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

10. Bloodwing - Borderlands 2

Bloodwing is the bird-like alien companion of the hunter Mordecai from the first Borderlands game. Most who have played as Mordecai in the original title have a soft spot for the bird, as Bloodwing stays close by his master's side all throughout the story, and the hunter tends to talk quite a bit about him.

Unfortunately, like a lot of the original cast members in the sequel, Bloodwing doesn't get a happy ending. Handsome Jack eventually delivers Bloodwing to the great beyond, and worse of all, he makes you do it with your own two hands (plus guns, turrets, and all the other deadly toys kept in your pockets)!

You see, in the second half of the game, when your team meets with Mordecai, Handsome Jack mutates his beloved companion and transforms him into a mindless monster that you have to put down.

It's already bad when the villain takes out a legacy character. It's even worse when he makes you do it for him. But then again, this kind of diabolical mindset is exactly why we all love Handsome Jack.