Outer Banks fans are outraged after Season 4 ends with the death of a major character

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the fourth season finale of Outer Banks.

Only the good die young, and JJ Maybank was definitely one of the good ones.

Outer Banks Fans are mourning – and outraged – after Part 2 of Season 4 premiered on November 7 and ended with a first of its kind: JJ (Rudy Pankow), the original Pogue, has died.

JJ and Kiara (Madison Bailey) had the treasure they had been hunting, the Blue Crown, and were running through the sandy streets of Morocco when JJ's biological father, Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane), came out with nowhere to go, grabbed Kiara and threatened her with a knife to her neck.

JJ gave Groff the crown in exchange for Kiara's life, but Groff brutally stabbed him anyway.

After the fatal stabbing, Groff – who was revealed to be his biological father in the dramatic midseason finale – ran away, leaving JJ to breathe his last in Kiara's arms.

As she cried and he struggled to hold on, he told her that his wish – which the Blue Crown supposedly could grant – had already come true. “I have already fulfilled my wish. Everything I wanted.”

“Take care of the others,” JJ told Kiara before he took his last breath. “I love you, Kie.”

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“Everyone you know is going to die. Your father, your mother and even your best friend,” John B (Chase Stokes) said as a montage of JJ's moments with John B and the rest of the Pogues over the past four seasons played.

“I like to think that it’s not so much how many years you get, but what you do with it. And JJ packed it in. A lifetime in these 20 years,” John B said as the emotional montage continued.

“Adventure, romance. A few hard things, that was part of it. Victim. And friendship,” John B added. “If JJ was the king of anything, he was the king of friendship. He held us all together. He was the best friend we ever had.”

The Pogues appeared to bury JJ in the Moroccan desert, and as the season four finale came to an end, Groff escaped with the coveted Blue Crown, leaving the Pogues sitting destitute by the fire in their grief before Rafe (Drew Starkey) angered them.

“Groff said he was going to Lisbon. I don't know, if it was my friend I would probably go after the guy that just killed him,” Rafe said.

Pope (Jonathan Daviss) told him to shut up. But Kiara, in the fury of her grief, agreed.

“He’s not wrong,” she said. “Do you think JJ would be sitting here if it was one of us? Do you think he wouldn't do anything?

“We all know what JJ would do,” John B agreed. “He would get revenge.”

The episode ended with a dramatic shot of Kiara, her flickering fire reflected on her face as she declared that the Pogues were out for “revenge.”

Fans weren't shy about opposing the writers' decision to kill off JJ. One fan wrote in a post on better than this.”

“John B and Sarah may be the main characters of the show… but JJ was the reason people watched it and kept OBX going and now that's ruined,” another fan wrote.

Outer Banks Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.