what may or may not be hard reality

Yeah, I'm with you on the die horribly. Eeeeek. But we've been pretty lucky in that she hasn't died all that many times in her career (5 times that I've seen, 4 of those I'm sort of ok with, tho the 5th still makes my teeth heart from grinding them), as opposed to some other crushes I've had, Annabeth Gish and Dina Meyer come to mind, who seemed to die a third into the movie to make the lead realize something about his life in Annabeth's case, or as the last casualty who the hero fails to save in Dina's case, in pretty much every movie they were in.

Now, how many times has CC played a killer or a bad guy, though? I count about 10 times, give or take a few depending on how you define it.