Video game characters die a lot. Whether it’s missed jumps, running out of ammo in a shootout, or a supernatural being sneaking out of the shadows to grab them, player deaths tend to happen often when first played. part. However, these deaths are not canonical, and players have come to accept that these are not really character deaths, but failed states that force them to try again.
However, there are characters who have died multiple times for real. From characters who stubbornly escape death to characters resurrected by science, these characters are determined to stay alive no matter how many times they are knocked down.
ten Mary (Silent Hill 2)
One of the few friendly faces that Silent Hill 2 protagonist James Sunderland encounters on his journey through the titular city, Maria spends a lot of time getting killed and reappearing alive in another location. What’s particularly odd is that she doesn’t seem to remember anything about being attacked by Pyramid Head whenever she shows up alive and well.
Of course, this is all the work of supernatural energies from Silent Hill itself, as Maria isn’t real. Instead, she’s a manifestation of James’ grief, and her death forces him to come to terms with the loss of his wife, so he can learn how to move forward in the game’s best endings.
9 2B/9S (Nier Automata)
Deny automata features two androids named 2B and 9S, struggling to cleanse the world of mechanical lifeforms in order to allow humanity to return to the planet. However, among the many twists of Deny automataThe plot reveals that all is not as it seems and the protagonists are locked in an endless cycle of death.
As androids, they can be resurrected in duplicate bodies through uploading their consciousness to a central network, but due to a glitch, 9S’s memories are incomplete and the two find themselves locked in a cycle where they end up repeating the same actions. and more, including their deaths.
8 Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
First resident Evil game, Albert Wesker was simply a member of STARS who secretly worked for the Umbrella Corporation, and the exercise at the mansion was part of a ruse to test bioweapons. However, in an act of hubris, Wesker is killed by the Tyrant just as the game ends, and by all accounts he appears to be completely dead.
That’s until he shows up alive and well in Code Veronicanow brimming with superpowers, and he would later appear in resident evil 5 as the game’s main villain, cementing him as the most iconic villain in the set resident Evil series too. Chris Redfield defeats him at the end of the game, but time will tell if he returns yet again, perhaps with even more T-Virus upgrades than before.
seven Kratos (god of war)
Kratos is a man turned god, so it’s no surprise to learn that he’s hard to kill. Although there were successful attempts to get him out, they rarely lasted long. His death in the original Greek trilogy of God of the war saw him crushed by a pillar thrown by Ares, stabbed by Zeus, and thrown from Mount Olympus.
In all three, Kratos returns fighting his way out of Hades, refusing to stay down, only to seemingly kill himself at the end of the third game. However, as he would later move to the frozen north and start a family in the more recent games, it’s clear the death didn’t last long either.
6 Ridley (Metroid)
Samus Aran’s nemesis, the draconic space pirate Ridley, is one of the world’s most tenacious bosses. metroid series. Appearing in nearly every game in the series, he keeps coming back despite being lambasted by Samus time and time again.
However, it is Space Pirate science that keeps bringing him back, as he returns as a cyborg named Meta Ridley in Metroid Primebut then loses these implants at the time of Super Metroid (adjusted after Prime games), where Samus finally kills him for real. That didn’t stop him from returning as a clone in Metroid Other M or a parasitic imitation in Metroid FusionNevertheless.
5 Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)
Heihachi Mishima is a man who refuses to die. Since the first game, Heihachi has faced trials that would have been instant death for any normal person, yet he keeps coming back. First tekken, he is thrown off a cliff by his son. In the third game, Heihachi appears to have his life drained of him by Ogre. tekken 5The opening movie even states “Heihachi Mishima is dead” as he exploded with his dojo.
Tekken 7 seems to have ended that once and for all, as this game’s story mode sees a climactic battle against Kazuya ending with Heihachi thrown into a lava pit. There is debate over whether Heihachi will return to tekken 8but past lore shows that it wouldn’t be strange for him to show up again.
4 Dracula (Castlevania)
In general pop culture, Dracula is said to be hard to kill. This is also true in the Castlevania series, as the mighty vampire lord is the main recurring villain in each game, his mysterious castle making an appearance each time he is resurrected. It is the destiny of every member of the Belmont family to venture into the castle to find and kill Dracula every time.
Naturally, that means every game is about finding and killing Dracula in that castle, in hopes that he won’t come back. With twenty-six main titles in the Castlevania series, however, it has not yet stuck.
3 Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
Officially the Zelda The series is set in different periods of Hyrule’s history, and each Link and Zelda in the games is a different person with the same reincarnated spirit. However, this is not the case for the main villain of the series, as Ganondorf is canonically the same person every time.
This despite being killed multiple times, usually by a final blow from the Master Sword. To solve this problem, most Zelda the games have a secondary villain, usually the one who found a way to revive Ganon’s spirit. It’s no surprise that fans are expecting him to return yet again in tears of the kingdomalthough he was defeated by his direct predecessor, breath of the wild.
2 The Chosen Undead (Dark Souls)
While character deaths have been ignored for the purposes of this list, The Chosen Undead deaths in dark souls are canonical. It’s because they are undead, a curse in the world of dark souls who prevents true death and instead sees the afflicted brought back to the bonfires.
This means that whenever the player misses a dodge or parry roll and gets skewered, it actually happens to the mysterious silent protagonist. However, it also creates a process called Hollowing, where each resurrection causes the undead to lose their humanity and turn them into a wandering corpse, a fate the player would do well to try to avoid.
1 Most Mortal Kombat cast
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mortal combat has a cast of characters that tend to get killed off at one point or another, both from a gameplay perspective whenever a Fatality is played, and from a story perspective, as the divine magic, time travel, and alternate dimensions have seen repeated character deaths.
Even iconic ninjas Scorpion and Sub-Zero have died multiple times, usually killing each other, only to be resurrected or replaced soon after. In a world where everyone gets their spines ripped every game, maybe it would be a good thing if death didn’t stick.
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