jayRiott: "...Even if it has the consequence of getting players mad, we must add, 50 ways to-"
Dub Voice: "DIE IN MINECRAFT!"
jayRiott: "Hey that's what I was gonna sing anyway!"
Dub Voice: "OH. NEVER MIND."
Dub Voice: "DIE IN MINECRAFT!"
jayRiott: "Hey that's what I was gonna sing anyway!"
Dub Voice: "OH. NEVER MIND."
The third episode of the 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft series.
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- The Alleged Steed: In Death 9, a player named Jock Holiday mistakes the aptly-named Noodlelegs for his Cool Horse Thunderhoof. This turns out to be his downfall when he and the horse have to jump off a mountain's peak to escape some mobs.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Death 7 features a talking anvil named Alvin who introduces himself by falling out of trees.
- Anvil on Head: Played Straight in Deaths 7 ("Anvils That Introduce Themselves by Falling Out of Trees Wherever Birds Sleep") and 11 ("Cutting Down a Chorus Plant That Grows Anvils"). Subverted in Death 15 (the below-mentioned Rube Goldberg trap whose title is too much of an Overly Long Gag to transcribenote ), in which the anvil misses the victim.
- Attack Reflector: Death 2 is "Right Back At You", in which an arrow bounces off of its target and hits the shooter.
- Call-Back: Deaths 46 and 47: Redstone Ned gets stopped by a mugger demanding his wallet. Ned says he left his wallet in his truck, tricking the mugger into saying "There are no trucks in Minecraft", leading to a truck running over him, just like one did to Ned when he said the same line in the first episode. Ned then realizes that there are no wallets in Minecraft either, causing a giant wallet to crush him.
- Deaths 25 and 41 are also call-backs to this gag. In the former, Ned expresses his belief by saying there are no fairies in Minecraft, before a fairy flies by and slays him. In the latter, Ned acts as captain of a Titanic-looking ship, and when a crewmate warns him of a iceberg, Ned states that there are no icebergs in the gamenote . No points for guessing what happens next.
- Death 32 ("The First Morning") is a call-back to Death 35 in Part 1: "The First Night".
- Dreadful Musician: Death 19, which shows a whole club of people dying from hearing jayRiott's singing voice.
- Driven to Suicide: What Jake Eyes does when he listens to his voice when he was younger in Death 8.
- Felony Misdemeanor:
- In Death 39, a mafioso gets into a firefight with a SWAG team for illegally importing tin cans.
- Death 50, ThatGuyWithTheElytra gets a missile fired on him for gliding into US Airspace.
- Flame War: In Death 40, Norman298 accidentally triggered one between two groups of people over the existence of global warming when he said it was cold out, which leads to him getting caught in the (literal) crossfire.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe example. Death 48 shows a player watching the end of the first episode, when he complains out loud that there were only 49 deaths. Jake Eyes then comes into his room and slays him for being wrong.
- Jump Scare: Death 49 is originally presented as literally being bored to death. The title then changes to "Wearing Headphones", and Springtrap pops up and screams at the screen, implying that the victim of this death was you.
- Logic Bomb: Ned falls into one of these in Death 29 when he reacts to the previous death, which shows a player playing Minecraft inside of Minecraft. He questions the logic behind this, wondering if Minecraft has itself inside of it, if the player was remote controlling another player through his computer, or if the game he was playing was just a "realistic" looking game. He then realizes he's watching the video on a Minecraft computer, and starts going on another tangent about how Minecraft must have its own YouTube, before a logic black hole opens up and sucks him in.
- Overly Long Gag: The title of Death 15 (see "Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts" below) getting longer and more complex with each step that is shown, to the point where the text on screen is nearly unreadable.
- No-Sell: Death 2: A player tries to shoot FinnTheWinn with a bow and arrow, but Finn blocks it with a shield, causing the arrow to bounce off of it and hit the first player.
- Running Gag: This episode has two new running gags, both of which continued to run in future installments.
- ThatGuyWithTheElytra dying in a way that relates to an Eltrya, either by flying into something, falling by looking up, forgetting the eltyra, or just doing anything with it.
- The Gingerbread Man running away from pursuing mobs, taunting them as he does, before something stops him or slows him down.
- Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: Subverted; death 15 tries to do this with a long and complicated contraption that is activated when Stu flicks a lever. The machine ends with pushing an anvil that is supposed to drop on the victim, but it lands on the block behind him and Stu is unharmed. Instead, he gets blown up by a Creeper seconds after.
- Shout-Out:
- Death 4, "Living in Kansas", shows Dorothy being sucked up into a tornado.
- Death 18 is "Ignoring TLC's Advice" (don't go chasing waterfalls). The victim is Bugs Bunny.
- In Death 25, Ned proclaims that "there's no fairies in Minecraft."
- Death 41 shows Ned captaining a replica of the RMS Titanic shortly before it crashes into an iceberg. As the ship sinks, he begins singing "My Heart Will Go On" by Céline Dion.
- Springtrap appears to jumpscare the viewer in Death 49.
- In The Stinger, Nick Fury knocks on jayRiott's door to talk to him about the Avengers Initiative. Jake closes the door on him.
- Slashed Throat: Death 25, the result of Ned proclaiming there are no fairies in Minecraft.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Deaths 35 through 37 show a fisherman reel in three explosive items: a creeper, a lit piece of TNT, and a pufferfish… filled with nitroglycerin.
- Take That!:
- The trailer ends with a minor jab at Valve and their
memetic reputation for not being able to count to three, when Jay calls Gabe Newell and asks him how he deals with people constantly asking him for a third installment to their many popular series. - Death 24 is "Working for EA Games", where a worker dies of overexertion after being forced to work day and night without sleep.
- Death 26 is "Playing a PC Game on Launch" (with the specific game shown being No Man's Sky)… and getting swarmed by spiders, i.e. bugs. In other words, it's a jab at the practice of releasing games in an unfinished state and letting the customer base serve as beta testers.
- Death 34 is "Standing Between a Wild Activision and a Nickel", where a businessman, making a very animalistic growling noise, slaughters someone for said nickel.
- The trailer ends with a minor jab at Valve and their
- Tempting Fate: The Gingerbread Man's Running Gag debuts in this episode, in which he runs away from a horde of mobs, taunting them that they can't catch him, before something stops him dead in his tracks or something else kills him, causing the pursing mobs to kill him.
- The first time (Death 16) it happens is when a Stray hits him with a Slowness Arrow, allowing a horde of zombies to catch up with him.
- The second time (Death 27) occurs when the Gingerbread Man runs out of a cave and into the desert, causing the zombies chasing him to burn up in the sun. When he stops to make fun of them, a baby Husk comes up and kills him.
- The third and final time (Death 38), he gets himself caught in a cobweb, allowing a bunch of cave spiders to swarm him. It's at this point he acknowledges how bad he is at this.
- Visual Pun:
- The Flame War in Death 40 is fought with Flame Bows.
- Death 26, "Playing a PC Game on Launch": In a Take That! to No Man's Sky, the death shows Brandon boot up the game before being killed by a bunch of spiders, silverfish, and endermites, or in other words: bugs.
