History DroppedABridgeOnHim / VideoGames

** Some may consider Johnson's death near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' this. At least he gets to help kill the guy that offed him.

* As of ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'', most of the original cast who don't appear are simply PutOnABus. However, it is explicitly stated that [[spoiler:poor Sophitia]] died at some point between ''V'' and ''IV''. The artbook suggests that [[spoiler:she had the fragment of Soul Edge near her heart surgically removed, forever freeing Pyrrha from it's influence at the cost of her own life]].

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has a literal example in the "Dwarven Atom Smasher". Using a draw bridge can/could crush anything beneath it into nothingness but later version can only crush trash and not something important like holier-than-thou Elven traders, uppity Goblins, [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} bloodthirsty elephants]], and [[KillerRabbit giant sponges]] coming to push the shit out of everyone in it's way.

* The gimmick of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'''s SuicideMission is that [[AnyoneCanDie anyone in your squad can die]]. The game tries its best to make sure that DeathIsDramatic, with several potential deaths using tropes like FamousLastWords, DiedInYourArmsTonight, SayMyName etc. In the end though, some deaths end up being very abrupt, such as if you did not upgrade the Normandy's cannon (where a character is impaled by a metal beam with a brief "Oh no! [squad member] is dead!" comment) and the HoldTheLine segment (where the camera just pans over the corpses of whichever characters did not make it). This can be especially bad if the character who dies is Shepard's LoveInterest.

* This trope is played for laughs somewhat in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'s'' fifth ending, in which Caim and the dragon, having defeated the UltimateEvil after following it through a rift in the space time continuum, are shot down by Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets. It's unbelievably anticlimactic to the point where after everything that has preceded it, you have to laugh.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 3'', it was stated that Jun, Baek, and indeed most of the cast of the original games had been killed and [[TheAssimilator absorbed]] by Ogre. Later games {{Retcon}}ed this by revealing that Baek and a few others (such as Lee, whose fighting set had been copied by Ogre, implying his death) had survived.

* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006: Say what you want but admit it, Sonic's temporary death in the final story through giant laser from a distance by the game's villain was just cheap, anti climatic and had no build up whatsoever. You think they could've given Sonic a more climatic and ceremonious way to die..... Not to mention said villain had absolutely no interaction with Sonic throughout his own story. Despite you know.....SONIC BEING THE TITLE CHARACTER AND ON THE GAME'S BOX ART!

* SonicTheHedgehog2006: Say what you want but admit it, Sonic's temporary death in the final story through giant laser from a distance by the game's villain was just cheap, anti climatic and had no build up whatsoever. You think they could've given Sonic a more climatic and ceremonious way to die..... Not to mention said villain had absolutely no interaction with Sonic throughout his own story. Despite you know.....SONIC BEING THE TITLE CHARACTER AND ON THE GAME'S BOX ART!

* ''GearsOfWar3'' features Marcus Fenix and Anya Stroud getting into a relationship that had been hinted at since the first game. ''Gears of War 4'' reveals that Anya has died in the 25 years since the previous game, with not a single word of her fate revealed beyond that.

* SonicTheHedgehog2006: Say what you want but admit it, Sonic's temporary death in the final story through giant laser from a distance by the game's villain was just cheap, anti climatic and had no build up whatsoever. Not to mention said villain had absolutely no interaction with Sonic throughout his own story. Despite you know.....SONIC BEING THE TITLE CHARACTER AND ON THE GAME'S BOX ART!

* SonicTheHedgehog2006: Say what you want but admit it, Sonic's temporary death through giant laser from a distance was just cheap, anti climatic and had no build up whatsoever.

* SonicTheHedgehog2006: Say what you want but admit it, Sonic's temporary death was just cheap, anti climatic and had no build up whatsoever.

*** Vivec, the only surviving member of the [[PhysicalGod Tribunal]], disappears during the Oblivion Crisis, having either been taken by the Daedra or fled to [[SpiritWorld Aetherius]].

* When Eric Chahi created ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'', he had no intention of making a sequel, preferring to let the ambiguous ending (Buddy loading Lester's broken body into a pterodactyl and flying it to safety) stand alone. [[ExecutiveMeddling Interplay wasn't about to have any of that.]] So when ''Heart of the Alien'' was made, it became clear there was no feasible way of sending Lester back to his home world. Thus, Lester dies saving Buddy and the game ends with his cremation.

** Also happens during one of the endings [[spoiler:w here Vincent chases after C-Catherine because he loves her, but due to his lack of chaos (Chaos and Law is basically the game's karma meter) he get's promptly ran over by a truck, with his friend doing an epic JawDrop in shock.]]

* ''SilentHill3'' killed off the main character from the very first Silent Hill game, Harry, by having his beloved daughter, your character, Heather, arrive at their house to find him dead. For those who played the first Silent Hill and may have had some sympathetic attachment to Harry, this was an extremely abrupt off-screen affair. A bit of time is spent mourning him, but not much. It's odd when you think that the things Harry knew could probably have prevented most of the game, if he'd been alive to tell Heather. Also combines with StuffedInTheFridge, since it's done to fill Heather with hatred and give her a motive for revenge.

* In ''{{Tekken}} 3'', it was stated that Jun, Baek, and indeed most of the cast of the original games had been killed and [[TheAssimilator absorbed]] by Ogre. Later games {{Retcon}}ed this by revealing that Baek and a few others (such as Lee, whose fighting set had been copied by Ogre, implying his death) had survived.

* ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' retroactively did this to a fair number of major characters and factions from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. Off the top of my head: The Nerevarine, aka, the PC of ''Morrowind'', vanished during an expedition to Akavir, Caius Cosades apparently fell off the face of Tamriel, Vivec was either kidnapped by Daedra or escaped to Aetherius, and House Redoran was almost completely wiped by Mehrunes Dagon's invasion.
** A letter in ''Oblivion'' states that Caius Cosades was stationed in Kragenmoor on the Morrowind mainland during the Oblivion crisis. What happened to him after that is up to speculation.
** It's been revealed that Red Mountain ''erupted'' sometime after the events of ''Oblivion''. Oh, and remember how Vivec was kidnapped? It turns out that his presence was the only thing keeping [[ThatsNoMoon the Ministry of Truth]] in the air, and it crashed into Vvardenfall. Literally the ''entire island'' was destroyed. Yeah, things aren't going very well throughout the empire right now, but Morrowind definitely has it worse then anyone else.

* Played for laughs ''and'' drama in obscure adventure game ''ShadowOfDestiny'', in which the entire goal of the game is to travel back in time and prevent your own murder; some deaths are dramatic, some are just plain funny. In the C ending in which the player does the bare minimum to win, Eike finally prevents his own murder, lies down on the road to contemplate his own existence, and, after a soulful monologue, ''gets run over by a drunk driver''.

* In ''{{Starcraft}}'', the Zerg cerebrates were stated to have died out in between Brood Wars and Starcraft II by [[WordOfGod Chris Metzen]] due to the death of the [[HiveMind Overmind]]. But that was because most of the cerebrates had merged into that Overmind, including Daggoth.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', Liberty Prime, the DeusExMachina of the main game, is nuked from orbit during the first quest of the ''Broken Steel'' add-on.

* In ''MetalGearSolid4'', After coming BackFromTheDead, Liquid Snake is not defeated and killed in a fistfight with Solid Snake but actually by having his arm surgically removed from Ocelot's body and getting replaced with a mechanical prosthetic ''before the game even started.'' Ocelot simply uses a combination of nanomachines and hypnotherapy to make himself think he was Liquid all along.
** Subverted in VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2, where Solid Snake is seemingly killed when the tanker sinks in the prologue, [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent causing the perspective to shift to Raiden]]. However, it quickly becomes clear that Snake survived after all.