Will The 100 kill off Jasper, Abby, Kane, or another main character in the season 3 finale? Let’s speculate!
Believe it or not, but The 100 has in fact only killed off three main characters in its three-year run. First there was Wells, then Finn, and earlier this year we had to say goodbye to Lincoln.
It’s easy to forget because The 100 has a wealth of secondary and tertiary characters, and most of them are as well-developed and memorable as the main cast. Lexa’s death was felt in fandom like a thousand main character deaths. Anya, Monroe, and Sinclair were mourned across the known galaxies. Maya and Gina were gone too soon. Atom was…
Actually, no one really mourned Atom. Poor guy.
Related: The 100 poll: Which character death would upset you the most?
The death count is definitely Game of Thrones-level, and yet The 100 has been surprisingly protective of its main cast of characters. Even Thelonious Jaha, who has tried to write himself off the show a handful of times, is still around.
In fact, with all the deaths that happen throughout the series, The 100 has twice now surprised its audience by not killing off a lead character in its series finale — although the season 1 hiatus was full of anxious fans wringing our hands about the fates of Bellamy and Finn! (T’was a simpler time.)
Is The 100 about to break its two-year streak and kill off one (or several) main characters in a finale? Or will our lead heroes once again, miraculously, remain unscathed?
Inspired by my own embarrassingly inaccurate season 2 death predictions (although, arguably, I was just half a season off) and this Twitter reminder, I decided to once again make up some theories that likely won’t come true. And you get to join in too: vote in the poll and tell me in the comments who YOU think will be dying in the season 3 finale!
Clarke Griffin
Clarke Griffin is not dying in the finale dot com.
No, but really. The 100 isn’t going to kill Clarke off before the series finale, if even then. Clarke is the heart and soul of the series, an LGBT lead character, and the glue that holds this rag-tag team together.
This season, Clarke has been on an interesting journey. She started the season scared and alone, then found a temporary refuge with Lexa, only to have that happiness (both as a leader and as a young girl in love) ripped away from her.
She was thrust back into the wild with one mission only, and that was to stop ALIE and secure Lexa’s legacy. And the choices she’s made in season 3 (specifically trying to force the chip on Luna) speak to her single-minded sense of purpose. The strength she showed last week, standing her ground even as ALIE was killing her mother, speaks to her conviction. Let’s just hope her plan pans out.
She’s heading into the City of Light now, and whatever peace (read: Lexa) she finds there might tempt her to stay — but, almost certainly, she will be ripped from Heaven by her friends (oops, wrong show), thrust back into bleak reality and forced to reckon with her life and her choices.
In season 4, we’ll hopefully see Clarke find a new purpose, a moment of calm, and maybe even happiness, extending beyond fighting an immediate enemy and clawing out small victories for herself and her friends. But that requires her to stay alive that far, which I have no doubt she will (even if it ends on a cliffhanger).
Odds of survival: 10/10.
Bellamy Blake
Bellamy Blake is not dying in the season finale dot…biz?
I’m not as convinced of Bellamy’s survival as I am of Clarke’s, but it’s pretty close. Much like Clarke is an LGBT lead, Bellamy is a POC lead, and that matters a great deal at this point — the writers know this by now.
But Bellamy’s importance of course extends beyond his value as minority representation (as valuable as this truly is). However you feel about him — and you sure feel a lot about him — Bellamy Blake is the leading male character on the show.
He’s done a lot of good, and a lot of bad that he’s still making up for (whether you believe he needs to or not, he certainly feels like he needs to), but whatever Bellamy does, his actions directly influence everyone else on the show. The 100 needs Bellamy as much as it needs Clarke, for emotion as well as for plot, and whatever they’re heading into in season 4, the delinquents are going to need him on their side.
Of course, it’s impossible to predict where the story is going to go in season 4. My theory that Octavia will leave the group still stands; it’s likely another main delinquent (read: Jasper) will die. But whoever is left will need both Clarke and Bellamy to lead them (especially if they’re splitting up again). There’s a lot of Bellamy’s story left to tell.
Odds of survival: 9/10.
Octavia Blake
I have big plans for Octavia, but it’s not my show, so what do I know?
In my mind, Octavia peaces out at the end of season 3 and goes on her own solo adventure, on her horse, exploring the world Xena-style. In fact, let’s just spin her off right now. Octavia: Grounder Princess has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
In all seriousness, I argued last year that Linctavia was holding both Lincoln and Octavia’s character arcs back, and despite me being devastated about Lincoln’s death, I stand by the idea that Octavia, at least, is more interesting on her own.
Octavia is an independent spirit at heart, and as great as the relationship was, the show never truly allowed us to experience Octavia flying solo before Bellamy literally passed her on to Lincoln in the season 1 finale.
In season 2 she ran off and joined the Grounders in an effort to find Lincoln, but she ended up finding herself in the process. And this is arguably when Octavia finally got the chance to shine. Now, she needs to mourn her first love, and then she needs to literally get back on the horse and kick ass to the chorus of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.”
The only reason for killing her off would be for some convoluted Romeo and Juliet ending — which is not totally unlikely, since this is what Jason Rothenberg used to call Linctavia — where she’d sacrifice herself because she can’t live without Lincoln. But that would be ridiculous, so I refuse to consider that possibility.
Odds of survival: 8/10.
John Murphy
This is a tough one.
I could absolutely see Murphy dying in the finale, after the fantastic character arc he’s had. Murphy has gone from a selfish bastard whose only goal was his own survival to someone who would literally walk into the jaws of death for someone he loves.
Right now, he’s one of five characters stuck at the top of the tower in Polis, with ALIE’s zombies banging at the door. Chances are someone will make a big sacrifice, and who better than Murphy — the last person you’d ever suspect?
But at the same time, I have a hard time seeing the show get rid of him. Murphy is hilarious, he’s complex, he’s honest, and he’s unpredictable. He’s the closest this show has to a Spike/Damon character, and considering how he could legitimately join the delinquents in season 4 — as one of the gang — I can’t see the writers throwing away so many great story opportunities.
Plus, considering how he was just made a regular this year, it seems unlikely. In fact, at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Murphy was the last person left standing, at the end of it all.
Odds of survival: 7/10.
Jasper Jordan
Jasper, just by virtue of being in the City of Light, is obviously at great risk right now. The risk becomes even greater when you consider that his entire life since landing on the ground has been one eternal spiral of badness, which just keeps getting worse.
He told us himself last week: The ground isn’t survivable. At least, not to him. Maybe to people like Octavia, who grabs the bull by the horns, or Raven, who makes herself useful. But Jasper is not Raven, or Octavia, or even Monty. He’s not resilient. Jasper is a rare character on an apocalyptic TV show because he’s allowed to be frail (read: a normal human being); he breaks under pressure, and at this point Jasper is broken.
His PTSD has rendered him depressed and isolated. The other delinquents have no time for his pain, what with the world literally ending and all, and from him walking under a Grounder’s knife in the premiere to willingly taking the ALIE chip last week, it’s evident that he’s given up on himself, too. Unlike Raven, whose pain is external, Jasper’s demons are all on the inside — and ALIE just got rid of them for him.
It’s hard to imagine a world in which Jasper Jordan survives the City of Light, as I can’t exactly see him coming out on the other side with a newfound appreciation for the power of free will. As I stated last week, I think it’d certainly be interesting to see him live to fight another year, but unfortunately, I think his fight is over. The poor kid can’t take any more pain.
Odds of survival: 3/10.
Monty Green
Despite the fact that he’s currently bleeding from an abdominal stab wound (!), I’m not too worried about Monty right now. For one, he’s in Arkadia, so unless Raven realizes that the only way to stop ALIE is to blow it up (in which case Monty would stay behind with the incapacitated Jasper, because #Jonty is eternal), he’s comparatively safe.
Monty’s budding relationship with Harper isn’t necessarily reason enough to keep him alive, but it does add a depth to his character we didn’t have before. Add to that his friendship with Raven and the pain of having to kill his mother (basically committing the delinquents to setting aside their differences and working as a team), and we’ve got a lot to work with going forward.
Especially if Monty also has to struggle with losing — or, dare I say it, killing — Jasper. His mother was just the warm-up, guys, I’m calling it now. Whether or not he’ll die with Jasper is, of course, anyone’s guess because it truly is hard to imagine one going on without the other, but if he does end up having to kill his former best friend, it’d be more interesting from a narrative standpoint to leave him alive.
Plus, Monty really is the unsung heart of the show. Despite having been largely a background presence until season 3, Monty is the person who grounds these larger-than-life personalities, the ultimate support player in the MMORPG that is The 100. They need him to stick around as one of the original 100 — the one who’ll rein them in and remind them they need to stick together, just like he did with Octavia.
Of course… I could just be projecting my own undying love of Monty here. We’ll see.
Odds of survival: 6/10.
Raven Reyes
Okay. Raven better not be f***ing dying tomorrow I swear to god, I will RIOT.
All the acting on The 100 is AMAZING (Eliza Taylor’s fantastic performances are particularly overlooked), but Lindsey Morgan brings something so visceral, so evocative and haunting to the show, letting her go at this point would be insane.
On a story note, it also seems like Raven has come to terms with her pain in a way that’s extremely important for her character moving forward. No, she can’t really go on missions in the forest and yes, her chronic pain will always be a part of her, but this does not make her useless.
She’s experienced the painless, mind-numbing bliss she so craved in the beginning of the season and she’s come out on the other side knowing that reality is by far preferable. She’s like super smart now (for some reason?), and her tech knowledge and scientific intelligence adds something to the show that none of the other characters — bar Monty — can offer.
The only reason for killing Raven now would be to shock and upset its audience. And I don’t know guys, I think they’ve already managed that this year.
Odds of survival: 8/10.
Abby Griffin
Free of the City of Light and back to helping the delinquents, Abby’s chances look pretty good (…until you remember what happened to the last grownup who thought he could hang with the kids, RIP Sinclair).
We know Abby is around to help Murphy and Bellamy get Clarke into the City of Light. We also know they’re stuck in the Polis tower with ALIE’s army coming for them. It’s not unreasonable to think that someone (other than Pike, that is) might not make it out of the tower alive.
And Abby’s death in this episode, after everything she and Clarke endured in “Perverse Instantiation, Part 1,” would be poetic irony at its cruelest (The 100‘s favorite kind) — and might just be the final push Clarke needs before she truly begins to contemplate giving up the fight.
On the other hand, leaving Abby alive could have interesting consequences for season 4. If the Arkadians survive the City of Light, they’ll need her to lead them, especially if Kane doesn’t make it. If everyone inside the CoL is toast (I doubt it, but you never know with this show), she could potentially join the Boat People. And, if the entire ground is an illusion and they wake up back on the Ark (just kidding! Or am I?), we’ll need her to complete the circle.
I hope Abby doesn’t die. But, depending on where the writers are planning to take the show in season 4, ending this horrific year with the death of Clarke’s mother (after Clarke made the heartbreaking choice to let her mother hang rather than give up the Flame) would be just the kind of twist of the knife the writers like to give our poor lead heroine.
Odds of survival: 6/10.
Marcus Kane
Kane’s chances look grim. Not only is his mind in the City of Light, but his body is somewhere in the belly of Polis, possibly incinerated, possibly shielded by Indra’s sacrifice but still in bad shape (…you already know my feelings on her inevitable death). Plus, he was literally crucified like five minutes ago.
The only reason for keeping him alive would be that it’d be a damn abrupt way to end his arc if he just died now, after everything we saw him do in season 3; he’s not even in his own mind, and sending off an original main cast member that way doesn’t seem like something The 100 would do.
In fact, Kane’s fate is the main reason I think the delinquents will find a way to get at least some of the minds out of the City of Light before they shut it down. Because I just can’t see him dying.
tl;dr despite the overwhelming evidence that Kane is doomed, I simply refuse to consider the possibility.
Odds of survival: I can’t read suddenly I don’t know ?
Thelonious Jaha
Sorry Isaiah Washington. I love you. I want Jaha to stay on the show forever as the creepy uncle who whispers “I’m Jesus” into people’s ears while they sleep.
But with ALIE likely being defeated and Jaha having been her #1 stan since before he even knew she existed… there’s no way he’s walking out of this one alive.
Odds of survival: 1/10.
To sum up: While there are stronger arguments for some character deaths than others, at the end of the day, I think the only ones we truly need to worry about are Jasper and Jaha. In terms of secondary characters, we also have Indra and Pike to consider (both of whom I think are gone for).
But this is The 100, and they might shock us by offing someone we did not expect. Could it be Kane or Abby? Murphy or Monty?
Tell us who you think is dying in The 100 season 3 finale, and explain why in the comments. (You can pick up to three characters!)
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