History Main / DeathThrows

*** After a long while, this returns in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'', now while Mario is flipped upside down.
*** Also makes a return in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'', which is remarkable because they're the first 3D Mario games to apply this trope.
*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' also does this if you die by losing all your health, making it the first sandbox-style entry in the series to do this--also note that Mario will always be thrown out of whatever enemy he's Captured if he loses his last hit point in such a scenario, so it's not like the enemies have their own death animations. Bowser is an exception, however, as he's the only enemy Mario isn't thrown out of upon dying. If Mario freezes to death, however, he won't be thrown.

*** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' also does this if you die by losing all your health, making it the first sandbox-style entry in the series to do this--also note that Mario will always be thrown out of whatever enemy he's Captured if he loses his last hit point in such a scenario, so it's not like the enemies have their own death animations. Bowser is an exception, however, as he's the only enemy Mario isn't thrown out of upon dying.

* ''VideoGame/{{Smashroom}}'': If [[PlayerCharacter Smashroom]] runs out of health, he curls up into a TroubledFetalPosition, and then jumps off the level.

* ''VideoGame/{{Smashroom}}'': If [[PlayerCharacter Smashroom]] runs out of healh, he curls up into a TroubledFetalPosition, and then jumps off the level.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' is the TropeCodifier (pictured above).

* Mario-clone ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'' has the main character get thrown off the screen towards the camera when losing a life.

Death animation common to 2-dimensional [[PlatformGame Platform Games]] especially during the [[UsefulNotes/The8bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 8-bit]] and [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit]] eras; in which the dying character flies into the air before falling off screen, often in a "sitting" spread-out contorted pose. This may happen to enemies as well.

* In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series of games, throwing ''is'' the death as characters are usually knocked off screen to be KO'd (sometimes characters sent flying off the top of the screen will even fly [[CameraAbuse into the camera]] or off into the distance to become ATwinkleInTheSky.) This is played straight in ''Melee'', ''Brawl'' and ''3DS/Wii U'' where the common enemies bounce and fly around when they're defeated in the adventure mode, Smash Run or ''Wii U'''s Classic Mode.

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* Happens for most characters in ''VideoGame/Claw'', unless they are killed from spikes, liquids or falling.

* Happens for most characters in ''VideoGame/CaptainClaw'', unless they are killed from spikes, liquids or falling.

* Run the clock out in CastlevaniaLegends and watch as poor Sonia Belmont gets ejected off the screen, Mario-style.

** In the ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' series games, while Yoshi would normally lose lives by having Baby Mario taken away from him, if he falls onto SpikesOfDoom or into a pit of lava, he will die this way.

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog does this in all the 2D games, including the TwoAndAHalfD ones like ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Rush|Series}}'' and the classic half of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' and ''VideoGame/SonicForces''.

* In ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'', [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] does this instead of [[LiterallyShatteredLives falling apart]] like every other character when he gets defeated.

* ''VideoGame/{{Secret Agent|VideoGame}}'' leaps off the screen while waving his hands and eyes madly as if he had an epileptic fit.

The TropeCodifier is ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.

* In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series of games, throwing ''is'' the death as characters are usually knocked off screen to be KO'd, this is played straight in ''Melee'', ''Brawl'' and ''3DS/Wii U'' where the common enemies bounce and fly around when they're defeated in the adventure mode, Smash Run or ''Wii U'''s Classic Mode.

* VideoGame/AlexKidd and VideoGame/WonderBoy starting with ''[[VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand Monster Land]]'' float off the screen upon death.

* VideoGame/AlexKidd and Franchise/WonderBoy starting with ''[[VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand Monster Land]]'' float off the screen upon death.

* ''Videogame/SecretAgent'' leaps off the screen while waving his hands and eyes madly as if he had an epileptic fit.