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== Anime ==
* In the [[Hentai]] OVA ''[[Ane Haramix]]'', a female shinigami comes for the protagonist's life but reveals out of pity that shinigamis have a secret rule: if a human sires a child, his lifespan is extended by several years. Thus, he sets out to impregnate the only girl he knows well, who turns out to be [[Brother
* At the climax of ''[[Summer Wars]]'', Natsuki takes advantage of the fact that [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Love Machine]] treats everything as a game and played several matchs of Koi-Koi with it. Several [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]/[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heart Warming]] later, she managed to [[What Do You Mean
* During the game chapters/episodes of ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', notably the baseball and Day of Sagitarius episodes, if the [[True Companions|SOS Brigade]] lost either of these games, [[Reality Warper|Haruhi]] would become infuriated and end the world.
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* ''[[Dantes Inferno (Video Game)|Dantes Inferno]]'' begins with the eponymous character getting murdered and the Reaper coming to take his soul. The game's first battle cum tutorial is the fight between Dante and the Reaper, which ends with Dante ''crushing'' the Reaper and taking his scythe.
* In ''[[The Sims]] 2'', if a Sim dies one of their loved ones can bargin for the dead Sims soul in some cases. If Death accepts, he plays a game of "Which hand is their soul in?" with the living Sim, success or failure is based on the relationship points between the two Sims.
** In the original game, you played a game of [[Rock
*** The [[PS 2]] version has a fiddling contest. [[Rule of Cool|Never mind]] that that's [[Did Not Do the Research|Ol' Scratch.]]
* The final stage of ''[[Guitar Hero]] 3'' is a guitar battle against the Devil for your soul, to a heavy-metal remix of The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
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** Although some find it easier to simply [[Death Is Cheap|walk out of the afterlife's door]] instead of playing.
* ''[[Mac Hall|Three Panel Soul]]'' inverted the trope - the mortal narrator won the Devil's eternal soul in a game of mancala. He eventually traded it to an angel for [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-02-09 "the ideal method of grilling grilled corn on the cob."]
* ''[[Kukuburi]].'' The female protagonist plays battleship with a well-dressed, while tacky, skeleton [[Card
* In ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', it all depends on [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0718.html choosing the right contest].
* In ''[http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com Mortifer]'', Vlad tells the story of how, after receiving a grievous head injury from hitting a demon with his car, he challenged said demon to a game, in order to keep the demon from killing him.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In "<s>Death</s> Meatballs or Consequences", an ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' pastiche of ''Seventh Seal'', they play checkers (as Dot and Yakko say that chess is unknown to them) for Wakko's life with Death. They play to stay together, which [[Exact Words|Death interprets as taking all three]], but Death finds them [[Too Spicy for Yog
* The entire reason ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' exists. Billy & Mandy played a game of limbo with Grim for the soul of their dead hamster. Grim lost thanks to Mandy's cheating and now he is stuck being their <s>best friend</s> slave forever. Cue the rest of the series with [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious results]].
** Additionally, an old lady has beaten Grim at just about everything, thus revealing to Mandy that this woman has beaten death itself.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Hell Is Other Robots", the Robot Devil explains that the [[Contractual Genre Blindness|Fairness In Hell Act]] requires him to give visitors the option of challenging him to a fiddle contest to win back a robot's soul (in this case, Bender's). A solid gold fiddle is even part of the deal<ref>Fry asks about its practicality, thinking it'd weigh hundreds of pounds and sound terrible; the Robot Devil says it's more for show than anything else</ref>. Losers only get a smaller, silver fiddle, and the Robot Devil may kill them at his discretion (in this case, Fry). Of course, playing well on a solid gold fiddle is pretty hard as it is, and the Robot Devil's prehensile tail serves as a third arm. Leela, who accepted the challenge with the explanation that playing the fiddle was just like the drums, yells "Time for the drum solo!" and [[Subverted Trope|beats the Robot Devil unconscious with the gold fiddle]].
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' dies in a motorcycle accident because [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin'|he refused to wear his helmet in the heat of pursuit.]] Eventually he challenges the Grim Reaper for one more hour in the world of the living so [[Unfinished Business|he can defeat the criminal he was chasing.]] The game? Darkwing does a cute finger trick with his hands. Death, [[Dem Bones|lacking]] necessary muscles, tendons and other body parts, fails to copy him.
* In the animated short ''Come Again in Spring'', the elderly Hark is approached by Death himself during the middle of the winter, claiming that it is his time to die. Hark, however, has other ideas -- as the birds he feeds every day normally migrate during the winter they will die without his support, so he tells Death [[Title Drop|to come again in spring]]. In this example however, it is Death who ultimately makes the challenge, and boy is it a doozy: he gives Hark one day to ''remember the type of cake that his mother served him on his second birthday.'' When Hark finally remembers, death is furious and decides to prolong the game by asking him to remember what wildflowers his mother picked for him on his ''first'' birthday. Hark gets it right again (buttercups if anyone was interested), and Death, fed up, offers [[Rule of Three|a third, final]] question: [[Serial Escalation|on the day that Hark was born, what were the first words his father said to him as he held him for the first time?]] Understandably this has Hark stumped, and he begins to wither away as the deadline draws near. When Death finally arrives to claim him, however...
{{quote| '''Hark:''' Open...the window...let the birds... sing.<br />
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