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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 [[
* ''[[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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** Your first Goomba in 'New Super Mario Bros'' will probably do this all over again. Goombas now do little hops in time with the background music. If you head right as soon as you have control over Mario, the Goomba will hop just as you try to jump on it.
** Picking up a Poison Mushroom in SMB Japan / Lost Levels when you've played it before.
** Kicking a Koopa shell and then [[Hoist by His Own Petard|running into it]].
** In New Super Mario Bros Wii multiplayer, you can retreat into a bubble whenever you like, float past the hard stuff, and get someone to pop you out later on. This can lead to situations where you're playing with 4 players, and ''everyone'' decides at the same time "this part's too hard, [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time|time for the bubble!]]", resulting in four trapped players and a trip back to the last checkpoint.
*** The game itself [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on the stupidity of this death - if everyone is in the bubble, you get a special "level failed" music riff, instead of the normal tune if the players die in normal ways.
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* In [[Skyrim]] falling to your death. Its rare in this game for the player to be put into a position where falling to their death could be anybody else's fault. The Deathlords and Ulfric Stormcloak, pretty much the only enemies really capable of knocking you around are almost always encountered in enclosed areas.
* In [[Vampire Quest]], from www.vampyou.com, there are a good few of these that are rather fun. One of which, which unlocks a seperate little mini-mode, is purposely lighting four braziers that are bluntly said to only be lit if you want to turn yourself into a vampire. Since the goal is to defeat the vampires...it's acknowledged as ridiculously stupid. Each leads to a rather fun scene, generally.
* In [[Chess]], any game that ends with you getting checkmated within the first five or so moves. (This requires at least one [[Idiot Ball|major blunder]] from your side.) Arguably, not really a "death" as your king stays on the board.
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