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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fic [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/02/story-ponies-play-d.html Ponies Play D&D], Spike gets fed up with the group's constant arguing over every decision they come across. When [[The Real Man|Rainbow Dash]] [[Leeroy Jenkins|attempts to slaughter the archangel NPC]] [[Railroading|about to spell out the party's next objective]], his patience snaps and he traps the party in a cave with a massively overpowered Stone Ogre. {{spoiler|[[Naive Newcomer|Applejack]] unwittingly averts a [[Total Party Kill]] by rolling a timely nat 20 and decapitating the Ogre in one blow.}}
* A deliciously silly ''[[Dragon Age]]'' fic on the [[BioWare]] boards [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/97/index/1132093/1#1147841 here]{{Dead link}} has Alistair as DM resort to this after a staggering amount of player stupidity from Morrigan, Sten, Wynne, and Oghren. "Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies" is actually the title.
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== [[New Media]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603204410/http://albruno3.com/ Ab3]'s "[[Binder of Shame]]" includes an anecdote entitled "The Day I Killed The Entire Party Before The First Combat Encounter", involving an incident with a character's motorcycle.
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* This is the typical ending of many ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' missions where the players have somehow managed against all odds to squeak through with some of their backup clones intact. Actually, speaking of those clones, sometimes this is how the mission ''starts''.
** Paranoia is an odd case here. Rather than being a sign that the GM is doing his job poorly, this is seen as a sign that the game will be very good.
* There's even a reference to this in edition 3.5 of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. The spell ''[https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Rocks_Fall_(3.5e_Spell)| Rocks Fall]{{Dead link}}'' is actually a curse, and while PCs can use it, the sadistic way it deals death to the victim makes it more likely to be used by a villain controlled by the DM.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** "Suddenly The Dungeon Collapses" is an achievement in ''[[Dungeons of Dredmor]]'', obtained in the same way.
** This is also used in the "screen" terminal emulator. Try it next time you boot Slackware.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160409212308/http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=screen.git
** In a straightforward example, attempting to exploit now fixed bugs (such as item duping) will result in the players death, for "trickery".
* This is the preferred method among MMOs for closing up beta test servers, though generally with a bit more variety than rocks. This can range from [[World of Warcraft|giant demon invasions]] to [[City of Heroes|UFO attacks]] to [[Guild Wars|legions of fire-wielding little girls]].
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