Deceased

Near Pure Evils who have died and remained dead. Death is a common fate and punishment for many villains and Near Pure Evils are no exception.

Various means how a villain died/remained dead include:

• Violent Death: A villain winds up killed in a violent or disturbing way, such as fatally incinerated by an explosion, burned alive, mutilated alive, disemboweled, eaten/mauled alive, impaled, completely dissolved, given the blood eagle, decapitated, sucked into space, exploding, having their bodily fluids slowly sucked out of their body, etc. (e.g. Hopper, Raymond Sullivan, Captain Gutt, Joffrey Baratheon, Steve Cobs, Bluey, Dylan Gould, Joker (Injustice), Carla Radames, Magnus McGilded, Frau Engel, Rick Prime, Aaron the Moor and Ivan Landsness).
• Died in Honor: The villain has accepted the fact that their demise is inevitable and had enough dignity to face it. Many of the villains who died in this way are honorable ones. Thus, circumstances were includes:
  • Chooses to Die Rather Than to Be Saved: Honorable villains defeated by the heroes choose to take their own life, preferring to die with honor rather than to live in shame like cowards. When they killed themselves, they can either give the heroes sometime to escape from disaster that they already started but cannot undone it (an example being the battle between the hero and the villain took place in the damaged ship/building that about to explode as result of the villains' own mistake or heroes' effort to foil their evil plan) or have the hero whom defeated the villain gave them a mercy killing).
  • Accepted Their Death as Their Fate and Faced it with Dignity: In this case, it doesn't need to be a redeemed villain to die with honor.
    • Lord Shen shuts his eyes as his cannon is about to fall on him, allowing his end to come.
    • 2014 Thanos, seeing his entire army disintegrate, kneels down and accepts his fate as he turns to dust.
    • Hector Salamanca suicide-bombs and takes Gus Fring with him, being willing to die in a blaze of glory.
    • Harry Lime simply nods at Holly to finish him off in the sewer.
    • Vaneé allows Kylo Ren to come kill him after realizing he can't escape him no matter what
    • Light Yagami lies down on the stairs of a warehouse and accepts his death in peace, as Ryuk writes down his name on the Death Note.
    • Great Shinobi Owl accepts his death at the hands of his son Wolf/Sekiro, being proud of how he raised him.
    • Kraven the Hunter willingly gets his head bitten off by Venom, being glad to die like a warrior.
    • Davoth simply asks Doomguy if he has any last words for him, with the latter giving him just a "No", accepting his death by his hands.
• Died in Disgrace: In this case, the villain commits something dishonorable or had no dignity to face their downfall. Related circumstances include:
  • Villains who try to kill the heroes after being offered mercy or spared to live, only to end up dying in the process (e.g. Sub Lieutenant Blakeson).
  • Villains who are killed by their own allies who come to realize just how evil the villain really is (e.g. Storm King and Professor Gerald Robotnik).
  • Villains who die in an ill-conceived, foolish, and/or desperate attempt on the heroes' life, such as a failed “I’m taking you out with me!” attack (e.g. Hunter Thibodeaux, Bane, Danzō Shimura and Rose the Hat’s failed attempt to kill Danny).
  • Villains who try to weasel their way out of their predicament by trying to talk the heroes into mercy, only for the hero to kill them anyway.
    • Jack Welker attempts to persuade Walter White to let him live so he can tell him the location of the rest of his money, but before he can finish his proposition Walt coldly shoots him in the head, killing him.
    • Dark Matter tries to guilt trip the protagonists into not killing it, saying it will come back stronger than ever many years later and attempt to destroy the world again, even asking if the protagonists would be able to handle the guilt. The partner ends up accepting that fact and kills it anyways.
    • Jonathan Irons begs Mitchell to lift him up, only for the latter to cut off his prosthetic arm with his knife, leaving him to fall to his death while screaming for Mitchell's name.
    • Commodus begs his guards to help him kill Maximus right after cheating in the duel, causing everyone to turn against him and leave him to die.
    • Sebastian Milton cowardly begs for help after the walker he launched at Maxxine gets thrown back at him, only to get shot by Judith Grimes.
    • Vincente De Santa begs John to spare him after attempting to launch an ambush on him, only to get killed by either the latter or the rebels.
  • Arrogants or Egotists who spend their last moments questioning on how they could possibly be beaten, or by being so full of themselves that they gloat even while dying (e.g. Agnus, Cackletta, Harley Sawyer, King Sombra and Big Smoke).
  • Villains pleading/begging for their death when they are suffering/being tortured (e.g. Colonel McCullough, the Snake Baron and Andrew St. John).
  • Cowards who try to run away from their problems and kill themselves to avoid punishment (e.g. Joseph Goebbels (Downfall)).
  • Villains who were killed by the powers/weapons/beings that they sought, worshipped, used, or even created (Marcel and Thanos are good examples of these, although the latter does also die in honor).
  • Former immortals who lose their sources of immortality and face their downfall either immediately or later on in the story (Ra's al Ghul, Mother Gothel and Ponce de Leon).
• Died Offscreen: In many cases, certain villains have met their fate onscreen. But, in this case, the villain's death was not shown but was mentioned by a character that they met their fate when no one else was there to see it (e g. Perseus, Joe Darke, Captain Flint and Teru Mikami in the manga).
• Deactivation: This is applied for robots or machines that were destroyed/deactivated permanently (e.g. Ultron, Commander Tartar, Madame Gasket & PAL).
• Cessation/Erasure of existence: This means that the villain's soul is destroyed permanently, therefore having no afterlife waiting for them (e.g. Agent Smith, King Purplius, DOR-15, Darth Nihilus, Green Goblin and HABIT).
• Dragged off to the afterlife: This includes mortal beings who were literally dragged alive to a hell-like dimension, end up becoming Damned Souls (e.g. Yoshikage Kira, Zhao and the Antichrist), or have entered the afterlife themselves and remained there. Ghosts or spirits, if sent to the spirit world or to an afterlife, count only if they were former mortal beings who passed away. Immortals, spirits or other supernatural beings, who are sent back, do not count and should go under imprisoned instead.
• Different types of damnation: This includes villains who became Damned Souls in ways different to being dragged to the afterlife, two examples include dying in a symbolic way of them being damned and being forced into an infinite cycle of deaths.
• Death of Personality: It refers to when the body is still alive, but the person's mind erased is equivalent to death (e.g. Barty Crouch Jr. receiving the Dementor's Kiss, which left him in a vegetative state, and Bradford Buzzard, who has his mind wiped completely after being cursed by Magica De Spell in the series finale).

Undeads cannot count unless they are also killed for good.

By extension, none of the deceased villains can be a Karma Houdini if they have not died of natural causes (e.g. Adolf Hitler (TNO), Lester McClintock, Oh Il-nam, Perseus, Pharaoh Seti I and Sozin), no matter their influence on the plot.

Characters who are confirmed dead rather than simply being presumed as much are different; please keep those categories separated. Also, NPEs who have died in one work and by some logic (or any way in general) return in sequel do not count (e.g. Elder Princess Shroob) unless they die again.

Their counterparts are Deceased Near Pure Goods.