10 Most Humiliating Ways To Die In Multiplayer Video Games

4. Unlikely Vehicle Deaths - GTA Online

Like its eventual successor, Red Dead Online, GTA Online is a lawless land filled to the brim with bored players laden with enough weaponry to level a whole city - which, as anyone who plays GTA Online will tell you, tends to happen a lot.

One of the biggest changes to the game's multiplayer came in 2016 with the Further Adventures in Finance and Felony update, which forced players to grind out money in packed lobbies to earn their millions. Sadly this also invited a lot of griefing, and when one player manages to ruin all your planning with one well-placed homing missile, it's only natural to want revenge.

Yes, this is the tale of one such encounter I had with an opponent in GTA all the way back in 2016. They ruined my scheme, got into a plane and tried to escape. I lept after them in pursuit with a friend, hoping to catch them at their next destination.

The resulting exchange - not to toot my own horn or anything - was frankly wonderful.

The opposing player climbs in altitude like an agile goose, hoping that my smaller plane would stall, allowing them to make a quick getaway. Believing that the trail has gone cold, they bail out, only for my plane to take them out completely in mid-air.

These little interactions are what made GTA Online such a runaway success. Sure it might be a little bit extra, but in a setting as ridiculous as Los Santos, we can be permitted for being a little self-indulgent.

Ewan Paterson

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.

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