Most Bad-ass way that a character has died.

[RachaelIsaacHill]

Harry Dresden's was pretty badass.

Spoiler

He got his apprentice to call the most terrifying assassin in the world (quite possibly a/the hellhound) to shoot him, then had her wipe his memory so he wouldn't know, and would actually die.

Spoiler

And in the latest book he came back because that was considered 'cheating', so even that didn't work.

 

[Tselis]

Spike, from Cow Boy BeeBop. His death was not only bad ass, but awesome enough to cause some manly men I know to well up a little. It also caused me to reconsider my stance on killing the lead in a series.

I don't think he's dead

No, they made it pretty damn clear that he died. Him falling, his star falling. It was metaphorically clear anyway.

Spike's fate at the end of the series is left open-ended. It is implied that Spike may have died from wounds sustained in his final duel with Vicious and the Red Dragons (the collapse, the fading star, the angelic choir). However, in an interview, Watanabe stated, "I've never officially said that he died. At this point, I can tell you that I'm not sure if he's alive or dead."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Spiegel

Those bastards! I love Spike! Seriously, first anime crush, very hot dude. They should have been more clear!

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

John Marston died in a pretty bad-ass way.

Spoiler

I mean, Rockstar did a great job leading you on to believe you could kill all the people with dead-eye, only to be shot down in the end--a futile effort.

This.

So absolutely this.

Spike, from Cow Boy BeeBop. His death was not only bad ass, but awesome enough to cause some manly men I know to well up a little. It also caused me to reconsider my stance on killing the lead in a series.

I don't think he's dead

No, they made it pretty damn clear that he died. Him falling, his star falling. It was metaphorically clear anyway.

Spike's fate at the end of the series is left open-ended. It is implied that Spike may have died from wounds sustained in his final duel with Vicious and the Red Dragons (the collapse, the fading star, the angelic choir). However, in an interview, Watanabe stated, "I've never officially said that he died. At this point, I can tell you that I'm not sure if he's alive or dead."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Spiegel

I would be enormously disappointed if they ever brought him back for something. It was a great ending and having him live after his crazy suicide mission, redemption, and peaceful death seems cheap.

 

[Draconalis]

My level 12 Dwarf Fighter from AD&D 2nd edition

Spoiler

An arbolist bolt impaled him onto a sinking ship.

Talk about overkill.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Harry Dresden's was pretty badass.

Spoiler

He got his apprentice to call the most terrifying assassin in the world (quite possibly a/the hellhound) to shoot him, then had her wipe his memory so he wouldn't know, and would actually die.

Spoiler

And in the latest book he came back because that was considered 'cheating', so even that didn't work.

Uh, you do realize that putting it in a spoiler does nothing if you REVEAL WHO DIES ANYWAY, right?

Anyway, OT:

Spoiler: Spoilers for V For Vendetta

Classic.

 

[Draconalis]

Harry Dresden's was pretty badass.

Spoiler

He got his apprentice to call the most terrifying assassin in the world (quite possibly a/the hellhound) to shoot him, then had her wipe his memory so he wouldn't know, and would actually die.

Spoiler

And in the latest book he came back because that was considered 'cheating', so even that didn't work.

I love you.

I just want you to know that.

 

[EqualNOpposite]

I think the Nameless One from Planescape: Torment deserves a mention, if only for all the loops he had to jump through just so he COULD die.

 

[RachaelIsaacHill]

Harry Dresden's was pretty badass.

Spoiler

He got his apprentice to call the most terrifying assassin in the world (quite possibly a/the hellhound) to shoot him, then had her wipe his memory so he wouldn't know, and would actually die.

Spoiler

And in the latest book he came back because that was considered 'cheating', so even that didn't work.

Uh, you do realize that putting it in a spoiler does nothing if you REVEAL WHO DIES ANYWAY, right?

Anyway, OT:

Spoiler: Spoilers for V For Vendetta

Classic.

Ehh, the name of the latest book made it pretty obvious he'd been dead. It was mainly not to spoil the how, since that's the actual spoiler for the entire point of the latest book.

 

[EHKOS]

Whitebeard from One Piece. That BAMF had half his head blown off and kept fighting, in addition to being stabbed, slashed, shot, and hit by cannons hundreds of times. (He was half-giant)

Huh. I was in the middle of that battle and got burnt out on One Piece. Is it worth watching beyond his death too?

 

[Draconalis]

Ehh, the name of the latest book made it pretty obvious he'd been dead. It was mainly not to spoil the how, since that's the actual spoiler for the entire point of the latest book.

My jaw dropped when I got to that part too... Chills... I had chills.

 

[RachaelIsaacHill]

Ehh, the name of the latest book made it pretty obvious he'd been dead. It was mainly not to spoil the how, since that's the actual spoiler for the entire point of the latest book.

My jaw dropped when I got to that part too... Chills... I had chills.

The Star Trek part at the end was the greatest. I love Molly. Though Eternal Silence was the coolest. And lest we forget...

Spoiler

He Who Walks Behind. JYESSSSSSSSS

 

[Trilaanus]

From Farscape:

Spoiler

Former Peacekeeper Captain Bialar Crais and Talyn(a leviathan, a living starship) both decide(after every other plan had failed) the only way to stop the potentially galaxy-destroying research Scorpius was conducting on wormholes was to destroy the Command Carrier by starbursting(going to hyperspace, effectively) inside the hangar bay where the energies required for starburst would have nowhere to go. And so they did, both man and ship dying spectacularly in the process and possibly saving the galaxy.

 

[Draconalis]

The Star Trek part at the end was the greatest. I love Molly.

You know what? In keeping with the thread, I have another one

Dresden Files

Spoiler

Corpsetaker... the 2nd time.. by proxy
The Corpsetaker was busy trying to get into Molly's body, and then Morty comes around the corner. Morty is the Ecomancer (Mage that specialized in ghosts) that Corpstaker, as a ghost, was having tortured so she could take his body. So he comes around the corner annnnnd

"Hey," he croaked. "You. Arrogant ***** ghost."
"I'm not really into thiswhole hero thing," Mort said. "Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villian side of the equation, either." He planted his feet, facing the Corpsetaker squarely, is hands clenched into fists at his side. "But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with."

Mort then sends about a thousand wraiths from around the corner to eat the Corpsetaker's ghost.

In other news, I loved when Red shirt Molly died. "Don't worry boss, she wasn't real, some things you just have to keep.

 

[imperialwar]

My level 12 Dwarf Fighter from AD&D 2nd edition

Spoiler

An arbolist bolt impaled him onto a sinking ship.

Talk about overkill.

Personally I was hoping for more original deaths like this one. Instead of rehashing scripted deaths from mangas / games etc.

 

[Draconalis]

Spoiler: Beast Wars

There are no words I can use to describe this accurately:

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So to explain this a little - Dinobot here takes on and BEATS the every single Predacon introduced up until this point single handed (including the more recently shown Transmetal types, one of the newer transformer types at the time), even while sustaining terrible, terrible damage. It was badass enough to be the first fan submitted charecter to make it into the TF Hall of Fame, beating out other fan favourites including Soundwave, Shockwave, Grimlock and Jazz.

Good call... That WAS an amazing scene.

My level 12 Dwarf Fighter from AD&D 2nd edition

Spoiler

An arbolist bolt impaled him onto a sinking ship.

Talk about overkill.

Personally I was hoping for more original deaths like this one. Instead of rehashing scripted deaths from mangas / games etc.

Thanks. Got any good stories yourself?

 

[Dr_Pie]

My level 12 Dwarf Fighter from AD&D 2nd edition

Spoiler

An arbolist bolt impaled him onto a sinking ship.

Talk about overkill.

Now that's bad-ass.

And related to this http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome. Your day is now ruined.

 

[imperialwar]

[/quote]

Thanks. Got any good stories yourself?[/quote]
unfortunately no, none i can recall at the moment anyway

 

[Valkaris]

I know just about no one has read these books, and I am aware he is not a video game character, but that was not specified.
I would say that Nathaniel's death in The Bartimaeus Trilogy was just about the coolest death of any character I have felt really strongly for.

 

[Nouw]

'Choke on 'em!'

That's all I need to say.

 

[Wintermoot]

pretty much anybody from Gurren Lagann they all go in a blaze of glory. (except for a certain character at the epilogue.)