10 Video Game Fates Worse Than Death
8. Clinging To Humanity (Apex Legends)
The latest character introduced to Apex Legends, Revenant - a deadly robotic assassin - has a deeply tragic backstory that sent him towards an awful fate.
Once upon a time, Revenant was a normal human man. A hitman for the Mercenary Syndicate, he was probably the most skilled killer the Outlands had ever seen, able to murder any target, anywhere, at any time.
But everything changed when he was transformed into a simulacrum by shady tech organisation Hammond Robotics. In the Apex and Titanfall universe, a simulacrum is basically a metal body that houses a digital imprint of a person's memories and knowledge, meaning that subjects of this process still think and feel like regular humans, when, in reality, they're just robotic shells with delusions of humanity.
Demonstrating this, Apex's Season 4 launch trailer showed Revenant attempting to shave his metallic face, simply because he thought he was still a man. It wasn't until a shard of glass got stuck in his neck that his simulacrum programming was interrupted, and he was able to see what Hammond had turned him into.
Imagine going about your daily life, then one day, bang! You find out that everything is a lie, and you're actually a robot. No basic human pleasures, no friends, nothing. It would make you miserable, and death would likely feel like a viable escape route.