Basic Trope: Video games tend to allow you to survive what in Real Life would be a hopeless or fatal scenario simply by achieving a victory condition. * Straight: You're falling to your death in a pit of lava but get off one lucky shot that kills the boss, ending the stage just before you die. * Exaggerated: You're in the lava pool, and the boss walks into a trap you set, killing himself during your death animation. Next stage, it turns out you didn't even lose a life in the process. * Justified: You're playing an RTS or SRPG, where victory relies on conditions that can feasibly be met even if most of your forces have been routed. * Inverted: Nonstandard Game Over * Subverted: Kaizo Trap * Double Subverted: The trap was just a cat scare. * Parodied: A capture-the-