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How Does Xue Yang Die In The Untamed?

2026-03-29 08:35:47

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Oliver

There’s something truly haunting about Xue Yang’s death in ‘The Untamed’. How the man got killed off is brutal enough on its own, but the poetic justice of it all is even more striking. The man who caused so much chaos in the lives of Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian, manipulating Jin Guangyao for his own gain, and torturing Xiao Xingchen in the worst ways possible for his own twisted amusement, meets his end in Yi City, where it all started for him. How his death scenes are shot is also breathtakingly amazing. He’s holding that piece of candy the whole time, a twisted reminder of the childhood that he never had, and also of the humanity that he rejected long ago. I also really loved how Song Lan was the one to end his life, avenging his death on Xingchen in the most satisfying way possible for the fans. He didn’t deserve any kind of heroic treatment in his death, and The Untamed follows that for the entire scene.

Watching this over and over again and I’ve noticed something really impressive. The music has faded out long before Xue Yang has died, and all you can hear is his laboured breathing. It’s incredible. But more than that, the way the scene has been shot is incredible. Even the little detail of the candy rolling away is powerful and connects back to the theme of lost innocence throughout the show. Xue Yang has died the way he lived: messy, and unresolved, but very memorable.

2026-03-31

Wade

Xue Yang’s downfall in The Untamed was actually really great. For so long he was this sort of chaotic character who played with people’s lives like they were chess pieces, and his downfall wasn’t even a big battle. Really it was kind of sad. He was dying in the fog of Yi City and still tried to play with Wei Wuxian. The way he died was kind of ironic because it was because of his obsession with Xiao Xingchen. Even though Xiao Xingchen was dead Xue Yang could have left at any time and Xue Yang was so fixated on beating a dead man that in the end it was his downfall. Song Lan finally stabbing him through the chest with a sword was kind of revenge for everyone that Xue Yang had played with and for the audience as well because for so long Xue Yang had played with everyone’s emotions and it was kind of relieving to see him silenced finally.

What I like about his demise is that it’s not some grand heroic finale. It’s almost pitiful, despite being so satisfying. He’s still playing games even as he’s dying, attempting to get in the last word. In the end it’s just that same eerie laugh, candy slipping from his dying fingers. He never grew up, he destroyed a childhood, spat on kindness, and now he can’t even hold on to candy.

2026-04-01

Uma

Their deaths were brutal but fitting. Especially how Xue Yang treated Xiao Xingchen before he died. Song Lan suffered so much at the hands of Xue Yang and got to kill him. That scene was full of quiet fury and no words. Xue Yang fell to the ground while still clutching that piece of candy and it was so poignant because despite all of the evil actions of Xue Yang, beneath all of that, was a person who could have been different if he had been treated differently by life. And the narrative never excuses Xue Yang for his actions but his death was messy and unceremonious and left a hollow feeling in the viewer and that is what made it so powerful.

2026-04-02

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