Family-Unfriendly Death/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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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.

** In ''[[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Super Mario Sunshine]]'', there are a certain type of enemy known as 'Electro-Koopas', who [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|have electric shells]], and attack by flinging their shells like a boomerang at you. How does Mario defeat them? By ''spraying them with water, so that when their shells come back '''they get electrocuted'''''. And in a later episode at Pinna Park, Mario defeats a [[King Mook|giant one]] by flipping the grate it was sleeping on, so that it plunges into the water, getting electrocuted also. Wonderful.

** Don't forget Mario's scarily realistic drowning in ''[[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]]''. In the DS remake it's changed to a more cartoony drowning.

** 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''.

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

** ''[[Another World (Video Game)|Out of This World]]'': Getting bitten by deadly switchblade slugs? Check. Being crisped by the enemy's [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]? Check. Scalded to death by steam pipes? Check. Drowning? Check. Mauled by the Shadow Beast? Check.

*** ''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 ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'', {{spoiler|Ghirahim}}'s death is perhaps the most disturbing one in the entire series. {{spoiler|He starts out by [[Inverted Trope|inverting]] the [[Crucified Hero Shot]], being lifted up by the Demon King Demise. Then the hilt of a sword starts to appear from the core in his chest. Demise then pulls it out, while Ghirahim [[Laughing Mad|laughs maniacally]], almost as if he wanted it to happen. Ghirahim then begins to fade away and is absorbed into Demise's sword.}}

* 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.

* Gillan's death by [[Diagonal Cut]] in ''[[Valis]] II'', and the mage boss's death (complete with [[Blood From the Mouth]]) in the [[PC Engine]] remake of the first game.