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* In ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'', wandering too close to the edge of a cliff cause Guybrush to fall off and a game over screen parodying [[Sierra]]'s [[Have a Nice Death]] tendencies to appear... and then Guybrush pops back up ("rubber tree").
** In ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'', there was a scene where Guybrush was suspended over a cauldron filled with acid. When you took too long to get out, you fell into the acid and died—only to be reminded that you can't die in a story you are ''yourself telling''.
** In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', at one point Guybrush has to mix alcohol with medicine and drink it, causing him to instantly pass out. The other characters then assume that he's dead and the game is over, going so far as to comment on how it's supposedly impossible to die in a [[
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam & Max Hit The Road]]'', if you use the wishing well at Bumpusland, Sam says "I wish this game was over." You get a "The End" message and the screen fades to black, then Sam says "Hold it! Get back here!" and the game continues.
* In ''[[Omikron: The Nomad Soul]]'', as the name would imply, dying at certain points (not a difficult feat) results in the player's soul merely transferring to a hapless passerby. In fact, {{spoiler|your first character ''cannot'' survive the game; offending the [[Big Bad]] early in the plot has him labeled as a wanted criminal, and he is unceremoniously shot dead attempting to reach the next zone.}}
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{{quote|Or have you? No... this isn't quite the end. You see an intense blue-white light at the end of what seems a tunnel, and drift toward it until you realise that you are staring, dazed, into the light of the slide projector, and have not moved at all.}}
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* ''[[Forum Warz]]'' Episode 2 ends with your character's (apparent?) death, then goes on to state that your character has been deleted, your account has been deleted, and that your IP address has been blocked so you can't make a new one. In fact, every IP address has been blocked so nobody else can play again, and the game servers are being physically destroyed.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' pulls one like these at Icecrown Citadel. In your fight with {{spoiler|Arthas, the Lich King}}, your whole raid will {{spoiler|be killed, once Arthas reaches 10% health}}. However, this is supposed to happen, and in a [[Deus Ex Machina]] moment, {{spoiler|Tirion Fordring shatters Frostmourne with Ashbringer, releasing the spirit of Terenas Menethil II, who will resurrect the players, who then just have to beat on Arthas until he falls over}}. The fight is basically won once this happens, as long as the players don't {{spoiler|set their spirits free}}
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** Since the forsaken are zombies this happens to the character just before you start playing, in fact the very first npc you encounter as a forsaken tells you that they though you might not wake up after all.
* The year 2009 Crimbo event in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' did this. Don Crimbo was unbeatable, but losing to him was followed by a [[Talking Your Way Out]] scene.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'': If you play as a hobbit, you ''will'' get knocked out by bandits within the first few minutes of the tutorial.
** Also, if inevitable eventual deaths count, then the fight with Sambrog in the barrow of Othrongroth is a Fission Mailed. He keeps healing himself when he gets to a certain health level, during which he's untargetable. The only objective is to survive until Tom Bombadil gets there.
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=== [[Real Time Strategy]] ===
* ''[[Hostile Waters]]'' has a example that narrowly avoids being annoying. The first time you see a helicopter with the scientist you were supposed to rescue take off, it means you failed the mission. When the same happens several missions later, it's just a scripted event.
* In ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Red Alert'' you have to capture the Chronosphere for Stalin, but it explodes the in the cutscene after you capture it. Then you are ordered to be shot. Then the blame is (accurately) pinned on someone else and you're reinstated.
=== [[Rhythm Game]] ===
* An ''[[In
=== [[Role
* ''[[Ultima IV]]''. Many players [[Rage Quit]] and reloaded when their boat was sucked into the whirlpool, since the game went black and you got the same initial text that you got when you died. Except - it's actually a ''portal'' to another world under Britannia. D'oh!
* ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' ends the tutorial with a boss fight that will result in your death (if you defeat the boss, you'll be able to get a few things before a later boss punches you in the face via cutscene). Thus setting up the gameplay mechanic of recovering your body after you die.
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** Notably, if you [[Socialization Bonus|bring over items from another game]], [[One Game for the Price of Two|which would have to have already gone far past this point in the plot]], [[Disc One Nuke|you can remove Bass's barrier and take out his HP]]. [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Bass will keep going.]]
* The [[Amiga]] classic ''Captive'' had an occasional blinking "''Droid link failure - Guru Meditation''" message pop up on the screen of the "briefcase computer" the player was using to control the Battle Droids—a spoof of the Amiga's notoriously user-unfriendly critical errors that almost always required rebooting the computer.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mother 3]]''. Let's just say that [[The End]] isn't the end.
** Also, the fight against the mechanical lion in the chimera factory.
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* A ''[[Dungeons
** Likewise, in the adventure ''Death Triumphant'', the conclusion of the ''Grim Harvest'' trilogy, the party of heroes manage to infiltrate Azalin's castle with the intention of stopping him from using the energy of thousands of souls harvested throughout the trilogy to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|unseal the can he was stuck in]]. As it turns out, they don't quite make it in time. The flavor text is meant to suggest that [[Total Party Kill|everybody's dead]]. However, it turns out that the unleashed energy has turned the party, along with everybody else in a twenty-mile radius, into various forms of the undead. Which ''does'' technically make them dead, mind you, but...
* The ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' adventure "A More Perfect Union" uses this to great effect. The players are given generic police officer characters and told to investigate reports of shouting coming from a house in the suburbs {{spoiler|this is actually because the residents have been infected with a sort of mind-control virus and have slowly assimilated everyone inside into a hive mind. Next on their list? The police that come to investigate. Once the players have lost all of the police to [[The Virus]], play picks up again with their own characters.}}
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In an episode of ''[[Daria]]'', Daria and Quinn are driving out to the middle of nowhere to bail Jane and her brother's band out of jail. At one point they pick up a cute drifter who flirts with Quinn before they drop him back off. A little while later, Daria panics when she realizes he stole their bail money. Cue the "We'll be right back" scene...which suddenly cuts back to the show as Quinn explains what ''really'' happened: ''she'' spent the money to buy him things.
* In the two-part Season 2 finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship
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