10 Shocking Video Game Deaths That Came Out Of Nowhere

5. Jackie Welles - Cyberpunk 2077

Let’s talk about a character we definitely expected to stick around far longer than they did. V’s relationship with Jackie Welles, and indeed the two’s entire backstories, are different depending on the lifepath you’ve chosen in Cyberpunk 2077.

In any case, you guys are buds, and Jackie is a reliable and loyal dude. Moreover, given Jackie was super present in Cyberpunk’s pre-release gameplay footage it was a safe assumption he’d be a fixture through the game.

Spoiler alert: He is not.

During the Heist job in Act 2 where Jackie and V are tasked with infiltrating Konpeki Plaza to steal an experimental biochip, Jackie becomes fatally injured in your efforts to escape. This is doubly shocking as up until this point Jackie has been the one penning your journal entries, so the beginning of the final entry reads, “So that's how it ends... at least for me.” You’ll then get the choice of where to send his remains.