History DyingMomentOfAwesome / VideoGames

* While the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series never shows a character dying on screen, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' has [[spoiler:Dhruke]] dying in an awesome, yet mundane way. They are shot by the killer three times and he just stands there while giving both a DeathGlare and a BadassBoast to them before dying moments later, causing said killer to [[OhCrap figuratively shit his pants]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the scene]]. And it doesn't end with his death either; his last words tell his fellow hostage to channel his spirit as soon as he dies, so he can take care of just a few more things... which include making sure the revolution he was heading gets the last push it needed to succeed.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', of course, subverts this in the most depressing way imaginable. Throughout your journey, you meet the jolly knight Siegmeyer of Catarina. Every time you meet him, he prepares to do a HeroicSacrifice to save you. Being the good guy that you are, you of course intervene to help him. However, as an undead, he needs to feel that he has a purpose to avoid going hollow. Since you always undermine his attempts at saving you, he starts feeling that you don't need him and that he has no purpose. YouBastard
** His successor Siegward in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' has a significantly more awesome end. What else can you call it when he battles a giant by your side and has a final drink with you before expiring from his wounds?

* Grom Hellscream in ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft 3]]'' has one of the most epic deaths of any major character in the game. To save his clan from their demonic bloodlust and free them from Mannoroth's control, he and Thrall track down the demon. Grom's axe splits the demon's armour and chest in half, killing him in a burst of flame.

*** Jorge manually detonates a slipspace 'bomb' while aboard a captured Covenant Corvette, and the ensuing space-time rift destroys a massive Covenant Supercarrier, costing the Covenant a rare & powerful vessel and the (likely estimate) 100,000+ personnel aboard it. [[spoiler:[[NegatedMomentOfAwesome Then another]] [[SenselessSacrifice Covenant fleet arrives]]]].
*** Carter disposes of a Scarab blocking Six & Emile's path by ramming the badly-damaged Pelican he's piloting into the walker. "You're on your own Noble. Carter out."

--->'''Mission''': Fall of Reach. '''Objective''': Survive. '''Briefing''': Spartans. Never. Die.

*** Thane also asks Shepard to tell the assassin that he should be ashamed at having been prevented from killing his target by a terminally-ill opponent.

---> Later, Dirk manages to do the same thing by using two Chronicles at once, one of which had already been expended in such a fashion, and should have been normally impossible.

--> '''Rodrik:''' ''Let me save your life, and our house.''

--> '''Mira:''' ''Iron From Ice!'''

-->'''Priestess:''' As we commend your souls to Aetherius, blessings of the Eight Divines-
-->'''Soldier:''' "For the love of Talos[[labelnote:*]]The Ninth Divine, a Nord who was believed to have become a god, the worship of which the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] have forbidden[[/labelnote]], shut up and let's get this over with."

-->'''Soldier:''' "My ancestors are smiling upon me, can you say the same?"

-->'''Tullius:''' "Well, Ulfric, you can't escape from me this time. Any last words before I send you to... to wherever you people go when you die?"
-->'''Rikke:''' "Sovngarde, sir."
-->'''Tullius:''' "Right. Well?"
-->'''Ulfric:''' "Let the Dragonborn do it. It'll make for a better song."

-->'''Eredin:''' Any last words?
-->'''Crach:''' Shut your trap...and fight!

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has ''four'', if the player goes the Genocide route. First there is [[spoiler: Papyrus who defiantly says that they truly believe the player can be good if they try]], then the player meets [[spoiler: Undyne who dies, ''comes back thrice as strong'' and dies because her body gives out (not because of the player) while showing a big grin as she announces that thanks to her, the other monsters will have escaped]]. Then the player meets [[spoiler: Mettaton, who shows a impressive form, but is extremely weak. He is this nonetheless, because he fought DESPITE knowing he will instantly die. And if the player didn't exhaust the kill counter, he declares it a win for himself since the player can't be as bloodthirsty as they seemed]]. And then there is [[spoiler: Sans, who gives the player the most brutal beat down ever and when he gets fatally hit, he simply shrugs it off and walks off-screen so that the player can't even gloat him in his face as he dies]].

* An off-screen one happens in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', when you come across the aftermath of a battle in the Icineration Disposal Plant. The T-103 tyrant you ran into in the previous game was already troubling to fight on your own, but you'll find the corpses of '''three''' of them with the bodies of an entire Delta Force team that killed them all with a combination of [[{{Determinator}} desperation]] and the power of MoreDakka.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', of course, subverts this in the most depressing way imagineable. Throughout your journey, you meet the jolly knight Siegmeyer of Catarina. Every time you meet him, he prepares to do a HeroicSacrifice to save you. Being the good guy that you are, you of course intervene to help him. However, as an undead, he needs to feel that he has a purpose to avoid going hollow. Since you always undermine his attempts at saving you, he starts feeling that you don't need him and that he has no purpose. YouBastard

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has [[spoiler: [[OldMaster Gen]] ''finally'' [[DeathSeeker getting to die in exactly the way he wanted]]: a DuelToTheDeath with Akuma, rather than of his cancer.]] Not only that, but he also [[spoiler: uses his FamousLastWords to [[DefiantToTheEnd figuratively spit on Akuma's face]].]]

* Asch's death in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' gets its own little video. Unarmed at first, he manages to fight off dozens of soldiers but then ends up stabbed in the back. The sword goes through him, another three swords get stabbed through his body. He kills the last remaining soldiers, ''remains standing and pulls one of the swords out'' before his strength leaves him and he falls to the ground. Also contains a GoOutWithASmile seconds before he slides down the wall.

* VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': What turned Ash Crimson from TheScrappy to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap the contrary]] for a good part of the fandom is how, at the end of the Tales of Ash saga, his supposed EvilPlan was revealed to be a huge [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]] that covered his true BatmanGambit, which he deployed to protect his OnlyFriend Elisabeth... and finished with him ''willingly erasing himself from existence alongside his ancestor Saiki'' to do so. The fact that Ash also got to FaceDeathwithDignity and GoOutWithASmile sealed the deal.

* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', this is pretty much how the last two episodes are! Episode 21 has Yasha getting into one last battle with Asura which has a hidden purpose: to awaken the Mantra Reactor he placed inside of him, showing he ripped out his own core to help power it. Episode 22 is this in spades with Asura flying to the ends of the galaxy to fight [[spoiler: [[GodIsEvil Chakravartin]] to rescue his daughter Mithra, as well as keep him from destroying Gaea. Even when Mithra tells Asura that he will die if he kills Chakravartin, Asura just cares that Mithra will still live as he finishes off Chakravartin once and for all. In that moment as he disintegrates, he finally feels his rage is gone and can finally join his wife in death.]]

*** Although if he waited, he might have lived...

** Axel's death in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. He puts all his remaining strength into an attack to save Sora, and pays the price for it. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance He gets better...sort of.]]

*** Six fights off an impossibly large never-ending swarm of Covenant soldiers, reportedly taking down entire battalions of Covenant, eventually being taken down by an elite team of Elites, and managing to kill about half of them before succumbing.

** VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder has the Nazis killing everyone in an assylum. Once Bj starts hs killing spree, a [[BadassBystander dead nurse is seen in the background with a shotgun]]... And the corpse of Deathshead's Commando a few feet from her.

* An off-screen one happens in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', when you come across the aftermath of a battle in the Icineration Disposal Plant. The T-103 tyrant you ran into in the previous game was already troubling to fight on your own, but you'll find the corpses of '''three''' of them with the bodies of an entire Delta Force team that killed them all with a combination of [[{{Determinator}} desperation]] and the power of MoreDakka.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/GodOfWar 3'' sees Athena demanding the power of Hope back from Kratos so she can use it to remake the world. In a last act of defiance, Kratos impales himself with the Blade of Olympus, releasing the power of Hope to all of mankind.

* VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': What turned Ash Crimson from TheScrappy to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap the contrary]] for a good part of the fandom is how, at the end of the Tales of Ash saga, his supposed EvilPlan was revealed to be a huge JerkAssFacade that covered his true BatmanGambit, which he deployed to protect his OnlyFriend Elisabeth... and finished with him ''willingly erasing himself from existence alongside his ancestor Saiki'' to do so. The fact that Ash also got to FaceDeathwithDignity and GoOutWithASmile sealed the deal.

* In the Jedi Knight storyline on Voss in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic Star Wars The Old Republic]], the player [[spoiler: encounters a character named Tala-Reh, who helps them with their adventures on the planet. At the end of the last story mission on that planet, Tala-Reh sacrifices herself - on orders of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadOracle the mystic Valen-Da]] and knowing full well that it would kill her - to defeat Sel-Makor, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination being]] that had corrupted much of Voss and engineered a war to increase its own power. If the Knight chooses the Light Side option and doesn't join Sel-Makor, the last thing you see of Tala-Reh is her marching into the tentacled orifice of Sel-Makor.]]

* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' has an off-screen moment of this at the start of the game, when the Nazis are overrunning the hospital and killing all within. You can find slumped up against the wall, the dead body of a nurse with a shotgun at her side. A few feet away opposite her lies a dead Nazi stormtrooper.

* While the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series never shows a character dying on screen, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' has [[spoiler:Dhruke]] dying in an awesome, yet mundane way. They are shot by the killer three times and he just stands there while giving both a DeathGlare and a BadassBoast to them before dying moments later, causing said killer to [[OhCrap figuratively shit his pants]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee the scene]].

*** Emile gets impaled through the chest from behind by an Elite Zealot. Not missing a beat, he draws his huge-ass knife, spins around in the Elite's grip, and stabs the Elite in the neck with it, taking the Zealot down in his final act. "I'm ready, how about you?"
*** Six fights off an impossibly large never-ending swarm of Covenant soldiers, eventually being taken down by an elite team of Elites, and managing to kill about half of them before succumbing.

-->'''Soldier:''' "For the love of Talos, shut up and let's get this over with."

* An off-screen one happens in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', when you come across the aftermath of a battle in the Icineration Disposal Plant. The T-103 tyrant you ran into in the previous game was already troubling to fight on your own, but you'll find the corpses of '''three''' of them with the bodies of an entire Delta Force team that killed them all with a combination of [[Determinator desperation]] and the power of MoreDakka.

* An off-screen one happens in '''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''', when you come across the aftermath of a battle in the Icineration Disposal Plant. The T-103 tyrant you ran into in the previous game was already troubling to fight on your own, but you'll find the corpses of '''three''' of them with the bodies of an entire Delta Force team that killed them all with a combination of [[Determinator desperation]] and the power of MoreDakka.

* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' has an off-screen moment of this at the start of the game, when the Nazis are overrunning the hospital and killing all within. You can find slumped up against the wall, the dead body of a nurse with a shotgun at her side. A few feet away opposite her lies a dead Nazi stormtrooper.

* Axel's death in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. He puts all his remaining strength into an attack to save Sora, and pays the price for it. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance He gets better...sort of.]]

* ''TheWitcher3WildHunt'' has some truly memorable deaths:

** Also, technically Wander's death, although he is essentially BackFromTheDead/[[{{Reincarnation}} Reincarnated]] by the end of the game.

* SuikodenTierkreis has Second Royal Consort Rizwan, the head of the Janam Arcane Academy. When [[ChurchOfEvil The Order]] uses their plan to wipe out Janam using [[RetGone a world fusion]], Rizwan uses the [[MacGuffin Chronicle]] to attempt to stop it. She manages to save the southern port town of Salsabil, as well as [[TheWisePrince Prince Shams]], who was visiting there at the time. She also manages to keep the city of El-Qaral intact.

* ''VideoGame/Bioshock'': Andrew Ryan from [[VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}} the first game]] [[spoiler:reveals that you've been a ManchurianAgent all along, and Atlas's CatchPhrase, "would you kindly", is actually your TriggerPhrase. He demonstrates just how little control you truly have over the situation by making you run, stop, turn on command. Then he hands you his golf club and orders you to kill him. [[CutsceneBoss Without regaining control]], you obey.]]

* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''.
** Depending if the ending you get in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'' is rather the normal or good types, Subject Delta