Villains who have died and have remained dead. This category should only include villains that are currently deceased rather than ones who have "died", but then later returned.

Various means how a villain died/remained dead includes:

• Violent Death: In this case, a villain wind up killed in violent/disturbing ways such as fatally incinerated by explosion, mutilated alive, gunshot to the head, eaten/mauled alive, impaled, stabbed, crushed by a heavy object, sliced in half, completely dissolved, hanged, decapitated, etc. (e.g. Racist Mario, William Afton, Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch, Duncan Gree, Sir Topham Hatt, Pride, the Green Guard, Legion Oscar, Spunky, Does Bad Things Guy, Scott Rogan, Duncan, Novisor, The Tortured One, Scarlet Spiker, Francis and Warden Chi).
• Died in Honor: The villain has accept the fact that their demise is inevitable and had dignity to face it. Many of the villains whom died in this way are honorable ones. Thus, circumstances were includes:
  • Chooses to Die Rather Than to be Saved: Honorable villains whom defeated by heroes choose to take their own life, preferring to die in honor 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 (ex. the battle between the hero and the villain took place in the damaged ship/building that about to be explode as result of the villains' own mistake or heroes' effort to foil their evil plan) or have the hero whom defeated him/her gave him/her mercy kill.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: When a villain committed a heroically sacrifice before death, it is regarded as a way of redemption and dying with honor.
  • Accepted their Death as their Fate and Faced it with Dignity: In this case, it needn't to be a redeemed villain to die with honor (e.g. Niles and Dr. Twister).
    • Even a Complete Monster can somehow die with honor if they accepted the death with no fear. Some of them also held no grudge when the hero killed them as they simply accepted their fate and move on (e.g. Lieutenant Obsidian, Kanade Otonokoji and Zyveer).
  • Fought until Death: Villains who fought with honor in order to avenge, protect or self-defense with no fear can die with honor.
  • Remorseful Suicide: A villain commits suicide out of remorse for their actions.
• Died in Disgrace: In this case, the villain commit something dishonorable or had no dignity to face their downfall where related circumstances includes:
  • Villains who try to kill the heroes after being offered mercy or spared to live only to end up dying in the process. (eg. Charles Eborock and Sub Lieutenant Blakeson).
  • Villains who are killed by their own allies who come to realize just how evil the villain really is. (eg. Freddy Fazbear)
  • Villains who die in an ill-conceived, foolish, and/or desperate attempt on the heroes' life, such as an "I'm taking you with me" type attack that backfires (e.g. Penny's attempt to kill Billy by sending him over the edge of a balcony with her, Cyalux Clover’s failed attempt to kill Samuel and Natalie with a splashdown, and Estefa Dora pulling Misa with him in attempt to kill them from the water rush.).
  • Villains who try to weasel their way out of their predicament by trying to talk the heroes into mercy, only for the disgusted hero or their companion to kill them anyway (e.g. Francis, Cell and Chief Harold Kruel).
  • Arrogant Villains or Egomaniacs who spend their last moments questioning how they could possibly be beaten (e.g. Lewis Coltrane).
  • Villains pleading/begging for their death when they are being suffered/tortured.
  • Cowards who try to run away from their problems and kill themselves to avoid punishment (e.g. Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch).
  • Villains who were destroyed by the powers/weapons/artifacts/beings that they sought, worshipped, used, or even created (e.g. Green Guard, Francis, Box Club Leader, King Stiron and Sir Benedict Cumbersnatch)
• 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 he or she met their fate when no one else was there to see it.
• Extinction: This is not just the death of the villain, but also their entire species. This mostly includes villainous species that were wiped out either during an extinction event, brought it upon themselves, or were hunted to their extinction by the heroes or from a much more malevolent threat.
• Deactivation: This is usually applied for robots or machines that were destroyed/deactivated permanently (e.g. Tartar).
• Cessation of existence: This means that the villain's soul is destroyed permanently, therefore having no afterlife waiting for them (e.g. Bowser, HABIT, Tenebrae and King Purplius).
• Dragged off to the afterlife: This includes mortal beings who were literally dragged alive to a hell-like dimension and end up becoming Damned Souls. Ghosts or spirits, if sent to the spirit world or to an afterlife, count only if they were former mortals beings who passed away. Immortals spirits, others supernatural beings or physical beings from an alternate dimension (e.g. SMG3 and Rosalia the Witch), who are sent back, do not count and should go under imprisoned or Damned Souls instead.

Undeads cannot count unless they’re also killed off for good.

By extension, no deceased character can be a Karma Houdini if they have not died of natural causes (e.g. Jschlatt), 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.