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* '''Parodied:''' A happy fanfare plays as the ''Game Over'' screen appears, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech giving the player a lengthy praise for their spectacular failure]].

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* '''Parodied:''' '''Parodied:'''
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A happy fanfare plays as the ''Game Over'' screen appears, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech giving the player a lengthy praise for their spectacular failure]].failure]].
** FissionMailed.
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* '''Zigzagged:''' The initial ''Game Over'' screen turns out to be fake, only for the game to suffer a bug that makes it so whenever you move your character after this fake screen appeared, they die again and the Game Over screen appears again, except each one of them are fake too, making the game loop on itself and become UnwinnableByMistake.

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* '''Zigzagged:''' The initial ''Game Over'' screen turns out to be fake, only for the game to suffer a bug that makes it so whenever you move your character after this fake screen appeared, they die again and the Game Over screen appears again, except each one of them are fake too, making the game loop on itself and become UnwinnableByMistake.UnintentionallyUnwinnable.
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** Upon losing your last life in ''Tropers: The Game'', a screen reading ''Game Over'' shows.

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** Upon losing your last life (or your HitPoints reaching zero) in ''Tropers: The Game'', a screen reading ''Game Over'' shows.



** There are no Game Over screens.

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** There are no Game Over screens. When you lose all your lives, you are taken back to the main menu (or the start of the level if you're lucky) without any sort of message appearing.
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Game Over. Click [[GameOver HERE]] to restart from the main article.

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Game Over. Click [[GameOver HERE]] to restart from the main article.
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* '''Invoked:''' Emperor Evulz kills the main protagonist, thus provoking the ''Game Over'' screen to appear.

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* '''Invoked:''' '''Invoked:'''
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Emperor Evulz kills the main protagonist, thus provoking the ''Game Over'' screen to appear.appear.
** EarnYourBadEnding
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'''Basic Trope:''' The screen which appears when you lose the game.
*'''Straight:'''
** Upon losing your last life in ''Tropers: The Game'', a screen reading ''Game Over'' shows.
** Your escort dies during the EscortMission, bringing you to the ''Game Over'' screen.
** ...And many other examples, which would be too long of a list to fit in the Playing With page.
*'''Exaggerated:'''
** NonStandardGameOver
** PlayerDeathIsDramatic
** {{Unwinnable}}
** Make one meager wrong move and the ''Game Over'' screen will pop up, forcing you to restart from square one.
** There are a hundred of different ''Game Over'' screens coded for ''Tropers: The Game'', each covering a different situation.
*'''Downplayed:''' DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist
*'''Justified:''' [[SarcasmMode It's always great to know when you screw up big time, after all.]]
*'''Inverted:'''
** HaveANiceDeath
** AWinnerIsYou
** When you lose, you're brought to a screen reading ''Congratulations! You've completed the game!'', and vice-versa.
*'''Subverted:''' [[FissionMailed After several seconds, the Game Over screen disappears, and reveals the player-controlled protagonist alive and well. The game resumes.]]
*'''Double Subverted:''' ...Or at least that's how it was programmed. However, a glitch makes it so you can't escape the fake game over screen anyways, forcing you to restart.
*'''Zigzagged:''' The initial ''Game Over'' screen turns out to be fake, only for the game to suffer a bug that makes it so whenever you move your character after this fake screen appeared, they die again and the Game Over screen appears again, except each one of them are fake too, making the game loop on itself and become UnwinnableByMistake.
*'''Parodied:''' A happy fanfare plays as the ''Game Over'' screen appears, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech giving the player a lengthy praise for their spectacular failure]].
*'''Averted:'''
** There are no Game Over screens.
** You can't lose in ''Tropers: The Game''.
*'''Lampshaded:''' "Damniiiit, I lost the game!"
*'''Enforced:''' "We've got to make players know when they've lost, after all."
*'''Invoked:''' Emperor Evulz kills the main protagonist, thus provoking the ''Game Over'' screen to appear.
*'''Exploited:''' ItsAWonderfulFailure
*'''Discussed:''' "I'm certainly not doing that, or else this world isn't going to hesitate reminding me how much I messed up!"
*'''Conversed:''' "Game Over screens can get frustrating, at times, don't you think?" "Especially when you have to restart the game from zero..."
*'''Deconstructed:''' The Game Over screen causes the player to RageQuit the game.
*'''Reconstructed:''' The player looks up strategies online to figure out how to beat the part they could not beat.

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Game Over. Click [[GameOver HERE]] to restart from the main article.

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