History Main / DeathThrows

Just about every PlatformGame has this.

* In ''TheCavernsOfHammerfest'' the main character, a snowman, is knocked off to the bottom of the screen whenever he is hit by something.

* In ''The Caverns of Hammerfest'' the main character, a snowman, is knocked off to the bottom of the screen whenever he is hit by something.

Upon death, character gets thrown off screen, often in some "sitting" spread-out contorted pose.

* ''SuperMarioBros'' is the UrExample (Pictured above). This is lampshaded in a live-action parody on YouTube ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY HERE]]) where the characters are in the real world and super-sized Mario is shot to death by a cop. He is thrown off-screen in the classic manner, leaving the cop wondering what the hell just happened.

** Happens to the villains too, at least in the VideoGame/SuperMarioLand and first WarioLand spinoff. In many cases, they actually plummet off screen head first with the comedy sound of someone falling off a cliff.

* In ''LegacyOfTheWizard'', every enemy does this when defeated.

* Happens in {{Braid}} to the OneHitPointWonder protagonist; however, the twist is that just before he falls off the bottom of the screen, the action freezes and you're prompted to press Shift and rewind the action to a point before you died.
* Arguably the entire point of the SuperSmashBros games, since the way characters are defeated is by being knocked off the screen.
* Inverted in two ways in MischiefMakers; the Player throws things to take out enemies and her throwing enemies is itself is usually fatal.
* In The Caverns of Hammerfest the main character, a snowman, is knocked off to the bottom of the screen whenever he is hit by something.

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** Happens to the villains too, at least in the SuperMarioLand and first WarioLand spinoff. In many cases, they actually plummet off screen head first with the comedy sound of someone falling off a cliff.

* Arguably the entire point of the SmashBros games, since the way characters are defeated is by being knocked off the screen.

* Arguably the entire point of the SmashBrothers games, since the way characters are defeated is by being knocked off the screen.

* In ''Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge'', the player character gets thrown and smacked against the screen when hit by an enemy whilst on its last life.

* ''PrehistorikMan'' has this. Interestingly, the way drowning is handles ''changes'' late in the game: Initially the character is thrown when he hits the bottom (once you've hit the surface you can't swim or jump out anyway), but after being told water makes you drown, the death animation is changed to drowning.

*** Happens to mooks if they're hit by a fireball (except ''Super Mario World''), vegetable, raccoon tail, starman, cape...

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* ''SuperMarioBros'' is the UrExample. This is lampshaded in a live-action parody (it's on youtube somewhere) where the characters are in the real world and super-sized Mario is shot to death by a cop. He is thrown off-screen in the classic manner, leaving the cop wondering what the hell just happened.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY This]] is probably the parody being described.

* This only occurs with two kinds of death in {{LittleBigPlanet}}: falling onto SpikesOfDoom (or a sword) and being crushed. Both result in Sackboy jumping forward one gameplay layer (if in the front layer, then out of the gameplay area) before falling out of reality. It gets even more ridiculous with the crushing animation, because he may leap ''right through'' the material that crushed him, and even fall right through the floor. Other kinds of death (electricity, Impact Explosives, etc.) have the expected means of death instead of this. (However, the electricity causes Sackboy to ''pop'' in the [=PS3=] game.)

*** Happens to mooks if they're hit by a fireball, vegetable, raccoon tail, starman, cape...

* ''Kid Icarus'': The instant Pit takes his last hit, he jumps off the stage, and the Game Over screen reads: "I'M FINISHED!"