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* {{spoiler|[[The Scrappy|Rolo Lamperouge]]}} in ''[[Code Geass]] R2'' overuses his [[Evil Eye|Geass]] to escape/fight off a veritable army of pursuers, causing so much strain on his heart that he dies soon after. [[Heroic Sacrifice|He knew exactly]] what [[Redemption Equals Death|he was getting into]], and it's considered by some to be his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''and'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]... which is [[Character Development|all the more impressive]] considering he previously crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by casually murdering his own allies for [[He Knows Too Much|knowing too much]].
* Souma Oogami in ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' repeatedly uses his [[Orochi]]-induced power against Orochi and {{spoiler|it eventually petrifies him}}.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has this happen to {{spoiler|Asuka}}, [[Finagle's Law|at the worst possible moment]].
** The fact that it happens during a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] makes it even worse.
** It also happens to Rei.
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* Near the end of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'', D-Boy uses the Blaster Mode so often that his mind gets completely screwed up. So much so, that he starts forgetting everything, ultimately {{spoiler|ending with him forgetting everything else except his hatred towards Radam. He still won like that, but ended up in a coma.}}
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' has a villainous example: {{spoiler|Kyoto Arc [[Big Bad]] [[Social Darwinist]] Shishio Makoto}} over-exerted himself in the battle against Kenshin and spontaneously combusted, sparing Kenshin the difficult decision of whether or not to break his [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] vow.
** The main cast isn't immune to this. After the villainous example mentioned above, Kenshin himself collapses and his friends have to carry him away. Due to his lack of muscle, Kenshin's body goes through serious stress when using {{spoiler|Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu.}} The {{spoiler|repeated overuse}} throughout the series inflicts hell upon him, and by the end of the series he is completely incapable of fighting at his old level.
*** In a sense it is a concept of "the straw that broke the camel's back". Kenshin's style mastery was incomplete so he fought mostly with what he had. He usually showed no sign of slowing down before. However, once he learned the ultimate technique, it all snowballed since it put a lot more strain on his body than any other technique.
** {{spoiler|Sanosuke's}} hands get broken whenever he uses {{spoiler|Futae no Kiwami}} after the Kyoto arc.
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* In ''[[Solty Rei]]'', Integra Martel had an ability of [[Super Speed]], but she was limited to three uses before risking neurological damage. Against the [[Big Bad]], she pulls out ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|four]]'' before collapsing.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', this is basically Guts' super power, especially after he starts using the berserk armor.
* In ''[[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation]]'', Muhyo typically has to sleep after using major magic laws, which take away from his body's tempering, but if he pushes himself too far and uses up all his tempering he goes into an unconscious state, and his life is endangered unless he gets rest or drinks tempering water (which can be poisonous).
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', {{spoiler|Chao Linshen}}'s red rings of death are actually magical runes engraved on her body which allow her to use powerful magic, but have a deadly strain on her body.
** It's also later revealed that, after learning [[Black Magic|magia erebea]], {{spoiler|Negi}} will experience similar effects.
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* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]] Endless Waltz'', in order to breach the [[Big Bad]]'s fortified bunker, Heero repeatedly fires his buster rifle at it. However, the Gundam sustained a good deal of damage over the course of an earlier battle, so the recoil of each shot begins breaking chunks off of it until the [[Rule of Three|third and final shot]] causes [[Stuff Blowing Up|catastrophic failure]].
** Also arguably a Crowning Moment of Awesome for, not Heero, but the Wing Zero itself as this is the best Gundam 'death' in the Gundam Wing universe, if not the entire franchise.
* This happens in ''[[Metropolis (anime)|Metropolis]]''. {{spoiler|Tima goes Ax Crazy after engaging the weapon of mass destruction in order to prevent the death of Keiichi. But she pretty much is destroyed at the end because the power is too much for her to handle}}.
* It happens to wielders of Witchblades and Cloneblades in ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' the anime. {{spoiler|Reina tries to fight off Maria and reaches her limit, turning to dust, while Masane uses up all the strength left in her in the final battle, and meets the same fate.}}
* Happens to [[Sailor Moon|Usagi]] twice in the manga: the first time was at the end of the Dark Kingdom arc when she gathers all the power she had to defeat Metallia, causing her broach to shatter and Usagi herself to fall over stone dead. The second time was in the fight with Chaos in the Galaxy Cauldron: she channels the power of hundreds, if not thousands, of Sailor Crystals within the Cauldron through her body to dissolve Chaos into the Cauldron, hopefully not to be reborn from a long long time. This act causes Usagi's body to totally disintegrate.
* Giant Robo, of the ''[[Giant Robo]]'' OVA, has a link with its controller, Kusama Daisaku. If he is ever in mortal danger, Robo will immediately take off to save him. At ''50 times'' normal output. While this would normally be enough to, say, punch a hole in the moon, Robo can't actually control this output. So when it tries to get to Daisaku through an impenetrable barrier... he has to order Robo to stand down or explode. [[I Love Nuclear Power|There's a damn good reason Daisaku wants to avoid this.]]
* This happens to Ciel in ''[[Black Butler]]''. Already a pampered, but somewhat frail boy he joins Noah's Circus to find out the whereabouts of children that have recently been disappearing. He's only there a day before the mix of the cold weather and the new strain being put on his weak body takes its toll and he ends up vomiting violently. As it turns out he has {{spoiler|asthma and although its symptoms haven't turned up in the three years Sebastian has been with him the sudden stress on his body on top of a cold he caught takes him out with a high fever and he's forced to rest, despite his retaliation.}} Keep in mind the series takes place in the 1880's and that such a condition would be much more life threatening than it is today.
** {{spoiler|[[Nigh Invulnerable|Sebastian]]}} gets one in chapter 65, nearly collapsing after {{spoiler|being [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]] by the Undertaker, getting Ciel off a ship that's been ''chopped in half'', and eradicating the zombie horde, while on a rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic.}}
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* In ''[[Change 123]]'' the described risks of fighting as Zero are scarily similar to the real life example below. Zero doesn't seem to have the mental block everyone else has and could easily rip her body apart by fighting all-out. Luckily she usually over-exerts herself and passes out before anything like that can happen.
* In ''[[Magicians Academy|Macademi Wasshoi]]'', it's implied that {{spoiler|George's supermode}} is this, though on a less serious scale.
* In ''[[Holyland]]'', this occurs following Yuu's [[Heroic BSOD]]. Although the cause is more psychological than physical, the result is that Yuu loses his form, and with it, most of his fighting ability. The local thugs, many of whom were afraid of him until that point, take advantage of this.
* In ''[[Heroic Age]]'', the Heroic Tribe members, which are insanely powerful, can fall in a state of "mental chaos", in which they get even '''more''' powerful, but may kill themselves if they snap out of it.
* The signature move of [[Anti-Hero|Hiei]] from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' is the [[Hellfire|Dragon of the Darkness Flame]], which summons demonic energies in the form of a dragon made of black and purple flames. While technically not deadly, the only way to lure the Dragon of the Darkness Flame from whatever hell it is in is to use a piece of one's own [[Soul Power]] as bait, although actually letting the Dragon have the soul is not required.
** Yusuke's fight with Suzaku winds up draining all his spiritual energy, leading him to use his life energy instead. He manages to kill Suzaku, but the act of doing so nearly kills himself as well.
** Kurama has the ability to put all his remaining energy into one final attack to summon one of his demonic plants, and does so to try and kill Karasu during the Dark Tournament. Thanks to some recent transformations into Yoko Kurama increasing his strength, it makes him able to survive the act.
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Black*Star had the Uncanny Blade that could devour his soul and put a strain on his heart.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Ishida and {{spoiler|Ichigo}} get one of these when they voluntarily engage in acts that they know will end up destroying their powers forever (they both eventually get them back).
** When Ichigo first uses Bankai, he pushes his body so hard that his bones start disintegrating.
* Yuki from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' is coming dangerously close to RROD in the preview of Book 10 of the light novels.
* ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]'': Lenalee after the fight with Eshi. Also happened to Allen when he pushed his arm too far.
* In ''[[Innocent Venus]]'', overuse of the mechas leads to side effects for the pilots... unless they're ''terrible'' people. This is due to the fact that they're {{spoiler|[[Powered by a Forsaken Child]], and those trapped souls aren't happy}}.
* In ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', Holland had to consume drugs in order to pilot the LFO typeB303 "Devilfish" seen from episode 43 onwards. Overdose of the drugs could shorten lifespan or even result in death.
* Whoever uses the power of "Eye of Aeon" in ''11eyes'' will end up causing great pain and strain on the user. Protagonist Kakeru at one point have his entire body nerve cords severed because of it. With each use means danger to the user as it sucks the soul of its user.
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* In volume 22 of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', Accelerator uses the magical grimoire lambskin to {{spoiler|heal a sick Last Order who was slowly dying due to the strain of the summoning of Aiwass}} since he is an esper, using magic caused his body to essentially start self-destructing
** Tsuchimikaido does this as well, though his esper ability (level 0 auto-regenerate) allows him to live through more spells than most.
* Chapter 46 of ''[[Rosario
* Yoite in ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' lives this trope. Using his Kira technique slowly kills him (by draining his chi/ki/lifeforce), and there are points in the series when he'll use it repeatedly until he is too weak to stand. Eventually {{spoiler|it kills him, turning his relationship with Miharu into the ultimate [[Tragic Bromance]]}}
* Happens twice in ''[[Ashita no Joe]]''. {{spoiler|Both times are [[Casualty in the Ring|are fatal]].}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Spawn]] has a limited amount of necroplasm in his body, which he needs to use his powers. If he uses it all, he gets sent back to Hell. {{spoiler|It happened to him at least once. He got better.}}
* In the ''[[Knightfall]]'' arc of the [[Batman]] comics, this was Bane's key strategy in handing Batman a rare and devastating defeat: Releasing all the inmates of Arkham Asylum at once and letting him wear himself out trying to recapture all of them, then easily crumpling the exhausted superhero.
* This in fact was exactly why [[Superman]] [[The Death of Superman|died fighting Doomsday]]. Of course, being [[Contractual Immortality|Superman]] (and a [[Death Is Cheap|comic book character]]), he got better.
* In ''[[Exiles]]'', Thunderbird (a version of John Proudstar who became Apocalypse's Horseman of War) [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|rips a hole in Galactus's armour and shoves an anti-matter bomb inside]], saving the day - as Galactus then ''runs away''. As a consequence of his exertion, Thunderbird suffers a [[Heroic RROD]] that sends him into a coma.
* During [[Daredevil]]'s first encounter with the Kingpin, he broke into Kingpin's vault which had the weight of the vault door as it's only defense. It's worth noting that a teenage [[Spider-Man]] had previously struggled hard to open the very same vault and that this was back in the day when Kingpin was still a house-wrecking, Spider-Man-pummeling monster of a mobster. DD decided to give it a try and pulled beyond his breaking limit (much like the [[Real Life]] example below). Using sheer willpower to pull until his limbs were literally about to come off. He got it open and when cornered by Kingpin himself, still managed to put up enough of a fight to hurt the big man... before running out of breath and being one-punched into oblivion.
* [[The Flash]] can run faster than sound without too much difficulty. When he runs [[Up to Eleven|faster than faster than light]], he risks being permanently absorbed by the "Speed Force" that powers all DCU speedsters. A number of other speedsters, such as Johnny Quick and Savitar, have met with this fate (which isn't considered a bad way to go; sort of like reaching nirvana). Wally West is the only person to consistently be able to return; his [[The Power of Love|love for his wife Linda]] provides a sort of "tether" to the real world.
* In a classic [[Iron Man]] story, back when his armor was also life support, Tony overrides his suits [[Power Limiter|Power Limiters]] to put all his power into one punch. A punch that knocks out the [[Incredible Hulk]]. He then proceeded to pass out from a heart attack.
** This trope is a regular thing for Tony, especially pre-[[Nanomachines|Extremis]].
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* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] mentions in one of the early books that over doing magic could essentially burn out your brain and render you unable to use magic again.
** It's also possible for mages to do this ''intentionally'', by drawing on all of their life force, and all available forces around them. Upside, one really ''really'' powerful spell. Downside, the witch or wizard who uses this method '''WILL''' die.
** And since ''Small Favor'' Harry has had access to [[Soul Fire]]. A heavenly force of creation that he can use to power his spells. Unfortunately if he uses it too much, he'll burn out his soul and die. Without a soul...
* [[Black Jewels|Jaenelle Angelline]], when trapped in a village with Lucivar, villagers and insufficient supplies. Her power begins to consume her body as it is used. Afterwards, she can barely walk under her own power.
* In the original [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[Carrie]]'', {{spoiler|Carrie died after her final vengeance upon [[Alpha Bitch|Chris Hargensen]] and [[Jerk Jock|Billy Nolan]] caused her heart to give out through overdoing the use of her power. She's not really heroic, though.}}.
** Andy McGee in ''[[Firestarter]]'' does this, pushing his [[Mind Control]] power further and further until eventually he gets a brain aneurysm.
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* When the First Doctor regenerated into the Second on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', it was directly stated that it was physical breakdown. In the past few adventures, he'd been: {{spoiler|aged by the Time Destructor, vanished by [[Psychopathic Manchild|the Celestial Toymaker]], had his life energy drained, been in the same time and city as a future incarnation, and suffered in a planetary energy drain}}.
** The Ninth Doctor became the Tenth by taking on energy so strong that it would have killed Rose.
** The Tenth Doctor became the Eleventh by absorbing a critical amount of radiation.
** Donna's exit can also be considered this. {{spoiler|Donna absorbed the Doctor's intelligence and saved the multiverse. Afterwards, however, the extreme amount of information started to kill her because it was too much for her human brain. In order to save her, he had to erase all of her memories of him so that the information would remain locked away.}}
* If ''[[Ultraman]]'' (or his [[Ultra Series|many successors]]) ever completely runs out of power, he will never rise again.
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* In ''[[24|Twenty Four]]'', Jack Bauer is usually on the verge of a complete physical breakdown by end of the season, as a result of the punishment he's endured and from simply going at least twenty-four hours without sleeping, drinking, eating or [[Running Gag|using the bathroom]]. Being [[The Determinator]], it (usually) doesn't stop him from laying the smackdown on terrorists. Notable examples:
** Day 2, where Jack is ''having heart attacks'' in the final hours as a result of being tortured earlier in the day.
** Day 7, where Jack is exposed to a fast-acting bioweapon and spends the remainder of the day showing more and more symptoms: shakes, memory loss, collapsing in the middle of FBI headquarters...
* In ''[[Roswell]]'', Max is forced to make an old man young again, since he's a "healer". Since Valenti's life is on the balance, he does it, but in the process he ages and destroys his own body. He also faints at a hospital after healing five kids from cancer. After the first one, he seems okay, but by the last one he can barely stand, has tunnel vision, and is sweating. Hence, the fainting.
* In ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', Superman stops a space station from falling out of orbit, which he later describes as the heaviest thing he has ever lifted. He returns to Earth with over-strained muscles, and is in pain for a short time.
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*** Epilogue confirms it, however. Shiki's lifespan is still on the level of 'death uncertain', but he's not likely to die immediately after.
** This happens a lot to Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' as well, due to his affinity for a certain kind of magic and his tendency to push his body beyond the limits of what any normal human body should take, usually causing him to collapse from [[Post Dramatic Stress Disorder]] and requiring magical healing to get back up again. It reaches its natural conclusion {{spoiler|in the endings of Heaven's Feel, where Shirou's over-dependence on a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] for projection magic causes his body to be gradually converted into swords -- without Ilya to bail him out [[Multiple Endings|in the Normal Ending]], this [[Killed Off for Real|kills him]]. Well, technically, he dies anyway, but...}}
* [[White Knight Chronicles]]: Done in a particularly slow and [[Tear Jerker|heart-wrenching]] fashion in the second game. [[The Hero]], Leonard, finds himself gradually weakened by the use of the titular [[Humongous Mecha|White Knight.]] Eventually, it gets so bad that {{spoiler|he collapses in the middle of a major battle and needs to be carried back to Balandor. The next time he's seen, he's in bed, grunting from the sheer pain caused by his Heroic RROD.}} After that, he's either shown unconscious, ''intensely'' struggling with his condition, or laying around, too weak to move and completely out of it. {{spoiler|[[Serious Business|We're not kidding!]] He's gone for about a fourth of the game!}}
* ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]'' does this - the titular plume raises a character's stats to ten times normal, makes them immune to status aliments and elemental damage and casts a character-specific [[Game Breaker]] ability [[The Hero]] learns after the battle, instantly turning any battle into a [[Curb Stomp Battle]], but having their potential unlocked in this manner kills them permanently.
* Aigis of ''[[Persona 3]]'' can activate her Orgia mode during a battle, which makes her attacks stronger for a few turns, but you better hope the current battle ends before she has to cool down for a few turns making her totally vulnerable. {{spoiler|One cut scene shows what happens if she doesn't cool down.}}
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* Batman comes dangerously close to this by the end of ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]''. As the game progresses, his suit slowly becomes more and more tattered (tears on his suit and cape, scratches on his face and cowl, five-o'clock shadow, bloodshot eyes), culminating in Batman intentionally {{spoiler|[[Megaton Punch|punching out a Titan-infused Joker with a fist covered in explosive gel]], mangling his gauntlet}}.
* The villainous example happens to Genesis in ''[[Crisis Core]]'', who proceeds to hijack the plot. Also happens to {{spoiler|Angelo's clone and Zack}}
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', warlocks have a spell called ''hellfire'' that will instantly and continuously do massive amounts of damage in a radius around the caster (literally, red rings of death.) However, doing this also damages the warlock, and will kill him if used for too long.
** A similar but less extreme example is the Life Tap spell which allows the warlock to directly convert health to mana, but it is impossible to life tap to death.
*** Making this more of an HP -> MP situation
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* The Spirit-Eater curse in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer'' starts draining the user's soul. [[Horror Hunger|If you keep using it to consume spirits]], it drains your soul faster. You become slowly more inhumanly powerful as your hunger level grows, though it causes your energy meter to deplete faster as well.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': Riku during his fight with Roxas. {{spoiler|Throughout the entire time between Chain of Memories and the final fight in Days Riku had been holding Ansem's Darkness deep within his Heart to prevent another bout of [[Demonic Possession]]. After a fairly even match Riku acts defeated before striking Roxas down. Feeling victorious he then drops his weapon (which is actually one of Roxas's Keyblades). Roxas then picks it up and attacks, summoning his second. After getting his ass handed to him Riku decided the only option is to stop suppressing his Darkness. When this happens he takes the physical form of Ansem and can't turn back of his own free will. It isn't until the end of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' that he returns to his real form.}}
** Would Sora's anti-form in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' qualify for this trope? Sora always runs the risk of going into this form whenever he goes into a drive form (With the lone exception being Final Form, where the chance to turn into Anti-Form is decreased for the next several Non-Final drive forms)<ref> According to the Brady Games Strategy Guide, you get one invisible point to an Anti-Form probability counter every time you "Drive", the counter resets to zero whenever you earn a new drive, and Final form drops these invisible points by ten, though there aren't any negative points. The chances, however, don't ever increase higher than 25% chance, with the exception being against Xemnas, where there is a 10x greater chance of getting Anti</ref>, he doesn't have his keyblade in this form (nor can he use magic or items), and while he's not gradually losing HP or anything while in anti-form, he takes double the damage that he takes in any other form making him easier to kill, if you can catch him that is.
* ''[[Mechwarrior]]'' games have [[Overheating]]: you can easily alpha-strike<ref>A.K.A. use all your weapons in a single salvo</ref> a single target and take him out in one hit, but you'll shut down and be a sitting duck. Some mechs are also set up specifically to do this, only popping out of cover to fire everything they've got.
** Generally, this trope applies to every powerful energy weapons: they deal nice damage, has a long range but generate so much heat that excessive use in combat is dangerous, regardless if you escheved armor for extra heatsinks or not. Not to mention that while flushing coolant can help, you only have access to a very limited supply; once that runs out, you have to go easy on the heat.
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* In ''[[Saga Frontier]]'', The Mind Magic skill Awakening increases the users power considerably, but drains 1 LP from them after four turns unless the battle ends beforehand. In the same vein, T260's Omega Body has a skill called V-MAX, which gives a much larger power boost than Awakening and unlocks two borderline ''[[Game Breaker]]'' skills. After 4 turns, T260 loses 1 LP and takes a massive hit to their stats for the remainder of that battle, unless of course the battle is ended before that.
* In ''[[SaGa Frontier 2]]'', once your characters run out of [[Mana Points|WeaponPoints (WP) or SpellPoints (SP)]], they'll lose their Life points (which are different from regular [[Hit Points]]) if they try to use a Technique or a Spell, which can result in a permanent death once they run out of Life points. However, the lower WP or SP they get, the stronger their attacks become, hence the RROD.
* In the [[Backstory]] of the ''[[King's Quest II Romancing the Throne]]'' [[Fan Remake]], this happened to Legenimor, the first King of Daventry. In a great war, he [[Cast From Hit Points]] and saved the kingdom at the cost of his life.
* Happens in ''[[Pokémon]]'' with the moves Selfdestruct and Explosion, though due to the [[Never Say "Die"]] nature of the series, your [[Mons]] merely faint.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'', this is how {{spoiler|Starkiller}} dies in the Light Side Ending. {{spoiler|Being shocked by Emperor Palpatine's lightning, Starkiller marches forward and bearhugs him, shocking the Emperor. Seeing his friends about to be shot by stormtroopers, Starkiller opens his body to [[The Force]], creating an enormous Force Repulse that wipes out the stormtroopers and knocks Darth Vader and Palpatine out cold, allowing his friends to escape. The strain ends the Jedi's life.}}
* In the first ''[[.hack]]'' game series, overuse of Data Drain (without killing enemies normally) can eventually kill you. Instantly.
** And, of course, risking this is the only way to finish one of the bonus dungeons in the fourth game.
* In the ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' demo, {{spoiler|Asura disintegrates his original and [[Super Mode|added]] arms while defeating Wyzen. Though he regenerates one for the killing blow, the subsequent cutscene shows him facedown without any. Apparently this won't be the last time it happens in the full game.}}
** {{spoiler|Asura's [[Clipped-Wing Angel|Wrath form]] is a dangerous form Asura enters after his [[One-Winged Angel|Berserker Form]] which is so dangerous to him that if he is not stopped his own power would tear his body apart.}}
* In ''[[Heavenly Sword]]'' the opening scene depicts Nariko's death at the hands of a sword so powerful it kills the user. Throughout the course of the game it is revealed that the sword slowly drains the life of anybody who uses it for extended periods of time.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* This seemed to be happen to Vaarsuvius of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', after the party split up following the battle of Azure City. [[Ambiguous Gender|(S)he's]] been unable to locate or communicate with the missing members, and has become obsessed with succeeding, such that that V began to work literally nonstop on the problem. Though elves have no physical need for "trance" (their equivalent of sleep), weeks of intense effort without any rest have turned V into a pale, veiny, shaky, irritable wreck. It was eventually revealed that V had been forgoing trance because {{spoiler|of guilt and nightmares. When fleeing Azure City, (s)he ran into a group of retreating soldiers who pleaded for his/her help. Because V had no power left to help them, the soldiers were horribly slaughtered. Every time V trances, that memory replays.}} If you were forced to watch something like ''that'' every time you dozed off, you might try to avoid sleep too.
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[MSF High]]'', Forum Continuity, anyone who has the "Mana Body" disadvantage can do this to themselves! (You don't have HP, only MP...So each time you cast spells...) Luckily, you heal up to 100% every day. Unluckily, dying still hurts.
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'': [[Problem Sleuth]]: There's a reason Sepulchritude is a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]
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*** A key missed point is that he explains, in the episode "Disappearing Inque", that it was an experimental [[Power Armor|exosuit]] he had designed, which increases the amount of force one's effort puts out and increases stamina, that put the strain on his heart to begin with. This leads to an [[Oh Crap]] moment for Terry when Bruce arrives to bail him out in a fight with Inque while wearing the aforementioned exosuit.
* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Spongebob enters his Pet snail Gary into a race. Preparing for the race, he puts Gary through a [[Training From Hell|brutal training regimen]], giving him no break whatsoever. On the day of the race, Gary is already tired. During the race, Spongebob harshly orders Gary to move on until Gary's [[Eye Scream|eyes blow up]] and he has a "Blown head gasket." Then he literally crashes like a racecar.
** [[Crosses the Line Twice|And then the crowd goes wild.]]
* This is how we lost Bunny, the fourth member of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. She was [[Flawed Prototype|unstable]] to begin with, then pushed herself too far too fast in defense of her sisters, making it a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* Narrowly averted in ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]] Unlimited'' with the Flash. During his fight against Luthor/Brainiac, Flash kept pushing himself faster and faster, literally circling the globe to build up enough momentum to damage his [[Nigh Invulnerable]] foe, and after the fight ended, Flash appeared to suffer from a Heroic RROD, abruptly fading into the speedforce, but his teammates [[The Power of Friendship|literally pulled him back]]. [[It Only Works Once|Flash was convinced that if he ever went that fast again, he couldn't possibly return.]]
* Jeremie attempts this in ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' with a device that enhances his intelligence with every trip to the past. Prolonged use actually puts him in a ''coma'', although naturally [[Unexplained Recovery|he gets better]].
* In the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Changeling," Shane was already taxing his [[Shapeshifting]] abilities to infiltrate a prison during a riot. A crossfire between inmates leaves him injured, so he ends up taxing it even more. He finally gets control of the prison and its security systems, but the communications systems are fried, and his bio-defenses are literally tearing him apart. Worse, the Laredo was set to open fire and blast the whole prison to atomic dust ''unless'' the stand-down order was given. In a last, desperate gamble, Shane uses the last of his charge to send a telepathic shout to Niko. The strain came really close to killing him ([[Never Say "Die"]] was an averted trope with the series). The fact he was able to ''use'' telepathy, as well as the continuing [[Ship Tease]] between the characters [[Mindlink Mates|has led to some interesting speculation.]]
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' uses this on some occasions as well (mostly with seasons 1 and 2) and its brethren new series as well; ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]]''. Mostly when Ben wants to transform into a particular alien, the device tends to be non-responsive.
* In the 2002 reboot of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'', in the origin of the power of Grayskull, King Grayskull, the original wielder of He-Man's sword, fought with everything he had to save his kingdom from the evil Hordak, at the cost of his own life.
** What makes it really bittersweet was the fact that he was told by an oracle this would happen. Despite knowing his fate, all that Grayskull cared about was that his kingdom would be free. That just shows how much a guy will lay down for his people.
* In ''[[Re Boot]]'', Bob suspected this would happen when he fused with Glitch, which was broken at the time. Overuse of his new powers nearly kills him later, with a transparent and static visual effect when it happens.
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* One of the theories behind [[Red October|Lenin's]] early death. It took an attempted assassination and three strokes to bring him down. Even after his second and third strokes he would work ''continually'', despite being unable to talk or feed himself properly.
* Some say that creative overwork was the death of composer and organ virtuoso Max Reger. He was found in full rigor mortis at the writing desk in his hotel room while on tour, performing; he had been up to the wee hours of the morning writing music and his heart failed around 2 AM.
* Pheidippides ran all the way to Athens from the city of Marathon to [[Bring News Back|announce the victory of Greek forces over Persians at that city]]. Upon delivering his message, he immediately dropped dead of exhaustion. This happened in 490BC, making this [[Older Than Feudalism]].
** Remember his story fondly, folks. [[Marathon Running|He died for your right to watch ten straight hours of Star Trek]]
* Oddly enough, this is the goal (thought not the only goal) for some military branches.
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