The most famous kill screen from classic gaming is the 256th level of Pac-Man. At this point, due to a bug half the screen becomes garbled data, which keeps the player from collecting all of the dots and clearing the board to move on.

When his patrol didn't come back from the front, he and all his buddies were listed as MIA.

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That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.