History WebAnimation / FiftyWaysToDieInMinecraft

* BlackComedy: Half of the deaths rely on this. Jake [[DefiedTrope defies a couple]] in his "Forgotton Fables" video going over the deleted scenes of the Fairy Tale edition, notably the death that killed his AuthorAvatar after laughing too hard at a joke, and a little girl jumping into a lava pit after hearing the tale of {{Literature/The Steadfast Tin Soldier}}, also known as one of the most heartwrenching fairy tales ever made. Both of these deaths, in his words, [[EveryoneHasStandards "felt way too dark even for a series about people getting killed over and over again",]] thus causing him to scrap them both.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT brag about how good you are at video games in front of [[SoreLoser Brandon]]. [=NonStJon=] learned this the hard way.
** As a matter of fact, [[{{Irony}} [=NonStJon=] shares this button.]] Just ask Brandon, who preformed the [[VideoGame/PacManWorld2 Ghost Bayou Time Trial skip]] in front of Jon, who had wasted his ''entire weekend'' trying to finish it.
* BrownNote: Anyone who hears the Cackle of The Cinemadversary in part 15 crumbles to dust.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Death 49 of Part 15, "Meeting Your Match" makes [[WebVideo/CinemaSins Jeremy Scott]] a victim of this. [[spoiler:Thanks to [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Rich Evan's]] even more irritating cackle, the Cinemadversary was slowly ''torn the hell apart'' by the soundwaves, letting out a scream of disbelief and terror as Rich reduces Jeremy to absolutely nothing.]]

* ABoyAndHisX: Death 31 in Part 4 sees a wannabe thief (Jerkwad) fall victim to a girl([=BlondWolfGirl=]) and her wolf pack.

* ABoyAndHisX: Death 31 in Part 4 sees a wannabe thief fall victim to a girl and her wolf pack.

* ABoyAndHisX: Death 31 in part 4 sees a wannabe thief fall victim to a girl and her wolf pack.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Death 32 in part 2 is "Building a Self Aware Redstone Device". When Redstone Ned activates it, he [[AMoltenDateWithDeath gets dropped into lava]].

** Parodied InUniverse; death 43 in part 6 is an anvil in favor of net neutrality, and the death right after it is the viewer getting [[LiteralMetaphor a literal anvil]] (with "NET NEUTRALITY IS GOOD!!!" written on it) [[AnvilOnHead dropped on their heads.]]
** Played straight in the Halloween Edition with death 38, which is "[[DrivenToSuicide Realizing that you've probably supported slave labor every time you ate chocolate in your whole life]]"… then parodied in death 40, which has [=JayRiott=] getting assassinated by an M&M with a sniper rifle (labeled as "Pointing out on your somewhat popular [=YouTube=] channel that Mars's chocolate is probably made with slave labor").
* AnimalAssassin: Parodied; Death 5 in part 7 is titled "Passive aggressively murderous chickens," when a chicken walks along a cliff and pushes someone off.

** Death 22 in part 4 happens when Redstone Ned shows off his awesome [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud T-N-T CAN-NON]]… then realizes that it can only shoot in one direction, leaving him at the mercy of the Creepers.

** Death 10 in part 1 happens to a boss who underpaid the people who made his minecart track; in retaliation, [[AMoltenDateWithDeath they re-routed said track into a lava pit]].
** Death 19 in part 1 sees someone get dropped into a pit by their boss for failing to meet quarterly objectives.
** Death 18 in part 9 happens when a boss refuses to provide sick leave for his employees, leading to a SneezeOfDoom in [[StuffBlowingUp a TNT warehouse]].
** Death 46 in part 9 is another "underpaying your employees" joke, this time to a guy who wanted a mob grinder.

* BlobMonster: Deaths 6 and 42 in part 2 are caused by a slime and magma cube attack, respectively. Both deaths are titled "Night of the Living Boogers", with the latter subtitled "Wrath of Satan's Nostrils".

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Death 49 of part 15, "Meeting Your Match" makes [[WebVideo/CinemaSins Jeremy Scott]] a victim of this. [[spoiler:Thanks to [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Rich Evan's]] even more irritating cackle, the Cinemadversary was slowly ''torn the hell apart'' by the soundwaves, letting out a scream of disbelief and terror as Rich reduces Jeremy to absolutely nothing.]]

** Death 24 in part 5 happens when someone mistakes a Shulker for a Shulker Box.

* DreadfulMusician: If death 19 in part 3 is anything to go by, [=jayRiott=] is apparently this in-universe.

** Death 29 in part 11: When Construction Guy implicitly threatens to break the scaffolding that [=FeedMe=] is standing on (as revenge for when [=FeedMe=] did the same earlier), [=FeedMe=] warns him if he breaks a single scaffolding block, he'll fill his house with so much TNT, it will cause a server-wide sand shortage. Construction Guy complies by not breaking a block... but instead adding to the scaffolding tower, causing [=FeedMe=] to be squished by his platform.

** Death 13 in part 1 happens when Redstone Ned watches the Franchise/StarWars holiday special. It happens again in the Christmas edition, though it was quickly undone because [[DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready it already happened in part 1]].
** Death 24 in part 3 is "Working for [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA Games]]", where a worker dies of overexertion after being forced to work day and night without sleep.
** Death 34 in part 3 is "Standing Between a Wild Creator/{{Activision}} and a Nickel", where a businessman, making a very animalistic growling noise, slaughters someone [[{{Greed}} for the reason stated above]].
** Death 9 in part 4 is caused by [=YouTube=] [[InternetJerk hate comments]].
** Death 17 in part 4 occurs after [=JayRiott=] references two Nintendo games back to back, leading to a "short-sighted money grab" copyright strike.

** Death 8 in part 6 boils down to "Liking [[Franchise/StarWars Jar Jar Binks]]". Uniquely, this is one both against his fans and haters. The fan is [[TheDitz portrayed by Stu]] and the hater came in and killed him with a lightsaber simply because Stu stated that [[DisproportionateRetribution he found Jar Jar funny in his own home with no one else in sight]].
** Death 39 in part 6 is a jab at long, unskippable [=YouTube=] ads (specifically ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' ones). For good measure, there's a quick jab at how the animators didn't even lip sync all of the character's syllables.
** Death 24 in part 7 is a jab against annoying people on the Internet who put others down for not beating ThatOneBoss on their first try.
** Death 31 in part 8 is one against the dialogue of ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode''.

** Death 15 in part 11 is one to the infamous incident where {{Creator/Activision}} fired 800 of their employees despite selling 8 million copies of VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4 before its release. Right before the CEO [[ItMakesSenseInContext spews pink slips at his employees,]] his face morphs into the head of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump as a nod to his memetic "You're Fired!" line in Series/TheApprentice prior to becoming president.

** And then another one in Part 13's death 35; [=FeedMe=] is unfortunately struck with '''The Curse Of The Binding [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]] Cosplay,''' causing him to jump into a pit of lava.
** Yet another one happens in Part 13's death 37, this time jabbing at [[{{Franchise/Shrek}} Shrek Super Party]] and its infamously terrible attempt at the SuperDeformed style.

** Part 15, specifically deaths 18, 33, and 48 are this to WebVideo/CinemaSins host Jeremy Scott. More specifically, his laughter, even going so far as to subtitle this part "The Cackle Of The Cinemadversary." [[spoiler:They also do this with Rich Evans from WebVideo/RedLetterMedia when he's revealed during the climax.]]

* WhenTreesAttack: Death 15 in part 1 is "Eaten by a Tree".

* BreakoutCharacter: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVK-vArQLEQ Brandon.]]

A list of all the videos in the series can be found below. Or, if you want to get it all over in one sitting, a compilation of videos 1-10 (plus the Christmas and fairy tale ones) can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mFUtcHJa0 here,]] and a compilation of videos 11-15 (plus the Halloween version) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyde04L48Q8 here.]

A list of all the videos in the series can be found below. Or, if you want to get it all over in one sitting, a compilation of videos 1-10 (plus the Christmas, Halloween and fairy tale ones) can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mFUtcHJa0 here.]]

* FunWithSubtitles: In the last death in part 2, the subtitles are used to translate the scientists' TechnoBabble into LaymansTerms.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk The Giant]] in the Fairy Tale Edition refuses to attack Americans [[TakeThat due to Americans having too much trans fat.]] [=Norman298=] was lucky enough to survive this.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Many deaths reuse victims from previous deaths.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as this is Minecraft, so players do have the ability to respawn after death.

** Death 48 in part 1 is "Missing The Toilet"… as in, falling from a great height and missing the toilet water that would've kept you from dying.

** Death 47 in the Fairy Tale Edition is one to Creator/{{Disney}} and their notorious reputation for suing most fanwork, specifically; Mickey Mouse kills one of his employees [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil]] style for telling him they can's sue Jake Eyes, since Pinocchio is public domain.

* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: Subverted; death 15 in part 3 have Stu ''tries'' to do this, but the anvil is a block off from hitting the victim. Instead, he get blown up by a Creeper seconds after.

* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:Part 15 features Rich Evans, nearly getting disintegrated by Jeremy Scott's laughwaves getting one when the ghost of fellow WebVideo/RedLetterMedia actor Mike Stoklasa showing him a news article on Jar Jar Binks saying he'll soon be as beloved as Winnie The Pooh. [[TheScrappy Knowing how that failed,]] Rich is able to power up his laugh beam.]]
* HeroicRRoD: [[spoiler:After the state above, Rich preemptively collapses after overexerting his funny bone. He doesn't die though, but he's clearly tired out from all the laughing he had to do.]]

* BeeAfraid: Ever since Update 1.15, many deaths are caused by accidently provoking bees and the victim being stun to death.

** Death 29 in part 11: When Construction Guy implicitly threatens to break the scaffolding that [=FeedMe=] is standing on (as revenge for when [=FeedMe=] did the same earlier), [=FeedMe=] warns him if he breaks a single scaffolding block, he'll fill his house with so much TNT, it will cause a server-wide sand storage. Construction Guy complies by not breaking a block... but instead adding to the scaffolding tower, causing [=FeedMe=] to be squished by his platform.

* LamePunReaction: Part 16 death 41 has jayRiott tell a pun so bad that he gets so many tomatoes thrown at him, he dies.

*** Death 16 of Part 7 has Nickromancer ask Stu to warn him if he sees any ghasts while bridging in the Nether. He then gets killed by blazes because he didn't ask to look for them too.

* DeathFromAbove: Be it anvil, gravel, train, airship, or something else, expect at least one of these per video.

** Part 9 has adding "Over a Sand-Covered Ravine" to the end of any sentence.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: This is done a lot throughout the series, with swear words from pulled audio clips being replaced with fake words like "fluking" or violent or bloody imagery being censored by rating stamps. This is even done to the titles of the videos themselves, with "die" being replaced by "expire" or even "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin dye]]". Justified, as [=JakeEyes=] does this to try and comply with Website/{{YouTube}}'s often harsh and unclear guidelines. It's even lampshaded in one of the intros.