Line #59 SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome/VideoGames


1	'''WARNING: This is a subpage of a {{Death Trope\|s}}, so ''all spoilers are UNMARKED''. Read with extreme caution.'''
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4	* Stahn, the main protagonist of from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'', is killed offscreen by the villain Barbatos in ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'' before the game's story even begins. However, this is averted by the ResetButton in the end.
5	* Kaileena from ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' plays a pivotal character and the main antagonist in the game who is spared by the Prince at the end of the true (hidden) ending...only to be killed off within the first 15 to 20 minutes of the third game in the series, ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones''. Subverted in that she continues to narrate the game after her "death", and is ultimately restored to her true form once the Prince defeats the Vizier.
6	* Simone Taylor was one of three characters to survive ''5 Days a Stranger'', the first game of the VideoGame/ChzoMythos. (The second character would come down with a case of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome shortly afterward, and the third was the player.) The second game, ''7 Days a Skeptic'', is set in the distant future, and the player finds a letter that mentions, among other things, that Simone was killed very shortly after the events of ''5 Days''. The third game, ''Trilby's Notes'', goes back and actually is set very shortly after the events of ''5 Days'' and the prologue/tutorial ends with the discovery of Simone's body.
7	* Johnny Cage is killed off off-screen prior to the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', then brought BackFromTheDead in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 4]]'', Liu Kang is killed off at the start of ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'' before being brought back as a zombie later, and a large number of the Earthrealm warriors are killed at the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]''. They are all brought BackFromTheDead for ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon Armageddon]]'', only for nearly all of them to die before Raiden [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong sets things right]] just before Shao Kahn finishes him off.
8	* Vic Vance is killed in a gun battle mere minutes into ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', but later appears in its prequel, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'' as the protagonist. This trope only works, however, if one plays the games in chronological order.
9	* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': in Trevor's introductory cutscene, he walks up to Johnny Klebitz (the lead protagonist of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'') and, after a short conversation, proceeds to bash the latter's brains in. The mission immediately following this has Trevor massacre all of the surviving members from the Alderney chapter, including Terry Thorpe and Clay Simons. Additionally, Ashley Butler can be killed by Trevor as she's grieving over Johnny's body; if not, she is revealed in a news report to have died during a meth orgy.
10	* Bottles in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' serves to teach Banjo and Kazooie new moves. In the opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', he gets killed off by Gruntilda, with some LampshadeHanging: "He wasn't the favorite character in ''Banjo-Kazooie'' anyway," Kazooie says. He [[BackFromTheDead comes back to life]] in the end, though.
11	* Liam Spencer from ''VideoGame/TheGetaway1''. You don't even know he'd survived the events of the first game until you find his corpse in the second level of ''VideoGame/TheGetawayBlackMonday''.
12	* Harry, the protagonist of the first ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' game, is killed in [[VideoGame/SilentHill3 the third]] (since [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 the second]] was a standalone story) after being ambushed in his home by a boss-type mook, without his weapons.
13	* Instead of attempting to RoadCone which girl ends up with the protagonist from the first ''VideoGame/SentimentalGraffiti'', the second game opens up with the new protagonist meeting all of the girls at the first's ''funeral'' (he died in a [[BusCrash car accident]]).
14	* In ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 2'', the heroes of the original ''Killzone'' all appear as OlderAndWiser [=NPCs=] helping the new player character Sev, until they all end up getting killed over the course of the game. ''Killzone 3'' confirms that only Rico survived.
15	* Brad Vickers survives the events of the first ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', only to make a hidden cameo in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' as an overpowered zombie who carries with him the key to the wardrobe locker. In the beginning of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', it turns out that Brad was hunted down and killed by the Nemesis a day before the events of the previous game.
16	** Both Jill Valentine and [[NighInvulnerable Albert]] [[BigBad Wesker]] were [[SubvertedTrope falsely presumed]] dead for two years in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', after she [[HeroicSacrifice tackled him over a cliff]].
17	* In ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'', after the previous game ended with him FakingTheDead, [[Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham Series Batman]] is brought back only to end up BrainwashedAndCrazy before being KilledOffForReal by Harley Quinn.[[note]]Making it HarsherInHindsight is that this was one of voice actor Creator/KevinConroy's last performances before his passing, making many fans feel that this was in poor taste.[[/note]]
18	* 16 possible party members from the first ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' game who make an appearance of sorts as [=NPCs=] in [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII the sequel]]. Five are party-joinable members: of the rest, over half end up dead. Of particular note are Dynaheir and Khalid, who are killed off shortly before the game even begins - this being of import because the sequel assumes they were in your party at the end of the first game (which is highly likely assuming you played a Good alignment and met them early on in the main questline: the "canonical" party includes them and their respective partners Minsc and Jaheira, both party-joinable but newly single in the sequel, and Imoen who turns out to be your sister, and makes major plot points out of all of these events.) Of the rest: Faldorn ends up as an evil sidequest boss you have to kill, Montaron and Xzar both die (the former on-screen, the latter off-screen) as a result of Harper/Zhentarim factional bickering, Ajantis is killed by your own party while both of you are under an illusion spell and you don't even get to learn his identity unless you have a paladin or knight in your own party, Tiax dies in a battle in the asylum, Safana is killed by werewolves in a battle which Coran will probably also die unless the players [[CurbStompBattle win the fight fast enough]], though the sequel comic series has him alive and well. With Viconia and Edwin also being party-joinable (until the former is killed in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''), only Quayle and Garrick actually survive their appearance as non-joinable [=NPCs=]. On top of that, this was originally meant to be the fate of Imoen, until her popularity with the fandom made the developers change their mind and restructure the plot of the game around her.
19	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
20	** Master Miller was one of Solid Snake's radio support crew in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''. In the sequel, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Miller gets killed off-screen and impersonated by Solid's evil twin, Liquid Snake, a fact that isn't even revealed until it is casually mentioned just as Liquid drops the ruse.
21	** Naomi made it through ''MGS'' relatively intact, and was just about the only villainous character to be [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor redeemed (sort of)]] instead of killed or arrested. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', she dies of spontaneous magical [[{{Nanomachines}} nano]]cancer from nowhere [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for no real plot reason]] other than to [[CollateralAngst make Otacon cry]]. Overlaps with StrangledByTheRedString, since Otacon had never even met her until this game.
22	** ''[=MGS4=]'' also kills off two rather important characters from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', namely Para-Medic and Mr. Sigint, by [[RetCon retroactively establishing]] that they were actually DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and Dr. Clark, two characters who were killed offscreen. Dr. Clark never appeared on-screen in ''MGS'' (being killed two years prior to the events of the game) and was originally referred as a male in the script (with an an attempted HandWave that few people had ever met her in person).
23	* In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'', Billy and Jimmy Lee spent the entirety of the game trying to rescue their friend Marian from the Black Warriors. In the sequel, ''Double Dragon II: The Revenge'', she gets gunned down at the start of the game by the gang's leader, rendering the whole point of its predecessor moot.
24	** She does [[BackFromTheDead come back]] [[DisneyDeath to life]] in the NES version though.
25	* Irene Lew falls seemingly to her death from a cliff after being chased by Ryu Hayabusa's [[EvilTwin evil doppelganger]] in the opening sequence of ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden III]]''. However, it later turns out that she survived her fall and was [[HesJustHiding really hiding]] from her adversaries.
26	** The manual hints that the events of ''Ninja Gaiden III'' occurs before Ashtar's rise to power in ''Ninja Gaiden II'', which makes Irene's survival a bit less surprising to anyone who reads between the lines -- as does the fact that Ryu still has the Dragon Sword, which he lost at the end of ''II''.
27	* After surviving the events of ''VideoGame/ObsCure'', Kenny gets killed in the sequel -- in the most drawn-out, painful way possible, involving a FaceHeelTurn. Oh, and the other two heroes who don't return are eventually implied to have been horribly killed off-screen.
28	* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' introduces a computer AI, reveals it to be Robo's AI transplanted into a computer by Lucca, and then unceremoniously deletes the AI in a single text dump, accomplishing nothing except shock value.
29	** Most of the cast in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' were killed offscreen, missing in action, or erased from existence before ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' even begins.
30	*** Crono and Marle presumably died when Guardia fell, Lucca is killed by Lynx and Harle, Frog/the original Glenn probably dies a natural death, Ayla isn't even ''born yet'', (as you can play as her implied mother when she was a child, sent to the present through a gate), and Robo is killed onscreen. The only character who is still alive is Magus, who is heavily implied to be Guile who erased his memories.
31	* ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' loves these:
32	** ''Wing Commander II'' - The Tiger's Claw is destroyed in the intro sequence, killing many of the characters from the first game (eg. Halcyon, Shotglass).
33	** ''Wing Commander III'' - Similar to the above, the Concordia from Wing Commander II is seen crashed on a planet. Also, Angel is executed by the Kilrathi as part of the opening sequence, though the full scene isn't shown until later.
34	*** There's also Hobbes' FaceHeelTurn, leading to his death.
35	** ''Wing Commander IV'' - Vagabond is killed a short way into the game.
36	*** Averted, however, with the TCS ''Victory'', which is said by Maniac to have been made into a museum.
37	** ''Wing Commander Prophecy'' - Christopher Blair is missing in action/presumed dead by the end of the first act, but then recovered, only to be missing in action/presumed dead again by the end of the game.
38	*** And Hawk is killed, a little after halfway through.
39	* In the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series:
40	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' allows you to recruit an enemy general named Lorenz. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'', he is the boss of Chapter 1 and absolutely will die, either in combat with Marth or as a result of injuries sustained in battle with Lang's occupation forces. Even in the VideoGameRemake, you can't save him.
41	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has several inversions due to its status as a prequel to ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade''. Canas' ending has him and his wife unceremoniously killed in a blizzard, Hector is captured and killed early on, Hector and Eliwood's wives are both said to be dead, Nino's twin children are orphans, Karla died of illness. Lucius is implied to be the bishop who ran the orphanage Lugh, Raigh, and Chad lived in who was killed early in Bern's invasion, and Sue only has concern if her grandfather is alive, not her father (Rath). Sheesh.
42	* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'', the helpful townsfolk from the first game are skeletal scenery when you return to Tristram...except for Deckard Cain, of course, and poor Griswold, who is now the zombie Level Boss. On the plus side, Peg-Leg Wirt's body yields a buttload of coin and a surprising magic item.
43	** Even better example? The Rogue is corrupted by Andariel and becomes Blood Raven, the Sorcerer goes insane and becomes the Summoner, the imposter sub-boss of Act 2; and the Warrior becomes the Dark Wanderer -- the new host of Diablo himself.
44	** Most of the cast of ''Diablo II'' is either dead or insane come ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', including Warriv, everyone in the city of Harrogath, and the Sorceress (who was killed by the Assassin). And Deckard Cain himself, who survived the first two games, dies early on in the game.
45	* Mujari and possibly Teresa and Logan die in ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter: Logan's Shadow''. Since Sony has officially abandoned the series, we will never see it resolved. Alima Haddad, the chopper pilot who first appeared in ''Omega Strain'', also dies.
46	* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', between the original campaign and ''Mask Of The Betrayer'', many of the main character's companions are killed off when they seemed to be in sight of safety. All characters who weren't killed in the final battle were making their escape, but most of them are killed. The ones that survive are decided by how the player answers certain questions in the expansion.
47	* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
48	** Navigator Pressly is killed during the opening sequence of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' when the ''Normandy'' is attacked by the Collectors. Commander Shepard also dies, [[BackFromTheDead but is revived two years later]]...and given a new ''Normandy'' into the bargain.
49	** For a non-character example, the original ''Normandy'''s destruction in ''Mass Effect 2'' counts. It's Shepard's primary base of operations in the first game, so most players spend a substantial chunk of gameplay wandering its halls between missions and getting acquainted with the crew. You get to walk through it in exactly ''one'' level in the second game -- [[SceneryGorn when it's being destroyed by the Collectors, and its entire third deck is exposed to the vacuum of space]]. Though Shepard does get a new ''Normandy'' after joining up with Cerberus, its design and interior layout are drastically different.
50	** The third game promises to allow you to resolve all those story arcs continuing them from wherever you left them in the first, their lack of interactive progression in the second game is to keep the amount of possibilities ''in the 4 digit range''. Expect the rest of the first game as well as the returning Mass Effect 2 cast to once again be susceptible to AnyoneCanDie. Indeed, there's exactly ''one'' recurring main character who is completely without a potential PlotlineDeath in the entire series, and therefore not susceptible to this trope: Joker, who can only die via NonstandardGameOver in the second game during the brief period the player controls him. Liara almost counts, as she can only die towards the very end of the game if your Military Strength is too low.
51	** Executor Pallin (the top cop of C-Sec) was absent in the second game, with his role mostly taken by newcomer Captain Bailey. Pallin is later killed off in a comic book sidestory by Captain Bailey.
52	* The downloadable content for ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' ("The Passing") reveals that Bill sacrificed himself to save the survivors of the original ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' before they met the cast of the sequel.
53	* The normal ending of ''VideoGame/FatalFrameIII'' heavily implies that Mio from the second game fell victim to the curse.
54	* Samantha Clarke in ''[[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance]]''. She dies in the opening cinematic before you can even create your profile.
55	* Orthopox-13 in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2''. To be fair, [[MissionControl he didn't confront]] [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection much of the action]] in the first game, but it says something that he was '''''nuked in space''''' in the intro to the sequel; in fact, the crashing debris of the mothership is what creates the setting for the prologue. [[BrainUploading He does get better fairly quickly, though.]]
56	* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', Ezio's Uncle Mario is killed off in the first half hour.
57	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'':
58	** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', Aisha gets beheaded by Jyunichi after faking her death in the first game.
59	** Johnny Gat is offed before the end of the second mission, in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in IV, when it's revealed that he was abducted by Zinyak instead...apparently, Gat was so badass that he felt it was necessary to take him out of the picture ''years'' before he was ready to invade Earth.
60	** Then, in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', Oleg and Josh are killed when Zinyak [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroys the Earth]]. Naturally, it can probably be assumed that everyone else who didn't get put into the simulator met the same fate, though those two are the only ones specifically shown when it happens.
61	* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'', Griffin (the sergeant who assisted you in the ''[=MW1=]'' mission "Crew Expendable"), Russian loyalist Sgt. Kamarov and former main character 'Soap' [=MacTavish=] die.
62	* Most of the Servants' backgrounds and ambitions were explored in the first two routes of VisualNovel/FateStayNight, so come the third, ''Heavens Feel'', almost everyone is killed off quickly in the first few few days. To be particularly [[DrinkingGame/TVTropes egregious]], most of the deaths are also rather unceremonious. Lancer, Caster and Assassin get killed off almost immediately and with little to no resistance; Gilgamesh barely gets a word in edgewise; Archer and Berserker are killed/absorbed in their first fights; Saber (though not killed) is beaten early by sheer plot device.
63	* Helena Pierce suffers this at the very beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', being killed off-screen and the audio-logs of her death retrievable by the players as a small foretaste of what a SmugSnake Handsome Jack really is.
64	* Rather infamously, [[VideoGame/{{Turok}} Joshua Fireseed]] kicks the bucket in the opening cutscene of ''Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion'' to make way for his younger siblings taking the mantle of Turok. Considering he was the proverbial face of the series (albeit [[IAmNotShazam the cover artist of the first game used Joshua instead of its real protagonist Tal'Set]]), most fans didn't exactly agree with this, and it's not helped by the game's ContestedSequel status. It says a lot that the following game, ''Evolution'', dialed itself far back to go for a {{Prequel}} story with Tal'Set rather than try to continue with Josh and Danielle, [[FranchiseKiller but then a wholly independent set of problems happened.]]
65	* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''; one of the characters claims to be Byakuya Togami, a returning character from the first game, and then ends up as the first murder victim. However, he's actually the Ultimate Impostor. (And by the end of the game it turns out he's not exactly dead either.)
66	* In ''{{VideoGame/Battlefield 4}}'', this is the fate of two ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' characters: Dima[[note]]the Russian deuteragonist[[/note]] and Kovic[[note]]turns out that he was "Agent W.", the 'bad cop' interrogator, during Blackburn's interrogation[[/note]], although Dima is the only one whose history in the prior game is referenced at all.
67	* Detective Bravura was a HeroAntagonist in the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', and DaChief in the 2nd. He shows up early in the game during a firefight in which Max is ambushed, outnumbered and [[NoGearLevel unarmed]], appearing just long enough to shout a warning before he's gunned down. It's only technically a subversion that he lived (probably helped that he was shot in a hospital,) since for the rest of the game he's in critical condition, assumed dead any second, and has no further bearing on the plot. A flashback scene in the 3rd game indicates he died of a heart attack between the 2nd and 3rd game, leaving Max with no influential allies left to get him out of the trouble he's always getting in.
68	* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':
69	** Season two kicks off with [[PluckyComicRelief Omid]], [[PregnantBadass Christa]], and [[TheCutie Clementine]] having somehow reunited after the DownerEnding of Season One. They're in good spirits, they've found shelter, and they're having a chipper conversation about what to name Christa's baby, due soon...[[MoodWhiplash and then Omid is shot by a bandit.]] Poor guy didn't even last ten minutes into the new season. And just for an extra punch to the gut, the baby that Christa was pregnant with back in Season 1? It's never shown, or even discussed after a 16-month TimeSkip.
70	** Season two ends with Clementine choosing to kill either Jane or Kenny. A flashback early in season three shows the survivor dies during the TimeSkip regardless: Jane killed herself shortly thereafter when she found out she was pregnant[[labelnote:*]]You don't see this if you chose not to travel with Jane, but it likely happened anyway.[[/labelnote]]. Kenny died in a car crash while teaching Clementine to drive, though that at least happened several years later.
71	* Director Lazard in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' seems to be doing fine in his latest appearance, but just randomly dies after Zack fights Genesis at the end of the game.
72	** PlayedForLaughs in the fan-made flash [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/554855 FF Crisis Core in 3 Minutes]].
73	--> '''Zack:''' Hey Lazard, still alive? How come you don't appear in the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII next game]]?
74	--> '''Lazard:''' Gah! Instant Dead by Damn-I'm-Not-In-The-Sequel!
75	* After being rescued in ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis II]]'', sometime before the fifth game, Christy Ryan is KilledOffscreen by Robert Baxter.
76	* ''VideoGame/{{Harvest Moon 64}}'' is one of the few direct sequels in the franchise. If you marry Elli the game kills off her grandmother Ellen, who was a character in [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon1 the original game]]. As the game takes place two generations in the future it's not "suddenly" to the characters however it is to gamers.
77	* Between ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel Elder Owyn Lyons dies of old age, and his daughter Sarah is either killed in battle or assassinated, resulting in [[AChildShallLeadThem the now grown Squire Maxson becoming Elder]] and reverting the chapter to the elitist and authoritarian ways similar to their West Coast counterparts but with nation-building in mind. Also, former Little Lamplight resident Lucy was killed by feral ghouls shortly after marrying and having a child with ex-mayor RJ [=MacCready=].
78	* Cosette Cosmos, a recurring antagonist in ''[[VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Sunrider Mask of Arcadius]]'', can be killed off at the end of ''Sunrider Liberation Day''’s opening mission depending on choices the player made in the first game.
79	* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'':
80	** Bishop, the owner of Beef Head Video in the first game gets killed right after the first boss fight in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' and his severed head delivered to Travis to spark his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Lovikov is also killed at some point in-between the first and second games, and surprisingly both Destroyman and Letz Shake survive their deaths in the first game to show up for rematches (where they're killed ''again''.)
81	** Bad Man, the father of Bad Girl in ''VideoGame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'', gets killed by FU shortly after the first boss fight in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', as an act of vengeance against Travis for having killed Mr. Blackhole earlier, and this causes another RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Meanwhile, Destroyman somehow survives his death in the second game to show up for another rematch (where he's killed ''[[RuleOfThree yet again]]'').
82	* The last time Wrinkly Kong is seen alive is in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble''. By the time of ''Videogame/DonkeyKong64'', she's died of old age, but [[SpiritAdvisor she comes back as a ghost to help out the five playable Kongs]].
83	* [=Olivia DeMarco=] and Damien Cavanaugh, who in ''Videogame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' helped protagonist Zoë Castillo uncover a conspiracy by [[MegaCorp WATICorp]], are both dead by the time the follow-up to the story, ''Videogame/DreamfallChapters'', begins. WATI's involvement is suspected, but not investigated or confirmed.
84	* In ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', Shinnosuke Yamazaki/Aoi Satan, the main antagonist of the [[VideoGame/SakuraWars1996 original game]], is abruptly killed off by the Demon King/Kazuma Shinguji after the Flower Division defeats the former at the end of chapter 1.
85	* Brandy from ''VideoGame/HappyTreeFriendsAdventures'' is shown buried in his own grave in ''HTFA Legends'', after he debuted in ''[=HTFA6=]''.
86	* Initially, it was assumed that all the characters from ''VideoGame/Tekken2'' who didn't return for ''VideoGame/Tekken3'' were killed by Ogre in the time skip between games. It's since been revealed that most of them were [[FakingTheDead actually in hiding]] and the only character who actually was killed by him was King 1. Kuma 1 was also originally stated to have died of old age in the time skip, but was later stated to also be in hiding.
87	* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' begins with Joel's capture and murder by a group of former Fireflies with a score to settle sometime after the events of the first game. The main plot begins after a TimeSkip with flashbacks detailing the circumstances of Joel's death and pushes Ellie toward a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
88	* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', you last see Navarre when you evacuate him from the angel-controlled Mikado to Tokyo. In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', when he is reintroduced, it's revealed he unceremoniously got himself killed peeping on a Hunter bathing in a river. Specifically, [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown his pants were down enough]] [[UndignifiedDeath to make him trip, tangle his legs, and drown.]]
89	--> '''Nozomi:''' ...Pig.
90	* ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'':
91	** {{Zig Zagged\|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'': Yukio Terada was introduced in ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' as a member of the Omi Alliance and a man that Kiryu's ParentalSubstitute Shintaro Kazama trusted implicitly; at the end of the first game, Kiryu promotes him to chairman of the Tojo Clan. ''Yakuza 2's'' plot kicks off when Terada is assassinated by Omi Alliance goons, which he reveals at the end of the game he faked to get Ryuji Goda to [[BatmanGambit take over the Omi Alliance and invade Kamurocho]]; he is then killed (for real) five minutes later.
92	** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Goh Hamazaki comes back to help Taiga Saejima escape from prison, and eventually dies after protecting the latter's sister Yasuko.
93	* In ''[[VideoGame/ZettaiZetsumeiToshi Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories]]'', Kelly Austin / Natsumi Higa, the only character who's appeared in every game in the series since the original ''VideoGame/DisasterReport'', gets crushed to death by a collapsing building after pushing her students and the protagonist to safety.
94	* The avatars from ''[[VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack the original Tee KO]]'' are shown as ghosts in ''Tee KO 2'', implying their death. The only exception is the rabbit, who has visibly aged.

Context SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome / VideoGames