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The pieces come to life, portrayed by Bug-A-Boo, Bubbly, and other in-universe characters - culminating with the Queen portrayed by Monica - Jimmy's (not so) secret passion. She reminds Cebolinha of his earlier promise, and they start a match. Later in the story, he meets the strange girl again, and she reveals to be no other than Death herself. He eventually becomes an expert player and even wins a local chess contest. He agrees and seeks to learn the rules of chess. She lets him take it for free, as long as he plays a match against her some day. He buys an old chessboard in a local store run by a strange sexy girl. Cebolinha (Jimmy Five) brags about being an online chess master but fails miserably to win a single match when playing on a real chessboard. The Brazilian comic book Turma da Mônica Jovem (Teenage Monica's Gang) plays with this trope on edition 40.

In Grant Morrison's Seaguy, the eponymous hero plays chess with a none-too-clever Death who was visually unable to distinguish black from white.

Just as naturally, he isn't very good at chess (that's why the peasants always win). Naturally, he even looks like the Grim Reaper in The Seventh Seal.

In Top 10 spin-off Smax, there is actually a specific Death responsible for playing chess with "wily peasants".

This turned out, however, to be part of his larger Thanatos Gambit. In one occasion, he challenged Death herself, in order to get back his dead brother.

The Marvel Comics cosmic villain, The Grandmaster, is obsessed with games, especially using humans as pawns.

Hulk screws up again, and then Spider-Man mentions that he's hungry and they end up in an infinite-star restaurant. ◊ Ant-Man screws it up, so they play poker. Hulk screws up and it's a stalemate, so they try in a human-scaled stadium baseball. The Avengers end up playing Human Chess with Galactus over the fate of an alien world. Used in one issue of Marvel Adventures: Avengers.Not to be confused with Human Chess where the pieces are humans and captured pieces are sometimes killed.Īs this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. See also The Problem with Fighting Death. Also compare Judgement of the Dead, when Death evaluates the morality of your actions in life rather than your prowess at a game. Compare Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? for when you cheat death in this game (which may be the origin of the idiomatic phrase). Sub-Trope of Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper. But it doesn't have to be chess-if the player is allowed to pick the game, absolutely anything can happen. See also Enemies with Death and Smart People Play Chess. The most mimicked version is to have a dying man challenge The Grim Reaper to a chess game in return for a longer life, hence the trope title. Note that the Greek Gods were prone to throwing tantrums if they were beaten and cursing the mortals for it having the supernatural entity take a defeat on the chin was a rarity. This is Older Than Feudalism, with examples dating back to Greek myths of the 5th century BC-Apollo had at least one musical duel, the Muses had another musical contest, and Athena had a weaving contest with Arachne (the details vary between different versions, but the end result is that Arachne is turned into a spider). A character gets into a contest of some sort with The Grim Reaper, Satan, or some other supernatural entity, usually with some dire consequence if the human loses.