Laurence Fishburne's movie roles don't have the highest death rate on this list, but it's clear many of his characters aren't quite as lucky as The Matrix's Morpheus.
Fishburne's characters close their eyes forever in a couple of his early well-remembered roles. He's one of the soldiers to fall victim to the natives' attack on the river boat in 1979's Apocalypse Now and Charles Bronson sends him to the Great Beyond in 1982's Death Wish II. As the drug mule/bike messenger Voodoo in 1986's Quicksilver, Fishburne wins a friendly bike race with Jack (Kevin Bacon) only to be run over by the vengeful dealer Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Like Mickey Rourke, he gets shot quite a bit. He also explodes quite a bit. He goes kaboom in 1997's Event Horizon, in 2009's Armored, in 2013's The Colony, and he's shot and explodes in 2010's Predators.
If there's any trend in Fishburne's deaths, it points to the idea his characters really need to become more "down to Earth" people. In other words, he dies a lot in space, or in any movies that have something to do with space. Along with his explosive endings in Event Horizon and Predators, Fishburne's most recent big-screen death was in 2016's science fiction romance Passengers.
