History KarmicDeath / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'''s "Gangstas in Space" DLC, The Boss is starring in an over-the-top sci-fi film with a {{Jerkass}} director and a beleaguered co-star that he keeps berating for breaking character and not following his insane commands. Come the third act, he convinces the military to attack the two of them in an effort to make the movie look more realistic, and The Boss's co-star, who by now has [[GrewASpine grown a spine]] and is tired of putting up with the director trying to kill them, being mean to her, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and having a bad scarf]], runs his ass down with the modified VTOL that the duo pilot.

** [[LoonyFan Envious fanboy]] Kenny finally achieves his dream of fighting the protagonist, only to be devoured by a pack of zombies attracted by the battle.

** A sweet one comes to the ObstructiveBureaucrat in ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin''. The mayor of a group of civilian refugees has been [[{{Jerkass}} unimaginably unhelpful]] at every turn, acting horrendously ungrateful to the protagonists every time they save his life and actively hampering their efforts, even though he comes whining to them whenever he's in trouble. In the latter part of the game, he attempts to sell out the heroes to the BigBad to get a vaccine against a looming disease; he's told that there's only one vial and he can either use it on himself or wait for more to be produced from it to help his community. [[DirtyCoward Thinking only of himself]], he grabs it and injects it into himself. [[ILied It was poison]]; the BigBad just wanted to see if the guy would really sell out his community.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', [[TheEmperor Arcturus Mengsk]]'s MoralEventHorizon was to unleash [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Zerg Swarm]] on the Confederate homeworld and abandon his right-hand Sarah Kerrigan on the planet to die by their claws. Come ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm Heart of the Swarm]]'', Kerrigan, having now become the Zerg's HiveQueen and an insanely powerful HumanoidAbomination, unleashes the Swarm on ''his'' planet, makes her way to his palace, and kills him personally in [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice a rather]] [[WhyAmITicking spectacular]] [[YourHeadAsplode way]].

** Kiminobu Hiyoshi, the doctor directly responsible for Nishikiyama's StartOfDarkness in ''VideoGame/YakuzaKiwami'' [[spoiler:by getting him to round up 30 million yen to get his sister a heart transplant from the BlackMarket, only to use the money to settle his gambling debts and skip town]], ends up getting what's coming to him in ''Ryu ga Gotoku Online''. [[spoiler:Nishikiyama finds him at an underground casino, with a Triad coming for him over trying to cheat at gambling. Nishikiyama agrees to protect Hiyoshi... and then afterward sells ''him'' off to black market organ harvesters. For extra karmic justice, his organs turn out to be worth 30 million yen, the exact amount he had requested Nishikiyama get for him.]]

* In ''VideoGame/LikeADragonIshin'', Matsubara Chuji kills the informant known as The Crow when it becomes apparent that Ryoma had worked with him before he joined the Shinsengumi as Saito Hajime, because he doesn't want Ryoma going back to him to dig up any secrets on Matsubara. At the end of the chapter where this happens, Matsubara is himself exposed as [[TheMole an informant for Choshu]] and is KilledMidSentence before he can reveal Saito's true identity.

** This can also happen to the PlayerCharacter themselves in [[MultipleEndings many endings]] you can get. You can suffer one if you either [[EasilyForgiven ally with the Prince regardless of how he's wronged you]] [[note]]he had spent the last hour of the game framing you for a popular vampire's death, sending mercs after you, and the entire game before then sending you on {{Suicide Mission}}s because he was forced to spare you for political reasons[[/note]], if you are power-mad enough to open the Sarcophagus yourself, or ally with the Kindred-hating [[ChineseVampire Kuei-jin]]. In the former two, you go up in flames with the Prince; in the latter ending, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness their leader decides you're too much of a danger to keep around,]] and throws the sarcophagus into the ocean [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves with you]] [[AndIMustScream chained to it]].

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': ComicBook/TheJoker is done in via a BackstabBackfire leaving him to die from the Titan poison, which he injected himself with [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum in the last game]].
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'', the final battle between Batman and Lady Arkham/Vicki Vale has the villain boast that he will die in an underground chapel, forgotten and buried by the public. The battle between the two ravages the chapel, made worse by Vicki's sonic weapons and, when she attempts to escape, she's crushed by fallen debris. To make things even more [[{{Irony}} ironic]], the following newscast reveals that they can't find her and they've just written her off as dead.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', Kendra, after crossing the MoralEventHorizon several times and revealing that Isaac is going insane, steals the ersatz ArtifactOfDoom that was [[SealedEvilInACan stopping]] the monster from its base, thereby nullifying its power. Not five minutes later, said monster smashes her into paste.

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', The initial BigBad, Rieltar Anchev, killed his wife with a garrote for infidelity in front of their adopted son, Sarevok. Years later, he threatened his stepson with the same punishment if he ever "betrayed" him as Stepmom did. Sarevok, now with his eyes on Stepdaddy's position, was sure to specify to the assassins he hired to kill Rieltar that they use a garrote when they did so.

* A sweet one comes to the ObstructiveBureaucrat in ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Days of Ruin.'' The mayor of a group of civilian refugees has been [[{{Jerkass}} unimaginably unhelpful]] at every turn, acting horrendously ungrateful to the protagonists every time they save his life and actively hampering their efforts, even though he comes whining to them whenever he's in trouble. In the latter part of the game, he attempts to sell out the heroes to the BigBad to get a vaccine against a looming disease; he's told that there's only one vial and he can either use it on himself or wait for more to be produced from it to help his community. [[DirtyCoward Thinking only of himself]], he grabs it and injects it into himself. [[ILied It was poison]]; the BigBad just wanted to see if the guy would really sell out his community.
** Greyfield/Sigismundo gets one as well. He attempts to surrender to [[DeadpanSnarker Lin]] to avoid being killed. Lin shoots him anyway. This is karmic on 2 counts, 1: The player is fighting Greyfield because he himself executed prisoners, and 2: He attempts to say Lin's former CO wouldn't kill a prisoner; too bad for him [[AntiHero Lin]] is not Brenner, and the only reason he is dealing with Lin instead of him is because he killed Brenner.

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. The origami killer in one scenario can meet his ultimate fate by drowning in rainwater. In another he is shot by the mother of one of his victims that he himself saved.

* ''VideoGame/HungryLamu'': Doctor Bronze was killed by his own son, who he turned into a monster.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', the BigBad of the story, [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[PsychoElectro Yevgeny]] [[ImplacableMan Borisovich]] [[RedScare Volgin]], ultimately suffers this fate. For perspective, [[ShockAndAwe the man carries 10 million volts of electricity in his body]] and thus utters the phrase, "Kuwabara", which is based off of a legend that says it can ward off lightning during rain storms, out of a paranoia that his electric gift might make him a lightning rod if it rains. As a villain, he is a cruel man that tortures people for fun and is implied to rape men and women alike, but despite having petty evil as a hobby, he is still a formidable foe. During the climatic confrontation with Volgin, Snake defeats him once with CQC, leaving him to die in his exploding base, but he survives the explosion and begins a prolonged chase piloting the [[TankGoodness Shagohod]], where he is lured onto a bridge rigged with explosives and falls into the river below, drives the Shagohod up the collapsed bridge to continue the fight, and is shot like a billion times with rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire until he finally collapses. Volgin, [[{{Determinator}} being ever persistent]], refuses to give up and screams at Snake in frustration, but his efforts to restart the battle are cut short when a rain storm begins... Throwing off his usual paranoia, Volgin refuses to chant his usual "Kuwabara" and states arrogantly, "Who is afraid of a little thunder?" Ironically, moments later, a lightning bolt strikes him, setting his body on fire and igniting the bullets strapped to his chest, which go off and turn his body to Swiss cheese. [[LampshadeHanging Naked Snake, seeing this, remarks, "Fried by a bolt of lightning... A fitting end."]]

* In ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', the chauvinistic, so-called "smartest man on the seven seas" pirate Captain [=LeFwee=] is outsmarted and killed by [[TheChick Penelope]], who knocks him off the ship into the ocean where he is then eaten by sharks, with [[DeadHatShot only his hat remaining]]. Notably, he's the only non-main villain in the Sly series who is killed rather than arrested at the end of his chapter.

* Early on in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Arthur Morgan takes up a job working as a debt collector and cruelly beats a sick man half to death in front of his wife and son, and then taunts them with it while collecting a second debt. This KickTheDog moment is part of the main questline and thus unavoidable. Arthur contracts this man's tuberculosis (a bacterial infection of the lungs that, while treatable today with a course of antibiotics, was a death sentence in 1899) when the man coughs in his face during the first confrontation and he eventually dies from it[[note]]at least in the high Honour ending; in the low Honour ending, Micah kills him via gunshot or stab wound before Arthur fully succumbs, but at that point his condition is terminal and he is a {{dead man walking}} anyway[[/note]].

** The man's boss, Dr. Hartman, was aware of the Dark Presence in the lake and wanted to control it so he could bend the world into his own image. For this reason, he sought to "acquire" Wake due to how the Presence seemed to be drawn to those with talents in creativity (such as writing, art, or music). He was the one who convinced Wake's wife to bring Alan to Bright Falls (under the pretense of helping him with his writer's block), set up the whole "Kidnapper" scheme, and later tried to make Alan think that he was a delusional patient under Hartman's care. His ultimate fate? Alan locks him in a room with the same Darkness the ''[[SarcasmMode "Good Doctor"]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy sought to control]], and does so with a rather palpable degree of satisfaction. He's experimented on and horrifically mutated by ''two'' eldritch forces, not unlike the way he co-experimented with the Dark Presence on his patients, and put down by Jesse Faden, who Alan manipulated into her promotion to the director of a paranatural task force.