History Main / PlayerKilling

One of the major issues of TheGreatPlayerVersusPlayerDebate. Also can be in the form of a {{Griefer}} where a person [[TeamKiller kills other players]] (friend or foe and mostly weak players at that) for the sheer humor of it.

* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', the Laughing Coffin guild is made up of player killers led by a lunatic who hallucinates Jesus telling him to kill things (and reveals this at the least opportune times). Kirito gives them advice on how to better themselves (by becoming a MurderInc), but end up destroyed when one of their ads gives away their location.

* [[WildCard Sora]] from ''Anime/DotHackSign'' is one, who delights in targeting female characters and demanding their Member Address, something needed to contact them in and out of the game or join their party, and killing them if they don't hand it over. His [[{{Troll}} obnoxious and flippant behavior]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe entirely self-centered motives]] make a lot more sense with TheReveal [[spoiler:that he's a ten year old boy in real life who had the free time to max out his stats and become an ''incredibly'' powerful character, but lacks the maturity to do anything worthwhile with it beyond amusing himself]].

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'' Pegasus hires Player Killers to work in Duelist Kingdom to challenge and eliminate other Duelists, with their ultimate goal being to retrieve forty of the eighty Star Chips that were handed out to the competitors (leaving only four players to enter Pegasus Castle). The protagonists run into four of them, one who pretends to be the ghost of Seto Kaiba, Panik, and the two Paradox Brothers.

-->-- ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline''

* It exists in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' and some of these incidents are due to the perpetrators not believing that killing another player would also kill them in real life. Or in some cases, [[TheSociopath not caring]]. Though its noted that during the first year, despite there being around 1000 players choosing to become bandits in SAO, there was never a single incident of player killing. Though [[spoiler: there's an entire guild dedicated to it.]] Once everyone's out of TheMostDangerousVideoGame and new tech comes along without the risk of killing people in real life, player killing becomes popular again

* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' shares similarities with SAO, but player death isn't permanent, although they do lose some items upon dying before being resurrected at a cathedral in a nearby city. Unfortunately, this also caused some players to resort to this trope because they're either [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife bored]], or ForTheEvulz.

Player Killing is the act of killing another player's DigitalAvatar in a multiplayer game. While the term could apply to all genres, it is used primarily in cooperative focused games (mostly {{MMORPG}}s) to designate "unnecessary" kills. Games such as first person shooters don't usually have the term applied to them because the whole focus is to kill other players (if in a team setting, it's usually called "Team Killing" if you kill your teammates). The term usually comes up when it's viewed as a dishonorable action, usually referring to kills that were done for [[{{Greifer}} griefing]] purposes.

Player Killing is the act of killing another player's DigitalAvatar in a multiplayer game. While the term could apply to all genres, it is used primarily in cooperative focused games (mostly {{MMORPG}}s) to designate "unnecessary" kills. Games such as first person shooters don't usually have the term applied to them because the whole focus is to kill other players (if in a team setting, it's usually called "Team Killing" if you kill your teammates). The term usually comes up when it's viewed as a dishonorable action, usually referring to kills that were done for [[{{Troll}} griefing]] purposes.