In the 2015 film *The Revenant*, many characters die due to the brutal nature of the 19th-century frontier, including central figures and secondary characters. The most significant deaths and their circumstances are detailed below.
### **Main Characters**
* **Hawk (Forrest Goodluck):**
Hawk is Hugh Glass’s Pawnee son. He is **stabbed to death** by John Fitzgerald. While Fitzgerald is attempting to smother a severely injured Hugh Glass to "mercy kill" him (and collect a bonus), Hawk discovers him and tries to intervene. Fitzgerald overpowers Hawk and stabs him in the stomach while Glass watches, paralyzed and unable to speak or move.
* **Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson):**
Near the end of the film, Captain Henry goes out with Glass to hunt down Fitzgerald. The two split up, and Fitzgerald ambushes Henry in the woods. Fitzgerald **shoots and kills him**, then scalps him. Glass later finds Henry’s body and uses it as a decoy on a horse to lure Fitzgerald out of hiding.
* **John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy):**
Fitzgerald is the film's primary antagonist. After a savage final confrontation with Glass on a riverbank, he is mortally wounded but still mocking Glass. Remembering the words of the Pawnee man Hikuc—"Revenge is in God's hands"—Glass pushes the bleeding Fitzgerald into the freezing river, letting the current take him to a group of Arikara warriors downstream. The Arikara chief, Elk Dog, **stabs Fitzgerald in the head and scalps him**.
### **Supporting Characters and Allies**
* **Hikuc (Arthur RedCloud):**
Hikuc is the Pawnee traveler who saves Glass’s life by feeding him and building a healing sweat lodge for him. Later in the film, Glass discovers Hikuc’s body **hanging from a tree**, having been lynched by French fur trappers. A sign reading "On est tous des sauvages" (We are all savages) is pinned to his body.
* **Toussaint (Fabrice Adde):**
Toussaint is a French fur trapper and leader of the group that captured the Arikara woman, Powaqa. When Glass infiltrates their camp to steal a horse and rescue Powaqa, he kills several trappers. Toussaint is later **shot and killed** by Powaqa herself (she castrates him first in a moment of retribution before he dies).
### **Incidental and Group Deaths**
* **The Initial Trapping Party:**
A large portion of Captain Henry’s fur-trapping expedition (approx. 33 men) is slaughtered in the film’s opening sequence during an **Arikara ambush**. They are killed by arrows, tomahawks, and gunfire while attempting to flee to their boat.
* **The Bear:**
The grizzly bear that mauls Hugh Glass is **shot multiple times and eventually stabbed** by Glass. It collapses and dies on top of him after a long, harrowing struggle.
* **Glass’s Horse:**
During a chase by the Arikara, Glass and his horse gallop off a cliff. The horse **dies upon impact** with the ground. To survive a freezing blizzard, Glass guts the animal and sleeps inside its carcass for warmth.
* **Hugh Glass’s Wife (Grace Dove):**
Though she appears only in visions/flashbacks, it is established that she was **shot and killed** by a U.S. soldier during a raid on their Pawnee village years before the film’s main events.
### **Does Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) die?**
Technically, **no**. While the film ends with a close-up of Glass breathing heavily and looking into the camera—and some interpret the appearance of his wife's spirit as a sign of his passing—the character is alive when the credits roll. The real Hugh Glass survived the events of 1823 and died roughly ten years later in 1833.