This is a really interesting post! I spent a while trying to think of an example of a character in a similar situation from one of my canons, and it was a long time before it hit me: Bill from The Last of Us.
I haven't actually seen the television adaptation of The Last of Us yet, and what I've heard about Bill's treatment in it actually might be part of the reason. I don't even particularly care about Bill in the original game! But hearing about his death in the show really put me off, mainly because of the nature of his death (I have a lot of issues with depictions of suicide as a beautiful and romantic thing), but also because... look, The Last of Us already kills off a disproportionate number of its minority characters. It really stood out to me, in the first game, that all the black characters died and most of the white characters survived. You didn't have to revise history so the only living gay male character died as well.
Spoilers for The Last of Us (first game and S1 of show)
I haven't actually seen the television adaptation of The Last of Us yet, and what I've heard about Bill's treatment in it actually might be part of the reason. I don't even particularly care about Bill in the original game! But hearing about his death in the show really put me off, mainly because of the nature of his death (I have a lot of issues with depictions of suicide as a beautiful and romantic thing), but also because... look, The Last of Us already kills off a disproportionate number of its minority characters. It really stood out to me, in the first game, that all the black characters died and most of the white characters survived. You didn't have to revise history so the only living gay male character died as well.