History Main / GameOverMan

* Andross in the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series.
** In the "Super VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}} Weekend" competition, [[https://snescentral.com/0/9/4/0942/screen04.png Slippy Toad will tell you if you run out of time...]] [[AccidentalNightmareFuel which many people find scarier than Andross]].

* The Egyptian-themed supervillain Sutekh looms large over the city when you see ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'''s game over screen.

** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the "Tiger Dojo", where Taiga and Illya in comical fashion usually make fun of the player for doing something hilariously stupid. Seeing all Tiger Dojos will also unlock additional features and scenes.

* In the comic strip "The Boss's Secret" in Jimmy T's stage in ''VideoGame/WarioWare Snapped'', the player and a detective are having a conservation, and at the end, the player says that the detective got a message from "Cookie," and says, "Two words: Game Over," which makes the detective gulp.

* Daniel J. D'Arby serves this role in the story mode of ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture''. Choose to continue, and he'll utter his CatchPhrase [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!"]] Choose to quit, and he'll steal your character's soul with his STAND, OSIRIS, turning them into a poker chip.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros.'' has Bowser, accompanied by a remix of the original "Player Down" music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros.''

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

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

* The light novel and anime ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'', being a {{parody}} of an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]], has the goddess [[BigGood Eris]] act as this. Whenever the protagonist, Kazuma, dies in the world of Belzerg, Eris is the one to greet him and ask him about the experience before reviving him. Which is often, prompting her to once say [[WeGottaStopMeetingLikeThis she doesn't like meeting Kazuma this way]].

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': Velvet Room attendants Justine and Caroline bring your corpse to their EldritchLocation and read various poems lamenting the end of your journey whenever you die.

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 [[EvilLaugh laughing]] BigBad, but he's occasionally an ally mourning the hero's fall. Sometimes, he offers a "HaveANiceDeath" or "ItsAWonderfulFailure" message.

* In the first and second ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' games, [[BigBad Risky]] [[PirateGirl Boots]] shows up on the Game Over screen.

* ''VideoGame/MechanizedAttack'' has a still of your character getting shot. Accompanied with a "You are dead -- [[BigNo NO!!!!!]]..."

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'''s game for the PSP has this, but it's more of a [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard]] Game-Over Man, and that's Homulily, Homura's Witch form, who will only appear when you are defeated in the battle against Walpurgisnatch. You'll only get a small glimpse at her, however.

* Daniel J. D'Arby serves this role in the story mode of ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture''. Choose to continue, and he'll utter his CatchPhrase [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!"]] Choose to quit, and he'll steal your character's soul with his STAND, OSIRIS.

* ''VideoGame/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]].

* In ''Videogame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'' the protagonist himself will show up to mock you whenever you get him killed.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'''s game for the PSP has this, but it's more of a [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard]] Game Over Man, and that's Homulily, Homura's Witch form, who will only appear when you are defeated in the battle against Walpurgisnatch. You'll only get a small glimpse at her, however.

* If you run out of lives in ''VIdeoGame/CoffeeCrisis, you get a screen of the alien overlord looming over to enslave the rest of earth.