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* Mortus in ''VideoGame/ComixZone''.

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* ''Franchise7StarWars'':

* In the Genesis ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', 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. ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros.'' had Bowser, accompanied by a remix of the original "Player Down" music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros.''
* The Toadies that take the defeated Yoshi to Bowser's castle in ''VideoGame/YoshisStory''.
** 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.
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games have frequently had these since ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''. Featured characters include {{Dracula}}, [[TheGrimReaper Death]], Boschian artwork, Bloody Tears, a completely random dragon...

* In the ''VideoGame/SuperStarWars'' trilogy, there is Darth Vader (''Super Star Wars''), Yoda (''Super Empire Strikes Back''), and Emperor Palpatine (''Super Return of the Jedi'').
** For Yoda, when you continue, he says, "Do or do not. There is no try." When you quit, he says, "That is why you fail."

* The prettified Gruntilda (and uglified Tooty) from ''VideoGame/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.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': the first time you die in, Death appears and taunts Conker, before explaining how the life system works in the game. After that, this cutscene is never seen again, unless you restart.
** The "Game Over" scene itself is usually the weasels bringing Conker to the Panther King, with a few different versions to reflect the way that Conker lost his last life. It can sometimes be Conker's FaceOnAMilkCarton, though.

* In the remakes of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', Birdo appears holding an egg on the Game Over screen.

** ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' 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? [[VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures You're kidding, right?]]]]

* ''VideoGame/ABugsLife'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pfIeQDDvc "You think this is a game? Well, guess what? You just LOST!"]] (This is a quote from the movie, by the way.)

* ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou Zero'' has short scenes that play out whenever your party is felled by a boss.

The Game Over Man is the character many video games show to the player [[GameOver after getting killed]]. Often he's the GrimReaper, or a laughing BigBad, but he's occasionally an ally mourning the hero's fall. Sometimes, he offers a "HaveANiceDeath" or "ItsAWonderfulFailure" message.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not]] a ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'' boss who attacks by giving you an instant GameOver, [[HopelessBossFight real]] or [[FissionMailed otherwise]]. (''That'' would suck.)

->''"Oh, it's you again. You died so carelessly..."''

--> '''Clarke:''' "Oops. I hope you aren't upset because you just killed your alter ego, the replacement astronaut. We just wanted to remind you that there are some dangers inside Rama..."

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has a lot of Game Over Men. In fact, the Game Over man is always whatever boss managed to kill you (in the case of the run and gun levels, a selection of enemies appear instead) providing a rhyming taunt, along with a progress meter showing how far you got before biting it. And the screens are different depending on the boss, which is good, considering [[NintendoHard how often you'll be dying]].

* In ''VideoGame/BonkersSega'', when the titular cartoon bobcat police officer loses all of his lives, whichever villain he loses to appears on the Game Over screen.

-->-- '''Charon''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''. [[NintendoHard Be prepared to here that a lot]].

-->-- '''Charon''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''

* The Queen in the SNES version of ''Videogame/{{Alien 3}}''. Complete with a digital sample of PFC. Hudson's "game over, man!" line to boot.

* Dying in ''/VideoGame/BenAndEd'' will have the smug face of Hans Showmaster pop up on screen. Walking down a particular spot will give you an EasterEgg variation with a [[spoiler:''WebVideo/BenDrowned'' ShoutOut]] before Ed explodes.

* In ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'', Orcs and Ologs who kill [[PlayerCharacter Talion]] will taunt over your body. Since you have ResurrectiveImmortality they can continue to mock you in future encounters, and thanks to [[ArtificialBrilliance the games as advanced A.I]] they remember when, where, and how you die each time and will never let you forget it.

** Inversion where ''Talion'' becomes the game over man to Orcs. Captains and mooks have a chance to come back after you kill them, angry you defeated them. You can also MinRape them instead with a low chance of turning them insane.

* The video game adaptation of Disney's ''Disney/{{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".

** ''[[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysARSpecialDelivery]]'' also has this; if the animatronic that had just jumpscared you has dialogue during the “You Lost” screen, then that dialogue will replace the kids’ “Awwww!” sound.

** ''[[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysARSpecialDelivery]]'' also has dialogue for the animatronic that had just jumpscared you during the “You Lost” screen.