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== [[Action Adventure]] ==

* Hulahooping [[Youkai|oni]] in ''[[Ganbare Goemon]]''.

** Of whom, for some reason, you can actually control to some extent in the second [[Nintendo 64]] game, ''Goemon's Great Adventure''; the faster you shook your analog stick, the faster they would shake their moneymakers.

** Especially [[That One Boss|the tenth Colossus]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9kIxa__ro&t=4m4s Dirge].

* The Grim Reaper in ''[[Maximo]]'' if you don't have any death coins to pay him.

== [[Action Game]] ==

* The Director in the obscure Sega game ''[[The Ooze]]''.

** Dying against a boss fight with one of the other members of the Rogues' Gallery leads to a similar taunt from one of them (like Scarecrow taunting you for dying during {{spoiler|one of his [[Mind Screw]] segments}}, or [[Knightfall|Bane preparing to snap Batman's spine]] - complete with a symptomatic quote: "The bat is broken!").

** This also applies if you're playing as the Joker - the guy taunting you will either be Aaron Cash or Bats himself.

** Or "not worthy!" in the SNES version.

* In the 3D0 adaptation of ''[[Demolition Man]]'', Sylvester Stallone (who reprised his role for the game) would actually taunt the player upon failure. Since the game was very difficult and not very well-designed, this tended to happen a lot.

** From the same developer, dying in ''[[The Uninvited]]'' is accompanied with a close-up shot of a skull against a bloody background.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI This nut] in ''[[Total Distortion]]''. Probably better-known than the entire rest of the game.

* In ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]'', the Hecatomb will mock you.

* The LAUGHING SKULL in ''[[Police Quest]] 1'' VGA. ''2'' and ''3'' has Jim Walls berating you for your failure.

* In ''[[King's Quest VI]]'', the gatekeeper to the Realm of the Dead. Unusual for this trope is that you actually get to visit that location, alive, late in the game.

* In ''[[Space Quest III]]'', the Two Guys From Andromeda.

** The [[Grim Reaper]] himself in the remake of ''[[Space Quest I]]''.

 

== [[Beat'Em Up]] ==

* Mortus in ''[[Comix Zone]]''.

 

== [[Driving Game]] ==

 

== [[Fighting Game]] ==

* Lose to the [[Final Boss]] Unknown in ''[[Tekken]] Tag Tournament 2'', and she will appear on the continue screen to gloat. Because she's [[SNK Boss|not exactly easy]], you will see this screen ''a lot''.

 

* In ''[[Operation Body Count]]'', during game over, a villain shouts "You lose!".

* [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Goldfire]] pops up with his trademark [[Evil Laugh]] on your character's "REBA" personal data assistant to taunt you about your failure when you lose all your lives in ''[[Blake Stone|Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold]]''.

* In ''[[Isle Of The Dead]]'', when you got a [[Game Over]], you were treated to a short cinematic showing the circumstances of your death, followed by the [[Mad Scientist]] giving an [[Evil Laugh]]. Also, when you quit the game, you see a scene of the main character [[Ate His Gun|blowing his own head apart with his shotgun.]] (Followed by the same [[Mad Scientist]] laughing.)

 

 

== [[Interactive Fiction]] ==

 

== [[Light Gun Game]] ==

* In the Genesis ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games, Dr. Robotnik taunts you with missed Chaos Emeralds if you beat the game without acquiring all of them. (Losing all your lives simply gives you a standard Game Over message.)

** Also, your player character is a ''continue'' man, waiting for your input so that he can run off the screen and continue the quest.

** If the Toadies take Baby Mario away in ''Yoshi's Island'', you get a short scene showing the group against a black backdrop before flying off-screen and the usual response to losing a life takes over.

* ''[[Castlevania]]'' games have frequently had these since ''Symphony of the Night''. Featured characters include [[Dracula]], [[Grim Reaper|Death]], Boschian artwork, Bloody Tears, a completely random dragon...

** Especially meaningful and imposing in ''[[Dawn of Sorrow]]'', where Death shows off possession of, well, your soul.

** The voice-over in ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'':

* Rafiki in the SNES and Genesis versions of ''[[The Lion King (Video Game)|The Lion King]]'', although the 8-bit versions have Scar instead.

* And of course, the Queen in the SNES version of ''Alien³''. Complete with a digitized "game over, man!" to boot.

** For Yoda, when you continue, he says, "Do or do not. There is no try." When you quit, he says, "That is why you fail."

** Emperor Palpatine's expression stays immutable if you decide to quit or run out of continues, but when you continue, he scowls at you.

** Ugly Grunty is heard cackling when you die regardless of whether or not it's a game over.

* The ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series has sidekick Daxter say something snarky in the first and third games (though these are rare in the latter's case).

*** The opening cutscene should be an even bigger giveaway. The conversation between N. Gin and Cortex pretty much gives it away.

*** Another giveaway? The freaking subtitle of the game!

* A laughing Noid in ''[[Avoid the Noid]]''.

 

* ''[[Beatmania]] IIDX 8th Style'' shows an alien DJ on the results screen if you fail a song.

 

** He also plays the [[Nonstandard Game Over]] Man in ''4'' if you miss a dungeon deadline, offering to send you back in time one week to have another go.

* The spirits of the previous Raidous in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]''.

* ''[[Tengai Makyou]] Zero'' has short scenes that play out whenever your party is felled by a boss.

* {{spoiler|Darkrai}} from ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky.]]'' If you die during the pre-credits storyline, then you can actually hear him laugh evilly on the Game Over screen since you couldn't defeat [[Disc One Final Boss|Primal Dialga]] and stop the [[Bad Future]]. If you die during the post-credits storyline, they will actually show [[It's a Wonderful Failure|an even worse cutscene]] {{spoiler|once he finally shows up in person.}}

** And how do i get to see the game over screen?I've died plenty and i can say i've never heard of it until now.

== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ==

* ''[[Gradius]]'' starting with ''II'': "You need more practice!" or "Come on, we're just getting started!"

 

== [[Survival Horror]] ==

* In ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', dying will sometimes result in a creepy cutscene during which a certain mysterious monster appears and drags your corpse away. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwZ-vvnbps Example].

** And playing as the little kid, the scene cuts to Carnby being held by his hands on a ship's mast as soon as you get hit or caught at all.

** Likewise in part 3 where if your killed by the ghost cowboys. There a scene of your body strung up upside down with the ghost gathered around you.

* The Mad Hatter from the first [[American McGee's Alice|Alice]]. '''RUNNING AWAY, ARE WE?''

== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ==

* Xizor in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Shadows of the Empire]]''.

 

== [[Visual Novel]] ==

 

== MMORPG ==

 

== Other ==

 

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