10 Video Game Fates Worse Than Death

10. Death Loop (Portal 2)

The first Portal game concludes with the sadistic GLaDOS finally being defeated. The player uses some strategically-placed portals to send a bunch of missiles flying towards the evil computer system, and a final scene shows some of GLaDOS' machine parts strewn across the car park area of the Aperture facility.

But, unfortunately for GLaDOS, that "death" only led to more suffering.

After being reawakened, the villain returns in Portal 2, and spends a lot of time feeling resentful and bitter towards the player for what they did at the end of the last game. And when you learn what happened, you'll totally get why.

You see, after "dying", GLaDOS was forced to relive the last two minutes of its life over and over again. During the Incinerator Room section of Portal 2, the machine describes how its "black-box quick-save" feature trapped it in a persistent loop of dying. Again. And again. And again.

It's doubtful that GLaDOS feels pain in the same way that we do, but regardless, it must've been horrible to be trapped in a short Groundhog Day-esque cycle consisting of pure misery and death.