Don’t Fear The Reaper
Death is never final in the world of video games, most of the time it’s employed as means of shock value or used in poignant narrative moments. However, there are times death can serve as a form of merriment, wherein a character ends up meeting such a laughable demise that players can’t help but break out in a smile. Prepare yourselves for a parade of hilarious departures from the mortal coil!
#5: Meat Grinder
“Resident Evil 6†(2012)
In its entire career, Resident Evil has never shied away from gore, and Resident Evil 6 was no exception. During a tense scene where Leon and Helena are trapped in a back-alley meat market, they need to kill a regenerating Rasklapanje which attacks them. You can fend off the attack, provided that you do the quick-time event properly. If you don’t, you’re treated to a scene where neither protagonist fights back, before being pulled backwards into a meat grinder with the monster on top of them. Only when the entire death animation is complete do we hear the second character grieve the loss of their partner, even though they could have stepped in to help at any point.
#4: “You Are Dead, Dead, Deadâ€
“Total Distortion†(1995)
There’s very little about Total Distortion that isn’t hilarious; a game where you travel to a parallel dimension based on rock music, and defeat enemies via guitar battles, all to shoot trippy music videos and make tons of money. Now that’s rock n roll. So it’s no surprise a game this ridiculous would have an equally fitting game over screen. Whenever you fail, one of the Guitar Warrior enemies begin to play a catchy tune and sing, “You are dead, dead, dead.†You almost want to die isn-game just so that you can hear this mocking jingle again, again, again.
#3: Miracle of Flight
“Red Dead Redemption†(2010)
You have to go across the entire map of New Austin, Blackwater and Mexico to complete this long fetch-quest. Your job is to help a total stranger, Charles Kinnear, build a glider, as he wants to be the first person to fly through that region of America. Despite the Wright brothers having already invented the plane by this point in time, Kinnear is dead-set on perfecting his invention. However, things take a turn for the worst when rather than actually glide, he just goes plummeting off the cliff to his death. We may have all seen it coming, but that doesn’t make it any less tragically funny when it finally happens.
#2: Orchid’s Flash Fatality
“Killer Instinct†(1994)
“Death by boobs†is a way plenty of people would like to go, and luckily Orchid has been around making those dreams come true since the 1990s. Her finishing move consists of opening her shirt and flashing the recently-defeated second player while she faces away from the screen. Player Two will then lose their mind in various hilarious ways, swooning over Orchid like a cartoon character, before they die. Orchid then jumps and exclaims, “Yeah!†Even funnier is if Orchid performs this fatality on herself, the Orchid being flashed loves it so much she’ll actually win the game!
#1: Fire Escape
“Spider-Man 3†(2007)
There’s no shortage of bad quick time events in Spider-Man 3, but one of them stands out for the lacklustre death scene you’re treated to if you fail. Spider-Man attempts to save a woman strapped to a bomb from the top floor of a burning building, jumping through the rooms while dodging flames and debris. But at the last second if you miss just one button push, he won’t shoot his webs and will land flat on his face. The camera pans to the woman who announces that she’s going to die, and then we see the whole building blow up, all in the space of a few hilarious seconds.
Be sure to check out the video below to see our picks for the Top 10 Saddest Deaths in Video Games.
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