10 Video Game Heroes Forced To Die For The Greater Good
5. The Boss - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 3 follows Naked Snake is a prequel to the first MGS title. Set in Cold War Russia, Snake is sent on a mission to rescue a scientist defecting from the USSR that had been working on a nuclear weapons project. Snake's superior, The Boss, betrays them, allowing the scientist to be capture and almost killing Snake. They then set off a nuke to cover up the secret work of the scientists.
With Russia and the US on the verge of all-out nuclear warfare, it is up to Snake to prove that the US had no part in the nuclear explosion. Partway through Snake learns of a super-secret organisation named The Philosophers, made up of the world's superpowers to control the world from behind the scenes. Their joint wealth was distributed evenly upon the dissolution of the organisation, but all $100 billion of it was stolen by Volgin.
In a final confrontation with The Boss, we discover that she had been ordered to defect to gain Volgin's trust and try and recover the money. Because of The Boss being blamed for the earlier nuke's detonation, she was seen as a genuine traitor and accepted that she had to be killed to clear the US's name and prevent nuclear war.
She was a true patriot, alright.