Line #12 NightmareFuel/BlueGuardianMargaret


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Artwork of what happens when the guardian perishes, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou and isn't even half of them all.]]]]
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4	As BadassAdorable as Margaret is, [[KillTheCutie she tends to be offed in some rather disturbing or frightening ways]]. While this Creator/FoxEye game as a whole is not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'' or ''especially VideoGame/SacrificeGirl'', this page will cover [[HaveANiceDeath just how much failure can be a cruel mistress to]] ''VideoGame/BlueGuardianMargaret''.
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7	* One of the GameOver [[HaveANiceDeath images]] has Margaret beaten to death (see top-left of the page image), with her lying on the ground with cuts, bruises, bloodstains, and even a black eye. It can be pretty unsettling to see for the first time since Margaret never looks this hurt during the gameplay, itself. It feels ''even worse'' if you or someone you know has been on the receiving end of a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in RealLife, [[WouldHitAGirl let alone if you or that someone is a girl]].
8	* With this game being known as a borderline HGame, there are quite a few other creepy deaths Margaret can suffer from, here. She can be ''[[{{Squick}} raped to death]]'' by creatures such as [[YouDirtyRat giant rats]], or [[JustEatHim eaten alive]] by bosses such as giant plant monsters and centipedes, with her drowning from her head being submerged in the monsters' internal fluids; likely their ''stomach acids that's trying to digest her whole body''. Certain snakes can [[TakenForGranite turn her into stone]], leaving her with a [[AndIMustScream terrified expression]] from it (see top-right of the page image). She can also be forced to drown underwater by either getting the air sucked out of her by a GorgeousGorgon, getting strangled by LizardFolk, or held under by CombatTentacles. In short, [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou everything she encounters wants to ruthlessly]] [[KillTheCutie kill her]].
9	* There's also an underwater version of the above NoHoldsBarredBeatdown death where Margaret's beaten corpse slowly drifts deeper in the water she was killed in. [[OxygenMeter Her ordinary drowning image]] seems tame in comparison, and this is considering the nearly-blank-eyed, DiesWideOpen expression she has in ''that'' image (see bottom-left of the page image).
10	* [[SignatureStyle Speaking of drowning]], much like Miyo [[NightmareFuel/SacrificeGirl in her own game]], [[TruthInTelevision Margaret's drowning is pretty realistic]] as well, as she both verbally ''and'' vocally strains her lungs to hold her breath, and she sounds more and more dire the closer she is to drowning, with her even frantically kicking her legs in a panic when she's almost out of air. The Game Over image for drowning is merely just the end result, and as stated above, several enemies have attacks that are ''specifically'' used to drown her faster instead of killing her brutally such as the aforementioned NoHoldsBarredBeatdown death. When this happens, it's usually by strangling the air out of her until she stops moving.
11	** Margaret actually manages to upstage Miyo in one aspect of realism: when Miyo drowns, her body just casually floats to the bottom, and the screen fades to black. If one watches closely when Margaret runs out of air and drowns (without it being choked out of her) you can see Margaret's body twitch post-mortem as the screen fades to black, making for quite an effective {{jumpscare}}. Then there's the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] [[DiesWideOpen aforementioned Game Over screen]].
12	** For added FridgeHorror, Margaret dies with an ''[[TheImmodestOrgasm ahegao]]'' expression when she drowns, strongly implying [[NightmareFetishist she's got a fetish for it (or oxygen deprivation in general)]]. It's to be expected, [[AuthorAppeal given it's a Fox Eye game]], but ''damn''. There's yet ''another'' underwater-related death where Margaret [[spoiler:dies from the red GrimyWater. What makes this different from an ordinary drowning is that the red water hurts Margaret if it so much as touches her feet, and it's impossible in higher DifficultyLevels for her to actually drown in it via an empty OxygenMeter before the red water drains all of her LifeMeter away, first. The implication is that the blood-red water [[NauseaFuel is so disgustingly-polluted and foul that it violently stings any ordinary person that comes in contact with it to death]]. Dying from it has the following GameOver image show Margaret floating motionlessly in the red water with a horrified WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises look on her face.]]
13	* Although it's a part of Creator/FoxEye's SignatureStyle and AuthorAppeal to set its protagonists up for drowning perils as a common-but-avoidable danger, and in this specific case it can be entirely skipped by the player, [[spoiler:the HaveANiceDeath sequence of Margaret being drowned in a water torture tank near the end of the game is quite possibly the most brutal instance of a drowning in any Fox Eye game ever made. If the player gets careless and lets Margaret get caught by the wizards in the underground laboratory, the water tank sequence is initiated where Margaret is stripped of all of her clothes and guns, bound upside-down by a rope, and then dumped into the tank. She's then forced to flail around and fight against drowning ''helplessly'' while the enemy, including the BigBad, General Blaine, gloat and watch her fruitless efforts up to her inevitable death. [[ControllableHelplessness The only control the player has with Margaret at this point is to make her struggle free]], but her efforts remain in vain, as all this does is deplete her OxygenMeter faster. This can happen to her twice as she survives the first ordeal, but triggering this sequence a second time drowns and kills her for real, greeting the player with a detailed GameOver image of Margaret's suspended, now-lifeless body hanging in the water tank with the cloaked wizards looming on at her, preparing to throw her corpse away like trash per Blaine's orders. The fact that this whole sequence plays out like a special cutscene to the "dark area" music gives it the feeling that it's meant to represent a BadEnding for the game where TheBadGuyWins by [[HeroKiller drowning the heroine, herself]]. Not even Margaret's InTheNameOfTheMoon boast was enough to soften the blow of her fate.]] Once again, the player can skip this whole sequence by [[spoiler:never getting caught in the laboratory]], but still...
14	* [[spoiler:As shown in the bottom-right of the page image, not escaping the collapsing tower in time after beating the TrueFinalBoss causes Margaret to perish under the tower's rubble. If you look closely at the GameOver image for this, you can see that ''[[BuriedAlive she's still barely moving]], [[AndIMustScream and likely trapped where she is.]]'']]

Context NightmareFuel / BlueGuardianMargaret