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* [[spoiler:_______]] from [[PokemonMysteryDungeon ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''.]] If you die during the pre-credits storyline, then you can actually hear him laugh evilly on the Game Over screen since you couldn't defeat [[DiscOneFinalBoss Primal Dialga]] and stop the BadFuture. If you die during the post-credits storyline, they will actually show [[ItsAWonderfulFailure an even worse cutscene]] [[spoiler: once he finally shows up in person.]]

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81XSPaA7KQ These nutters]] have made sure that Guitar Warrior may never be taken seriously again.

* [[spoiler:_______]] from [[PokemonMysteryDungeon ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky''.]] If you die during the pre-credits storyline, then you can actually hear him laugh evilly on the Game Over screen since you couldn't defeat [[DiscOneFinalBoss Primal Dialga]] and stop the BadFuture. If you die during the post-credits storyline, they will actually show [[ItsAWonderfulFailure an even worse storyline]] [[spoiler: once he finally shows up in person.]]

* The Director in the obscure Sega game ''The Ooze''.

-->"YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST A 'GAME' DIDN'T YOU, [[YouSuck WELL IT'S 'OVER' FOR YOU!!]]"

-->"Face it, Curtis: [[HaveANiceDeath you're better off this way]]. And you thought it couldn't [[ItGotWorse get any worse]]!"

* What, the mob guy who [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shoots, shoots and]] [[ThisIsSparta SHOOTS!!!]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill at you]] ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs'' hasn't got a mention ''yet''? That was awesome (too bad you had to lose to see those guys...).

* A [[NightmareFuel LAUGHING SKULL!!!]] in a supposedly military vehicular combat game ''Return Fire''.

--> Game...Over... [[EvilLaugh Mu-hahahahaha!]]

* [[ABugsLife "You think this is a game? Well, guess what? You just LOST!"]]

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* Dr. Cortex plays this role in ''CrashBandicoot 2'', and again in ''3'' with Uka Uka.

* One of the earliest NES examples is the dog from ''DuckHunt''.
* Another infamous one is from ''{{Battletoads}}'', where the Dark Queen has a wide variety of different taunts when you run out of continues. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oJNIbtRTs here]]
* In the Genesis ''SonicTheHedgehog'' games, Dr. Robotnik taunts you with missed Chaos Emeralds if you beat the game without acquiring all of them. (Losing all your lives simply gives you a standard Game Over message.)
** Also, your player character is a ''continue'' man, waiting for your input so that he can run off the screen and continue the quest.

* Bowser since ''{{Super Mario 64}}'', not only when you got a Game Over but also when you lost a life.
** ''Super Mario 64'' had a tired-looking Mario telling you "Game Over" as its game over screen. ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''NewSuperMarioBros.'' had Bowser, accompanied by a remix of the original "Player Down" music from ''Game/SuperMarioBros.''
* The Toadies that take the defeated Yoshi to Bowser's castle in ''[[{{ptitlegt572gjxnjtp}} Yoshi's Story]]''.
** If the Toadies take Baby Mario away in ''Yoshi's Island'', you get a short scene showing the group against a black backdrop before flying off-screen and the usual response to losing a life takes over.

* ''{{Castlevania}}'' games have frequently had these since ''Symphony of the Night''. Featured characters include {{Dracula}}, [[GrimReaper Death]], Boschian artwork, Bloody Tears, a completely random dragon...
** That Dragon in Order of Ecclesia? That's the statue in Barlowe's room.
** Especially meaningful and imposing in DawnOfSorrow, where Death shows off possession of, well, your soul.
** The voice-over in ''Symphony of the Night'':
--> Game...Over... [[EvilLaugh Mu-hahahahaha!]]
* The Yellow Face from ''Minesweeper''.
** X_X
* The Director in the obscure Sega game ''The Ooze''.
* A [[NightmareFuel LAUGHING SKULL!!!]] in a supposedly military vehicular combat game Return Fire.
* Igor in ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''{{Persona 4}}''. An odd example in that Igor not only ''isn't'' the BigBad, but a valuable ally, and that his words in the Game Over screen is just him mourning the Main Characters's death.
* The spirits of the previous Raidous in ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''.
* In the ''BaldursGate'' series, a Holy Symbol of Bhaal fills in for the visage of the dead god.
* The GrimReaper in ''{{RuneScape}}'', although only around Halloween.
* Jafar in the Sega Genesis version of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'': "Give up, street rat!"
* Andross in the ''{{Starfox}}'' series.
** ''{{Starfox}}'' 64 gave the player a laughing Andross even on a game completion, unless you took the hard route and destroyed the monkey once and for all. [[spoiler:Once and for all?!? [[StarFoxAdventures You're kidding, right?]]]]
* The smiley face in ''Faceball2000''
* Mortus in ''ComixZone''.
* Hulahooping devils in ''GanbareGoemon''.
** Of whom, for some reason, you can actually control to some extent in the second {{Nintendo 64}} game, ''Goemon's Great Adventure''; the faster you shook your analog stick, the faster they would shake their moneymakers. Would be hilarious if they weren't decked out in tiger-skinned speedos.
*** Um, those are ''[[{{Youkai}} oni]]'', not devils. Wearing tiger leotards is one of their defining attributes (just look at [[UruseiYatsura Lum and her family]]).
* And of course, the Queen in the SNES version of ''Alien³''. Complete with a digitized "game over, man!" to boot.
* ''Tengai Makyou Zero'' has short scenes that play out whenever your party is felled by a boss.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI This nut]] in ''Total Distortion''. Probably better-known than the entire rest of the game.

* The prettified Gruntilda (and uglified Tooty) from ''BanjoKazooie'' serves as a Game Over Woman.
** Ugly Grunty is heard cackling when you die regardless of whether or not it's a game over.
* ''SuperAleste'' has a cute variant of this. You see the two main characters, in SuperDeformed form, poking at a burnt model of their own ship. Like the rest of the anime-style graphics and everything pertaining to the story, [[CutAndPasteTranslation it was removed in non-Japanese releases]].
* ''{{beatmania}} IIDX 8th Style'' shows an alien DJ on the results screen if you fail a song.
* Xizor in ''StarWars: ShadowsOfTheEmpire''.
* The [[JakAndDaxter Jak and Daxter]] series has sidekick Daxter say something snarky in the first and third games (though these are rare in the latter's case).
* In ''{{Silent Hill 3}}'', dying will sometimes result in a creepy cutscene during which a certain mysterious monster appears and drags your corpse away. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwZ-vvnbps
* In ''AloneInTheDark 2'', Carnby's dead body is tossed off a cliff into the sea by one of the zombie pirates you fight throughout the game should you bite it.
** And playing as the little kid, the scene cuts to Carnby being held by his hands on a ship's mast as soon as you get hit or caught at all.
* And in ''AloneInTheDark'' (the original), if you lose, the minions in the house may decide to bring you to a certain altar... in front of a certain tree. A FateWorseThanDeath, indeed.
* In ''AceAttorney'', it's the judge declaring your client guilty.
* When getting a GameOver in the ''MetalGear'' Solid series, the various MissionControl characters would call out "Snake... Snake! SNAAAAAAAKE!" before the continue screen. Also, in MGS 4 you'll sometimes see Screaming Mantis's puppet-strings attached to Snake's body, a reference that doesn't get explained until the last 1/5th of the game.
* Q, in addition to being the TricksterMentor to the player in the ChooseYourOwnAdventure game ''StarTrek: Borg'' pops up in a blank white void whenever the player does something that ends up in him KO'd or dead, often saying some HaveANiceDeath while he's at it.
* Kind of a subversion of this, the first time you die in ''[=~Conker's Bad Fur Day~=]'', Death appears and taunts Conker various times, before explaining how the life system works in the game. After that, this Cutscene is never seen again (Unless you restart).
* ''AirZonk[=/=]P.C. Denjin'' had the big bad do this... in the form of a song and dance number performed by him and his two [[TheDragon underlings]]. The Japanese version even had lyrics about how much YouSuck!
* The Joker and/or Harley Quinn will show up with one of several taunts when you get taken out by mooks in ''BatmanArkhamAsylum''. "I salute my fallen enemy! * raspberry* "
** Dying against a boss fight with one of the other members of the Rogues' Gallery leads to a similar taunt from one of them (like Scarecrow taunting you for dying during [[spoiler: one of his MindScrew segments]], or [[{{Knightfall}} Bane preparing to snap Batman's spine]] - complete with a symptomatic quote: "The bat is broken!").
** This also applies if you're playing as the Joker - the guy taunting you will either be Aaron Cash or Bats himself.
* Dr. Cortex plays this role in ''CrashBandicoot 2'', and again in ''3'' with Uka Uka.
** It's actually a bit of a giveaway in ''2'', because Crash thinks that Cortex has reformed for a good part of the game. Obviously he hasn't (it even says something like "[[LateArrivalSpoiler A gullible Crash is tricked into working for Cortex]]" when you hover over the [[PlayStationNetwork PSN]] version of the game on PSP or PS3) but seeing him say "Game. Over. Bwahahahahahahaha!" before you've gotten very far in the game is a pretty major hint.
* [[ABugsLife "You think this is a game? Well, guess what? You just LOST!"]]
* ''WaynesWorld'' for NES and Game Boy: "Denied!" says Wayne.
* In Sierra's adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's ''Rama'' books, the GameOverMan is none other than a sympathetic, full-motion video... Arthur C. Clarke. He can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQAEO5au1aQ

* Fail a song in ''{{beatmania IIDX}} 8th Style'' and the result screen will have a green SuperDeformed alien DJ.
* In ''Operation Body Count'', during game over, a villain shouts "You lose!".
* In the 3D0 adaptation of ''DemolitionMan'', Sylvester Stallone (who reprised his role for the game) would actually taunt the player upon failure. Since the game was very difficult and not very well-designed, this tended to happen a lot.
* On the game over screen of ''Area 51''(the lightgun game), the player character morphs into an alien monster, becoming the Game Over Man himself.
* What, the mob guy who [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shoots, shoots and]] [[ThisIsSparta SHOOTS!!!]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill at you]] in either the Punisher or the CadillacsAndDinosaurs games hasn't got a mention ''yet''? That was awesome (too bad you had to lose to see those guys...).
** It was CadillacsAndDinosaurs. The Punisher game had him and/or Nick Fury being resuscitated bye EMT's or something...
* The video game adaptation of Disney's ''{{Hercules}}'' features Hades smoking a cigar and blowing it into the camera, chuckling evilly at the player as the smoke forms the words "GAME OVER".
* In the Super StarWars trilogy, there is Darth Vader (Super Star Wars), Yoda (Super Empire Strikes Back), and Emperor Palpatine (Super Return of the Jedi).
* Borf, from Game/SpaceAce is an inversion, as he only appears when you lose a life.
* Some of the "game over" sequences from the Sega CD FMV game Double Switch have Lyle the Handyman (played by R. Lee Ermey) take this role.

* If you get killed fighting one of the Colossi in ''ShadowOfTheColossus'', a close-up the Colossus' face shows up on the screen. It's almost NightmareFuel.
* TheGrimReaper shows up if you die in ''AdventureQuest''. Luckily, he's always over his quota for the day, and you just get dumped back in Battleon owing him yet another favor.
* [[MadScientist Dr. Goldfire]] pops up with his trademark EvilLaugh on your character's "REBA" personal data assistant to taunt you about your failure when you lose all your lives in ''[[BlakeStone Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold]]''.

* When you get game over in ''Super Putty'', Dweezil the Cat in LooneyTunes style rings says, "Too bad!" while an off-key version of ShaveAndAHaircut plays.
* The LAUGHING SKULL in ''PoliceQuest 1'' VGA. ''Police Quest'' 2 and 3 has Jim Walls berating you for your failure.

* One of the earliest NES examples is the dog from ''Duck Hunt.''
* Another infamous one is from ''Battletoads'' where the dark queen has a wide variety of different taunts when you run out of continues. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oJNIbtRTs here]]

* Ganon in ''[[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'' (American version), complete with 8-bit EvilLaugh.

Not a MegaMan boss who attacks by giving you instant an GameOver.

* ''Super Aleste'' (released as ''Space Megaforce'' in non-Japanese regions) has a cute variant of this. You see the two main characters, in SuperDeformed form, poking at a burnt model of their own ship. Like the rest of the anime-style graphics and everything pertaining to the story, [[CutAndPasteTranslation it was removed in non-Japanese releases]].

* When you get game over in ''Super Putty'', Dweezil the Cat in LooneyTunes style rings says, "Too bad!" while an off-key version of "Shave and a Haircut" plays.
* The LAUGHING SKULL in PoliceQuest 1 VGA. Police Quest 2 and 3 has Jim Walls berating you for your failure.

** Yes, you just lost TheGame.

** Dying against a boss fight with one of the other members of the Rogues' Gallery leads to a similar taunt from one of them (like Scarecrow taunting you for dying during [[spoiler: one of his MindScrew segments]], or [[{{Knightfall}} Bane preparing to snap Batman's spine]]).

* In {{Phantasmagoria 2}}, the Hecatomb will mock you.