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|'''Comic Book Guy'''|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
This is what happens in [[Role-Playing Game
Precisely what drives a GM to this extreme varies. Perhaps somebody was a [[Rules Lawyer]] once too often. Perhaps the gaming group mocked his plotting skills a bit too much. The players might have spent all their time going [[Off the Rails|everywhere but where the plot wants them to]]. Maybe the group consisted entirely of [[Munchkin]]s. Maybe they didn't like that [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|"totally awesome"]] [[GMPC]] as much as the GM did and tried to kill him in his sleep. Or maybe the players are just [[Too Dumb to Live]]. Or maybe, just maybe, the GM is a [[Killer Game Master|sadistic bastard]] who's determined to see the players fail ''at any cost''.
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== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20120923174943/http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html story passed around the Internet]
** This story was widely popularized in the gaming community by the comic ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]].''
** Referenced in the [[Steve Jackson Games|Steve Jackson]] card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'', where a Gazebo really is an enemy monster that players may encounter. A rather scary one, too. And if you try to run away from it and fail, it really will pounce and kill you.
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** Also referenced in ''[[Nodwick]]'' at one point; in one of the last few issues, a gazebo was the location of a fault in space-time which an evil god planned to exploit.
** The comical D&D supplement ''Portable Hole Full of Beer'' actually includes monster stats for "The Dread Gazebo".
** As well as in ''[[
** And, of course, [[Eric and the Dread Gazebo|the story has its own page here]].
* A [[media:Gongs.jpg|similar story]] was provided by a [[Fauxtivational Poster|demotivator]]: after a wizard forgot what a "gong" was and began hurling magic missiles at one (sample dialogue: "A sonic attack! Quick, everyone, cover your ears!"); the DM responds, "OK, while you're distracted the door sneaks up behind you and slits your throat."
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* This is the typical ending of many ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' missions where the players have somehow managed against all odds to squeak through with some of their backup clones intact. Actually, speaking of those clones, sometimes this is how the mission ''starts''.
** Paranoia is an odd case here. Rather than being a sign that the GM is doing his job poorly, this is seen as a sign that the game will be very good.
* There's even a reference to this in edition 3.5 of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. The spell ''[https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Rocks_Fall_(3.5e_Spell)| Rocks Fall]''{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Cyberpunk (role-playing game)|Cyberpunk]]'': One of the ways a GM can punish a group that's getting too big for its britches is deploy [[The Juggernaut|Adam Smasher]], who will proceed to kill them all quickly and horribly. {{spoiler|''[[Cyberpunk: Edgerunners]]'' provides an excellent demonstration.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Alluded to in [http://antiheroescomic.com/comic/50 this strip] of [[Anti-HEROES]].
* Tony from ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' does this quite a bit when DMing. His favorite is [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/000731.html "A dragon eats you."]
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'''s Tycho firmly believes that this is the final goal of ''all'' [[Game Master|GMs]]. [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/12/02 Observe his prowess at it here.]
* [http://www.doesnotplaywellwithothers.com/comics/pwc-0021 This strip] of ''[[Does Not Play Well With Others]]'' demonstrates a rather disgusting, but highly amusing, total party kill.
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* In the French audio webseries ''[[Reflets d'Acide]]'', one character has a nightmare of the GM punishing him with the French equivalent, the falling necropolis.
** The advantage of the necropolis over rocks is that if the character(s) somehow survive the falling damage from the necropolis, then they have to survive the zombies inside, then the lich lord...
* ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'' features a mild version of this the end of the second RP when {{spoiler|Crimson Base levels Pelvanida with a massive airstrike}}. [[Word of God]] states this was done because the GM wanted the RP to end and it was starting to drag on.
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