The Expanse Finale Secretly Confirmed A Second Future Character Death
The Expanse's ending kills enough people onscreen, but the final episode also confirms two major characters are destined to perish in the very near future. If you like your main protagonists still breathing by the time the curtain falls, The Expanse season 6's final installment is the ending for you. Plenty of blood was spilled, but most belonged to Marco Inaros' Free Navy villains as they were assailed by aliens while passing through the Ring Gate, or the unseen sci-fi genre legends (including Deckard, Ripley and Riker) who accompanied Bobbie Draper and Amos Burton on The Expanse finale's dramatic railgun assault mission.
Though most main characters walked away from The Expanse's TV adaptation alive, the finale did openly foreshadow a grim fate for Clarissa «Peaches» Mao. After James Holden and the Rocinante crew brought down her father in The Expanse's early seasons, Peaches paid to get backstreet mod implants surgically inserted into her body, bringing on inhuman strength and speed when activated by a trigger in her mouth. Those mods have been slowly killing Clarissa, and a computer diagnosis in the Rocinante's med-bay confirms Peaches only has around 5 years to live.
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The Expanse couldn't have been clearer in signposting Peaches' approaching demise, but season 6's finale also seals a second significant character death — this time more subtly. During the opening Laconia sequence of «Babylon's Ashes,» Cara Bisset proudly presents her Protomolecule dog-resurrected brother to their grieving parents, who are horrified by his creepy, alien skin and blackened eyes. As Cara's father calls the Laconia military for help, the two siblings
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