History DeathByIrony / VideoGames

** The BigBad, Carlito, meets his end in a bizarrely poetic way: he started the Colorado [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]] to avenge his home, which was destroyed by the American meatpacking industry. In the end, he's maimed and killed by a cannibal trying to turn ''him'' into ground meat.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' has most of its boss fights end with the Psychopath dying in an ironic way, often with Chuck providing a BondOneLiner:

** Bibi Love: [[spoiler:Tries to crowd-surf into a swarm of zombies. Can actually be saved.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2'', a guard walks off to take a quick smoke. His partner warns him - smoking will kill him. Seconds later Predator rips out a hatch to enter the facility that these guards are guarding. Said hatch lands on poor mook, crushing him to death. Sign on said hatch says: ''No Smoking''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Arcanum}}'', Kerghan's goal is to create a technological portal that will exploit [[MagicVersusScience the fragile balance between magic and technology]] and free him from [[SealedEvilInACan the void.]] The game encourages you to destroy him with the Vendigroth Device, a technological weapon which utilises the same principle to turn his own magic against him.

* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic IV'', Mardor, captain of the town guard of Vitross, attempts to burn necromancer Gauldoth to death when the latter is wrongfully accused of being a child murderer. Gauldoth flees the town and returns several months later with an army which he uses to besiege and capture the town. One of his first acts as lord of Vitross is to have Mardor burned at the stake.
* Before the fight against [[VillainousGlutton Mhasse]] in ''VideoGame/HypeTheTimeQuest'' on top of the monastery's belfry, said fat monk threatens the Hype will be descending from the tower a lot faster than he came up it. He is defeated... when Hype sends him plummeting down the monastery's belfry. Subverted, as Mhasse doesn't die, by he is put out of commission nonetheless.
* In ''VideoGame/Killer7'', the original six members of the Smith Syndicate were killed by Emir Parkreiner (aka Garcian Smith) in ways that go against their character traits and abilities:

** The End is a legendary, stealthy sniper who draws strength from nature. The best ways to beat him are a) out-sniping him, and b) sneaking up on him and shooting him at close range.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' contains a rather subtle example. In the mission before the wedding, Peggy mentions that a black orchid flower will guarantee that she and Winston will be together for the rest of their lives. However, Wei STEALS those flowers, and from a sacred, non-corrupt Buddhist temple at that. Peggy and Winston certainly do stay together for the rest of their lives... until they are gunned down at their wedding shortly after.

* Rico Delgado can be fed to the hippo he used to dispose of the corpses of his enemies.

** Invoked by [[spoiler:The Boss, who has her final battle with Snake in a field filled with flowers. The player can beat her at CQC, wear the black Sneaking Suit to contast her white one, and/or use white camo to hide in the flowers. She's also the ''only'' required kill in the entire game, and Snake kills her with her own gun. She actually ''wanted'' her protege to surpass her in highly dramatic fashion.]]

** [[spoiler: Grimshaw died in the same spot where she killed Molly and in the same manner, shot in the stomach. The reason Grimshaw killed Molly]] because they thought the latter was a traitor, only for Grimshaw to be killed by the ''real'' traitor, Micah]].

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' contains a rather subtle example. [[spoiler:In the mission before the wedding, Peggy mentions that a black orchid flower will guarantee that she and Winston will be together for the rest of their lives. However, Wei STEALS those flowers, and from a sacred, non-corrupt Buddhist temple at that. Peggy and Winston certainly do stay together for the rest of their lives... until they are gunned down at their wedding shortly after.]]

* At the end of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'', villain Dr. Nefarious ends up stranded on an asteroid drifting through space. When he captures the heroes in the later game

** [[spoiler: Grimshaw]] died in the same spot where they killed [[spoiler: Molly]] and in the same manner, both of them being shot in the stomach. The reason [[spoiler: Grimshaw]] killed [[spoiler: Molly]] because they thought the latter was a traitor, only for [[spoiler: Grimshaw]] to be killed by the ''real'' traitor [[spoiler: Micah]].

** The BigBad, Carlito, meets his end in a bizarrely poetic way: he started the Colorado [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]] to avenge his home, which was destroyed by the American meatpacking industry. In the end, he's maimed and killed by a cannibal trying to grind him up.

* ''VideoGame/FableI'': The Guildmaster of the [[HeroesRUs Heroes Guild]] trains heroes to pursue great destinies, [[AboveGoodAndEvil unburdened by notions of good or evil]]. An evil protagonist, his star pupil, can kill him as a mere stepping stone to the climactic battle with Jack of Blades.

* ''VideoGame/FableI'': The Guildmaster of the [[HeroesRUs Heroes Guild]] trains heroes to pursue great destinies, [[AboveGoodAndEvil unburdened by notions of good or evil]]. An evil protagonist can kill him as a mere stepping stone to the climactic battle with Jack of Blades.

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':

** Myron is a [[{{Jerkass}} smug, obnoxious teenage brat]] who keeps bragging about inventing Jet, the most addictive and lethal drug around. The fact that he killed a hundred slaves to get the formula right doesn't bother him at all, nevermind the fact that it kills tons of people on a daily basis. Even if he isn't killed by the many horrible things out in the wastes, or [[KickTheSonOfABitch by the player]], then karma still manages to get the last laugh on him: the epilogue reveals that he gets stabbed to death by a Jet addict in a bar and he's more or less completely forgotten about in a month.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** In ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', the only hope of survival against the animatronics for Jeremy Fitzgerald (and Fritz Smith) is hiding in an empty Freddy Fazbear head. If they catch him, they kill him by stuffing him into a not-empty animatronic suit, and the Game Over screen shows Freddy himself doing the job.
** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' show that the [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]] William Afton, who lured at least five children away and killed them used a Spring-Bonnie animatronic/suit hybrid and an unseen Safe Room to commit his crimes. The Night 5 minigame shows what happened years after the fact - returning to the long-dead pizzeria to dismantle the animatronics, he is cornered in the Safe Room by the spirits of his victims and tries to hide in the same Spring-Bonnie suit. However, time, a leaky ceiling, and his laughter aren't too kind to the suit's already hazardous springlocks, which break - releasing the animatronic parts and tearing William's body apart from within, killing him in the very same Safe Room and costume (and perhaps by the very same method) he had used to kill others. And he's later shown to be haunting the animatronic that his corpse is trapped inside of, just like his victims had done.

* In ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'', Adrian Ripburger murders Malcolm Corley by beating him to death with his cane. Ben later talks to a Corley employee who tells him the company slogan is "Can't beat a Corley" and [[LampshadeHanging comments on the irony]].

* Interestingly, Scorpion now has [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the original Sub-Zero's]] Spine Rip fatality as his own in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''. For a real twist of irony, pull this classic fatality off on Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot. Maybe that'll teach them for pulling that stunt on him in ''Mortal Kombat'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4''. This is also how he killed the first Sub-Zero in the story mode of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', alongside his classic "Pull Off Mask and KillItWithFire" Fatality: all that's left of Bi-Han is a skull with the spine still attached.

* ''VideoGame/WildArms4'' has [[spoiler:Gawn Brawdia]], the trump card of Brionac, twelfth member of Lambda's Elite 11. He's killed by the eleventh missile of the system that was supposed to only have ten.

* In one quest in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' you meet a Dunmer trapped in a spider web. After killing the GiantSpider involved, he asks you to cut him loose in exchange for a MacGuffin. After you do, he shouts "YouFool" and runs ''deeper'' into the dungeon. Should the player choose not to pursue and kill him, he wakes up [[OurZombiesAreDifferent draugr]] that kill him, or failing that, steps on a pressure plate and gets splattered by a booby trap.
** Players who know that he's going to betray them can also keep swinging after he's loose, often killing him before he even has the chance to run. He did say [[ExactWords "cut me down,"]] after all.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout2''. Myron is a [[{{Jerkass}} smug, obnoxious teenage brat]] who keeps bragging about inventing Jet, the most addictive and lethal drug around. The fact that he killed a hundred slaves to get the formula right doesn't bother him at all, nevermind the fact that it kills tons of people on a daily basis. Even if he isn't killed by the many horrible things out in the wastes, or [[KickTheSonOfABitch by the player]], then karma still manages to get the last laugh on him: the epilogue reveals that he gets stabbed to death by a Jet addict in a bar and he's more or less completely forgotten about in a month.

** Kat was the brains of the team and the intel officer but got shot in the head due to a lack of situational awareness. And she ''may'' have forgotten to turn on her shields. Oh, and she repaired the transmitter that Carter used to send the signal that may have drawn their enemies to them.

** Emile loved sharp things and died by being stabbed. The blow didn't immediately kill him, as he was able to invoke TakingYouWithMe on the responsible Elite.

** ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd A Thief's End]]'' had Rafe Adler, who was so [[DrivenByEnvy envious]] of Nate's achievements that he decided he ''had'' to have all of Henry Avery's treasure, no matter what the cost was. When he gets sealed in Avery's burning cargo hold with the Drake Brothers, he [[StupidEvil snaps and tries to kill Nate]] in spite of the latter not giving a crap about the treasure anymore. As he monologues with Nate at his mercy, he steps underneath a hanging net full of gold and treasure as Nate slices the rope holding it up, [[DeathByLookingUp which lands on and crushes Rafe to death]].

** ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy The Lost Legacy]]'' had Asav, an [[SouthAsianTerrorists Indian terrorist]] planning to incite a civil war by driving a train carrying a bomb into a crowded city and blowing it up. [[AwesomeAussie Chloe]] and [[AmoralAfrikaner Nadine]] beat him up on his own train so that he slams into his bomb, snapping the ropes so that the bomb falls on top of his own leg, pinning him down and ensuring that he falls to his death, thanks to Chloe rerouting the train so that it goes over a broken bridge instead. And Chloe delivers one of Asav's own lines to him right before she leaves him to die: