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* ''RadiantHistoria'' does this each time you make a poor decision.
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* ''{{Minecraft}}''. [[HarderThanHard Hardcore mode]]. Die and instead of the usual "You died! [Respawn] / [Title Menu]" screen, you get a message telling you that you cannot respawn, and you see only one button labeled "Delete world". The game technically doesn't delete your world upon death, as it's still there and you simply can't move anymore. No, it ''makes you activate the process of deleting your world.''
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* In ''[[ASPAirStrikePatrol A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol]]'' (A.K.A. ''DesertFighter''), if you fail the final mission in any way, you get treated to a nuclear holocaust. [[spoiler:The ending monologue states the Earth is conquered by aliens soon after.]]
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* In ''[[ASPAirStrikePatrol ''[[VideoGame/ASPAirStrikePatrol A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol]]'' (A.K.A. ''DesertFighter''), if you fail the final mission in any way, you get treated to a nuclear holocaust. [[spoiler:The ending monologue states the Earth is conquered by aliens soon after.]]
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** The Butterflies mode has a much briefer but still creepy failure effect. Let one of the butterflies reach the top and the spider is upon it very quickly, with a rather unsettling 'biting' sound effect. The feeble waving of the captured butterflies' legs adds a disturbing little touch. If you are arachnophobic and unlock this game, you will regret playing it.
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* In the original ''Zork'' text adventures players who were eaten by a grue or other such cruel fates would find themselves with no items in a random part of the world. The game appears to be continuing normally until it becomes apparent that you can no longer pick up items or perform other interactions. It is never stated, but it can be inferred that the player is now a ghost. As the games revolve around inventory based puzzles this leaves players nothing to due but endlessly roam the world.
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* ''StreetFighterAlpha 3'': Lose to M. Bison in the final battle in Arcade mode, and you can't continue. All you can do is watch as he stuffs your beaten character into a machine and uses the Psycho Drive to blow up a city, ensuring his dominance.
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* ''StreetFighterAlpha ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'': Lose to M. Bison in the final battle in Arcade mode, and you can't continue. All you can do is watch as he stuffs your beaten character into a machine and uses the Psycho Drive to blow up a city, ensuring his dominance.
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** Losing a scenario in RailroadTycoon3 would trigger an FMV with the Railroad's former chairman (you) walking down the tracks as a hobo whilst a dialogue box suggested you try again.
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* The Sega Genesis game ''RedZone'' features a cutscene and description of a [[ApocalypseHow Class 6 Apocalypse]], which is made even more cruel considering the [[NintendoHard difficulty]].
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* Each method of dying in the game ''TotalDistortion'' has a different clip. To make it worse, all are accompanied by this song: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU You are Dead. Dead, Dead.]] It doesn't help that the song is [[EarWorm rather catchy to boot...]]
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* Each method of dying in the game ''TotalDistortion'' ''Total Distortion'' has a different clip. To make it worse, all are accompanied by this song: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU You are Dead. Dead, Dead.]] It doesn't help that the song is [[EarWorm rather catchy to boot...]]
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* ''SpaceGun'': In the Continue screen you see the protagonist walking blissfully ignorant to the giant alien monster creeping from behind. If you don't continue or run out of continues you see a scary pic of the protagonist lifted by the monster and ripped open with lots of blood flowing on and dripping from his body with a laconic "You received a lethal wound" screen text. HighOctaneNightmareFuel indeed.
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* ''SpaceGun'': ''Space Gun'': In the Continue screen you see the protagonist walking blissfully ignorant to the giant alien monster creeping from behind. If you don't continue or run out of continues you see a scary pic of the protagonist lifted by the monster and ripped open with lots of blood flowing on and dripping from his body with a laconic "You received a lethal wound" screen text. HighOctaneNightmareFuel indeed.
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* Believe it or not, ''LiquidKids'', a platformer from Taito with cute characters, also does this with its continue screen. Here, Hipopo (the player character) has one of the bomb enemies bouncing on him with the clock counting down (and a cuckoo clock sounding) with each bounce. When the timer reaches one or so, Hipopo will call out "Help Me!". When it reaches zero, the screen fades to black, [[NightmareFuel and the sound of an explosion can be heard]]...
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* Believe it or not, ''LiquidKids'', ''Liquid Kids'', a platformer from Taito with cute characters, also does this with its continue screen. Here, Hipopo (the player character) has one of the bomb enemies bouncing on him with the clock counting down (and a cuckoo clock sounding) with each bounce. When the timer reaches one or so, Hipopo will call out "Help Me!". When it reaches zero, the screen fades to black, [[NightmareFuel and the sound of an explosion can be heard]]...
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* An interesting case occurs in ''[[HammerAndSickle Hammer & Sickle]]''. If the player causes or fails to prevent World War 3, the game doesn't end right away. Instead, the player is given one more mission where you have to secure a bridge. ''Then'' the game ends, and you are shown a cutscene (with some authentic black-and-white footage mixed in) about the course of the war and how your characters died in it (most of them die heroically). The war ends in the Soviets capitulating after the US drops nukes on several major cities (Moscow is mentioned to have been saved by a HeroicSacrifice of a fighter pilot).
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* An interesting case occurs in ''[[HammerAndSickle Hammer ''Hammer & Sickle]]''.Sickle''. If the player causes or fails to prevent World War 3, the game doesn't end right away. Instead, the player is given one more mission where you have to secure a bridge. ''Then'' the game ends, and you are shown a cutscene (with some authentic black-and-white footage mixed in) about the course of the war and how your characters died in it (most of them die heroically). The war ends in the Soviets capitulating after the US drops nukes on several major cities (Moscow is mentioned to have been saved by a HeroicSacrifice of a fighter pilot).
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** [[spoiler: Gets confusing when in the second game you learn that the DesignatedVillian is the good guys, and you being an UnwittingPawn most of the game]]
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* Consciously averted by the 1980s geopolitical sim ''Game/BalanceOfPower''.
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*** This can be especially grinding if the AI only eked out a technical win while you were kicking everyone's ass in profits, total passenger counts and were a ''bigger'' airline when it happened.
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* ''{{EternalChampions}}'': If you don't win the final battle, the text is [[SarcasmMode subtle]] [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/genesis/b/ecbad.htm about your fate]].
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* ''{{EternalChampions}}'': ''EternalChampions'': If you don't win the final battle, the text is [[SarcasmMode subtle]] [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/genesis/b/ecbad.htm about your fate]].
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* The NES ''Game/FridayThe13th'' game, in a subversion of the NeverSayDie trend among video games at the time: "YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD. GAME OVER." TheAngryVideoGameNerd plays this up for laughs in his review of the game.
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* The NES ''Game/FridayThe13th'' ''VideoGame/FridayThe13th'' game, in a subversion of the NeverSayDie trend among video games at the time: "YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD. GAME OVER." TheAngryVideoGameNerd plays this up for laughs in his review of the game.
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** Also in ''Persona 4'', if you fail to rescue whoever was thrown into the TV world before the fog sets in, the main character will hear the victim's last words and cries over his cell phone before falling to his knees in despair. This is made all the worse late in the game [[spoiler:when they hear that the Shadows are escaping into our world]].
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* In ''{{Kirby}}'' ''[[{{Kirby64}} 64: The Crystal Shards]]'', dying on the BossRush game mode yields [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/itshopeless_7587.jpg this]] game over screen.
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* In ''{{Kirby}}'' ''[[{{Kirby64}} ''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 64: The Crystal Shards]]'', dying on the BossRush game mode yields [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/itshopeless_7587.jpg this]] game over screen.
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* ''SpaceGun'': In the Continue screen you see the protagonist walking blissfully ignorant to the giant alien monster creeping from behind. If you don't continue or run out of continues you see a scary pic of the protagonist lifted by the monster and ripped open with lots of blood flowing on and dripping from his body with a laconic "You received a lethal wound" screen text. HighOctaneNightmareFuel indeed.
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* In VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue, failing to stop the giant robot in the final mission results in a DownerEnding where Block-O succeeds and the Earth and all of its inhabitants are turned into a cube.
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That\'s The Many Deaths Of You
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* In ''DevilMayCry'', if certain enemies deplete your health with certain attacks, you are treated to a bloody finishing move, where Dante is burned alive, snapped in two, devoured, etc.
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** If you do just about anything that's outside of SOP for SWAT you'll get a cutscene where two other officers lead you away from the scene.
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Subtrope of NonstandardGameOver. Compare {{Have a Nice Death}} and ShootTheShaggyDog. Not to be confused with FissionMailed, which is non-sarcastically wonderful. This is for game overs, for just dying see TheManyDeathsOfYou.
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* ''[[BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' has these in spades. Usually it's [[GameOverMan the Joker]] taunting you (in one CrowningMomentOfFunny, he says: "I salute my fallen enemy!", then blows a raspberry at you while walking backwards laughing and trips over his own feet!), but if a different boss defeated you (like Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Bane, or Poison Ivy), THEY come along to insult you and/or finish you off.
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* ''[[BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' has these in spades. Usually it's [[GameOverMan the Joker]] taunting you (in one CrowningMomentOfFunny, FunnyMoment, he says: "I salute my fallen enemy!", then blows a raspberry at you while walking backwards laughing and trips over his own feet!), but if a different boss defeated you (like Scarecrow, Killer Croc, Bane, or Poison Ivy), THEY ''they'' come along to insult you and/or finish you off.
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* In the SNES game, {{SOS}}, you're inside a sinking ship and must escape before the timer counts down (from an hour). Getting hurt (i.e., taking damage that would be lethal to an NPC) sets you back about five minutes, and to get the best ending(s) (or really, any ending at all), you have to rescue at ''least'' one person. This is especially bad if you're playing as Luke, the crewman, whose implicit task is to rescue as many passengers as possible, and he's also the only character who starts out with a map. If you reach the top of the ship without rescuing anyone as Luke, the shaming you get from his rescuers is enough to make you want to immediately start over and try again the right way. Another survivor (an old man) makes it to the top of the ship and gets outside, before ''dying on the hull'' due to fatigue. Another man's "ending" (if you could call it that) sees him getting to the top of the ship, but instead of exiting to the outside, he enters a room with a dead end and no other way out. He ends up futilely banging a pipe against a wall in order to summon help...
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* In the SNES game, {{SOS}}, game ''{{SOS}}'', you're inside a sinking ship and must escape before the timer counts down (from an hour). Getting hurt (i.e., taking damage that would be lethal to an NPC) {{NPC}}) sets you back about five minutes, and to get the best ending(s) (or really, any ending at all), you have to rescue at ''least'' one person. This is especially bad if you're playing as Luke, the crewman, whose implicit task is to rescue as many passengers as possible, and he's also the only character who starts out with a map. If you reach the top of the ship without rescuing anyone as Luke, the shaming you get from his rescuers is enough to make you want to immediately start over and try again the right way. Another survivor (an old man) makes it to the top of the ship and gets outside, before ''dying on the hull'' due to fatigue. Another man's "ending" (if you could call it that) sees him getting to the top of the ship, but instead of exiting to the outside, he enters a room with a dead end and no other way out. He ends up futilely banging a pipe against a wall in order to summon help...
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** One of the worst is if you don't choose to save the little boy and walk into the cop from the resturant even AFTER the main character says who he is. His speech has changed a bit though it ends on the same note.
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** The new Tag 2 game has the POV of the KOed character gazing helplessly up at the intermediate and final boss levels, with the intermediate boss one switching to a [[GoryDiscretionShot back-turned view]] when the intermediate boss [[spoiler: eats you]].
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* Losing in the Genesis version of MightyMorphinPowerRangers treats the player to a shot of the five (or six) Rangers looking helpless in front of a blazing fire and the only way to save the Rangers is to continue.
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* ''BanjoKazooie's'' GameOver is an ending cutscene in which you have to watch the WickedWitch / VainSorceress Gruntilda succeed in stealing the beauty of Banjo's younger sister Tooty and turn her into something like [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein's Monster]]. She even demands a talk with Banjo immediately for this travesty. However, for some, this was offset by [[FetishFuel Grunty's newfound hotness]] and the fact that Tooty was TheScrappy.
** For others, this scene was NightmareFuel.
** For others, this scene was NightmareFuel.
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* ''BanjoKazooie's'' GameOver is an ending cutscene in which you have to watch the WickedWitch / VainSorceress Gruntilda succeed in stealing the beauty of Banjo's younger sister Tooty and turn her into something like [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein's Monster]]. She even demands a talk with Banjo immediately for this travesty. However, for some, this was offset by [[FetishFuel Grunty's newfound hotness]] and the fact that Tooty was TheScrappy.
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* ''{{DJMAX}} Technika 2'': *shutters crash shut* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDX7jCrLi4&t=1m37s YOU FAILED. GAME OVER.]]'''
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** What about the 'bad' ending? If you betray the Vault's location to the mutant leaders, you are dipped in the FEV in a disturbing scene that contrasts the consensual nature of your turning. To add {{Nightmare Fuel}} to the fire, you then get a cutscene through the Vault's security cameras of the mutants storming the vault, having easily ripped the thick metal vault door off the hinges, blasting harmless civilians without provocation, and a drawn out {{Gatling Good}} battle with the {{Jerk Ass}} Overseer protecting the last uncontaminated humans the Unity seeks. With mutants [[MoreDakka falling left and right to the gunfire]], there is a tiny glimmer of hope that he will succeed, [[HopeSpot which is then dashed]] as he is suddenly ambushed by supermutants climbing onto his command chair to deliver a vicious beating-to-death as the camera pans away to show only eerie shadows, before it fails entirely and goes dead. Game Over.
* If you [[WeCanRuleTogether say "Yes" to the Dragonlord]] in ''DragonQuest''... [[spoiler:the screen goes immediately to black. Angry, angry, black.]]
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* If you allow the birdbots to break through the gate to Nino Island in ''MegaManLegends 2'', the game will immediately switch to a cutscene where the mayor goes nuts and screams "NOOO! I'LL NEVER LET YOU HAVE THE KEY, NO! WE'LL TAKE YOU WITH US!!!" and then presses the big red button, blowing up the island.
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* In ''MarvelUltimateAlliance'', after beating the game, Uatu the Watcher looks back at various plot points in the game which could have been failed or chosen differently without resulting in death: for instance, saving Nightcrawler or Jean Grey, and destroying Galactus's drills. Depending on how you chose, failed, or succeeded the Watcher will tell you how various factions were affected by your actions. [[spoiler:I.e. if you saved Nightcrawler instead of Jean Grey, she comes back as the Phoenix to take revenge, whereas choosing Jean over Nightcrawler leads to his angry mother Mystique killing Professor Xavier, leading to the disbanding of the X-Men. If you didn't destroy Galactus' drills, he comes and uses them on the Earth.]]
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* In ''MarvelUltimateAlliance'', after beating the game, Uatu the Watcher looks back at various plot points in the game which could have been failed or chosen differently without resulting in death: for instance, saving Nightcrawler or Jean Grey, and destroying Galactus's drills. Depending on how you chose, failed, or succeeded the Watcher will tell you how various factions were affected by your actions. [[spoiler:I.e. [[spoiler: if you saved Nightcrawler instead of Jean Grey, she comes back as the Phoenix to take revenge, whereas choosing Jean over Nightcrawler leads to his angry mother Mystique killing Professor Xavier, leading to the disbanding of the X-Men. If you didn't destroy Galactus' drills, he comes and uses them on the Earth.]]
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* ''OregonTrail'': "Everyone in your party has died. Many wagons failed to make it all the way to Oregon. Do you want to write your epitaph?" The beautiful part is that every time you play, you get to pass the graves of your previous failed attempts (which can lead to a contest to see who can leave the *earliest* grave on the trail).
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* The home console game of ''StreetFighter: The Movie'' has a "Movie Battle" mode where the player, as Guile, must fight your way to General Bison through different Street Fighter characters under an expiring time limit. If the player does not reach Bison within the time frame (once the timer reaches zero), once the current fight is over, Cammy will tell Guile there is no more time left and Bison needs to be found immediately [[spoiler: and the bad ending starts. As a result of a failure to reach Bison in time, the AN is forced to pay Bison the ransom, Guile is court-martialed and Bison uses the ransom money to finance his operation to turn his entire army into Perfect Genetic Soldiers, allowing him to rise up and seize control of the world.]]
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* The home console game of ''StreetFighter: The Movie'' has a "Movie Battle" mode where the player, as Guile, must fight your way to General Bison through different Street Fighter ''Street Fighter'' characters under an expiring time limit. If the player does not reach Bison within the time frame (once the timer reaches zero), once the current fight is over, Cammy will tell Guile there is no more time left and Bison needs to be found immediately [[spoiler: and the bad ending starts. As a result of a failure to reach Bison in time, the AN is forced to pay Bison the ransom, Guile is court-martialed and Bison uses the ransom money to finance his operation to turn his entire army into Perfect Genetic Soldiers, allowing him to rise up and seize control of the world.]]
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* Nanosaur. Since the plot of the game involves traveling back in time to right before the extinction of the Dinosaurs, you're being timed. And if the timer runs out - or you run out of lives, You get treated to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8lmmI1AZM this wonderful screen]]. This troper always found this extremely disturbing.
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* Nanosaur. ''Nanosaur'': Since the plot of the game involves traveling back in time to right before the extinction of the Dinosaurs, you're being timed. And if the timer runs out - or you run out of lives, You get treated to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8lmmI1AZM this wonderful screen]]. This troper always found this extremely disturbing.
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''Clash at Demonhead'' (called ''Dengeki Big Bang!'' in Japan) is an open-ended action adventure game for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem.
You take on the role of a soldier named Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is contacted during a vacation with his girlfriend Mary about a kidnapping attempt on Professor Plum, a scientist who constructed a Doomsday Bomb that will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]]. At the start of his mission, Bang encounters Tom Guycot, the kidnapper. Guycot tells him that he and the seven governors of Demonhead Mountain have taken the medallions used to power the device, and issues a challenge to Bang to try and find them. With no choice but to cut his vacation short, Bang goes off to find the professor and prevent the world from being destroyed...
Not to be confused with the band from ''ScottPilgrim''. But it's obviously named after the game, which Bryan Lee O'Malley claims was the first NES game he ever had.
You take on the role of a soldier named Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is contacted during a vacation with his girlfriend Mary about a kidnapping attempt on Professor Plum, a scientist who constructed a Doomsday Bomb that will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]]. At the start of his mission, Bang encounters Tom Guycot, the kidnapper. Guycot tells him that he and the seven governors of Demonhead Mountain have taken the medallions used to power the device, and issues a challenge to Bang to try and find them. With no choice but to cut his vacation short, Bang goes off to find the professor and prevent the world from being destroyed...
Not to be confused with the band from ''ScottPilgrim''. But it's obviously named after the game, which Bryan Lee O'Malley claims was the first NES game he ever had.
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->''"Death is not a hunter unbeknownst to its prey. One is always aware that it lies in
--> --'''[[GameOverMan Igor]]''', ''{{Persona 3}}''
Most game
You take on the role of a soldier named Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is contacted during a vacation
Tends to be a source of [[AccidentalNightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]] or [[TearJerker tears]], especially for younger gamers, and thus a very strong incentive to not die.
Subtrope of NonstandardGameOver. Compare {{Have a Nice Death}} and ShootTheShaggyDog. Not to be confused with
This is a '''death trope.''' Expect lots of marked and unmarked spoilers ahead.
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! Tropes used in this game:
* BettingMiniGame
* BodyguardBabes: Mush, boss of Route 16, has a pair.
* DeflectorShield: The Barrier item creates a force field around Bang that blocks enemy bullets.
* DoomsdayDevice
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: The appropriately-named Shark, who lords over Route 22. The battle takes place underwater, so you'll need an Aqua Lung to survive.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Demon itself has ''nothing'' to do with Guycott or the DoomsdayDevice. Interestingly, it shows up at the middle of the game, and nobody, good or bad, [[{{Ptitle7xno8ayw}} saw that coming.]]
* GuideDangIt: There's no way to know where to find Shark...it was long after my initial playing of the game that I found out you had to [[spoiler:push against the bottom of an otherwise unremarkable all-water route to find the boss room]].
* HopelessBossFight: Encountering the Demon [[spoiler:without the Sword of Apollo]]. You're [[ThanatosGambit required to lose to him the first time you meet in order to advance the story]].
* JetPack
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: A Supersuit is mandatory to even go anywhere near it.
* LuckBasedMission: [[spoiler:Disarming the bomb. You have six tries to correctly place all of the medallions, and the MagicCountdown speeds up every time you fail to get them right. Compounding matters, the combinations are randomly generated with each game, and you're never given any clues as to what medallion is supposed to go where.]]
* MeaningfulName: Guycot is a pun for the Japanese word for skull.
* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy: After you defeat the Demon, you stumble upon a room full of his/her/its eggs, which you have to destroy before you can escape its lair.]]
* NamesTheSame: "Professor Plum" has nothing to do with the board game {{Clue}}.
* NintendoHard
* NonLethalBottomlessPits: Subverted. While falling into pits doesn't kill you, you get taken to an area where you have to fight your way back to the surface, making you start the route over again.
* OxygenMeter: The timer for the Aqualung acts as one. Once it runs out, you lose one point of health for every second you're underwater.
* PainfullySlowProjectile
* PasswordSlotMachine: [[spoiler:The bomb disarmament sequence.]]
* PlotCoupon: The medallions.
* SizeShifter: Max, the Governor of Route 7, starts out as a tiny runt of a boss, but as you damage him, he increases in size until he's big enough to float around and start firing smaller versions of himself at you.
* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:Pandar]].
* SprintShoes: The Power Boots boost your running speed for a short time.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Sword of Apollo.
* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: Tom Guycot. He attacks you at the very beginning of the game, but after you get tricked into releasing the Demon, the Demon curbstomps him offscreen and steals his medallion afterward.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: Subverted. Guycot lied about [[spoiler:the number of medallions...there are really only six. Pandar, one of the Governors, doesn't carry one. Guycot had his medallion stolen from him by the Demon.]]
* WarmUpBoss: Gazh, the boss of Route 11, is usually the first one players fight, and he has a very predictable fight pattern (dash back and forth, get shot, shoot a line of fireballs, rinse, repeat).
* WeaponizedHeadgear: Mush like to toss his mushroom-shaped cap at you.
* WeSellEverything
* [[spoiler: XanatosGambit: The Demon possesses your "ally" Michael and uses him to trick you into releasing him.]]
* BettingMiniGame
* BodyguardBabes: Mush, boss of Route 16, has a pair.
* DeflectorShield: The Barrier item creates a force field around Bang that blocks enemy bullets.
* DoomsdayDevice
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: The appropriately-named Shark, who lords over Route 22. The battle takes place underwater, so you'll need an Aqua Lung to survive.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Demon itself has ''nothing'' to do with Guycott or the DoomsdayDevice. Interestingly, it shows up at the middle of the game, and nobody, good or bad, [[{{Ptitle7xno8ayw}} saw that coming.]]
* GuideDangIt: There's no way to know where to find Shark...it was long after my initial playing of the game that I found out you had to [[spoiler:push against the bottom of an otherwise unremarkable all-water route to find the boss room]].
* HopelessBossFight: Encountering the Demon [[spoiler:without the Sword of Apollo]]. You're [[ThanatosGambit required to lose to him the first time you meet in order to advance the story]].
* JetPack
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: A Supersuit is mandatory to even go anywhere near it.
* LuckBasedMission: [[spoiler:Disarming the bomb. You have six tries to correctly place all of the medallions, and the MagicCountdown speeds up every time you fail to get them right. Compounding matters, the combinations are randomly generated with each game, and you're never given any clues as to what medallion is supposed to go where.]]
* MeaningfulName: Guycot is a pun for the Japanese word for skull.
* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy: After you defeat the Demon, you stumble upon a room full of his/her/its eggs, which you have to destroy before you can escape its lair.]]
* NamesTheSame: "Professor Plum" has nothing to do with the board game {{Clue}}.
* NintendoHard
* NonLethalBottomlessPits: Subverted. While falling into pits doesn't kill you, you get taken to an area where you have to fight your way back to the surface, making you start the route over again.
* OxygenMeter: The timer for the Aqualung acts as one. Once it runs out, you lose one point of health for every second you're underwater.
* PainfullySlowProjectile
* PasswordSlotMachine: [[spoiler:The bomb disarmament sequence.]]
* PlotCoupon: The medallions.
* SizeShifter: Max, the Governor of Route 7, starts out as a tiny runt of a boss, but as you damage him, he increases in size until he's big enough to float around and start firing smaller versions of himself at you.
* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:Pandar]].
* SprintShoes: The Power Boots boost your running speed for a short time.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Sword of Apollo.
* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: Tom Guycot. He attacks you at the very beginning of the game, but after you get tricked into releasing the Demon, the Demon curbstomps him offscreen and steals his medallion afterward.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: Subverted. Guycot lied about [[spoiler:the number of medallions...there are really only six. Pandar, one of the Governors, doesn't carry one. Guycot had his medallion stolen from him by the Demon.]]
* WarmUpBoss: Gazh, the boss of Route 11, is usually the first one players fight, and he has a very predictable fight pattern (dash back and forth, get shot, shoot a line of fireballs, rinse, repeat).
* WeaponizedHeadgear: Mush like to toss his mushroom-shaped cap at you.
* WeSellEverything
* [[spoiler: XanatosGambit: The Demon possesses your "ally" Michael and uses him to trick you into releasing him.]]
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*
* BodyguardBabes: Mush, boss of Route 16, has a pair.
* DeflectorShield:
** The
* DoomsdayDevice
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: The appropriately-named Shark, who lords over Route 22. The battle takes place underwater, so you'll need an Aqua Lung to survive.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Demon itself has ''nothing'' to do with Guycott or
** However, if you died in the second half of the game, you were fully shown the horrible fate of your city...
** Which was nothing compared to the NightmareFuel-esque and creepy ending you would get if you were to let the darkness take over you...
* If you fail ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', you get to see the moon fall and destroy everyone.
** The PhantomHourglass GameOver ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThXvLA4IcfU music]].'' [[TearJerker Cue sobbing.]]
** SpiritTracks gives us death by exploding train, likely by those Demon Trains.
--> '''Zelda''': AAAAAH! LINK!
** A minor example in ''ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'': "[[GameOverMan GAME OVER. RETURN OF GANON]]." [[EvilLaugh HOHOHOHO.]]
*
* HopelessBossFight: Encountering the Demon [[spoiler:without the Sword
* JetPack
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: A Supersuit is mandatory to even go anywhere near it.
* LuckBasedMission: [[spoiler:Disarming the bomb. You have six tries to correctly place all
* ''[[CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow]]'' and its sequel, ''Dawn of Sorrow'', had the
*
* NintendoHard
* NonLethalBottomlessPits: Subverted. While falling into pits doesn't kill you, you get taken to an area where you have to fight your way back to the surface, making you start the route over again.
* OxygenMeter: The timer for the Aqualung acts as one. Once it runs out, you lose one point of health for every second you're underwater.
* PainfullySlowProjectile
* PasswordSlotMachine:
*
* SizeShifter: Max,
* ''{{Okami}}'': When Amaterasu dies, she doesn't just revert back to a statue, she freakin' shatters to pieces!
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}} 2'', if you run out
* Otto Matic - which is by the same people who did Bugdom. When you
* While only in the beta version, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssPKBq8HWU this]] unreleased game over screen from Luigi's Mansion (seen around 2:37) can scare you like no tomorrow no matter how brief it is.
* ''Beyond The Forbidden Forest'': even for an 8-bit era game (1986), the 'bad ending' music still remains HighOctaneNightmareFuel, thanks to the ominous cacophonies and
* In ''[[DemonsCrest Demon's Crest]]'', you can go off the rails and fight the final boss early. See [[NiceJobBreakingItHero/VideoGames Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] for the startling BadEnd this triggers.
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* The Game Over sequence of the ''NinjaGaiden'' arcade game showed your character tied down under a descending rotary saw, shaking his head no-no-no while the "Continue?" countdown cycled.
* The NES ''Game/FridayThe13th'' game, in a subversion of the NeverSayDie trend among video games at the time: "YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD. GAME OVER." TheAngryVideoGameNerd plays this up for laughs in his review of the game.
* In ''DevilMayCry'', if certain enemies deplete your health with certain attacks, you are treated to a bloody finishing move, where Dante is burned alive, snapped in two, devoured, etc.
* During the fight with Ares in ''GodOfWar'', you must defend Kratos's family from mystical clones of himself
* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:Pandar]].
* SprintShoes: The Power Boots boost your running speed for a short time.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Sword of Apollo.
* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: Tom Guycot. He attacks you at
** In the second game, during the Atropos fight, she goes back in time to destroy the sword-bridge Kratos used during the last phase of the
* If you die in the Flash game series ''Drakojan Skies'', the games give you this message: "MISSION FAILED. The failure of this mission resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Drakojans]]. Many more could have been prevented."
* In ''StarWars: [[StarWarsRebelAssault Rebel Assault]]'', if you die on the final mission, the Death Star [[EarthShatteringKaboom blows up Yavin IV]]. "And the Alliance was defeated".
* ''[[BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' has these in spades. Usually it's [[GameOverMan the Joker]] taunting you (in one CrowningMomentOfFunny, he says: "I salute my fallen enemy!", then blows a raspberry at you while walking backwards laughing and trips over his own feet!), but
** Conversely, die as The Joker and you get
* ''BrutalLegend'' has several, ranging from Mangus screaming to Eddie as the
* The Sega Genesis game ''RedZone'' features a cutscene and
** '''[[HonorBeforeReason DEATH BEFORE]] [[NightmareFuel DISHONOR!]]''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDf1P2J-iVg&t=0m17s]]
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* In the 1992 Adventure game ''{{Waxworks}}'' and is the game over screen you get if you fail to avoid the police (who believe you to be JackTheRipper, who happens to be your evil twin) in a StealthBasedMission. And it's only ''one'' of many horrifying examples. [[ItGotWorse And out of all of them, it's probably the]] ''[[ItGotWorse least]]'' [[ItGotWorse disturbing.]]
*
* In the SNES game, {{SOS}}, you're inside a sinking ship and must escape before the timer counts down (from an hour). Getting hurt (i.e., taking damage that would be lethal to an NPC) sets you back about
** Alternatively, let's assume you are still in the process of figuring out how to leave the ship, or making your way there, and you have about a minute or so left before time runs out. If you're nowhere close to leaving the ship, you've essentially entered a playable death sequence as the ship begins sinking down completely. A morbid, tragic music that embodies hopelessness fills your ears as cruelly as the ship is filled with water. You swim about, with absolutely nowhere to catch a breath of air anywhere. You swim for a minute in the most futile attempt to make it out. And then the game finally gives you the game over screen.
* Dying or reaching 0 [[SanityMeter mental stability]] in ''{{Fahrenheit}}''/''IndigoProphecy'' gives you a {{film noir}} [[{{Narrator}} voiceover]] of the current viewpoint character saying how they died or why they gave up and what happened afterwards, ranging from leaving town due to being unable to get over one's claustrophobia, accidentally committing suicide (alcohol and pills don't mix), being viciously murdered by inmates at a facility for the criminally insane, and many many other things. Most of these end with the viewpoint character moodily reminiscing on how they'd never find out what happened that night, or how the world thinks them a murderer.
** At one point, the developers even subvert it: it [[FissionMailed looks like]] Lukas has been once again cornered by the police and we are treated to the standard GameOver message... but then he enters TranquilFury mode and proceeds to escape [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in a manner most awesome]]. Also, the bad ending (out of three) is pretty much an ApocalypticLog.
** One of the worst is if you don't choose to save the little boy and walk into the cop from the resturant even AFTER the main character says who he is. His speech has changed a bit though it ends on the same note.
--->''Well, that's where my story ends, because by the stupidest of chances, I happen to run into the cop from the restaurant while he was making his rounds in the park. It was [[OneInAMillionChance one chance in a million]], and I bought the winning ticket. I'll spend the rest of my days rotting in prison.''
* In ''TheWhiteChamber'', there are
* The bad ending of ''LauraBow: The Colonel's Bequest'' and its sequel ''The Dagger of Amon Rah''. In particular the one in the second game, which explains in discordantly cheerful detail the fates of everyone and their corpses, thanks to your failure. Then you get murdered and your father commits suicide, and the reporter who wanted your job becomes rich and famous. The end.
* In ''QuestForGloryII: Trial By Fire'', a standard death (by attack or low stats) will usually just give you a punny death message and let you restore and get back to the game. However, if you fail the task of capturing the Elementals or die anytime after [[spoiler: Ad Avis steals the evil genie Iblis' lamp]], you are treated to a long cut scene of the
* Since ''[[ChzoMythos Trilby's Notes]]'' are presented as [[FramingDevice having been found]] [[ApocalypticLog long after the events portrayed within]] happened, you get a "cheerful" little subtitle that the notes up until the point where he dies is all that they can find of said notes.
* In ''Obliterator'', your death is followed by a text screen that reads: "YOU HAVE FAILED IN YOUR MISSION. YOU ARE DEAD AND THE EARTH IS DOOMED. SO ENDS THE MISSION OF THE LAST OBLITERATOR." This is followed by a shot of the player character's ''skeleton'', still wearing his space armor, floating in orbit around Earth.
* ''The Fourth Protocol'', the game of FrederickForsyth's novel from 1984, revolves around a Soviet plot to explode a nuclear bomb near a US Air Force base in Britain to influence the upcoming British elections by shocking the voters into electing an anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-nuclear, pro-Soviet government. Mess up the defusing of the nuke and you are told that the plan succeeded, the Russians were invited into the UK and began working on Europe from both fronts. [[NonStandardGameOver Alternatively]], things go even worse: the bomb leads to a limited nuclear war, destroying both sides and making the northern hemisphere uninhabitable. This comes "From the annals of the Australio-Indonesian Empire..."
* ''{{Zork}}: [[ZorkGrandInquisitor Grand Inquisitor]]'' has an interesting one. If you do anything that would cause a GameOver, the game switches to a text adventure (a throwback to Zork's old days) and inputs the command you just did, followed with the results of how you died/[[AndIMustScream got totemized]]/whatever. Interestingly, this also happens if you ''win'' the game (after the satisfying ending {{cutscene}}, of course).
* Each method of dying in the game ''TotalDistortion'' has a different clip. To make it worse, all are accompanied by this song: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU You are Dead. Dead, Dead.]] It doesn't
* If you die in ''PoliceQuest: SWAT'', a video is shown of
* ''{{Shadowgate}}'' for the NES included graphic descriptions of your death and several ways to commit suicide, all leading to a creepy picture of the Grim Reaper. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zoOx_H4mZw This video]] features almost all the possible deaths in the game.
* In ''ManiacMansion'', there are several actions that can lead to a meltdown. You see the mansion explode, followed by a message that the nuclear explosion has destroyed everything in a 5 mile radius. (It's never made clear how far the mansion is from the town.)
* Shows up in two games from ''HomestarRunner'': "Where's an Egg?" and "Dangeresque Roomisode 1." In "Where's an Egg?" failing to find the egg will result in the main character being banished to the Siberian tundra and subsequently freezing to death, while in "Dangeresque Roomisode 1" getting the task wrong will result in Dangeresque being sent to the "HOOSEGOW."
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* ''{{Bayonetta}}'' has a horrible Game Over screen, but it's not as much frightening as it is depressing, demented, or, then again, scary. if you choose to continue, okay ("The shadow remains cast!"), but if you choose not to, she screams in agony as about twenty or thirty hands grab her from all sides and pull her down into Hell.
* The ''FinalFight'' series is similar, using timed sticks of dynamite, descending ceilings laced with {{Spikes of Doom}}, a room quickly filling with water, and whatnot.
* Lose in ''CadillacsAndDinosaurs'' and the first
* ''{{The Punisher}}'' arcade game has a
* Dying in ''ComixZone'' showed you a short {{cutscene}} of [[BigBad Mortus]] either complaining that it wasn't fun enough (and giving you another chance) or using your death to make himself a body somehow and
* In ''{{Streets of Rage}}'' 3, failing to beat the {{final boss}} in [[TimedMission 3 minutes]], earns [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/genesis/a/rage3-2.htm this ending]].
** The Japanese version makes it worse by showing a picture of the city that was destroyed by the bombs. The U.S. version cuts the image out, reducing the impact of the failure.
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* In ''DaytonaUSA'', after a multiplayer race, each player has a little scene of the car attempting to skid to a stop. The first place car does it successfully, the second place car spins out, third place runs headfirst into the wall, and anything below ''crashes'' and ends up upside-down. Pretty dramatic if your arcade has 8 machines hooked up.
* The most common way of losing a life in ''{{F-Zero}}'' is by running out of energy, resulting in CriticalExistenceFailure. But you can also die by failing to cross the finish line with the required position or higher, or falling into 20th place, which is accompanied by a downer jingle.
** "Broken down! Too bad, you lost your machine!"
** ''F-Zero GP Legend'': Fail a mission or die, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVFOsOsvQc depressing music]] plays.
* ''Road Rash 64'' taunts you if you lose all your lives by saying "Dude, you suck!"
* In ''APB'' (the arcade game, [[SimilarlyNamedWorks not the MMO game]]), the game over screen reads "Too Many Demerits - YOU ARE FIRED", and shows other cops pulling you out of
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* ''{{Tekken}} 5'' does this if you quit after losing to Jinpachi. Jinpachi is [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard completely unfair]] by the way.
** The new Tag 2 game has the POV of the KOed character gazing helplessly up at
* WeSellEverything
*
* ''StreetFighterAlpha 3'': Lose to M. Bison in the final battle in Arcade mode, and you can't continue. All you can do is watch as he stuffs your
** Conversely, losing the final fight against Ryu when playing as Bison shows [[HaveANiceDeath Ryu's ending]].
* In the ''SoulEdge'' knockoff ''Mace: The Dark Age'', each character has a "good" ending if they defeat [[BigBad Asmodeus]] and claim the Mace, and a "bad" ending should they fail (ie, run out of continues). The bad endings for the evil characters tend to have a ring of poetic justice to them, such as the despotic ruler Lord Deimos deposed by his subjects, or the sadistic Executioner tortured to death (assuming he died in the end...) by Asmodeus. Those of good characters are depressing and/or disturbing, such as the lost princess Namira going insane in a dungeon, or Ragnar turned into a powerful, ravenous wolf sent to kill the last of his family and friends, completely aware of what he's doing.
* ''MortalKombat 4/Gold'' had this as a GameOver sequence wherein your beaten fighter ends up falling down into a spike pit.
** ''Shaolin Monks'' had a nice comprehensive set of [=IAWDs=], but only if you lost to the bosses. Most range from classic Fatalities ([[spoiler: Kano ripping your heart out, Kitana finishing you with a kiss of death]]), to the unnecessarily brutal ([[spoiler: Scorpion spearing you into
** Interestingly, losing to [[spoiler: Shang Tsung or Kintaro]] near the end of the game would get you the [[spoiler: Shao Kahn fatality scene where he BAMS you with his hammer twice. Logically you get this when you lose to Kahn]], too.
* The home console game of ''StreetFighter: The Movie'' has a "Movie Battle" mode where the player, as Guile, must fight your way to General Bison through different Street Fighter characters under an expiring time limit. If the player does not reach Bison within the time frame (once the timer reaches zero), once the current fight is over, Cammy will tell Guile there is no more time left and Bison needs to be found immediately [[spoiler: and the bad ending starts. As a result of a failure to reach Bison in time, the AN is forced to pay Bison the ransom, Guile is court-martialed and Bison uses the ransom money to finance his operation to turn his entire army into Perfect Genetic Soldiers, allowing him to rise up and seize control of the world.]]
* In ''The Light and the Dark'' if you fail then you have to watch two children slowly turning to corpses like [[spoiler: the villain at the end of ''Last Crusade'', but much more gruesomely and realistically]] before hearing the voices of the elders casually conferring with each other that, "The chosen one has failed? Well, give him another chance!"
* ''{{EternalChampions}}'': If you don't win the final battle, the text is [[SarcasmMode subtle]] [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/genesis/b/ecbad.htm about your fate]].
** And even less so in the ''Challenge of the Dark Side'' on Sega CD.
* In the ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventre]]'' Capcom fighting game, losing a match in one player mode showed your character in their dizzy animation whilst minor villain Daniel J. D'Arby sat in the background, daring you to continue complete with requisite countdown timer. Choose to, and your character would get up triumphantly, and D'Arby would shout his CatchPhrase, "GOOD!!" whilst not doing so resulted in D'Arby's Stand, Osiris, compressing your character (Their soul, mainly) into a poker chip.
* In ''MarvelVsCapcom3'', should you fail to beat the final boss, [[spoiler: Galactus]], you are treated to a victory screen (for him) where he destroys the entire world. The planet explodes and you arrive at a blank, white 'Continue?' screen.
** Even worse, should you choose not to continue on this specific fight, you can view his ending. [[spoiler:He states "Your interference has only briefly postponed the inevitable. Do not mourn the loss of your worlds. Their energy will feed my hunger, and Galactus is eternal."]]
** On another disturbing note, the aforementioned victory screen shows the Earth blazing red before it is destroyed. If that isn't creepy in itself, sometimes, while fighting the final boss, should the player take too long, the planet (which is seen in the background) will start to turn red by itself. This reddened Earth is still visible if the character wins, though, the ending sequence progresses as if the planet had been saved quickly. Seeing the Earth decay before you even lose is just plain [[DefangedHorrors creepy.]]
* Losing in the Genesis version of MightyMorphinPowerRangers treats the player to a shot of the five (or six) Rangers looking helpless in front of a blazing fire and the only way to save the Rangers is to continue.
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* ''{{Halo}}'': On The Maw, fail to escape the Autumn in time; cue {{cutscene}} of the ship exploding, taking you with it. This is probably more of a NonStandardGameOver though, it doesn't go to the credits.
** ''HaloReach'' end with [[spoiler:a BolivianArmyEnding]], but after the credits [[spoiler:you get to play through your inevitable end. And even after you're defeated, a final cutscene shows you still fighting on the ground while being burried under a pile of elites.]]
* ''SystemShock'' had a NightmareFuel failure display if you died without being regenerated. You would be turned into a cyborg under computer control.
-->They find your body and give it new life. As a cyborg you will serve SHODAN well.
** Accidental my ass!
* In the ''HalfLife'' series, if you manage to render the game {{Unwinnable}} (e.g. by letting a major NPC die, or by losing your vehicle) the screen goes black and a small message appears. In ''HalfLife'', ''Opposing Force'', and ''Half-Life 2'', the messages are cold, official "reports" by the mysterious G-Man, which note e.g. "Assignment: Terminated - Subject: Freeman - Reason: Failure to preserve mission-critical resources".
** In ''Blue Shift'', the message is something along the lines of "Employee: Barney Calhoun - Subject is presumed to have perished along with rest of the staff in the Black Mesa incident", since the G-Man has no interest in Barney.
** In ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', the messages are [[spoiler:poetic and depressing statements by the Vortigaunts. "So it ends / The Freeman has failed to preserve a life required for victory / Such are the shapes we see in the Vortessence"]]
* ''RiseOfTheTriad'' plays this for laughs. Defeating the final boss, El Oscuro, without finding and killing all his spawnlings in that level will earn you the first part of the victory celebration (namely, seeing the boss you just defeated on a tombstone). Then, however, the game informs you that since some of his spawnlings survived, "Twenty years later, one of them rose to power and destroyed the world, but nice work anyway." Then you see the earth exploding violently.
* Fail your objectives in ''TeamFortress2'', and not only does [[MissionControl The Administrator]] contemptuously berate you, your character model goes into a gesture of surrender and all you can do is taunt and run at slower speeds while the winning team gets a speed boost and crits on each attack. (The Soldier even gets an achievement for killing five surrendering enemies.)
** You don't even get a break for Stalemate: ''both'' sides simply act as if they failed.
** For losing teams on Defense in Payload, you also get to watch the bomb you didn't stop make a big boom.
** Even winning Payload teams aren't safe - just don't stand too close to the cart you're, er... supposed to stand next to.
* Most ''RedFaction'' deaths are just a simple "You have died", but if you get a plot-critical NPC killed, the game explains in detail how everything proceeds to go to hell from that point on. (Amusingly, you still get one of these for killing a certain character mere moments before he's ''scheduled'' to die.)
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* Die and refuse to continue in ''Area 51'' (arcade), and you get a CGI of your character [[YouAreTheDemons morphing into one of the alien mutants]]. Overlaps with HaveANiceDeath.
* In the ''SilentScope'' games, if you miss the final bullet, you are treated to a DownerEnding of some sort (The President gets blown up or Laura falls to her death, or the like.)
* ''{{Terminator}} 2'' for the SNES and Game Boy have their variations, and both only give you one life, making matters worse: In the SNES version, if the Terminator dies, Judgment Day begins, complete with a picture of the fiery explosion from the movie and the date August 29, 1997. In the Game Boy version, if John Connor dies, a picture of the barren and destroyed landscape is present, along with the text:
--> '''With John defeated, Skynet was able to overpower the resistance thus insuring [''sic''] the extinction of all human life on earth.'''
* ''SinAndPunishment2'': In Stage 6, [[spoiler:fail to keep your partner, being held by a crane, above the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom rising lava]], and he/she is '''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel dumped into the lava]]''', resulting in a GameOver.]]
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* Did you fail to reach the goal in a ''KatamariDamacy'' game? [[KingOfAllCosmos We]] are so disappointed. Really, it is Our fault for leaving this task to Our incompetent, pusillanimous Son. Our fans will be devastated, surely! Run, little Prince, run! Our Royal EyeBeams will [[YouCanRunButYouCantHide hit you and shock you no matter what]]! It's no use looking [[HeroicBSOD so crestfallen]], begone from Our sight!
* In ''BlastCorps'', letting the missile carrier touch anything makes it explodes in a red nuclear blast, destroying everything.
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* ''BanjoKazooie's'' GameOver is an ending cutscene in which you have to watch the WickedWitch / VainSorceress Gruntilda succeed in stealing the beauty of Banjo's younger sister Tooty and turn her into something like [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein's Monster]]. She even demands a talk with Banjo immediately for this travesty. However, for some, this was offset by [[FetishFuel Grunty's newfound hotness]] and the fact that Tooty was TheScrappy.
** For others, this scene was NightmareFuel.
** The problem with this is that the scene plays every time you save and quit, too. It's almost as if the game is [[YouBastard slapping you across the face]] for not playing it [[BladderOfSteel start to finish in one go]].
* Believe it or not, ''LiquidKids'', a platformer from Taito with cute characters, also does this with its continue screen. Here, Hipopo (the player character) has one of the bomb enemies bouncing on him with the clock counting down (and a cuckoo clock sounding) with each bounce. When the timer reaches one or so, Hipopo will call out "Help Me!". When it reaches zero, the screen fades to black, [[NightmareFuel and the sound of an explosion can be heard]]...
* Two occurrences in the ''CommanderKeen'' series:
** Episode 2: ''The Earth Explodes'' ...[[EarthShatteringKaboom well, don't say you didn't know it might happen]].
*** Made even worse if you happened to set off the [[BigRedButton Big Red Switch]] yourself while trying to jump up and disarm it.
----> "Oops."
** Episode 5: ''The Armageddon Machine'' ... The arc this episode is part of is named "Goodbye Galaxy" for a reason.
*** To make things worse, the music played on the Game Over screen sounds like it's mocking you.
* In ''{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'', if you don't have a high enough ranking when you beat Mission 5, you get a DownerEnding where the island is destroyed by a KillSat, killing everyone - including the heroes.
* In the original ''PrinceOfPersia'', if you run out of time, you are shown the princess's room with an empty hourglass, and the princess gone... implying that she's either dead or being forcibly married to Jaffar.
* ''TombRaider: The Angel of Darkness'': Overlaps with NonStandardGameOver. In Margot Carvier's Apartment level, after the dialogue choice, the police will be on their way to the apartment (regardless of what you said to Carvier). Lara has a time limit to do what she needs to and get out of the apartment (which would be look for the notebook if you were rude to Carvier, in which case your job is made harder). If she hasn't left by the time the police get inside (after two cutscene warnings), she surrenders and they arrest her. Game Over.
* The ''{{Metroid}}'' series has had a series of variations of this:
** ''Metroid'' simply shows her exploding and then the game over screen.
** ''Metroid II: Return of Samus'' simply has her fizzling out of existence.
** ''Super Metroid'', ''Metroid Fusion'' and ''Metroid Zero Mission'' have Samus exploding out of her armoured suit. Sure, it's FetishFuel, but still...
** The ''Prime'' trilogy, however, must have the most gruesome game over sequences. Firstly, you hear Samus' agonized scream as the whole screen blinks out like a broken TV. Then, depending on the game...:
*** ''Prime 1'' shows a close up of Samus' visor... only the glass is cracked badly, and a message saying "Life Support: Critical" begins to flash as "failure", the screen flashes red, and Samus's head begins to sag to the side. Easily the scariest.
*** ''Prime 2'' has a close up of Samus's chest and an X-Ray view of her heart, its beating slowing to an eventual stop. Yes, a pretty damn accurate depiction of Cardiac Arrest. FROM THE HEART'S POINT OF VIEW.
----> Both of these are accompanied by the sound of a heart monitor, quickly going from normal to distressed to ''flatlining.''
*** ''Prime 3'' has what is possibly the least visually nasty: It merely shows a red splotch of liquid expanding, possibly blood. '''HOWEVER'''...
**** If you stay on Phazon Hyper Mode for WAY TOO LONG, you see a short [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVX_GaFtXE cutscene]] of Samus transforming into Dark Samus. After that is a nice new variation of the Game Over screen. This time, the liquid splotch is now blue, possibly to represent Phazon, and under the words GAME OVER are the words "TERMINAL CORRUPTION".
** ''Metroid'': ''OtherM'' has Samus's Power suit phasing out as she collapses and yells, with Adam asking you what's wrong, only to be cut off by the radio going out. [[spoiler:When Adam loses communication with Samus, all that's left is the suit phasing out]].
* In ''{{Bionic Commando}}: Rearmed'', after beating the final boss, you need to escape from the final level, which is sinking into the ocean. Whether you actually escape or run out of time, you end up watching the same lengthy cutscene of the base sinking into the ocean. You don't find out until the end of the scene whether you escaped or went down with the base.
* If you choose to [[WeCanRuleTogether join the villain]] in ''WizardsAndWarriors III'', the scene then shows the villain having taken over, with the [[http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/113904-retrose-tinted-wizards-and-warriors-iii/05-468x.jpg hero chained to a pillar as his prisoner.]] It cuts to a [[http://www.goodtimeretrocafe.com/nes/ww3/badend.jpg picture of the kingdom being overshadowed by the villain in the background.]]
** That's actually the standard game over. The player can be just TooDumbToLive by siding with him.
* In ''{{Terramex}}'', if you die, you get to see the meteor hit the Earth.
* ''DonkeyKongCountry 1'' had a bruised and battered Diddy and Donkey Kong standing in an empty void while the words "GAME OVER" were spelled out in broken wooden planks , ''DK 2'' has Dixie and Diddy Kong locked in some kind of animal cage evocative of animal testing facilities, and ''DK 3'' has the protagonists locked in a dark room, in a cot.
* In ''KnucklesChaotix'', they don't recieve a death per se, but if you fail to collect all of the Chaos Rings, you will have the bad ending in which the [[NightmareFuel upgraded]] [[MakeMyMonsterGrow Metal]] [[EvilCounterpart Sonic]] hovers over the burning remains of a city. Probably one of the darkest endings to a Sonic game to be made so far.
** For that matter, ''SonicCD'', but only in the US version. Yes, it is nothing but a game over screen, but it's the Nightmare Fuel [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qx-HdY5c inducing music combined with Robotnik's laughter]] that makes this so disturbing. Especially considering the fact that if you don't touch the controller for three minutes, Sonic will actually give up and run away.
* And for yet another [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scary-as-hell]] GameOver screen, there's the one from the [[AvertedTrope actually-pretty]][[TheProblemWithLicensedGames -damn-good]] LicensedGame for ''ToyStory 2''. It features Buzz on his knees, just as he was after failing to grab Al's sky blue car, overimposed on a purple screen, beneath the caption "GAME OVER" written in the Buzz font. Which isn't that bad by itself... [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle until you hear]] ''the music.'' Dear God, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UWA5bWtYqA&feature=related the music!]]''
* Another example is on the 16-bit games of BeavisAndButthead, after dying in the SNES game Beavis and Butthead complain about their new status in hell until a camera flash goes off, while on the Genesis game they go to hell after dying and Beavis is seen saying "I think we're dead or something" while Butthead says "This sucks dude!"
* In ''{{Kirby}}'' ''[[{{Kirby64}} 64: The Crystal Shards]]'', dying on the BossRush game mode yields [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/itshopeless_7587.jpg this]] game over screen.
* One humorous example occurs in ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'' for the SegaGenesis; if Aladdin runs out of health he's seen against a black background wobbling while Abu fans him with the carpet, he then falls on a stool while Genie appears and starts rubbing his shoulders and then a boxing bell sounds. It gets more menacing if you lose all lives and continues and then you hear Jafar cackle while you see his head over the words "Give up street rat". Finally in reference to the film, the words "THE END" appear and the Genie lifts up a flap and says "Made you look!"
* Conversely, it's much more [[TearJerker tragic]] in the SNES and Genesis games of ''VideoGame/TheLionKing''. Die as a cub and sad music plays while Simba struggles to stand only to then collapse, while as an adult Simba falls over on his side motionless. Running out of lives and/or continues has a black "Game Over" screen while Rafiki looks disappointed; his mood will lift only if you continue.
** On the Game Gear game though, the more limited audio means the loss of a life doesn't seem as sad, but it gets [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel highly nightmare inducing]] if you run out of lives (and there's no way to gain continues); the final shot is a silent still pic of a menacing looking Scar--it's enough to make you want to either succeed every time or turn the power off if this happens.
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* ''[[{{Myst}} Riven]]'' has several bad endings, complete with their own credits. It's possible to trap yourself before finding Gehn; provoke Gehn to shoot you; trap Gehn, then release him and trap yourself; trap yourself in the rebel hideout; or trap Gehn and ''release him in the rebel hideout''... [[IdiotBall while trapping yourself]]. It's also possible to open the Star Fissure and destroy the world without first trapping Gehn, or without first rescuing Catherine and the rest of the Rivenese, [[KillEmAll or both]]. If you're ''very'' lucky, you can even guess the combination that opens the Star Fissure without interacting with anyone else in the game and earn yourself a NoEnding.
** The Bad Endings for ''Myst V'' are noteworthy in that they all wind up with you stranded ''in the ruins of Myst Island'', where the game series began. Dedicated fans of the series sometimes seek out these endings on purpose, just for the experience of exploring the deserted, forsaken isle.
* Bejeweled 3's Ice Storm mode literally gives you the [[AWorldwidePunomenon cold shoulder]]. Make matches to keep rising ice columns on the board from hitting the top. Some of them shoot up wicked fast, and once they hit the top (with a thumping sound much like a giant sledgehammer burying itself into a snowbank), a red pressure pulse goes up the column with a very bad sounding warning sound, giving you one more chance to push it back. Fail that, and red glowy stress fractures occur on the column, the gems vibrate with pressure for a moment, and then... the whole interface flash freezes into a giant ice cube! [[GameOver Game Over]]! It's a very [[IncrediblyLamePun chilling]] game over screen.
* Most of the Game Overs in ''GhostTrick'' are just running out of time before your subject dies, meaning you have to go back four minutes before their death and start again. However, in one case, you also have to avoid being detected by [[spoiler:Yomiel. Since he knows about ghost tricks, any suspiciously moving inanimate items will alert him to your existence and he'll directly address you, telling you that there's nothing you can do to stop him.
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* Getting Tanya killed in ''CommandAndConquer: Red Alert'' will result in a game over FMV where a camera pans from her marked military grave over the thousands of other dead soldiers. In the mission where she is captured and tortured, this can occur before she is freed, which has rather painful implications.
** From the same game, if you fail to stop the Nuclear Missile from reaching its target, you're treated to a shot of the Effiel Tower as a giant mushroom cloud and screams engulf it.
** Most of the early ''Command and Conquer'' games had two end of mission cutscenes; one for victory and one for defeat. Many looked pretty damn cool (Nod Soldiers raising a flag in the middle of a burning base?)
** Tiberian Sun actually has a few cutscenes where you succeed, but feel like a complete monster for doing so. In one, the Nod Soldiers are walking through a devastated bas;, a lone GDI soldier, apparently surviving the carnage, crawls out and limply pleas for mercy. The Nod Soldier simply shakes his head and fires his gun. The base is the one you attack in the previous mission.
** In ''Red Alert 2'', during the Allied mission to recapture St. Louis, if the timer runs out and Tanya is mind-controlled, there is a special cutscene that shows Tanya having been taken over and quite enthusiastically favoring the Soviets now.
* In addition to Olimar's notes of hopelessness, you also get to see the ship crashing and the Pikmin turning Olimar's (presumably dead) body into one of them if you fail to get the 25 required parts by the end of the first ''{{Pikmin}}''.
* ''{{Starcraft}} II'' example: when the Protoss base is destroyed in the mission "In Utter Darkness", the closing cutscene shows the star system being ''outright consumed'' by the Dark Voice. Of course, [[spoiler:this is the ''victory'' ending - you're guaranteed to die in the mission. It's a vision of the future that you have to prevent]].
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* ''EliteBeatAgents'' has alternate endings for failing a mission in which the story resolves badly. Particularly cruel is A Christmas Wish, in which [[spoiler:the girl goes into her teenage years continuing to cling on to false hope that her dead father will return one day.]]
* ''InTheGroove'' gives you a NonStandardGameOver if you fail the boss song in either game: ROUND FAILED with a skull overlay for Pandemonium, and ROUND FAILED^2 for Vertex^2.
* If you fail a song in the ''GuitarHero'' or ''RockBand'' games, you get booed off the stage.
* ''pop'n music 16'': Normally, if you fail a song, the announcer comments, "Uh-oh!" or "Too bad!" Fail a song with exactly one block of life short of clearing the song, and she cries out, "Oh my God..."
* ''{{DJMAX}} Technika 2'': *shutters crash shut* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDX7jCrLi4&t=1m37s YOU FAILED. GAME OVER.]]'''
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* If you receive a game over in ''ChronoCross'', you'll also get a cheerful message that you've managed to erase Serge from existence altogether.
* ''ChronoTrigger'' had one too -- fail against Lavos, and you get to see exactly what happened on the day he erupted from the earth.
---> "But... the future refused to change."
* In ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', the previous Raidou Kuzunohas whisk Raidou the 14th out of whatever dangerous situation gave him the wounds he fainted from, heal him, then wake him up. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ9aJkYuvTU They then proceed to thoroughly chew him out for slandering the name of Raidou Kuzunoha]], telling him how shameful his failure was, as they gather around him. Raidou's eyes dart from spirit to spirit, terrified (keep in mind, this young man is very much a {{stoic}}). As they leave him with a final "Begone!", he holds out his hand in protest, but they vanish, and Raidou falls to his knees in shame. (The implication being that Raidou the 14th is no longer Raidou, and that is possibly the worst disgrace to inflict upon him.)
** Some [[{{WMG}} fans assume]] that his soul got sucked out in punishment - proving that player imagination can make it all the worse.
* In the often overlooked [=PS1=] SRPG ''Vanguard Bandits'', if you failed to achieve a fairly sizable set of conditions regarding the main character's level, what stat boosts you gave him throughout the entirety of the game, and the average morale of the rest of the party, one of the endings had the final boss mind-controlling the main character, leaving you the option to get killed by your friends, or watching them all get killed by the final boss. As one last kick, the ending scene has your character 'waking up' just in time to witness the boss completing his takeover of the world. D'oh.
* The ''TalesSeries'' has "And they were never heard of again...", usually against either a sunset over or a faded picture of a bleak, barren landscape.
** ''SecretOfMana'' and ''SecretOfEvermore'' (no relation) use variations of "Sadly, ([[HelloInsertNameHere main character]]) and his friends/dog were never found..."
* ''[[ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne]]'' gives you a twist on this where the Demi-fiend apparently goes to Heaven. Considering what [[GodIsEvil kind of guy YHVH is in SMT]], that probably isn't a good thing.
* Die in ''{{Persona 3}}'', and Igor will recite a poem about how though death is inevitable, one will live on memory... before adding that ''you'' are an exception. Interestingly, dying in ''{{Persona 4}}'' has Igor recite something that goes against the meaning of the last game.
** If you die in "The Answer", Igor recites another poem, about [[spoiler:how the Main Character sacrificed his life for you and that you dying was a waste of his death.]] Gives you the warm fuzzies, doesn't it?
** And prior to any of that, you get to hear your character groan his last breath, along with MissionControl ordering you to get up or ''crying out for your life.'' Made even more poignant if you've been building up your MissionControl's Social Link and [[DatingSim getting intimate with them]].
* If you get killed in ''ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', you're treated to the sight of your grave, complete with a dramatic chord played. If you ally with or get killed by the FinalBoss, you get an "end of the world" scene instead.
* All the ''{{Geneforge}}'' games except the first give this for overuse of [[UpgradeArtifact canisters]]. 1, 2, and 5 give it for {{Refusal Of The Call}}, and 5 gives it if you render the game {{Unwinnable}}. There's also a "standard" one for just dying, but it's a single screen rather than the length of a normal ending.
* In ''{{Fallout}}'' and ''{{Fallout 2}}'', the image of the player's skeleton set against the dead wasteland background is made worse by the narrator telling you just how many people were depending on you. This can be downright eerie if the death came unexpectedly (i.e., via radiation poisoning), because the shift from the gamescreen to the deathscreen is so goddamned ''sudden.''
** What about the 'bad' ending? If you betray the Vault's location to the mutant leaders, you are dipped in the FEV in a disturbing scene that contrasts the consensual nature of your turning. To add {{Nightmare Fuel}} to the fire, you then get a cutscene through the Vault's security cameras of the mutants storming the vault, having easily ripped the thick metal vault door off the hinges, blasting harmless civilians without provocation, and a drawn out {{Gatling Good}} battle with the {{Jerk Ass}} Overseer protecting the last uncontaminated humans the Unity seeks. With mutants [[MoreDakka falling left and right to the gunfire]], there is a tiny glimmer of hope that he will succeed, [[HopeSpot which is then dashed]] as he is suddenly ambushed by supermutants climbing onto his command chair to deliver a vicious beating-to-death as the camera pans away to show only eerie shadows, before it fails entirely and goes dead. Game Over.
* If you [[WeCanRuleTogether say "Yes" to the Dragonlord]] in ''DragonQuest''... [[spoiler:the screen goes immediately to black. Angry, angry, black.]]
** With red text. "Take a long, long, rest. HAHAHAHAHA..."
* In ''{{Baldurs Gate}}'', when you die, it shows a hand (presumably the player) whose flesh is turned to dust and blown away, leaving only bones. [[spoiler:(This is actually the Protagonist's essence going to fuel the resurrection of Bhaal.)]]
* In ''FinalFantasyX'' if you die whilst trying to rescue Yuna from the Al Bhed city, the last surviving character will let out a cry of "Yuna".
** In [[FinalFantasyX2 the sequel]], failure during the FinalBattle will result in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZc7Izpqui0 antagonist successfully firing]] [[DoomsdayDevice Vegnagun]], which shows a short cutscene of Spira [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt being utterly destroyed from within]].
* If you allow the birdbots to break through the gate to Nino Island in ''MegaManLegends 2'', the game will immediately switch to a cutscene where the mayor goes nuts and screams "NOOO! I'LL NEVER LET YOU HAVE THE KEY, NO! WE'LL TAKE YOU WITH US!!!" and then presses the big red button, blowing up the island.
* [[PhantasyStar Alis' hope cannot overcome the power of Lassic. The adventure is over.]]
* Failure to rescue one of the victims of the Midnight Channel before the deadline in ''{{Persona 4}}'' results in a game over where a party member calls you to inform you of the victim's demise. Failure to meet the final deadline results in [[spoiler:Shadows leaking into the real world, with you hearing Naoto getting killed by one]]. Igor will allow you to travel back in time a week in either case.
* ''EternalSonata'' has a weird one: if the player loses to the final boss, [[spoiler:Frederic Chopin]], Chopin ''wakes up from his terminal illness in the real world.'' He closes his eyes again, though, and it's not certain whether he goes back to sleep or dies anyway.
* Saying Yes to the "[[WeCanRuleTogether Let's work together]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the Earth]]" request from the final boss in ''VideoGame/PaperMario: The Thousand Year Door'' treats you to a short bunch of dialog boxes describing how you and the boss took over the world and darkness enveloped it forever. Then it shows the standard Game Over screen, depicting a dead Mario.
--> ''And so the Shadow Queen engulfed the world with her foul magic... For Mario... For Peach... And for the world, it was...''\\
GAME OVER
* In ''JadeEmpire'', the BigBad [[spoiler:Sun Li]] offers you to be remembered as a hero, if you surrender and let him kill you. If you accept, the game treats you to a {{cutscene}} with him sitting on the throne and laughing.
* An interesting case occurs in ''[[HammerAndSickle Hammer & Sickle]]''. If the player causes or fails to prevent World War 3, the game doesn't end right away. Instead, the player is given one more mission where you have to secure a bridge. ''Then'' the game ends, and you are shown a cutscene (with some authentic black-and-white footage mixed in) about the course of the war and how your characters died in it (most of them die heroically). The war ends in the Soviets capitulating after the US drops nukes on several major cities (Moscow is mentioned to have been saved by a HeroicSacrifice of a fighter pilot).
* In ''MassEffect2'', if you don't upgrade your ship, don't earn the loyalty of any of your teammates and stall before entering the Omega 4 Relay, [[spoiler:everyone on the Normandy (except Joker) is ''killed'' during the final mission: your team members die in increasingly brutal deaths, the rest of the Normandy crew are liquefied and turned into fuel for a half-human prototype Reaper, and Shepard falls to his/her death after attempting to jump onto the ship during the endrun]]. Unbelievably, [[spoiler:the ending keeps going, as Joker successfully pilots the Normandy out of the system (set to epic music), confronts the Illusive Man and looks out the window after reading the datapad on the Reaper fleet, completely unsure of what to do]].
** It's better in the DLC "Arrival": if you screw around in the mission so [[spoiler: you don't destroy the mass relay before the time given to you on the countdown is up]], you're treated to the arrival of the Reapers and cutscenes showing just about everyone you know being indoctrinated/dragged off to be made into Reaper Chow.
* In ''{{Mother 3}}'', normally, a GameOver screen is preceded by your party running out of HP, with the messages "[last surviving member] got hurt and collapsed... / The party was defeated..." But this isn't the only way. [[spoiler:There's an enemy called the Ultimate Chimera, which appears in two sequences, that is outright impossible to battle; getting tagged by it causes the screen to turn sepia, which is then followed by a CHOMP! sound, implying [[NightmareFuel a gruesome fate]], followed by a GameOver.]]
** Also, in Osohe Castle, you progress through one area by knocking into a statue, forcing the ball on top to fall off, falling through the floor. If you knock into it from the side, it falls, though... SPLAT, GameOver.
** Die in ''{{Earthbound}}'', and a mysterious voice comments that "you must have had your head handed to you" and asks if you want to retry from your last save. If you say no to that, it will ask if you're really sure. If you say yes, it tells you that it must've all been just a bad dream, and bids you farewell.
* Die in ''ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', and you're treated to a cutscene where the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Schwarzwelt]] covers the entire globe, followed by the message "Mission Failed".
* In ''LiveALive'', losing against a normal enemy leads to a short scene of someone reacting to your death and failure. In some scenarios, you get presented with another ending if you lose to one of the final bosses. A special mention goes to the final chapter, where [[spoiler:losing to Odio means you get to see something similar to the alternate [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Armaggedon ending]], but from the other characters' point of view. Playing AS Odio is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption two variations of this]]: Triggering the mentioned Armaggedon (from a ''menu command''), or Oersted left to wander alone in an abandoned Lucretia forever.]]
* ''{{Boktai}}'', a series created by Hideo Kojima of ''MetalGear'' fame, also has several failures that cross onto nonstandard game overs. While monsters and bosses have no special game over screens, there is a chance for you to serve the BigBad, embracing your vampirism and bringing about the end of the world. Then there's another time that you can be eaten by the Last boss and bring about the end of the world as well.
* ''NeverwinterNights2'' has a different closing narration depending on various decisions you make throughout the game, especially regarding the King of Shadows. If you [[spoiler:join him and kill the rest of your party, it talks about how a mysterious general led the forces of darkness against Neverwinter and a large swath of the Sword Coast descended into shadow]].
* In ''MarvelUltimateAlliance'', after beating the game, Uatu the Watcher looks back at various plot points in the game which could have been failed or chosen differently without resulting in death: for instance, saving Nightcrawler or Jean Grey, and destroying Galactus's drills. Depending on how you chose, failed, or succeeded the Watcher will tell you how various factions were affected by your actions. [[spoiler:I.e. if you saved Nightcrawler instead of Jean Grey, she comes back as the Phoenix to take revenge, whereas choosing Jean over Nightcrawler leads to his angry mother Mystique killing Professor Xavier, leading to the disbanding of the X-Men. If you didn't destroy Galactus' drills, he comes and uses them on the Earth.]]
* In ''GoldenSun'', your main character is given the option of choosing to quest to save the world, or denying this responsibility. Should you choose the latter, and walk out of that building, the game informs you that you just doomed the world. Funny enough, this choice is presented within the first hour of the game, meaning you can literally beat an RPG within an hour. As long as you don't care for that 'saving the world' hullabaloo.
** [[spoiler: Gets confusing when in the second game you learn that the DesignatedVillian is the good guys, and you being an UnwittingPawn most of the game]]
* ''RadiantHistoria'' does this each time you make a poor decision.
* If you die fighting [[spoiler: Darkrai]] at the end of the [[spoiler: real]] final level of [[PokemonMysteryDungeon ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'']], then we actually get to see a cutscene showing [[spoiler: Darkrai successfully covering the entire Pokemon world in darkness and laughing evilly as he does so, and that no one is actually there to stop him because both you and your partner are already dead.]] However, if you die at any point in the game up to the boss battle against [[spoiler: Palkia]], then you will hear [[spoiler:Darkrai]] [[GameOverMan simply cackle at your ineptitude.]]
* If an essential NPC dies in ''{{Morrowind}}'': "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created." The sequel, ''[[TheElderScrollsFour Oblivion]]'', made essentials unkillable instead.
* In ''{{Recettear}}'', failing to meet a payment deadline will result in a scene where Recette is kicked out of her house and laments having to now live in a cardboard box. However, your next attempt will start with Recette [[AllJustADream waking up on Day 2]] and starting over, but still keeping all of her items from the previous attempt, making the next try easier.
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* In ''Cybernator'' (''AssaultSuitsValken'' in Japan), allowing the asteroid colony to strike the Earth in a ColonyDrop scenario or failing to destroy the enemy's reinforcement shuttle gets you a DownerEnding where the main character returns to find everyone on his ship dead and the war having degenerated into a bloody stalemate. It ends with a message basically telling you that you messed up, are stupid, and need to try again.
* ''MissileCommand''. Two words: '''THE END.''' The devs claimed that they actually gave themselves nightmares of nuclear armageddon with this screen.
** Homaged in this [[http://www.retrosabotage.com/missile/docudrama.html Flash short]].
* Die in the first true final stage of ''Raiden Fighters Jet'' and it is implied that the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic right-wing terrorist group]]'s stolen nuclear materials crater a city when you finish the next stage.
* In the unreleased beta of ''VideoGame/StarFox 2'', if Corneria takes too much damage from Andross's forces, the game ends with a cutscene showing his ships destroying the command center, complete with a voice sample of someone screaming "Emergency! Emergency!!" just before the whole thing gets nuked. Then you see Andross's ugly mug and in burning letters, '''''CORNERIA FELL'''''. The incidental music for that last screen makes it all the more depressing.
* Depleting the Dragoon's entire shield or failing to destroy all the Spark Bits in time during the final part of ''Galaxian^3 Project Dragoon'' results in a cinema sequence of the Cannon Seed firing and shattering Earth into fragments smaller than California. (Good luck, team.)
** And in the sequel, ''Attack of the Zolgear'', failing to destroy the Zol Stone results in a cinema of the Dragoon J2 exploding inside Zolgear, and ''then'' the Earth being shattered into fragments smaller than California.
* Fail to defeat the FinalBoss of ''ThunderForce V'' within the time limit, and [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5acNJgjxI The Guardian implores you to self-destruct your ship]]... oh wait, you can't, because your ship's systems are dying! Now history is forced to repeat itself ''and'' [[AndIMustScream you are doomed to die of oxygen deprivation]]!]]
* ''RType Final'' gives a nightmarish Game Over music if you die with no more chance to continue, implying the ultimate doom for Earth.
** This is also true with the US version of SonicCD. Especially if you don't touch the controller for ''three minutes...''
* In ''[[ASPAirStrikePatrol A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol]]'' (A.K.A. ''DesertFighter''), if you fail the final mission in any way, you get treated to a nuclear holocaust. [[spoiler:The ending monologue states the Earth is conquered by aliens soon after.]]
* In ''{{Novastorm}}'', running out of lives shows a cutscene which progressively get longer depending on how far you are in the game, starting with your fighters being shot down, continuing with the destruction of your headquarters, and finishing with your home planet being [[EarthShatteringKaboom blown up by a laser]].
* The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis shooter "Death Duel's" Game Over screen had images of your mech's rusting remains lying in a scrapyard lorded over by some vaguely [[TheGrimReaper Death-like ominous figure]]. It then goes on to describe how "The Federation slowly collapsed" and "your rotting flesh shall serve as a reminder of the price of failure".
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* The extremely melodramatic failure messages from the ''TraumaCenter'' series. The dev team tells you, roughly, "WELCOME TO [[IncrediblyLamePun CLINICAL]] DEPRESSION, MOTHERFUCKER!!".
** There is one logical exception - [[spoiler:fail the bomb mission in the first game, and you just get an explosion, as Derek has been blown up into itty bitty bits.]]
** "[[SpongebobSquarepants That didn't help]] [[MemeticMutation at]] [[TheUglyBarnacle all]]!"
** In ''New Blood'', you must operate on a dog. Failing this operation gives you the same "Ashamed by their failure, the doctors left medicine forever..." Game Over screen, the same as if you'd failed to save any other (human) patient in the game, which is kind of taking it too far.
** Even worse in ''Trauma Team'', where at the Game Over screen, you hear your doctor characters lamenting how life sucks, their ideals suck, and wondering why they even try.
*** There is ''one'' exception, and it makes sense, as well. It's a simple medical examination. Failing it has the doctor basically go "well that was bad, let's go again".
* Every ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' game has an ending depicting the results of losing the campaign.
** The losing ending of ''Wing Commander III'' shows the Kilrathi landing on a ruined Earth.
** In ''Wing Commander IV'', if you fail during the final sequence (which is entirely conversational), you end up shown being put before a firing line, to be executed for treason.
*** Fail several times in the first few mission sets, they'll show Blair back at the bar in Nephele after he's been booted from the service, watching a newscast of a declaration of war against the UBW.
** In ''Prophecy'', the aliens end up destroying you, your carrier, and presumably the last hope of staving off the invasion.
* In the last level of ''FreeSpace 2'', it doesn't matter if you [[spoiler:successfully escape at the end]]. Most of the ending cutscene is the same, with the narration either mentioning your miraculous survival, or your outstanding sacrifice.
* Consciously averted by the 1980s geopolitical sim ''Game/BalanceOfPower''.
--> ''You have ignited a nuclear war. And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air. We do not reward failure.''
* The Game Over screen of ''Theme Park'' for PC shows an office desk with a framed photograph of a happy family. In the reflection of the glass covering the photo, [[NightmareFuel you see a silhouette of the theme park owner jumping out the window to their death because of their bankruptcy.]]
** Though he changes his mind and [[NarmCharm goes back up]] after a second or two. Still, this detail is easily missable, specially if you're trying to stomach the (up until then) disturbing sequence.
** The SNES and Genesis versions on the other hand had neither the storage space nor video decoding capability to include that clip, however. As a result, they used a still picture of the owner ''in mid-jump'', making the implication even more disturbing than what PC players would have seen.
* Going bankrupt or otherwise losing in the Sim City-alike ''Constructor'' leads to a delightful CGI cutscene of the player character being [[NightmareFuel buried alive]].
* ''{{Aerobiz}}'': If another airline beats you to achieving the [[InstantWinCondition scenario goal]], you are treated to "scary-music" and screen-shots of a people pointing in terror as a huge, ghost-looking guy descends on your corporate HQ building. So the other airlines had an insidious plan to build a HumongousMecha to unleash on your HQ ''after'' they won?
*** This can be especially grinding if the AI only eked out a technical win while you were kicking everyone's ass in profits, total passenger counts and were a ''bigger'' airline when it happened.
** If you reach the end of the scenario and no one has reached the goals, you are treated to somber music and a screen-shot of a withered old man throwing flower petals onto the surface of a pond. Just as above, this occurs regardless of the actual situation in the game when the deadline hits.
** Losing a scenario in RailroadTycoon3 would trigger an FMV with the Railroad's former chairman (you) walking down the tracks as a hobo whilst a dialogue box suggested you try again.
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* ''NBAJam'': Going for a dunk instead of a shot as time runs out in a quarter will have the announcer yell out: "BAD DECISION!"
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* Die in ''MetalGearSolid2'', and you get the usual "Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE!" or "Raiden/Jack, answer me!" messages. Die to [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss Solidus Snake]]]], on the other hand, and [[spoiler:''the Colonel AI laughs at you, and insults you on subsequent game overs''.]]
** Kill any important characters in ''MGS 3'', and Campbell yells at you for causing a TimeParadox. On any of the GameOver screens, the words slowly morph into "Time Paradox" if you let it sit.
* ''Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven'', if Tesshu fails a mission, the camera pans down to reveal his now-severed head sitting on a post.
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* ''RuleOfRose'' has a particularly nasty one, talking about just how miserably Jennifer died and how meaningless all her efforts were, ending with a mean-spirited and creepy narrated "And they all lived happily ever after."
* In ''ResidentEvil2'', when you ran out of health, you had to sit through a small cut scene of your character being brutalised by the monster that killed you.
* In ''ResidentEvil4'' and ''ResidentEvil5'' certain powerful enemies will trigger a special animation upon killing you, having you die in a special and usually brutal way rather than just collapsing from your injuries. These include being decapitated by chainsaw, devoured whole or dissolved by acidic vomit. If you die in the first chapter of ''ResidentEvil5'' you get a special game over screen from the POV of your character as they are stomped, hacked and bludgeoned to death by the angry villagers.
* ''DeadSpace'' had some of the most gruesome death scenes in gaming as you watched the monster destroy your hero. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdkR85kpKs Which ONE?]] Oh, take your pick.
* ''EternalDarkness'' has a stock message for 10 of its playable characters: "(Name) has perished at the hands of the Eternal Darkness. With no one to stop their diabolical plans, humanity will surely be annihilated." If you die as Pious, however, since he would otherwise become the villain, the game-over message just laments that he failed to fulfill his Emperor's command to find the artifact. And Anthony, thanks to his curse, can't even die [[spoiler:until Paul gives him Last Rites]].
** Alex gets an extra cutscene, though, if she dies during the final boss fight; Pious will spit on her corpse and gloat.
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* In ''SecondSight'', if you die in the playable {{backstory}}, you see the main character in an interrogation cell, being coerced by the BigBad in various ways. What he says varies depending on what level you were on and how you died. For example, if you die after finding an [[EasterEgg assault rifle and killing someone in the training level]], he'll say "What made you think you could get away with just shooting people?"
** Or, if you fail in protecting [[WaifProphet Jayne Wilde]], [[ColonelBadass Colonel Starke]], or the [=WinterICE=] team, he'll say things like "They're all dead, and it's all your fault!"
* In ''Winback'', if you take too long, the [=GULF=] KillSat fires again, and you get some sort of DownerEnding.
* In the ''{{Crusader}}'' series, if you get killed or take too much time in certain missions, you will get a video--usually a newscast saying that "Yeah, things are awesome now that those Rebels are all dead!", but a couple of times you get to watch people at your base being slaughtered.
* ''[[{{Oddworld}} Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee]]''; If you don't free at least 50 Mudokons, the game ends with the BigBad dumping Abe into a meat grinder.
** It's a regular trend in the Oddworld series- in Abe's Exoddus, the "bad ending" shows Abe getting electrocuted to death, and in Munch's Oddysee, Abe gets ripped apart by the Fuzzles he failed to rescue, and Munch gets kidnapped by mad scientists who want his valuable lungs, and gets them surgically removed while he's still alive, complete with a shot of a heartbeat monitor beeping rapidly before flatlining.
* In the ''Metal Arms: Glitch in the System'' missions that take place in Droid Town, sidetracking too far will result in the Colonel calling you and warning you to turn back or else. If you continue anyway, then eventually he'll call you again and bash at you for your failure. This is followed by a cutscene of the Mils having taken control of Droid Town and massacring said droids, rendering wasted all of the effort put into the rebellion.
* Nanosaur. Since the plot of the game involves traveling back in time to right before the extinction of the Dinosaurs, you're being timed. And if the timer runs out - or you run out of lives, You get treated to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8lmmI1AZM this wonderful screen]]. This troper always found this extremely disturbing.
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* While [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist losing a fight is normally a minor setback]] in the ''{{Suikoden}}'' series ([[KilledOffForReal unless you lose one of the]] [[OneHundredAndEight Stars]] [[KilledOffForReal in the process]]), losing certain battles in ''SuikodenV'' lead to alternate endings. For instance, [[spoiler:lose your fight with Roy, and he gets to take your place just like he wanted... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor by pretending to be you while the Prince is comatose]]. Then ''he'' gets killed, the Godwins take over your stronghold, your forces scatter, and Sialeeds bitterly muses that it might be better if you never wake up.]]
** Even worse, earlier in the game, [[spoiler:if you choose to go along with lord Barow's plan to become king, you will be treated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcihHHOjIHM with this very depressing scene.]]]]
** Another lovely one involves choosing to [[spoiler:stay behind and defend the castle as Roy and losing to Childerich, wherein on losing, he slits Roy's throat and gives a disturbing, ranting order to kill everyone in sight to his men.]] Then there's a small portion where you control Kyle, [[spoiler:where losing shows the two Knights you lost to asking why you couldn't have been on their side before leaving you for dead. Kyle's last words are an apology to the Prince and Princess.]]
* ''StarWars Rebellion'' ended either with your forces destroying the enemy flag ship, or with a hostile fleet appearing next to your ship and shoting it to pieces.
* ''SuperRobotWars'' occasionally does this when you're on a level which would be the conclusion of a series with a DownerEnding like Baldios, Ideon, etc. They usually have some method to their madness, such as the Baldios ending being a re-enactment of the final scene in the series with a Tsunami wiping out all life on the planet.
* The 9th and 10th ''FireEmblem'' games make the death quotes [[http://serenesforest.net/fe9/death.html much]] [[http://serenesforest.net/fe10/script/death1.html darker]] than previous games. While not technically game overs, most people restart when met with one thanks to {{Permadeath}}.
--> '''Micaiah:''' I can't... Not when our goal...is still......so...far...... Sothe...
--> '''Sothe:''' Micaiah... Don't leave me here alone... Micaiah!! Don't die!
* In ''StarControl 2'', if you don't [[spoiler:blow up the Sa-Matra before the Kohr-Ah reach Earth]], they kill everyone and then broadcast a message to you, telling you that you failed.
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* The original ''{{X-COM}}: UFO Defence''... if you failed - either by losing your last base, having your organization's funding withdrawn, or by getting wiped out during the final Mission to Mars - you got to see what happened to Earth as a result... humanity reduced to slaves of the alien invaders, slowly mutating into pitiable monsters due to the radiation and pollution leaking from the alien's colonies... the sun blackened by dark clouds... and stuff like that.
** In the PS1 version of the game, you got to see the aliens burst in and murder the President while signing a peace treaty with the aliens.
** ''X-COM'' liked this trope. In ''Terror From the Deep'', [[strike:[[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu]]]] [[{{Expy}} The Great Alien]] awakens and destroys the world. In Apocalypse, the aliens pull Earth into another dimension.
*** And that's the bad ending. The good ending in ''Apocalypse'' saves Earth, although Megaprimus lies half in ruins. In ''Terror From the Deep'', you destroy the mothership of the abomination, which in turn poisons Earths atmosphere, makes a lot of people die and quite a lot of Earth uninhabitable. This in fact is the reason to build the megacities, like Megaprimus in ''Apocalypse''. Also, your whole expedition dies on the ship. You know, the ones you trained for months, the ones you loved... just gone in an instant. Apparently, it wasn't received all that well, so both ''Apocalypse'' and ''Interceptor'' have much more positive good endings. And ''Interceptor''? Well, if you fail, [[spoiler:Earth is destroyed by a death star]]. If you manage to destroy the [[spoiler:death star]] but not escape in time (or have your way home destroyed), you're dead along with your wingmen but hey, you saved the Earth so it's kind of victory, right?
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' makes heavy use of these, usually through a first-person narration of your messy and painful death, or being trapped in a doll, or killing your emotions, all your enemies and a good number of your old allies (not to mention letting the girl you're falling in love with be killed by her [[spoiler:''own sister'']])...
** The one that probably fits the trope best is the infamous Mind of Steel ending where [[spoiler:Shirou allows Sakura to be killed]]. Unlike the vast majority of bad endings, nothing really terrible happens to Shirou. Instead, [[spoiler:Kotomine Kirei congratulates him, absolutely convinced that Shirou will now win the Grail War ''by any means necessary'' which will naturally include going after Tohsaka in the next five seconds and killing her as well as taking out Ilya, who Shirou has grown very close to. Because, as Kotomine notes, they can't really be trusted with the Grail anymore.]]
* In ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Justice For All'', there is a point near the end where screwing up will ''not'' cause you to just get a guilty verdict and GameOver, but instead [[spoiler:a not guilty verdict for the oh-so-evil Engarde and Phoenix running screaming from the courtroom and quitting as a lawyer]]
** Unsure if it's the only case of non-standard Game Over, but in ''Apollo Justice'', failing to get your last client a "not guilty" verdict means [[spoiler:[[TearJerker she dies in hospital mere hours later]].]]
** ''AceAttorneyInvestigations'' plays the trope straight: ''every single situation'' you could get a game over in has its own scene, ranging from Edgeworth being kicked off the investigation to the killer laughing in your face before walking away free to the wrong person being arrested.
* Strangely [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''{{Kanon}}'': Succeed in a girl's scenario, and you get to find out [[{{utsuge}} all the horrible things that happen to her]]. Fail? "Every day is perfectly ordinary..." No mention of how badly you screwed up, other than Yuuichi's vague reference to his missing memories. [[spoiler:However, he does acknowledge, if you fail late enough in their scenarios, that he never sees Ayu or Shiori again.]]
* ''{{Enzai}}''. Depending on which path you choose in the game, [[TheWoobie your character]] ''could'' get out of prison...or he could spend the rest of his natural life being the [[PrisonRape prison bitch]] of the BigBad. (The fact that it ''is'' {{Shotacon}} makes it all the more [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone heart-wrenching]] if you choose the wrong one!)
* Due to the structure of ''{{Remember11}}'', not only will the game go into great detail about your final moments of freezing to death (quite common in its {{Bad End}}s), but when you try to take the other protagonist's route, you will usually catch his/her last moments as well floating over your corpse and summarizing what happened. This actually serves a useful purpose, since some of bad ends (especially [[spoiler:Kokoro in Satoru's body eating and making his body suceptible to the effects of the MAOI]]) have the ending occur several days after the deciding choice, with the choice not being incredibly conspicuous. However, it's still really depressing.
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* Failed to stop [[spoiler:Carlito's bomb's]] in the 7th Act of ''DeadRising''? [[SarcasmMode Congratulations!]] [[spoiler:[[ColonyDrop You just destroyed every living (and nonliving) being inside the Willamette Mall]], and also [[TheVirus released the deadly virus that turns people into zombies upon America, if not the entire world, essentially dooming humanity.]]]] Way to go, champ. You deserve that [[spoiler:[[MultipleEndings Ending F]].]]
* If you lose to the final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', you get an alternate ending showing [[spoiler:New York getting nuked]].
* God help you if you fail to catch the Briskster in ''LegoIsland'': You are treated to a vision of all of your island friends sitting around and weeping under the control of the Brickster. Good job, hero.
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You take on the role of a soldier named Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is contacted during a vacation with his girlfriend Mary about a kidnapping attempt on Professor Plum, a scientist who constructed a Doomsday Bomb that will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the world]]. At the start of his mission, Bang encounters Tom Guycot, the kidnapper. Guycot tells him that he and the seven governors of Demonhead Mountain have taken the medallions used to power the device, and issues a challenge to Bang to try and find them. With no choice but to cut his vacation short, Bang goes off to find the professor and prevent the world from being destroyed...
Not to be confused with the band from ''ScottPilgrim''. But it's obviously named after the game, which Bryan Lee O'Malley claims was the first NES game he ever had.
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! Tropes used in this game:
* BettingMiniGame
* BodyguardBabes: Mush, boss of Route 16, has a pair.
* DeflectorShield: The Barrier item creates a force field around Bang that blocks enemy bullets.
* DoomsdayDevice
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: The appropriately-named Shark, who lords over Route 22. The battle takes place underwater, so you'll need an Aqua Lung to survive.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Demon itself has ''nothing'' to do with Guycott or the DoomsdayDevice. Interestingly, it shows up at the middle of the game, and nobody, good or bad, [[{{Ptitle7xno8ayw}} saw that coming.]]
* GuideDangIt: There's no way to know where to find Shark...it was long after my initial playing of the game that I found out you had to [[spoiler:push against the bottom of an otherwise unremarkable all-water route to find the boss room]].
* HopelessBossFight: Encountering the Demon [[spoiler:without the Sword of Apollo]]. You're [[ThanatosGambit required to lose to him the first time you meet in order to advance the story]].
* JetPack
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: A Supersuit is mandatory to even go anywhere near it.
* LuckBasedMission: [[spoiler:Disarming the bomb. You have six tries to correctly place all of the medallions, and the MagicCountdown speeds up every time you fail to get them right. Compounding matters, the combinations are randomly generated with each game, and you're never given any clues as to what medallion is supposed to go where.]]
* MeaningfulName: Guycot is a pun for the Japanese word for skull.
* [[spoiler: MonsterIsAMommy: After you defeat the Demon, you stumble upon a room full of his/her/its eggs, which you have to destroy before you can escape its lair.]]
* NamesTheSame: "Professor Plum" has nothing to do with the board game {{Clue}}.
* NintendoHard
* NonLethalBottomlessPits: Subverted. While falling into pits doesn't kill you, you get taken to an area where you have to fight your way back to the surface, making you start the route over again.
* OxygenMeter: The timer for the Aqualung acts as one. Once it runs out, you lose one point of health for every second you're underwater.
* PainfullySlowProjectile
* PasswordSlotMachine: [[spoiler:The bomb disarmament sequence.]]
* PlotCoupon: The medallions.
* SizeShifter: Max, the Governor of Route 7, starts out as a tiny runt of a boss, but as you damage him, he increases in size until he's big enough to float around and start firing smaller versions of himself at you.
* SkippableBoss: [[spoiler:Pandar]].
* SprintShoes: The Power Boots boost your running speed for a short time.
* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Sword of Apollo.
* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: Tom Guycot. He attacks you at the very beginning of the game, but after you get tricked into releasing the Demon, the Demon curbstomps him offscreen and steals his medallion afterward.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: Subverted. Guycot lied about [[spoiler:the number of medallions...there are really only six. Pandar, one of the Governors, doesn't carry one. Guycot had his medallion stolen from him by the Demon.]]
* WarmUpBoss: Gazh, the boss of Route 11, is usually the first one players fight, and he has a very predictable fight pattern (dash back and forth, get shot, shoot a line of fireballs, rinse, repeat).
* WeaponizedHeadgear: Mush like to toss his mushroom-shaped cap at you.
* WeSellEverything
* [[spoiler: XanatosGambit: The Demon possesses your "ally" Michael and uses him to trick you into releasing him.]]
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