Your Favorite Video Game Antagonist Death

Yeah, pretty self explanatory. Discuss/Tell us your favorite antagonist from a game series' death. Why you think they deserved it, why you think it was awesome, what MADE it awesome (The visuals, the music, anything), cause we all have that one villain whose death hit us good.

For me, it's a Toss up between Ganon in Twilight Princess, and Joker from Arkham City.. The first being, well, he lived as a bad ass, so he died as a bad ass. The second...well, I don't spoil it for the people who have played it, but it tugged at Heartstrings.

Yours?

Eliphas being sacrificed for being a crappy shot failing the Chaos Gods.

Ninetails's death in Okami was brilliant. The guy killed a priest, took on her form, uses it to persuade you into getting powerful demon weapons for him, kills the Queen of a city-state right in front of you, and she uses the last of her power to tell you the one location Ninetails can be found at before being lost forever.

Then you have to get a dragon to breach the barrier on his island fortress before it disappears, go through the fortress and his army of demons, and when you finally begin the fight, it's in the same way you've been getting powerups all along. He even can use the same superpowers you do and cancel your own. Ninetails is enhanced by nine fox spirits, and when you kill eight of them, we see all that remains is a tired old fox monster that can barely attack you. When you win, you feel freakin' awesome.

Albedo's death in Xenosaga. His actual death, or whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxxUYG-z6A

"Rubedo... I'm really tired... I'm going to sleep for a while.."

Crazy bastard actually redeemed himself. With what was once called the Deus System as a backdrop.

edited 12th Nov '11 12:13:30 AM by anathame

Andrew Ryan's death scene from Bioshock was incredibly awesome, as was Fontaine's Also, while it's technically not a death, Wheatley's defeat in Portal 2 was very entertaining as well.

edited 11th Nov '11 2:47:36 PM by carkaroth

Talking down The Master in Fallout 1 is very satisfying.

The Nihilanth. You split open his brain and then attack it.

Not a death, per se, but taking down the Sheriff in the "Blacklisted" event in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is satisfying.

That Japanese guy from the Three Kings mission is fun to kill with his own satellites.

Lastly, taking out Snarbolax never gets old.

edited 11th Nov '11 2:56:20 PM by RocketDude

Damn, if I'd known what game that spoiler was for in the opening post, I wouldn't have read it :( Oh well.

The first thing that sprang to my mind when I read the title was Griffon's death in Devil May Cry, but not, I think, for the same reasons everyone else has a favourite death here. I actually felt quite bad for Griffon, he seemed quite a simple sort who only wanted to please Mundus, and begs him for another chance to defeat Dante. Instead, Mundus kills him. Griffon's cries when he's being turned into the biggest roast fowl ever just really got me, for some reason.

Andrew Ryan's death. It actually freaked me out. Volgin's death in MGS 3 was very satisfying.

I found Vamp's death in MGS 4 strange as all the other bosses gave speeches as they died. However, Vamp just wanted to off himself as soon as he could. I also found it strange that I actually felt sorry for him.

Ganondorf's defeat in The Wind Waker.

Link drives the Master Sword into Ganondorf's head. Holy shit.

Of course, it just turns him to stone, so he'll probably be back eventually, but still, holy shit.

edited 11th Nov '11 6:44:36 PM by Zennistrad

Phoenix Wright "killing" Dr. Doom through the power of justice and evidence.

"NO JUSTICE NO ALBI NO DREAM NO HOPE!!"

I really liked Ganondorf's death in Twilight Princess.

I also liked Zant's death as he gets impaled on Midna's ponytail.

Heiss' death in Radiant Historia's True End. He doesn't stay an antagonist to the end.

The first Diablo game had the best ending ever:

Hm... Gannondorf's death from Wind Waker...

Dude took a sword to the freaking head... AND SAW IT COMING!

Pretty much all the deaths in the no more heroes series are very gorey.

Like said before, Ganondorf's death in WW.

Ooh... tough question. Probably Jon Irenicus from Baldur's Gate II. He's tortured you, killed your friends, kidnapped your childhood friend and done horrible things to her, spoiler: stolen your soul and when you finally catch up to him he's ravaged an elven city. Then you're treating to an awesome dialogue that finally spells out what happened to him (he deserved it) and then you kill him.

And then he drags you into Hell. Bad. Ass.

And then you kill him and feed him to the Bhaalspawn.

EDIT: Alternatively, the final boss of Arcanum can be talked down in a truly glorious dialogue that involves philosophy and the meaning of life. If you're persuasive enough, you can convince him to give up his plot to destroy everything that lives and choose Final Death. And he thanks you for it. Glorious.

edited 12th Nov '11 2:26:02 AM by Watashiwa

Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2 was pretty satisfying, after all he put Drake through in the game.

Yami in Okami mainly because the whole sequence is a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for just about the entire cast, especially Issun.

Loghain Redemption ending of DAO.

Definitely seconding Yami from Okami. Taking that sucker down for the final time was one of the most satisfying things I've ever done. Especially after his third form. The upgraded brush powers and incredible music help add a lot to the scene.

Luca Blight's death.

OH! either that or Zelos's death after you start Kratos's ending in Tales Of Symphonia

edited 12th Nov '11 6:53:51 AM by Tarsen

The boss of the Dragon Age II DLC, Mark of the Assassin.

Depending on your ending, there's more than one way for Leland to die in Alpha Protocol. The best of them is this one.

Even though it's not by your own hand, it's rather satisfying to see Ephidel's death in Fire Emblem 7. Though admittedly never shown dying, per se, getting drawn into a portal in which the dragons exist and have a general beef with humanoids was probably never gonna end well for him in any respect.