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2	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
3	** In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Sonic's temporary death at the hands of the villain came without warning or any form of foreshadowing. Despite being the title character, his death was unceremonious and abrupt.
4	** In ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', the main villains are the Deadly Six, six entirely new characters each with their own unique personality, and [[KnightOfCerebus among the darker Sonic villains]], while bringing a sense of humor at the same time. How do they go out? Three of them, Zazz, Zomom, and Master Zik, are fought in a row at Zone 1 of Lava Mountain, and only take two hits before they are (presumably) destroyed as if they were common enemies. Zeena puts up more of a fight but goes a similar way, while Zor falls into the lava when Sonic hits a switch. Zavok on the other hand has more of a climactic battle with his giant form and [[DisneyVillainDeath fall down a shaft into lava]] (which is fitting since he's the main villain, although he is HijackedByGanon after his doom). Unlike Metal Sonic in the [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations previous game]], their deaths happen during gameplay rather than in cutscenes. However, their deaths are up to debate given that Eggman mentions recruiting them again in the ending.
5	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
6	** After the two creators of the series split up, the remaining one said that all of the non-human characters all died due to a gigantic explosion following ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', apparently sharing Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's overzealous frothing hatred for cute kids and robots. This was mostly a joke, as non-human characters like Marcus returned in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. However, Goris died TheLastOfHisKind while [[RobotDog K-9 and Robodog]] were disassembled by the NCR for research.
7	** Chris Avellone and the Black Isle dropped a bridge on the [[NuclearMutant Wanamingos]] in the Fallout Bible, having described their sterility, genetic clock and an onslaught of a [[TheChosenOne travelling tribal]]. Unlike the others, [[DemonicSpiders they won't be missed however]].
8	** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', Liberty Prime (the DeusExMachina of the main game) is hit by a KillSat from orbit during the first quest of the ''Broken Steel'' add-on. However, the Sole Survivor can choose to rebuild him/it two games later in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', if they side with the Brotherhood of Steel.
9	** According to ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', Owyn and Sarah Lyons died between ''3'' and ''4''. The former died of old age (paving the way for Arthur Maxson to take over), and the latter died in battle.
10	* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'':
11	** The game revolves around the PlayerCharacter's efforts to [[OrderReborn restore]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential or destroy]] the Jedi Council by [[RetiredBadassRoundup seeking out the previous Masters]] it consisted of. While you meet all the others alive and well, you find that Jedi Master Lonna Vash was murdered by the Sith on Korriban right as you arrived and your apprentice [[DeadpanSnarker Atton]] comments that [[ShaggyDogStory the entire trip was a waste of time]]. With the [[GameMod Restored Content Mod]] you can meet her alive and well on the DummiedOut planet M4-78 [[spoiler:only for her to be electrocuted by the AIIsACrapshoot supercomputer on her way out]].
12	** Party member Bao-Dur is KilledOffscreen helping HK-47 reach the Factory in the final act of the game and undergoes ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.
13	* When Eric Chahi created ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'', he had no intention of making a sequel, preferring to let the ambiguous ending (Buddy loading Lester's broken body onto a dragon and flying him to safety) stand alone. [[ExecutiveMeddling Interplay wasn't about to have any of that.]] So when ''Heart of the Alien'' was made, it became clear there was no feasible way of sending Lester back to his home world. Thus, Lester [[HeroicSacrifice dies saving Buddy]] and the game ends with his cremation.
14	* This trope is played for laughs somewhat in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'s'' fifth ending, in which Caim and Angelus, having defeated the Mother Angel/Queen-Beast after following it through a rift in the space time continuum, are shot down by Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets. It's unbelievably anticlimactic to the point where after everything that has preceded it, you have to laugh.
15	* Aldo Trapani, the protagonist of the EA adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'', gets abruptly sniped dead in the opening level of the second game to allow for new player character Dominic to take his place.
16	* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', the Zerg cerebrates were stated to have died out in between ''Brood Wars'' and ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' by [[WordOfGod Chris Metzen]] due to the death of the [[HiveMind Overmind]]. But that was because most of the cerebrates had merged into that Overmind, including Daggoth.
17	** Which is especially odd considering that the final battle at the end of Brood War wasn't even over Kerrigan (who is on Char with the rest of the Broods). The three strongest armies in the game converge on that platform to kill but one cerebrate: You.
18	* Played for laughs ''and'' drama in obscure adventure game ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'', in which the entire goal of the game is to travel back in time and prevent your own murder; some deaths are dramatic, some are just plain funny. In the C ending in which the player does the bare minimum to win, Eike finally prevents his own murder, lies down on the road to contemplate his own existence, and, after a soulful monologue, ''gets run over by a drunk driver''.
19	* The backstory to ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' basically does this to practically the entire cast of its predecessor, ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.
20	** This only really applies to Crono, Marle, and Lucca. The reason the rest of the cast wasn't present was shown in the ending of ''Chrono Trigger''. The other characters all had returned to their original time periods and only those three characters were still in the present.
21	** It also applies to Prometheus, aka Robo, whose circuits (which apparently carried his personality) were used to construct the Prometheus Lock that kept the Frozen Flame sealed away from [[MasterComputer FATE]]. The most ignominous part is that, once she has recovered her access to it, she could have deleted Prometheus at any time. She was just waiting for Serge & Co (who have ZERO connection to Prometheus and don't even know who or what he is) to arrive at her inner sanctum, so the ''player'' could watch as she unceremoniously destroyed him without fuss or fanfare.
22	** It should be mentioned that the Crono, Marle and Lucca that had Bridges Dropped on them were versions of them from failed timelines ending up in the Darkness Beyond Time and were likely the same ones fought as bosses in Chrono Trigger DS (of course if they are then their death would be at the hands of the main versions of Crono, Marle and Lucca in the bonus boss fights).
23	* The moral based horror puzzle video game ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' kills off the main character like this in the action stages if the player is not careful.
24	* Cid in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' dies from eating bad fish. Which you, the player character, fed him. What makes this especially infuriating is that there is a way to ensure he ''doesn't'' die, but [[GuideDangIt you're unlikely to figure it out without a guide]] the first time around. Granted, [[VideogameCrueltyPotential letting him die]] actually leads to a much more touching and emotional scene, but it's still a pretty random way to go out.[[note]]Only catch the fast-moving fish; leave the slow ones alone entirely.[[/note]]
25	* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', [[spoiler: Ryder and Big Smoke are revealed to betray the Grove Street Families. But while Smoke is the one who gets all the focus, Ryder is killed midway in the story in an extremely anticlimactic way (via murdered in a boat explosion at an attempt to escape) and is completely forgotten about afterwards. He doesn't even get a single cutscene for his demise, unlike Big Smoke, Tenpenny, and Pulaski.]]
26	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
27	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', after coming BackFromTheDead, Liquid Snake is not defeated and killed in a fistfight with Solid Snake but actually by having his arm surgically removed from Ocelot's body and getting replaced with a mechanical prosthetic ''before the game even started.'' Ocelot simply uses a combination of nanomachines and hypnotherapy to make himself think he was Liquid all along.
28	** Subverted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', where Solid Snake is seemingly killed when the tanker sinks in the prologue, [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent causing the perspective to shift to Raiden]]. However, it quickly becomes clear that Snake survived after all.
29	* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', this happens to nearly everyone who dies. Granted, WordOfGod isn't even denying that they'll all be back but that doesn't make it any less annoying.
30	* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Gaiden'' appeared to have bridge-dropped Lamia while after just addressing how glad she was that she had friends...she was unceremoniously shot down and all signs show that she's KilledOffForReal. Then, several chapters later, it's revealed that the bridge didn't really completely splatter her, and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal Duminuss]] lifted that bridge up, ensuring her survival.
31	* Brad Vickers, S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team's pilot in the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', appears as an easy-to-miss enemy zombie in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' who only exists to grant the player the key to the wardrobe locker when defeated. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', being a NonLinearSequel to ''[=RE2=]'', had to come up with a more satisfying explanation for Brad's demise. It turns out he was killed by the Nemesis, Umbrella bio-weapon trained to kill the survivors of the mansion incident.
32	* Several examples in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'':
33	** In the very first dungeon, you'll soon find out that Minsc's witch Dynaheir and Jaheira's husband Khalid (both recruit-able [=NPCs=] in the first game) were killed off-screen by the new BigBad.
34	** If Yoshimo was in your party Spellhold, he'd sell you out to the BigBad - but he's unable to refuse due to a ''[[RestrainingBolt geas]]'' spell. The frustrating part was if you ''knew'' this was coming, and left him back at the inn (say, if you were trying to do it again with a different class and/or party), then to prevent you from being able to pick him up again later, he'd be stabbed in the back the second you walked in the door. Wallop.
35	** In the Sahuagin City side quest, if you choose to help Prince Villynaty against King Ixilthetocal after reaching the prince, King Ixilthetocal has two of the people who suggested that you go talk to the prince executed for reasons unrelated to your decision.
36	** If you take Keldorn with you to the Windspear Hills, he'll recognize that his squire Ajantis, the NPC paladin from the first game, is among the paladins you are forced to kill due to Firkraag's manipulations.
37	* In ''VideoGame/WinBack'', nearly all of Jean-Luc's teammates unceremoniously have bridges dropped on them over the course of the game. Jake's death was the biggest PlayerPunch , since he survives until near the end of the game, to get you attached to him, then Bang Bang he's dead.
38	* ''VideoGame/RaveHeart'': Lumina is abruptly killed off after the second boss fight, due to the shrapnel from the boss's explosion.
39	* In ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter 2'' Teresa appears to be KilledOffForReal by TheMole Chance at the end, and there's even a funeral. However, in the third game, she is [[BackFromTheDead back from]] FakingTheDead, via {{Retcon}}.
40	* Bridges are dropped all over in the last route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight: Heaven's Feel''. Caster, Assassin, Lancer, Berserker, Archer, Gilgamesh and Saber.
41	** There's plenty of bridge dropping (and {{Long Bus Trip}}s, in Sakura's case) in the other two routes, though -- most notably Caster in Fate and Ilya/Berserker in UBW, who each get one scene to say "Hi, I'm a villain!" and then die in that scene or the next time we see them. HF does it slightly more due to it pulling in some completely new characters, but the real reason why HF's bridge dropping stands out more is that all of its characters had bridges dropped on them ''after'' the scenes that made fans care about them, whereas nobody cared about Caster yet when Gil insta-killed her ten minutes after her introduction in Fate.
42	* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'': In ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty 4\|ModernWarfare}}'', all the SAS members except Soap and Captain Price are unceremoniously executed at the end of the game. In ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2 Modern Warfare 2]]'', all of TF-141, again barring Soap and Price, are killed off by General Shepherd. In fact, if you're a player character in a ''Modern Warfare'' title who isn't Soap or Price, you'd better call home and say your goodbyes while you can, because there's a rickety ridge overhead with your name on it. As of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Modern Warfare 3]]'', [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies even Soap isn't safe]]]].
43	* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune II'': Madeline Taylor. By nothing more than a [[FacelessGoons faceless]] {{Mook}} that you tear to shreds as easily as all the others before him, to boot. Hawk suffers a similar fate in the first game, albeit at the hands of the BigBad.
44	* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' had one where Ronyx, a character in the last Star Ocean game who had survived many confrontations in the first game is killed off suddenly in the second by a laser beam meant as a demonstration of power by the Big Bads.
45	** That also sounds like a SacrificialLion situation. Along with SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome.
46	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' killed off the main character from the very first Silent Hill game, Harry, by having his beloved daughter, your character, Heather, arrive at their house to find him dead. For those who played the first Silent Hill and may have had some sympathetic attachment to Harry, this was an extremely abrupt off-screen affair. A bit of time is spent mourning him, but not much. It's odd when you think that the things Harry knew could probably have prevented most of the game, if he'd been alive to tell Heather. Also combines with StuffedInTheFridge, since it's done to fill Heather with hatred and give her a motive for revenge.
47	* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
48	** Sgt. Johnson's death in ''VideoGame/Halo3'' is a strong example. Johnson was repeatedly shown as a [[BadassNormal formidable soldier who survived numerous dangerous missions]] despite being simply an ordinary human compared to John-117 or the Arbiter. Johnson was also one of John-117's most enduring allies who had been with him on numerous missions throughout the series. Him getting killed by 343 Guilty Spark, a character that is basically a support character with no previously-demonstrated combat abilities, comes across as abrupt and disappointing. Rather than go out fighting the Covenant or the Flood (which would make John-117's battle against them all the more personal), Johnson gets anticlimactically killed by a minor character.
49	** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'': We knew all of Noble Team was going to die going in. But Kat's was probably the most emotionally effective because it was the sudden, out-of-nowhere kind of death that could have happened to anyone.
50	** Pre-''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'' retcon, Johnson's death in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' counts as well. The fact that it was so easy to retcon him back into the series shows just how little his original death was even touched on.
51	** [[BigBadWannabe Jul 'Mdama]] was a significant character in the ''Kilo-Five'' trilogy's [[Literature/HaloGlasslands first]] [[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar two]] books, ''[[VideoGame/Halo4 Spartan Ops]]'', and ''ComicBook/HaloEscalation'', but is killed by Locke [[BackForTheDead in the first mission]] of ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''.
52	** ''Literature/HaloNewBlood'' featured SupportingProtagonist Rookie from ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'''s [[BackForTheDead first appearance in several years]]. He ends up being killed by Insurrectionists (who are the ''weakest'' of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''[='s=] bad guy factions).
53	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
54	** Between the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', a number of notable characters are killed or simply disappear. To note:
55	*** [[PlayerCharacter The Nerevarine]] is stated to have gone on an expedition to [[{{Wutai}} Akavir]] and hasn't been heard from since.
56	*** Vivec, the only surviving member of the [[PhysicalGod Tribunal]], disappears during the Oblivion Crisis, having either been taken by the Daedra or fled to [[SpiritWorld Aetherius]]. [[WildMassGuessing Or something]]. [[MindScrew He's kinda weird like that]].
57	*** [[TheClan Great House]] [[ProudWarriorRace Redoran]] was almost completely wiped out by Mehrunes Dagon's invasion.
58	*** [[TheSpymaster Caius Cosades]] was recalled to Cyrodiil during ''Morrowind'', but is not seen in ''Oblivion''. However, a letter states that he was stationed in Kragenmoor on the Morrowind mainland during the Oblivion crisis. What happened to him after that is up to speculation.
59	** By the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', Morrowind's bridge-dropping TraumaCongaLine has continued. The [[ColonyDrop Ministry of Truth resumed its fall]] and caused [[ChekhovsVolcano Red Mountain to erupt]], destroying most of Vvardenfell and leaving much of mainland Morrowind in a haze of choking ash.
60	** With no Septim heir alive at the end of the Oblivion Crisis, [[TheGoodChancellor High Chancellor]] and [[CourtMage Imperial Battlemage]] Ocato took over rulership of the Empire as [[RegentForLife Potentate]]. He managed to keep the Empire from declining into [[VestigialEmpire vestigial status]] for a decade, until he was unceremoniously [[TheKingslayer assassinated]] by the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] during the TimeSkip to ''Skyrim''.
61	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has the DarkIsNotEvil magic-user Canas, father of Hugh from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', as a recruitable ally. The problem is ''Binding Blade'', set 20 years later, has Hugh RaisedByGrandparents and mention his parents being dead. ''Blazing'' solves this by, [[MemeticMutation infamously]], having Canas and his wife unceremoniously die stopping a snowstorm in his WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
62	* In the Golden Deer route of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Prince Dimitri's RoaringRampageOfRevenge sent him off the deep end and after getting his troops slaughtered, he's speared by a swarm of {{mooks}} and KilledOffscreen with [[MightyGlacier Hilda]] being the only witness.
63	* A quest in ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' brought us a variation on this: "Drop a Pillar on him". How? A quest called Salt in the Wound was released to end the Sea Slug quest series, and in it, you "fight" the big bad Mother Mallum, who's been built up as one of the biggest threats in the world of Runescape. How does she die? You topple over a pillar and crush her. Players were not pleased.
64	* In ''VideoGame/Tekken3'', it was stated that Jun, Baek, and indeed most of the cast of the original games had been killed and [[TheAssimilator absorbed]] by Ogre. Later games {{Retcon}}ned this by revealing that Baek and a few others (such as Lee, whose fighting set had been copied by Ogre, implying his death) had survived- the original King was the only one who's death was conclusive. Other characters did actually die between Tekken 2 and 3- the original Kuma died of old age (except that it was later stated that he was only in hiding), while the original Armor King was killed in a bar brawl with Craig Marduk before the start of Tekken 4.
65	* This happens to the main character in [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532044 Riddle School 4]] about 3 seconds after you start the game, but is ultimately RetConned in [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532179 Riddle School 5]].
66	* Bill in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'''s DLC chapter "The Passing". What makes this a particular odd choice is that the death in question was announced by Valve well ahead of time and given plenty of limelight... and then the actual event was limited to a single line on-screen: "A good man died today."
67	** Bill is an unusual case; Valve had trouble getting him back to record dialog for later DLC chapters because he was busy with his day job (radio DJ). A later campaign, "The Sacrifice", shows the original ''[=L4D=]'' characters' last adventure, with one of them having to do a HeroicSacrifice to protect the other three. In the game any character can make the sacrifice, but canonically Bill is the one who does it. And to Valve's credit, unlike many others on this list he at least went out like a hero and a badass, facing three Tanks by himself in order to let the others get to safety.
68	*** Made even cooler by the fact that when you saw his body in 'The Passing', it's lying right where the comic shows him sitting for the last stand. Which, given the zombie propensity for vanishing into thin air, probably means he managed to off all three tanks before bleeding to death.
69	* The death of Corporal Hart at the end of ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2''. After the splitters break into the control room, she's killed in one shot by one of the lightning bolts the splitters fire, an attack that, in gameplay, does no more damage than a mildly powerful bullet.
70	* In ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'', after going through utter hell, seeing all her friends brutally murdered, and learning that she was nothing more than an UnwittingPawn all along, April is randomely attacked, impaled and left to drown in a swamp in literally ''the last few seconds of the game''. The death was so abrupt that most fans assumed that it must have been a fakeout to be resolved in the sequel, but then ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'' squashed those hopes by opening with her funeral.
71	* It's possible to do of this to two of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. [[spoiler: Among other ways, FBIAgent Norman Jayden can have his brains blown out by a two-bit thug, and Madison can be tortured to death by a random MadDoctor.]]
72	* In ''VideoGame/TheGodfather 2'' you get to drop a bridge on [[spoiler: Agent Mitchell]]. The boss fight against him... isn't, and he doesn't even get a FacingTheBulletsOneLiner or PreMortemOneLiner, much less a full death scene. You simply kill him however you want and walk away.
73	* In one of the GDI endings in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'' (if you destroy the Temple of Nod without the Ion Cannon), Kane walks down a corridor and is suddenly crushed by falling debris. Subverted because he is alive and well in the next game.
74	* Hilariously done in the opening credits for the Nintendo 64 shooter ''Star Wars Episode 1: Battle For Naboo.'' We see Jar-Jar Binks walking around, only for the Nintendo 64 logo to suddenly drop on him. It's the only time we ever see him in the game.
75	* As of ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'', most of the original cast who don't appear are simply PutOnABus. However, it is explicitly stated that [[spoiler:poor Sophitia]] died at some point between ''V'' and ''IV''. The artbook suggests that [[spoiler:she had the fragment of Soul Edge near her heart surgically removed, forever freeing Pyrrha from its influence at the cost of her own life]].
76	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': In ''Warlords of Draenor'', Admiral Taylor, a recurring Alliance character since ''Cataclysm'', is KilledOffscreen along with his entire garrison in some random questline in Spires of Arak by some no-name villain who is easily dispatched by the PlayerCharacter. The sheer randomness of the death and the lack of any narrative purpose it serves really makes it feel like he was just killed because his Horde counterpart General Nazgrim died in the Siege of Orgrimmar (his death, though still disliked by some, was at least [[AlasPoorVillain suitably epic]]) though WordOfGod has denied this. Even worse, Taylor's ghost can then be recruited as a follower, making it seem even more pointless.
77	** Amber Kearnen was a recurring Alliance character in ''Cataclysm'' and ''Mists of Pandaria'', being part of the Alliance FiveManBand in the latter. Come ''Legion'' she's found dead outside the Rogue Order Hall with a knife in her back, though she at least serves as a PlotTriggeringDeath.
78	** Rhonin, leader of the Kirin Tor was unceremoniously killed in a novel: leading many players to go "wait...what?" when a quest-giver mentions his death. At least it was protecting Jaina Proudmoore.
79	** Tirion Fordring, leader of the Argent Crusade. After his destiny was built up in a speech by Bolvar Fordragon, Tirion just gets force-choked and dropped into a fel pond by a random demon. He survives long enough to give the player the Ashbringer. Still, a lot of players felt cheated, since Varian Wrynn got an epic send-off cinematic.
80	* It's later mentioned in the True Mastermind Edition of ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis 5]]'' that Christy Ryan, the DamselInDistress from the second game who had just become Keith's girlfriend, was KilledOffscreen three months before the events of the game when Robert went rogue on the VSSE.
81	* Aya Brea, the fondly remembered protagonist of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' and its sequel, is bumped off in ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'' by a SWAT team that shot up her wedding for a reason that is never explained. As a result, Eve is forced to shoot her to correct the timeline.
82	* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar3'' features Marcus Fenix and Anya Stroud getting into a relationship that had been hinted at since the first game. ''Gears of War 4'' reveals that Anya has died in the 25 years since the previous game, with not a single word of her fate revealed beyond that.
83	* In ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', shortly after Kane's Stroggification, [[CombatMedic Medic Anderson]] meets an unexpected end when he gets trapped behind a glass shield and carried off by a Strogg Scientist.
84	* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has Babi, the ruler of Tolbi and a major character in the first game who tasks Issac with the duty of finding acquiring more [[FountainOfYouth Lemurian Draught]] to prolong his life, granting them invaluable information and a ship of their own to complete their quest. Not only does he never even appear in the sequel, but you're just told unceremoniously by Alex that he died off-screen. The end.
85	* The gimmick of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'''s SuicideMission is that [[AnyoneCanDie anyone in your squad can die]]. The game tries its best to make sure that DeathIsDramatic, with several potential deaths using tropes like DiedInYourArmsTonight, SayMyName etc. In the end, though, some deaths end up being very abrupt, such as if you did not install the Thanix Cannon in the ''Normandy'' (where either Thane, Garrus, Zaeed, Grunt, Jack, Samara or Morinth is impaled by a metal beam with a brief "Oh no! [Character] is dead!" comment) and the HoldTheLine segment (where the camera just pans over the corpses of whichever characters did not make it). This can be especially bad if the character who dies is Shepard's LoveInterest.
86	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' has this happen to Phillipe Loren, who gets crushed by a large counterweight (it's more like "Dropped A Ball On Him"). Somewhat alleviated by you specifically dropping the massive orb down on top of him, though the intent was merely to ''catch up'' with him, not crush him outright.
87	* In the first chapter of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', Satan/Shinnosuke Yamazaki returns to battle the Imperial Combat Revue after he is revived. By the end of that battle, however, Yamazaki gets unceremoniously ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by the Demon King, aka [[spoiler:Kazuma Shinguji]].
88	* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': In the [[spoiler:Master Bounty Hunter]] route of ''Completing the Mission'', Henry is accompanied in his infiltration of the Toppat Clan's soon-to-be-launched space station by a squad of three other bounty hunters. In the middle of the path, [[spoiler:all three of them are killed by [[DragonAscendant the Right Hand Man]] [[WeCanRebuildHim Reborn]]. Afterwards, nobody ever mentions them again (let alone acknowledges their loss for a moment) for the rest of the route.]]
89	* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Hangaroo}}'', where [[spoiler:after you manage to rescue the kangaroo from the noose, a meteor falls out of nowhere to crush him to death just as he's hopping away.]]

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