10 Video Game Bosses Who Killed Other Bosses
9. Emperor Doviculus - Brütal Legend (2009)
Brütal Legend is, unfortunately, a game famous for not quite knowing what genre it is. What starts as a fairly simple hack-and-slash RPG turns quickly to full-on real-time strategy that lets you get stuck into fights yourself along with your teammates.
As such, almost every battle after about the halfway point of the game can be considered a kind of boss fight, the main objective being to destroy the rival band's stage. Her heart darkened by the Sea of Black Tears, Eddie Riggs' love interest, Ophelia, becomes one of the game's main antagonists, and challenges you to two merciless stage battles against herself and her new band, The Drowning Doom.
Though Eddie believes Ophelia to be working for the demon, Emperor Doviculus, it turns out that Doviculus was just manipulating her all along, and, in a shock twist, tears her heart out from her back, leaving her to dissolve into black sludge.
After an equally hectic battle with the Tainted Coil, Eddie faces off against Doviculus for real, slicing off his head with his trusty Separator axe. Though he's ultimately able to rescue Ophelia's soul from the Sea of Black Tears and restore her to how she was, the death of her 'dark' self is a totally unexpected moment, and really lets you know just how much of a fight you're in for straight after.