These Video Game Deaths SUCK!

4. Death While Healing!

Getting whomped by enemies is never any fun, is it? It's hard to admire your brand new dragon scale armor complete with sequins that read "bad bitch" on the back when half of it has just been torn through by the fangs of a monster, and so sometimes we have to deal with the tricky balancing act of healing in battle, and it's here that so many awful and pitiful deaths can occur.

One need only look at the myriad of Dark Souls PVP duel videos to see how healing at the wrong time is basically the same as lighting a neon sign above your head reading "please stab me betwixt the cheeks" and things only get worse when the healing item in question is a slow burner rather than an instant SHUZ of HP, meaning that you can end up being turned into a kebab despite technically being on the mend.

However, what takes the utter damp cake made of piss and salt has to be a powerup of pain DISGUISED as a healing item. Say hello to the poison mushroom from Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels which was quite possibly the cruelest trick played by Nintendo and has only been rivaled by never letting Waluigi into Smash.

This toadstool terror would pop out of one of the first blocks you'd come across in 1-1 and would kill you in one hit due to your small stature, undoing everything that players had learned from the previous iteration of the game in the process. When you can't trust mushrooms then what the hell has the world come to?! In an instant players, the world over had their dreams and childhood die in front of them, all to the chorus of laughter emanating from Nintendo.

Bastards.