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His legend, however, definitely lives on. And finally, Batman as the world knows him dies - whether Bruce himself dies is open to interpretation (it's unlikely, but open-ended), but his days as Batman seem to be over. Nora and Victor Fries leave Gotham with only days left to live, and either Nyssa Raatko or Ra's Al Ghul will die depending on a choice you make (though Ra's won't die immediately). Joker, corporeally dead at the end of Batman: Arkham City now exists as a cerebral infection, manifesting in hallucinations, taking over Batman's mind until he's finally overcome and "killed" for good.
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Batman: Arkham Knight, as the last game in the series (at least as far as Rocksteady is concerned), they took liberty to start killing people.The other noted characters to meet their end are Hugo Strange, Clayface, Ra's and Talia al Ghul, although the game suggests the latter two may return in a sequel, with the aid of a a Lazarus pit. Batman: Arkham City dispatches several long established characters (in both the game series and comic source material), most substantially The Joker, who, second only to Batman, was the most prominent character throughout both Arkham games.There are also various endings where the world falls to darkness, resulting in the deaths of the entire cast. Rook/Alette (whichever one survived the first game) will be murdered by a racist human if they attempt to negotiate with the dredge without returning the dredge baby and Ivar will be killed by magical backlash if he kills Eyvind so Alfrun can perform the world saving ritual. In The Banner Saga 3, in addition to many playable characters being able to die if you make the wrong decisions, both of the main characters can die.The Banner Saga 2 carries on this grand tradition, with there being the possibility for Bak, Sigbjorn, Ekkil, Tryggvi, Sparr, Mogun and more to all die over the course of the game.Characters who fall into this camp include Egil (especially, there's even an achievement for keeping him alive), Onef, Gunnulf, Mogr, Ludin, Griss, Nid, Krumr and many, many more. For most characters, though, it is more the case that they can die, but that player decisions can save them. At the end of the game the player is forced to choose whether Alette or Rook will die, because there is no way to save them both. For some like Vognir and the Chieftain of Skogr it will always happen for plot purposes, and there is nothing the player can do to stop it. Almost every single named character in The Banner Saga can die.In the Baldur's Gate games, dead characters can usually be raised from the dead (except the hero), but some particularly devastating attacks can kill a party member off permanently.In the end, there's only about three named characters still alive (and two of them unfortunately were offed in the sequel).
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Finally, the final mission The Great Destroyer have Montes being shot in the head by the Big Bad. The next mission, Kaffarov ended with the player forced to kill their commanding officer, Cole. Two missions later in Rock And A Hard Place, two members of Misfit squad, Christian Matkovic and Steve Campo were killed off as well. Later, there's the mission Fear No Evil where Jonathan Miller got his throat slashed ( while you play as him). Battlefield 3 averted this trope until the mission Old Comrades where one of Dimitri Mayakovsky's friend, Vladimir is hit by a large piece of shrapnel that impales him in the chest.