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10	->'''''"FAILURE!"'''''
11	-->-- The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' Announcer ([[TakeThatAudience one might joke that he's calling the player as such]])
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13	You ran out of HitPoints. You lost your last life. The character [[EscortMission you're supposed to protect]] has stumbled off a cliff face. Your {{Mons}} have all fainted.
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15	It's '''G[-AME-] O[-VER-]''' for you.
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17	So now what? The nicest games might just [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist let you off with a warning]], less forgiving games might make it so that ContinuingIsPainful or send you back to a {{checkpoint}}, and weird games might [[DeathAsGameMechanic let you play through your afterlife or otherwise change the game through your death]]. If you're [[NintendoHard really unlucky]], then it's back to the start of level for you... or even the entire game.
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19	Of course, if you're really lucky, the game over screen will simply read "FissionMailed", or the game will [[HopelessBossFight let you continue anyway]].
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21	This is, at its most basic, the condition of having lost the game. Some text or animation appears to let you know you've lost, and there's nothing left to do but start over. You can achieve Game Over by...
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23	* Running out of HitPoints or VideoGameLives. In a game where one can be KilledOffForReal, this occurs if the main character or a plot-important character dies.
24	* Failing critical mission objectives (such as letting the target of an EscortMission die)
25	* Certain circumstances (covered in {{Unwinnable}}) don't technically result in a game over, but prevent you from continuing further into the game.
26	* Older arcade games and games that are [[AWinnerIsYou too lazy to give you a special victory screen]] will simply show you the standard game over screen if you just beat the game. Because of course, your game is over in that situation, too. To modern gamers who are not used to arcade games, it can be rather jarring to see a screen associated with death being used to indicate success, especially if the music is still there…
27	* Also, newer arcade games with AutoSave systems give you the same standard game over screens after you decide to leave the game, and your progress is being saved. Same as above but they let you to pick up your save states.
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29	In the earliest games, you had to start over from the very beginning, but later games provided a password so you could continue from a later spot, and eventually game saves to fulfill the same purpose more conveniently. Some games also let you 'continue' from the same level you were previously on. Indeed, the game over has been such an {{Omnipresent Trope\|s}} that some games use the phrase whenever you have in some way failed, even if this failure does not in any conceivable way end your game.
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31	Messaging accompanying a Game Over can include...
32	* A description of the player character's fate.
33	* [[PlayerDeathIsDramatic The spotlight being placed on the player character's demise,]] [[DramaticSpotlight sometimes literally.]]
34	* Some GuiltBasedGaming lecturing the player on their failure and its consequence on the game world.
35	* [[HaveANiceDeath Making fun of the player.]]
36	* A pep talk encouraging the player to try again, [[BreakingTheFourthWall possibly coming from the player character themselves]].
37	* [[PlayerNudge A specific tip to help for next time.]]
38	* Accompaniment from a GameOverMan (no, not [[Film/{{Aliens}} Pvt. Hudson]]).
39	* [[ItsAWonderfulFailure Cruel or sad outcomes when the player screwed up and failed the mission]], punishing players by making them look at what they have done. This variation is often put into TearJerker or NightmareFuel.
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41	As mentioned above, some games will even give you a game over screen even if you complete the game (or finished your session), using "Game Over" in a literal sense, as since you've beaten/finished the game, it is now over.
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43	A NonStandardGameOver is a variant that occurs in special circumstances, when you've ''really'' screwed the pooch. Some games might make use of a ContinueCountdown to give you a chance to keep playing before hitting the Game Over screen.
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45	[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Also the name of a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwdyzz_IVo single]] by Club Caviar.
46	It is also the title of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(book) book,]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(TV_series) an adult CGI animated series]], and the [[Film/SpyKids3DGameOver third Spy Kids movie]].
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48	This trope is too ubiquitous for a proper examples list; we'd be here all century if we tried. Examples go in the [[Quotes/GameOver Quotes section]].

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