Death is no laughing matter, except when things explode at the right time, bitches literally cause heart attacks and princesses get crushed by cows. From Red Dead Redemption's hang glider, to the best fatalities in gaming, here are the greatest funny deaths in video game history... so far. NOTE: these deaths are all caused by actual, intended gameplay and don't include cool tricks or possibilities in sandbox games (otherwise a GTA Helicopter fall totally would've been in here.)
From the popular Spider-Man 3 game comes one of the greatest clips anyone has ever seen of an insanely serious, meant-to-be-kind-of-disturbing video game death that falls flat on its face (pun intended.)
Watch this quick, 18 second video to see Spider-Man jump from wall to wall in an actually pretty awesome action sequence where certain buttons will make you heroically save a woman from a burning skyscraper, like only Spider-Man can... until it all goes to crap.
Although this really isn't one of the most iconic deaths anyone has ever seen and is from a fairly forgettable game, this video just never gets old. The look on the crazy, bulgy-eyed woman's face when she says those fateful 4 words (which is the moment that really sells this entire video) is so grave and so serious (in a ""why did I have to work here?"" type of way) that the comic timing of the last part is undeniable.
Killer Instinct is an insanely fun fighting game that featured some of the most memorable characters in fighting game history. The game was one of those post-Mortal-Kombat games that tried hard to be gory and even included fatalities, but actually kind of pulled it off (Primal Rage, anyone?)
One of the memorable characters in this game was called B. Orchid. Ostensibly the protagonist in this game, her full name is Black Orchid, but they shortened it to B. for God only knows what reason. Probably so that the ""B"" could stand for ""boobs."
Why? Well, her most popular fatality (for the uninitiated, a fatality is a ""finishing move"" that you do in fighting games when your opponent has already lost and is standing there like a shy dancer at a wedding who is blackout drunk waiting for you to kill them with one last move... with a unique combination of buttons you can pull off really cool finishing moves, or ""fatalities"") is the one shows in the video here. Basically, she flashes her bitches to the opponent until that opponent has a heart attack.
Apparently every single character in Killer Instinct is a virgin and has never seen a woman's bitches before (this was before the internet, you see.) They also have insanely weak hearts and need to eat better... which I guess explains why all of them are angry enough to want to fight all the time.
The boob-jiggle bounce at the end really doesn't help her gender, but hey, who's the target audience.
(Un?)fortunately, B. Orchid flashes her opponents away from the camera, which is probably a good thing. Because if she didn't then all of our hearts would explode. Talk about a heartbreaker, right? Amirite ladies? Really? Nobody? I'll be here all week, tip your Internet Service Provider.
During one of the more early fights in Gears of War that actually hammers in the idea that 'THIS IS NOT HALO, HIDE BEHIND EVERYTHING', the writers decided to make a character die just to alert you that a sniper is a-comin'.
Anthony Carmine follows you for a bit and then decides to get caught up on his awesome chainsaw gun and how it doesn't work that well at that second... and then hilarity ensues. Why? Once again, the hilarity of this moment is attributed to the comic timing of the death after the dialogue. It's all pacing, people... but why is it funny?
What makes this one of the funniest deaths in video game history is the fact that he sounds like an insolent child when he's delivering his lines. This actually might have been kind of a tragic death if it wasn't for the voice actor's decision to make the huge, burly, macho guy character sound like a kid whose brand new Super Soaker just broke on the way home.
Watch the video for a clip of the biggest wimp in Gears of War dying.
Although a lot (most) of the Space Quest games feature some of the funniest deaths in gaming history, Space Quest 1 did it first. Space Quest 1 is a comedy game that came out in 1986 and featured a space janitor named Roger Wilco. His mission: truth, justice and really clean floors."
Roger Wilco would essentially Mr. Magoo himself through his adventures and end up saving the world, often without even trying to. Wilco is depicted as kind of a loser (because he's a janitorial technician) and often dies in ways that were obviously meant to be discovered. He dies so much in the game because the developers were trying to make you laugh.
Check out a montage of the funniest deaths from the first game, Space Quest 1.
BONUS: notice how some of the deaths are also funny because of that comedic timing element. The fact that this guy really can't catch a break is really hammered into the player by how many times, and in how many different ways, he dies throughout the game. Absolute comic/slapstick brilliance.
In the popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series, Rain is a 10,000 year old warrior from the Outworld that weighs in (according to the internet) at 205 lbs and is actually half-God. So what is his brutal animality (for the uninitiated, if you've been reading the whole list and not just skimming through the videos like a miscreant, an ""animality"" is a fatality where your character turns into an animal to finish off their opponent)?... he turns into an absolutely adorable tiny little elephant.
Basically, he turns into a real life version of all the ornaments your grandmother keeps around her house and makes smell like potpurri, vanilla and old soap.
This is one of the greatest animalities ever, and by far the funniest, because it is seriously unexpected that this character would turn into an adorable little animal and then blow the flesh off of anyone he's fighting. Imagine you don't know what the combination of buttons does that prompts this animality... and that the video here is what you get in return. The result = a complete WTF moment followed by uproarious laughter.
The closest you come to a death in a 90s racing game is losing the game itself and then getting a game over screen. After you're out of lives either at the arcade (with the a-virgin's-novelty-bed-size racecars you could actually play from back in the day), you get the following screen.
It's not funny because anything ridiculous happens in the game or on the screen, but the fact that, in retrospect, someone (ostensibly in charge of the music in this game, and other games as well, somehow) went through enough trouble to not only write the jingle in this game over screen, but to have someone with actual soul in their voice come in and sing those words, in that order and that BOTH of these people were most likely grown men... THAT'S where the hilarity lies.
Click on this for the most inappropriately cheery game over screen ever. Eff this game. This is just plain insulting -- and therefore hilarious.
Albert Wesker is a complete and utter douchebag who wears sunglasses indoors, is behind some of the worst things that happen to humanity in the Resident Evil franchise and dresses like a lot of ravers did a little after The Matrix first came out.
So, needless to say, his death scene (and yes, he isn't all the way dead as he comes back in later games) comes at not only a great time (read: "any time"), but happens not only ironically, but amazingly. Much like a lot of these deaths, horrible, terrible, very bad voice acting contributes richly to the comedy of the scene.
When his creation comes out and kills him, the way he reacts, and the way he uses the old Resident Evil "I'm a LEGO on tether, so before I head in any direction I must turn that way" movement method to almost run away make this one of the funniest deaths in video games. Especially in the context of what a complete and utter dick this guy truly is.
Another Resident Evil Death (there are a lot of them) that tickles (in a good way) every player on the first time is when you head out into the pier in Resident Evil 4 and shoot into the water.
Something triggers an event that leads to a cut scene death where Chris is killed by a fish that comes out of the water.
The Monty Python-esque nature of this death is really what sells it, as well as the look on the fish's face.
Click on the video to watch it, trying not to spoil it here.
Earthworm Jim, in of itself, is one of the funniest games in gaming history in general. From having a werewolf sidekick that starts out as a cute little puppy and with constant (at least in the cartoon) references to the horrible, inhumane (well, moreso disgusting I guess) food "Haggis" (the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach), to an earth worm getting into a body suit and using his head like an Indian Jones style lasso/whip, this game and franchise really delivered back when they were in their hayday.
In case you don't remember, the evil Psy-Crow was one of the villains and there was actually a character called Professor Monkey-For-A-Head.
One of the main antagonists of the franchise was Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt.
Jim (the Earthworm hero)'s main goal is to rescue Princess What's-Her-Name, which isn't exactly apparent until the end. And here is the end, which (like the Princess's name itself) shows exactly how important plot was to this game (read: not very). This game was primarily about fun, so this ending is not only fitting, but amazing, and goes for a laugh, as well as a conclusion, that most games nowadays don't have the stones to.
In any First-Person-Shooter with a multiplayer functionality where you can actually crouch, there is a kind of unadulterated d-bag that surfaces in every online community... the teabagger. This is a person who, after he/she kills you, puts their character's theoretical s*****m on your face repeatedly, while you are dead/re-spawning.
A lot of people get really caught up on this show of disrespect and actually laugh along with their lame little buddies at how hard they just ""pwn'ed"" you... so much so that they forget that they're still playing.
This is kind of like catching the beginnings of Aurora Borealis, or seeing a bald eagle soar across a cloudless sky, it's rare that you get the opportunity to either witness this yourself, or participate, but when it happens it's magical and you remember it forever.
This moment is when there are one or more (that's right sometimes there are more, as seen in the video) idiots teabagging a dead body and they are killed by someone due to their negligence/douchebaggery. They're so caught up in being childish and moronic that they leave themselves open for an easy kill. And when you take that kill (or even see it) nothing is more satisfying on this earth. Well, very few things are more satisfying on this earth.
Dragon's Lair was another game that featured some seriously great death cut-scenes that would cut to a great-looking cartoon and feature Dirk the Daring (a clumsy, everyman hero that we play as throughout the games) dying in random, funny and amazing ways.
Here's a montage of what would happen when you fail at Dragon's Lair. It was almost worth the death just to be able to sit through such a great looking cartoon -- animated by Don Bluth, who was at the time just getting over losing his job over at Disney.
In case you think the animation looked familiar, he's also responsible for directing such classic cartoon films as The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail.
Leisure Suit Larry - "It appears the hooker gave you..."
Leisure Suit Larry features a sprite Larry having sex with girls, being generally promiscuous and living the life that really, none of us did in college but always wanted to (or at least look at on the TV.)
In this scene, Larry takes off his clothes, reveals his penisless 8-bit self, has sex with a prostitute while a big black ""Censored"" bar appears over Larry/The Hooker's bodies.
Being the kind of computer game where you had to call out commands in order for anything to happen, you had to type stuff like ""have sex"" and ""take off your clothes"" in order to get Larry to do stuff. Which kind of leads to the question as to how popular games like that would be nowadays.
Think about it, kids having to type ""Crouch over person's mouth"", ""rip head off"", ""kill innocent child"", ""pwn n00b"", ""kill 9,000 wolves"", ""hit the blue button on beat with the song..."
The greatest part about the Larry games are the passive inner monologue, telling you how ""you"", as Larry, feel. After sex, you get the following message:
""Although successful, you feel less than satisfied. Technically speaking, you're no longer a virgin, but for some reason, the thrill just wasn't there. You vow to continue your quest until you please your heart, not just your other organs!"
After you get about five steps out of the hotel, Larry realizes something horrible, and then Sierra (the game developer) decide to break the fourth wall and explain something awesome to you.
Watch this video in its entirety. It is charming as hell. Death by STD.
Red Dead Redemption is Rockstar Games's new Grand Theft Western Movie game that is getting some of the greatest reviews around and will most likely win out for game of the year unless Black Ops cleans UP.
One of the many missions/random things that you can do in this game is to hit up this man. This man holds the fabled hang glider that people were talking about like crazy when the game first came out.
Once you get to this guy you think surely you'll be able to use it.
Watch the video for what happens to the infamous hang glider. Love to see games take this route with their NPCs.
dom The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/11/2010 5:27 AM
8th Resident Evil 4 - Small Water Fish: "Something triggers an event that leads to a cut scene death where Chris is killed by a fish that comes out of the water." Fail! It's Leon and not Chris.
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Resident Evil 4 - Small Water Fish at 2/01/2012 4:44 AM
Space Quest 1 - Pretty Much Every Death at 12/03/2011 5:33 AM
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 11/13/2010 8:23 AM
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/28/2010 3:49 PM
Killer Instinct - B00bz at 10/12/2010 12:47 AM
Earthworm Jim - The Princess at 10/11/2010 4:08 PM
Gears of War - It Keeps Jayuhmming! * :'( * at 10/11/2010 9:33 AM
All Carmines die.
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/11/2010 5:27 AM
"Something triggers an event that leads to a cut scene death where Chris is killed by a fish that comes out of the water."
Fail! It's Leon and not Chris.
Resident Evil 4 - Small Water Fish at 10/10/2010 10:02 PM
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/10/2010 7:25 PM
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/10/2010 5:11 PM
Resident Evil 4 - Small Water Fish at 10/10/2010 3:46 PM
Resident Evil 4 - Small Water Fish at 10/10/2010 2:47 PM
The 13 Funniest Video Game Deaths of All Time at 10/10/2010 11:52 AM
The video of Wesker dying is from Resident Evil 1, not 2. If I recall correctly, Wesker wasn't even IN Resident Evil 2.
Second, the main character in Resident Evil 4 is Leon, not Chris.
Otherwise, I pretty entertaining list!
Resident Evil 2 - Death of Albert Wesker at 10/09/2010 2:56 PM
Resident Evil 2 - Death of Albert Wesker at 10/09/2010 2:40 PM