10 Video Game Deaths EVERYONE Saw Coming
3. Eli Vance - Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
Credit where credit's due: this guy hung on WAY longer than anyone probably thought he would. But as the wise old ex-Black Mesa scientist surrounded by people decades his junior, and with only one leg to boot - pun intended - poor old Eli should even have seen this coming himself.
In Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman first runs into Vance in the research facility, Black Mesa East. To the former, it's likely only been a few hours/days since they were last together in the events of the first game. But to the latter, it's been twenty years.
Gordon is accompanied on his travels by Eli's daughter, Alyx, while the benevolent father gets himself routinely kidnapped and rescued like any good human MacGuffin.
Right at the end of 2007's Half-Life 2: Episode Two, after Gordon deals with the invading Combine forces, Eli is ensnared by the maggot-like Combine Advisor and impaled straight through the head by its alien tendril.
Of all these entries, this character's death is arguably the one that hits home the most, even if it was expected sooner or later. One gets the feeling that the old man sealed his fate as soon as he mentioned his and Gordon's "mutual friend"...