History Main / InstantGravestone

Purposes behind the use of the trope vary. Sometimes it's just RuleOfFunny / HaveANiceDeath. Sometimes the gravestone is used to indicate to players that somebody died. Sometimes it serves a gameplay purpose, like containing loot. It is often used for similar light-hearted symbolism as the aforementioned WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath. It is also used in certain censorship-heavy countries like China as a means of indicating death without showing corpses which is regarded poorly in certain countries.

Purposes behind the use of the trope vary. Sometimes it's just RuleOfFunny / HaveANiceDeath. Sometimes the gravestone is used to indicate to players that somebody died. Sometimes it serves a gameplay purpose, like containing loot. It is often used for similar light-hearted symbolism as the aforementioned WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath.

* In ''RuneScape'', Instant Gravestones (usually) protect your items when you die. Bigger and fancier ones can be purchased which hold your items for longer.

* ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' games have dead worms blowing themselves up with a dynamite plunger and instantly being replaced with a gravestone.

* A gravestone appears along with a HaveANiceDeath message every time you die in ''[[FunOrb Tomb Racer]]''.

* All of ''TheSims'' games use this, specifically it will be an urn if it's indoors and a tombstone outdoors, and it will change if the player moves the grave marker. If a sim's grave is on a lot, that sim's ghost may show up at night.

* ''OregonTrail'' contains this, including player-defined inscriptions. People tend to try to invoke GraveHumor with {{Bottom Of The Barrel Joke}}s, as future players can read the gravestones.

* Dying in ''{{Terraria}}'' will spawn a tombstone stating your cause of death. You can then dig it up if you like.

* One of the WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, ''Little Tinker'', features this after an elderly rabbit, in a fit of mad lust for B.O. Skunk's Frank Sinatra impression, jumps out of her wheelchair, does cartwheels, jumps into the air and lands in the ground. A tombstone then appears that reads "Oh Frankie!".

* ''{{Worms}}'' games have dead worms blowing themselves up with a dynamite plunger and instantly being replaced with a gravestone.

* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' fan-made game ''WarriorCatsUntoldTales'', killing a cat will make a tombstone appear.

* There's a gag in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''Baseball Bugs'' where a player tries to catch a fly ball ("I got it! I got it!"), gets plowed into the ground by it, and a gravestone pops up where he stops (reading: "He got it").

* In ''{{Warcraft}}3'', units with the Reincarnation ability leave a large cross/ankh-shaped marker on death. PlayedWith, as the unit comes back to life a few seconds later.

* In ''RedDeadRedemption'', you can watch a ShowWithinAShow where a salesman sells some concoction to an old man, causing him to dig his own grave, complete with headstone.

* In ''CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDespair'''s multiplayer, dying creates a tombstone which spawns a skeleton.
* In ''CrashBandicoot2'', being killed by a sledge hammer produces a grave stone with Crash's face on it.

* The Multiplayer game ''Glitch'' has this. When you die a gravestone appears on the spot. Other players can visit the gravestone to mourn or celebrate. The stone disappears after you respawn.

* In a old Raid commercial, some bugs crawling on the floor turned into tombstones when the anthromorphic Raid sprayed them. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRwlYLS_0fk here]].

* This Raid commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRwlYLS_0fk

* A gravestone appears along with a HaveANiceDeath message every time you die in ''[[FunOrb TombRacer]]''.

* In the anime ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', whenever monsters die they instantly turn into a Lost Disk -- a stone disk gripped in a dead shrub. Except that any disk, Lost or otherwise, can be awakened into a live monster by putting it in a temple, [[FridgeLogic which should make monster death much cheaper than everyone treats it]]. Instead, people react to reviving the Lost Disks as grave desecration.

* OregonTrail contains this, including player-defined inscriptions. People tend to try to invoke GraveHumor with {{Bottom Of The Barrel Joke}}s, as future players can read the gravestones.

* The RPG ''crossfire'' does this. Gravestones can even be collected by someone.

* In the anime ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', whenever monsters die they instantly turn into a Lost Disk -- a stone disk gripped in a dead shrub. Except that any Disk, Lost or otherwise, can be awakened into a live monster by putting it in a temple, [[FridgeLogic hich should make monster death much cheaper than everyone treats it]]. Instead, people react to reviving the Lost Disks as grave desecration.

* This Raid commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRwlYLS_0fk

* There's a gag in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''Baseball Bugs'' where a player tries to catch a fly ball ("I got it! I got it!"), gets plowed into the ground by it, and a gravestone pops up where he stops (reading: "He got it").