History TakingYouWithMe / VideoGames

** In the original Metal Gear, Big Boss utters these words when he learns that his plans failed just before fighting Snake.
** In Portable Ops, Cunningham utters these words shortly after he was defeated by Big Boss (and what he means by that is using the Soviet-made Davy Crockett to destroy Big Boss and the silo, if not the peninsula.)
** Peace Walker also has one: The sphere like device on Peace Walker was a hydrogen bomb whose explosive yield surpasses even that of the Tsar Bomba (which was the largest Nuclear Bomb ever built). The reason why it has it is so that, if its mission requires it to go into a country, it can waltz in and blow the country away to kingdom come.
*** Kazuhira Miller, in the same game, almost did this to Big Boss when his mercenary unit was wiped out by Big Boss's Militaires Sans Frontieres, by drawing Big Boss close and intending to blow himself and Big Boss up by using a grenade concealed in his hand, but Big Boss quickly disarmed him before he could remove the pin, and instead suggested he join the Militaires Sans Frontieres.

** Also is used by Melbu Frahma AGAIN at the end of the game, where he self destructs to try and kill your party. This is the first time in the game that it actually fails (but STILL manages to kill Rose and the resurrected Zieg)
*** Although [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Rose]] and [[DyingAsYourself Zieg]] [[TogetherInDeath were intending to die there]].

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has this trope a few times.

** If both players are on their last stock, who wins and who loses varies from attack to attack and from game to game (notably, ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'' has made it so the attacker will lose in all cases), though generally the attacker will lose. In tournaments, if the attacker isn't declared winner in-game (very possible in ''Brawl''), [[HouseRules the tournament rules override the in-game result]].

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' does it thrice: Once with the aptly-named Martyrdom perk, which makes you drop a live grenade upon death. Twice with the Last Stand perk, where you can use your side arm as you bleed out; the perk is upgradable in ''[=MW2=]'' so that projectiles can be used in this state. And thricely with the "Misery Loves Company" challenge, which requires that you kill yourself and an enemy by cooking a grenade and keeping hold of it until it detonates.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Myth 2: Soulbighter}}'': The eponymous villain attempts to shatter the Cloudspine (a gigantic mountain range) to kill everyone, presumably including himself. Alric stops him in the final mission.
** Narrative example in the campaign of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'': During "Of Their Own Accord", the helicopter Ramirez's squad is riding in is hit by a missile launched from a SAM battery at the Department of Justice. The pilot calls out that he's slowly losing control of the chopper, at which Sergeant Foley tells him to increase altitude so that if they crash, they can take down the SAM launchers with them. Ultimately subverted, however, in that their helicopter comes crashing down in the streets instead.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 1}}'', [[GuestStarPartyMember the robot EVE]] is [[ATasteOfPower far more powerful than any of the standard party members can be]] and is able to easily wipe out every enemy in the second half of the final dungeon with a single attack... save for one, the third incarnation of a killer robot that wiped out the party not long before ([[HopelessBossFight and will wipe the party out again, this time with a Game Over, if EVE is not with the party]]). EVE is not able to deal significant damage to this enemy, but it will protect the party from tremendous blows in return. After a few turns, EVE will explode, but will take down the opponent along with it. In EVE's wreckage, the [[SoundStone seventh melody]] can be found, confirming the musical prophecy that the player may have heard in Magicant that foretells EVE's necessary demise.

** Although Morrigan offers the Warden a way to avert this.

* In ''VideoGame/Hexen:BeyondHeretic'', defeating the Heresiarch will activate a Kaizo Trap, causing it to drop its mana cubes--which will explode and HURT LIKE HELL, potentially being fatal. Another example of the dual Kaizo Trap/Taking You With Me dual trope is when you defeat the final boss, Korax: he will release several evil spirits from his body which WILL rip you apart if you are too close to him.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' Ganondorf does this to you: once you defeat him at the top of his castle, he attempts to use the last of his strength to destroy the castle and crush you and Princess Zelda under it. All three of you, including Ganondorf, survive.

As a reminder, with this being a DeathTrope, ''all spoilers are'' '''''unmarked'''''. You have been warned.

** Rugal LOVES to pull this off and has attempted it at least 3 times: Once in '''94'', once in '''98'' and again in ''2002: Unlimited Match''.

** Rugal LOVES to pull this off and has attempted it at least 3 times: Once in ''94'', once in ''98'' and again in ''2002 Unlimited Match''.
** in ''2000'', Zero attempts to blow up his hideout (Where you are) with his [[KillSat Zero Cannon]]. Shame it got busted earlier.

** This is the entire point of the Destiny Bond, Self-Destruct and Explosion moves. Fittingly, Self-Destruct and Explosion are the two most powerful attacks in the game, and that's ''before'' you factor in that, before the moves were {{nerf}}ed in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', they '''[[ChunkySalsaRule halved the target's defense]]'''.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' add the ability Innards Out, which damages the attacker of a defeated Pokémon for the same amount of damage as the hit that defeated said Pokémon.

* In recent ''Videogame/MechWarrior'' games, the [[HumongousMecha BattleMech]]'s fusion reactor can [[GoingCritical go nuclear]] and deal extreme damage to anything near it when the 'Mech is destroyed. Cue players running at each other when their armor is gone, to try and kill the other player when they go nuclear. Taken UpToEleven in the Videogame/{{Crysis}} mod ''[=MechWarrior=] Living Legends'' where the explosion from a damaged reactor can cripple anything with 50 meters and temporarily blind anyone looking at the mushroom cloud, though whether a destroyed 'Mech goes critical is largely random; non-critical 'Mechs can still deal damage from ammunition explosions upon death, but with a significantly smaller area of effect and damage.

** In the original GBA version of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'', Lexaeus does this after being defeated by Riku. Averted in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Re:Chain of Memories]], where the post-fight cutscene [[DemonicPossession has very different results]].

** Surprisingly Played Straight in the Revenged ending of ''Completing the Mission'', in which Reginald Copperbottom shoots Henry in a crashing airship in order to ensure Henry dies there with him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'', upon death the Master self destructs and activates a nuclear bomb.
** Frank Horrigan in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' attempts to stall the player from escaping an oil rig about to go down in a nuclear explosion.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', should the Minutemen destroy the ''Prydwen'' with their artillery, the Brotherhood will know ''exactly'' who's responsible and attempt to swarm the Castle with every remaining knight and Vertibird rather than attempt to retreat back to DC.

** It’s actually a subversion; in ''Black Ops II'', it’s revealed that both Woods and Kravchenko survived the explosion and both of them reappear during the campaign, though only Woods is alive in the present day of 2025.

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' does it thrice: Once with the aptly-named Martyrdom perk, which makes you drop a live grenade upon death. Twice with the Last Stand perk, where you can use your side arm as you bleed out, the perk is upgradable in ''[=MW2=]'' so that projectiles can be used in this state. And thricely with the "Misery Loves Company" challenge, which requires that you kill yourself and an enemy by cooking a grenade and keeping hold of it until it detonates.