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** Alternatively, the villain's lair is only held together by a conscious effort of will, so it goes down when he's killed and can no longer hold the place up.
** Even more alternatively, it could just be held together by him. [[Wall Master|Literally.]]
** The mortally-wounded villain, having nothing left to lose, attempts to [[Taking You
** Or ''more'' alternatively, the boss has damaged a major support during the fight, and said fight ends when they stop and run away.
** The fight between the heroes and the villain has damaged the place so badly that it collapses afterwards.
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** To defeat Lady Scarlett, you drop her palace on her head.
** The surrounding area collapses when ''you'' die.
* '''Subverted''': Scarlett screams "If I die, I'm [[Taking You
* '''Double Subverted''': However, after the heroes have lingered a few moments, everything starts shaking...
* '''Parodied''': The base starts quaking, only for the boss to open an eye and say "Er, I'm [[Not Quite Dead]] yet...", at which everything stabilises.
* '''Deconstructed''': The collapsing lair kills all of Scarlett's henchmen and dooms her [[Evil Scheme]] to failure. She is dragged out of the rubble and resuscitated, only to be thrown in jail.
* '''Reconstructed''': She takes some comfort in the fact that her trap still succeeded in [[Heroic Sacrifice|killing some of the heroes]]. If her henchmen failed to stop the heroes, they deserve whatever they get. Finally, if she can't see her plan through to fruition personally, she doesn't want someone else taking the credit.
* '''Zig Zagged''': "Oh no, the place is collapsing!" "Well, what do you expect, it must have taken some phenomenal magic to keep it standing..." "Never mind, it was just a minor earthquake" "Yes- caused by my [[Fisher Kingdom|sympathetic geomantic powers!]]" "*Gasp* She's [[Not Quite Dead]]!" "But I won't allow you to escape - I'm [[Taking You
* '''Averted''': Lady Scarlett is defeated and the game ends as expected.
* '''Enforced''': The game designers feel there should be just one more little challenge after Lady Scarlett is defeated.
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* '''Invoked''': [[Evil Overlord|Emperor Evulz]] set this up as a failsafe.
* '''Exploited''': Sol's mission is to destroy the Evil Lair, and decides to go about doing so by simply killing the boss.
* '''Defied''': "Don't kill him, just knock him out - he might be a [[Load
* '''Discussed''': "She's dead? Uh oh, [[This Is the Part Where]] her lair starts collapsing around our ears and we have to [[Outrun the Fireball]]..."
* '''Conversed''': "Another epic battle with the Rat Under The Floorboards last night. I thought about calling an exterminator, but I'm scared this house is like his Final Dungeon and killing him will trigger a localised earthquake..."
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