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[[File:FissionMailed-1.jpg|link=Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|thumb|400px|"EMIT CONTINENT". [[Chip Cheezum|All of South America will erupt from your ass.]]]]
[[Phoenix Wright]] has lost, the trial has ended, and the judge has declared "Guilty". [[That One Boss]] smashed [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] into powder and [[Hopeless Boss Fight|his fairies haven't done anything]]. [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] doesn't get there fast enough and Doctor Eggman wins. But don't worry -- a key witness has burst into the room just in time, the princess has magically rescued you from afar, or [[Sonic CD|you can go back in time and try again]]. The player hasn't failed their mission after all.
Fission Mailure is whenever it appears you have lost the game, sometimes so far as to present an apparent [[Game Over]] screen, but in fact you ''had'' to fail in order to advance the plot. The title comes from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', where there was a rare clue: what popped up was not the authentic "Mission Failed" screen, but rather a [[Spoonerism|spoonerized]] version.
A variety of [[But Thou Must!]]. If very few clues are given, this is often one type of [[Guide Dang It]]. Fission Mailure often occurs on a fake [[Final Boss]]. [[Hopeless Boss Fight|Hopeless Boss Fights]] in general are a subclass of this trope. Contrast [[Kaizo Trap]], which is when you look like you've won, but your "victory" is actually impending death.
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* The [[Trope Namer]] occurs when Raiden and Snake are fighting through Arsenal Gear in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. At one point, the screen flashes white, indicating that Raiden has been killed, but instead of "Mission Failed", the text reads "Fission Mailed", the options read "Emit/Continent" instead of "Exit/Continue", and the action continues in the corner box that normally shows Raiden's cause of death. A few seconds later, the game goes back to normal.
** You can mail your fission at any time in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' by taking the fake death pill, which sends you to a fake Game Over screen, except your inventory button still works, allowing you to take the revival pills. {{spoiler|The Sorrow sends you to the same Fission Mailed screen, and the same remedy works.}}
** The first ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' had Psycho Mantis, a boss with an attack that pretended to turn off the console. There was the big green [[Hideo Kojima|"Hideo"]] in the top right corner as a giveaway, but this was another level of [[Interface Screw]]; it had a similar [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]] and positioning as the "Video" input indicator on Sony Trinitron model televisions that were made at the time.
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' has both a tribute to the Psycho Mantis encounter in the form of Screaming Mantis (and in the Codec conversations about how to beat her when the player can't properly control Snake) and {{spoiler|Psycho Mantis' reappearance}}, and the infamous {{spoiler|microwave hallway has Snake's Life bar drain out... but wait, his Psyche is still there!}} Snake can actually complete that part with {{spoiler|''both'' bars depleted, [[Tear Jerker|tragically]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|pulling himself the rest of the way with only his fingers]]}}.
=== Other Examples and Counter-Examples: ===
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* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' has not only a fake "game over", but a fake "stay turned for the sequel" screen, a fake BSOD, and a fake "Game Deleted Successfully" screen, with a blank saved game list.
** As well as the infamous "Controller unplugged" fake error message.
* ''[[Ghost Hunter]]'', on [[
* The dark dead-end alley sequence in ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'', where Harry has to be "killed" by the demon children to proceed. Then he wakes up in the cafe, not much worse for wear. {{spoiler|In the [[New Game+]] this gets skipped and Harry wakes directly in the diner after the opening cinematic.}}
** ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'': Maria's {{spoiler|many deaths}} serve as a sort of Fission Mailed as well, as triggering them outside of scripted events causes a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].
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