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(Super Mario Bros: hitting yourself with Koopa/Beetle shells, also overtly quick checkmates in chess)
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[[File:spacequestdeath.png|link=Space Quest|frame|Who'd have thought a heavily-armed spaceship would be so dangerous?]]
 
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This will often overlap with [[Have a Nice Death]] if the game decides to mock you for your stupidity. When player stupidity wipes out an entire party in an MMORPG, it's also [[Total Party Kill]].
 
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* ''[[Nethack]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]. Good luck finding a habitual Nethack player who ''doesn't'' have a [http://everything2.com/title/YASD YASD story]. Same goes for ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', ''[[Angband]]'', ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', and Japanese console [[RoguelikesRoguelike]]s.<ref>The community distinguishes between this trope -- when it's (almost) entirely the player's fault that they died - and Yet Another Annoying Death -- for when the [[Random Number God]] is out to get you (common with some of the [[One-Hit Kill]] methods of death).</ref>
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]'' - firing a superweapon (or napalm) at just the right angle...and 0 power.
* The first ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' game has a good reason why you should NEVER group soldiers together if they're all carrying Flamethrowers.
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