8 Characters You Didn't Realise Secretly Died In Their Own Video Games
1. B.J. Blazkowicz - Wolfenstein 2
Perhaps the most kickass of all deaths to feature, William Joseph Blazkowicz A.K.A. B.J. Blazkowicz A.K.A. “Terror Billy” went out of this world hated by all Nazi kind, and really, there aren’t many finer ways to go.
A little more than halfway through Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Blazkowicz is captured, almost freed, captured again, then nearly freed again before being executed at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial in an eerie, alternate-universe switcheroo.
The game continues from that point as Blazkowicz’s head is “saved,” and attached to a new host, but an overriding theory among fans is that Wolfenstein’s never-say-die protagonist… well, died.
B.J. never made it off the Lincoln Memorial, and either his head was lost to the flames below, or perhaps the Kreisau Circle never actually succeeded in keeping it alive long enough to take to a new body. Either way, look to the scene of B.J. trying to lie next to his partner Anya after getting his new body, as a notably "dreamlike" sequence where he struggles to see her face.