History DeathSeeker / VideoGames

** Ben -- being not only [[spoiler:the [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom indirect cause]] of [[spoiler: Duck being bitten, which led to Katja [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself]] but also being the only surviving member of your family will do that to you. He gets his wish, either in Crawford in Episode 4 or in an alleyway in Episode 5]].

** [[spoiler:Snake]] was one towards the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', but he gets over it.

--->[[spoiler:"This world would be better off without Snakes."]]

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is another embodiment of this Trope. After his wife and kid were killed several years ago, he no longer cares that much about living but just doesn't have the stones to eat his own gun barrel, so he spends his nights shoving a hail of bullets as far down the throat of the criminal underworld as any human being can be expected to manage with that amount of alcohol and painkillers coursing through his system. In the third installment of the series, it gets to the stage where he seems downright disappointed when he survives several high-impact falls onto concrete, landing on his back, any of which would have killed or paralysed a lesser man, proving once again that it's NotTheFallThatKillsYou.

* In ''VideoGame/NoOneHasToDie'', Troy will constantly taunt the Visitor into letting him die whenever there's a choice to save either him or someone else. If you ignore his pleas every time, however, you'll find out that [[spoiler: he's lived through that scenario many times, as he was never able to actually walk out of building after being spared.]] Thus, he wants to die so that someone else who still enjoys life might survive instead. His demeanor changes when you manage to reach the Final Ending, however.

** Also prevalent in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. Most notable is the Old Orc, an Orc who is too old to become chief or take a wife but is still strong enough to fight. He would rather die a glorious death than become too old to hold his own in battle. Nords in general also fit this, as they believe that [[WarriorHeaven Sovngarde]] (an homage to the real-life Valhalla of Viking lore) awaits all Nord warriors who die in battle, or at the hands of an enemy in general; being executed by a weapon counts, which appears to be why the preferred form of execution is beheading by axe. In the ''Dragonborn '' [=DLC=], the [[BonusBoss Ebony Warrior]] will visit the player character if they is at least level ''80'' (a hint that he's not going to be a pushover) and asks you to meet him at Last Vigil. He feels like he has seen and done it all and now he only wants to die fighting so he can go to Sovngarde. Sending him there is easier said than done, thanks to his enchanted ebony equipment, high stats, and his Unrelenting Force Shout.

** While not elaborated on ''as'' much in the main game, ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna ~ The Golden Country]]'' shows that [[BigBad Malos]] also fits this description. Being the second Aegis besides Mythra, him being awakened and resonated by [[SinisterMinister Amalthus]] causes him to adopt a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic worldview]], believing it's his duty as the Aegis to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] on Alrest before [[MurderSuicide taking his own life]]. In his conquest to cause as much destruction on Titans as possible, successfully causing the destruction of Coeia [[spoiler:and Torna]], he also gives his enemies a fair shot by waiting for them to arrive and hopes for them to put up a good fight, because deep down, he's actually hopeful that someone will [[MercyKill kill him]]. While during the prequel he hadn't ''quite'' realized just how much Amalthus' misanthropy was influencing him and he actually took genuine enjoyment out of the destruction, nearly being killed by Mythra by the end, meeting and eventually befriending [[spoiler:Jin in the aftermath of Torna's destruction and the death of his Driver Lora and seeing all the suffering he endured]], and spending 500 years wandering the world observing humanity, Blades, and his own thoughts eventually causes him to develop an intense sense of self-loathing on top of his destructive mindset. [[spoiler:He gets his wish in the main campaign, as after the Architect also refuses to kill him, he puts up one last hurrah fighting Rex and co. from inside Artifice Aion with Rex successfully managing to put him down, which Malos shows nothing but joy over. By the end, the greatest regret Malos had before he perished was the suffering he put his best friend Jin through.]]

** While not elaborated on ''as'' much in the main game, ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna ~ The Golden Country]]'' shows that [[BigBad Malos]] also fits this description. Being the second Aegis besides Mythra, him being awakened and resonated by [[SinisterMinister Amalthus]] causes him to adopt a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic worldview]], believing it's his duty as the Aegis to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] on Alrest before [[MurderSuicide taking his own life]]. In his conquest to cause as much destruction on Titans as possible, successfully causing the destruction of Coeia [[spoiler:and Torna]], he also gives his enemies a fair shot by waiting for them to arrive and hopes for them to put up a good fight, because deep down, he's actually hopeful that someone will [[MercyKill kill him]]. [[spoiler:He gets his wish in the main campaign, as after the Architect also refuses to kill him, he puts up one last hurrah fighting Rex and co. from inside Artifice Aion, with Rex successfully managing to put him down, which Malos shows nothing but joy over.]]

*** [[DarkSkinnedBlond Zevran Aranai]] attacks the PC (despite his extensive training as an assassin and impressive stealth skills) because he hopes to get himself killed.

* ''Franchise/{{Disagea}}'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'':

* The TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', [[spoiler:Ballos]]. He's suffering from a seriously nasty case of PowerIncontinence that destroys entire civilizations.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' mod ''Fall from Heaven II'' has a suicidal Lilith CaptainErsatz named Os-Gabella. Since she's immortal, she's founded an apocalyptic death cult in hopes that destroying the entire world will take her out, too.
* An in-game mechanic in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is that characters with certain afflictions will SelfHarm out of masochism or [[DespairEventHorizon to ensure to die faster]] while goading the monsters into attacking them. For a more straight example, the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Abomination]] and the [[WarriorPoet Leper]] are two of the most willing to face [[spoiler:the Heart of Darkness' OneHitKill]] if chosen for this reason. The Flagellant, meanwhile, will outright beg you to let him die to the final boss.
* [[spoiler:The titular ''Exiled Prince'']] in the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' is eventually revealed to be this. He's immortal and has grown weary of the world, and wants nothing more than to die, so he's researched a potion that will allow him to do just that. Unfortunately, he's also struck with a case of ICannotSelfTerminate, which means you have to do it for him.
* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding:''

* Mirad, and most likely by extension all of the other Derelicts from ''VideoGame/TheDesolateHope'', want to be put into Sleep Mode. Mirad explains that they would only be able to power down if their mission read as a success, which isn't likely since they've been cut off from humanity for about 30 years. [[spoiler:They get their wish at the end of the game, where Coffee uses a program made by Mirad to make it seem like the mission was a success.]]
* In ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'', the FallenHero Dredgen Yor is implied to have been one in his final days. Having fallen to the corrupting curses of the Hive and influenced by the [[BattleTrophy bones of the Hive he'd grafted to his]] HandCannon Rose, Yor had gone from a noble man to a horrifying monster who reveled in murder and death and only did heroic deeds [[HopeCrusher so he could come back and delight in the screams of betrayal and terror when he killed those he'd saved]]. His [[RobotBuddy Ghost]] had tried to save Yor from himself, and Yor eventually [[MoralityPet sent him away so the Ghost couldn't try to sway him from his dark path]]. When he finally encountered Shin Malphur, the adopted son of one of the Guardians he'd killed, the pair had a ShowdownAtHighNoon, where Yor explained to Malphur that this was what he'd always hoped would happen, and this was the end. Malphur shoots Yor dead and then notes that the legendary Guardian had never even reached for his weapon.
* The masked man and woman (AKA [[spoiler: Shura and Serion, Adell's blood parents]]) in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}''. Being almost entirely incapable of controlling their actions yet entirely aware of the atrocities Zenon forces them to commit, the two henchmen literally ''beg'' Adell to kill them -- all while they do their very best to do the same to ''him''.
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3'' has [[spoiler: the BigBad of the main story, [[FallenHero Super Hero Aurum]].]] 200 years prior to the story's events, he came to Evil Academy to find the strongest Overlord, Mao's father. However, the Overlord refused to use his strongest attack out of fear of hitting his son. [[spoiler: Aurum was left unfulfilled by this, but when Mao flew into a rage, it gave him the idea of turning Mao into the Strongest Overlord, [[XanatosGambit to either finally kill him or give him the window to make an amazing comeback.]] Unfortunately, it all ends up in failure for Aurum depending on the ending obtained.]]
* A bunch of examples in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series:

* Ivan Zilvanovitch, a side character from the video game ''VideoGame/HitmanCodename47'', he began his criminal career as a poor pickpocket on the streets of Moscow; however, his love for cards and drugs left him in utter ruin, with no way out except suicide, however his jump off a bridge was mistimed and, instead of splattering his brains all over the road, Ivan crash-landed through the roof of a railway wagon, into a heap of props belonging to a traveling circus.

Amazed by the startling irony and seeing it as proof that he was immortal

** In ''Path of Radiance'' both Haar and Tauroneo, thoroughly disappointed by the turns their lives have taken, are like this before the cast recruit them. And then there's [[TheBrute General Bertram]], one of Daien's Four Riders. Drugged up on PsychoSerum and barely coherent, Bertram spends most of [[SnakeTalk rasping]] about how the other players are going to "Perisssshhh," and "Me...kill..." Right up until Ike faces him, that is, when his refrain becomes "Kill...me....KILL...M-ME..." Ike does his best to oblige. [[spoiler: Bertram (or better said, Elincia's BrainwashedAndCrazy uncle Renning) not only survives but his disciple Bastian locks him away while searching for a cure; after the death of the PsychoSerum's creator, the Herons's Galdr of Rebirth reverts Bertram to his original self.]]
** Harken from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Blazing Sword]]'' is a BrokenAce who became this after [[spoiler: seeing his liege lord and his comrades get killed by the Black Fang]]. He throws himself at the party in order to get killed, though some characters can talk him out of it and he can eventually get better.
** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia New Mystery of the Emblem]]'', [[spoiler:Wolf]] never gets over the death of his lord, [[spoiler:Hardin]], and "as if searching for death, he threw himself recklessly into battle, one after the next".

* In ''Videogame/HorizonZeroDawn'', [[spoiler:Rost]] was literally named a "Death-Seeker" by the Nora tribe, as it was the only way he would be allowed to leave the Sacred Land to pursue those who murdered his wife and child. By Nora religious laws, anyone who leaves the Sacred Lands without being properly blessed would have their soul forever tainted. By being named a Death-Seeker, [[spoiler:Rost]]'s soul would remain in the Sacred Lands while his body could leave to chase down the killers, but he was expected to die in the process and he couldn't physically return home. [[spoiler:Rost ended up surviving and being rescued by a Nora woman on the edge of the Sacred Lands, and after recovering, the Matriarchs compromised by allowing him to remain in Nora lands but as an outcast for the rest of his life.]]

* The ''Souls'' series by Creator/FromSoftware seems to have its fair share of them. Given that they live in [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Worlds]] where death can be ''very'' hard to come by if you get dealt a bad hand in life, it makes sense. To wit;

** Subverted in the case of [[spoiler:Rose]]. She's very likely to die since her journey involves [[spoiler:fighting Bison, the man that she's the "good half" of]] and she seems to acknowledge it, but [[spoiler:Guy]] realizes this and attempts to stop her instead since he both thinks that she shouldn't just throw her life away ''and'' believes that deep down, she doesn't wish for death. [[spoiler: He's actually right, but it's not until Super VideoGame/StreetFighterIV that Rose manages to pull through and really live on.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':

** While not elaborated on ''as'' much in the main game, ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna ~ The Golden Country]]'' shows that [[BigBad Malos]] also fits this description. Being the second Aegis besides Mythra, him being awakened and resonated by [[SinisterMinister Amalthus]] causes him to adopt a [[StrawNihilist nihilistic worldview]], believing it's his duty as the Aegis to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all life]] on Alrest before [[MurderSuicide taking his own life]]. In his conquest to cause as much destruction on Titans as possible, successfully causing the destruction of Coeia [[spoiler:and Torna]], he also gives his enemies a fair shot by waiting for them to arrive and hopes for them to put up a good fight, because deep down, he's actually hopeful that someone will [[MercyKill kill him]]. [[spoiler:He gets his wish in the main campaign, as after the Architect also refuses to kill him, he puts up one last hurrah fighting Rex and co. from inside Artifice Aion, with Rex successfully manages to put him down, which Malos shows nothing but joy over.]]

** A rare dark humor-based example of this trope (crashing right into SuicideAsComedy) is Face [=McShooty=]. He is a Psycho in Thousand Cuts who runs around screaming at people and begging to be shot in the face, doing nothing else in terms of aggression or even provocation. His only calling in life is to get a bullet in the face. There's no given reason why he doesn't simply acquire any of the numerous discarded VendorTrash guns laying around and do it himself, but he simply asks that one of the Vault Hunters give him what he wants. He actually thanks you after you shoot him in the face, and somehow gives you money before he perishes. Definitely one of the game's weirder side quests.

* The BonusBoss from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', [[spoiler:Ballos]]. He's suffering from a seriously nasty case of PowerIncontinence that destroys entire civilizations.

* Craig Boone from ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. After [[spoiler:mercy killing his pregnant wife to spare her and the child the horrors of being enslaved by the Legion]], his only wish is to hunt down as many Legionaries as possible and die in the process. [[spoiler:This ends up to be one of the possible endings for him, would you choose to let the Legion take over Hoover Dam.]]

* Gen in ''VideoGame/StreetFighter Alpha'' suffers from an incurable disease and is looking for a worthy opponent to die against. In ''Alpha 3'' he eventually finds Akuma. They fight, but Akuma bails because fighting a sick man is against his code of honor. Gen shows up alive in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', [[spoiler: but Akuma's Story Mode in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' states that they fought again and this time Gen got his death wish fulfilled, using his last words to [[FaceDeathWithDignity verbally spit on Akuma's face]].]]

* [[spoiler: Jack Marston]] in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', after becoming the playable character while in gunfights he may say something along the lines of “I got nothing to live for!” the three hard years after his father, [[spoiler: John Marston]] died were not kind to him. Additionally, losing [[spoiler: Uncle and his mother, Abigail]] contributed heavily to his death seeking tendencies.

** Ben, being [[spoiler:the [[NiceJobBreakingItHero direct cause]] of several deaths in the group and being the only surviving member of your family and original group will make you like that. He gets his wish, either in Crawford in Episode 4 or in an alleyway in Episode 5]].

** Nick shows some hints in Season 2. [[spoiler: At one point Clementine has the option to tell Luke that "he wanted to die" when he asks you what happened when the two of you were hiding from walkers in a shed at the beginning of Episode 2]].
** [[spoiler:Kenny]] starts to show signs of this after [[spoiler:Sarita dies]].

** Defied with Clementine. When asked what would have happened to Clem had she not learned that AJ was alive in Season 3, Kent Mudle stated that being consumed by anger and having lost her reason for living, she would have wound up picking a fight she couldn't win and getting herself killed.

** It is implied throughout the entire third game that the times have worn Shepard down to becoming this. With so many deaths and so many more lives resting on their shoulders, they seem to be running solely on the fact that no one else can do their job. By the end of the game, Shepard appears to accept, even welcome their death, their last words literally being, "[[FamousLastWords Let's get this over with.]]" In the Destroy ending, in the face of an exploding device that may well kill him/her, rather than stand a safe distance away while shooting it, Shepard calmly advances closer, firing away until the flames engulf them, and a line in the Control Ending spoken by the intelligence formed from the sacrificed Shepard seems to drive the point home.

* Gen in ''VideoGame/StreetFighter Alpha'' suffers from an incurable disease and is looking for a worthy opponent to die against. In ''Alpha 3'' he eventually finds Akuma. They fight, but Akuma bails because fighting a sick man is against his code of honor. Gen shows up alive in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', [[spoiler: but Akuma's Story Mode in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' states that they fought again and this time Gen got his death wish fulfilled, using his FamousLastWords to [[FaceDeathWithDignity verbally spit on Akuma's face]].]]

** For the Dustmen, the first joinable faction encountered, seeking death isn't enough. They're aware of the limitless potential afterlives because their city exists in the middle of all of them. A FinalDeath without afterlife requires the complete annihilation of the soul. Their approach is more somber than combative because they know the destruction of the body alone isn't going to do the job.

** Nick in Season 2. [[spoiler:Clementine can even acknowledge this, having the option to tell Luke "He wanted to die" when he asks you what happened when the two of you were hiding from walkers in a shed at the beginning of Episode 2]].