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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Bite the dust, [[Eager Young Space Cadet]].''}}
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The child of [[Have a Nice Death]] and [[Enemy Chatter]] wherein [[NPC
Compare [[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff]] and [[To Absent Friends]].
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== [[Action Adventure]] ==▼
== Video Game examples ==
* In ''[[Castlevania Order of Ecclesia (Video Game)|Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]'', if you die during the battle with {{spoiler|Albus}}, he gets a hold of himself and mutters, "Shanoa... [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|please kill me...]]" Die during the {{spoiler|Barlowe}} fight and he mocks you for your betrayal. Towards the end, when you fight Dracula, dying gives you the message "You danced well." Dying inside the Castle at all will give you an alternate Game Over screen with Dracula staring outwards with his creepy eyes.▼
▲=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
▲* In ''[[
=== [[Adventure Game]] ===
* Being found out by the police in ''[[The Last Express]]'' would lead to a cut to a woman's diary/letter where she explains in the voiceover that she witnessed the PC being arrested, charged with murder and escorted off the train.
* One of the most extreme examples of this trope comes from the obscure PC game ''[[Total Distortion]]'', where the player is treated to a song mocking him for being dead that lasts for several minutes. Check it out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI here.]
* In the original MSX version of ''[[Snatcher]]'', Metal will deliver a little eulogy if you die in a fight.
* ''[[
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{{spoiler|'''Elaine:''' How appropriate... [[You Fight Like a Cow|you fight like a Pox-infected undead cow.]]''*sword clash*''}} }}
=== [[Beat'Em Up]] ===
* The Radio DJ in ''[[The Warriors (
=== [[First-Person Shooter]] ===
* "...Dibs on the suit," "Take his crowbar," and other comments in ''[[Half Life]] 2'', if you were to die near allied [[Cannon Fodder]].
** "If you ''dare'' say 'that's gotta hurt', I'll kill you."
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** And everyone's favorite: a huge, hulking Brute, [[Big No|screaming out]] "He was my LOVERRR!"
** Two more: "Can I have his helmet?" and "I get his gun!"
* Dying in the single-player campaign mode in ''[[
* ''[[
* Particularly common in multiplayer-focused FPSes, where different voice sets have rather dismissive taunts for when they kill another player. "Target eliminated." "Die, bitch!" And so on.
* The ''[[Dark Forces Saga]]'' has a few of these, including the Dark Jedi of Jedi Outcast/Academy saying "May the Force be with you." in a very snide tone, or "Now I am the master." if they best you in combat.
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** If one person is trolling and the other three shoot him down, that's just frosting on the cake.
* In ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', occasionally a dead enemy would be stumbled upon by someone who might remark "I never liked him anyway." Alternately, "He was my best friend!"
* In ''[[
* Guards in ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2'' would apologetically clean up the corpses of their fallen allies with body disintegrator powder: "sorry, comrade, but there's less paperwork this way".
* ''[[
* ''[[
=== [[
* In the original ''[[Civilization]]'', defeat would lead to a [[Cutscene]] where archaeologists would discover the ruins of your culture thousands of years later and point out your most up-to-date technological advances. The scene ended with the phrase "([[Hello, Insert Name Here|INSERT NAME HERE]]) SHALL RETURN!"
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* High-ranking enemies in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' and ''City of Villains'' taunt you if they defeat you. It can get annoying when they continually defeat disposable pets.
** Happens to certain dungeon and raid bosses in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' too. Especially amusing are Priestess Delrissa's (a 5-man boss). In order of death:
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"I could have sworn there were more of you."
"Not really much of a group, anymore, is it?"
"One is such a lonely number."
"It's been a kick, really." }}
=== [[Platform Game]] ===
* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' occasionally had Daxter make a snide comment if Jak went down ("Heimlich? Stretcher? Yech... Breath mint?").
** "Don't worry, Jak, I'll avenge you! ...Not!"
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** "Step one: [[Captain Obvious|stay alive. Step two: try not to think about doing something like that again!]]"
** "I'll say something really teary at the funeral, like '''How am I going to be changed back now?'''"
* Boss enemies in '''[[
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'''Asha:''' Hah! Easiest bounty yet.
'''Asha:''' ''Finally...''
'''{{spoiler|Iosa}}:''' Nothing but a mortal.
'''{{spoiler|Tor}}:''' Like a spark to the fire. }}
=== [[Roguelike]] ===
* In ''[[Nethack]]'', if you die inside a shop, there's a message about the shopkeeper cheerfully inheriting your possessions.
** If you die outside a shop, but in view of a shopkeeper, the shopkeeper will sigh regretfully. Unless you had angered them, in which case they'll claim your stuff as restitution.
=== [[Role
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' will have one of your allies comment should you (or anyone else in the party) drop. Morte and Annah, naturally, have the snarky lines.
** What makes this especially funny is the irreverent tone in which they make these comments, [[Death Is Cheap|as if they've seen it a million times before.]]
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* ''[[
* ''[[
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** It's all the more fun when someone else in your party was familiar with the character who died.
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'''Montaron:''' And the mad wizard falls!... Saves me the trouble.
'''Jaheira:''' [[How Dare You Die
* In ''[[
** Some of the bosses have quotes like this, too. If you're killed by {{spoiler|Yuan in the Tethe'alla Base}}, for example, he says "Curse your fate for standing in my way!".
** In fact, this is pretty par for the course in later games of the [[Tales
* ''[[
** And once the screen fades to black, [[Game Over Man|Igor]] waxes poetic on the Main Character's death:
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** Ditto for ''[[
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', often when you brutally murder another pacifist human being you can hear their friends nearby shout "YOU KILLED HER!" Even if the recently-dead person is male
* If you lose the boss fight against {{spoiler|Baralai}} in ''[[
* Every boss that talks in ''[[
=== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ===
* Your teammates screaming [[Big No|"Noooooo!"]] when you die in ''[[Star Fox (
** If you're alone and fighting [[Big Bad|Andross]], you'll just hear Fox scream instead. I believe you will also hear [[Nightmare Fuel|Andross laugh.]]
* Classic examples from [[The Golden Age of Video Games]]:
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* ''[[Star Wars Rebel Assault]]'': If you fail a training mission, your trainer may comment "Guess the rookie wasn't so sharp after all". If you run out of lives on the Trench level, the Death Star destroys Yavin IV, and the narrator says "the alliance was defeated" or something like that.
=== [[Simulation Game]] ===
* Both ''[[Free Space|Descent: Freespace]]'' and ''Freespace 2'' had were recordings of wingmen reporting over the radio that the squad leader (the player) had just gone down. Radio gets cut off when the ship goes down, so you never get to hear them and the lines were unused.
* In the ''[[Wing Commander (
* ''[[Dark Star One]]'' gives one of these every time you're killed, and also lets each enemy get off a final line if you kill them. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're mildly sad, mostly they're just pointless.
=== [[Stealth Based Game]] ===
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has one of the [[Mission Control]] characters, apparently hearing Snake's dying scream over the CODEC, frantically contact him as "Game Over" pops up, usually with some form of, "Snake, what happened? Snake?!? SNAAAAKKKEEEE!" [[Nonstandard Game Over|Sometimes this changes]] - hitting the C4 wires during the fight with Ocelot in the first game leads to Ocelot shouting, ''"You idiot!"'' (The remake changed it to a more restrained "You stupid fool..."). If you die trying to resist [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|the torture]], you hear a snatch of a conversation between Liquid and Ocelot:
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'''Ocelot''': ...Sorry, Boss. }}
** And let's not forget
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** ''[[Super Smash Bros
=== [[Survival Horror]] ===
* Two escorted [[NPC
=== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ===
* ''[[Red Faction]] 2'' had some Enemy Chatter bites for when you killed other enemies in their vicinity ("That was my cousin! We grew up together" was one of them, IIRC).
=== [[Turn Based Tactics]] ===
* ''[[Jagged Alliance]]'' and its sequels often had voiced lines when mercs who knew each other well died within their line of sight. One of them involved Fox, a pin-up girl cum combat medic. "NO! Not the Fox! Her centrefold will live on forever in my memory!"
** In the sequel, characters often form "character pairs". They improve morale by fighting with each other. Sometimes they're one way. Steroid likes Grizzly for his brute strength, Grizzly doesn't care. Fox and Grizzly like each other. Gaston is infatuated with Fox. These are just a few examples, as the sequel [[Loads and Loads of Characters|has even more mercs than the first game]], and many of them can interact.
*** "Alas, in death, the fox has left many a broken heart scattered about this place..."
=== [[Wide Open Sandbox]] ===
* In some of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games, when you're arrested, your lawyer can occasionally be heard as the screen fades saying things like, "Do you really think my client is capable of that?"
** Others include: "My client hasn't ever been to the city," "Of course my client ''looks'' like the suspect. You look like an idiot, it doesn't mean you are one!" or "My client doesn't even know how to drive a car".
*** [[Drives Like Crazy|Damn right he doesn't.]]
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
* In ''[[Ghost in
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
▲* In ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'''s second season, Batou does a visual version where he places a lit cigarette in a bottle and prays over it like a stick of incense for the {{spoiler|Individual Eleven. As part of his attempt to [[Hannibal Lecture]] [[Big Bad|Gohda]] (who brainwashed them into committing suicide as part of his [[Evil Plan]]).}}
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Star Wars
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has Emerson give a particularly hilarious informal eulogy for {{spoiler|the villainous Dwight Dixon}}:
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Here lies his gun
He was bad
Now he's done. }}
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* During Sarge's funeral in [[Red vs. Blue]], Grif delivers a roast instead of a eulogy, and [[The Starscream|Simmons]] eulogy is actually a campaign speech for Sarge's old job.
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** It should also be noted that Sarge is actually there, [[Attending Your Own Funeral|attending his own funeral]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The classic "Oh My God! They/We/You/I/She/He Killed Kenny!" running gag from ''[[
* Yzma's eulogy for Kuzco in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* Parodied in the ''[[
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'''Phil and Lil:''' A-hen! }}
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