History PlayingWith / NeverSayDie

** A character is very clearly about to say the word "die", but looks right at the camera and uses an incredibly obvious workaround.

** When a character says "die", a MoralGuardian bursts in to scold them only to suffer a brutal and gory death by that characters's hand, who then turns to the camera to ask "Any more objections?"

* '''Defied''': "[[CannotSpitItOut Can't you just say he's dead]]!?"

** The stand-in word for death sounds more [[RuleOfCool devastating]] than kill (I.E. Destroyed).
** The character is a creature to whom other terms are more accurate, like 'Deletion' for an A.I. or "stop moving" for an AnimateInanimateObject. If the character is human, the other terms might be accurate to the supernatural stuff going on around them, like "consumed by darkness" if a shadow took them over and left nothing behind.

** Sometimes they ''do'' say "die/death/etc", sometimes they don't. It [[DependingOnTheWtiter depends on the writer]], really.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Death is referred to very rarely, but it just happens, there's no irony or anything to it. Still, they avoid it the rest of the time even though they've done it other times.

** One character uses an euphemism for death, only for another character to blurt out "[[EuphemismBuster He's dead?]]" much to the former's chagrin.

** One character says an obvious substitute for death, and one of the characters then asks "You mean dead?"

** Being "sent to the Shadow Realm" is their world's local equivalent of saying "gone to Heaven/Hell", so everyone there knows what it means. It's a declaration of death in their world, just not in ours.

** "Bob is DEEEEEEEEE- [[LastSecondWordSwap STROYED]]", said Alice in a hysteric fit.
** Alice says that Bob is [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] destroyed beyond any [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] recognition.

** The cast [[CrossesTheLineTwice Swears like sailors, discusses topics like sex and sexual violence, and the world they live in practically chews its denizens and spits out a mangled corpse beyond recognition...]] but saying "die" is still a no-no.

* '''Discussed''': "No one around here is ever willing to use the D word."

Back to NeverSayDie, but you mean Never Say Destroyed right?

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* Being "sent to the Shadow Realm" is their world's local equivalent of saying "gone to Heaven/Hell", so everyone there knows what it means. It's a declaration of death in their world, just not in ours.

--> ''(Upon seeing the aftermath of a slapfight)'' "You totally slaughtered that guy!"

** An anime sub substitutes any instance of "sent to the Shadow Realm" in the original Japanese audio with "[[SpiceUpTheSubtitles killed]]". The dub goes even further to appeal to the people they thing are going to buy it.

** Death is a well known and discussed topic-- it's just that nobody wants to talk about that pesky in-between state between being dead and not-dead, so everyone uses euphemisms for that instead.