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** Said Titans view their machine androids being corrupted into fleshy organics by said old gods as a grave threat. [[Fridge Logic]] mixes with [[Fridge Brilliance]] in that killing the old gods' corruption would require disinfecting the planet of all biological components, but our heroes being fleshy beings don't require such drastic measures.
** Of course, its all [[Fan Wank|quite possible]] that the old gods fought in game are just [[Fighting a Shadow|avatars]] or something similar, and not the proper thing.
* In ''[[EVE Online]]'', the player character cannot be killed even if the ship he is on is destroyed, but it is made explicit in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427081645/http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=14-07-05 supplementary materials] supplied by CCP that the ship has a largely-full conventional crew (the player character, a "capsuleer", replaces all command and control crew, but maintenance, etc. is still needed, and on large ships, that's a lot of people). A ship being destroyed is an inconvenience for the player, who in the worst case scenario is transferred to a clone and can start again in a new ship. The rest of his crew (who may number one or two in the smallest of the frigates all the way to tens of thousands in the city sized titans), it's better to just not think about.
** Then there are the NPC ships you can fight, most of which are not capsuleer-controlled, so even the smallest involve full crews being killed off for (virtual) real. See the [[Refuge in Audacity]] entry for ''[[EVE Online|Eve]]''.
* When you think about it, all 4X games, from ''[[Civilization]]'' to ''[[Total War]]'' to ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' end this way, win or lose. Yay! You've won! What's the death toll of your supreme greatness? Bummer, you lost. Not only did your plans suck and got your ass conquered, but you took most of your population down with you in that desperate last stand. Even games which, like ''Civilization'', allow for peaceful victories, it's often necessary to butcher quite a lot of people on the way, especially when your victory is at hand and everyone freaks out and dogpiles you, [[Gang Up on the Human|crab bucket-style]].
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