/jayRiott. note As the title suggests, each video contains a list of 50 different ways one can die in Minecraft, from the more realistic to the comically absurd.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 here, and a compilation of videos 11-15 (plus the Halloween version) here.
List of videos
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- A Boy and His X: Death 31 in Part 4 sees a wannabe thief (Jerkwad) fall victim to a girl (BlondWolfGirl) and her wolf pack.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Stu occasionally manages these, like the time he somehow managed to fill his entire inventory with Totems of Undying. Or the time he pressed the pi button on his modded Game Boy Color version of Minecraft, despite the GBC not having said button and said platform not supporting the game. It's implied he's playing on a calculator.
- Adapted Out:
- Steve and Alex make no appearance whatsoever here. Vacation Steve does however make a few appearances, but implied to be entirely different from the regular. Lampshaded in Part 12s death 7, where a police officer kills someone with the Steve skin for wearing it in a high-crime area.
- The bonus deaths from Part 11 and the Halloween edition are missing from the 300 Ways to Die compilation.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Death 32 in Part 2 is "Building a Self Aware Redstone Device". When Redstone Ned activates it, he gets dropped into lava.
- Ambiguously Jewish: During Death 26 of the Christmas episode, three characters, including Stu, build dreidels and sing variations on "I Have a Little Dreidel", a famous Hanukkah song.
- Anvilicious:
- Parodied In-Universe; Death 43 in Part 6 is an anvil in favor of net neutrality, and the death right after it is the viewer getting a literal anvil (with "NET NEUTRALITY IS GOOD!!!" written on it) dropped on their heads.
- Played straight in the Halloween Edition with Death 38, which is "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").
- Animal Assassin: Parodied; Death 5 in Part 7 is titled "Passive aggressively murderous chickens," when a chicken walks along a cliff and pushes someone off.
- Anvil on Head: A very common form of death in the series.
- Author Avatar: Jake Eyes is represented in the series by jayRiott, an avatar with a six-sided die for a head and a domino for a body.
- Awesome, but Impractical:
- While giving an object an enchantment within the range of 127 to 255 sounds awesome in concept, it usually leads to the wearer/user dying due to the overperformance of said equipment.
- Death 22 in Part 4 happens when Redstone Ned shows off his awesome T-N-T CAN-NON… then realizes that it can only shoot in one direction, leaving him at the mercy of the Creepers.
- Asshole Victim: A select few of the people getting killed in the videos sometimes might be a bit too dickish to feel bad for.
- SnakeTheJaik is the common sample of this tropes, been a trollish Jerkass who's prank can sometimes backfire at him.
- Part 15 has Jeremy Scott who kills many people with his laughter and shows no remorse for his action. He eventually meet his end at the hands of Rich Evan in death 49.
- Bad Boss:
- Death 10 in Part 1 happens to a boss who underpaid the people who made his minecart track; in retaliation, 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 Sneeze of Doom in a TNT warehouse.
- Death 46 in Part 9 is another "underpaying your employees" joke, this time to a guy who wanted a mob grinder.
- Death 47 in the Christmas edition happens when the elves have enough of working nonstop at minimum wage without breaks for 17 centuries. Thanks, Santa Claus.
- Bad Santa: KillahKlause68 fits this trope. He's a more realistic take on Ol' Saint Nick, forcing his elves to overwork for the next year, runs over a grandma with most likely no regret, and apparently forces Rudolph to defend the sleigh from anything that may interrupt his trip around the world, like US Airspace.
- Bait-and-Switch: Too many deaths rely on this to count.
- Batman Gambit: Snake offers Stu a cookie in exchange for all of his remaining Totems of Undying. Stu immediately accepts the trade, whereupon Snake kills him.
- Bee Afraid: Ever since Update 1.15, many deaths are caused by a beekeeper accidentally provoking their bees and being stung to death.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT brag about how good you are at video games in front of Brandon. Especially if he's in a bad mood. NonStJon learned this the hard way.
- As a matter of fact, NonStJon shares this button. Just ask Brandon, who preformed the Ghost Bayou Time Trial skip in front of Jon, who had wasted his entire weekend trying to finish it.
- Beyond the Impossible: Stu reveals in part 9 he's somehow able to play Minecraft on a modded Gameboy Color.
- MinerMax has a similar moment when mining, he finds a PS5. Unfortunately, he's ran over by a few thousand people after uncovering it.
- Captain Blockbeard gets a negative example when he goes searching for booty...and instead finds a nuclear launch site.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: Some of the deaths involve jabs at YouTube and their lack of transparency in explaining and enforcing guidelines.
- Black Comedy: Half of the deaths rely on this. Jake defies a couple in his "Forgotton Fables" video going over the deleted scenes of the Fairy Tale edition, notably the death that killed his Author Avatar after laughing too hard at a joke, and a little girl jumping into a lava pit after hearing the tale of The Steadfast Tin Soldier, also known as one of the most heartwrenching fairy tales ever made. Both of these deaths, in his words, "felt way too dark even for a series about people getting killed over and over again", thus causing him to scrap them both.
- Blob Monster: 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".
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: The victim in death 41, part 1 gets hit with this in response to spelling "NOTCH SUX" with blocks.
- Born Unlucky: Sinbad in Fairy Tale Style. His very presence causes both boats he was on to sink, and even outside the water, the people around him sink into quicksand. The death subtitles even call him unlucky. Ironically, he survives every scene he's in.
- 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 "dye". Justified, as JakeEyes does this to try and comply with YouTube's often harsh and unclear guidelines. It's even lampshaded in one of the intros.
- This is averted for the Halloween video, where a good portion of it involves people exploding into bloody messes. Jake even warns people who don't like that stuff to skip ahead.
- Part 16 features a "bloodless" version linked in its description, where two bloody deaths from the original are made into Bloodless Carnage.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- At one point, the Gingerbread Man wonders how much his schtick is going to be milked.
- Redstone Ned has a couple of fourth-wall breaking moments. Such examples include reacting to a comment requesting for a death via his airship, which he states he doesn't have (yet), and the time he criticized a title of the previous death for forgetting to put the border around the tail of a "y", resulting in the title killing him.
- Certain deaths and a couple of the trailers also make it clear that the characters and even the mobs are just actors for the series, which makes the series an example of having No Fourth Wall. A couple of the deaths even take place while the character is filming/working on the videos.
- Brown Note: Anyone who hears the Cackle of The Cinemadversary in part 15 crumbles to dust.
- Butt-Monkey: Redstone Ned has a habit of dying, often due to pointing out something is impossible in Minecraft only for it to become real to kill him, his attempts to evade death tend to blow up in his face, and his attempts to trick Stu often fail due to Stu being Too Dumb to Fool.
- Call-Back: Many times throughout the series does a death call back to a previous death in past episodes. For example, Death 50 in part 10 calls back to three deaths in the first part.
- Can't You Read the Sign?: Both played straight and parodied; death 22 in part one happens when someone fails to heed the "Beware of Dogs" sign, and the very next death happens to someone (Norman298) who actually does stop to read the sign ("Readers will be shot").
- Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: Brandon, for some reason, has buttons on his phone and computer that send a missile towards his house right next to other more benign buttons, like app icons. This results in him getting his house blown up a lot.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Not only does the victim of death 25 in part 5 get banned from the server for cheating, but it's also pointed out that the glitch he was trying to exploit doesn't work anymore.
- Chest Monster:
- Death 24 in Part 5 happens when someone mistakes a Shulker for a Shulker Box.
- Death 40 in the Christmas edition also occurs due to this, with a Shulker disguised as a present box.
- Christmas Episode: "50 Ways to Die in Minecraft: Christmas Edition".
- Comical Angry Face: Many characters, upon being angered, are given a noticeable scowl that takes up the entire lower half of their face and a pair of angry eyebrows to match, reminiscent of the >:( emoticon.
- Continuity Nod: Some deaths are continuations of previous deaths.
- Couch Gag: The intro has changed a lot throughout the series, but the core running gag of dubbing over a clip with a gag line (usually “die in minecraft”, but there are a few variations) and beginning with “Ready? Sego!” with a Visual Pun on screen has largely stayed the same.
- For much of the first batch of videos, the intro would dub over Paul Simon’s song, “50 Ways to Leave your Lover” (fitting), or a cover of it by another artist. However, later episodes would avert this tradition and start dubbing over other stuff. This was lampshaded by Stu in the tenth episode, but justified by Jake, who said he did it to attempt to avoid a YouTube copyright strike.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Death 49 of Part 15, "Meeting Your Match" makes Jeremy Scott a victim of this. Thanks to 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.
- Deadly Prank: Death 22 in the fairy tale edition happens when someone tries to scare Ichabod by dressing as the Headless Horseman, only to get shot.
- Death from Above: Be it getting hit by a falling anvil, pile of gravel, train, airship, or something else, expect at least one of these per video.
- Death World: In the Minecraft world where this series is set, almost anything can kill players. Passive mobs have caused deaths, deserts will frequently hide sand-covered ravines to drop players to their demise, denying the existence of something will make it appear and attack, and other people frequently kill over slights.
- Didn't Think This Through: Too many instances to list, but the Gingerbread Man runs into this particular trope a lot.
- Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Death number 13 of the first episode is "Star Wars Christmas Special". In the Christmas Episode, it almost becomes death number 23... until it's pointed out that they did that one already.
- Die Laughing:
- One character always seems to suffer this — an entirely blue avatar with a LOL emoji for a face.
- jayRiott Suffers a terrifyingly realistic one in Forgotten Fables. When he wishes to be funny, he slowly makes a hilarious (in his own way) sentence....that slowly devolves into manic laughter. One can even hear poor Jake trying to gasp for air as the screen gets greyer and the laughter becomes more desperate. Jake Eyes scrapped this death for being way more dark than he expected.
- Disproportionate Retribution: A lot of deaths are caused by this.
- Stu commenting that Jar Jar Binks is funny while watching The Phantom Menace at home causes an angry Star Wars fan to charge in and cut him down with a lightsaber.
- A lawyer informs Mickey Mouse that they can't sue Jake Eyes for using Pinocchio in Death 46, as the original Pinocchio story is in the public domain, meaning Disney does not own it. Mickey responds by having him dropped into a Lava Pit.
- Death 29 in Part 2 happens when a little girl tries to sing "Happy Birthday" to her dog, leading to her getting shot by the police for violating copyright law.
- Dreadful Musician: If Death 19 in Part 3 is anything to go by, jayRiott is apparently this in-universe.
- Driven to Suicide: Happens rarely, but it does, it's played for Black Comedy.
- Jake Eyes does this for death 8 in part 3 after he listens to what he sounded like when he was younger.
- Feed Me does this in Death 35 in Part 13 after Snake tricks him into putting on a My Little Pony costume with Curse of Binding on it.
- Once Averted: a cut death in Forgotten Fables has BlondWolfGirl jump into a pool of lava after hearing the story of the Steadfast Tin Soldier. Jake Eyes removed this death for believing it was too dark, even for the series' standards.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first part had less dialogue than in the other parts, the deaths were more closely related to Minecraft itself, and Brandon (the guy who keeps getting missiles sent to his house) has his house blown up by TNT instead of a missile.
- Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: Death 48 in part 5. See "Rasputinian Death" below.
- Also, Death 34 in the Fairy Tale episode, when the Bridge Troll and the Big Bad Wolf Eath each other up simultaneously. Somehow....Uh... I don't...
- Also, Death 34 in the Fairy Tale episode, when the Bridge Troll and the Big Bad Wolf Eath each other up simultaneously. Somehow.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The name of the character that constantly suffers Elytra-related deaths is… ThatGuyWithTheElytra.
- Exact Words:
- Death 7 in part 8 happens when a child reads a "must be accompanied by a parent or guardian" sign and decides she should bring a Guardian, which then kills the ticket vendor.
- Death 17 in Fairy Tale Edition: When asked "Who's the fairest of them all?", the Magic Mirror responds by citing a judge. This angers the vain queen who asked the question, so she throws a brick at the mirror, resulting in "Death by being a Reflective Smartaxe".
- 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 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.
- Explosive Stupidity: A lot of characters, but Stu in particular.
- Extreme Omnivore: Stu can and will eat a lot of stuff that isn't possible to eat in Minecraft, though he often dies in the process. Some things he has eaten include a dark oak trap door (which he mistook for dark chocolate), a magma block, a bag of trash (which he mistook for a dried kelp block), a lightning rod (which he mistook for a cheese stick), and a literal yule log.
- Flame War:
- An unlucky sap triggers one in death 39 in part 3, leading to him dying by way of getting caught in the (literal) crossfire.
- It happens again for death 44 of the Christmas edition, once again complete with flaming arrows.
- Flaying Alive: Death 25 in the Fairy Tale special. The Big Bad Wolf visits the kingdom from Sleeping Beauty during the winter, threatening the population... and the villagers (who have no clothes because the king ordered all the spinning wheels to be destroyed) quickly skin him alive for his fur.
- Part 12 features a sheep doing this to take vengeance on a farmer.
- Forced Transformation: A common way to die in this series is drinking a potion or putting on a piece of over-enchanted armor that turns players into an animal and then killed or eaten or into an inanimate block.
- Death 4 in the first part happens when a witch accidentally turns into a sheep, getting them mauled by a hungry wolf.
- Death 37 in part 6 happens when a wizard wearing an Aqua Affinity 255 helm turns into a fish and gets fed to a cat.
- Death 6 in part 9 happens when the victim drinks a Turtle Master 187 potion, turns into a baby turtle, and gets eaten by Drowned.
- Death 11 in part 10 happens when the victim puts on Thorns 255 armor, turning into a cactus as a result.
- Death 31 in part 10 occurs when someone puts on a chestplate with Blast Protection 145 and turns into obsidian as a result.
- Fractured Fairy Tale: The entire point of the fairy tale edition is to parody the events of fairy tales.
- Fun with Subtitles: In the last death in part 2, the subtitles are used to translate the scientists' Techno Babble into Layman's Terms. Then, when the scientists use Layman's Terms themselves, the subtitles translate it into technobabble.
- Fun with Acronyms: The series overarching police forces include the SWAG, which, while not revealed just yet, most likely stands for Special Weapons And Goats due to the Funny Animal goats that appear sometimes.
- Feghoot: A two-fer in Fairy Tale Style, with a Running Gag about Henny Penny gathering a bunch of birds to tell the king that the sky is falling, ending with the birds crushing the king as they roll into court bunched up into a ball ( Fowl Ball); and Henny Penny would then become the kingdom's new warrior queen in what future historians would call " The Great Chicken Coup"
- Felony Misdemeanor: A couple deaths utilize this, especially the US Airspace gags. Take as much as a step into US Airspace and the last thing you'll see is a missile heading straight towards you.
- Death 39 in part 3 is a mafioso getting into a firefight with the SWAG for importing tin cans. Well, illegal tin cans anyways.
- Gale-Force Sound: What causes death 10 in part 8 — Redstone Ned powers too many note blocks at once.
- Gone Horribly Right:
- For death 12 of the Christmas episode, Redstone Ned remembers how he previously got crushed by a present from Santa, so he decides to be as naughty as possible in order to avoid that fate this year. He succeeds… and gets crushed by coal.
- When "X 127 - 255" equipment isn't inflicting a Forced Transformation on the wearer, it's probably doing this.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "Fluke" or "Fluking" has been commonly used to censor any swears or just as a Unusual Euphemism.jayRiott: Where the fluke are you?!
- "Axe" is also used this way on multiple occasions.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: A lot of the deaths in the series involve falling from a great height.
- Good Counterpart: The Death Star gets one in the form of the Life Star, which is able to save Earth from a death blast and lets it go Heavy on the Death Star.
- Greed: The title given to death 4 in part 2note , and the cause of a lot of other deaths in the series.
- Halloween Episode: "50 Ways to Die in Minecraft on Halloween".
- Happy Birthday to You!: Parodied. In death 29 of Part 2, BlondWolfGirl starts to sing the song to her pet wolf Rover for turning one minute old, before being shot to death by a police squad for, as the title states, violating copyright laws.note
- Have a Nice Death: A majority of the titles of each death are funny descriptions of the death being portrayed. Even the in-game death messages have some fun with it.
- Heroic R Ro D: After defeating Jeremy Scott with his laugh laser, 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.
- Heroic Second Wind: Part 15 features Rich Evans, nearly getting disintegrated by Jeremy Scott's laughwaves getting one when the ghost of fellow RedLetterMedia actor Mike Stoklasa showing him a news article on Jar Jar Binks saying he'll soon be as beloved as Winnie The Pooh.
Knowing how that failed, Rich is able to power up his laugh beam. - Hoist by His Own Petard: Often, the characters will be done in by their own actions.
- Horrifying the Horror: Played for Laughs by the Halloween video's trailer. The knowledge that JayRiott killed well over 500 people is enough to scare away iconic horror villains like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: The Running Gag of someone saying "There is no X in Minecraft!", followed by them getting killed by that exact thing.
- Insufferable Genius: Redstone Ned's defining trait, which gets him killed multiple times.
- Jerkass Genie: Played straight and averted in the fairytale edition; death 12 sees the genie use Exact Words to not grant the wisher immortality. However, in death 20, he tries to warn Redstone Ned against wishing his own immortality away while standing in a pool of lava, and in his third appearance, he's merely exasperated by Stu.
- Jump Scare: Death 49 in part 3 is originally presented as literally being bored to death. Then Springtrap rears his ugly head, and it's switched to "Wearing Headphones".
- Karma Houdini: Subverted with Santa Claus in the Christmas edition. He runs over a grandma in death 35, only for said grandma to kill him with a rocket launcher in death 50.
- SnaiktheJaik used to be this, getting away with all his lethal pranks, but recently has become just as vunerable to death as everyone else.
- Kill It with Fire: Fire plays a part in a lot of deaths, whether directly or indirectly.
- Lame Pun Reaction: Death 41 in Part 16 has jayRiott tell a pun so bad that he gets so many tomatoes thrown at him, he dies.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Some deaths and pranks can bite the causers big time. SnakeTheJaik and FeedMe learn this the hard way.
- Last-Second Word Swap: The Gingerbread Man likes to do this in every one of his temptings of fate.Gingerbread Man: Run, run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm-
(Gets shot by a stray.)
Gingerbread Man: Screwed.- Redstone Ned also does this, in an effort to avoid a death by Toilet Humour.
- Lava Pit: A number of characters meet their end by falling into one of these. Death 11 in part 2 has JayRiott get pushed into one for throwing too many actors into lava.
- Layman's Terms: Played for Laughs during the Half-Life Shout-Out in Part 2. The overly technical intro dialogue is accompanied by a translation into simple terms (e.g., "Phase One completed. All systems operating within acceptable ranges," to "First part done. Nothing broke."); there's also one notable inversion where the head scientist verbally orders them to "turn on the big green light," which becomes far more complicated and technical in the subtitling.
- Literal Genie: Deaths 12 and 20 in the Fairy Tale episode come courtesy of one. In the first, a guy wishes for immortality. The genie grants the wish... to a nearby rabbit, preventing it from burning to death in lava, while the guy proceeds to jump off a cliff and die. Redstone Ned then asks the genie to make HIM immortal, which the genie reluctantly agrees to. Redstone Ned jumps into the same lava pool to test his new immortality, only to suddenly realize he's setting himself up for a Fate Worse than Death. He then demands the genie to make him mortal again... while still standing in the lava pool. The genie tries to talk him out of it, but eventually acquiesces to his request. Subverted with the genie's third appearance, as Stu is too dumb to ask for anything other than sandwiches.
- Living Shadow: Death 27 in part 16 has Brandon accidentally setting Entity Shadows to "Bloodthirsty", causing his shadow to come to life and kill him.
- Low Clearance: The cause of death 5 in part 1 - a player tries to ride through a low-ceilinged tunnel on horseback, causing their head to clip into the stone and suffocate them.
- Logic Bomb: The Magic Mirror goes through one in Fairy Tale edition, as a result of the vain queen asking it who is the MOST BEAUTIFUL of them all. The mirror glitches out while attempting to answer because there are multiple fairy tales which describe a main character as being the most beautiful person in the world.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Deaths 16-19 in the Halloween episode involves a recently-converted vampire suffering this after trying to enter a house uninvited, crossing a bridge, walking past a church, and admiring a silver goblet. Death 20 then features the laughing man suffering this after the vampire requests life insurance from him.
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: The Gingerbread Man. For one example:(being chased by Zombies) "Run, run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm-"
(the Gingerbread Man gets shot by a Stray arrow, he stops)
"...screwed." (the Zombies kill the Gingerbread Man) - Mama Bear: Death 33 in part 3 is "Standing Between a Wild Polar Bear and Her Cub".
- Missing Mom: Death 36 in the fairy tale edition happens when Aladdin's mother discovers that her son is about to get a Disney movie about him, necessitating this trope.Aladdin's Mom was Slain for Plot Convenience
- Musicalis Interruptus: Stu's verse of the Dreidel Song in the Christmas Episode is cut short after his dreidel made of TNT explodes in his face.
- Nobody's That Dumb: Death 50 in Part 9. Even Stu isn't dumb enough to try eating TNT. A magma block, on the other hand...
- No Name Given: The characters' names are mostly only stated in the death messages.
- No OSHA Compliance: Several deaths are caused by this. Deconstructed in death 44 of part 15, where the owner of the factories gets into legal trouble after the previous 3 deaths.
- Not in Front of the Parrot!: Two instances in Part 4; the first affecting an unfortunate pirate who happened to be complaining about the captain in front of his Pirate Parrot, and is forced to walk the plank. The second time it happens, the ship has a new captain, Stu, and he orders the parrot itself to walk the plank (upon which just flies away, so it doesn't actually count as a death).
- Nuke 'em:
- The last death in part 2. Apparently, trying to split a bedrock block with a massive laser results in a massive explosion.
- Death 49 in part 9 happens when a pirate mistakes a map to a nuclear warhead testing facility for a treasure map.
- Obligatory Joke: Played with. Death number 52 in Episode 11 features a player saying a cuss on a Christian server... only for the actual death to be "Satisfying the requests of 7.21 trillion viewers at the same time."
- Off with His Head!: Death 23 in the Halloween episode. See "Scooby-Doo" Hoax below.Fred: I can answer that! Once I remove his mask, you'll see it was none other than...
(Fred pulls off the culprit's head, to everyone's horror. A caption above reads "Crazy Gluing your Creeper Mask On". Velma collapses)
Fred: King Louie the Fourteenth! *
(Shaggy vomits up a bunch of Scooby Snacks) - Overly Long Gag: Deaths 16 through 20 in part 6 are about assuming you're the only sniper in the area. The snipers then return for death 41 ("Not Beating the System"), by which point the entire screen is covered in variations of "Believing [X] was the last sniper around."
- Ow, My Body Part!: Death 15 in the Halloween Edition is "Hearing a Blood Curdling Scream", prompting the victim to exclaim "Ow, my blood!" before collapsing.
- Oh, Crap!: If someone's about to die, they might let one last expression of suprise. Victims of SnaiktheJaik's magma block pranks, The Gingerbread Man, and people trying to avoid creepers are fond of this.
- When Darth Vader bears witness to an A-10 Thunderbolt surviving the Death Star's main cannon, he starts hyperventilating and bolts toward the escape pods.
- Great Grand Moff Tarkin gets a moment too when said A-10 blows a hole in the Death Star's reactor, causing him to say this piece of gold:
GG Moff Tarkin: "Tell the judge to take my ex-wife out of my will!" - Out of the Frying Pan: It is very common in this series for characters to try and avoid getting killed by something, only to get die because of something else entirely. For example: Death 25 of Part 9 is trying to avoid a creeper... by hiding in a pool of lava.
- Pragmatic Villainy: The Giant in the Fairy Tale Edition refuses to attack Americans due to Americans having too much trans fat. Norman298 was lucky enough to survive this.
- Pride: There are a number of instances where a character shows pride in their accomplishments/possessions before meeting their untimely demise, often in the process of trying (and failing) to back up some boasting.
- Rain of Arrows: Sometimes characters will get killed by these, with the circumstances behind them changing.
- Rasputinian Death:
- Death 48 in part 5 is this — it has so many deadly things coming at the victim that the death title cards have no clue what actually killed them.
- One death involves Redstone Ned successfully avoiding multiple fatal events before being killed with the /kill command.
- Reduced to Dust: Jeremy Scott's laugh attack causes its targets to turn to dust.
- Rouge Angles of Satin:
- The ones who wrote the signs that read "Notch Sucks" and "Herobrine Sucks" in Part 1 apparently can't seem to tell that just because there is an "/x/" sound doesn't mean that it's always an "X" there.
- One death has someone get slain by misspelling the word "type", which leads to a Total Party Kill.
- Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: Subverted; death 15 in part 3 has this almost happen to Stu, but the anvil is a block off from hitting him. Instead, he get blown up by a Creeper seconds after.
- Running Gag:
- "There's no X in Minecraft!"
- Death by "The First X" (read: getting Zerg Rushed by Zombies and/or Creepers).
- Variants of "Getting Shot by a Ghast Fireball".
- Sub-optimal designs (usually involving building things out of TNT and/or magma).
- Inappropriate things growing on chorus plants.
- The Gingerbread Man and his constant tempting of fate.
- The smug and overconfident guy who jumps off cliffs, assuming that something or other will spare him from the resulting Fall Damage… it never does.
- The highly unlucky fisherman.
- The TNT Warehouse.
- Ye Olde Pre-1.9 Boat Physics.
- Characters venturing into US airspace and getting blown up.
- FinnTheWinn walking over a Sand-Covered Ravine (or something of the like) and falling to his death.
- The fairy tale edition has Penny Henny's quest to warn the king that the sky is falling and Sinbad's chronically bad luck when it comes to sailing.
- A potion or enchantment’s effects in their maximum level. The results have Gone Horribly Right.
- "Son of a glitch!"
- Brandon getting his house blown up by missles.
- Part 15 has someone facepalming and then blowing up.
- Part 14 has Little Green Men doing an Alien Invasion and attacking people, first with a Ray Gun that spawns a literal stingray, then a Laser gun that attracts Cats, and finally a Plasma Cannon that shoots Blood Plasma. All 3 times note the alien overlord executed the engineer.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The subject of Death 23 in the Halloween Episode. The Gang has captured a person dressed up as a creeper to scare people away from the TNT warehouse. Fred attempts to reveal the culprit's identity, but they crazy-glued it to their face, resulting in the culprit's accidental decapitation.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: In-Universe. Given that Jake Eyes has some pretty bad experiences with YouTube copyright strikes demonetizing his channel and videos, they tend to show up a lot as hand-biting jabs at the website's policies.
- Death 29 in part 2 happens when a little girl tries to sing "Happy Birthday" to her dog, leading to her getting shot by the police for violating copyright law.
- Death 17 in part 4 happens after two consecutive Nintendo references, leading to a copyright strike by the company.
- Deaths 38 and 48 in part 6 occur when someone tries to reupload a video and claim it as their own.
- Death 43 in the fairy tale edition sees jayRiott getting killed by Shrek for stealing jokes from his movie. And then Shrek gets killed by Gary Larson for doing the same.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Snaik does this while Redstone Ned is typing in a command to summon TNT in Part 6.
- Jay does the same thing when Ned nearly repeats his mistake in Part 9.
- Darth Vader does this upon seeing an A10 Thunderbolt approaching the Death Star in Part 14.
- Self-Deprecation: Death 19 in part 3 is "Listening to jayRiott Sing".
- Spiked Blood: Stu unintentionally causes this one in death 26 of Part 10. A vampire attempts to drink Stu's blood, but Stu reveals that he's contemplating drinking bug repellent, since he's worried it'll kill all his pet ticks. The vampire realizes this before succumbing to Lyme Disease.
- Spit Out a Shoe: Death 20 in part 16 has a character getting eaten by a Xen Barnacle, which spits the victim's skull out afterwards.
- Shout-Out: Has its own page.
- Showy Invincible Hero: The A-10 at the end of part 14, which shrugs off everything the freaking Death Star can throw at it — all Played for Laughs, of course.
- Simpleton Voice: Stu.
- Sore Loser:
- Death 40 in part 10 happens when the victim beats a server admin at Spleef and gets banned as a result.
- Brandon is easily enraged when he's struggling at video games. It gets even worse if you mock him during this period. NonStJon learned this the hard way.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Be it Creepers, TNT, or just random objects, expect multiple explosions to happen in each video.
- Super Gullible: The final way to die in part 4 is "Gullibility", demonstrated by Stu trading away all of his Totems of Undying for a single cookie.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- If your warehouse is destroyed multiple times through sheer idiocy, there's a very low chance that you'll be able to get insurance on it. This goes double if your warehouse is for containing something as volatile and destructive as TNT.
- Death 43 in part 5 is caused because a bunch of wooden fence poles are incapable of holding up a thick slab of concrete.
- Death 15 in part 6: Pre-Mortem One-Liners are useless if they're too long and you aren't given enough time to finish saying them.
- Death 2 in part 8 shows why you shouldn't be drinking milk straight from the cow without pasteurizing it first.
- Death 9 in Part 9 has the Gingerbread Man attempt to invoke this by swimming in water to evade a polar bear. He finds out the hard way that water doesn't slow down polar bears in Minecraft.
- Death 22 in the Christmas edition shows that traveling at the speed needed to deliver 10 billion presents in one night would kill you.
- Death 23 in the Christmas edition: Your body will not react well to you eating one to many sweets.
- Death 47 in the Christmas edition: Mistreating your employees will eventually lead to them revolting.
- The Fairy Tale edition loves this trope:
- Death 4: The witch's gingerbread house attracts bears as well as children.
- Death 11: Said gingerbread house collapses in the rain.
- Death 13: The smallest billy goat gruff tries to keep the bridge troll from eating him by claiming his bigger brother will be coming the troll's way. The troll points out that he can just eat both of them.
- Death 14: The protagonist of The Tinder Box tries to create a scenario before his execution where he can use said tinder box. Instead, the executioner lights his pipe for him.
- Deaths 18, 19, & 25: By destroying all the spinning wheels in the kingdom, the king from Sleeping Beauty has deprived the tailors of their income and everyone of some sorely-needed clothes come winter. When the Big Bad Wolf shows up in the village, he is promptly mobbed by the whole half-frozen population and stripped of his warm fur.
- Death 22: Dressing up as some scary monster and accosting someone who has had bad encounters with said monster will get you hurt or shot via PTSD-induced panic.
- Death 23: Rumpelstiltskin tries to waltz in and take the first son of the girl he helped, only for her guards to kill him on the spot.
- Death 28: When asked who's the most beautiful of them all, the Magic Mirror breaks because the term is completely subjective.
- Death 29: The protagonist of The Tinder Box discovers the hard way that killing your girlfriend's parents is not a good idea at all.
- Death 30: A double-whammy. Cinderella's glass slippers break when she jumps on them too hard. Not only that, but the wound becomes infected and she dies of sepsis.
- Deaths 37 through 41: The fairy puts everyone in the kingdom to sleep at the same time as Sleeping Beauty, causing a lot of accidental deaths as a result.
- Death 47: A non-death example: Mickey attempts to sue Jake Eyes for using Pinocchio in Death 46. An employee tells him that they can't sue him, as the original Pinocchio story is in the public domain, meaning Disney does not own it.
- Death 48: The wolf averts Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him? with a vengeance, eating Little Red Riding Hood the moment he sees her.
- One that was mentioned in the "Forgotten Fables" video: Reading a heartwrenching story to your kid is bound to scar them for life, especially if the story in question has an equally tragic ending (in this case, The Steadfast Tin Soldier). BlondWolfGirl's grandmother finds this out the hard way when her grandchild gets so upset from the story that she's Driven to Suicide.
- The Halloween edition also plays with this one a couple times:
- Deaths 3 and 55: Always be wary of whatever people wear on Halloween. For example, that Mystery Inc group you're trying to scare might actually be the local milita, and that baby you stole from? He might just be a Yakuza member trick-or-treating as a baby.
- Deaths 28 to 30: It's a very bad idea to make a Your Mom joke near the home of a very well-known serial killing mama's boy.
- Deaths 36 and 43: These two showcase how short The Invisible Man would be if the police decided to just kill Griffin on the spot after revealing his secret, and the fact that being invisible is not a good way to achieve world domination. The Pyro sort of blanks out the second one being a Non Sequitur gag.
- Death 45: Haunted Mansions are very likely to contain termites.
- Death 49: Killing the girlfriend of a very well-known hero will not end well for you.
- Death 50 in Part 12 has the Fisherman, who is having a heart attack, blow up an incoming ambulance to avoid becoming homeless (a jab at American Healthcare bills) ...which results in him immediately dying on the streets, as he now has no way to get his heart attack treated.
- Death 40 in Part 13 shows that low bridges are just one of the many reasons why car surfing is not the best of ideas.
- Deaths 12, 20, 26, & 46 in Part 14: A bunch of drivers end up falling asleep after looking at a sheep farm, resulting in multiple cars driving through a rail guard and off of a cliff, with FinnTheWinn, who was at the bottom of the cliff, getting killed at one point due to a car landing on him. When a construction worker tries to repair the rail guard, he ends up getting run over. While Brandon does manage to avoid this by jumping out of the car (his head rested on the car horn and woke him up), he then gets run over by another car because he was still on the street and made no attempt to get out of the way.
- Death 32 in part 14: A dragon doesn't need a rider to breathe fire.
- Death 42 in part 14: Attempting to perform a maneuver meant to be done with planes in something as small as a grocery cart will get you hurt.
- Death 8 in part 15: Drinking too much water, say, 292 litres of it, can be fatal for you.
- Death 10 in part 15: SnakeTheJaik's prank gone wrong from death 9 (accidentally naming the world "Dinnerbone") causes a lot of accidental deaths as a result.
- Deaths 41 through 43 in part 15 have Stu die due to No OSHA Compliance. Death 44 shows that this got the owner of the factories in legal trouble.
- As Forgotten Fables and part 15 show, laughing too hard can prove lethal, and could kill you since you don't have enough time to breathe in middle of laughing. Rich Evans was lucky enough to survive this. Jake... not so much.
- Take That!:
- Death 13 in Part 1 happens when Redstone Ned watches the Star Wars holiday special. It happens again in the Christmas edition, though it was quickly undone because it already happened in part 1.
- Death 24 in Part 3 is "Working for 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 Activision and a Nickel", where a businessman, making a very animalistic growling noise, slaughters someone for the reason stated above.
- Death 9 in Part 4 is caused by YouTube 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 20 in part 5 is "LA Traffic", where someone waits in gridlocked traffic for so long that they decompose into a skeleton.
- Death 8 in Part 6 boils down to "Liking Jar Jar Binks". Uniquely, this is one both against his fans and haters. The fan is portrayed by Stu and the hater came in and killed him with a lightsaber simply because Stu stated that 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 League of Legends 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 That One Boss on their first try.
- Death 31 in Part 8 is one against the dialogue of Minecraft: Story Mode.
- Death 14 in the Halloween edition is one against EA Games, referring to its CEO's smile as "a truly cursed image".
- Death 32 in the Halloween edition is "Falling asleep while playing Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs on Elm Street." A footnote to the death reads "More like 'Ambien: A Machine For Sleep', Amyrite?"
- Death 15 in Part 11 is one to the infamous incident where Activision fired 800 of their employees despite selling 8 million copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 before its release. Right before the CEO spews pink slips at his employees, his face morphs into the head of Donald Trump as a nod to his memetic "You're Fired!" line in The Apprentice prior to becoming president.
- There are three deaths in a row in Part 13 which are a direct result of reading Homestuck, being drowning in chat logs, getting an epileptic seizure from an animation in the webcomic, and having your head explode from trying to keep track of the plot.
- There's a similarly done 3 deaths in a row also in Part 13, mocking how sugary cereals are passed off as "part of a balanced breakfast", causing the next 3 deaths to be caused by "balanced" chemicals that explode, a "balanced" tower that crushes someone underneath it, and "balanced" political climates.
- And then another one in Part 13's Death 35; FeedMe is unfortunately struck with My Little Pony cosplay enchanted with the Curse of Binding, causing him to jump into a pit of lava.
- Yet another one happens in Part 13's Death 37, this time jabbing at Shrek Super Party and its infamously terrible attempt at the Super-Deformed style.
- Death 47 in the Fairy Tale Edition is one to Disney and their notorious reputation for suing most fanwork, specifically; Mickey Mouse kills one of his employees Dr. Evil style for telling him they can't sue Jake Eyes, since Pinocchio is in the public domain.
- Part 15, specifically Deaths 18, 33, and 48 are this to CinemaSins host Jeremy Scott. More specifically, his laughter, even going so far as to subtitle this part "The Cackle Of The Cinemadversary." They also do this with Rich Evans from RedLetterMedia when he's revealed during the climax.
- Tele-Frag:
- Death 34 in part 6 is caused when a Nether Portal cuts the victim in half.
- Death 28 in part 7 also has this happen, this time due to an incomplete teleport command.
- Teleport Spam: Death 5 in part 2 is caused by excessive use of Ender Pearls and, consequently, excessive spawning of Endermites.
- Tempting Fate:
- "There's no X in Minecraft!" Guess what? There is, and it just killed you. Redstone Ned is a common target.
- The Gingerbread man loves doing this. You'd think he'd learn by now…
- Death 48 in Part 2. Redstone Ned avoids Jake Eyes trying to kill him with an anvil falling on his head, a hail of arrows, TNT blowing up in his face, being dropped several dozen blocks, and being drowned in gravel due to his quick thinking. Ned then makes the mistake of saying "Is that all you can do?", which prompts Jake to type in the "/kill RedStoneNed" command and instantly kill him.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Death 47 in Part 5 features the victim being burned by lava, blown up by TNT and a Creeper, crushed by an anvil, and shot with a couple dozen flaming arrows. All at once. The narration even lampshades this, asking if anyone caught what actually killed the guy.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Many deaths reuse victims from previous deaths. Justified, as this is Minecraft, so players do have the ability to respawn after death.
- Toilet Humor:
- 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.
- Narrowly defied in part 5; Redstone Ned is about to say "There is no 'P' in Minecraft!", but — realizing where this usually leads him — Ned does a Last-Second Word Swap.
- Too Dumb to Fool: When Stu isn't being just plain dumb or very lucky, he can fall into this trope instead. For instance, when Ned attempts to trick him into saying "There are no trucks in Minecraft", Stu first goes through a quick Who's on First? routine, then doesn't realise that Ned wants him to read the provided sign out loud, and then pronounces "Minecraft" as "Mini-craft", because, to quote him directly, "'E's make a [sic] "eee" sound". It ends up being Ned who falls victim to the expected suddenly-manifesting truck.
- Too Dumb to Live: Too many examples to list. Let's just say that a lot of the deaths featured tend to require a character being completely stupid in order for it to happen. Special mention goes to Stu, who is pretty much the living embodiment of this trope.
- Troll: Some deaths are caused by the trolling antics of SnakeTheJaik, a Palette Swap of the Author Avatar. SnakeTheJaik has a black domino and die for a head and blue limbs.
- Vicious Cycle: Deaths 16 through 20 in part 6 instigates one; a guy gets shot a sniper, laughing and trying to claim his medkits… only for another sniper to shoot down the other sniper, try to claim his medkits, and then gets shot down by another sniper. It repeats the process until it reappears in death 41, with Ned being able to close the loop. Only to get killed by the system.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In the Halloween episode, Shaggy throws up Scooby Snacks after Fred accidentally kills the culprit.
- Un-Installment: Played for Laughs. Part 4 was originally skipped over and went ahead to Part 5. Part 4 was later added, with the in-universe explanation being that people were having literal flame wars over the joke.
- Wasteful Wishing: One of the failed deaths in the Fairy Tale episode involves Stu finding a Genie. Stu wastes his first wish on a "sammich", his second on another "sammich", and after deciding he's had enough "sammiches", he uses his third wish for a hoagie.
- When Trees Attack: Death 15 in Part 1 is "Eaten by a Tree".
- Wire Dilemma: One death features this. The team trying to defuse it end up botching it because both wires are Redstone, meaning they both look exactly the same.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Death 20 in the fairy tale edition sees this happen to Redstone Ned. Ned assumes that his wish for immortality will lead to an And I Must Scream scenario, and so demands that the genie reverse it… while he's standing in a pool of lava.
- Your Mom: Deaths 28, 29, and 30 of the Halloween edition involve making these jokes within earshot of Jason Voorhees, Norman Bates, and Grendel, respectively. Stu tries to follow up with one for Death 31, but he can't think of a good one, so he just does a Game Grumps reference instead.
- Zerg Rush: Zombies, skeletons, creepers, silverfish… take your pick!
- Zombie Apocalypse: Zombies of all kinds are a common cause of death.
