List of fictional people who were cremated

This is a list of fictional people who were cremated or self-immolated. Next to the name is the method of cremation.

Modern fiction - film

• Branmer - Babylon 5 episode Legacies - (exact method not known)
• Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
• Donny - The Big Lebowski
• Kikyo - Inuyasha (pyre)
• "Grandpa" Gustafson - "Grumpier Old Men" - (crematorium)
• Qui-Gon Jinn - The Phantom Menace - (pyre)
• Darth Vader - Return of the Jedi - (pyre)
• Xena -- Xena: Warrior Princess
• Valeria -- Conan the Barbarian (pyre)

Modern fiction - literature

• Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
• Sam McGee - "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (improvised crematorium)
• Aimee Thanatogenos -- "The Loved One", Evelyn Waugh (crematorium)
• The crew of Red Dwarf (radioactive blast)

Mythology

• Beowulf -- "Beowulf" (pyre)
• Hector -- "The Illiad", Homer (pyre)
• Achilles -- Greek mythology (pyre)
• Hercules -- Greek mythology (self-immolation on pyre)