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* Your packmates in ''VideoGame/{{Wolf}}'' will remain dead if something happens to them, as will any animals that you kill for food.Â

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* The form without an option to even restart the entire campaign, seen in ''You Only Live Once'' or ''Sub Mission'' above, is parodied in a ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' Photoplasty. It's called the [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_381_22-terrible-ideas-that-would-have-ruined-great-video-games/ #22 terrible idea that would have ruined]] ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.Â

->''"If you leave your game, stay safe, stay alert, and whatever you do, don't die! Because if you die outside of your own game, you don't regenerate, EVER! '''''Game over!'''''"''Â
-->-- '''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''' explaining the dangers of dying in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''Â
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* In ''VideoGame/TheWizardOfOz'', if the Lion, Scarecrow, or Tin Man die, they're dead for the rest of the game. Though you can pick up lives for all three of them, they're pretty rare in comparison to Dorothy's.Â

* In the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series, a unit that falls in battle in the missions is generally gone for the remainder of the campaign. Plot-important characters are considered to have sustained a crippling injury so that they can never fight again (allowing them to interact with other characters during cutscenes), whereas less important characters simply perish. If a ''main'' character is killed, it is [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou game over]]. There is, however, nothing to prevent players from [[SaveScumming reloading the mission]] every time a character dies. Starting with ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem New Mystery of the Emblem]]'', the series includes a "Casual Mode" where this can be disabled, allowing defeated characters to be usable again in the next mission (or even the next ''turn'', in the case of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''' "Phoenix Mode"). Some games also have items that can resurrect allies who have died, but these items tend to be [[TooAwesomeToUse difficult to find, few in number, and limited to one use.]]Â

* In the 1988 NES game ''The Uncanny X-Men'', you have six X-Men at the beginning of the game, and if any of your X-Men die, they're dead for good. If all of your X-Men are dead, then it's game over.Â

* in ''Xpand Rally'', in case of a really disastrous crash the pilot can die and the career must. Obviously, restarted from scratch with a new one.Â

* In the NES game ''{{VideoGame/King's Knight}}'', if any of your characters die during the game, they're dead for good and they won't appear in the final stage.Â

* In the NES game ''{{VideoGame/KingsKnight|King's Knight}}'', if any of your characters die during the game, they're dead for good and they won't appear in the final stage.Â

* In the NES game ''{{VideoGame/KingsKnight King's Knight}}'', if any of your characters die during the game, they're dead for good and they won't appear in the final stage.Â

* In the NES game ''{{VideoGame/KingsKnight}}'', if any of your characters die during the game, they're dead for good and they won't appear in the final stage.Â

* In ''VideoGame/OgreBattle64'' sometimes, if a human dies, they ''permanently'' change class into an angel or a zombie. The angel's nice, but only happens to [[GamePreferredGender female]] characters who were extremely lawful in life. The zombie class can happen to any human, and is exceptionally [[SpoonyBard spoony]]. (However, they could upgrade to a passable skeleton, only to turn into an even spoonier ghost.) In some games, there was a zombie dragon for dragons.Â
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* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', on the other hand, applies this trope on [=NPC=]s instead of players.Â

* Roguelike games in general have this as one of the core features of the genre. Some games try to detect -- and reject -- copies of the deleted save file, but most simply put in finger-wagging messages.Â

* Closer to it are {{roguelike}} games, such as ''VideoGame/NetHack'' and ''VideoGame/{{Angband}}'': If your character dies (and you can be ''very'' [[EverythingTryingToKillYou sure]] that [[NintendoHard they will]]), ''your character is erased.'' New characters retain a "memory" of monsters fought. Some versions of these games try to detect -- and reject -- copies of the deleted save file, but most simply put in finger-wagging messages.Â

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35'', when Mario ([[SecretCharacter or Luigi]]) die once, that's it. You lost that particular BattleRoyale round. Now you can watch others play, or leave and find a new one.Â

-->-- '''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''' explaining the dangers of dying in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''Â
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* The ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' Fangame ''Grief Syndrome'' starts with all five of the main cast, but if any of them die they're gone for good. [[spoiler:And if Sayaka dies before the final boss you're forced to fight her witch form.]]Â

* Hardcore Mode in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' makes it so dying erases your save (as opposed to the previous installments, which let you die as much as you wanted but saving was limited to three saves for the whole campaign).Â

* In ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', death is normally not an issue for your character- that is, unless you finish the "Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name" quest line. If you do that, your character will die forever- but really, you'd have no one but yourself to blame if you did that, as the game warns you several times that nothing good can come from it.Â

* In the 1988 NES game ''The Uncanny X-Men'', you have six X-Men at the beginning of the game, and if any of your X-Men die, they're dead for good. If you lose all of your X-Men, then it's game over.Â

* The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES video game adaptation]] of Series/ChojinSentaiJetman starts with five sentais available from the start, but if any of them die they're gone for good. Which means you have to restart the level with one less sentai. The game will be over in a bad note if all five sentais die [[spoiler:and if the sentais lose the mecha fight against boss characters]].Â

* * The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES video game adaptation]] of Series/ChojinSentaiJetman starts with five sentais available from the start, but if any of them die they're gone for good. Which means you have to restart the level with one less sentai. The game will be over in a bad note if all five sentais die [[spoiler:and if the sentais lose the mecha fight against boss characters]].Â