10 Awesome Video Game Villains That Died Too Early

6. Professor Nakayama - Borderlands 2

Borderland 2 Professor Nakayama
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Unlike every other entry on this list, the premature demise of Borderlands 2's hilarious Professor Nakayama was most certainly worth it.

Nakayama is a rail-thin, slap-headed scientist who appears in the Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC, swearing revenge on the Vault Hunters for the death of his idol Handsome Jack.

And so, Nakayama is naturally enough the game's final boss, but just as he shows up to do battle, he ends up tripping down some stairs and breaking his neck, dying before you can actually engage him.

In the most literal sense possible, Nakayama died too early, but in a deliciously meta way that poked giddy fun at the very nature of video game climaxes. And as an added bonus, the mission was even called "The Fall of Nakayama." Beautiful.

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