8 Video Game Heroes Who Doomed THEMSELVES

Shadow of the Colossus' protagonist Wander may have had fundamentally good intentions, to revive a beloved woman named Mono, but as the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

At the start of the game, Wander pays a visit to Dormin, a mysterious entity who apparently possesses the ability to resurrect the dead. The catch? Wander will first have to defeat sixteen gigantic, mythical colossi strewn across the land.

And though Dormin straight-up warns Wander that reviving Mono may come at a great cost, the man is so blinkered by his grief-stricken desire to negate death that he doesn't pay it much mind.

And so, Wander takes the colossi down one by one, flatly ignoring the fact that each colossus' death appears to cause Wander's physical form to further deteriorate.

This culminates in Wander returning to Dormin after completing his mission, only to learn that he got played like a damn fiddle all along: the sixteen colossi each represent a fragment of Dormin's essence which was separated by Lord Emon in order to seal him away.

In defeating the colossi, Wander has freed Dormin, resulting in Lord Emon's men killing Wander, who then becomes possessed by a now-resurrected Dormin.

The pair transform into a gigantic, shadowy monstrosity until Emon manages to banish them into a vortex of light, seemingly sealing Dormin away once again and turning Wander into... a horned baby.

Though Wander was ultimately successful in bringing Mono back to life, the cost - of his own life and threatening the existence of the entire land - was clearly far too dear.