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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.
Not the same as [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: in that trope, the [[Game Master]] [[Killer Game Master|deliberately kills everyone]]. Here, players die due to getting in over their heads. If the [[Game Master]] values the current plot or characters, he may save the group, but otherwise, it's time to roll up another party. Also differs from a game going [[Off the Rails]] (even if it causes the destruction of the party, or the whole world for that matter) in that the GM never actually loses control of the situation; rather, the players get hosed through either incompetence or bad luck, or most often, both.
Compare [[Redshirt Army]]. See also [[Kill'Em All]]. For incredibly stupid ways you can do ''yourself'' in in video games, see [[Yet Another Stupid Death]].
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* Happens regularly in ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''; backup character parties are the norm in some games.
** To the point where ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' asked the world to finally let the joke die.
* This is expected to happen in ''[[Paranoia]]''. Repeatedly. If the players don't kill each other or themselves, [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|the GM will]]. It's oftentimes built into adventure modules. The players were given a number of backup "clones" of their character for precisely this reason.
* ''Fudge'' has extremely nasty rules for people ganging up, to the point where the greatest swordsman in the world is most likely to lose when ganged up against by 6 untrained people, which is actually possible with some weapons. Due to most other games having kinder gang up rules a single person often manages to get their group surrounded by armies of "mooks", expecting it to be an easy fight. Said mooks typically have some training, the characters are typically not the greatest melee combatants in the world, and they have a tendency to use weapons allowing 6 people to gang up on them.
** Though to be fair, it's worth noting that of all the tabletop role-playing games out there, ''Fudge'' kind of stands out by having very few really hard and fast rules; most chapters go out of their way to discuss multiple possible approaches to handling things. Even the section that introduces the "default" multiple-opponent rules immediately reminds the reader that for more "epic" games the penalties can be reduced or the members of the "mob" given appropriately poor combat stats to balance things out.
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* Comes in three main flavours in ''[[UFO After Blank|UFO Aftermath]]'':
** Alien rocket launchers and railguns explode in the midst of the party, who start out bunched and haven't had time to spread out before the ammmunition begins flying.
** A [[Demonic Spiders|Deathbellows]] hurls a gobbet of flesh-devouring [[Bee
** You foolishly move your entire group to open a door and a [[Action Bomb|Balloon Fish]] comes out to say "Die."
** Of course, there are lesser versions including, for example, starting out separated in a base defence mission and winding up with everyone being ganged up on by aliens with rapid-firing laser cannons.
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** ''Pray'' the first boss is introduced smacking a [[Red Shirt|guy in red underwear]] across the room like a ragdoll. Using the [[Too Dumb to Live|wrench]] will have the same thing happen to you.
* In ''[[Mabinogi (Video Game)|Mabinogi]]'', finishing the Generation 9 mainstream allows players the ability to summon the gold dragon Adniel to use his [http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/index.php?title=Meteor Meteor] attack on a specific spot (not targetted by enemy) in the Shadow Realm. Keep in mind that many Shadow Missions involve hitting an orb that seals off the surrounding area and spawns monsters inside for the players to fight. Commanding Adniel to center his meteors on the center of the room can potentially kill EVERYTHING within the room, player and monster alike. There is no IF to a bunch of rocks pummeling the ground.
* Unusually for an arcade game, this shows up in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Shadow Over Mystara]]''. At one point, the players are given the choice to stay overnight in some city or other (the exact details are not presently recalled), or to press on with their quest immediately. [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies|If you stay, the whole party gets wiped when a dragon (that you would have fought had you gone on) annihilates the city that night. Game Over, no continuing.]] Sounds harsh, but the option to stay inverts [[But Thou Must!]] so hard that anyone who doesn't take the hint frankly deserves it.
* It's one possible outcome of the last mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', although you probably have to be trying to foul it up that badly. It's arguably a really extended [[Nonstandard Game Over]], as it's the only ending you can't import to [[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]].
** In the series as a whole, thresher maws tend to be this for NPCs (in fact, one backstory you can choose involves being the sole survivor of a group that ran afoul of one). For you, thresher maws just tend to be a battle which isn't so much a challenge as it is a trial of patience.
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* Referenced in ''[[Erfworld]]''.
{{quote| '''[[Manipulative Bastard|Charlie]]:''' What am I looking at here, Parson?<br />
'''[[Magnificent Bastard|Parson]]:''' TPK. [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Rocks fall, everyone dies]]. }}
* In ''[[Absurd Notions]]'', it [http://www.absurdnotions.org/page47.html takes a while] to convince the designers of "Traps and Treasures" that they shouldn't make ''all'' the traps [http://www.absurdnotions.org/page38.html result in TPKs].
* In ''[[Leftover Soup (Webcomic)|Leftover Soup]]'', [http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=169 Lily forces her players to try 4th edition this way.]
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