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** After defeating Porky in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'', one of the legs will fall with enough force to hurt you. Similarly, the Porky Bots don't vanish when he's defeated, hence you can get blown up by them after the boss has already been defeated if you're too close to him. Not too dangerous, since you can't get KO'd if the boss is defeated, but devastating in Boss Battles when you don't want to take much damage or waste healing items.
** Knocking a foe at an extremely high percentage upwards results in [[ATwinkleInTheSky blasting away]], and the animation goes on for a while before they actually die. In Sudden Death, there's still plenty of time for a bomb to spawn on top of you and send you flying off the side, killing you instantly, while this is happening, so if you've knocked your foes up, don't let your guard down. ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Smash for 3DS/Wii U]]'' changed this so that both animations play at roughly the same speed, and matches that are near ending (all players down to 1 stock, or the time is less than 30 seconds) stops all special animations and just counts an instant K.O. at the top of the screen.

%% ** Very nearly happens in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' at Metal Harbor. Possibly on purpose by the designers. You're going so fast that when Sonic goes into the Goal Ring, he'll nearly fall off the edge; luckily, the screen fades to white for the results screen before this can happen.

* In the SoBadItsGood game ''VideoGame/HopkinsFBI'', the "final boss battle" is a sword-duel between Hopkins and the terrorist mastermind, Bernie Berckson, [[CutsceneBoss which all takes place in a completely non-interactive cutscene in which Hopkins wins handily]]. However, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext if Hopkins' dead clone doesn't disable Berckson's immortality machine in Heaven first]], Berckson comes back to life, gloats about how he's immortal, and shoots you.

*** An achievement in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' has this issue. "Professional Hedgehog" is earned by completing Titanic Monarch Act 1, including the boss, without taking damage. If you reach the boss and activate Super Sonic, you ''can't'' take damage any more, so that should be a free win... but winning the boss fight automatically ends Super form, and you ''can'' still be hit if the boss has any projectiles on-screen.

** In the UsefulNotes/WiiWare [[VideoGameRemake remake]], two of the bosses do this. During Baphomet's death animation, massive pillars of flame will erupt from the ground, covering most of the screen, and you'll very likely get hit and possibly die if you don't hide out on the very edge of the boss room. Palenque, during his death animation, will leap out of the cockpit of his ancient war machine and explode, '''killing you instantly''' if you don't attack him with your main weapon before he detonates himself.

** In the original Saturn version, it was possible to make this {{unwinnable}} if you had transferred the ocarina into someone else's inventory (since Alex is all alone when he goes up there). This was fixed in the [=PS1=] version where it's impossible to take it out of Alex's inventory. This "trap" is derived from the actual "original" release of the game on the UsefulNotes/SegaCD[=/=]UsefulNotes/MegaDrive, though Alex played a harp rather than an ocarina. The player does get a bit of a warning by way of non-lethal (but still HP damaging) zaps, but failure to play the harp before reaching Luna always results in a final fatal strike.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', whenever Mario touches the flagpole, Mario is invulnerable to every enemy except by the hammers thrown by the Hammer Bros and Bowser or the fire bars which can hurt Super Mario and kill small Mario. If Mario falls a hole while finishing the level, the level scroll slowly for a while before the level scrolling fast and the level became unwinnable.

** In "VideoGame/KirbyReturnToDreamland", several stages end with a segment where you use the Super Abilities to destroy a bunch of things. After this, you normally complete a course in another dimension, defeat a miniboss Sphere Doomer, and finish the level. However, one level in the final world has a team of ninjas ambush you after you've defeated the sphere doomer right as the exit is within sight. If you don't have a copy ability and are on low health, this could take you by suprise.

** Custom stepchart maker FamilyFarce bred his own Kaizo trap in the Tsu...mush series from Hopscotch Mix. Both Tsutsugamush and Tsupseudogamush end with three notes in quick succession, usually charted as a left/right, up/down, left/right. For the third in the series, Tsuhsuixamush, the last jump is replaced with a massive stream of mines, which, through a glitch involving negative BPM, appear instantly and instead of the last jump. If you know it's there, it's trivial to avoid, but if not, have fun trying again!

* ''VideoGame/LethalCompany'': It is still possible to die from being attacked by Circuit Bees, Blind Dogs or masks after pulling the lever to take the ship back to orbit. If you are the last person alive and die after pulling the lever, you still lose everything.

* ''VideoGame/Lethal Company'': It is still possible to die from being attacked by Circuit Bees, Blind Dogs or masks after pulling the lever to take the ship back to orbit. If you are the last person alive and die after pulling the lever, you still lose everything.

*** Mystic Cave Zone Act 2 has the infamous spike pit. To cross, you must pull a handle and lower a drawbridge. Jump off too soon or miss the handle entirely, down you go. Have invincibility or trigger Super Sonic, becomes a matter of when you die, not if. Lock on the S&K cartridge and play as Knuckles and he could escape, provided the bridge hasn't been lowered. Averted in the 2013 remake and ''Sonic Origins'', where the pit is turned into a portal to the original Hidden Palace Zone.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' and its sequel ''Bug Too!'' have bosses where it's possible to die at even during their death animation.

* It should come as no surprise that this is in the web animation ''WebAnimation/KaizoTrap'', where the Girl finally seems to rescue her husband, but it turns out to be a boss which resets her progress. She's forced to decide whether or not to keep going. [[spoiler: The end of the first animation also counts, at least before YouTube disabled redirecting annotations. The ending has the two back home, but in a dilapidated house with broken windows and furniture. By paying very close attention, though, and going through a maze of redirects and a bunch of NightmareFuel, the viewer/player can find themselves at the ''actual'' ending.]]

* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'': In the UsefulNotes/WiiWare [[VideoGameRemake remake]], two of the bosses do this. During Baphomet's death animation, massive pillars of flame will erupt from the ground, covering most of the screen, and you'll very likely get hit and possibly die if you don't hide out on the very edge of the boss room. Palenque, during his death animation, will leap out of the cockpit of his ancient war machine and explode, '''killing you instantly''' if you don't attack him with your main weapon before he detonates himself.
** The miniboss in the Gate of Illusion also does this, where after defeating him, a chest spawns in the middle of the room. Ghosts pour into it (the women who were sacrificed to said boss), right before the ceiling drops upon your head for a one-hit kill (and you [[AchievementMockery get an achievement]], because it's that kind of game.)

* It should come as no surprise that this is in the web animation [[WebAnimation/KaizoTrap]], where the Girl finally seems to rescue her husband, but it turns out to be a boss which resets her progress. She's forced to decide whether or not to keep going. [[spoiler: The end of the first animation also counts, at least before YouTube disabled redirecting annotations. The ending has the two back home, but in a dilapidated house with broken windows and furniture. By paying very close attention, though, and going through a maze of redirects and a bunch of NightmareFuel, the viewer/player can find themselves at the ''actual'' ending.]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', there is a move called Destiny Bond. If the Pokémon using it gets [=KOed=] in the next attack, then both Pokemon will faint.

Known in Japanese as "Kōmei no wana" ("Kōmei's trap," Kōmei being the Japanese reading of Kongming, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesy_name courtesy name]] for Zhuge Liang, a famous strategist from ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'').

** In ''Mario Forever'', in the secret goomba party level (a level where it's literally raining Goombas), after finishing the level, a Goomba can fall on you during the victory animation and kill you.

** ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' inverts this with the Mingy Jongo battle, as it's possible to die ''before'' the fight begins if Banjo approaches Mingy with only 1 HP left. This is because, despite the surprise attack occuring during a cutscene, it ''does'' inflict damage, meaning that the battle is destined to start with the duo having one HP less than before.

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', there is a move called Destiny Bond. If the pokemon using it gets [=KOed=] in the next attack, then both Pokemon will faint.