As 2025 draws to an end, it’s time to look back on all the fictional things—especially TV shows and standout characters in movies, series, and games—who won’t be moving with us into the new year. It’s the showbiz way; series get cancelled or, if they’re lucky, find their way to a carefully pre-planned end . Even heroes fall. And villains sometimes get ripped apart by mobs of children .

Well, maybe just one villain in particular, but she’s definitely on our list of fictional things we lost in 2025. Since there are some plot spoilers discussed, we’ll leave one of these here in case you’re not quite as up to date on pop culture as you should be. It’s time to catch up—and say goodbye.

The Wheel of Time

Prime Video’s lavish fantasy adaptation (the one based on Robert Jordan’s books,

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