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Gravestones should generally be somber or reflective, so in fiction, it's common to put funny epitaphs on them. It could be a poem or a record or suggestion of an ironic or strange death. It could be a pun based on the late character's name. E.g.: "Paul E. Nate - A wonderful husband, father and florist." This is especially common in video games, as the player may blindly ignore the graveyard, or be too busy fighting zombies or whatever. Can be used too as a Shout-Out or a Take That!, often suggesting the fate of a character from another, rival work. Can be an example of Truth in Television. Subtrope of, but Not to Be Confused with, Black Comedy. Can sometimes feature Lame Last Words. Compare to The "Fun" in "Funeral". If you have some free time, drop by Trope Epitaph for a humorous case of this trope from this very wiki. |
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Betrayal at Krondor had a mix of ordinary and humorous quips on the gravestones, and you were also able to dig up the graves. Most graves had nothing special, some had hidden items hinted at by the eulogy (for example, a gravestone reading "Drank his milk every day" hid a few vials of milk), and some had "The fiend beneath this stone is trapped by dirt, not by death": Zombies! | |
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Guild Wars 2 has a mix of both serious and amusing gravestones in several graveyards, particularly in the cemetery at Shaemoor: | |
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In the ending of "Let's Destoy the Shagohod!" from Hiimdaisy, the US President rewrites The Boss's grave to read "In Memory of a loser who was a loser". No need to say how Big Boss reacted. | |
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Jean Grey of the X-Men is known for her habit of dying and coming back to life, which was represented in a parody by having her grave say Jean Grey: BRB◊. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II has Zero's grave in Halloween Town; though the grave itself is just a grave, Sora will say that Zero is usually sleeping here. | |
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The first five "Treehouse of Horror" episodes used these in their openings. The last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag, until it was brought back for the twenty-ninth Treehouse of Horror. In the "Treehouse of Horror I" segment "Bad Dream House", the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for Tonto, Mahatma Gandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse. The "Treehouse of Horror III" segment Dial "Z" for Zombies has graves marked "Fish Police", "Capitol Critters" and "Family Dog", all of which were animated series that tried and failed to compete with The Simpsons in primetime. |
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The Simpsons: The first five "Treehouse of Horror" episodes used these in their openings. The last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag, until it was brought back for the twenty-ninth Treehouse of Horror. In the "Treehouse of Horror I" segment "Bad Dream House", the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for Tonto, Mahatma Gandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse. The "Treehouse of Horror III" segment Dial "Z" for Zombies has graves marked "Fish Police", "Capitol Critters" and "Family Dog", all of which were animated series that tried and failed to compete with The Simpsons in primetime. After Homer fakes his death to get off working as a garbage collector, Marge is visited by Patty and Selma, who quite gleefully try to gift Marge what they have been saving for ever since she married: a graveyard spot for Homer with accompanying tombstone that reads "Homer Simpson: we are richer for having lost him". Another episode shows the family is using Bart's gravestone as a tea table. It reads "Bartholomew J. Simpson: Son, Brother, C-Student." |
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From Hale's Nuzlocke Comics, the prologue graveyard scene has two. A (ghost type) Gengar's epitaph reads "Lolwut?" A Mudkip's says "No one really liked him!" | |
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Flaming Zombooka 2's title screen has several gravestones with joke epitaphs, like "Dariush: Yup he's dead too". | |
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In Greg the Bunny, Count Blah (who has a Verbal Tic of saying "blah" after sentences) visited the grave of his wife, which reads, "Beloved Wife, Blah. R.I.P.B." | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head in their parody of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: "Here lies Beavis. He never scored." | |
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Two examples from Snopes: This one is kind of charming. This one, not so much. |
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NetHack: There are randomly generated graves with these. There are loads of them and several places add more to the file (nethack.alt.org has a massive collection). A few examples include: "Og friend. Og good dude. Og died. Og now food."note This is a reference to how the "caveman" class does not have penalties for cannibalism. "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake, Stepped on the gas instead of the brake" "Rest in Pieces" "1994-1995. The Longest-Lived Hacker Ever" |
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A Diplomatic Visit: In chapter 7 of the sequel Diplomat at Large, the Storm King taunts Tempest with this, asking if she really wants "Princess Twilight was right" to be what they carve on her tombstone — or into her, as he hits her with an Obsidian Orb and turns her to stone. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Who's for Dinner", Heffer, after learning he was adopted, runs away and comes across what he believes is his biological father's grave at the cemetery and starts bawling until his father appears in a vision to remind him he isn't even dead. Heffer looks at the tombstone and reads the message on the front: "Here lies a big, wet cat." | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a whole graveyard of these in its expansion pack, with new tombstones added with each dead character, regardless of involvement in the main storyline. Every new Sheothian has a unique narrative regarding their personality on their tombstones. | |
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The Catherine Tate Show featured the extremely popular character of Lauren Cooper, a mouthy schoolgirl whose catchphrase is "Am I bovvered?" (bothered). In the 2007 Christmas special, she is kayaking and says this to a man who warns her to stay away from a particular stretch of water. She ignores his advice, and is killed when her boat goes over a waterfall. Her friends are then seen standing by her tombstone, which is inscribed with the words "I still ain't bovvered". | |
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In Married... with Children, this is Al's reaction to Kelly naming the new family dog "Lucky". | |
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Elementary: In Season Two's "The One Percent Solution", Sherlock adopts a pair of roosters rescued from an illegal fighting ring, and constantly tries to goad Joan into using the traditional word for a male chicken: | |
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During the graveyard scene in Shrek 4D at Universal Studios, several of the tombstones say "COMING SOON" on them. | |
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Pirate101 gives us a few while looking for Honest Ned's grave in the lighthouse graveyard. If the player has Brigus Latro as a companion, he'll get annoyed and hang a lampshade on it. | |
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On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon bought a monogrammed funeral urn for Leonard in case his deviated septum surgery didn't end well. It read "Here lie the ashes of Leonard Hofstadter. He thought he was right, but his roommate knew better." He also bought one for himself, which read "I'm with stupid". | |
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In the reunion movie The Wild Wild West Revisited, James West and Artemus Gordon are shown the grave of their arch-nemesis Migelito Loveless, as made by Migelito's son: A Rushmore-sized carving of the man's last name in the side of a mountain, with tiny little plots staked out for the two heroes in its shadow. | |
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream's headquarters has a "Flavor Graveyard" that applies this trope to the company's discontinued flavors, with a rhyming epitaph on each tombstone. This was visited in the "Ice Cream" episode of The World According to Jeff Goldblum, with Goldblum adding to the humor by noting that since "Oh Pear" lasted less than a year, it was "taken in its infancy...That's the saddest thing I've ever heard!" | |
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Grand Theft Auto: On a more minor note, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features "R.I.P. Opposition" tombstones at a San Fierro memorial, referring to the rivalry between Rockstar North and developers of "GTA clones". Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: Staunton graveyard is chock full of these. Hilariously, it becomes increasingly populated as Toni kills off selected characters throughout the storyline. |
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Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle: The tomb of Bludtharst Heterodyne, an Evil Overlord who led to The Good King Andronicus Valois leading a coalition against him and uniting Europa, reads "HE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT ME." | |
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Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper does this in the credit sequence, with the tombstones featuring puns. Sometimes they varied things with jokes like a tombstone reading "I'm with stupid" next to another tombstone reading, "I'm stupid". | |
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Eugene Greenhilt's tombstone in The Order of the Stick, in addition to listing his many dates of death and resurrection, reads, "Master Wizard, Devoted Husband, Passable Father". (He was lucky to get that much. They probably averaged out his treatment of Roy and Julia.) Other visible tombstones display similar humor ("Bloodmak the Unholy: Not coming back as a vampire. Honest.") | |
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In This is Spın̈al Tap, David St. Hubbins suggests an epitaph for his own grave at one point: "Here Lies David St. Hubbins. And Why Not?" | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, many of the word walls that you get your words of power from are epitaphs of some sort in the dragon language. A lot of them say something about some hero who died in battle, or some sort of ancient Nord proverb, but some of them say something like this: | |
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Max0r: In his "Incorrect Summary of Ace Combat Zero" video, the grave of the violently adamant flat-earther Anton "Dr." Kupchenko has the following inscription on his grave. | |
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One episode of Red Dwarf features a psychic planet that makes itself into a physical manifestation of Rimmer's psyche. The other characters stumble across a graveyard of all his positive traits - Self-Respect died at age 24, Self-Confidence at 22, Charm at 3... | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day had some fun with raunchy Punny Names; R. Sole is an example. | |
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The city of Haven in Dragon Age: Origins has a graveyard filled with humorous tombstones, including some Shout-Outs to others on the the page. ("Sensal Gaheris: 775-798, 798-801, 801-805, 805-807, 807-809 (VERIFIED), 'BEST TAX EVADER EVER' — CH") Also in those graves, is "T.O. Hanoi". Anyone who's played Knights of the Old Republic or Mass Effect will know of Bioware's fondness for Tower of Hanoi puzzles. Anyone who has played Knights of the Old Republic or Mass Effect will breathe a sigh of relief upon viewing that tombstone. | |
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Once The Cinema Snob sees a grave written "HANK TRACY. HE WAS JESSE JAMES' FRIEND.": | |
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Grrl Power: Upon seeing many roleplaying dice in her new store, Sydney confesses being tempted to go Pooled Funds with them, but then admits that "death by d4 lacerations" would be a pretty dumb way to die. Next panel shows a tombstone reading "SYDNEY SCOVILLE, JR — SHE DUMB". | |
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Dungeons & Dragons module I6 Ravenloft. The tombs under Castle Ravenloft have a number of funny inscriptions on their individual crypts. "Artista DeSlop — Court Ceiling Painter" "Prince Aerial Du Plumette (Aerial the Heavy)" "Artank Swilovich: Here interred and with great mourning courtesy of the Barovian Wine Distillers Brotherhood." "Sir Sedrik Spinwitovich (Admiral Spinwitovich). Confused though he was, he built the greatest naval force ever assembled in a land-locked country." "Ivan DeRose, Champion of Winter Dog Racing. The race may go to the swift, but vengeance is for the loser's relatives." |
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Mortal Kombat 3 features tombstones of the game's developers, as well as one reading "Cage", presumably a reference to Johnny Cage, the character who died before the events of the game. | |
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How It Should Have Ended has the following in their Captain America: Civil War spoof: | |
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Chapter 5 of StarTropics 2: Zoda's Revenge takes place in a Wild West setting, where you can find several humorous (and rhyming) epitaphs in a local mining town. "Here lies Lucky Larry. His luck ran out and now he's buried." | |
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The vast majority of gravestones in the Divinity series are this. All of them are lovingly narrated by the Narrator in Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition. | |
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On a more minor note, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features "R.I.P. Opposition" tombstones at a San Fierro memorial, referring to the rivalry between Rockstar North and developers of "GTA clones". | |
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Arthur contains several on the final page of Arthur's Halloween, with probably the most bizarre being "Here lies the body of Sally Bent: Kicked up her heels and away she went." | |
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"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" | |
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In the original Japanese version and the Dawn of Souls English translation, the tombstone read "here lies Link". | |
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Shadow Warrior has a hidden tombstone that says "Chan — He Slipped in the Shower". | |
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Sanitarium has plenty, mostly for developers. There's also the grave of Joseph Bruener, a character from War Wind II (a game which Sanitarium's developers had previously worked on). "This one says Travis W. Nice Goddamn Cat..." Granted, this was on a level that's basically a mangled bunch of all the previous levels, so randomness like this is expected. | |
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Most people who played The Oregon Trail as a kid put "pepperoni and cheese" on their tombstones. The others put profanities on theirs. Apparently a popularly downloaded copy of the game comes with a "peperony and chease" tombstone, leading to Memetic Mutation. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: Staunton graveyard is chock full of these. Hilariously, it becomes increasingly populated as Toni kills off selected characters throughout the storyline. | |
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The Japanese version of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link has a grave in Saria Town that reads "here lies Loto, the hero" (Loto being Erdrick's Japanese name in Dragon Quest). | |
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RuneScape: The boss room of Gravecreeper is littered with graves of the game developers. The "last rites" option of Saradomin's holy book (like a Bible) reads "Thy cause was false, thy skills did lack; see you in Lumbridge when you get back." (Lumbridge is normally where players respawn). |
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In Girl Genius, a visit to the Crypt of the Heterodynes reveals many amusing epitaphs. Perhaps most interesting is the tomb of Lazarus Heterodyne, with half a dozen dates crossed out. As well as Iscariot Heterodyne, "Every Man's Friend". The pile of skulls next to the crypt has labels like "Friend #115". | |
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Red Dead Redemption: John Marston has "Blessed are the Peacemakers." As in Colt Peacemakers. The graveyards in New Austin and West Elizabeth sometimes boast humorous tombstones such as one reading "Unknown person - So drunk he did not remember dying" or "If you are reading this, I must be dead". The Coot's Chapel graveyard manages to has inscriptions such as "Never try to milk a bull." |
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura: Every graveyard in the game has such tombs, with inscriptions like: "I told you I was sick!" "Here lies an atheist all dressed up and no place to go." "Quoeth thy Raven nevermore." "Hey who blew out the candle? Hello?" and "There was a light at the end of the tunnel, unfortunately that light was a train." There was also a hidden "Fan Graveyard" as an Easter Egg, where forum members familiar to the devs were eulogized. |
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In Rango, there's a brief shot of the town's cemetery, featuring a cluster of graves belonging to former sheriffs. Some of them have humorous epitaphs, including "Hold my beer and watch this" and "He's Dead, Jim". | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a whole graveyard of these in its expansion pack, with new tombstones added with each dead character, regardless of involvement in the main storyline. Every new Sheothian has a unique narrative regarding their personality on their tombstones. The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire had another whole graveyard of these, and this graveyard was referenced to in The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, many of the word walls that you get your words of power from are epitaphs of some sort in the dragon language. A lot of them say something about some hero who died in battle, or some sort of ancient Nord proverb, but some of them say something like this: |
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Mother 3 has a hurricane of "grave" puns. Also, a "NO ZOMBIES ALLOWED" sign at the cemetery entrance. | |
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At the end of The Angry Video Game Nerd's review of Raid 2020, he delivers a long speech about how he dreads having to review more games with years in their titles (Phantom 2040, Battlefield 2142, SimCity 3000, etc.) When he mentions Cyberpunk 2077, he believes he'd be dead by the actual year 2077, giving him the perfect excuse not to review it. Cut to a tombstone that reads: | |
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Final Fantasy Final Fantasy has a tombstone reading, "Here lies Erdrick," after the hero (well, hero's ancestor) of competing game company Enix's Dragon Quest. In the original Japanese version and the Dawn of Souls English translation, the tombstone read "here lies Link". |
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In Mister Miracle, Oberon's gravestone has the epitaph "Get me out of here!" | |
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Neverwinter Nights has a tombstone that reads along the lines of "Here lies X, who scoffed at the warnings of lesser men and built this fine tower. He discovered his error a few weeks later. Beware of trolls." | |
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The graves in Plants vs. Zombies can sometimes have funny inscriptions on them (e.g. "Bereft of Life", "Just Resting", "Expired",...) | |
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Map Men: In "You'll never guess the most popular internet country code", Jon Postel's gravestone reads "www.hereliesjonpostelsuchalovelyandclevermanmissedbymany1943-1998.com/rest/in/peace". | |
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In Amazing Spider-Man #308, Spidey fights the Taskmaster in a derelict cemetery; in one large shot of the villain, he's shown looming over headstones with the names of famous Spider-Man artists: Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr., Ross Andru, Gil Kane, JR Jr. (John Romita Jr.), and Ron Frenz. | |
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Danny Phantom: In the TV movie The Ultimate Enemy, Danny enters a future where his friends and family have been killed, and he sees a collective gravestone reading "Gone, but not forgotten". Right next to it is a stone for Mr. Lancer, which just reads "Gone". | |
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Seen in King's Quest VII. Here's a video. Naturally, given the setting, one of them (the one that says "don't stand on his grave") is a trap that does Rosella in if she actually stands on it. Also, there's a blank grave; if examined too close, she's shoved in and Buried Alive, the words "Rosella, Rest in Pieces" appearing on it. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants episode where Mr. Krabs goes to a graveyard to dig up a million-dollar hat. Squidward is mourning at a tombstone and when Mr. Krabs comes to see who it was, he sees that the engraving reads "Here lie Squidward's hopes and dreams." ("Pfft. What a baby.") In the same graveyard, there's "Diver Dan", whose tombstone has carved scuba gear on it; "Stupid" next to "I'm with Stupid", complete with pointing hand, and most importantly, the "#1" shaped tombstone of Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen, whose name extends off the name plaque. | |
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The "Treehouse of Horror III" segment Dial "Z" for Zombies has graves marked "Fish Police", "Capitol Critters" and "Family Dog", all of which were animated series that tried and failed to compete with The Simpsons in primetime. | |
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Team Fortress 2: Spy: "Here lies Scout. He ran fast and died a virgin." Harvest_event has a tombstone reading "RIP The Tenth Class," a reference to players constantly clamoring to discover/add a hidden tenth class or the removed Civilian class from the Hunted game mode. Deathcam screenshots are a more ephemeral, digital form of this, since they always read "You were killed by [killer's name]." Some players would have therefore take on names like "An Expired Sandvich" or "Irony" specifically to have fun with this feature. More bawdy players would use names that cause the deathcam screenshot to imply death by more raunchy means for much the same reason. The recently added taunt, the Soldier's Requiem, has him plant down a grave (that he was carrying with him the whole time) that says, "R.I.P. Here lies maggot. I win. The end." |
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Final Fantasy has a tombstone reading, "Here lies Erdrick," after the hero (well, hero's ancestor) of competing game company Enix's Dragon Quest. | |
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In Blackadder Goes Forth, Blackadder says he wishes his tombstone to be inscribed: | |
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King's Quest Seen in King's Quest VII. Here's a video. Naturally, given the setting, one of them (the one that says "don't stand on his grave") is a trap that does Rosella in if she actually stands on it. Also, there's a blank grave; if examined too close, she's shoved in and Buried Alive, the words "Rosella, Rest in Pieces" appearing on it. And King's Quest IV. It just seems to be Rosella's "good luck." The AGD Interactive Fan Remake of King's Quest II also uses this as a plot point. |
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The Catcher in the Rye has Holden remarking on profane vandalism and saying that his gravestone will most likely read: "Holden Caulfield, [date of birth]-[date of death], Fuck you." | |
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Haunted Mansion (2023): Underneath Crump Manor, Travis finds a room that contains several graves with humorous epitaphs, which is a reference to the graves found near the real Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World. | |
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Vinesauce Joel's Windows XP Destruction once System32 is deleted: | |
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Fable has many of these. Most using the rhyming pun. The deceased tend to be people who worked on the game. And then there's one Cpt. J. Sparrow. (May the wind always be at [his] back.) | |
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Like fellow Sierra series King's Quest above, Quest for Glory can never resist having lots of goofy little poems on the tombstones whenever the game includes a cemetery. ("Here lies Lester Moore, gored three times by a wild boar. No Les, no more."). The fourth game's gravedigger character also constantly makes graveyard-and-death-related puns. | |
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Primal had Jen smash a tombstone that read 'RIP Laura Croft 2003' as a Take That! to Tomb Raider. The game came out in 2003, obviously. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, the inscriptions on the headstones in the graveyard are punning homages to the game's lead programmers and designers. | |
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The PC game Sacred does this, including such epitaphs as "And he said, 'How long will the flying spell last?'" and the fourth-wall breaking "For the ultimate cheat of void, enter DOS, type 'format C:\' and enter." | |
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Homestar Runner: At the end of the Strong Bad Email "replacement", Strong Bad hasn't found a replacement host for his email show, but he has decided what he wants on his tombstone◊: | |
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As always, there is an example from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Buffy dies at the end of season 5, her tombstone reads Buffy Anne Summers, beloved sister, devoted friend. She saved the world. A lot. | |
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In the "Treehouse of Horror I" segment "Bad Dream House", the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for Tonto, Mahatma Gandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse. | |
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Hey Arnold!: In the episode "Ghost Bride", when Arnold and the others enter the graveyard where the titular Ghost Bride was buried, Arnold attempts to read her tombstone: | |
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The Family Guy episode "Family Guy Through the Years" has Peter's tombstone say "stabbed by Lady-boy" (Peter had died in The Vietnam War). | |
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Baldur's Gate: The graveyard in Nashkel is full of these, including an Easter Egg that'll trigger an Optional Boss fight if you click on it too many times. You get things like "Here lies X, who was killed by (long list of summonable creatures)" followed by the Latin for "do not call up what you cannot put down", implying that this was a hapless summoner who didn't know what he was getting into. Dave F. Slain by 13 Gibberlings, 4 Kobolds, 6 Ogres and 2 Dire Wolves. Ne invoces expellere non possis. (Do not call up that which you cannot put down.) |
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The cemetery by the Ace of Spades Castle in The Riddle of Master Lu has such quirky inscriptions that the Player Character can make one of his "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" cartoons about them. One seems to contain a dating advertisement by the deceased's widow. | |
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The Cat Who... Series: In book 20 (The Cat Who Sang for the Birds), Qwilleran goes exploring in a cemetery with a knowledgeable local and discovers a number of gravestones that have this. Among these is one described as "the ultimate his and hers". One reads "Shot by her dear husband", and the other next to it announces that he was "Hanged for killing his dear wife". | |
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In Friends, Phoebe once mentions that she wants her epitaph to be "Phoebe Buffay, Buried Alive". | |
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Lupin III: In the Part 2 episode "Lupin the Interred", Lupin commissions a gravestone for himself before going out to fight an assassin stalking him. In the dub, the gravestone reads: | |
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In one Doctor Who New Adventures novel, the Doctor, at a funeral, speculates on what his gravestone would say. Benny suggests "When I said 'Look me in the eye and pull that trigger', I was being metaphorical." He thinks it's more likely to be "Look out, he's behind you." | |
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