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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==
* ''[[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!
* ''[[Demons Souls|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.
** And prepares you for the many, many, many, hopeless battles ahead.
** Some particularly skilled players found that it is possible to beat the tutorial's boss. Then a ''dragon'' shows up to finish the job.
* ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' does this four times:
** The first battle in the original ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' is a fight against Bowser that [[Hopeless Boss Fight|you have no choice but to lose]], since he is made invincible by the Star Rod.
** In ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand -Year Door|Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]'', when the player fights in the battle arena, the player must lose to the (invincible) Armored Harriers in order to continue. Doing this causes a Yoshi to join the party. He can defeat the Harriers by spitting one at the other.
** Also in that game, Mario fights a Duplighost named "???" who turns into a purple Mario. Upon "winning" the fight, we see that Mario and "???" have switched bodies. You can only set things right by finding out "???"'s real name, {{spoiler|Doopliss, and the letter "p" to spell it with}}.
** In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', you really ''do'' die at one point, but then continue the game in the afterlife.
*** {{spoiler|Actually Mario and Co. are sent to the [[Punny Name|Underwhere]] still alive, but the player doesn't know that until Mario and Luigi are able to return.}}
* In ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time|Mario & Luigi: Partners inIn Time]]'', the player must lose to the Shroobs in order to get the Baby Mario Bros. to join the party.
* Reaching 100% on the d-counter in ''[[Breath of Fire]]: Dragon Quarter'' normally means Game Over. However, [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|the attack necessary to defeat the final boss]] will fill it to 100%, and this is in fact the only way to win the game.
** Pretty much all of the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' games except the first one require a Fission Mailed at some point. Some of them more obvious than others. And if you need a list:
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** The fight against {{spoiler|Dozo and Okiyo in the Euclid Arena}} qualifies, but it is possible to win with some extra grinding/Infinity Plus X swords available elsewhere (It goes up to Infinity Plus 5!)
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', there are two Fission Mailed battles {{spoiler|at the Tower of Salvation against Kratos and Yggdrasill}}. Both battles allow you to lose and still continue the game, but you can also defeat them. The first battle can be beat with a bit of grinding, but the second would take a major amount of leveling to pull off (probably approaching Level Cap).
** [[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World|Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]], the sequel, features a few of these as well. {{spoiler|Under the Tower of Mana against Lloyd, who you can defeat, but the game will continue as if you lost anyway, Richter toward the end of Chapter 7 can be beaten, but losing to him changes nothing about the plot, and against Lloyd and Marta at the end of the game, only this time winning gets you the Bad Ending and losing will get you the true/normal ending}}.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: [[Morrowind]]'', one of the side quests requires you to {{spoiler|go to a specific canal in Vivec and allow yourself to drown to death in order to find a hidden shrine.}}
** Similarly in ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four|Oblivion]]'', there's a quest where you have to let a NPC kill you. This time though the game explicitly tells you what you must do.
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