Most Badass Character Death.

[blind_dead_mcjones]

Jan Templars death in Killzone 2


also a few non game related badass deaths, anavel gato's in gundam 0083, norris packard's in the 08th ms team, zabuza's in naruto (manga version: where he beheads a guy with a knife held between his teeth despite having all manner of weapons stuck in his back) roy fokker in macross, and lockon stratos's in the first season of gundam 00

finally, the most badass of them all, major kong's in dr strangelove

 

[Astoria]

Probably not the most badass death but it's the only one I can think of right now. Hudson in Aliens. Sure, he does nothing but complain for most of the movie but when it comes to the crunch he completly changes and just blasts the crap out of the aliens whilst swearing like...well a marine and only falters when a alien sneaks underneath him and pulls him down in the floor.

 

[Zarthek]

As always -

Going with this, With Liberty Prime being nuked from orbit as a close second.

 

[Ultraman950]

The opening of Mass Effect 2.

Spoiler

Sure, Shep comes back later, but s/he still dies.

Oh, c'mon, how is death by captain-blows-up-with-ship, followed by explosion-forced-ejection into space, asphixiation, and atmospheric re-entry NOT awesome?

 

[Ordinaryundone]

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.

QFT. I love that series so much...

Game related....

Spoiler: Raiden from MGS4

He never actually dies all the way, but he gets two very badass "death" scenes near the end of the game. One where he stands in front of Arsenal Gear (a ship the size of Central Park), holding it back to save Snake from getting run over. It slowly and painfully pushes him back, crushing him under it to the point he has to impale himself with his sword for leverage. The second being protecting Snake from a group of Ocelot's best commandos, while having no arms. Throughout the next scene you get flashes to Raiden fighting the mob, taking a huge number of them with him but slowly succumbing to the numbers. Mind, he is doing this with NO ARMS.

 

[amoamaremetallum]

John Marston from RDR.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Red Dead Redemption
John Marston. You gun down as many of the fuckers as your dead-eye meter allows you to...but it's futile. Still...you're a cow-boy, and you aint gonna go down without no fight.

Bioshock
Andrew Ryan. That scene in general is so well done. I mean...you never have control taken away from you until then...and why? Because you're being mind-controlled, and at that instance everything that happened before hits you like a brick. His death is also quite admirable. Sure he had a rather messed up philosophy, and he then proceeded to turn his back on that philosophy in a pathetic attempt to keep hold of power, but he went down a 'man' and not a 'slave'. He chose his death, and by making you do it against your will, highlighted you as just a slave. Powerful.

Halo Reach
Emille in particular had a cool death. Gets over-run with Zealot Elites, guns one of them down point blank, but gets back-stabbed by another. With a sword thrust right through his stomach he's still able to swing around and shove a knife in his killers neck.

"I'm ready! How 'bout you?"


Noble Six's death is also great. You keep on fighting until it's wave after wave of Elites, and you're getting hammered with Wraith mortars. Eventually you have to die, but you go down fighting.

Mass Effect 2
Not really bad-ass at all, but if you're fail-shep on the suicide mission, then you die. It's kind of touching seeing all your squad die, only for Sheppard to fall from the Normandy at the very end, all the while pleading Joker to get the hell out of there so he can tell the galaxy the reapers are coming.

You took almost everything I would have said. Except for Dead Space's ridiculous deaths of course.

Spoiler

 

[Mikeyfell]

Spoiler

Sullivan from Dead Rising 2
that was the best kill in anything

 

[DemonCleaner]

Spike from Cowboy Bebop
"Bang..."

 

[Warachia]

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

I can, the protagonist I still can't figure out why he died, with the game giving me a spit in the face making everybody forget everything, and kurtis was undermined when he comes back. Feels like he never died at all.

 

[Athol]

Dinobot from Beastwars.

I first saw this when I was 8 and yes I did cry. Dinobot was one of the deepest characters of all time. He went from villian to hero to martyr.

Hell, Im 26 and it still brings a tear to my eye.

Tell my tale to those who ask it. Tell it truly, the good and the bad, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.

 

[CTL1989]

Digital Devil Saga 2

Spoiler

Poor, poor Cielo

 

[Spark Ignition]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
RIP Bill.
You were aways my favourite

 

[Spark Ignition]

Sig in Jak 2 (kinda)

 

[Nouw]

In a movie I have to say either Private Watkins? or Hudson.
One dies from blowing up bugs with a nuke, the other dies while shooting down a swarm of aliens and swearing like a badass.

Game? Probably some people from Dawn of War or Starcraft.

Wait a second,

No Tassadar?I disappoint.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I'll go with this one from Ace Combat 5

Spoiler

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

The ending to the movie I Am Legend was a pretty badass way to die, even if it made the "zombies" seem like yet another mindless foe to rid the world of.

Spoiler: I Am Legend spoilers within:

To speak for a game, the only true badass death I can think of would be:

Spoiler: Mass Effect spoilers within:

 

[Bernzz]

Wait a second,

No Tassadar?I disappoint.

Well, you've sparked my memory. My vote goes to Tassadar.

 

[Salm]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Spoiler

What could be more badass than going down in a blaze of glory while fighting the whole Bolivian army?

This was definitely the movie death(s) I thought of while reading the topic.

Runners up include:

Aliens

Spoiler

Gorman's and Vasquez's death in the air duct. Unable to move, they grab a grenade with release trigger, put their fingers on it and wait for the final bite. Badass!

Apocalypse Now

Spoiler

George Phillips. He tries to impale Willard with the spear that protrudes from his chest. That's badass.

 

[Dr.Fantastic]

John Marston in Red dead Redemption
You try to take out as many agents as you can in deadeye but its useless. you get shot,and your family finds your body. You went out like a man just to save your family. If that is not badass than the blizzard going on right outside my window will stop right now.