10 Video Game Characters That Deserved To Die (But Didn't)

Though most of the characters on this list deserved to die because they were thoroughly contemptible degenerates if not outright villains, that's not quite the case with one entry on our list, and that's Natalya from the classic N64 FPS GoldenEye 007.

Natalya appears in several of the game's missions, infuriatingly serving as a VIP during the maddening escort romp "Control."

Escort missions don't have to be terrible - though they usually are - yet Control is a uniquely awful one because Natalya's A.I. is programmed to be as counter-intuitive as possible.

While the player attempts to fend off the fleet of goons trying to kill her, Natalya will freely run in front of bullets and basically demonstrate the absolutely opposite of anything approaching a basic survival instinct.

Though she of course can die at either your hand or the enemy's, resulting in a Game Over, canonically Natalya lives to fight another day, despite being one of the dopiest and most survival-averse NPCs in gaming history.