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{{quote| ''I'd like to say a few words. Uh, this guy's dead, the end.''<br />
[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000|Crow T. Robot]] (As Dan Kester), ''[[The Giant Spider Invasion]]'' }}
 
The child of [[Have a Nice Death]] and [[Enemy Chatter]] wherein [[NPC|NPCs]] comment on the failure or death of the player character. It may also apply to other media.
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== [[Action Adventure]] ==
* 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.
 
== [[Adventure Game]] ==
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* 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.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|1=At the very end of Chapter 4, when Guybrush dies from his mortal wounds and Elaine becomes enraged and points her sword at LeChuck:}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|1='''LeChuck:''' Out of respect for the newly-deceased, I feel I should point out that you wave your sword like a dairy farmer.}}<br />
{{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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Warriors]]'' would report on your failure/death in the gang war news, often mocking and patronizing you.
 
== [[First-Person Shooter]] ==
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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 ''[[Counter-Strike (Video Game)|Counter-Strike]]: Condition Zero'' would have the bots say "The Commander is down, repeat, the Commander is down!" over the radio.
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'''s enemies (and friends, if you were [[Too Dumb to Live|stupid enough]] to shoot them--most of them [[Gameplay Ally Immortality|are invulnerable]]) that said things when they manage to kill the player. Each enemy type has multiple, distinctive lines.
* 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 ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'', the splicers will occasionally deliver one of these when they kill you. Particularly creepy is the one the doctor splicers use. "Cause of death... hmm... Undetermined."
* 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".
* ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' has a couple of examples. In single-player, one character tries to convince you to walk into a crushing machine and save yourself the trouble of the upcoming boss fight; doing this will provoke a comment along the lines of "Wow, didn't think you'd really go for it." In multiplayer, GLaDOS has plenty of sarcasm for the bots when they get themselves blown up.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has automatic responses from the various classes when they kill an opponent, quite a few of which fall into line with this trope. The best demonstration comes from the Soldier, who occasionally offers a hilariously perfunctory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZ1oFfUcDM "You're dead, that's good, amen."]
 
== [[Four X4X]] ==
* 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!"
 
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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 '''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]''' do this:
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Krotera}}:''' The strong prevail, Anomaly... Your race is history.<br />
'''Asha:''' Hah! Easiest bounty yet.<br />
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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==
* ''[[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.]]
{{quote| '''Morte''': Ugh. ''Another'' trip to the mortuary?}}
* ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]] 8'' features a whopping 36 available voice sets to assign to your characters. Each set has their own informal eulogies for the death of a male, female, or special recruitable party member.
* ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]]'' has a ton of these:
{{quote| '''Xan:''' (spoken in a flat monotone, when a party member dies) [[The Eeyore|Another death in our pointless crusade.]]}}
** It's all the more fun when someone else in your party was familiar with the character who died.
{{quote| '''Xzar:''' Montaron! I... I never loved you!<br />
'''Montaron:''' And the mad wizard falls!... Saves me the trouble.<br />
'''Jaheira:''' [[How Dare You Die Onon Me!|Khalid, you die on me and I swear you'll never hear the end of it!]] }}
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'', if you or one of your allies die during a battle they will utter something (both the person who dies and some other character). What they say depends on who dies and your relationship with that character. For example, if Kratos dies and has the highest affection rating, Lloyd will call out "''No! I don't believe this!''"
** 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 Series(series)]]. In fact, in the remake of ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'', not only do every human boss have something to say to you when your party dies, but ''who'' narrates the Game Over line "And they were never seen again," is dependent on which playable character you were using at the time you died.
* ''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]]'' has [[Mission Control]] begging the player character to get up, or denying that he could possibly be defeated, in various fashions when [[We Cannot Go Onon Without You]] is invoked.
** And once the screen fades to black, [[Game Over Man|Igor]] waxes poetic on the Main Character's death:
{{quote| "{{spoiler|Death is not a hunter unbeknownst to its prey; one is always aware that it lies in wait. Though life is merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope. Only then will a traveler's story live on, cherished by those who bid him farewell}}."}}
** Ditto for ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'' on both counts.
* 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 ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X-2]]'' you'll hear him say "Sorry" over the [[Game Over]] screen.
* Every boss that talks in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' will drop a one-liner if they kill you, which takes precedence over your usual death screams. For example: "Another ''thrilling'' entreé!", "Do the math.", "Hey Uzuki! How 'bout that ramen?", "{{spoiler|[[Final Boss|Now Shibuya... will be saved.]]}}", and "{{spoiler|[[Bonus Boss|Open up your world!]]}}"
 
== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ==
* Your teammates screaming [[Big No|"Noooooo!"]] when you die in ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] 64/Lylat Wars''.
** 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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== [[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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' games, your commanding officer will have a special eulogy on your behalf when you kick the bucket. Your wingmen get these, too, if they die in combat.
* ''[[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.
 
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** And let's not forget
{{quote| '''Campbell''': Snake! What have you done?! You've changed the future! You've created a Time Paradox!}}
** ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'' also has the "SNAAAAKE" yells if you die while the Codec is playing a message. The [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Slippy]] one is particularly funny.
 
== [[Survival Horror]] ==
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ghost in Thethe 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 (Franchise)/Allegiance|Allegiance]]''.
{{quote| The Emperor had little patience with memorials, Mara knew, with extra contempt for the practice of saying words over the fallen. Mara said a few words anyway, half remembered ones from her childhood, before consigning Tannis's body to the emptiness of space. }}
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The classic "Oh My God! They/We/You/I/She/He Killed Kenny!" running gag from ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]''.
* Yzma's eulogy for Kuzco in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'' starts out formal, but then she abruptly ends it with "Well! He ain't gettin' any deader! Back to work!" For the record, Kronk thinks it was lovely.
* Parodied in the ''[[Rugrats (Animation)|Rugrats]]'' episode, "The Mysterious Mr. Friend", when the babies bury an immobile Mr. Friend (whom they call "Mr. Fiend") in a grave:
{{quote| '''Chuckie:''' I would like to say a prayer. ''[...]'' Like, uh, "Inkle finkle dinkle doo."<br />
'''Phil and Lil:''' A-hen! }}
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