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* ''BaldursGate'' has a ton of these:

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* ''BaldursGate'' ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has a ton of these:

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* The AnnouncerChatter in several games in the ''Franchise/TotalWar'' series come off as this. While generic lines exist for capturing or killing captains and minor nobility in battle, or for having your own killed or captured, things really get personal when royalty gets involved - especially when it's the player's own.
--> '''If a Roman faction leader is slain in battle:''' "This is a calamity! All our hopes for the future lie in the dust!"
--> '''If a Middle Eastern faction kills the Roman faction leader:''' "Now we see that famous "Roman courage!" Their strutting leader has paid the price, and his only reward shall be a funeral urn!"

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* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' and its sequels often had voiced lines when mercs who knew each other well died within their line of sight. One of them involved Fox, a pin-up girl cum combat medic. "NO! Not the Fox! Her centrefold will live on forever in my memory!"

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* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' and its sequels often had voiced lines when mercs who knew each other well died within their line of sight. One of them involved Fox, a pin-up girl cum and combat medic. "NO! Not the Fox! Her centrefold will live on forever in my memory!"
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* ''PushingDaisies'' has Emerson give a particularly hilarious informal eulogy for [[spoiler: the villainous Dwight Dixon]]:

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* ''PushingDaisies'' ''Series/PushingDaisies'' has Emerson give a particularly hilarious informal eulogy for [[spoiler: the villainous Dwight Dixon]]:
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* In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', any Raider bosses that you kill will have eulogies on the boss's terminals in subsequent Raider hideouts that you visit.

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* In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', any [[KingMook Raider bosses bosses]] that you kill will have eulogies on the boss's terminals in subsequent Raider hideouts that you visit.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', any Raider bosses that you kill will have eulogies on the boss's terminals in subsequent Raider hideouts that you visit.
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* Most of the bosses in [[VideoGame/DarkChronicle Dark Chronicle]] will comment on your failure if both main characters fall in battle.
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** ''{{Gorf}}'' would taunt you with "Bite the dust, !"
** The robots in ''{{Berzerk}}'': "Got the humanoid!" "Got the intruder!"
* ''StarWarsRebelAssault'': If you fail a training mission, your trainer may comment "Guess the rookie wasn't so sharp after all". If you run out of lives on the Trench level, the Death Star destroys Yavin IV, and the narrator says "the alliance was defeated" or something like that.

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** ''{{Gorf}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Gorf}}'' would taunt you with "Bite the dust, !"
** The robots in ''{{Berzerk}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Berzerk}}'': "Got the humanoid!" "Got the intruder!"
* ''StarWarsRebelAssault'': ''VideoGame/StarWarsRebelAssault'': If you fail a training mission, your trainer may comment "Guess the rookie wasn't so sharp after all". If you run out of lives on the Trench level, the Death Star destroys Yavin IV, and the narrator says "the alliance was defeated" or something like that.



* ''DarkstarOne'' gives one of these every time you're killed, and also lets each enemy get off a final line if you kill them. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're mildly sad, mostly they're just pointless.

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* ''DarkstarOne'' ''VideoGame/DarkstarOne'' gives one of these every time you're killed, and also lets each enemy get off a final line if you kill them. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're mildly sad, mostly they're just pointless.



* Two escorted {{NPC}}s (Jimmy and a corrections officer) in ''TheSuffering'' would comment on your death ("Shit! That guy was dead weight anyway." and "Oh my God in heaven, they killed him, oh god oh god...", respectively).

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* Two escorted {{NPC}}s (Jimmy and a corrections officer) in ''TheSuffering'' ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'' would comment on your death ("Shit! That guy was dead weight anyway." and "Oh my God in heaven, they killed him, oh god oh god...", respectively).



* ''RedFaction 2'' had some Enemy Chatter bites for when you killed other enemies in their vicinity ("That was my cousin! We grew up together" was one of them, IIRC).

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* ''RedFaction ''VideoGame/RedFaction 2'' had some Enemy Chatter bites for when you killed other enemies in their vicinity ("That was my cousin! We grew up together" was one of them, IIRC).
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-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''' (As Dan Kester), ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K:]] TheGiantSpiderInvasion''

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-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''' (As Dan Kester), ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K:]] TheGiantSpiderInvasion''
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** If you're alone and fighting [[BigBad Andross]], you'll just hear Fox scream instead. I believe you will also hear Andross laugh.

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** If you're alone and fighting [[BigBad Andross]], you'll just hear Fox scream instead. I believe you You will also hear Andross laugh.
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* Being found out by the police in ''TheLastExpress'' would lead to a cut to a woman's diary/letter where she explains in the voiceover that she witnessed the PC being arrested, charged with murder and escorted off the train.
* One of the most extreme examples of this trope comes from the obscure PC game ''TotalDistortion'', where the player is treated to a song mocking him for being dead that lasts for several minutes. Check it out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI here.]]

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* Being found out by the police in ''TheLastExpress'' ''VideoGame/TheLastExpress'' would lead to a cut to a woman's diary/letter where she explains in the voiceover that she witnessed the PC being arrested, charged with murder and escorted off the train.
* One of the most extreme examples of this trope comes from the obscure PC game ''TotalDistortion'', ''VideoGame/TotalDistortion'', where the player is treated to a song mocking him for being dead that lasts for several minutes. Check it out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI here.]]
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* ''JaggedAlliance'' and its sequels often had voiced lines when mercs who knew each other well died within their line of sight. One of them involved Fox, a pin-up girl cum combat medic. "NO! Not the Fox! Her centrefold will live on forever in my memory!"

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* ''JaggedAlliance'' ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' and its sequels often had voiced lines when mercs who knew each other well died within their line of sight. One of them involved Fox, a pin-up girl cum combat medic. "NO! Not the Fox! Her centrefold will live on forever in my memory!"
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--->'''Campbell:''' Snake! What have you done?! You've changed the future! You've created a Time Paradox!

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--->'''Campbell:''' [[WhatTheHellPlayer Snake! What have you done?! You've changed the future! You've created You can't do that!]] The future will be changed! You'll create a Time Paradox![[TemporalParadox time paradox!]]
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* In ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'''s second season, Batou does a visual version where he places a lit cigarette in a bottle and prays over it like a stick of incense for the [[spoiler: Individual Eleven. This is part of his attempt to BreakingSpeech [[BigBad Gohda]] (who brainwashed them into committing suicide as part of his EvilPlan).]]

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* In ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'''s ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'''s second season, Batou does a visual version where he places a lit cigarette in a bottle and prays over it like a stick of incense for the [[spoiler: Individual Eleven. This is part of his attempt to BreakingSpeech [[BigBad Gohda]] (who brainwashed them into committing suicide as part of his EvilPlan).]]
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* In a Russian film, some soldiers serving in Chechnia find a stray bullet has killed their mascot, a pet rat. One gives a eulogy, vowing a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where he'll kill all local guinea pigs. The owner of the rat is not amused.

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* In a Russian film, some soldiers serving in Chechnia Chechnya find a stray bullet has killed their mascot, a pet rat. One gives a eulogy, vowing a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where he'll kill all local guinea pigs. The owner of the rat is not amused.
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* In a Russian film, some soldiers serving in Chechnia find a stray bullet has killed their mascot, a pet rat. One gives a eulogy, vowing a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where he'll kill all local guinea pigs. The owner of the rat is not amused.
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* ''{{Halo}}'' had a couple that emphasized how in awe everyone was of the Master Chief, such as a teammate saying "Great, now ''what'' do we do?", or an enemy Grunt saying in astonishment [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu "It...dies?"]]. Others were more humorous, such as Sergeant Johnson commenting "Ha ha, Chief, real funny. Now get up. ......uh-oh."

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* ''{{Halo}}'' ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' had a couple that emphasized how in awe everyone was of the Master Chief, such as a teammate saying "Great, now ''what'' do we do?", or an enemy Grunt saying in astonishment [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu "It...dies?"]]. Others were more humorous, such as Sergeant Johnson commenting "Ha ha, Chief, real funny. Now get up. ......uh-oh."
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* High-ranking enemies in ''CityOfHeroes'' and ''City of Villains'' taunt you if they defeat you. It can get annoying when they continually defeat disposable pets.

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* High-ranking enemies in ''CityOfHeroes'' ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' and ''City of Villains'' taunt you if they defeat you. It can get annoying when they continually defeat disposable pets.

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* ''JakAndDaxter'' occasionally had Daxter make a snide comment if Jak went down ("Heimlich? Stretcher? Yech... Breath mint?").

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\n* ''JakAndDaxter'' ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' occasionally had Daxter make a snide comment if Jak went down ("Heimlich? Stretcher? Yech... Breath mint?").
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* Both ''[[{{Freespace}} Descent: Freespace]]'' and ''Freespace 2'' had were recordings of wingmen reporting over the radio that the squad leader (the player) had just gone down. Radio gets cut off when the ship goes down, so you never get to hear them and the lines were unused.

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* Both ''[[{{Freespace}} ''[[VideoGame/FreeSpace Descent: Freespace]]'' and ''Freespace 2'' had were recordings of wingmen reporting over the radio that the squad leader (the player) had just gone down. Radio gets cut off when the ship goes down, so you never get to hear them and the lines were unused.
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* In ''NetHack'', if you die inside a shop, there's a message about the shopkeeper cheerfully inheriting your possessions.
** If you die outside a shop, but in view of a shopkeeper, the shopkeeper will sigh regretfully. Unless you had angered them, in which case they'll claim your stuff as restitution.

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* In ''NetHack'', ''VideoGame/NetHack'', if you die inside a shop, there's a message about the shopkeeper cheerfully inheriting your possessions.
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possessions. If you die outside a shop, but in view of a shopkeeper, the shopkeeper will sigh regretfully. Unless you had angered them, in which case they'll claim your stuff as restitution.
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** Spy: "Here lies Scout--he ran fast and died a virgin."

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** ---> Spy: "Here lies Scout--he ran fast and died a virgin."
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** Spy: "Here lies Scout--he ran fast and died a virgin."
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* Many enemies in ''VideoGame/WildStar'' will insult you as your body hits the ground. Some may even start discussing their plans now that you've been dealt with.

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* From CitySlickers: "Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off."

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* From CitySlickers: ''Film/CitySlickers'': "Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off."



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* ''StarWars/{{Allegiance}}''.
--> The Emperor had little patience with memorials, Mara knew, with extra contempt for the practice of saying words over the fallen. Mara said a few words anyway, half remembered ones from her childhood, before consigning Tannis's body to the emptiness of space.

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* ''StarWars/{{Allegiance}}''.
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''Literature/{{Allegiance}}''.
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Emperor had little patience with memorials, Mara knew, with extra contempt for the practice of saying words over the fallen. Mara said a few words anyway, half remembered ones from her childhood, before consigning Tannis's body to the emptiness of space.
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-->-- '''[[MST3K Crow T. Robot]]''' (As Dan Kester), ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K:]] TheGiantSpiderInvasion''

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-->-- '''[[MST3K Crow '''Crow T. Robot]]''' Robot''' (As Dan Kester), ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K:]] TheGiantSpiderInvasion''
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* "...Dibs on the suit," "Take his crowbar," and other comments in ''HalfLife 2'', if you were to die near allied CannonFodder.

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* "...Dibs on the suit," "Take his crowbar," and other comments in ''HalfLife 2'', ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', if you were to die near allied CannonFodder.
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* From CitySlickers: "Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off."
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** If you're alone and fighting [[BigBad Andross]], you'll just hear Fox scream instead. I believe you will also hear [[NightmareFuel Andross laugh.]]

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** If you're alone and fighting [[BigBad Andross]], you'll just hear Fox scream instead. I believe you will also hear [[NightmareFuel Andross laugh.]]
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* In ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'''s second season, Batou does a visual version where he places a lit cigarette in a bottle and prays over it like a stick of incense for the [[spoiler: Individual Eleven. As part of his attempt to HannibalLecture [[BigBad Gohda]] (who brainwashed them into committing suicide as part of his EvilPlan).]]

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* In ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'''s second season, Batou does a visual version where he places a lit cigarette in a bottle and prays over it like a stick of incense for the [[spoiler: Individual Eleven. As This is part of his attempt to HannibalLecture BreakingSpeech [[BigBad Gohda]] (who brainwashed them into committing suicide as part of his EvilPlan).]]



* During Sarge's funeral in Machinima/RedVsBlue, Grif delivers a roast instead of a eulogy, and [[TheStarscream Simmons]] eulogy is actually a campaign speech for Sarge's old job.

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* During Sarge's funeral in Machinima/RedVsBlue, Grif delivers a roast instead of a eulogy, and [[TheStarscream Simmons]] eulogy is actually a campaign speech for Sarge's old job.



** It should also be noted that Sarge is actually there, [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral attending his own funeral]] (ItMakesSenseInContext).

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** It should also be noted that Sarge is actually there, [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral attending his own funeral]] (ItMakesSenseInContext).

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