Chess with Death/Playing With: Difference between revisions

** Death sadly replies that he would love to, but the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] gets on his case when he makes deals like that.

** Death asks if he would like to play chess, as it's been ages since anyone challenged him to a game, but is disappointed when the man is too distracted by his recent demise to pay attention.

[[Dilbert|Dogbert]]: "See ya in August, bone boy." }}

** Building off the "Exaggerated" entry above, the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse challenge the dying man to various other games (playing [[Stratego]] or [[Battleship (game)|Battleship]] against War, playing [[Risk]] against Conquest, playing [[Pandemic]] against Pestilence, and... who knows what kind of game Famine would like?)

* '''Invoked''':

** Due to the popularity of this trope, Death is ''required'' to challenge any and all dying people with a game of chess before taking their soul.

* '''Defied''': Death informs the recently deceased they cannot challenge him to a game, because too many [[Chessmaster|Chessmasters]] attained immortality that way.

* '''Discussed''': "Seriously, playing chess with Death? You seriously think ''that's'' going to do you any good?"