10 Video Game Villains You Didn't Want To Kill (But Had To) 

Except Paarthurnax is optional, so screw the Blades.

The Colossi from "Shadow of the Colossus." ALL of them. 😭

It is worth noting that Sif doesn't 'forgive' you, the DLC section takes place in the past. So you kill Sif and then go back in time to meet her when she's a puppy. If you actually do the past DLC stuff first, she recognizes you in the main game and shows remorse for what she has to do. Makes it even worse.

Cutie, the elephant from It Takes 2!!! She just wanted to live! We were monsters.

Now do “Villains we wanted to kill-but couldn’t” …none come to mind, but maybe there are some out there😅

Killing Paarthurnax is a lot more grey than just "you want to continue the Blades quest? Then kill the only good dragon around". Paarthurnax was the most evil dragon of his time (second only to Alduin, but he is god like creature that is supposed to end to world anyway). During a whole era he killed scores of humans, enslaved the sentient races and was tyrant as Alduin's number 2. The thing is, he was born and lived around a race that considered this the right thing to do and he was the only one of them that broke free of that mentality and became good. The point of killing him or not is 'can you forgive his horrible atrocities that happened ages ago? And do you believe someone can escape punishment for their past deeds by doing good ones? I still think killing him his wrong, but it's not like the Blades don't have a point.

You're wrong about Bloodwing. You don't kill him. Jack does. You fight him to subdue him so you can tranquilize him. And then when you move in closer, Jack detonates the bomb collar around it's neck.

How they not gonna mention The Boss from Snake Eater?

You dont summon Sif to help you AFTER you put her down. You go into the past and become friends with Sif in an effort to help and subsequently avenge Artorius. Before the initial fight with Sif she sniffs you and then lets out a somber howl. This is because she recognizes you from the past (which our character doesnt know about yet) but knows how this fight is going to have to end. Making it all the more tragic.

Nobody wanted to kill Lady Dimitrescu😂

To this day, I still say screw The Blades, I would never betray my Drago-Sensei

MGS 3 The Boss definitely should be in the top 3. Also actually felt bad for killing griffon and shadow in DMC5

Few channels doing a list like this mention Rundas from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The gentle bounty hunter saves Samus's life twice in the Battle of Norion, but he inexplicably attacks Samus when she later goes to Bryyo. We find out Rundas was corrupted by Dark Samus and a small fragment of Phazon, but not until after a sad boss battle where we all hoped Samus was shooting to disable.

It should be the death of Angel in borderlands 2 that should have been on the list, not bloodwing.

Final Fantasy 14's Emet Selch. A man who carries the very weight of his world on his shoulders. But in order to save his world yours must be destroyed. Even after coming to an understanding of each other there is no other path to take and you must face him as the hero you are and become the villain of his story

Hephaestus from God of War 3. He was only trying to protect his daughter Pandora and before he died, begged Kratos to spare her life.

Nice one with The Beat from Furi. The way her boss battle starts with a chase where she's pleading with you is really the tip-off that you're the aggressor and she really doesn't want to fight. But there are a couple pretty glaring omissions from the list in my opinion (and a couple that I just like haha): 1) The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3): Pretty shocked she didn't make it onto the list, she was the first villain that popped into my head. After you defeat her she's lying there waiting for you to use the patriot gun to end her, and I stood there for quite a while hoping that there'd be an alternative to killing her, but of course there wasn't because dying at your hands was her final mission. 2) Hugo (A Plague Tale: Requiem): Granted your character Amicia is not exactly forced to kill him, but it's either that or stand by long enough for Lucas to do it for you. The whole game is pretty traumatic, but for it to end that way with no shot at Hugo living after all he had to go through was just heartbreaking. 3) Jetstream Sam (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance): He always had good guy vibes about him and was a pretty likable, honorable character despite being on the other side. Of course you learn that he was never down with the cause and was forced into join Armstrong's cause, and he was willing to die in battle against you if it meant you were able to stop Armstrong. Still didn't want to kill the guy though haha. 4) Nidhogg (God of War: Ragnarok): All she's there to do is take care of the World Tree's roots, and Odin duped her into attacking you but cursing the tree's roots to bind Freya to Midgard and forcing you to destroy them. You not only are forced to fight and brutally kill her, but you orphan her 6 children (who thankfully you find a home for with Ratatoskr).

I don’t feel even a tiny bit bad about killing Ketheric. Isobel didn’t want to come back and Ketheric tortures her partner. This hits differently for us sapphics, I guess. Don’t love a pigheaded old dad interfering with his daughter’s lesbian relationship.

Might be a little obscure but killing Leon in tales of destiny hit me hard. He grows so much with the group and then seeing how he's manipulated into a villain by Hugo in the second half made it really upsetting to have to finish him off.

Was going to comment “where Sif”. Thankfully, it’s there. We are the monsters!

I feel they did us dirty with Sif. Being able to do the dlc first and getting a scene that just cuts deeper before the fight instead of something like having the shield that protects young sif from the abyss be another way to get to the four kings is just cruel lol

Hey you don’t kill Asgore in the pacifist route flowery does.

Bloodwing shouldn’t be on this list. All the player does is get her health low enough for Mordecai to shoot her with a tranq. Everything seems to be fine when Jack reveals he also had the explosive planted in her and Jack kills her, so her death isn’t on the player or mordecai at all

Red Dead is one of those series that makes me question some decisions but at the same time, Javier, Bill, and Micah were real bastards

Kethric being a sympathetic character you didn't want to kill is quite the take. The game makes it clear that while he did have some serious tragedy in his life, he's a backstabbing SOB who'll brainwash his daughter the instant he gets her back if he's allowed to. If you still feel sympathy for him after seeing everything he's done, you may want to talk to your shrink about that.

Melody Pianissima and Madam Clairvoya from Luigi’s Mansion.

Noore Najjar from Far Cry 4😢

"what's that last element again, oh yeah, EXPLOSIONS"

Oh I definetly didn't feel bad about taking out Kethric Thorm

Jfc, you got Sif completely backwards. When you summon her you've gone back in time. She'll even recognize you in her boss fight if you save her in Oolacile

What about the Doctor (Abby’s dad) from Last of Us. I’d say that one you at least have to feel conflicted about

You do realize you don't kill bloodwing, right! Jack does. As far as you know, you're just trying to get bloodwing to a point that Mordecai can tranquilize the bird and hopefully cure it.

That's why i love Skyrim modding.a number of kids for alternate endings to the Paarthunax dilemma.

Pretty much ran into thorm at the point of fighting him. Didnt see him earlier

Vaas Montenegro from Far Cry 3 The Baker family from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Jack and Marguerite Baker should be on this list as Ethan finds out later that the loving couple were brainwashed and horribly mutated by Eveline.

You forgot that mods have been made that allow you to save Paarthurnax.

Dunno if this has already been said, but The Boss from MGS3 which only becomes clear at the end of the story and through proxy in the next game and the non game lore, as well as the Colonel in Rock(Mega)man X4, whom, during Zero's story, just hits you in the feels considering Zero's relationship with other characters in the story. Nishikiyama in Yakuza too while I'm at it, or by proxy Majima

Good thing the Paarthunax quest is actually optional and you never have to finish this quest. And for Bloodwing as a Mordecai player from BL1 I do a 21 gun salute for Bloodwing personally. Edit I do it every playthrough when I do that exact quest.

Mass effect: Saren. His ideas were wrong, but I get it. In his own messed up way he was fighting just as hard as Shepard to save the galaxy.

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Speaking of Baldur's Gate, wasn't one of the Five in Throne of Bhaal also a badass hero trying to do right? I forget his name, but it's that monk in the desert oasis. When it's pretty much already too late, you learn he was only playing along with his (and yours, incidentally) siblings in order to perform a ritual to destroy the power of Bhaal and rid the world of its evil forever (it's been too long, I will freely admit. Feel free to correct me)

Jetpack Sam (Metal Gear Revengence) was such a cool character. I would have preferred for him to live especially after seeing his bond with Bladewolf in the DLC.

You got sif wrong. When you summon sif, its in the past after you save Sif. Sif didn't forgive you. However, if you do the DLC first, then battle Sif then you get a special cutscene where Sif recognises you but still has to battle you. This feels way worse :(

How about the Mana Beast in Secret of Mana? First fight in my life I didn't want to win

Bloodwing doesn't count. The players only beat Bloodwing into submission, and when the fight is over, JACK blows him up with a remote bomb in Bloodwing's head. When the fight ends, Bloodwing is still alive as far as the player's contributions.

The skyrim one is exactly why the mod Parthunaax delema was created. So you can finish the blades quest with out killing partunaax.

No mention of Matriarch Benezia? She's properly diabolical sure, and idk if this is just if you bring Liara with you. But in her moments of clarity you genuinely feel bad for her despite knowing that she has to die.

There are many dead rising bosses who I simply feel bad for, like the ex soldier from the first one who's war ptsd kicked in when he saw his granddaughter being eaten alive, Ted from dr2, the autist, who only wanted to find foot for the only friend he ever had(a tiger), that one soilder from dr2, that after his whole squad was killed loosed his grap to reality and zhi from dr3, where simply everything went wrong for him to the point where he did the finishing blow himself.

The real number one is those giants you fight in Shadow of The Colossus!!!

Paarthunax is more than just the Dragonborn's guiding mentor, he's *the* dragon that worked with Kyneraeth to give humankind the Voice. His being targeted by the Blades (and the off-hand nature of it all) is so annoying that there are _Multiple_ efforts to give the Paarthunax situation the meaning it deserves... and give you the option to tell Delphine to pound sand.

I had to skip the Walking Dead entry, because I didn't even know there was a fourth! :o I guess it gets added to the list of games I missed and need to play.

Not sure if he fully counts as a villain, but he is a boss, so I'm rolling with it: I genuinely almost dropped Crisis Core after Angeal died. I just felt super guilty about it even though I literally didn't have a choice, and I already knew how the game ended at that point, and I ended up having a whole nihilistic "It's all downhill from here, what's the point" thing before deciding "actually screw that mentality, I'm gonna keep going"

Seeing Furi on this list is a welcome change

Does putting a "villain" to death count? Because I feel like almost all the murderers from Danganronpa 2 probably count, but *especially* Gundham.

It’s Jack that kills Bloodwing all the players do is knock him out.

I feel like if there's any game I have that has someone that qualifies... Fire Emblem: Three Houses, maybe? Actually, from Eternal Sonata... ...does Frederic count? He's the final boss, though he's in your party up until then... and you could say you don't actually kill him; TB does... Your corrupted friends in Metroid Prime 3?

I looked up Quelaag's lore when I first fought her. I had to put the game down for a couple of days. I didn't want to kill that one.

Did ChatGPT write the script for this video? Because at least 3 of these entries have glaring factual errors. Like...Blooding shouldn't even be here. You don't kill Bloodwing, Jack does, and it's not ambiguous.

Uhm... about bloodwing, its not us who kill bloodwing, We fight Bloodwing to get her weaker but Jack is going through every element mutation through the fight, but its the explosive element that blows up Bloodwing's head, it's not us that kill it, its Jack

Who approves of Bloodwing on this? Jack blew up the collar killing the bird when we were just trying to exhaust Bloodwing long enough for Mordecai to save him. And isn’t there a peaceful option for Parthanax by taking one of the blades to him after some back and forth?

I forgot about Furi. Need to go back to that

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Saving Songbird Ending being forced to kill Reed.

Dimitrescu from RE: Village. We all wanted to turn her over to our side. She could have been Rose's new mommy.

Wha....WHAT ABOUT ANGEL IN BORDERLANDS 2?! She's a child (19 at the oldest I think) who was abused by her father after his mind snapped.

Are we counting Johnny? The biker Trevor beats to death within two minutes of his introduction?

Slappy is the toy store mascot, not fast food mascot.

Sif was the worst as you help her out in the dlc set in the past, and it hurts to not only fight her but also see she doesn't want to

Wrong how dare you accuse me of killing Asgore

RIP bloodwing

After my 100th playthrough. Sifs death still hurts. I love Dogs/Wolfs and all fluffy dog like animals.

I would say every single ultimate in the Danganronpa series excluding the masterminds of course. They only killed because they were forced to by being emotionally manipulated and in a way we kill them by finding them guilty.

Sniper Wolf in MGS1...I had a difficult time with having to kill her.

How is Shriek from Ori and the Will of the wisp not mentioned. Every time I replay that game I’m always crying at the end during the boss. She was misguided and all she wanted was to be loved and I have to be the one to kill her 😢

Sephiroth. Dude was just so badass I didn't want to kill him.

I didn't want to kill the Red Death in Fallout 4, I wanted to keep it as a pet.

Definitely Cutie in It Takes Two!! Literally the most precious creature on the planet murdered by a couple awful parents trying to make their daughter cry

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Killing The Boss (The Joy) was difficult decision.

Javier is a snake who had a laugh with Micah and didn't question leaving John to die. I have no sympathy at all for John killing him.

Preaching to the choir, I'm aware, but screw ANYONE who killed Paarthurnax!

I have never through at least 50 playthroughs seen the Blades storyline. I never kill Parthanax, never

Lilith in Diablo 4 . I agreed with what she was doing (not the method but the end goal) and did not want to take her down. I was hoping we could join her and take the fight to the other forces that try to destroy the world she created.

Skys of arcadia. You dont technically but she kills herself to save you.

Jeanne from "No More Heroes" loses points for me, because Travis did nothing to her to warrant her wanting to kill him. His dad was fair game.

Faith, from FarCry 5. Most of these I could get by just fine (F--- Parthenax), but Killing Faith legitimately made me feel bad.

Jess, Bloodwing was female in BL2. She may have started male in BL1, but Bloodwing's species seems to act like clownfish

Did no one have a horrible night after killing the bear in It Takes Two????

Sounds like you’re going for a bit of a different read. Still good, just a bit different!

'The Boss' in Metal Gear Solid 3 is another one. Yes it was her mission to sacrifice herself for the good of her country and it was your job to follow through. But did it make me feel good about doing it? No. Not in the slightest.

Baron von Glower from Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within. I just wanted to run away with him and leave everything behind! Such a great villan! 🖤

Tachy from Stellar Blade, although killing her is a mercy when we find her. Also the companion you chose to die in Wolfenstein: the New Order. Maiden Astraea and Garl Vinland; she has to die to stop the Old One from killing everyone, but she's a saint using the power given to her to help the poor, downtrodden and abandoned people of the Valley of Definlement. Heck you even fight her in a disgusting, poisoned pit where she needs to work. And Garl only wants to protect her. For Dead Rising, I would have chosen Cliff Hudson, who's stuck in a PTSD flashback after seeing his granddaughter eaten alive by zombies. It's why you have to fight him. Matriarch Benezia, who you have to fight because of Reaper indoctrination. Blaidd who is driven insane by the programming of the Two Fingers. Maybe the Scrapped Watchman from Lies of P. He's violent and attacks you, but he was driven insane because he felt the adults abandoned the slum children he befriended. The serial killer from Camp Sunshine is possessed by a demon causing him to commit all the murders. Fire Emblem: Three Houses whichever story path you don't take causes the main companion to lose themselves and become antagonists that you have to fight.

What about some of the villains from Resident Evil Village?

After defeating Alduin I happily let the thalmor continue to hunt down the blades they have served their usefulness I will never kill my boy paarthurnax

The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3 should be on the list.

I thought Orin was going to be in this from the thumbnail. Of all the villains I couldn't wait to kill it was her. Insufferable. Annoying. Lacking all nuance, just evil for the sake of being evil, and the monologuing. Dear God spare from from the endless villain monologuing in that game!

Queen Cutie The Elephant in It Takes Two. I almost quit playing

Orin did nothing wrong! Knaifu Waifu!

Loewe from Legend of heroes trails in the sky. Though he was always in the way he never was evil in fact it seems like he mainly wanted Joshua to get stronger. he seems like the type to have a redemption ark but sadly he dies after you beat him luckly others do... Same thing but perhaps even moreso with Crow in trails of cold steel 2 heck it probably hits harder there since he was a full party member in 1. man that series as a whole often has a few characters you don't want to fight...

RIP Bloodwing.

Quake 4... Killing Lt Voss is something I never liked. Jeez, the man is even kind with Kane, while the rest of the team bullies ur character.