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

4. Lan Di - Shenmue III

Nadine Ross
Ys Net

Lan Di is the primary antagonist of the Shenmue franchise, solidified at the start of the first game when he murders protagonist Ryo's father Iwao, beating him to death in front of his son's eyes.

Yet because the Shenmue saga was always intended to be four or five games long, some 20+ years after Iwao's death, players still haven't been given the opportunity to take Lan Di down.

A brief showdown at the end of last year's Shenmue III resulted in Ryo getting thoroughly schooled by Lan Di, and given that there's no guarantee a fourth game will ever even get made, it's possible the villain's misdeed will go unpunished forever more. Absolutely disgusting.

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