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-"'''{{wp|Game over|Game Over}}'''" is a message used in video games when the player has run out of lives or chances. However, nonstandard Game Overs are sometimes used to punish specific mistakes. The Game Over screen differs from game to game, but the text is usually set against a blank screen.
+"'''{{wp|Game over|Game Over}}'''" is a message used in video games when the player has run out of lives or chances. However, nonstandard Game Overs are sometimes used to punish specific mistakes. The Game Over screen differs from game to game, but the text is usually set against a blank screen. After a Game Over, the player is typically given an option to restart the game from the last save point. However, many games from earlier {{wp|History of video games|hardware generations}} lack saving functionality, requiring the games to be restarted from the beginning.
-After a Game Over, the player is typically given an option to restart the game from the last save point. However, many games from earlier {{wp|History of video games|hardware generations}} lack saving functionality, requiring the games to be restarted from the beginning.
 In the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], the "Game Over" message has seen several variations, and it has even been used in-universe as a euphemism for death.
 ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' and the ''Bowser's Fury'' campaign of ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'' are the only games in the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]] thus far not to include a Game Over, as there are no lives or [[1-Up Mushroom]]s in the games, with typical life-loss being replaced by a 10- and 50-[[coin]] deduction, respectively.
-=="Game Over" as death==
-{{quote|Peach... Noble princess, pure of heart... Do you take Bowser to be your lawfully wedded husband 'til your game be over?|Count Bleck|Super Paper Mario}}
-In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', a Game Over is the equivalent of death, as extra lives make "death" a mild inconvenience.<ref>A Shayde: "Huh? What'd you say? "What's The Underwhere?" ...You're kidding, right? Man, for a guy with no extra lives, you're sure hilarious! Isn't it obvious? This is where people go when their games are OVER! Some call it "World -1"..."</ref>
-In that game, [[Dimentio]] sends [[Mario]] and his teammates to "the next world," albeit "while still very much alive,"<ref>Queen Jaydes: And by the way, it may please you to know that your game is not truly over. Somehow, you were sent to The Underwhere while still very much alive... My power can return you to your world if you so wish...</ref> which is similar to the philosophy of the afterlife. Mario, [[Luigi]], and [[Bowser]] end up in [[The Underwhere]], which resembles {{wp|hell}}, where some [[Shayde]]s ask Mario how his "game," referring to his life, was. Also, many Shaydes can be seen discussing how they got a Game Over. [[The Overthere]] resembles {{wp|heaven}}, surrounded by clouds, the sun, and rainbows. [[Princess Peach]] ends up there.
-That said, all the conversations in The Underwhere seem to suggest that Shaydes can request an audience with [[Queen Jaydes]], who will weigh in their sins and send them to The Overthere, submit them to punishments befitting of their crimes, or even return them to the land of the playing if the situation calls it.
-The areas of The Underwhere or The Overthere where Jaydes sends the dead people are never clearly shown; all that are seen in The Underwhere are Shaydes that have not yet requested an audience with Jaydes, and [[D-Man|D-Men]] who work for her, while all that are seen in The Overthere are [[Nimbi]]s (and [[Skellobit]]s that are invading). It is implied that the dead villains are condemned to an area below The Underwhere, where [[Bonechill]] was also imprisoned before he escaped. It is possible that the paradise dimension witnessed at the end credits may be an area of The Overthere, though what [[Nastasia]] says seems to suggest otherwise.<ref>Princess Peach: Both [[Tippi]] and Count Bleck...gone. What could have happened to them?<br>[[Merlon]]: I shudder to think about it, but surely when the prophecy was nullified...<br>Nastasia: Um, no... They're alive. Yeah, they're finally united. They overcame time and fulfilled their old vows... Somewhere, the count...is living together with Tippi... in...um...happiness...</ref>
-One Shayde speculates that if a person dies in The Underwhere or The Overthere while already dead, their aftergame ends and they go to a "post-aftergame."
-When [[Count Bleck]] was using [[The Void]] to destroy all worlds, The Void also appeared in The Overthere, indicating that it would even destroy the aftergame. Where all the dead characters (or even all the characters altogether) would have gone following the aftergame's destruction is unknown; however, a young [[Flip-Flop Folk|Flip-Flop]] girl speculates that the souls of the deceased would be forced to drift aimlessly in the empty white space left behind by The Void due to being left without a world or aftergame to reside in, a fate deemed both sad and boring.
 ==List of "Game Over" screens==
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 *Game Overs appear in the comics of the ''Super Mario'' franchise in the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', ending the story. They appear on the final page on one corner of it.
 *A Game Over happens twice in the movie ''[[Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!]]'' The first time is when Bowser and Princess Peach vanish on Mario's TV screen, and the second time is while Bowser and [[Koopa Troop|his minions]] are working at Mario and Luigi's shop at the end of the movie.
+=="Game Over" as death==
+{{quote|Peach... Noble princess, pure of heart... Do you take Bowser to be your lawfully wedded husband 'til your game be over?|Count Bleck|Super Paper Mario}}
+In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', a Game Over is the equivalent of death, as extra lives make "death" a mild inconvenience.<ref>A Shayde: "Huh? What'd you say? "What's The Underwhere?" ...You're kidding, right? Man, for a guy with no extra lives, you're sure hilarious! Isn't it obvious? This is where people go when their games are OVER! Some call it "World -1"..."</ref>
+In that game, [[Dimentio]] sends [[Mario]] and his teammates to "the next world," albeit "while still very much alive,"<ref>Queen Jaydes: And by the way, it may please you to know that your game is not truly over. Somehow, you were sent to The Underwhere while still very much alive... My power can return you to your world if you so wish...</ref> which is similar to the philosophy of the afterlife. Mario, [[Luigi]], and [[Bowser]] end up in [[The Underwhere]], which resembles {{wp|hell}}, where some [[Shayde]]s ask Mario how his "game," referring to his life, was. Also, many Shaydes can be seen discussing how they got a Game Over. [[The Overthere]] resembles {{wp|heaven}}, surrounded by clouds, the sun, and rainbows. [[Princess Peach]] ends up there.
+That said, all the conversations in The Underwhere seem to suggest that Shaydes can request an audience with [[Queen Jaydes]], who will weigh in their sins and send them to The Overthere, submit them to punishments befitting of their crimes, or even return them to the land of the playing if the situation calls it.
+The areas of The Underwhere or The Overthere where Jaydes sends the dead people are never clearly shown; all that are seen in The Underwhere are Shaydes that have not yet requested an audience with Jaydes, and [[D-Man|D-Men]] who work for her, while all that are seen in The Overthere are [[Nimbi]]s (and [[Skellobit]]s that are invading). It is implied that the dead villains are condemned to an area below The Underwhere, where [[Bonechill]] was also imprisoned before he escaped. It is possible that the paradise dimension witnessed at the end credits may be an area of The Overthere, though what [[Nastasia]] says seems to suggest otherwise.<ref>Princess Peach: Both [[Tippi]] and Count Bleck...gone. What could have happened to them?<br>[[Merlon]]: I shudder to think about it, but surely when the prophecy was nullified...<br>Nastasia: Um, no... They're alive. Yeah, they're finally united. They overcame time and fulfilled their old vows... Somewhere, the count...is living together with Tippi... in...um...happiness...</ref>
+One Shayde speculates that if a person dies in The Underwhere or The Overthere while already dead, their aftergame ends and they go to a "post-aftergame."
+When [[Count Bleck]] was using [[The Void]] to destroy all worlds, The Void also appeared in The Overthere, indicating that it would even destroy the aftergame. Where all the dead characters (or even all the characters altogether) would have gone following the aftergame's destruction is unknown; however, a young [[Flip-Flop Folk|Flip-Flop]] girl speculates that the souls of the deceased would be forced to drift aimlessly in the empty white space left behind by The Void due to being left without a world or aftergame to reside in, a fate deemed both sad and boring.
 ==Profiles==