Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Today we’ll be talking about death in video games.
Now of course, dying in video games is super common.
Mario dies all the time, then comes back.
So this video will focus on characters who have actually died within the lore of the
game, rather than dying because I apparently don’t know how to time a jump properly.
Which means, this video will have spoilers.
But if you haven’t played The Walking Dead or The Last of Us by now… you don’t care
enough anyway.
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But before you do that, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Video Game Characters
who have Died!
Number 10: Maria Santiago from Gears of War.
It was hard to decide between Maria and Dom, but Maria’s death was just so heartbreaking
and graphic that she won out.
Gears of War 2 saw Dom looking for his wife, and when he found her… it wasn’t pretty.
She had been tortured almost into a comatose state, and he ended up having to put her out
of her misery.
Which, ironically, made the player pretty frickin miserable.
Number 9: M. Bison from Street Fighter.
M. Bison, whose name came from not wanting to piss off Mike Tyson, true story, is a main
baddie in the Street Fighter games.
And the dude dies.
A lot.
He has a habit of having his body destroyed and getting a new one built, something that’s
awfully useful when you love taking over the world through deadly fighting championships.
And if you’re wondering what the M stands for… so am I. One minute it’s Master,
the next it’s Mighty, just don’t ask.
It’s M. His name is M. Until further notice.
Number 8: Cubone’s mother from Pokemon.
This might seem inconsequential, but it was actually a super important death, one of the
most important in all the Pokemon games.
In case you don’t know, you came across a ghost Marowak, who had died.
This was the first death in Pokemon most kids were aware of when playing the game, and it
really gave a sense of realness to it.
Pokemon can’t just faint, they can die, something that was made even clearer with
the tear-jerking introduction of Charmander in the show.
Number 7: Goku from the Dragon Ball Games.
One of the first memes I ever remember seeing was a religious-looking thing saying “Because
he died for us and resurrected to save us...
WE LOVE YOU GOKU.”
Does anyone else remember that?
I love it.
Anyway, Dragonball fans will, of course, know that Goku died during the series, and since
he died in the show’s lore, then I think it counts in the games.
Especially since he’s died not once, but like… several times.
It’s hard to say definitively because there’s wibbly wobbly future saga time travel stuff,
but it’s a lot.
Number 6: The Joker from Batman: Arkham City.
Arkham City saw a sickly Joker fighting for one last heist, but in the end, the Titan
disease got him.
And even though he’s a psychopathic maniac who’s killed countless innocent people…
I was really sad!
He had this emotional talk with his greatest foe, before finally letting himself go, and
is later carried out by a grim Batman.
I got real Killing joke vibes from it, and it was pretty great.
Number 5: Eli Vance from Half-Life.
Eli died right at the end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and it was just the worst.
He’d been around for so long, and we’d gotten to know him so well, then suddenly,
boom, two Advisors come in, one grabs him, and sclerch!
He was gone.
And the worst part?
Since frickin half-life 3 is apparently never frickin coming we never get to have our frickin
revenge and it’s frickin annoying.
Number 4: John Marston from Red Dead Redemption.
Yep, Red Dead Redemption was an amazing game where you played as the outlaw-turned family
man John Marston.
The game did a great job of getting you attached to the character, and the final scene when
he walks out to meet his fate is amazing.
I hate that he had to die, but I love how he died.
Perfect conclusion to the story.
And in case anyone’s annoyed that I spoiled any of these deaths, I actually hadn’t finished
Red Dead Redemption so I just spoiled this point for myself.
Dammit Ron.
Number 3: Sarah from The Last of Us.
This was one of the first ones I thought of.
I haven’t actually played The Last of Us, sorry, I didn’t have a modern playstation
at the time.
However, I DID watch Day9 play it, and there was not a dry eye in the place when Sarah
died.
It was such a great way to introduce the story, and it set the stage beautifully for the rest
of the game, but damn.
That’s the kind of thing we’re normally told about after the fact, and it was pretty
rough.
There were two other big deaths from this game that I wanted to talk about, but I’ll
leave them out to avoid any more spoilers.
Number 2: Aerith from Final Fantasy 7.
Yep, this was a big one.
So big, in fact, that there’s apparently an entire website named after it.
The Death of Aerith was a huge shock, and one of if not the most infamous deaths in
the entire Final Fantasy series.
Aerith was killed by Sephiroth right at the end of the first part of the game, which set
Cloud on his path, but it was such a big deal that some people bought a gameshark just so
they could play without Aerith dying.
Fun fact: In the American version, the name was changed to Aeris, but it’s supposed
to be Aerith.
And protip: Don’t google Aeris dies.
Just don’t.
It’s a trap.
Number 1: Lee from The Walking Dead.
Oh man.
This one was rough.
Lee was the main protagonist throughout the game.
We lived through him, making choices, taking risks, and in my case, making a whole lot
of mistakes.
But when my one-armed Lee was dying on the ground, even though most of us saw it coming,
I just didn’t want to believe it.
Personally, I didn’t make Clem kill him, I couldn’t do that to her.
But it was still horribly sad.
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