History BreakTheHaughty / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** Bastila Shan endures this; when she fights Revan on the Star Forge, she's sure she'll win; Revan promptly kicks her ass three times in a row, which forces Bastila to face that she was wrong to choose the dark side, and that the only thing holding her back was herself. It sort of made her into the Woobie. [[spoiler:Before her FaceHeelTurn,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWlGtszEzmc&feature=related many of her interactions with her more experienced teammates]] (especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiO5QkxoFcw&feature=related the player]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RseBiLHTsYo Carth]]) are attempts to poke holes in her massive ego/overconfidence complex. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNy9UA7md8 The scene with Mission]] sort of backfired, though.
** Both encounters with Atris in the sequel. You can contradict almost every single self-righteous and hypocritical statement of hers as she gets more and more angry. The second encounter [[spoiler:will result her losing it and start attacking you.]]

* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Beneath his arrogant, serious demeanor, Matheo is [[TheKlutz so clumsy]] that he drops his notes when being chased by a bear. Instead of thanking you for returning his notes to him the first time, he gets mad that they weren't intact.

** From the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', there's TheRival Blue ([[HelloInsertNameHere or whatever you named him]]) Oak, an arrogant, snotty, narcissistic, smart-mouthed brat with the really arrogant-sounding {{catchphrase}}s of "Bonjour" and "Smell ya later!", who takes every opportunity to brag in front of you. After being defeated as champion, he gets schooled with a short ReasonYouSuckSpeech by his grandfather Professor Oak as the player claims his previously held position, and the end of ''[=FireRed=]'' and ''[=LeafGreen=]'' possibly shows him in a rare moment of introspection, as if thinking over what the professor told him. By the time ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' rolls around, he's mellowed out and in fact acts quite mature for his age of 14, having learned how to lose more gracefully for one, albeit still keeping his arrogant streak due to it being a signature part of his character.

* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Beneath his arrogant, serious demeanor, Matheo is [[TheKlutz so clumsy]] that he drops his notes when being chased by a bear. Instead of thanking you for returning his notes to him, he gets mad that they weren't intact.

* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Beneath his arrogant, serious demeanor, Matheo is [[TheKlutz so clumsy]] that he drops his notes when being chased by a wild animal. Instead of thanking you for returning his notes to him, he gets mad that they weren't intact.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

** The Anarch and Lone Wolf endings feature him first being slashed half to death with a letter opener, ''then'' reduced to sniveling and whimpering, before finally [[spoiler:finding himself on the business end of one of the most [[JustForPun explosive]] {{plan}}s in history]].

* Word of advice in Pro Gaming: unless you have the skill to back it up, '''DO NOT''' call any long-time player a washout. You'll just end up on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle, complete with becoming a joke, or meme if you're that unlucky to be deserving of one.

* The entire ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series is this for Vergil. In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', Vergil is cool, calm, and the most powerful demon outside of Dante, his twin brother. His quest for their father's power leads the brothers to dueling and Dante, who has accepted his father's legacy, triumphing and Vergil falling into the underworld, where he is enslaved by their father's nemesis Mundus as the demonic knight Nelo Angelo for a decade before he once again faces Dante who, not recognizing his older brother, kills him. His remains are then used by the Order of the Sword to make an army of demonic Angelo knights, and [[spoiler: by the time of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' he's reduced to a a shambling corpse that is literally falling to pieces. He ''then'' uses the Yamato to [[LiteralSplitPersonality split himself into everything he hated about himself and his trauma into a human shell, with everything else becoming the demonic usurper Urizen]]. His human half, that names itself V, is able to realise just what his obsession with power has turned him into and tries to stop Urizen's slaughter and finally confronting his childhood trauma over not being able to save his mother from Mundus' forces and accept he was just a scared child. By the time V and Urizen recombine into Vergil, he's still calm and confident, but no longer suffering from an InferioritySuperiorityComplex.]]

* Word of advice in Pro Gaming: unless you have the skill to back it up, '''DO NOT''' call any long-time player a washout. You'll just end up on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle, complete with becoming a joke.

* ''VideoGame/Pathologic'' Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky starts out as an arrogant doctor and researcher from the capital, going around talking down to the locals, disrespecting their culture and using big words and Latin phrases to assert that he's always the smartest one in the room. After 12 days of trying to survive a plague ridden town with minimal food, rats and plague clouds chasing him at every turn, getting mugged and beaten up by locals and possibly getting infected himself (depending on the player) his attitude changes.