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* In ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', Super Sonic flies straight through Dark Gaia's central eye and bursts out of the back of its head. Though you don't see much of that, you DO see Dark Gaia toppling over, crumbling apart with gallons of green blood pouring everywhere.

** A few of Mario's death sequences in Super Mario Galaxy, namely electrocuted into a skeleton, spaghettification and ''disintegrating''!

* Considering almost nobody ever really died in the previous games in the series, the death of Marquis de Singe in [[Tales of Monkey Island]] is kind of shocking. After his immortality elixir fails him, his wounds open up and he falls into his own machine that breaks matter into its particles and spreads them around the seas. The way his scream suddenly cuts off is... unsettling.

** Almost immediately followed by this, and without warning, '''Guybrush''' is murdered by LeChuck. Thankfully he gets better.

* In the game ''Super [[Metroid]],'' there is one particular boss fight which still seems almost saddening. There a is a boss creature known as Crocomire who, when beaten, falls into the acid below. He repeatedly tries to claw his way out, each time his flesh animated to be melting off of his skeleton. Soon, an earthquake occurs, and the ''bleached walking skeleton'' of Crocomire appears through a wall, making a last-ditch effort to survive before dropping dead, leaving only the skull behind. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxKm8uApSc Words do it no justice].

** Dying in ''Prime'' is greatly disturbing, and it only gets more so in the "death by Corruption" scene in ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3''.

*** Finishing the original NES game is bound to hit the player with [[Fridge Horror]] the next time he or she plays, and dies --while one might have gotten the impression of a robot exploding to bits during a first playthrough, knowing that there's a human being in that suit turns Samus' death animation into a gory, gravity-obeying ''splatter''.

** Rundas as well. Most enemies in these sort of games tend to explode or something after they're defeated, but he was ''impaled by icicles.''

* ''[[Space Quest]] III'' did this too, with enemies carrying gel guns that would trap you in a solid block of a Jell-O-like substance. Very cartoony! Then [[Sierra]]'s trademark [[Have a Nice Death]] screen pops up, and mentions that ''there are no air holes''.

** The moment when Sora smiles, and then proceeds to ''impale himself'' with a keyblade, killing him. What really rubs the salt into the wound, though, is the fact that Kairi regains her heart, and wakes up just in time to see Sora toppling over, dying.

** There are two villainous deaths in ''[[Chain of Memories]]'' that qualify as well, though not because of gore. Zexion and Vexen (whom we'd even been invited to feel somewhat sorry for) both died defenseless, pathetic, and ''begging for their lives to be spared.'' Even worse, their deaths are both orchestrated by [[Lovable Traitor|someone allegedly on THEIR side]], and the manner of their deaths is, well...Depending on which version of the game you go by, Vexen was either stabbed to death by Axel or ''burned alive,'' and Zexion had the [[Artificial Human|Riku Replica]] sicced on him, and was strongly implied to have been somehow ''consumed'' by it.

* Marx [[Disney Death|Soul]] in ''[[Kirby]] Super Star [[Video Game Remake|Ultra]]''. After you beat the snot outta him, he blows up... then reappears briefly only to ''split in half while screaming with an equally horrific facial expression.'' And then both halves explode and so does the boss arena afterwards. And this is immediately followed by Kirby reigning cheerfully triumphant as the champion of The ''[[Boss Rush|True]]'' [[Boss Rush|Arena]]...

** In ''Kirby's Dreamland 3'' there's Zero who, in a final attempt to kill you, ''rips off its own iris'', which is constantly bleeding and after taking enough damage bleeds even more and explodes.

*** Zero's return in ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'' as Zero Two is almost ''worse'' when you give it some thought. To push it into the state where you can damage it, you need to repeatedly ''impale its eye'' with the Crystal Shards, releasing clouds of blood. This stuns it in pain long enough for you to open fire on its bandaged wound from Dreamland 3, which ''makes it writhe in agony.''

** And that is just the beginning of the list of horrific deaths the player character can suffer.

*** ''Ocarina Of Time'' really established this as a series tradition for baddies in general and Ganon in particular. The last controllable action in the whole game involves Link slashing at Ganon several times -- with the necessary blood flying around -- before ''jamming the Master Sword into his face''.

*** In a more indirect manner, there are the Lanayru robots across Lanayru desert. With the Timeshift Stones activated, they're perfectly functional in their mining operations and other activities. With the Timeshift Stones deactivated, however, they immediately revert to their current rusted state.

* In ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi]]'', while two of the members of the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] got pretty standard deaths, Toppo, arguably the least harmless of the bunch (and of the antagonists period), is the one with the most brutal demise. After a fairly lighthearted game of "Simon Says", she gets brutally shocked by her own stage, screaming in pure agony, and finally spends her last moments painfully writhing and bleeding out. Yeah, the endgame is [[Mood Whiplash|much darker]] then the rest of the game.

* ''[[NARC]]''. Yes, even the NES version.

* A beta version of the SNES platformer ''[[Ardy Lightfoot]]'' has Catry, the vulpine boss of the fourth level, sporting a ninja costume (and a slightly more pronounced bustline). On the flip side, her final fate in the bowels of the next level's giant worm is as a half-digested corpse (as opposed to a skeleton in the final Japanese version and just lying prone on the ground in the U.S. version).

* The original ''[[Frogger]]'' was limited to drowning or being flattened by a car/truck, and maybe the occasional alligator. Other games in the series got a little more creative-- ''Frogger 3D'' (the [[PS 1]] and PC game, not the 3DS game) alone had: being mauled by a dog, falling into lava, crushed between spiked walls, ''getting run over by a lawnmower'', and so forth. ''Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge'' also had deaths such as being inflated and popped like a balloon, and getting cut in half, with visible blood. Makes you wonder what the hell the ESRB was thinking when they gave that game an E rating.

* One of the games on the Genesis version of ''[[Action 52]]'' was a ''Frogger'' clone. Instead of a frog, you played a dog. Get hit by a car, and ''the dog gets decapitated and his guts pour out''.

** The same game has Zero getting [[Flashback Nightmare|Flashback Nightmares]] of him surrounded by bloodied corpses {{spoiler|(his victims when he first awoke as a Maverick)}}, with blood on his hands as well.

* Death by electrocution or burning in ''[[Dark Castle]]'' and its sequel, which is accompanied by a bloodcurdling scream.

* [[A Boy and His Blob]]: To defeat the frog-like enemies you must transform Blob into a coconut which will make the enemy eat him. Then call the Blob back, he'll ''burst out of the enemy, making him explode''. Granted, it's a blob, but it's still kind of grisly.

* The player character's death in ''[[Last Alert]]'' is especially gory.

* ''[[Freddi Fish]] and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds'' has a [[Dummied Out]] [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]] where Luther gets violently attacked by a [[Psycho Electric Eel]].

* The PSN game ''Super Stardust HD'' has some enemies that '''heavily bleed red blood''' upon being killed. And this is in an E-rated game by the way.

* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series is rife with this:

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' had Gray Fox being crushed into oblivion by Metal Gear REX's foot. That's also not getting into the cutscene of Gray Fox's victims in ''The Twin Snakes''.

 

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