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Usually when an anime villain dies, they refuse to go down alone. This almost always results in a suicide attack, where the villain in question self-destructs in an attempt to either kill the hero or inflict as many casualties as they could before dying.
That being said, the intentions behind such a last strike differ. Where some anime villains self-destruct as a tragic final act of defiance against their bitter rivals or fate, others expose themselves to be sore losers who couldn’t accept defeat.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
10 Future Diary — Minene Uryuu Blew Herself Up To Breach Eleventh’s Safe
Like the other Diary Users, the mad bomber Minene (or Ninth) was more of an anti-hero than a villain, but she was still an antagonist to Yuki and Yuno. When Deus’ game was reduced to the last five competitors, though, Minene forged a temporary alliance with Yuki and Yuno to take down the immoveable John Bacchus.
During the siege of John’s fortress, Minene was heavily injured and saw her lover Masumi Nishijima die. Near death, Minene revealed that she had a bomb that would go off if she died. In her last moments, Minene placed herself at John’s vault door, intending to bring it down via explosion. Unfortunately, it was too impenetrable to destroy.
9 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure — Thunder McQueen’s Stand Enabled His Suicidal Tendencies
Of the new Stands introduced in Stone Ocean, Highway To Hell is one of the deadliest. In brief, Highway To Hell inflicts the same injuries that its user sustains onto their opponent. The Stand’s user, Thunder, is a self-centered maniac with suicidal urges, making him and Highway To Hell one of the most lethal Sand/User pairings in JoJo canon.
Whether or not he’s near defeat, Thunder’s attack of choice was always self-harm. During his confrontation with Ermes Costello, Thunder’s first move was to hang himself with the intention of taking Ermes with him in death. This failed and culminated with him attempting to electrocute himself before Ermes finally defeated him.
8 Fairy Tail — Tempester Turned Himself Into Poison Gas When Cornered
Tempester was known as “The Immortal,” and he showed how he earned this name when he met Fairy Tail. After being defeated by Laxus Dreyar, Tempester admitted that he underestimated his foes before promptly exploding into a cloud of black mist. Said mist was a toxic agent that was lethal to any mage who breathed it.
This, however, wasn’t the end for Tempester. While he did sacrifice one of his many lives to escape, his powers let him rebuild and revive himself in Tartaros’ headquarters. The only thing that could kill Tempester was a single powerful blow that hit all of his cells at once, and this is exactly what Gray Fullbuster did to end him.
7 Full Metal Panic! — Gauron Used His Suicide Gambit To Confess His Love
Ever since he first met him, Gauron had a sick obsession for Sousuke Sagara. Despite what Sousuke and reality said, Gauron was convinced that he and Sousuke were the same and romantically involved. This obviously meant that they were meant to die together, which he tried to do at the end of the first Full Metal Panic!
In the final fight, Gauron activated his Arm Slave’s self-destruct device to blow himself up with Sousuke since he couldn’t kill him fairly. Sousuke escaped and left Gauron to die, but he survived and returned in a bedridden state in the second season. Here, Gauron finally got his death wish fulfilled when he goaded Sousuke into shooting him in cold blood.
6 Rurouni Kenshin — Houji Sadoshima Destroyed His Master’s Fortress Upon Their Defeat
Though he doesn’t have any fighting prowess, Houji was one of the most devoted members of Makoto Shishio’s extremists, the Juppongatana (or The Ten Swords). Houji served as his master’s mouthpiece to the bitter end, believing that if Shishio wasn’t allowed to rule Japan, then no one should. This, of course, meant everyone dying upon Shishio’s death.
When Kenshin Himura killed Shishio, Houji ran to destroy his master’s fortress by overloading its heating systems. Houji’s self-destruction didn’t just fail to kill the heroes, but he survived and was imprisoned afterwards. Houji took his own life and literally followed his master to Hell, where Shishio and his mistress Yumi were waiting for Houji.
5 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED — Patrick Zala Wanted To Fire GENESIS At His Own Army
The war between the Earth Alliance and PLANTs was never going to result in a clear victor, but PLANT’s chairman of defense Patrick Zala was not having it. Near Gundam SEED’s end, the Earth Alliance and the rogue Clyne Faction came dangerously close to PLANT’s superweapon, the GENESIS, and this pushed Zala off the edge.
Zala ordered the GENESIS to fire at the approaching forces, even if it meant killing what was left of PLANT’s army (better known as ZAFT). Before Zala could fire the cannon himself, his officers killed him, as they refused to commit mutual destruction to secure a futile victory. Zala was then left to blow up with GENESIS when it was destroyed.
4 Hellsing Ultimate — The Major Burned With The Rest Of Millennium
In brief, Millennium wanted to die. Millennium was formed in 1944 to turn the tide of World War II in Nazi Germany’s favor, but their promised battalion of vampires soldiers was finished too late. Having long outlived their purpose, Millennium attacked London in the 90s to wage the bloodiest war they could before dying.
The Major enabled his army’s death wish, and he ordered everyone to die until no one was left alive. When the Last Battalion was reduced to its barest minimum, The Major gleefully accepted the loss and even allowed Sir Integra Hellsing and Seras Victoria to kill him. The Major may have been beaten, but he died the way he always wanted to.
3 Inuyasha — Kanna Was Ordered To Blow Herself Up After Her Defeat
Of Naraku’s disciples, the emotionless and silent Kanna was undoubtedly his most loyal. Naraku even ordered her to blow herself up after her loss to Kagome, Inuyasha and their friends, so that even her death would be of use to him. However, Kanna wasn’t as emotionless as everyone thought. In fact, she didn’t want to die.
Kanna developed emotions and free by spending time with Kagura, and these grew stronger after her death. Rather than kill Kanna, Kagome offered her freedom. Kanna was about to accept it, but then Naraku blew her up. Her death wasn’t for nothing, as Kanna used her dying moments to tell Kagome how to end Naraku once and for all.
2 Dragon Ball Z — Cell Would Rather Explode Than Accept Defeat
After achieving his Perfect Form, the android Cell was so assured of his perfection that he held the Cell Games under the assumption that he’d easily defeat Earth’s mightiest fighters. This turned out to be false when he faced Gohan, who dominated Cell so much that he tried to blow up the Earth rather than admit defeat to a child.
When Gohan knocked Cell back to Semi-Perfect form, Cell responded by activating a self-destructive attack that would’ve taken Earth with him. Son Goku saved the day when he teleported himself and Cell to King Kai’s Planet, where he exploded but only killed a handful of people. Cell eventually resurrected, only to be properly killed by a vengeful Gohan.
1 Akira — Tetsuo Shima Almost Blew Up Reality After Losing Control Of Akira’s Powers
Tetsuo hated being patronized and underestimated, and he finally got to inspire fear and respect in others the way he always dreamt of when he unleashed Akira’s godlike powers. However, this came at a steep price, since he was never in control of Akira’s destructive might. The more time went on, the more Tetsuo lost himself to Akira.
When Kaneda, Col. Shikishima, and the Espers cornered Tetsuo, Akira’s full force broke free and turned him into a grotesque mass of flesh and power. Even if he had no intention of doing so, Tetsuo would’ve self-destructed and destroyed reality because of how out-of-control Akira’s godhood was. He was only stopped when the Espers teleported him to another reality.
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