Types of death

The following types of death exist in Doom and games based on the Doom engine:


 * Normal death - used when none of the below occurs.
 * Gib death - when a character is reduced to extremely low health (usually the negative of its spawn health), he turns into a pile of blood, flesh and bones. A terminal fall in Hexen can also cause this to happen.
 * Telefrag - when another character teleports to the spot a character is standing on. Will result in a gib death if one is specified for the telefragged character.  A telefrag does 10,000 hit points worth of damage, and thus can overcome even an invulnerability artifact or god mode.
 * Wimpy death (Heretic) - used only if the player dies from a hit that does 10 or fewer points of damage. The normal death animation is used, but a different sound is played to make the player sound weak and pathetic.
 * Burning death (Heretic, Hexen) - when a character is killed by lava or a fire-based attack.
 * Burning death (Strife) - when a character is killed with a flamethrower.
 * Disintegration (Strife) - when a character is killed with a mauler.
 * Icy death (Hexen) - when a character is killed with an ice attack such as a Wendigo's iceballs or the Mage's Frost Shards.

The ZDoom and Eternity Engine source ports allow death types from any supported game to be used in any other game.