History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / VideoGames

* The US localization of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' for the NES retained the graphic cutscene of [[YourHeadAsplode Master D's head exploding]], which lead to the ''Rearmed'' remake receiving an M rating.

** This ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' FanSequel has a pretty disturbing death and game over scene. Namely, Mario gets shot by firing squad before the game cuts to his funeral with his friends and relatives crying over his corpse in an open top coffin. Cartoony, but certainly a potential way to traumatise any younger Mario fans. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_RsRccZP4 Here's a video]].

** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' has an attempted one when the titular Big Bad mercilessly crushes his own sister with a boulder and leaving Olivia for dead. To save her barely alive state, Bobby plays the trope straight -- [[spoiler:up to now, allied Bob-ombs would quickly come back after self-destructing. [[KilledoffForReal Not this time]]]].

* ''VideoGame/SilentDebuggers'': The mutated Charles Smith gets shot with machinegun fire before [[OffWithHisHead his head gets shot off]], when the game was available on the Platform/VirtualConsole, it was rated E by the ERSB.

** This trope has been played with as early as ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' in which four Koopaling battles take place over lava. While Iggy and Larry are just KilledOffScreen when pushed into the lava, Lemmy and Wendy [[KillItWithFire sink into the lava]] ''in plain sight''. It's even worse in the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance remake where it sounds as if they are ''shrieking in agony.''

* ''VideoGame/SilentDebuggers'': The mutated Charles Smith gets shot with machinegun fire before [[OffWithHisHead his head gets shot off]], when the game was available on the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole, it was rated E by the ERSB.

* Gillan's death by DiagonalCut in ''VideoGame/{{Valis}} II'', and the mage boss's death (complete with BloodFromTheMouth) in the UsefulNotes/PCEngine remake of the first game.

* Amiga platformer ''Axel's Magic Hammer'' looks and plays like a typical kid-friendly ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' clone - until the title character dies. For reasons known only to developer Core Design, when Axel dies from losing all his health, he violently explodes, his bloody limbs and head flying through the screen, [[HellIsThatNoise accompanied by a blood-curdling scream]]. Not that this doesn't apply when he falls into water; all that happens is that his SuperDrowningSkills kick in as he dies out of the player's view.

** [[CorruptCoporativeExecutive President Haltmann]]'s death in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', '''''good lord.''''' After his mind control helmet is stolen by Susie and causes Star Dream to become an OmicidalManiac hellbent on eradicating all life, Haltmann's mind is promptly ''deleted from the mother computer's programming.'' And then comes The True Arena: Star Dream Soul OS deliberately deletes any lingering trace of his soul left to ensure victory over Kirby, and in its final phase, you can outright hear ''Haltmann's screams as Kirby manages to take down Star Dream's core.''

** On a [[KillEmAll Genocide Run]], Flowey pops up at the very end, telling you he can be useful to you, and that he proved that by [[spoiler: killing the King]]. He then starts to stammer, before he [[spoiler: gains Asriel's VoiceGrunting and face]] and ''begs'' you not to kill him. [[spoiler: You then hit him with the knife, over and over and over, until there's ''nothing left of him'']].

* ''VideoGame/Waxworks1992'' is pretty much built on this, between being eviscerated by zombies to getting a face-full of disturbing FacialHorror.

* Miss Peaches in ''VideoGame/DogsLife'' invents a massive machine to turn dogs into cat food. However, the main character [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7bC_kAR-wU&t=5m30s is able to turn the tables on her]] and causes her to fall in the machine by '''[[ToiletHumour farting in her face.]]''' She comes out as an oversized can with her legs sticking out the bottom in a childish {{Slapstick}} gag, but then the machine realizes its mistake and pulls her ''back in!'' The machine exclaims that she has been "sliced, diced and mashed" and a row of cat food cans are seen exiting the machine.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' is rated E10+...[[spoiler:and then you get [[NoBodyLeftBehind the]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice deaths]] of the BigBadEnsemble in the bad endings.]]
** Some of the fighter reveal trailers get this too. For Ridley's reveal trailer, he crushes Mario's skull and impales Mega Man with his tail. In the Simon and Richter Belmont reveal trailer, Luigi comes face-to-face with Death, who, with a slash of his scythe, rips Luigi's soul out of his body. Of course, no one dies permanently in Smash. [[https://twitter.com/NintendoUKVS/status/1027210656821469184 Luigi is okay.]]

* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': The series is fairly violent already, but the electrocution deaths of some of the Pikmin stand out, being vaporized with visible skeletons (the third game only stuns them). There's also the death of the [[MixAndMatchCritters Burrowing Snagret.]] It simply explodes the first time you defeat it, and then allows you to ''carry its decapitated head back, eyes open and frozen'' (in the third game, you can carry its whole body). The game, like its predecessor, is rated E for Everyone.