The 100: John Murphy's Death & Transcendence Explained

 After cheating death numerous times, the grim reaper eventually came for John Murphy in The 100 series homestretch – then’s his death and preponderancy explained. 

 

 How did John Murphy die in The 100 and what happed after his preponderancy? John Murphy may be one of The 100’s most popular characters, but in early seasons of The CW sci- fi drama he was a tone- centered figure who was each about icing his own survival – so much so he earned the surname “ Cockroach. ” still, it soon came clear that Murphy’s focus on surviving stemmed from his fear of dying and what comes latterly. Given how numerous skirmishes with death he had, that’s not surprising. 

 

 In season one of The 100, Murphy was nearly hanged by his fellow Delinquents after being falsely indicted of boggling Wells Jaha and latterly survived being shot multiple times during the battle against Paxton McCreary and his men in season 5's homestretch – and that’s in addition to being beaten and tortured in enough much every season of the show. He'd a particularly harrowing near- death experience in The 100’s sixth season when he was poisoned by poisonous seaweed on Sanctum and brought back to life, but not before glancing what he believed to be Hell. 

 

 It’s little wonder he and his gal Emori were enticed by the idea of getting immortal by having their cognizance uploaded to Mind Drives latterly in season 6 given all he would been through. But death did come for The 100's John Murphy and ironically it was an eternity- granting Mind Drive that caused his demise. After Emori was mortally wounded in the penultimate occasion of The 100, a devastated Murphy had her Mind Drive and knowledge transferred to his own head just to spend a many further hours with her despite knowing the process would kill him. 

 

 While Murphy lay dying in The 100's homestretch, he and Emori were reunited in her Mindspace, which took the form of a bedroom overlooking the beach stacks of the Dead Zone where they first met in season 2. As Murphy and Emori participated what they allowed would be their last cotillion in the Mindspace, they suddenly achieved preponderancy after the alien being known as the Judge supposed that humanity was good of saving and joining its immortal hive mind. 

 

 still, John Murphy’s story in The 100 did n’t end with his preponderancy. The veritably last scene of The 100 series homestretch revealed that Murphy and several other characters including Emori, Raven, Octavia and Echo rejected their preponderancy and rather chose to return to their mortal forms and live out the rest of their lives on Earth alongside leader and friend Clarke Griffin. It was a bittersweet ending for Murphy, considering that he gave up eternity, but choosing to return to Earth where he'd one day face a veritably real and final death proved how far he ’d come as a character since the morning of The 100.