10 Gaming Characters Who Never Deserved To Die

2. Modern Warfare 2 - Captain John "Soap" MacTavish

The dashing gentleman with the M4 Carbine in the photo above is "Soap" MacTavish, the protagonist of the Modern Warfare series, and (in my humble opinion) as far as FPS games go, the baddest motherf*cker of all time.

After a harrowing end to the first Modern Warfare which saw him being airlifted for medical attention, Soap returned to the sequel as the squad leader of your player character, Roach. Again, you perform operations worldwide, to combat the efforts of Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov, and... yeah. I've already detailed this in a previous entry.

At the end of the game, General Shepherd is beating Soap's mentor, John Price, in a fistfight. Desperate, and having already suffered a horrendous knife wound, Soap pulls the knife OUT of his abdomen, and throws it into Shepard's face, the blade impaling him through the eye, killing him.

What? You didn't believe me?

After leaving the dead Shepherd to rot, Soap and Price retreat to a friendly compound, where Soap receives the medical attention he desperately needs... and ends up again handing out hot doses of lead aspirin to baddies in Europe, Africa, and Russia.

And what is his final fate? Death.

After Makarov reveals he predicted the actions of Soap and Price to stop him, he detonates a bomb, which doesn't kill Soap and yourself (playing as Yuri, an ex-Spetsnaz). Instead, it re-opens Soap's not-quite-healed knife wound, causing him to bleed out on a table before he can receive the needed help. Distraught, a devastated Captain Price places his old M1911 on the man's corpse, determined to avenge his death...

Which he does, in spectacular fashion, later in the story.

R.I.P. Soap :(