12 Most Shocking Video Game Deaths Of 2016
11. Reyna Diaz - Gears Of War 4
The game ends with JD Fenix and company finding Kait Diaz's mother Reyna trapped inside the Swarm's hive network, having been biologically merged with it so that removing her would also cause her death.
Heartbreakingly, though, Reyna accepts her fate and asks her daughter to cut her loose, but not before handing her a mysterious Locust trinket with major implications for future games.
Reyna passes on in what's one of the few truly emotionally gratifying death scenes in any of the Gears of War games, all the more surprising considering how samey and generic GoW4 felt at times.
Reyna may not have been a hugely well-developed character, but her death sure as Hell had the desired impact all the same.