Basic Trope: You can lose the game, get a Game Over before you start it.
- Straight: You can spawn on a Death Trap and die at the start of the level. Then you get directed to a Nonstandard Game Over.
- Exaggerated:
- If you create a character who would have negative stats clicking start will instantly give you a Non-Standard Game Over of child of prophecy being stillborn.
- You can get a Nonstandard Game Over after the game is installed.
- You can get a Nonstandard Game Over before the game is installed.
- You already got a Nonstandard Game Over before the game was even made.
- You already got a Nonstandard Game Over a few seconds after your birth.
- You already got a Nonstandard Game Over before your conception.
- You lost the game a moment after the Big Bang. Or, heck, before it.
- Downplayed: You can die at the beginning of the tutorial.
- Justified:
- The Randomly Generated Levels system has a Game-Breaking Bug.
- The enemies have set up a trap in the beginning, allowing them to capture or kill the player easily.
- (from Exaggerrated 3-7) You used Time Travel Cheat Code to play, rendering the game to mess up.
- To show how Nintendo Hard the game is, the developer added this as an example.
- There was a “lose” button on the main menu, and pressing it makes you lose before the game begins.
- The download was corrupted, changing your starting position to somewhere in a failsafe Kill Zone.
- Inverted:
- A dead avatar can be ressurected at the beginning.
- You can only die on the Final Boss.
- The game is extremely short, and you win instantly when you start.
- Subverted: It only looks like you died, causing Fission Mailed effects.
- Double Subverted: But then you die anyway, sending to a Game Over screen.
- Parodied: The "game" is just an image of a Game Over screen.
- Zig Zagged: Dropping on the Kaizo Trap for the first time will get you a Fission Mailed effect, but do it again in subsequent times and you will get a Nonstandard Game Over.
- Averted: You can't die at the beginning.
- Enforced: The developers wanted to have players lose the game early and get Game Over screens as part of their Trial-and-Error Gameplay.
- Lampshaded: "I died?" says the character's ghost on the 'you died, click X to respawn' screen. "But I was only just born! Oh, well, guess I'd better respawn."
- Invoked: This combined with Press X to Die.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The player gives their character something which means the character can do something which prevents them from dying too early.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "It sucks when you spawn on a death trap and die at the beginning of the level"
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