Season 1 Team 1 - What was it that was draining the life force? We'll never know.

Season 1 Team 4 - BOOM!

Season 2 Team 5 - Mogdred's laugh, combined with the whole "playpen" idea makes this rather creepy.

Season 2 Team 8 (I think) - Somewhat similar in the sense that the team were trapped.

Season 2 Team 11 - The moral of this story: examine labels with care.

Season 3 Team 9 - I really hadn't expected any team to die in Merlin's chamber.

Season 3 Team 10 - Mainly for being entertaining. "Say hello to the goblin, Julie!"

Season 3 Team 11 - A sudden surprise, and a barbeque soon follows...

Season 4 Team 4 - What more can I say?

Season 5 Team 2 - Skarkill makes a total fool out of this team: "That's a goblin 'orn that, you 'orrible li'l thing!"

All brilliant.

~ Death by Cedric. Just because he's awesome.

~ Team Douglas in Series 3, because they really had it coming. They messed up pretty much every room! Three strikes and you're blown to smithereens.

~ Skarkill and the magic horn. What a fantastic scene, great improvisation from all involved. That lead advisor showed such imagination in trying to bluff their way out of it - full marks for effort, shame it didn't pay off!

~ Eaten by the Blocker. A very surreal episode with many amusing elements, but the single most hilarious part is the way Chris just goes "What?" in his helium voice, a moment before being swallowed!

~ The two CoB deaths in Series 5, because they were so richly deserved. I love the way Duncan finally steps out of the Descender and just doesn't stand a chance! (Treguard's summary is funny as hell, too: "You missed your station, and now Duncan is missing parts of his body!")

S5 was a particularly good series for entertaining deaths, it would appear! (Mind you, the rest were all straightforward Causeway plunges.)

~ Two-nil, I think... that was just so chilling and completely unexpected. (Well, their death could be seen coming a mile off, but Lord Fear's gloating laughter was a brilliant surprise!)

~ Both of the Trial By Spikes deaths, as I was willing them to die after making such a hash of things. The latter of the two was particularly satisfying, with the skewering sound and the visuals left to our imagination! The phrase "Oooh, nasty" seems more appropriate than ever, when you have an obstacle like this...

Top 5

5. Miremen kill (series 5)

6. Grimwold kills (series 3)

7. Ariadne (series 2)

8. Fall off cliff (series 3) - nassty, and so sudden and unexpected!

9. Play forever (series 2) - escape the Cat, and then you're brought to an abrupt halt? it's not fair!

Slip of the digits - 5 is directly under 8 on the keyboard (duh!)

1. Series 7, Ben: Trial by Spikes. Terrific tension throughout the entire level with the troll pursuit, and the execution - if you will pardon the pun - is infinitely better than the relatively insipid death of Team 4, who struggle in this room.

2. Series 1, Danny: Bomb room. I am continually awed by how remarkably bold this first ever bomb killing was. A visibly young team, doing very well, made one unfathomable slip-up, and the consequences were fatal.

3. Series 3, Ross: 'Morghanna's Ledge'. Series 3 had a wonderful knack with sustained pressure. Such a falling was not so dramatic as some of the later years, but the ledge was an excellent and memorable room for a young me, Natasha Pope was fantastic, and the chase just perfect for a 'will they or won't they' scenario.

4. Series 6, Sophia: Great Causeway. A great quest, very entertaining, and a return to 'old-school' Knightmare: a worthy team lacked one answer, and we awaited the outcome. Graphics, timing, and the visible disappointment make this memorable.

5. Series 8, Richard: Bhal-Shebah. Series 8 had several memorable deaths, but there was something about instilling difficulty from minute one. A dragon type once so difficult so acquire was now roaming Level 1. Back, again, to 'old-school' Knightmare. One glaring error = toast.

I had to think quite hard for these, and quite a fulfilling exercise it turned out to be!

Simon 'sidestep to your left' series 4

Series 5 the Gillingham lot when they tried in vain advertising the 'magic ORN' in front of Skarkill

Team 1 Series 8 Richards team argue and pick wrong items in level 1 clue room and leads to premature exit with Bhal-Shebah

Series 2 Neal gets clobbered by Cedric and rightly so.

I presume he means Jamie's death, trapped in Ariadne's lair...

Oh yes, I forgot about that.

1. Play forever (series 2) - escape the Cat, and then you're brought to an abrupt halt? it's not fair!

I'm guessing this is a reference to Series 2 Team 5 (Tony's quest), with "Cat" being an abbreviation to the Catacombite.

Worth mentioning that the team had to actually defeat the Catacombite and not just escape from it. To do so, they should have taken the gauntlet back in the Level 2 Clue Room - alas, they rejected it and and when it came to the Catacombite they had no means of defeating it and had to leave via the only possible exit to a room where Mogdred was lurking in wait, ready to unleash his legendary "....Play Forever" quote.

Ariadne didn't get a kill until season 4.

I presume he means Jamie's death, trapped in Ariadne's lair...

5. Miremen kill (series 5)

6. Grimwold kills (series 3)

7. Ariadne (series 2)

8. Fall off cliff (series 3) - nassty, and so sudden and unexpected!

9. Play forever (series 2) - escape the Cat, and then you're brought to an abrupt halt? it's not fair!

at 3 its Sumayas death series 6 team two with the dreadnought as they did not have the password they could have earned from heggaty

at 2 its Julie's from series 3 team 10 with the goblins ( should have got that riddle right from Merlin. I knew the answer.

and it number 1 is a tie with simon from series 4 team 4 when his advisor told him to sidestep left and Scotts death from series 3 team 9 when he leaped the gap and onto the second step. Should have got the riddle right from Golgarach mate.

But they didn't all because they didn't take my wand, but a feather instead...

But the Team 10 Series 3 was Good Surrounded by Goblin .they are Goblin Fodder.

Series 1 Team 3 = Lights out Game over!!!!

Series 2 Team 3 = Stoned to death by the Medusa!!!!

Series 3 Team 10 = already explained

Series 4 Team 4 = ditto

Series 5 Team 8 = no chance in the CofB

Series 6 Team 3 = advisor says "We're dead Alan!" afterwards

Series 7 Team 1 = I've already explained myself!

Series 8 Team 4 = BLAM! fireball from nowhere

COB -S8 team 2

Causeway s6 team 6 - how could you not love how victory was snatched away like that.

Skarkill S5 team 2  - Magic horn LOL

Ariadne - s4 team 3

s5 team 7 - eaten by blocker

s3 team 10 - hello to the goblins

s8 team 1 - soooooooo deserving to be burned by a dragon.

and #1 BLOCK AND TACKLE   S4 team 4!!!!!! oh you know why.

Favourite dungeoneer deaths

Charming  ;D

Posted by: Dunshelm Posted on: 18.11.2003 at 22:16:18

Lets not forget the one where they guide the little 'star' off the cliff.

That was the same as what Lord_Bob said wannit?  ;D

My favourite death was James and crew (Series 3 Team 5) They kept sidestepping to the left when there was clearly no where to stand... That was pretty pathetic don't you...

(Gah! Double post! Bad Cull! X_x )

Well, it's not what I said I was going to do, but I thought I'd shove in my list of "Top 15 Dungeoneer Deaths". I tried cutting it down to 10, but felt I had a few extra I wanted in the list so chucked them in too. I thought about doing this as an overall "means of death", but some individual instances stick out more than others for me.

15 - Skarkill (S5.2)

As I said in the S5 episode thread about this death, I did feel it was a bit of bad luck and misfortune on the team for "hurriedly grabbing" the wrong item. Plus they try so hard to plea their way out of Skarkill's hands, yet are pretty much doomed from the moment Skarkill reaches them. You just feel so sorry for those guys!

14 - Sylvester Hands (S6.4)

Okay, so the "death" itself isn't such a great one. But to see the skull from the original Life Force just when you thought it had gone forever really knocks this death up a notch!

13 - B&T (S4.4)

For giving us the whole "Sidestep to your left!" joke. Plus it's so sudden and hilarious that you can't help but join Treguard in laughing... even the advisors seem to be holding themselves back from laughing!

12 - Cedric (S2.7)

Hooray! Cedric gets a kill! It's one of those deaths that you wonder about... "what would happen if Cedric got his way with a dungeoneer?", and here it is - Quarterstaff practice where only Cedric gets a staff.

11 - Dividing Rod Room (S2.

Maybe not a great one to a lot of people, but it's one that's stuck with me in memory since the first time I saw it. It's one that gave me a real sense of "Well, let's see them get out of this mess then!"

10 - Life Force Expire (S2.12)

Another of those deaths you want to see... the Life Force expiring. And that's precisely how this team died. True, it was because they didn't get Merlin's magic (probably a spell like ENERGY to restore the Life Force), but the fact that they died this way makes this death a special one to me.

9 - Thin Causeway (S3.6)

Another one that's stayed with me since I first saw it. The long, tense trip Ross takes along that causeway is real edge-of-your-seat stuff, and having watched them work their way through Level 2 throughout the episode makes you want them to make it. and then at the last moment they fall, and the way the LF skull pops out fo the bottom of the screen - what a finish!

8 - COB (S8.2)

It was hard to think of which COB death stood out the most, but I think we can all agree the "red paint" of the S8 team makes it stand out (in more ways than one!). I do feel it's a bit unfair, as the impression was made that "if you don't have the Insight spell/potion, you're scuppered", which is a load of rubbish considering how others have done okay without such spells, so it feels that however well they did here they would have died... sorry, I'm rabbiting on here. Either way, classic example of how the COB can finish of both good and bad quests.

7 - Morghana (S3.11)

It's not so much the means of death here, but more the urgency of the situation. I've watch this team time and time again (they're one of my favourites), and every time they're at this point I want one of the advisors to yell "Martin! Run forwards!!!! NOW!!!!". A sad end to a fine quest that IMHO deserved to win!

6 - Dreadnought (S6.2)

Say what you like about the S6-7 Life Force, but it's used to it's best here. The music really adds tension to the "that's it, we're boned" situation, and the way Dreadnought utters "WITH NO WORD... YOU HAVE REACHED JOURNEY'S END..." sends a chill down your spine, and another as the Skeleton LF sequence appears and crumbles before your eyes...

5 - Merlin's Room (S3.9)

You want them to make it. You really do. And he does make it. It's just that follow up step when he stands which makes you grab your head in your hands and shout "nooooooooooooooooo!" as he tumbles into the abyss...

4 - Dark Wellway (S1.1)

Yep, the first ever death had to have a place in here. The way the "dark" version of the Knightmare theme gets used here is brilliant stuff... another spine-tingler.

3 - Ariadne (S4.3)

Yep, another spine tingler. It's the crunching noise that does it.

2 - Ghost Sword (S3.2)

Sword hits, Chris, Life Force gets put on Fast Forward. You pretty much see his entire life get drained out of him! Top stuff!

1 - Medusa (S2.3)

And my top one is this one... the Medusa. The eerie sound effects in the background add to the sense that the team have lost, and you've gotta love the advisors getting turned to stone too! This is one of those deaths where I can't help but rewind and rewatch every time I watch it!

One Sly Hands captuer of January with his "Magic Rope"

and my top favirote.

Richard Trying to bribe Skarkill with a goblin Horn

"GO ON Blow the Horn else I'll put the manicals on you now."

Richard blows the horn and the fimilear sound comes out.

"Hahahah Thats a Goblin Horn That you Horribale little thing and I am Skarkill Master Of The Goblins.

"I have you now"

Richard pleads that its a magic horn.

"Magic Horn. Oh No It's Not. I'm Going To Put My Irons On You."

**BONG

"Ohhh Nasty. Oh too bad if only you had had the Gold you could have bribed him."**

and then to add insult to injure as you see Skarkill and Richard sucked through a portal to Mt Fear oyu hear Skarkill mocking the advisors

"Hehehe LOVELY."

Actually I also enjoy the death of the first dugeoneer in sereis 8 (also called Richard)

Unable to open the trap door to level 2 Bhal-Shebah enters the chamber and say's

"Oh Good A Tasty Helping Of Dinner. Now The Only Question For Us Is. Cooked? Or Raw."

He blows a fierball at them

**BONG

"Ohhh Nasty"**