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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''!

** That one scene in ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'' in which Hooktail eats all the Toads in the audience, and starts ''chewing them with her mouth open''. Sure, there's no blood or gore, but still, seeing numerous Toads getting chewed up while still alive is pretty disturbing.

** 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.

* Deaths in the C64 ''[[Friday the 13th]]'' game are accompanied by a bloodcurdling scream and a disturbing image such as a knife in someone's head.

* 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.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' had Volgin being immolated after being struck by lightning.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' has a Middle Eastern soldier having his back broken via Screaming Mantis' puppet powers.

 

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