History BetterToDieThanBeKilled / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has a background conversation between Liara and Glyph wherein the former discovers, to her utter horror, that in order to combat the invading [[CosmicHorror Reapers]], all the major cities on the colony of Tyvor detonated nuclear weapons inside them when the invasion arrived... with the population still present. Apparently this was not simply a case of a government imposing this on unsuspecting citizens, [[HeroicSacrifice but rather a democratic decision made by the entire population]], Given the [[MindRape nature of]] [[BodyHorror the Reapers]], this also counts as a global-scale IDieFree.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'', Lily [[DrivenToSuicide jumps into the Nugget Cave, an extremely deep hole in the sandbox]], after [[AlphaBitch Cindy]] empties a bucket of blood over her head. When Ms. Applegate finds out, she threatens to push Nugget in after her. He decides not to give her the satisfaction and jumps down himself.

* Part of the CreationMyth in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. Ormagöden, the Great Firebeast, chose to die by self-detonation rather than being drowned in mud by the First Ones, but his death destroyed the First Ones and gave the world the [[FourElementEnsemble Elements which became the foundation of the Age of Metal; Fire, Noise, Blood and Metal.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{AFK Arena}}'', Khasos was a slave who lost his excessively cruel master’s sheep after a sudden freak storm. He was brought out, lashed mercilessly while being insulted, and was about to be executed when he challenged his master — [[ProudWarriorRace which Maulers consider an inalienable right]] — with the goal of dying in combat instead of in disgrace. And then, to everyone’s shock [[BadassUnintentional including his own]], he ended up [[SubvertedTrope winning the duel and killing his master]].

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

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft''

** {{Implied}} in ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty''. Tychus Finley, an old friend of Jim Raynor is released from prison by Aucturus Mengsk, on the orders that he kill Sarah Kerrigan, and will be freed from his armor, or else the armor will kill him when Mengsk sends out a signal. At first Tychus was willing to go through with it, until he learned about Jim’s history with Kerrigan, causing him to hesitate to continue the mission. When Kerrigan has been deinfested by the Xel’Naga artifact, Tychus hesitates to carry out the deed, which gives Jim enough time to shoot Tychus in the head.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/SyphonFilterLogansShadow'', Shen Rei commits suicide to prevent his capture and interrogation.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'': At least one of the people on the Von Braun opted to hang himself rather than be assimilated by [[TheVirus the Many]], and you get a ghost-replay of another's last moments as he says his final words and blows his brains out. [[spoiler:Your alleged "guide" is revealed to have killed herself long before, too.]] There's also Captain William Diego, who had a med-robot cut the infection from his body in full knowledge that he would quickly succumb to blood loss, which he did.

** In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', upon death, Demon Hunter heroes will stab themselves with their own blades as they die, provided they are still in Night Elf form.

** {{Implied}} in ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty''. Tychus Finley, an old friend of Jim Raynor is released from prison by Aucturus Mengsk, on the orders that he kill Sara Kerrigan, and will be freed from his armor, or else the armor will kill him when Mengsk sends out a signal. At first Tychus was willing to go through with it, until he learned about Jim’s history with Kerrigan, causing him to hesitate to continue the mission. When Kerrigan has been deinfested by the Xel’Naga artifact, Tychus hesitates to carry out the deed, which gives Jim enough time to shoot Tychus in the head.

* ''VideoGame/JimsComputer'': Believing that something will climb out his closet and murder him, Jim kills himself using his gun.

* VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair has case four, which employs this trope, but turns it around yet plays it straight. To note, brief, mostly spoiler free explanation: The cast of the Killing School trip get locked in a funhouse, and are threatened to starve to death by the KillerGameMaster Monokuma. Unless someone gets ''killed'', he's willing to let them waste away and die of starvation.
** Now the spoilers; the killer [[spoiler: doesn't kill to prolong their life. They see starving to death as a BAD way to die. It's better to die in a blaze of glory, to face impossible odds, survival of the fittest! They go into the trial fully well knowing that they'll probably get found out, but either they'll die and the others will live, or the others will die and they've followed what they thought was best. Fitting for... [[note]]The Ultimate Breeder; Gundham Tanaka, to be a SacrificialLion[[/note]]]].

** The sirinde race in the Andromeda galaxy attempted this [[UpToEleven on a species-wide scale]]. They chose to poison their own genome in order to avoid being [[FateWorseThanDeath Exalted]] by the Kett Empire. [[GoneHorriblyWrong The attempt failed, and now the sirinde are dependent on Kett neuroscience to survive.]]

* After you defeat Colonel Radec in ''[[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} Killzone 2]]'', he and his men commit suicide, preferring death to being prisoners of the ISA.

** Now the spoilers; the killer [[spoiler: doesn't kill to prolong their life. They see starving to death as a BAD way to die. It's better to die in a blaze of glory, to face impossible odds, survival of the fittest! They go into the trial fully well knowing that they'll probably get found out, but either they'll die and the others will live, or the others will die and they've followed what they thought was best. Fitting for... [[note]]The Ultimate Breeder; Gundham Tanaka, to be a SacrificialLion[[/note]].

** Silus, a Caesar's Legion centurion and POW in Camp McCarran, [[DefiedTrope defies]] this. He confirms that he should've have commited suicide instead of letting himself be captured like Caesar demands. The reason he didn't, however, is because he felt that he didn't deserved to throw his own life away after everything he did for Caesar.

** In the quest "I Put a Spell on You", if you don't kill [[TheMole Curtis]] yourself, he commits suicide after you report him to Hsu. If you sell Arcade Gannon into slavery as Caesar's personal doctor, he eventually commits {{seppuku}} with a scalpel.

** In [[VideoGame/BioShock1 the first game]], Andrew Ryan opts to commit an interesting form of suicide both to deny Atlas the pleasure of killing him and to humiliate the player character: turns out you've been {{Brainwashed}} this entire time, and he uses your code words to make you kill him, while he taunts you for being a "slave".

* In the final stages of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'', [[ManipulativeBastard Hazama]] is beaten to within an inch of his life by Ragna. Rather than let his ArchEnemy kill him, he [[GoOutWithASmile Goes Out With A Smile]] and throws himself into the Boundary, a chaotic AlternateDimension where dying is one of the better outcomes.

* In ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', after being defeated, the Belkan government turns its nuclear stockpile on themselves, wiping out ''the entire country in a suicidal blaze''.

* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftI StarCraft: Brood War]]'', Admiral [=DuGalle=] writes a message to his wife, Helena, about the failures of the UED in the Koprulu sector before he kills himself out of shame, because he ordered the execution of his best friend, unknowingly cooperated with the BigBad to kill her enemy, practically handed said BigBad her new army, and then failed to kill the BigBad. A lot to be ashamed of. The ending text then notes that the Zerg caught up with them and not a single ship managed to leave Koprulu.

* Rugal Bernstein in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', being a [[CompleteMonster pure evil]] SoreLoser who does things ForTheEvulz, chooses to blow himself up with the ship he's aboard, hoping to [[TakingYouWithMe take the KOF victors with him]], instead of [[GracefulLoser accepting his defeat like a man]].