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* In the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "We Messed Up", K.O., Enid and Rad sneak into Mr. Gar's office and Rad accidentally destroys his framed picture of Carol. When Enid imagines what them telling Mr. Gar the truth would be like, he yells at them with enough force to launch them at the moon, resulting in this. A satellite then appears and drops a flower near them.

* The human enemies in ''VideoGame/SecretAgent''. The higher-ranking enemies turn into lower-ranking enemies until you kill the lowest, weakest form, at which point they become a gravestone (which can be picked up or just destroyed for points.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "Touchdown and Out" after being trampled in a football game, Goofy get drilled in the ground and a tombstone and lily pop out with a "cha-ching" sound effect.

* In ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'', whenever one of your characters dies, a gravestone appears on the front garden of the mansion.

* Played with in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort "Hawaiian Vacation". WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'s attempts at surfing result in his being plowed into the sand, and his surfboard gets embedded in the ground, forming a makeshift tombstone.

* There's a running gag in many ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos with the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' cast, where when someone is fatally injured they'll announce their own death out loud and become a tombstone, sometimes even just blurting out "Dead!". Other times it will simply be the Heavy's voice saying "Dead." as if it was a sound effect, or even "Dead. Not big surprise.".

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': One of the bosses (a BlobMonster) has this. After you beat his larger, second form, he becomes dizzy, and then his own huge tombstone comes down to crush him dead. And yes, said tombstone is the boss' ''third form'' that tries to crush you, requiring you to beat it to defeat the boss for good.

* In the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 short "Touchdown and Out" after being trampled in a football game, Goofy get drilled in the ground and a tombstone and lily pop out with a "chaching" sound effect.

* In an 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]].

* There's a running gag in many ''[[GarrysMod Garry's Mod]]'' videos with the ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2]]'' cast, where when someone is fatally injured they'll announce their own death out loud and become a tombstone, sometimes even just blurting out "Dead!". Other times it will simply be the Heavy's voice saying "Dead." as if it was a sound effect, or even "Dead. Not big surprise.".

8 ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon "From Me To You" has George learning how to surf in preparation for a surf duel against a hulking bully. A wave throws George to shore--he lands buried in beach sand and his surfboard plants itself at the head with "R.I.P." appearing on it.

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* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', Instant Gravestones (usually) protect your items when you die. Bigger and fancier ones can be purchased which hold your items for longer.
* In ''VideoGame/RealmOfTheMadGod'', all players get Instant Gravestones; stronger characters get bigger, more impressive gravestones. Due to the game's use of FinalDeath, players will often pay respects to a particularly strong character.
* ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'' 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.
* All of ''VideoGame/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. In the sequel games the gravemarkers look different depending on how the Sim died, and how well the player did at satisfying them. In VideoGame/TheSims2, a Sim that dies of old age while in Platinum aspiration will get a gold and silver coloured marker with the symbol for their aspiration on it. In VideoGame/TheSims3, the size of a sim's grave marker depends on how many Lifetime Happiness points they earned, and the marker has a symbol on it reflecting how the Sim died.

[[AC: Non-Game Examples]]

* There's a trend in many ''[[GarrysMod Garry's Mod]]'' videos featuring the ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2]]'' cast, where when someone is fatally injured they'll announce their own death out loud and become a tombstone, sometimes even just blurting out "Dead.". Other times it will simply be the Heavy's voice saying "Dead.", as if it was a sound effect.

* The 1976 Exidy ArcadeGame ''Death Race'' may be the UrExample. Running over people turned them into grave markers that couldn't be driven over.

* All of ''VideoGame/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.

* In ''RealmOfTheMadGod'', all players get Instant Gravestones; stronger characters get bigger, more impressive gravestones. Due to the game's use of FinalDeath, players will often pay respects to a particularly strong character.

* In ''ManiacMansion'', whenever one of your characters dies, a gravestone appears on the front garden of the mansion.
* In the Chinese version of ''WorldOfWarcraft'', tombstones appear instead of skeletons when a player character dies.

* When a player's character dies in ''MapleStory'' a tombstone appears.