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Champion: " I have nowhere important to be, but I'm guessing you have rather a lot of work piling up. I wanted to see you resign. Western Animation. The animated film Animalympics lampoons The Seventh Seal 's iconic scene mentioned above with the film being called "Price and winnies" and directed by the avian Ingmar Birdman.

The role of the Death is played by the horse Bjorn Freeborg and we see the famous scene with him saying the following: Bjorn Freeborg: "I remember, as a little boy by the seaside. It was a game, and I knew I had won. What do you want, white or black? In the hentai OVA Ane Haramix , a female shinigami comes for the protagonist's life but reveals out of pity that shinigamis have a secret rule: if a human sires a child, his lifespan is extended by several years. Thus, he sets out to impregnate the only girl he knows well, who turns out to be his sister , so things get complicated.

One Thing Led to Another , and in the end both his sister and the shinigami end up pregnant, at which point the other rule is revealed: if a human sires a child with a shinigami, his lifespan is extended way beyond natural one.

Don Arlelelle from Blood Blockade Battlefront is fond of this and invokes it with the beyondian game " Prosfair ", which is essentially a version of chess with ridiculously complex rules, to the point where a game of 4 hours left a chess grandmaster writhing on the ground with greyed hair. Anyone who loses to him has their brain assimilated into his, but should a person manage to win, or more likely, to not lose for the amount of time he sets at the start of a match, he'll let them go while granting their requests.

Klaus typically comes to him with requests for information. At the climax of Summer Wars , Natsuki takes advantage of the fact that Love Machine treats everything as a game and played several matches of Koi-Koi with it.

She managed to make a mere card game look epic and won back the millions of stolen accounts. If she lost? A missile-powered satellite will crash into a nuclear power station around the world and The entire premise of Yu-Gi-Oh! In early volumes of the manga, Yugi challenges naughty people mostly bullies and liars into various "Shadow Games", and punishes them once they inevitably lose he's the Yu-Gi-Oh! Later in the series when the manga starts to be written in arcs and adopted in the anime focusing almost exclusively on the Duel Monsters card game , Yugi has to face his matches that are equally capable of banishing his and his friends' souls into the Shadow Realm, such as Bakura and Marik.

In one issue of Ghost Rider , Ghost Rider races against Death for the lives of a man, a little girl, and himself. The Rider cheated by kicking Death into a ravine. Before kicking Death's cycle, Johnny Blaze commented in his thoughts how he normally wouldn't do that to a cyclist, but Death isn't a normal cyclist.

Jack from Fables played cards in a Louisiana swamp with the devil in disguise. At first it seemed like the devil had the upper hand and when Jack had nothing left to bet he offered up his soul, but only if the devil would give him his Bag of Holding the devil agreed and Jack won, having had four of a kind the entire time and simply waiting 'til the devil was cocky enough to bet the sack.

Groo the Wanderer once had a sword fight with Death. Groo won. The Flash has escaped Death by beating him in a race on numerous occasions. One man has the audacity to play Lawn Darts with Death. That man is Flaming Carrot. Wolverine has at times engaged in battle with Lazaer , the Angel of Death, for the right to return to his body. In the Marvel MAX Destroyer miniseries, the eponymous character is allowed to come back after winning a fistfight against several reapers.

Fan Works. In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Near Death Experience , the protagonist Pinwheel and two other ponies meet Death, who will let them go if they can best him in challenges of strength, skill, and wits.

Death wins the first two challenges easily and claims the other two ponies, but lets Pinwheel go when she wins the Test of Wits. He throws them in with his favorite gaming character, Jim Hunter, in an effort to get them to fight, which is something Jeft has been itching for over the course of the book.

And Jeft indeed has several tantrums over this, especially when Jim decides to give up his BFS and return with the four to C'hou. The tantrums are meant to be quite lethal, but the first the Battle on the Plains of Death sees the four and Jim winning, and the second when Jeft brings Blackfire to life and it tries to kill the four while Paul tries to separate it from Jim is averted when the four decide to just leave rather than rescue Jim. If she can make Death laugh, she gets one free mulligan.

The Reaper is a Sore Loser here, insisting on a rematch each time he loses. Eventually the Reaper gives up and joins them. The multiple wins become a plot point in the novelization and comic adaptation, where the boys get killed several times during the final showdown with their Evil Twins and make Death bring them back each time by citing all the games.

Likewise, in the novelization, the villain tries to invoke this after he is killed, coincidentally suggesting the same games Bill and Ted played with Death. The Grim Reaper refuses since he just found out he is really bad at those games.

The climax of the film Crossroads is a guitar battle between Eugene and Jack Butler the Devil's chosen one for Willie Brown's soul. Eugene wins. In the spirit of the game itself, the trope is subverted—all Will really wants is the key's location, so he can steal it later. Interestingly enough, he technically loses, but just as Jones is starting to gloat—"Welcome to the crew, boy Fritz Lang 's Der Mude Tod , also known as Destiny , revolves around a woman trying to meet Death's challenge to save one of three people's lives in order to get her husband back.

When she fails at that, Death asks for another soul in return. When she refuses to give him a baby trapped in a fire, Death takes her instead. Bergman cited this film as an inspiration for The Seventh Seal. Despite the name the film was made in the U. Death is challenged to a game of "badmintonska" , and loses. The film was nominated for an Oscar short subject , but didn't win. Perhaps the director should have challenged the Academy to a game of badminton! In Coraline , the cat suggested this to the titular character since the Other Mother loves to play games.

So Coraline challenged the Other Mother to a game where she has to find her parents and the three lost children's souls.

If she wins, the Other Mother has to let her go. If she loses, she must stay with the Other Mother forever. As it turns out, the Other Mother has no intention of letting Coraline go even if she wins the game, so Coraline has to trick her into letting her escape.

In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny , the song "Beelzeboss" shows the aftermath of the devil managing to break the seal put on him by a wizard and coming to Earth, intending to end it. Tenacious D challenges him to a rock off: if they win, he must return to hell; if he wins, then Kage will be taken back to hell with Satan for conjugal purposes. In the end, Tenacious D is outclassed in skill - at least according to the devil - but win due to luck and knowing the story of how he was beaten last time.

In the Discworld series, Death is often challenged to these. Again, with the twist that he can't lose unless he wants to. For example: In Maskerade , Granny Weatherwax challenges Death to a poker game for the soul of a dying child, with the stakes being that if she wins he'll instead take the sick cow in his place but if he wins, it's double or nothing; Granny has to put her own life on the line as well.

Granny shows four queens — and Death immediately folds despite having four ones , because even Death knows not to cross Granny Weatherwax In Reaper Man , Death refers to playing a game called " Exclusive Possession ", which he won, even though his opponent had got three streets and all the utilities. I was the boot. Death: An extremely stupid one to play against someone who spends every second practicing his swing. A Halloween-themed episode of Benson involved Benson challenging Death to a game of Trivial Pursuit, wagering his life against that of a school bus full of children in an accident whom Death actually came to collect.

While it at first seems like Death is cheating the answers to the first questions Benson asks are Death Valley and the Dead Sea, respectively , Benson wins because Death just hasn't been keeping up with popular films. The answer to the third question, which he misses, is Death Wish. Benson struggles with his third question too "What was the name of the pet pig on Green Acres? Parodied in Bottom when Eddie — as part of a ploy to trick Richie into letting him back into the flat after being kicked out — plays on Richie's recent fortune-teller inspired paranoia about dying by dressing up as Death.

Richie challenges him to the standard game of chess, which hits a snag when 'Death' admits he doesn't know the rules. Richie then suggests Cluedo , which hits a snag when 'Death' reveals that he knows perfectly well that Richie always cheats by looking at the mystery cards.

They settle on I-Spy, which hits yet another snag when 'Death' betrays an inability to spell. In Reaper , Sam plays quarters a game bouncing coins into a shot glass with the Devil. He loses. He plays again and is going to win While it's all part of their plan, they really didn't need to be such assholes about it. Scrubs once featured J.

Roxton accepts that he died and actually requests that she just claim him, but she says that if he doesn't try, his friends' lives will be forfeit, too. Death uses an hourglass to give the games a time limit, and Roxton fails at each one: Retrieve a diamond from a maze made of walls of fire ran out of time , Retrieve a raptor egg he tripped and dropped it , Guess which bowl holds oysters guessed wrong.

Each time he loses, Death captures another one of his friends. The final game is: shoot his own girlfriend, or himself. Roxton shoots the hourglass , making it impossible for the game to end. Death concedes victory to Roxton and lets them all go.

Death And Life a white man in a suit and a large black woman respectively start having sex, and Nate's dad quotes the Bhagavad Gita. In Supernatural Dean has one of these with Death: in exchange for bringing Sam's soul back to his body Dean has to do his job for a day. Dean ends up failing the test, but Death returns the soul anyway.

Firstly because his real reason for the task was to show Dean what forces he was messing with by constantly resurrecting, and also because Sam and Dean's current investigation suited his purposes. He may have wanted a day off too. The Twilight Zone : In the episode "One For the Angels" a salesman talks death into letting him stay alive until he can make the sales pitch of a lifetime, e.

Unfortunately, Death still has to take a soul , and chooses a little girl who lives in the same building. To save her life, the former salesman distracts Death with a series of enthralling sales pitches, keeping Death occupied until after the appointed time - and willingly sacrificing his life in the process since now that he's made his sales pitch of a lifetime, his bargain with Death is now complete and Death gently walks with him into Heaven.

The episode "A Game Of Pool" features this when a man Jesse Cardiff who dedicated his life to pool would "give anything" for a chance to play Fats Brown, the pool player that everyone says was the best, and better than Jesse is.

Fats Brown then gets a call from his heavenly pool table to report to Jesse's pool hall, where Fats then appears and accepts Jesse's challenge - if the stakes are for Jesse's life. Jesse accepts, and they play pool. Both are very good, but Fats gets on Jesse's nerves when he notes that all Jesse did was pool - he didn't get married or see the world or anything.

Jesse thinks that Fats is just trying to psych him out. Before making the final shot, Fats says that winning this game may have undesired consequences - but Jesse blows him off. Fats adds that he was required to say that. Jesse makes the shot, and Fats acknowledges that Jesse is, in fact, the best pool player ever. Jesse laughs hysterically for a while - but the scene then cuts to Jesse asleep at the heavenly pool table, getting an announcement to report to a pool hall in Sandusky, Ohio.

In the meantime, Fats Brown has gone fishing. The Twilight Zone : In "Dealer's Choice", Pete, Jake and Tony correctly deduce that Nick, who has taken Norman's place at their regular poker game, is the Devil and that he is here for one of them. Nick suggests that they make a game of it: whoever picks the highest card "wins" and gets to go with him.

Tony picks an eight, Jake picks a seven and the unfortunate Pete picks a jack. Tony suggests that Pete and Nick play a game of one-on-one, all or nothing. As it is dealer's choice, Pete chooses a game of lowball, where the lower hand wins and players don't want matching cards.

Being the Devil, Nick has been getting three sixes in every hand. Pete gets four fives and Nick gets three sixes, meaning that Pete loses. However, Marty, who is too innocent for the Devil to trick, reveals that Nick's Tarot death card is in fact a fourth six. After been caught out, Nick leaves empty-handed, though not before filling Pete's empty kitchen with food and beer. In "I of Newton", Sam is a mathematician trying to solve a complex problem.

In frustration, he says he'd trade his soul for the answer. And sure enough, a demon appears. The devil wearing a red T-shirt with an ever-changing series of slogans, the most memorable being "Hell is a City Much Like Newark" says the only way Sam can save himself is to come up with a request the demon can't perform - i. The demon describes in fantastic detail how he can instantaneously appear anywhere, any time; how he can zip into and out of parallel universes, imaginary dimensions, impossible situations.

At last the demon says, "What is your request? When the soul he picks challenges him to a card game to decide it, the devil slyly accepts and promptly gets caught cheating. To save face, he decided to fill their fridge with beer instead of killing them all, proving that even the devil could be a good sport.

In Doctor Who the First Doctor and his companions have to play games against the Celestial Toymaker, who appeared again a few times in the Expanded Universe. Wigu parodied this. Satan challenges Topato Potato to a fiddling contest for custody of Sheriff Pony's soul. Topato wins by pointing out that Satan failed to explicitly define "fiddle" and the terms of victory, then proceeding to play the fiddle of the Butter Dimension Cubed, a tuba-like instrument whose only measure for proficiency is that one play it loudly.

God wins because Satan's hooves make it difficult to stand on a surfboard. Tenacious D 's song "Tribute" describes the band's encounter with "a shiny demon" who demands that they play "the best song in the world" or he will eat their souls. They do so and blow the stunned devil out of the water, but afterward inform the audience that they can't actually remember how that song went, so "this is just a tribute". The event that "Tribute" chronicles is seemingly the climactic battle against Satan in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny , meaning that said greatest song in the world would be the D's half of the song "Beelzeboss".

However, it seems the D was embellishing a bit considering how their survival was mostly luck and had nothing to do with their song, which Satan said was lame. Then again, they both get stoned after the battle, and it is implied that they write "Tribute" then, so that probably is how their inebriated minds remembered the battle. Don't forget the stoner parody entry into this, "The Devil Went to Jamaica". Johnny Cash joined Charlie Daniels for "The Devil Came Back To Georgia", one of the few "sequel" songs in existence, as well as possibly the only one that features a Training Montage in the music, not the lyrics.

Johnny—from the song, not Mr. Cash—hadn't had time to practice much since his wife gave birth to their child Sting gets in on the act.

Chris de Burgh 's "Spanish Train" is God vs The Devil at draw poker for souls including that of the trainman, as he realises a little too late , they later on switch over to chess. The Devil wins each game through cheating, netting him more and more souls each time.

He wins, but he dies again due to a falling toolbox, and then prepares to face Death in an actual chess match. Played with in the story of Sisyphus. The game was not a formal institution, but nevertheless, he played it. Among his more popular exploits, he once evaded his fate by tying Thanatos to a tree and running off.

Greek Mythology : Arachne entered a weaving contest with Athena; in the end, Athena turned her into a spider. There seem to be a few variations on the tale.

Arachne won the contest. However, Greek Gods are just sore losers. Note that this version was popularized by Ovid, who had a known dislike of authority. Arachne won and Athena drove her to suicide in revenge, eventually immortalizing her as a spider in apology for overreacting. Both tapestries were exactly as beautiful as the other, but Arachne wove in mocking depictions of the Gods which is just Tempting Fate given her opponent.

Arachne LOST fair and square, and hanged herself. Out of pity, Athena changed her into a spider so that she and her descendants could have all of eternity to practice their weaving.

Also from Greek Mythology , Marsyas entered a musical contest with Apollo. He lost, so Apollo flayed him. Why did Apollo flay him? Some would say it was because Apollo was that vain. Others would note that Marsyas, a satyr aka horrendously ugly , stipulated that if he won, Apollo would have to do him some favors.

This is not to mention Marsyas's choice of performance, which ended up being a very bawdy flute piece against Apollo's divine cithara-plucking. Excessive punishment, yes, but not entirely undeserved. At least one version has Apollo losing the first round, then demanding a rematch under his terms: that the musician must play while holding his instrument upside-down and singing. Since Marsyas was using a wind instrument, he had no chance.

In the myth of Alcestis , Heracles challenged Death to a wrestling match over the soul of his friend Admetus' beloved wife, to repay said friend's hospitality. Heracles won. He found it, but it was guarded by an even better sorcerer, who challenged him to several games of draughts checkers.

Setna had no chance against a guy who'd been perfecting his game for several hundred years, and each time Setna lost, he would sink lower into the ground and was due to be completely swallowed up on his fourth game.

However, his brother managed to get the amulet of Ptah and save him before he was killed, allowing Setna to grab the Book of Thoth and run. Though Egyptian, this story is only known from the 1st century C. There is an old Bavarian folk tale about how Bavarian Death Boandlkramer meaning something like Bone huckster is supposed to collect an old man who died from being shot while poaching. He makes Death drunk and plays cards with him, cheating in the course of the game and winning ten more years on earth.

However, Death has to keep book, so he takes the poacher's granddaughter 10 years early for the statistics to work out. When she arrives in Bavarian heaven really! There is an Austrian legend about a drunkard playing bowling with Death, and in a church to boot! He tried to cheat by throwing a pin out of the window, having bet Death to match his number of strikes. Guess who was quickly turned into the replacement pin In Mayan myth, two young men played ball with the Lord of Death.

They lost but were reincarnated as catfish. Newspaper Comics. Dilbert : Dogbert once escaped death by walking away from the game Scrabble in this case on his turn and leaving the issue unresolved. Death should've specified a time limit beforehand. When Death offers him a choice of chess, dominoes, and dice, the soldier rejects all of those, takes out his own deck of cards, and challenges Death to faro.

This is partly because he knows that Death must be too good to lose any game that isn't pure luck, and partly because the soldier knows how to cheat at faro. It turns out that there are actually multiple Deaths, each of whom was once a mortal who, upon winning a game against a previous Death, was doomed to take over from them until they find someone who can beat them which is difficult because they become unsurpassedly skilled at all games and unable to play badly on purpose.

Oh, and it's not just a folk tale - that soldier became one of them. One route players can take through the inner region in Talisman forces the player to "Dice with Death" by rolling dice against the Grim Reaper. If the player rolls higher, the player's character can progress further towards the Crown of Command. If the Grim Reaper rolls higher, the character loses a life and must dice with death again on subsequent turns until the player either wins or the character is killed. You can issue a challenge to her, either by sorcery or by being a game master of sufficient repute and casting a personally written letter of challenge to her into the sea.

You can wager anything you have against her, but if you wager yourself and lose, you're turned into a soulless mannequin. If you win, you can demand something that Sigereth has, including restoring someone who lost to her. Challenging Death itself is not possible though, due to the No-Resurrection meta-rule. If they won, they came back to life. Of course, Death is extremely overpowered and a master of bullshitting so he almost never loses.

After a near Total Party Kill , Death naturally shows up to reap their souls and of course, they all challenge him. First, the fighter challenges him to a Body-Count Competition against an infinite horde of weak enemies. Death wins by spamming AoE spells. Next, the cleric challenges him to a contest of who can do the most acts pleasing the cleric's god in 24 hours. He then communes with his god and says that because the contest was his idea, he should therefore share credit for every act Death does, and then does a ritualistic dance in order to break the tie and beat Death by one.

Death then goes out and massacres a bunch of the god's worshippers, losing the contest. He brings the cleric back to life as was agreed, and the cleric is immediately smote by his angry god and dies again. After all, he did say he should share the credit for everything Death did The wizard then challenges Death to a riddle contest.

Whoever gets three wrong first loses. Death wins by making up a bunch of bullshit Insane Troll Logic riddles that nobody would ever be able to figure out naturally. Then, in a surprising turn of events, the sole surviving member of the party, a binder, challenges Death to a game of planar hide-and-seek. If he can't find Death within two weeks, then Death can kill him too, but if he can, Death has to revive the entire party.

Death finds this proposal interesting and goes off to hide. The binder simply turns around and fights the enemies that wiped the rest of his party. When they inevitably curb-stomp him, Death of course shows up to reap his soul. Eldar Solitaires are the most powerful of the Dance Battler Harlequins, but their soul is forfeit to Slaanesh when they die. But when they do, the Laughing God Cegorach can try to trick Slaanesh into letting go of the soul, though how is not explained.

The Seventh Seal 's "challenge Death for more time" trope is cleverly spoofed in Woody Allen 's short play "Death Knocks", where the protagonist plays gin rummy with The Grim Reaper for the right to stay alive one more day and a tenth of a cent a point "to make it interesting".

The odds are horribly stacked against Tom because he has to correctly guess three randomly drawn cards from an entire deck — but he wins thanks to the The Power of Love. Except Nick vengefully inflicts Tom with insanity as he leaves. Dante's Inferno begins with the eponymous character getting murdered and the Reaper coming to take his soul. The game's first battle tutorial is the fight between Dante and the Reaper, which ends with Dante crushing the Reaper and taking his scythe.

In The Sims 2 , if a Sim dies one of their loved ones can bargain for the dead Sims soul in some cases. If Death accepts, he plays a game of "Which hand is their soul in? In the event of a tie, the dead Sim was brought partially back to life , as a Zombie. The PS2 version has a fiddling contest. Never mind that that's Ol' Scratch. Charlie Daniels has railed against this version , because of the possibility—make that probability —that the player loses and thus the Devil wins. The eponymous character in the old Genesis game Chakan: The Forever Man gained immortality by beating Death in a duel.

The point of the game is to get him to lose it. Death even shows up as a Bonus Boss. In Touhou , defeating a Shinigami who comes for a human's life in a duel will extend their lifespan. However, it's usually Celestials and Hermits, ascended humans, who are able to consistently defeat the Shinigamis. Tenshi's lucky in that the only shinigami to ever defeat her was only the ferrywoman of the Sanzu river - and was only after her because she was killing spirits.

In The Witcher , the ghost of a gambler challenges Geralt to a popular dice game for the soul of a boy Geralt has become guardian of. When challenged to mortal combat by a more powerful spirit of death for a soul, Geralt remarks, "Thank God, I was afraid you wanted to play chess. Which is what he does anyway if he loses at dice. This is the whole point of Reaper's game in The World Ends with You , though you compete against other humans as well.

In the first game, the competition is a seven-day gauntlet. All players that survive until the end get to choose one of them to come back to life, with the rest playing again the next week. In the sequel, the reaper's game has teams of players competing for points.

At the end of the week, the top team gets a wish and the bottom team gets Erased. Not only that, but in the second game she gives quiz questions during the ACTUAL final battle; answering them makes her go easier on you because she's More likely obsessive-compulsive, given her reliance on speaking in rhymes in the first game.

The Flash game Necrorun has knights challenge death to a jousting match. Except you play Death, and it's a platformer where you need to aim your lance to kill the targets. In Pirate Captain Blood manages to obtain immortality when he challenges Death to a game of poker.