Most Badass Character Death.

[Shoggoth2588]

Dante. Clerks.

I can think of nothing better to punctuate the point and feel of the movie.

that was a really good one. Especially since the pelican wasn't flying when it happened.

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

He died a hero's death. A very cinematic one too.

OT: My vote goes to Andrew Ryan for game deaths. I know other people mentioned his death but it's definitely worth another mention or several.

As for film deaths, I think I'll just do a blanket recommendation and vote for the last (I think) 5 minutes of Reservoir Dogs. The 3-person, Mexican standoff. Steve Buschemi as the voice of reason xD!!

Spoiler: last 5 miuntes of RD

I can't remember his name but in the Discworld book, Maskerade, the main antagonists's death isn't particularly great but it is still one that I really like. When Death comes to take his soul, he is dressed in red (that entire book is a parody of Phantom of the Opera)

Another great in-book death is that on Darth Bane at the hand of his apprentice Zannah. The means by which he dies however, is a bit suspect, suggesting that he didn't really die but lives on in her. According to cannon though, no he is dead...but his spirit is sealed in a Holocron later used in the Star Wars Legacy comics.

 

[Magicman10893]

Anyone unfortunate enough to be in my way in Fallout 3 or New Vegas after I get the Bloody Mess Perk! Shooting a man in the head and making his arms and legs fly in different directions? Definitely bad ass. If you want specifics:

Spoiler: Fallout 3 story

I sneaked up behind Tennpenny with a knife and sliced his neck, causing all of his limbs to fall off! I then picked up every piece of him and threw them over the railing piece by horribly mutilated piece.

Spoiler: New Vegas story

I convinced Benny to talk me to the presidential suite alone to "talk" and I just headshotted him with my hidden pistol and killed him. I picked up his body and laid it on the pool table and pulled out my cleaver and started hacking away at the limbs and all of a sudden he completely exploded! A loud "BANG" and a red mist covered the screen momentarily and when that cleared, the only thing remaining was Benny's head, right hand, one of his legs and some hunks of organs and meat! I placed the head in the middle of the large meeting table in the next room, the hand on the pool table in the middle of the blood pool, the leg in one of the bath tubs and the pieces of random organs and gibs in the other bath tub. I managed to find his heart and placed that in the toilet. Talk about revenge! Then I ironically convinced my follower, Cass, that killing people for revenge is wrong and finished her companion quest in the nonviolent path!

 

[ZiggyE]

Spoiler: Kingdom Hearts

Man axel is awesome

 

[C117]

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.

This. I mean, fighting even though you've got two arrows lodged in your lungs? That's gotta be worth mentioning at least.

 

[starkiller212]

If you did well enough to get one of the better endings, then the Origami Killer's death in Heavy Rain was pretty satisfying >

The first Modern Warfare had it's share of badass deaths too, especially the whole ending sequence and the famous "Shock and Awe".

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

The protagonist of Persona 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,

Dude,

Spoiler: Serious FES Spoiler

He sacrifices his soul to be put onto a cross to prevent the Fall, for all eternity. Not many deaths beat that.

But no, it's not the most badass death. That goes to Captain Fucking Falcon and Kamina.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

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.

This. I mean, fighting even though you've got two arrows lodged in your lungs? That's gotta be worth mentioning at least.

That is one of the things that I thought Jackson did better than Tolkien. This guy was a great hero of Gondor, a warrior who had held back the darkness for years through strength of arms. His death will have ramifications in the days that follow that reach far beyond simply reducing the fellowship's numbers. In the book, his death is mentioned in passing. In the movie he gets a last stand worthy of a hero.

 

[Diablo27]

Spoilers ahead.
Games: Emile and Six from Halo Reach. My character from Dragon Age. No matter how much I hate the game I'll say John Marston. Bill from Left 4 Dead.

Books: I'm not sure, I don't read a lot of books but I'll say Boromir because if I put it in movies there will inevitably be people yelling at me.

Movies: Bruce Willis in Armageddon (always makes me cry, no I'm not a pussy it's just the music). The Predator in any movie featuring Predator. Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar (new Chuck Norris).

There's probably more but those are mine.

 

[DukeOfStupid]

Starscream from Armada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1img3-8lTc
Sadly he doesnt even hit =[
P.S. how do you post a video XD

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Albert Weskers death.

 

[Cash84]

Starkweather in Manhunt. Chainsaw thrust vertically down through his head.

 

[PasDeChat]

A babarian DnD character of mine died by being chucked through the living body of Tiamat, taking her heart out the other side. Thrown by a troll at a giant world ending dragon and killing it.

 

[GiantSpiderGoat]

My Dragon Age Mage died pretty awesome. Making the biggest sacrifice and showing a world drenched in darkness a little light.

 

[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.

Spoiler

He isn't completely "dead"... his body was destroyed and his soul is basicly comatose with it sealing away Nyx. He held onto his humanity for long enough to meet at the roof at the promised time, then slipped away. Elizabeth is so distraught by this that she leaves the velvet room to search for a way to seal Nyx away and revive Minato. In the FES expansion story, one of the fights the party has is whether they should travel back in time to prevent him from making his Heroic Sacrifice, even though that would spell the end of the world.

The FES expansion also felt like a punch to the balls, because it goes nowhere, you can claim it has character developement but it is more of a problem introduced at the start of the expansion, and then solving it to get the main games ending anyway, actually I thought it was worse, since the main ending was more ambiguous about how dead you were. I couldn't figure out why he had to sacrifice himself as this was something that appeared to come out of nowhere, I haven't played the game in a long time, but I don't remember any forshadowing towards "You have to die to seal nyx" which would have saved it and not made me feel like I wasted around 40 hours.

you don't have to use spoilers by the way, this is a thread that practicaly tells people it will spoil games.

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

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.

How do you get shepard killed at the end?
i want to do that!

 

[[.redacted]]

There are too many for me to list or even think about in regard to the original question (like drowning in a sea of droplets I could list).

...So I'll say the death of the most badass character instead.

Spoiler: Yeah, it is.

Teresa of the Faint Smile.

Dammit that was too cruel


Fuck, I just can't watch that, I had to pause it before it happened.

 

[Kadoodle]

Paxton Fettel. F.E.A.R.

 

[tlozoot]

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.

How do you get shepard killed at the end?
i want to do that!

You need to get every other squad mate killed. To do this:

Don't upgrade anything for your ship. When you hit the Omega 4 relay this will kill three of your guys. Send someone who isn't tech through the tunnel, bring a non-biotic specialist into the seeker swarm, send anyone but Miranda, Garrus or Jacob to lead the other teams, and that should do it I think. If everyone is dead after you beat the human reaper then Sheppard will have nobody to pull him up at the end and he'll fall, telling Joker to leave quickly to tell the galaxy of the reaper threat. You cannot carry a dead-shep file over into ME3.

 

[etherlance]

The greatest warrior ever known!!!

GRAY FOX!!!


"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackle"!!


I challenge everyone to find a warrior more awesome than him!

 

[Jon Shannow]

Game: John Marston
Film: V from V for vendetta
Book: Jaim Grymauch from David Gemmell's Ravenheart