jealous of her

Darla - the one and only Mrs Forrester

Never cared for Macy, though.

Leo Dupres, All My Children

I miss Leo so much. Such a rich character and they killed him off. They should have just killed off Greenlee at that point since after she died her character was pretty much destroyed with all those awful romances with Carlos, Juan Pablo and eventually Ryan.

I also agree with killing off Al Holden, One Life To Live as well as Jennifer Rapport from the same show.

There are alot of deaths I felt were unneeded. Cassie from Y&R, Jennifer from ATWT,ect.

GH

Danny McCall - marked the end of any human side to Sam McCall.

AJ Quartermaine - proved that the hack Mr. Pratt was only interested in plot.

Alan Quartermaine - anyone finding a reason for his death? Didn't think so, it was pointless.

OLTL

Keri Reynolds - a character with the rare ability to make Antonio likable, they wrote her into a corner and took her dignity away. I suppose, in a way, they probably did the right thing by throwing her off that balcony then.

I'm on the fence about Maureen Reardon's death on GL. It created lots of good emotional drama, but destroyed the show further on in the future.

Here's my list for GL:

Phillip Spaulding

Ross Marler

Jackie Marler

Jenna Bradshaw

Nadine Cooper

Sarah Shayne

ABC is the home of killing off characters that I love. Gillian, AJ, Alan, Karen, etc., etc. the list goes on.

I don't think there's a character on DAYS that I thought never should have been killed off lol.

The problem with DAYS killing people off is that death is never forever on that show... and then it is. They made a mockery of death with the serial killings and Jack, but then expected us to really get involved when Zach died.

Frankie on AW....the show never recovered after that.

Oh and a big word to whoever mentioned Jake McKinnon. It saddens me to think that Michelle and Bridget are orphans.

Isabella on Days. Although the story with her cancer was heartbreaking and great drama; I still miss her.

I actually loved Tico Santi on OLTL.... not.

If you go to YouTube and search Maureen Bauer, someone has posted all the episodes souroounding the car accident and her death. Now that was a character who should never have died. Peter Simon and Liz Sloan did some amaxing work that week. If only that stint at GL would have destrioyed JFP's career and end her reign of terror.

Days

Renee Dimera

OLTL

Megan

AMC

Leo

AMC------Dixie Cooney, Jenny Gardner Nelson, Gillian Andrassy Lavery, Natalie Dillon

ATWT----Jake McKinnon, Bryant Montgomery, Jennifer Munson Donovan

GH----A.J. Quartermaine, Alan Quartermaine, Rick Webber, Courtney Matthews

ONE LIFE----Duke Buchanan, Drew Buchanan, Megan Gordon Harrison, Al Holden, Gabrielle Medina, Jen Rappaport

PORT CHARLES----Eve Lambert Thornhart, Karen Wexler (--GH could easily bring Karen back to life since them seemingly don't count as PC ever existing).

EDGE OF NIGHT----Nicole Cavanaugh

Margaret on OLTL.

She was finally being redeemed and was sane. Why the hell was it necessary for her to revert back to her psychotic ways and die?

Cuz Dena was writing her

I think the soap deaths that have affected me the most were:

Dixie Cooney Martin (both times, but this last time the most....bc its without a doubt permanent and was totally unexpected)

Gillian Andrassy Lavery (why did she have to die????)

Maria Santos Grey (although she came back to life and now I don't really miss her much bc Edmund/Maria reunion sucked the big one)

Natalie Dillon (although had Kate Collins played out the role of Natalie to her death, then it would have affected me even more)