History DeathGlare / VideoGames

* Ashley from [[VideoGame/WarioWare]] gives one to players that fail her microgames in Gold.

* Ashley from [[VideoGame/Warioware]] gives one to players that fail her microgames in Gold.

* Ashley in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare ]]'' does this whenever she's [[TranquilFury PISSED]].
*** In ''Get It Together!'', all of the present cast glares at Wario out of rage after it's revealed that [[spoiler:Wario's poor programming skills are what caused the Game Bugs they've spent the game defeating]].

* Ashley in [[VideoGame/WarioWare]] does this whenever she's [[TranquilFury PISSED]].

* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'': 47 delivers one [[PerpetualFrowner without even trying]]. In Mumbai, you can buy a piece of cloth from a merchant for a very large amount of coins. If you wait and don't buy it, he'll start to haggle down. After he gets it down to a reasonable price, he starts getting nervous at 47's piercing gaze and haggles for even lower. If you keep waiting, he gets more nervous and continues to haggle down for as much as a single coin. If you keep waiting after that deal, he'll be so scared shitless he'll just let you have it for free. And all you had to do was [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing just do nothing for several seconds]].

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' official artwork frequently depicts the title character with a glare or KubrickStare. In ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', though, he gives a truly menacing glare to Sigma when they meet for the final battle.

* Kazuma Kiryu of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series is a PerpetualFrowner by default, but he really gets into the Death Glares in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 6}}'', especially when staring down [[spoiler: Yuta, the man who got Kiryu's adopted daughter Haruka pregnant and then spent most of the game lying about it]] (see the image above).

* The Boss of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' throws a few of these at her former apprentice, most notably during their second encounter when [[WhatAnIdiot she manages to lull him into dropping his guard, despite the fact that she broke a couple of his bones and threw him off a bridge just a week or two before]].

* Gehn in ''VideoGames/{{Riven}}'' does this when he becomes annoyed or outraged by you. Make some specific choices in the game and he [[OhCrap stares you down]] and will promptly shoot you with his musket, leading to a [[MultipleEndings bad ending]]. Gehn is especially prone to a Death Glare if one were to keep wasting his time by pressing his call button without a good reason.

* Lampshaded in the [=PS2=] ''[[VideoGame/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' video game.

* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', Cloud ([[spoiler:[[DisguisedInDrag Disguised]] [[DraggedIntoDrag and Dragged Into Drag]]]]) gives one to Don Corneo right before [[spoiler:being dragged off to the Don's private room as his newest chosen bride]]; not that this terrifying glare does anything to stop the Don. Knowing how quickly Cloud resorts to violence, it's no surprise when he makes good on his silent threat a few minutes later.

** With the introduction of third person cutscenes,''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' makes it clear that the Doom Slayer has a truly epic DeathGlare, which appears to be his default expression on missions, judging from the terrified reactions of the UAC personnel on the Phobos base.

* Gehn in ''VideoGames/{{Riven}}'' does this when he becomes annoyed or outraged by you. Make some specific choices in the game and he [[OhCrap stares you down]] and will promptly shoot you with his musket, leading to a [[MultipleEndings bad ending]]. Gehn is especially prone to a DeathGlare if one were to keep wasting his time by pressing his call button without a good reason.

* The Boss of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' throws a few of these at her former apprentice, most notably during their second encounter when [[WhatAnIdiot she manages to lull him into dropping his guard, despite the fact that she broke a couple of his bones and threw him off a bridge just a week or two before]].
** She also throws one at the BigBad when he questions her loyalty to him. Despite the fact that he towers over her and power with electricity, it immediately causes him to back away and soften the accusation as just being caution.

* Lampshaded in the [=PS2=] ''[[VideoGame/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' video game.
-->'''Frank:''' Out of the way, Bullseye.\\
'''Bullseye:''' Or what? You'll ''scowl'' me to death?
* Charlotte Aulin from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' lets out a comical Death Glare everytime that someone presses her BerserkButton by calling her a [[JustAKid kid]].
* Several Franchise/{{Pokemon}} have the "Glare" move, which paralyzes the target.
** There's also "Mean Look", which prevents your opponent from escaping, "Leer", which lowers Defense, and "Scary Face", which sharply lowers Speed.
** The ability "Intimidate" could also be an allusion to this trope, seeing as it takes effect (lowers the opponent's Attack) when all the battling Pokémon have done is merely ''look'' at each other, occurring before a single command is even given. Gets a bit weird though when the OlympusMons are also intimidated. You could almost make a case for something like Jirachi being scared of Gyarados, but then how do Arceus and Palkia get scared? For that matter, how is Hitmontop even close to intimidating?
** Uxie likely has one of these, as its eyes always remain mysteriously closed. The reason for this is because if the eyes ''do'' open, anyone who meets them will have their memory wiped.
** Cyrus gives you, the player, a death glare during the opening credits of ''Platinum Version''.
** Professor Rowan's dialogue indicates these with a "...". He's so good at it that he can even stop [[HotBlooded Barry]] in his tracks.
** Cobalion, a [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Generation V]] [[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]], can command other Pokémon to do its will simply by glaring at them.
** Many mascot Pokémon from Generation 2 and beyond could be said to be exhibiting this trope based on their artwork.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon X and Y}}'', a lot of Pokemon will give you one of these in Pokemon Amie if you start petting them on a spot they're not fond of.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', Team Skull Admin Plumeria's battle intro has her giving one of these, which with her yellow eyes manages to be quite unsettling.
* Several characters have them in ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial''.
** Shiba Katsumi from ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide 2'' has one that he'll flash at the heroine if she bugs him too much before he warms up to her.
** Ryukochi Kai from ''Tokimeki Memorial 4'' flashes you one when you originally see her, but before you are officially introduced. She ''chases off some thugs'' who were gonna beat her up with one in her actual introduction scene. And if you happen to ignore her, to the point that she'll like bomb you, she will throw one at you if you meet her at the school gate after classes.
* Shinja from ''VideoGame/BattleRealms'', whose death glare is an activated ability that intimidates all nearby enemies into dealing less damage. A popular folk tale claims that his glare can even block oncoming magic (in-game, Shinja is near-immune to magic attacks).
* Niko Bellic in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' pulls of a terrifying one late game when Jimmy Pegorino threatens him.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'': During her MamaBear moment, Amy gives Silver a look that essentially says "take one step forward and I'll kill you right here and now." This becomes an awesome moment when you realize that she, a mere BadassNormal, made a powerful psychokinetic back off with that look.
* The floating eye enemies named Mogalls in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' try to kill your units by looking at them, but they often miss.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Tali'Zorah is a Quarian, whose race was almost annihilated when they accidentially created a race of sentient robots, with the few survivors having been forced to live in space on ancient dreadnoughts for several hundred years. When she is recruited to the Normandy [=SR2=], she makes it very clear that she think it's a crazy idea to work with the human-supremacist group Cerberus and they can't be trusted a single bit, despite Jacob's best attempts to assure her that this group didn't have anything to do with the crimes and devastating experiments other chapters have commited. When she is about to leave the room, Jacob tells her to introduce herself to the ship's sentient AI, causing her to freeze in her tracks. She doesn't say anything and just stares back over her shoulder for a few very long seconds; if looks could kill, Jacob would have been vaporized along with the entire aft bulkhead.[[note]]As mentioned above, Quarians are infamous for the fact that they were exiled from their home planet after losing millions to a race of sentient AI; To Tali, Jacob's suggestion was the equivalent of suggesting someone of Jewish lineage go strike up a conversation with a member of the Aryan Brotherhood.[[/note]] The fact that she manages to do this through a near completely opaque/reflective helmet makes it all the more frightening.
*** Shepard's no slouch at delivering such glares him/herself, and at one point is even able to outstare a freaking Krogan in Afterlife, leading to one of the funniest scenes of the game.
--->'''Krogan''': I was just trying to have a drink here! No need to get all excited!
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Wrex [[http://orig02.deviantart.net/b84a/f/2012/082/9/8/urdnot_wrex_by_gelvuun-d4tnn27.jpg delivers one of these]] to the Salarian Dalatrass after she insults the Krogan one too many times.
*** Wrex gets one, himself, from a salarian STG soldier when he tells a biting joke after mentioning that the STG is always listening in on him.
--->'''Wrex''': I like my salarian livers served raw. Hehe...\\
'''Salarian STG soldier''': (silently shoots Wrex an ugly look)
*** [[spoiler:Protheans]] are also capable of giving one hell of a KubrickStare with their four eyes and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ''VideoGame/MarioIsMissing'': After the internet got to him, Weegee began to do this frequently.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' example: Most of Organization XIII practices this frequently. A few (most notably Xemnas, Zexion and Saïx) have this as their default expression.
* The portrait for Jaheira from ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' could be interpreted as giving a Death Glare; at any rate, knowing her character, it's easy to imagine her dealing them out to everyone. ([[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Jaheira The second portrait on this page, if you're wondering.]])
* This is Bass' default look towards us in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Rockman.EXE 4.5]]'' (and the series in general, actually). [[RedEyesTakeWarning Glowing Red]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Eyes of Doom]] included!
* After beating the final boss in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'', it gets up for more. After a short cutscene, the hero goes OneWingedAngel... stands there for a few seconds... and then glances over his shoulder at the boss. Cue unloseable boss fight.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'':
*** Link pulls off an epic one whenever [[spoiler:Demise]] is on-screen. [[spoiler:Demise is actually intrigued by this: Link is the first human he's ever seen who looks at him with anger and hatred, rather than fear and terror.]]
*** He outdoes even this when Giraham talks about sacrificing Zelda.
*** [[GoodIsNotNice Impa]] shoots one to Link before giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for not showing up to save Zelda fast enough. With her [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], her death glare manages to be pretty effective.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', [[spoiler:Hilda]] flashes this at Link [[spoiler:when she reveals she plans to steal Link's Triforce of Courage to save her kingdom. A severe OutOfCharacterMoment for an AntiVillain.]]

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' - At the end of Act II, Meredith throws one at Hawke when she realizes Hawke has just saved every noble in the city and she now has no choice but to name them Champion. It says a lot about [[ControlFreak how willingly she shares power]], especially if Hawke is a mage.
*** At the end of Act III, should Hawke have sided with the mages, s/he gives the Templars surrounding them a withering Death Glare, causing them to ''immediately'' back off and let Hawke and their companions go free. Again, if you're playing as a Mage this carries an additional subtext. After mopping the floor with [[spoiler: Knight-Commander Meredith]], the Templars clearly know better than to test Hawke's ''[[DoNotTauntCthulhu patience]]''.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', Cullen delivers an ''absolutely epic'' one to an unfortunate scout who interrupts his and the Inquisitor's first kiss.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' games from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' onward, whenever a Persona-user is about to get a critical hit or strike at an elemental weakness of their enemies, it activates a SuperMovePortraitAttack focusing on the Persona-user's eyes striking an angry expression. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' takes it even further, with the character's 3d model sporting a spooky FaceFramedInShadow along with the standard angry eye cut in (and the portraits themselves often supporting sinister {{Slasher Smile}}s as opposed to the more determined looks from ''3'' and ''4''.)
** In ''VideoGame/Persona2'', one of Tatsuya's negotiation options is actually called "Death Stare".
* Katherine of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' is ''nerve-wrackingly'' good at this.
-->'''Katherine:''' If you're going to make excuses, [[SchmuckBait you could at least look me in the eye]].\\
''[ScareChord]''

* In ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', some of the characters do this whenever they pass another racer. Luigi's strangely sinister stare even became [[Memes/SuperMarioBros a meme]]!

* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series has Athena. While she does look very friendly and almost cute when she actually cracks a smile, the rest of the time she has a truly terrifying glare that would probably be enough to kill every one she looks at if it could.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', [[spoiler:the final fight with [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] begins with a one-eyed glare so thorough, his pupil briefly transforms into {{an axe|ToGrind}} and a teacup and ''plays out'' [[OffWithHisHead what he will do to the sibling protagonists Cuphead and Mugman]]. It seems to work; this intro is the only one in the game where the boys [[OhCrap react by screaming in terror]] instead of getting hyped up for battle.]]
* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Ashe's angry portrait has this effect, due to the lack of definition on his pupils and a heavier use of shadows compared to other characters. Gilbert, pre-timeskip Hubert, and post-timeskip Sylvain also have this as their angry portrait. The most notable example, though, is the one [[spoiler:Rhea]] gives should [[spoiler:Byleth side with Edelgard on the Black Eagles route]], which borders on being a NightmareFace.
* Kazuma Kiryu of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series is a PerpetualFrowner by default, but he really gets into the Death Glares in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 6}}'', especially when staring down [[spoiler: Yuta, the man who got Kiryu's adopted daughter Haruka pregnant and then spent most of the game lying about it]] (see the image above).

* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Ashe's angry portrait has this effect, due to the lack of definition on his pupils and a heavier use of shadows compared to other characters. Gilbert, pre-timeskip Hubert, and post-timeskip Sylvain also have this as their angry portrait. The most notable example, though, is the one [[spoiler:Rhea]] gives should [[spoiler:Byleth side with Edelgard on the Black Eagles route]], which borders on being a NightmareFace.

[[caption-width-right:350:Trust me. You don't want to make Kiryu mad.]]

-->'''Katherine:''' [[YourCheatingHeart If you're going to make excuses]], [[SchmuckBait you could at least look me in the eye]].\\

* In ''VideoGame/Persona2'', one of Tatsuya's negotiation options is actually called "Death Stare".

* In the ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' games from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' onward, whenever a Persona-user is about to get a critical hit or strike at an elemental weakness of their enemies, it activates a SuperMovePortraitAttack focusing on the Persona-user's eyes striking an angry expression. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' takes it even further, with the character's 3d model sporting a spooky FaceFramedInShadow along with the standard angry eye cut in (and the portraits themselves often supporting sinister {{Slasher Smile}}s as opposed to the more determined looks from ''3'' and ''4''.)

* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Ashe's angry portrait has this effect, due to the lack of definition on his pupils and a heavier use of shadows compared to other characters. Gilbert, pre-timeskip Hubert, and post-timeskip Sylvain also have this as their angry portrait.

* ''Videogame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': Ashe's angry portrait has this effect, due to the lack of definition on his pupils and a heavier use of shadows compared to other characters. Gilbert, pre-timeskip Hubert, and post-timeskip Sylvain also have this as their angry portrait.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Tohsaka Rin of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Do NOT, just do NOT get her angry. Be prepared to be killed, er, I mean, amazed.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Tohno Shiki is usually quite gentle, doesn't particularly enjoy fighting and absolutely despises killing. However, if something truly angers him, TheGlassesComeOff, and his glare has more often than not completely terrified his foes. Of course, his {{Magical Eye}}s help. In the ''Melty Blood'' manga, the majority of his expressions can be summed up into three categories: Exasperation, shock and [[http://www.onemanga.com/Melty_Blood/12/23/ tranquil]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/Melty_Blood/11/21/ fury]]. It should be noted that he hasn't gone Nanaya at all since the first game, so his terrifying glare is limited mostly to his [[BewareTheNiceOnes normal persona]].
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Damon Gant's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTgOhzVddw Epic Stare of Death]] is the embodiment of this trope. There was a flash parody which took Gant's sprite from the game, and used the audio from the above-mentioned Death Glare scene from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}.''
** Miles Edgeworth from the same games is legendary for this, and very proud, too.
*** At one point, when he [[spoiler:breaks one of his first Psyche-Locks,]] he is wondering whether it was the power of his glare that broke it. Also he is capable of ''glaring back'' at the detention center ''camera''.
---->'''Edgeworth:''' "If someone glares at you, it's only polite to return the favor," is what I was taught.
*** In case I-4, he accidentally glares at his reflection. [[MindScrew He wins]].
** Morgan Fey throws off some particularly vicious glares when provoked, as does Dahlia Hawthorne. [[spoiler:Like mother, like daughter.]]
** In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', when [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] is upset, he gains ScaryShinyGlasses. When you perceive him in the fourth case, you get to see through them. What you see is incredibly unnerving...
** In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', Tyrell Badd gives one that makes ''[[WhipItGood Franziska]]'' back off. 'Nuff said.
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Dhurke, like Edgeworth, is famous for these. They got the nickname of "Dragon's Glare". [[spoiler: Since he was an attorney before his time as a rebel, it seems to be his version of the "Objection!" pose]].
* Jett in ''VisualNovel/{{SC2VN}}'' will do this to you if you ask stare at her for too long, ask embarrassing questions, or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers play bad Starcraft]].
* Miyako from the ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai!'' series may have '''''the''''' most [[http://i.imgur.com/vQyLTzj.png terrifying glare]] in all of fiction.
* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoKajitsu'': Protagonist Yuuji tends to show off these involuntary when his thoughts revolve around darker subject matters, or when the situation gets serious. We only get to see it on Makina's route when [[spoiler:he gets fed up with Irisu Kiyoka's scheming and holds her at gunpoint, deliberating whether to kill her]].