Most Badass Character Death.

[Spark Ignition]

Not a game but
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

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Kittan.

The whole episode is unbelievably epic. I get shivers just listening to Libera Me now...

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The Predator from... Predator.

After wiping out an entire squad, and nearly killing Arnie, he still self-destructs himself and laughs about it all!

 

[The Night Shade]

Gray Fox from MGS 1 he gets his arm cut off then he is step on by the Metal Gear

 

[AlternatePFG]

I've always gone back to Boromir's death in The Two Towers. Peter Jackson did it proper justice in Fellowship, for which I commend him.

I'd agree, the scene in the movie was pretty awesome.

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Asch's death from Tales of the Abyss was pretty awesome.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Pain...

 

[Blackmagic1515]

I'm gunna go with Duncan from Dragon Age: Origins.

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He knife climbs his way up an Ogre and slays the beast that murdered his King. Then is killed while protecting his King's corpse. Even if you didn't know Duncan very well, that death hit hard.

 

[crixus]

what about Bill in l4d?

 

[C95J]

Spoiler: Dead Space Spoilers

When Zach Hammond gets destroyed by that Brute.

Now that was badass!

 

[Zhukov]

"A slave obeys!"

*thunk*

"Obey!"

*thunk-crack*

 

[Ganthrinor]

Chrono's Death from Chrono Trigger.

Still one of the best scenes in a game I've ever played. Lavos totally Party-kills you a couple times through the game as plot, but never until this point does he actually disintegrate a member... the party leader and main titular character, no less.

Spoiler: Chrono Death (long in-game scene)

Spoiler: Short Anime Version from the game's PSX re-release

 

[Gigaguy64]

Spoiler: Kikuchiyo from Samurai 7

So after being shot many times, beaten with guns, falling from a flying fortress and loosing his right arm, he take the weapon of a Nobuseri(one of the series giant Mecha, its many times his own size), causes it to start vibrating, and stands in front of the Crash landing Capital City(the flying Fortress), stopping it from crashing into the Village he was protecting.
He literally explodes from the energy he was releasing, all that's left of him after the battle is his boots and melted pieces of his body

Truly a bro and one of the best characters in the series, if not ever.

 

[Idiotastic]

Gonna have to be Andrew Ryan.

This.

And in movies i've got to say:

V,from V for vendetta.

Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Zack Fair. Crisis Core. 'Nuff said

Although I agree this was really well done, I wouldn't really call it badass. Sure, he kills a whole bunch of soldiers, but I found it to be far too sad to be badass. Maybe that's just me.

OT:

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Raziel at the end of LoKefiance. Partially because its his way of flipping the Wheel the bird, metaphorically speaking, and partially because I love awesome mini-speeches at death.

 

[Okamipsychonaut]

Roy Batty in Bladerunner. His dying lines inspired the creation of song lyrics and Bladerunner itself...whole genres of music.

 

[mitchell271]

Noble 6 or Emile in Halo: Reach. He gets stabbed in the chest, swings around and snaps the Elite's neck then dies. Noble .6 takes down 4 Elite's while lying on the ground

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Nordrom, Planescape Torment:

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After another lifetime of struggling, you the Nameless One faces down his very mortality which has grown into a being of near inconceivable power. Nordrom, being a construct, knows that his odds of defeating the Transcendent One are slim and that the most likely outcome of standing against him is death. And yet, this little cubic warrior, who's crossbows were more worldly than he, decides that he should stand in defense of the Nameless One despite the risks because the Nameless One once did the same for him. It ends exactly as you would expect. An ineffectual attack that was little more than a gesture followed by the instant destruction of Nordrom.

 

[Cogwheel]

Nordrom, Planescape Torment:

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After another lifetime of struggling, you the Nameless One faces down his very mortality which has grown into a being of near inconceivable power. Nordrom, being a construct, knows that his odds of defeating the Transcendent One are slim and that the most likely outcome of standing against him is death. And yet, this little cubic warrior, who's crossbows were more worldly than he, decides that he should stand in defense of the Nameless One despite the risks because the Nameless One once did the same for him. It ends exactly as you would expect. An ineffectual attack that was little more than a gesture followed by the instant destruction of Nordrom.

Agreed, though his name was Nordom. Very, very awesome scene, anyway. "Nordom will attempt to stop you. Prospect of success: Slight".

And from the same game,

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Dak'kon. He doesn't even need to say that much, just "I have been here before. This time, I shall never leave."

I'd mention TNO himself, but that was a bit too... peaceful to count, really. More "good, now I can finally die."

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Nordrom, Planescape Torment:

Spoiler

After another lifetime of struggling, you the Nameless One faces down his very mortality which has grown into a being of near inconceivable power. Nordrom, being a construct, knows that his odds of defeating the Transcendent One are slim and that the most likely outcome of standing against him is death. And yet, this little cubic warrior, who's crossbows were more worldly than he, decides that he should stand in defense of the Nameless One despite the risks because the Nameless One once did the same for him. It ends exactly as you would expect. An ineffectual attack that was little more than a gesture followed by the instant destruction of Nordrom.

Agreed, though his name was Nordom. Very, very awesome scene, anyway. "Nordom will attempt to stop you. Prospect of success: Slight".

And from the same game,

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Dak'kon. He doesn't even need to say that much, just "I have been here before. This time, I shall never leave."

I'd mention TNO himself, but that was a bit too... peaceful to count, really. More "good, now I can finally die."

I somehow always forget that his name is just Modron spelled backwards. This should be easy to remember since he is a Modron after all.

 

[emeraldrafael]

The protagonist of Pesona 3, Kurtis from Disgaea Hour Of Darkness, no one can deny either of these are badass.

Dang. Now I gotta think of a new one.

hm... not game related, but
Spike from Cowboy Bebop. And if not him, most certainly Vicious. the part with julia was just... well, that was exposition, but overkill.

Game related. Well, it was on multiplayer and it was more my friend, Jake, then me, but I still enjoyed it immensely and had to give him a salute. We were playing Star Wars Battle Front 2 and it was in space. My friends and I had set up a tournament kinda deal for split screen space battles since the online play was lacking at the time. My team needed to win and so Jake, desperate, kamikaze'd himself into the enemy capital ship, destroying one of the five key outer points and getting us the game winning points.

So yeah, that probably doesnt count, but damn, it was amazing.

 

[Moonpig123]

Edward Hyde from Volume II of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

He waltzes casually to his fate merrily singing 'You Should See Me Dance The Polka', and gets fried by a massive metal alien tripod. He's not down yet, though. He gets back up-now with HIS SKIN MISSING-and proceeds to crush one of the tripod's legs, sending it toppling to the ground, and then tears off the hatch and EATS THE HEAD of the alien inside. It then takes the combined laser blasts of THREE other tripods, fired in one burst, to finally kill him. As Captain Nemo says: "We have no way of knowing if those things feel any emotion... but we can be certain that Hyde taught them terror."

Can't remember the exact quote (I'm tired and too lazy to go into the next room and dig out my copy of the book), but that's pretty much it. And it sums up Hyde's last stand perfectly.