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== Literature ==

* In ''Game Night'' by Jonny Nexus, {{spoiler|this occurs at the end of the book.}}

 

 

* iD Software's internal ''D&D'' campaign, as documented in David Kushner's ''Masters of Doom'', ended when John Romero's character traded a demon-summoning tome for the [[Infinity+1 Sword|sword his group had been after the whole game]], after which the book was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, and the game ended when said demons wiped out humanity. It's not so much a [[Total Party Kill]] as it is a "[[The End of the World as We Know It|total world kill]]", though...

* In the [[Nintendo Hard|early]] ''[[Wizardry]]'' computer games, the death of all party members was not uncommon. The developers set things up such that backup characters would have to go on a corpse-retrieval mission before the party could be resurrected. However, if the backup characters were no stronger than the main party, the retrieval mission might be suicidal.

** The later games had what was known as the "Boffo" endings; where, if you took a particular path, everyone died. {{spoiler|In Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge, the "Boffo" was giving the wrong answer to one of the final bosses. Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant had the "Boffo" as taking the totally selfish/unchivalric option at the end of the game (taking the GLOBE instead of the GIRL). Wizardry 8 pulled the stops out on the "Boffo" which resulted in not only your party, but the whole world exploding, if you neglected to disarm a certain bomb before heading off to the endgame...}}

** And [[Tele Frag|teleporting into a rock]] [[Final Death|perma-kills]] your entire party.

** In the final battle against the Lich King, {{spoiler|[[Foregone Conclusion|this WILL happen as a cutscene.]] Arthas raises his sword and smashes it into the ground, doing well over [[One-Hit Kill|800,000 damage.]]}} What's even worse is that {{spoiler|You ''cannot ressurrect'' from this, the Release Spirit button stating [[Oh Crap|"Your soul belongs to the Lich King now."]]. Fortunately, though, Tirion breaks the sword that captured everyone's souls, and the released souls completely encircle and restrain the Lich King, turning the final 10% of the fight into a [[Curb Stomp Battle]].}}

*** His Defile ability plays this trope straight. He targets a random player and makes a dark puddle appear under his feet. Every tick of damage made against any player makes it grow a yard larger. It only takes one inattentive player or two players who keep trying to hang around the edge too close (and "leapfrog" the puddle growth, so to speak) and the raid wipe is guaranteed. This single ability has caused more Lich King wipes than any other.

* As far as ''[http://www.armadaonline.com Armada Online]'' is concerned, a common occurrence on the Alliance side if Nomads are equal to or greater than your own side, due to the ghastly Runabout (structure building NPC) AI which causes him to run in circles around the designated area, launch into an assault against immensely more powerful opponent(s), run into a horde of [[Mooks]] guns blazing and die to the inevitable gangraping, or be stuck in a fight-or-flight cycle while low on health going back to base and returning over and over without building a damned thing. This happens most often when trying to take the middle of the three Sci Lab locations, and if you focus on the middle when one of these is occurring your team is pretty much baked. There is a reason Alliance takes the outer sci-labs first unless experience farming. There have even been instances of the runabout latching onto a group of NPC raiding ships and attempting to assault an enemy outpost with its pitiful mining gun. Needless to say with your builder constantly dying and respawning, this has the potential to lead to an agonizingly lengthy and unavoidable TPK through sheer attrition. Nomad rarely seem to have such problems.

* A fully-farmed carry hero (in the sense of "being able to carry the whole team to victory) in the ''[[Warcraft]] III'' map "[[Defense of the Ancients]]" is ''supposed'' to be able to single-handedly wipe the enemy team. In practice, of course, things rarely work that way. Such as if the enemy team has stuns/silences...

** Ruby WEAPON is even worse. The first thing he does is banish the two of the party members on the sides completely from the battle with no way to bring them back, then digs his fingers into the ground to surround the third person with Ruby WEAPON on one side and two towering finger-tentacles on the other side (both of which can inflict all of the status ailments). The only way to avoid losing the party members is to go into the battle with them KO'd and wait for Ruby to implant his fingers, then revive them. Also, if you use Knights of the Round on Ruby, he counterattacks with Ultima, hitting the entire party ''hard''.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' Advance had the bonus version of the Holy Dragon in the Dragon's Den, which can counter any attack with a chance at Heartless Angel, an unblockable move that sets everyone's HP to 1. Keep in mind that counters don't interrupt the boss's action gauge, so it can take a turn normally RIGHT AFTER, which means it can use Searing Beam, an equally unblockable group targetting holy-elemental move on everyone. Oh, and holy element is the hardest one to null in the game, with only one single equipment [[Guide Dang It|that requires painful amount of effort to obtain]]), and the Rage skill that can be used by two specific party members out of fourteen. If you're not prepared for it one way or another...

** Firstly, he has the ability to cast Almagest, a spell that inflicts the Sap status (constantly draining the party's health), instantly followed by Maelstrom, which reduces the party's health to single digits. Of course, he can also cast them the other way round, which is just as deadly, as Almagest also deals around 1600 damage to the entire party.

** Secondly, he has the spell Grand Cross, which can inflict Death on the entire party. Or Petrify.

* Some fusion spells in [[Persona 2]] instantaneously kill any enemy that can't void a specific element. There are spells for Earth, Fire, Water and Wind. Another [[Guide Dang It|ridiculously specific]] Fusion Spell not only kills every enemy, but also kills two of your party members as well.

* The primary cause of mission failure in ''[[Rainbow Six]]''. "Mission failed, your team was wiped out". Can instantly result from [[Explosive Stupidity|grenade mishaps]].

 

 

* [[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]] gives a guide on what's an appropriate TPK

{{quote|1430. If the party goes out like ~300~, that's cool. [[Thelma and Louise]] not so much.}}

 

== Live Action TV ==