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{{quote|''But if tomorrow, it turns out we got smacked down
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... wait, no, that's not quite right. The party was trying to quietly remove some guards, and [[The Loonie|Bob]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|decided to use a tactical nuke]] [[Too Dumb to Live|in hand-to-hand combat]]. The remains of the group wouldn't fill a coffee can.
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When this happens in a MMORPG, it's called a [[Party Wipe]]. It happens disturbingly often when you enter a level-appropriate dungeon with a [[Pick Up Group]]. A [[Leeroy Jenkins]] is likely to be involved.
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* All of Alpha Flight, which, granted, are mostly C list by fame, got killed in a Bendis penned New Avengers in a [[Worf Barrage]] moment. After that, two of them were shown to be [[Not Quite Dead]] and those that weren't have apparently [[Death Is Cheap|come back anyway.]]
* The [[Ur Example]] of this Trope for comic books was the original [[Doom Patrol]] - small fishing town, enemy with a nuke, and DC canceling the title.
* Of all the superheroes listed above, most eventually came back from the dead. An exception was in the early issues of [[DC Comics]]' ''Eclipso'' comic, after the titular villain had conquered a [[Banana Republic]]. A rag-tag group of C-listers flew south to try and oust him. He TPK'd them, then left them to rot in the sun. (Several of them are classic examples of [[Affirmative Action Legacy]] turning into [[C-List Fodder]]
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== Literature ==
* In one of history's most famous wars, [[The Trojan War|Team Troy]] decided it might be [[Sarcasm Mode|smart]] to roll the opposing team's [[Trojan Horse|giant horse]] [[Too Dumb to Live|into their base.]] What followed was a lot of [[Back Stab|back stabbery]] that resulted in a
* In ''Game Night'' by Jonny Nexus, {{spoiler|this occurs at the end of the book.}}
* In the book "Ready Player One", {{spoiler|at the end of the book there is a massive battle between tens of thousands of "gunter" avatars (the game is mostly set in a futuristic virtual reality called the OASIS) and the avatars of the IOI, the main enemies of the book, as the main characters try to reach the crystal gate which holds the ultimate objective of the story. Upon realising that the three remaining main characters were about to enter this gate, the IOI activate their chekhov's gun: the Catalyst, an artifact which kills the avatars of absolutely every player in the entire sector of space. Permanently. It is earlier stated that a very large percentage of the entire population of the OASIS was present at this fight. Considering that the OASIS is pretty much used by every single person in the world, thats one heck of a TPK. the only reason the story doesn't end there is due to another Chekhov's gun, a magical Quarter found earlier in the book by the protagonist which turned out to grant an extra life, and due to IOI having some backup troops hanging around just outside the sector of space that got nuked.}} There goes the neighbourhood.
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== New Media ==
* Many fun stories of
* [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42454 This] thread in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' forum is dedicated to TPKs.
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== Video Games ==
* 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
* 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.
** Not just in the early ones... Of course there is the option of load and save in the newer ones.
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** There's also the much-dreaded 'grenade thrown into the Skyranger on first turn'.
* If you have played a ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' game, you have probably seen an enemy cast [[One-Hit Kill|Mahamaon or Mamudoon]], realized that nobody in your party is immune, and seen everyone drop simultaneously. Or, worse, Megidolaon.
** Or [[It Got Worse|even worse.]] This trope is taken [[Up to Eleven]] by Samsara and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Die For Me!,]] which are Mahamaon and Mamudoon with ''80%'' of party-wide instant-death. But even these two don't compare much to the next example (as they are usually traditionally in possession of certain boss or secret demons), [[Beyond the Impossible|as is, the even more extreme,]] Megidoladyne, unique to {{spoiler|Lucifer}}, as [[Bonus Boss]] of [[Devil Survivor]]; it deals ridiculously high unblockable Almighty damage to '''every single member of ALL of your parties'''. And every time he uses it? [[Oh Crap|It gets a 50% power boost.]] Nevermind the fact that you'd need to be in the high 90s in level and have a maxed or nearly maxed magic stat to even ''survive'' one hit and not be put near death by it, this spell eventually becomes powerful enough to induce a guaranteed
* Star Ocean: Till the end of time has this in spades if you get struck by an Ether Strike fighting the final bonus boss Freya, who makes a parody appearance from a sister game called Valkyrie profiles. Despite being a huge bitch in that game she manages to make it entirely worse in this one, there is no way to survive a direct ether strike on the "easiest" difficulty without actively trying to make your defense broken to anything but a Freya fight, and even then you're still likely to die unless you learn her pattern and bring lot's of bombs.
* In the ''[[Tales (series)]]'', a boss' [[Limit Break|Hi-Ougi/Mystic Arte]] can easily lead to this if everyone gets caught up in it, especially on higher difficulties.
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* 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]].
* [[MOTHER 1]] has the [[Hopeless Boss Fight|R703x robots]] a trio of robot enemies - each of which if are the upgraded version of the previous - that appear at certain points in the story to block your way . A normal battle with these guys is a guaranteed
** The middle of these the R7038 can't be defeated at all and will ''always'' wipeout your party. (People have hacked the game to discover that even if you somehow mange to lower it's HP to 0, it still won't be defeated.) However, right after the party wiped a friend of yours will appear in the [[Brick Joke|newly rebuilt tank]] that was used to defeat the R7037 and [[Big Damn Heroes|obliterate it.]]
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