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6	->''"Oh, it's you again. You died so carelessly..."''
7	-->-- '''Charon''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''. [[NintendoHard Be prepared to hear that a lot]].
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9	The Game Over Man is the character many video games show to the player [[GameOver after getting killed]]. Often he's TheGrimReaper, or a [[EvilLaugh laughing]] BigBad, but he's occasionally an ally mourning the hero's fall. Sometimes, he offers a "HaveANiceDeath" or "ItsAWonderfulFailure" message.
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11	The trope name is a play on a line from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
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13	!!Examples:
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16	[[folder:Action Adventure]]
17	* In ''VideoGame/SpudsAdventure'', Devi appears on the Game Over screen to taunt you if you lose.
18	* Ganon in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' (North American version), complete with 8-bit EvilLaugh.
19	--> '''GAME OVER'''\
20	'''[[ItsAWonderfulFailure RETURN OF GANON]]'''
21	* Hulahooping [[{{Youkai}} oni]] in ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon''.
22	** Of whom, for some reason, you can actually control to some extent in the second Platform/{{Nintendo 64}} game, ''Goemon's Great Adventure''; the faster you shook your analog stick, the faster they would shake their moneymakers.
23	* Borf from ''VideoGame/SpaceAce'', who appears whenever you lose a life.
24	* If you get killed fighting one of the Colossi in ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', a close-up of the Colossus' face shows up on the screen.
25	** Especially [[ThatOneBoss the tenth Colossus]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9kIxa__ro&t=4m4s Dirge]].
26	* The Grim Reaper in ''VideoGame/MaximoGhostsToGlory'' if you don't have any death coins to pay him.
27	* ''VideoGame/SkateOrDie'' 2: "No way, dude!"
28	* In ''VideoGame/KyaDarkLineage'', [[BigBad Brazul]] appears with his evil laugh if Kya dies by losing all her health. Of course, he only does it in the action-levels, whereas if Kya loses all her health in the hub-town, she respawns.
29	* The Platform/SegaCD game ''VideoGame/WildWoody'', besides the Game Over cutscenes where the universe blows up, had this in the game's ending, where Woody... WIIIIIILD WOODY... is putting back the last head. The last head says that he "shall not be defeated." Woody's response? "Sorry pal, but it's Game Over."
30	* Just how awesome is ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}? How about so awesome that he's his OWN Game Over Man in his own [[VideoGame/{{Deadpool}} video game]]?
31	-->''"Don't do that again, ok?"''
32	-->''"Well, I was bored anyway."''
33	** Considering Deadpool technically can't die, it not only makes sense, but fans would probably shout in rage if he wasn't.
34	* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
35	** The Joker and/or Harley Quinn will show up with one of several taunts when you get taken out by mooks in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. If you get killed as the Joker, though, either Aaron Cash or Batman himself mocks you.
36	** Dying during a boss fight with one of the other members of the Rogues' Gallery leads to a similar taunt from one of them (like Scarecrow taunting you for dying during [[spoiler:one of his MindScrew segments]], or [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} Bane preparing to snap Batman's spine]] -- complete with a symptomatic quote: "The bat is broken!").
37	** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', not all of the mooks follow the Joker, so the taunter will be whoever is in charge of the guys who just took you out. The Riddler will also appear, in all his {{smug\|Snake}}ness, when you die in one of his death traps or fail any of his challenges.
38	---> "What's wrong? Has your primitive brain given up and accepted that I -- ''The Riddler!'' -- am better... than ''you''?"
39	** Additionally, should you have his challenge map DLC, Black Mask will taunt you upon a game over in any of those as well, the only times he'll appear and interract with the player in any meaningful way.
40	** Oh boy, ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' continues the tradition by having the villains appropriate to their areas in the game or the gang who just defeated you taunt you when you die. [[spoiler:And if you die in the Sionis Steel Mill too early in the game, you get ComicBook/TheJoker, effectively spoiling the reveal of him being TheManBehindTheMan.]] You also get different game overs depending on which DLC character you died as (Deathstroke gets to hear from Joker, Bane and Penguin while unmasked Bruce Wayne simply gets a disappointed but unsurprised Master Kirigi for his unique death scenes.)
41	** Unsurprisingly, ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' has these as well, with this time [[{{Mook}} random unaffiliated rioters]] and even ''Alfred and Robin'' joining the fun (Though the latter two are just lamenting your death.) Just like ''Origins'' above, the DLC characters (except Azrael) get their own Game Over Men should you die during their Arkham Episodes. [[spoiler:Joker even sneaks in a Metal Gear shoutout in one of his.]] The DLC Season of Infamy characters have their own as well scenes, with the most noteworthy being Mr. Freeze who, by this point, [[HeelFaceTurn is on Batman's side]] and not only laments your death, but promises to avenge you.
42	* ''VideoGame/GirlGeniusAdventuresInCastleHeterodyne'': Whenever you die, Zola the fake Heterodyne shows up to taunt you.
43	* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' has [[BigBad King Boo]] admiring his collection of portraits (in which Mario, Peach, the Toads, E. Gadd, and Luigi are [[AndIMustScream held prisoner]]), before turning to face the player and laughing.
44	* In the Game Boy Advance licensed game ''VideoGame/OnePiece'', [[RubberMan Monkey D. Luffy]], who's also the only playable character, is a continue man, showing up in the continue screen every time you die, very exhausted, to the point that he's slouching and his tongue is sticking out, the same continue screen also happens in [=SwanColloseum=], with the difference being you are limited to five continues in that WonderSwan fighter, while in this GBA platformer, your continues are limited to how many lives Luffy has remaining.
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47	[[folder:Action Games]]
48	* The Director in ''VideoGame/TheOoze''.
49	* ''Film/WaynesWorld'' for NES and Game Boy: "Denied!" says Wayne.
50	** Or "not worthy!" in the SNES version.
51	* In the [[Platform/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] adaptation of ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Sylvester Stallone (who reprised his role for the game) would actually taunt the player upon failure. Since the game was very difficult and not very well-designed, this tended to happen a lot.
52	---> "Hey, Puke Skywalker! Use the force!"
53	* In ''[[VideoGame/TexMurphy Under A Killing Moon]]'', Tex Murphy will have a talk with the Great PI In The Sky (Creator/JamesEarlJones) whenever he manages to kill himself.
54	* In ''VideoGame/AvoidTheNoid'', a grinning noid.
55	* ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'' has the guardians that keep bringing Drake back to life. Every time you die, you're sent to their realm for them to mock you before sending you back to the stage. Seeing as getting sent there requires two loading screens (one to get there and one to go back), and the game's supremely bad quality will ensure that you die many, many times, this gets old ''really'' fast.
56	* ''Psybadek'': It's Game Over when the [[BrawnHilda fat lady]] [[HellIsThatNoise screams]].
57	* ''VideoGame/SmashTV'': On Game Over, if you do not continue, Mutoid Man bellows out a "NO WAY!!!!" followed by an EvilLaugh.
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60	[[folder:Adventure Games]]
61	* The GrimReaper in ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}''.
62	** From the same developer, dying in ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' is accompanied with a close-up shot of a skull against a bloody background, or the vicious skull of Scarlett O'Hara, or the BigBad, or the animals that kill you...
63	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4hnA8jXwo This nut]] in ''VideoGame/TotalDistortion''. Probably better-known than the entire rest of the game.
64	* In Creator/{{Sierra}}'s adaptation of Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Rama'' books, the Game Over Man is none other than a sympathetic, full-motion video... Arthur C. Clarke. He can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQAEO5au1aQ here]].
65	--> '''Clarke:''' "Oops, sorry about that. I hope you aren't upset because you just killed your alter ego, the replacement astronaut. We just wanted to remind you that there are some dangers inside Rama..."
66	* In ''VideoGame/DoubleSwitch'', some of the GameOver sequences have Lyle the Handyman (played by Creator/RLeeErmey) take this role.
67	-->''"YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST A '''GAME''', DIDN'T YOU? WELL, IT'S '''OVER''' FOR YOU!"''
68	* From the same developers, ''VideoGame/NightTrap'' has either the leader of S.C.A.T. disconnecting you for either performing poorly or not pushing start, or one of the villains disconnecting your connection and sending you down a trash chute.
69	* In ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'', the Hecatomb will mock you.
70	-->''"Face it, Curtis: [[HaveANiceDeath you're better off this way]]. And you thought it couldn't [[FromBadToWorse get any worse]]!"''
71	* If you die in ''VideoGame/OedipusInMyInventory'' you wind up on the bank of the River Styx with Charon.
72	* In ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'', Whittlin' Willy, the game's narrator, will show up to relate the circumstances of Freddy's untimely death.
73	* The '''LAUGHING SKULL''' in ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'' VGA. ''2'' and ''3'' has Jim Walls berating you for your failure.
74	* The Wumpus in the Platform/TI99 port of ''VideoGame/HuntTheWumpus''.
75	* In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest III'', the Two Guys From Andromeda.
76	** TheGrimReaper himself in the remake of ''Space Quest I''.
77	* The Egyptian-themed supervillain Sutekh looms large over the city when you see ''VideoGame/Nightshade1992'''s game over screen.
78	* VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder may show the person/thing that is responsible for your death in the death message. The creepiest one was removed from the game, but can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJZ4Z1cEEI here]].
79	* VideoGame/KingsQuestIV shows a pixelated image of Roberta Williams when you die. She's not mocking you or scathing, she simply looks like she's posing for a portrait.
80	* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVI'', the gatekeeper to the Realm of the Dead. Unusual for this trope is that you actually get to visit that location, alive, late in the game.
81	* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVII'', Valanice (or Rosella) is her own Game Over Man! (Er, Woman), showing up with some snarky remark after each of her many deaths. (Often she just states the obvious, but sometimes, it's to remark on how stupid the action was.)
82	* Failing the final shoot-out in ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'' ends with a POV-switch cutscene where the titular villain kills you, takes off their VR goggles, and then looks at a monitor showing your character's death.
83	* VideoGame/IndigoProphecy (that is, Fahrenheit) has three playable characters. When one of them fails for whatever reason, they narrate out how and why they failed as well as an epilogue for the Game Over. Since some failure states involve death, it can be jarring to hear someone suddenly narrate how they died.
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86	[[folder:Beat 'em Up]]
87	* In ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'', the Dark Queen has a wide variety of different taunts when you run out of continues. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oJNIbtRTs here]]...
88	* If you run out of lives in ''VIdeoGame/CoffeeCrisis'', you get a screen of the alien overlord looming over to enslave the rest of earth.
89	%%* Mortus in ''VideoGame/ComixZone''.
90	* In ''VideoGame/CadillacsAndDinosaurs,'' Vice Terhune (The first level boss, later a [[DegradedBoss recoloured mook]] called Walther) points a gun at you and mocks you during the continue screen. Fail to continue, and he opens fire.
91	--> '''Eat lead...baby!'''
92	* ''VideoGame/TheGladiator'' have your mentor, Master Chu Yen-Ran showing up in the "Continue?" screen if you die, telling you "[[ContinueYourMissionDammit there's still hope to save China]]". But if you run out of lives or chose not to continue, Master Chu will admit maybe the mission's not meant to succeed in the first place.
93	* In ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'', if you die as a Cyborg, you get a scene of a Xenomorph looming in front of you. If the last player was a Predator, you see the bomb on their forearm counting down...
94	* VideoGame/{{The Punisher\|Capcom}} side-scroller by Capcom has David "Microchip" Lieberman attempting to revive you if you die as The Punisher, or Alexander Pierce and Kathleen Neville if you die as Nick Fury.
95	* In ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom]]'', dying to a boss in single-player tends to result in a close-up of the boss taunting you, with written dialog under the portrait. Sadly, that feature was removed from the sequel, ''Shadow over Mystara''.
96	* ''VideoGame/Legend1998'' have the forces of chaos taunting you before you get hacked to death by various monsters, orcs, and skeletons. From a ''first-person'' perspective.
97	* ''VideoGame/{{Legionnaire}}'' is an arcade game where you're on a RoaringRampageOfRescue to retrieve your kidnapped girlfriend. Run out of continues, however, and you're then treated to a cutscene of the main villain menacingly observing your girlfriend [[UnwillingSuspension hanging on a chain]], gloating all the way and probably planning to do some ''nasty stuff'' on her.
98	* In ''[[VideoGame/DynamiteCop Dynamite Deka EX: Asian Dynamite]]'', a chef serves you a bowl of GameOver rice.
99	* ''VideoGame/TecmoKnight'' have a rather gruesome example, where the Game Over screen is you getting your head ''chewed off'' by a BeastMan. Followed by another beastman taunting you, "No Future!"
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102	[[folder:Driving Games]]
103	* A ''laughing skull'' in a supposedly military vehicular combat game ''Return Fire''.
104	* In the ''VideoGame/RoadRash'' series, you'll be taunted by one of your rival racers if you wreck your bike and lack the money for repairs. If you get caught by the police and don't have money for bail, your arresting officer will taunt you instead.
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107	[[folder:Fighting Games]]
108	* Relius Clover from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. It's rare he shows up in a character's Story Mode, but when he does, your character is usually on a one-way trip to being [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], {{mind rape}}d, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed horribly]], or some combination thereof. Just check out [[spoiler:Noel, Tager, and Makoto]].
109	** [[spoiler:Carl, Valkenhayn, and Platinum]] all have business with Relius in their Story mode's true path. In their cases, Hazama replaces Relius as the Game Over Man.
110	* Lose to any of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tag Tournament 2'' bosses, and the opponent will appear on the continue screen. Heihachi and Jinpachi have an interaction in which Heihachi, being a backstabbing HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, drops Jinpachi down a trap door. True Ogre eats you, Jun looks down before walking away, and Unknown... she waits for the counter to count down, then reaches out and if it hits zero she... absorbs you? Because she's [[SNKBoss not exactly easy]], you will see this screen ''a lot''. If you do not lose to a boss, depending on your character choice, there will be various continue screens in which one of your selected characters attempts to convince the other to get up, giving up and walking away when the counter hits 0.
111	* M. Bison takes this role in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'', where losing in the final round gets your character thrown into the Psycho Drive and used to destroy a city. If you're playing as M. Bison on the final stage, though, Ryu becomes your Game Over Man, as the game goes into ''his'' ending.
112	* If you lose to Galactus in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and don't continue, you get Galactus' ending, where he devours both the Marvel and Capcom Earths.
113	* Daniel J. D'Arby serves this role in the story mode of ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture''. Choose to continue, and he'll utter his catchphrase [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!"]] Choose to quit, and he'll steal your character's soul with his STAND, OSIRIS, turning them into a poker chip.
114	* In ''[[VideoGame/GundamBattleAssault2 Gundam: The Battle Master]]'', your player character fills this role as the camera focuses on their defeat pose for the duration of the Continue screen. In ''The Battle Master 2/Battle Assault'', TheHero Gloria/Heero will say some variation of how they can't afford to give up whenever they lose a Story Mode battle. Be prepared to see every continue quote once you get to the [[SNKBoss Psycho Gundam Mk-III]].
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117	[[folder:First-Person Shooter]]
118	* The smiley face in ''Faceball 2000''.
119	* ''VideoGame/{{Meatgrinder}}'' displays a giant grinning digital skull if you die, taunting you with the words "TRY HARDER, MEATBAG!"
120	* In ''VideoGame/OperationBodyCount'', during game over, a villain shouts "You lose!".
121	* In ''VideoGame/BlakeStone: Aliens of Gold'', the BigBad MadScientist Dr. Goldfire pops up with his trademark EvilLaugh on your character's "REBA" personal data assistant to taunt you about your failure when you lose all your lives.
122	* ''VideoGame/TerminatorRampage'' throws in a gloating T-100 skull chuckling at your demise, alongside a cutscene where you get pumped full of holes by the robots. [[ItsAWonderfulFailure Followed by Los Angeles getting wiped out by a nuke because of your failure]].
123	* ''VideoGame/UrbanChaosRiotResponse'' usually played this straight -- if you waited a few seconds after dying, the enemy who killed you would taunt you before finishing you off. However, if you had a partner nearby, you would sometimes have them instead (paramedics trying to stabilize you, fellow cops radioing in a man down, and so on).
124	* In ''Isle of the Dead'', when you got a GameOver, you were treated to a short cinematic showing the circumstances of your death, followed by the MadScientist giving an EvilLaugh. Also, when you quit the game, you see a scene of the main character [[AteHisGun blowing his own head apart with his shotgun]] (followed by the same mad scientist laughing).
125	* While death in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is not actually a failure state -- except in Arena mode -- the freeze cam is subtly designed to allow for a rare multiplayer case of this trope: When you're killed directly by another player, the camera quickly zooms in and freezes on that player for a few seconds, and all audio is muted ''except'' that player's voice, so if they choose to taunt, or deliver an automatic taunt line triggered by a domination or revenge kill, you'll get to hear it loud and clear.
126	* ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom'' has Bane serve this role for a NonStandardGameOver in the final level. You're supposed to fight him with the {{BFG}}-equivalent in the seventh weapon slot, and attempting to switch out to any of the other weapons locks you off from your weapons entirely, as an image of Bane covers the screen alongside text telling you "YOU FAILED TO FIGHT BANE WITH YOUR FISTS".
127	* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' has a laughing skull & crossbones accompanying the text "YOU ARE DEAD, PRESS 'R' TO RESTART".
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130	[[folder:Flight Simulator]]
131	* Chuck Yeager himself appears in "Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer".
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134	[[folder:Interactive Fiction]]
135	* Q, in addition to being the TricksterMentor to the player in the InteractiveFiction game ''Franchise/StarTrek: Borg'', pops up in a blank white void whenever the player does something that ends up with him KO'd or dead, often saying some HaveANiceDeath while he's at it.
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138	[[folder:Light Gun Games]]
139	* One of the earliest NES examples is the dog from ''VideoGame/DuckHunt''.
140	* The Game Over screen for the NES game, ''VideoGame/BarkerBillsTrickShooting'' has Trixie waving goodbye to you as the caption reads "Thank you for playing ''Barker Bill's Trick Shooting''! Sorry, Pal. Your game is over! Come back and challenge Trick Shooting again next time!"
141	* On the game over screen of ''VideoGame/Area51'', the player character morphs into an alien monster, becoming the Game Over Man himself.
142	* ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDead'' mixes this with PlayerDeathIsDramatic, as the game over screen in the series is your PlayerCharacter(s) falling into the ground, dropping dead.
143	* In ''VideoGame/MadDogMccree" and its sequel, the CreepyMortician serves this purpose.
144	* ''VideoGame/MechanizedAttack'' has a still of your character getting shot. Accompanied with a "You are dead -- [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!!!!!]]..."
145	* In ''VideoGame/DarkEscape4D'', the scientist who put you in the zombie-infested ruins in the first place mockingly encourages you to continue during the countdown timer, and laments with exaggerated insincerity how your game is over when the countdown reaches 0.
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148	[[folder:Platform Games]]
149	* ''VideoGame/GunWitch'': If Beretta falls in battle, a Mysterious Woman takes her ExperiencePoints to her next level and her Lunes and sends her back to her house.
150	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
151	** In the Genesis games, Dr. Robotnik taunts you with missed Chaos Emeralds if you beat the game without acquiring all of them. Losing all your lives simply gives you a standard Game Over message. Also, your player character is a ''continue'' man, waiting for your input so that he can run off the screen and continue the quest.
152	** ''VideoGame/SegaSonicTheHedgehog'' has a more standard use of the trope. Lose and you get a game over message... with Eggman in it, mocking you.
153	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
154	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'': In the game's remakes, Birdo appears holding an egg on the Game Over screen.
155	** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has a tired-looking Mario telling you "Game Over" as its Game Over screen.
156	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros.'' has Bowser, accompanied by a remix of the original "Player Down" music from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1.''
157	** ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'': The Toadies that take the defeated Yoshi to Bowser's castle.
158	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'': If the Toadies take Baby Mario away, you get a short scene showing the group against a black backdrop before flying off-screen and the usual response to losing a life takes over.
159	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
160	** Most games have frequently had these since ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''. Featured characters include {{Dracula}}, [[TheGrimReaper Death]], Boschian artwork, Bloody Tears, a completely random dragon...
161	** That Dragon in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia Order of Ecclesia]]''? That's the statue in Barlowe's room.
162	** Especially meaningful and imposing in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'', where Death shows off possession of, well, your soul.
163	** The voice-over in ''Symphony of the Night'':
164	--> ''"Game... Over... [[EvilLaugh Mu-hahahahaha!]]"''
165	* Jafar in ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'': "Give up, street rat!"
166	* A mourning Rafiki in the SNES and Genesis versions of ''VideoGame/TheLionKing'', although the 8-bit versions have Scar instead.
167	* The Queen in the SNES version of ''Videogame/{{Alien 3}}''. Complete with a digital sample of PFC Hudson's trope-naming "Game over, man!" from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', to boot.
168	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
169	** In the ''VideoGame/SuperStarWars'' trilogy, there is Darth Vader (''Super Star Wars''), Yoda (''Super Empire Strikes Back''), and Emperor Palpatine (''Super Return of the Jedi''). For Yoda, when you continue, he says, "Do or do not. There is no try." When you quit, he says, "That is why you fail."
170	** Emperor Palpatine's expression stays immutable if you decide to quit or run out of continues, but when you continue, he scowls at you.
171	* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': The prettified Gruntilda (and uglified Tooty) serves as a Game Over Woman. Ugly Grunty is heard cackling when you die regardless of whether or not it's a game over.
172	* The ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' series has sidekick Daxter say something snarky in the first and third games (though these are rare in the latter's case).
173	* Played with in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': the first time you die in, Death appears and taunts Conker, before explaining how the life system works in the game. After that, this cutscene is never seen again, unless you restart. The "Game Over" scene itself is usually the weasels bringing Conker to the Panther King, with a few different versions to reflect the way that Conker lost his last life. It can sometimes be Conker's FaceOnAMilkCarton, though.
174	* The Game Over in the original ''VideoGame/StriderArcade'' has a sound clip of [[BigBad Grandmaster Meio]] laughing.
175	* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':
176	** Dr. Cortex plays this role in ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot 2\|CortexStrikesBack}}'' and ''Videogame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'', and again in ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped 3]]'' with Uka Uka.
177	** It's actually a bit of a giveaway in ''2'', because Crash thinks that Cortex has reformed for a good part of the game. Obviously he hasn't (it even says something like "[[LateArrivalSpoiler A gullible Crash is tricked into working for Cortex]]" when you hover over the Platform/{{P\|layStationNetwork}}SN version of the game on PSP or [=PS3=]), but seeing him say "Game. Over. Bwahahahahahahaha!" before you've gotten very far in the game is one of the pretty major hints dropped to you in the game.
178	** Uka Uka reprises his role as Game-Over Man for all three games in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'', only this time he's in shadows for the first two games; referencing the fact that he was TheManBehindTheMan but didn't appear in person or was even mentioned in those games.
179	* ''VideoGame/ABugsLife'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pfIeQDDvc "Have you been playing all summer? You think this is a game? Well, guess what? You just LOST!"]] (This is a quote from the movie, by the way.)
180	* The video game adaptation of Disney's ''VideoGame/{{Hercules}}'' features Hades smoking a cigar and blowing it into the camera, chuckling evilly at the player as the smoke forms the words "GAME OVER".
181	* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series:
182	** In ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'' and ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'', BigBad Risky [[PirateGirl Boots]] shows up on the Game Over screen.
183	** In ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'', Shantae ''herself'' is the Game Over Man, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall staring at the sign]] as the player chooses an option.
184	* When you get GameOver in ''VideoGame/{{Putty}}'' and ''Super Putty'', Dweezil the Cat in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes style rings says, "Too bad!" while an off-key version of ShaveAndAHaircut plays. He does that during the first stage too - except he bursts through the background.
185	* Ma Fratelli in ''VideoGame/TheGoonies II'' for NES.
186	* ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'''s Game Over starts with the loading screen suddenly being interrupted by [[BigBad Toc-Man]] who jumps down from above and causes a metallic futuristic "Toc" lettering to land itself on the "Pac" in the title, [[HostileShowTakeover changing the game's name]] to "''Toc-Man World''" while Toc-Man just stands there and laughs constantly.[[note]]Eventually the "Toc" falls off the title, yet Toc-Man continues laughing.[[/note]]
187	* In some versions of ''VideoGame/DonaldDuckGoinQuackers'', specifically versions where it is possible to get a Game Over, Merlock appears and cackles if the player runs out of lives.
188	* The Game Over screen for ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}} 2'' says, '''YOU LOSE''', and depicts the Spider Queen laughing at Vectorman before he falls apart.
189	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has a lot of Game Over Men. In fact, the Game Over man is always whatever boss managed to kill you (in the case of the run and gun levels, a selection of enemies appear instead) providing a rhyming taunt, along with a progress meter showing how far you got before biting it. The screens are different depending on the boss, which is good, considering [[NintendoHard how often you'll be dying]], and the screens are even different for every phase of a boss, too.
190	* ''VideoGame/{{Bug\|1995}}'': The titular Bug appears in the "Continue" screen looking bruised and beaten, and in the GameOver screen he shakes his butt close up to the camera.
191	* Dying in ''VideoGame/BenAndEd'' will have the smug face of Hans Showmaster pop up on screen. Walking down a particular spot will give you an EasterEgg variation with a [[spoiler:''WebVideo/BenDrowned'' ShoutOut]] before Ed explodes.
192	* In the Platform/SegaGenesis version of the ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'' LicensedGame, you see [[BigBad Shere Khan]] protracting his claws in the Game Over screen. In the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] version, you see Mowgli land head-first into some dirt and struggle to get out. In the Genesis version, he acts as a Continue Man, as this animation appears on the Continue screen instead.
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194
195	[[folder:Puzzle Games]]
196	* In the NES version of ''VideoGame/DrMario'', the titular plumber turned doctor will look at the player helplessly, while the remaining viruses laugh at him.
197	* The Yellow Face from ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}''.
198	* VideoGame/{{Irisu\|Syndrome}} welcomes you with [[BlatantLies a heartfelt smile every time you get a game over]].
199	* In ''VideoGame/WesleyanTetris'', the voice of [[Film/{{Aliens}} Pvt. Hudson]] himself tolls your defeat.
200	* If you fail to destroy the pigs' fortresses and kill all of the pigs inside in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', then the surviving pigs will all smile and cackle and snort evilly when the Game Over screen appears.
201	* In the comic strip "The Boss's Secret" in Jimmy T's stage in ''VideoGame/WarioWareSnapped'', the player and a detective are having a conservation, and at the end, the player says that the detective got a message from "Cookie," and says, "Two words: Game Over," which makes the detective gulp.
202	[[/folder]]
203
204	[[folder:Rhythm Games]]
205	* ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX 8th Style'' shows an alien DJ on the results screen if you fail a song.
206	* In VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents if you fail a song, you get a short blurb that you ultimately failed the character you were trying to help, and his/her/their lives enter pure hell.
207	* If you lose against [[WebAnimation/{{Tankmen}} Tankman]] in Week 7 of ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'', he'll proceed to TrashTalk the Boyfriend from offscreen. He provides one of two video examples for this page.
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210	[[folder:Role-Playing Games]]
211	* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': Getting a game over rewards you with a view of a massive Dark Force holding the Earth in his hand.
212	* Many examples in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series:
213	** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', Philemon laments that you'll die without ever unraveling the game's mystery.
214	** Igor in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' will transport your corpse to his [[EldritchLocation Velvet Room]] and read a poem lamenting the end of your journey whenever you die. An odd example in that Igor not only ''isn't'' the BigBad, but a valuable ally, and that his words in the Game Over screen are just him mourning the Main Character's death. He also plays the NonStandardGameOver Man in ''4'' if you miss a dungeon deadline, offering to send you back in time one week to have another go.
215	** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': Velvet Room attendants Justine and Caroline bring your corpse to their EldritchLocation and read various poems lamenting the end of your journey whenever you die. [[spoiler:After the fight against the Holy Grail, this role is filled by their original form Lavenza, including in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal's]]'' third semester.]]
216	** The spirits of the previous Raidous in ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''.
217	** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' features a voice telling you to cross over the river back to the land where all souls originate. [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII The sequel]] features a demon named Charon as your Game Over Man (or your continue man: you can pay him to revive you at the last terminal you saved at).
218	** Charon returns in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''; the afterlife is so full of dead people that he's perfectly willing to ''sell continues'' so he won't be overworked. The player has the option to pay Play Coins alongside the usual Macca. If you choose to pay in Macca, but don't have enough of it, he'll revive you anyway, putting the bribe on a tab that will automatically be taken once you get enough Macca. If you die while still in debt, however, Charon will refuse to revive you and it will be GameOver for real.
219	** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', Dagda fills in for Charon. Since he needs you alive as part of his plans and he's a god of death, he'll revive you ''for free''; in fact, one plotline conversation has him informing you that [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist you're free to throw your life away recklessly as much as you want and he'll just casually bring you back every time]]. If you refuse to be revived, he'll declare you a [[YouHaveFailedMe failure]] and abandon you, leaving you in the underworld.
220	** In ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'', Redman/[[DubNameChange Kinap]] guides the protagonist's soul to the afterlife. The form he appears in and his dialogue change depending on how far you are in the game.
221	* In the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series, a Holy Symbol of Bhaal fills in for the visage of the dead god.
222	* ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyouZero'' has short scenes that play out whenever your party is felled by a boss.
223	* ''VideoGame/ShadowKeep'' superimposes a laughing cartoon demon over the interface when you die.
224	* TheGrimReaper shows up if you die in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest''. Luckily, he's always over his quota for the day, and you just get dumped back in Battleon owing him yet another favor.
225	** In ''VideoGame/WarpForce'', the expansion to ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' set in space, Death is replaced with DEATH 2.0, who is a robot. Other than that, it's the same, except he sends you back to the LSS Alteon so that he "continue to marvel at your antics".
226	* ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'' has this, but it's more of a [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard]] Game-Over Man, and that's Homulily, Homura's Witch form, who will only appear when you are defeated in the battle against Walpurgisnatch. You'll only get a small glimpse at her, however.
227	* Musical version in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', where mission failure is accompanied by [[BigBad Saren]]'s theme.
228	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena'' has two of these. Early in the game your SpiritAdvisor Ria Silmane will mourn your death and wish you peace in the afterlife. Later on the BigBad Jagar Tharn will [[EvilGloating gloat and taunt you]].
229	* ''VideoGame/TheDungeonRevealed'' shows you the illusion of a skull formed by tree branches in front of a cave.
230	* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFuckboys'' has Cranky Kong telling you to git gud. Depending on the game, he's either young (in 2), old (in the original), or dead (in 3).
231	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Throughout the game, should you die during a fight, [[spoiler:Asgore]]'s voice is the one calling out to you save for two specific circumstances.
232	** If you are finishing a neutral run and lose to [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey]], [[spoiler:Flowey]] is the one taunting the player in the Game Over screen before crashing the game.
233	** If you are finishing a Genocide run, [[spoiler:Sans]] will spare you in one turn. [[spoiler:Should you fall for this and spare him, he launches [[ISurrenderSuckers an unavoidable attack]]. With that, the Game Over screen plays the Dogsong instead of the regular theme.]]
234	-->''[[spoiler:"geeettttttt dunked on!!!"]]''
235	* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Dying in Chapter 1 has the voice from the intro of the game ask you whether you want to try again. In Chapter 2, this changes to either Susie or Ralsei encouraging the player to get up. Both death screens offer a choice of continuing or not, with the latter option leading to the voice from the intro [[ItsAWonderfulFailure talking about how the world ends]].
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238	[[folder:Shoot 'em Up]]
239	* Run out of lives in ''VideoGame/HazelnutHex'' and you get a clip of your CuteWitch character, Nat, passing out with WingdingEyes.
240	* Andross in the ''Franchise/StarFox'' series.
241	** In the "Super VideoGame/StarFox1 Weekend" competition, [[https://snescentral.com/0/9/4/0942/screen04.png Slippy Toad will tell you if you run out of time...]] [[AccidentalNightmareFuel which many people find scarier than Andross]].
242	** ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' gives the player a laughing Andross even on a game completion, unless you take the hard route and destroy the monkey once and for all.
243	** ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'': When Fox's LifeMeter depletes, the game shows him succumbing into the ground. If you have a [=BafomDad=], you can revive him and return to action; if you don't, you'll return to the title screen.
244	* ''VideoGame/SuperAleste'' has a cute variant of this. You see the two main characters, in SuperDeformed form, poking at a burnt model of their own ship. Like the rest of the anime-style graphics and everything pertaining to the story, it was removed in non-Japanese releases.
245	* ''VideoGame/AirZonk[=/=]P.C. Denjin'' had the BigBad do this... in the form of a song and dance number performed by him and his two [[TheDragon underlings]]. The Japanese version even had lyrics mocking you.
246	* VideoGame/HongKong97 has an infamous photo of an actual dead body serving as its game over screen, with the text on the photo saying "Chin IS DEAD!".
247	* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' starting with ''II'': "You need more practice!" or "Come on, we're just getting started!"
248	* Maboo laughs at you when you get a GameOver in the first ''VideoGame/RollingThunder''.
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:Stealth-Based Games]]
252	* When getting a GameOver in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, the various MissionControl characters would call out "Snake... Snake! SNAAAAAAAKE!" before the continue screen. Also, in MGS 4, you'll sometimes see Screaming Mantis's puppet-strings attached to Snake's body, a reference that doesn't get explained until the last 1/5th of the game.
253	** Super Smash Bros Brawl also shout out to Snake (including Slippy) if Snake is knocked off the edge during a conversation. Snake also spoofs it. If Luigi is battled and a conversation is brought up, Snake and Colonel will talk about Luigi, and then Colonel will start acting strangely. Snake replies with, "Colonel, snap out of it! Colonel! COOOOLONELLLLLLLLLLLL!"
254	* In ''Videogame/StyxShardsOfDarkness'' the protagonist himself will show up to mock you whenever you get him killed. And he has...[[https://oforcsandmen.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Cutscenes quite the colorful things to say.]]
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256
257	[[folder:Survival Horror]]
258	* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', dying will sometimes result in a creepy cutscene during which a certain mysterious monster appears and drags your corpse away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwZ-vvnbps Example.]]
259	* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'':
260	** In the original ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992'', if ([[EverythingTryingToKillYou when]]) you lose, one of the zombies in the house may bring you to a certain altar... in front of a certain tree. A FateWorseThanDeath, indeed.
261	** In ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark2'', Carnby's dead body is tossed off a cliff into the sea by one of the zombie pirates you fight throughout the game should you bite it. And playing as the little kid, the scene cuts to Carnby being held by his hands on a ship's mast as soon as you get hit or caught at all.
262	** Likewise in ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark3'', your body might be strung up outside the saloon, beaten by shovels in the graveyard, sent to heaven by the MagicalNativeAmerican, tossed into a spike pit, or whipped by the BigBad.
263	* The Mad Hatter from the first VideoGame/{{A\|mericanMcgeesAlice}}lice. '''RUNNING AWAY, ARE WE?''
264	* Freddy from the titular game ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' will personally come to get you should you run out of power.
265	** In the [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 sequel]], he appears in the GameOver screen, visible through the eye-holes of the suit you've been stuffed into.
266	** The sixth game adds in quotes from the animatronic that just jumpscared you mere seconds ago. Come VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight and even more animatronics (but not all animatronics) receive death quotes, ''including'' the Puppet.
267	** ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysARSpecialDelivery'' also has this; if the animatronic that had just jumpscared you has dialogue during the “You Lost” screen, then that dialogue will replace the kids’ “Awwww!” sound.
268	* If Amanda is [[OneHitKill grabbed]] by the Xenomorph from ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'', its snarling, drooling face will be the very last thing she ever sees.
269	* In the Creator/PlayStation era ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games and some of the games that came after that, when you die, your character is shown falling and fading into a white mist, before cutting to a black void showing only your character laying dead on the ground, over which "YOU DIED" is [[CouldntFindAPen written in blood]]. While occasionally just showing your character dead on the ground, more often than not they would also incorporate what killed you as well. Zombies [[PaintingTheMedium painting the camera with your blood as they tear your throat out,]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Mr. X grinding his boot into your head,]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis Nemesis repeatedly beating your body against the ground before throwing you away,]] and so on.
270	* In the homebrew game ''Innyume'', which has you trying to collect five floating Japanese characters to unlock a door to escape [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext while being pursued by emojis]], getting caught will subject you to a screenful of others just like them, dancing and laughing.
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273	[[folder:Third-Person Shooter]]
274	* Xizor in ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire''.
275	* Lose an ''VideoGame/S4League'' team match, and the other team will be shown on the screen, with its players free to taunt-spam you. Win, on the other hand, and your team plays this role to the opposing team instead.
276	* Lose in the final battle with Bertram in ''VideoGame/FamilyGuyBackToTheMultiverse'', and the Earth explodes with Peter Griffin flying through the debris to tell the player "[[SignatureLaugh Hehehehehe.]] You lose!"
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278
279	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
280	* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', it's the judge declaring your client guilty.
281	* Make a game-ending mistake in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' and you'll be greeted by a near-perfect parody of the ''Shadowgate'' Game Over screen, complete with an avian Grim Reaper.
282	* In ''VisualNovel/LastWindow'', most game overs have Margaret showing up at Kyle's door to evict him.
283	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Liberation Day’s'' [RE]turn mode, Claude Trilleo will show up whenever the player gets a bad ending (or even a less than ideal one) and chew you out for your mistakes, before giving a hint on how to get a better outcome.
284	* ''[[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} TYPE-MOON]]'' visual novels tend to have a section that gives the player hints on how to avoid the Bad End they just received. It's [[HaveANiceDeath often worth it]] to experience all Bad/Dead Ends because they either give early hints about or additional lore, or because the game over section is simply hilarious.
285	** ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has Ciel explain what was going wrong in the "Teach me, Ciel-sensei!" section.
286	** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the "Tiger Dojo", where Taiga and Illya in comical fashion usually make fun of the player for doing something hilariously stupid - or making fun of them for doing the common sense thing at the wrong time. Seeing all Tiger Dojos will also unlock additional features and scenes.
287	[[/folder]]
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289	[[folder:[=MMORPGs=]]]
290	* In the original ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', the Game Over Man is none other than Death. However, he lets you go free because [[DeathIsCheap Death is Chea- I mean, his quota is full.]]
291	** In ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', the second AE game (not counting ArchKnight), does not have this, instead only having a standard message telling you that you fell unconscious, and you wake up at the beginning of the Quest. Ironically enough, Death still can be found (and fought) in game, complete with a scary makeover.
292	** The THIRD game, ''VideoGame/MechQuest'', is the same as ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', with no Grim Reaper at all.
293	** Death FINALLY returned as of the most recent update to their MMORPG ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds''. He was at first a minor, minor NPC who you could get baby dracoliches from, and the death screen merely would be a blue screen with a countdown to your Respawn. However, as of the update, the blue screen comes with an ad, and good ole Death grinning at you to advertise it.
294	* TheGrimReaper in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', although only around Halloween.
295	** In the current version of Runescape, you appear in the Reaper's home office upon death. However, [[DontFearTheReaper you needn't fear the Reaper]], he just wants to explain how respawning works. For a fee, he'll even retrieve your items for you.
296	[[/folder]]
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298	[[folder:Other]]
299	* The Yeti/Abominable Snow Monster in ''VideoGame/SkiFree'' appears after a certain moment in a very quick speed and eats the player, then mocks their death by jumping up and down victoriously, signalling that the game is over.
300	* In the earlier seasons of the live action TV show ''Series/{{Knightmare}}'', the dungeoneer's death would be met with the health meter's skull taking over the screen and crumbling down to nothing.
301	* In the live-action game show ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego'', the clock running out in the Trail of Time finale leads to a "cutscene" of Carmen escaping into the timestream with an EvilLaugh.
302	* ''VideoGame/GenjuuRyodan'' has a man who is presumably the king of Earthing lying on the ground, being stabbed at the back with a sword.
303	* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/PinballMagic'', all of the mystic masters do this at the end of the game as you're leaving the theater, ending with Matra Manga laughing at you as the door closes.
304	* In ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' almost every game has the King Of All Cosmos silhouetted in darkness. The earlier games are a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and are heavily guilt laden, while lightning flashes showing creepy images such as his skeleton, and his arms raised to the both sides in a somewhat eerie manner, and another less creepy one of him making a shadow puppet of a dog with his hands. Later games his eyes are glowing bright red as he shoots lasers from his eyes or hurls asteroids to destroy you. (Which in turn is a somewhat fun endurance minigame to see how long you can avoid them)
305	* In the original ''VideoGame/WingCommander'', your commanding officer offers a eulogy to you at your funeral.
306	* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', the Council chairman (under the thrall of a sectoid alien) announces the failure and subsequent termination of XCOM as the nations decide to pursue negotiations with the alien invaders.
307	* In ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', the Speaker for the ADVENT government announces XCOM's demise.
308	* ''VideoGame/LetItDie'' has insurance agent Kiwako Seto greet you whenever you die, commenting on your death (usually assuring you that this one was "grueso-mazing" too) and offering you insurance to bring you back to life. Unless [[NonStandardGameOver the Jackals get you]].
309	* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' has an in-universe example where the "game-over" screen punctuates (the characters treat him like some kind of a wise guru) a nerd's description of the nature of the eponymous dwelling.
310	-->[[AC:Thou art dead. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.]]
311	* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' & ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Orcs and Ologs who kill [[PlayerCharacter Talion]] will taunt over your body. Since you have ResurrectiveImmortality they can continue to mock you in future encounters, and thanks to [[ArtificialBrilliance the game's advanced A.I and Nemisis System]] they remember when, where, and how you die each time and will never let you forget it.
312	** Specifically in ''Shadow Of War'', Shelob will appear if you die in a story mission, mocking you for being immortal, not using her visions to your advantage, drawing comparisons between you and whoever killed you, and foreshadowing the ending of the game.
313	** Inversion where ''Talion'' becomes the game over man to Orcs. Captains and mooks have a chance to come back after you kill them, angry you defeated them. You can also MindRape them instead with a low chance of turning them insane.
314	* In ''VideoGame/BonkersSega'', when the titular cartoon bobcat police officer loses all of his lives, whichever villain he loses to appears on the Game Over screen.
315	* In ''VideoGame/BeautyAndTheBeastABoardGameAdventure'', if Gaston gets to the end of the board before Belle does, then [[ItsAWonderfulFailure the last petal from the enchanted rose will fall, rendering Beast to remain a Beast forever]]. A sad Beast will then appear on the Game Over screen.
316	* The light novel and anime ''Literature/{{Konosuba}}'', being a {{parody}} of an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]], has the goddess [[BigGood Eris]] act as this. Whenever the protagonist, Kazuma, dies in the world of Belzerg, Eris is the one to greet him and ask him about the experience before reviving him. Which is often, prompting her to once say [[WeGottaStopMeetingLikeThis she doesn't like meeting Kazuma this way]].
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