History CrossesTheLineTwice / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': The ''entire'' conversation between Barrett and Tifa while [[AbsurdlyLongStairway climbing up the stairs to Shinra's headquarters]] is this, but one line stands out, ''especially'' in [[ValuesDissonance today's context]];
--> '''Tifa:''' Would you stop acting like a retard and CLIMB?!?!?
* While ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' has caused more than a bit of an outrage back in the day, the same cannot be said of ''Videogame/Doom3'', ''Videogame/Doom2016'', and ''Videogame/DoomEternal''. Apart from how public perception of videogames are matured, for the last two, it's because all the over-the-top violence are justified, done for the sake of humanity, more played for comedy in ''Doom Eternal'', and none of the Slayer's brutal targets are human.
* Non-comedy example: [[BigBad Makarov]] from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' and ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 3]]'' somewhat fits this. How could a man tear whole nations apart in span of a few years with very well armed, heavily militarized fanatics, even commanding a whole regiment of ultranationalists with a seemingly invisible command structure opposing the current Russian president? And how did the whole thing instantly fall apart and shrink into a hotel-sized militia the second the Russian government de jure reorganized themselves and managed to make peace with the United States just in time for the final confrontation? These questions are a large part of the reason, aside from sympathetic Russian characters, why the game didn't face as much backlash in Russia compared to [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 its 2019 reboot]]; "Just the will of a single man" is difficult to take seriously. Even a certain real life regime [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII back in the day]] needed extensive planning, clear chains of command, and a heavily structured regime to become a menace to the world.
* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'': Everything about the games' OneSceneWonder cameo: [[spoiler:A deranged 71 year old Adolf Hitler who pukes and pisses blood in full view of the actors he's auditioning for his latest (terrible) propaganda flick, and winds up shooting all of them bar in-disguise B.J.]].

* The infamous ending in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' where you get eaten by a shark. ''On the top floor of a hotel.''

* Also, check out many LetsPlay segments, like the ''LetsPlay/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' finale.

* Not from the game itself, but from one of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' forums: the brother of a player called Nano logs into Nano's account to tell everyone that Nano has passed away, they've had the funeral, "he was a good person and I'm sure many of you would agree".
-->'''loroldonfarm:''' Did he drop any good loot?
** Another from ''World of Warcraft'' where a character died in real life and they planned an elaborate in-game funeral announcing it on the forums and asking people to be respectful and not disturb it. [[TemptingFate You can guess what happens next.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEpv7YxnLCQ]]
*** Also, players of high level characters will sometimes escort lower level characters through instances, deliberately drawing as many enemies as they can before setting off a high-power area effect attack. One enemy dying? Not funny. Two enemies dying? Still not funny. Several dozen enemies dying at the exact same moment, with identical, perfectly synchronized actions, expressions, and vocalizations? Utterly hilarious!
* A similar joke to the Warcraft example above came from a ''VideoGame/Dota2'' player [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/06cacfdd71bd5660aa882ef32a65ec66/tumblr_n3nopgSoQf1rt84f4o1_500.png whose mother was dying]]. [[note]]In Dota 2 terminology, "denying" a kill refers to killing a heavily wounded ally to prevent the enemy team from gaining the gold and XP they'd get from the kill. The player in question was telling another player to do this to [[BlackComedy his mother.]][[/note]]
* While ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' generally has a straightforward plot and characterization befitting of a crime drama, its ShowWithinAShow, particularly Radio/GTARadio, is this ''in spades''. One great example from [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]] Public Radio:
-->'''Maurice Chavez:''' ''Dios mío'', you shot him! There's blood!... and ''pubic hair!''... all over the studio!!
** On a show in Liberty City Stories, gourmet chef Richard Goblin happily allows a pregnant cow to give birth into a frying pan, then proceeds to stab the cow to death. Just to top it off, Goblin eagerly slurps up some of the cow blood before exclaiming "It's fresh!".
** In an episode of 'Just or Unjust' in GTA IV, a man rapes a thirteen year old girl, impregnates her, stalks her and then laughs when she is torn apart by lions in front of him. He has his throat ripped out moments later by the same lion, so it kinda evens out...
** Then came ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoV'' with [[AxCrazy Trevor Philips]], a man that seems to be characterized by flip-flopping between psychopathic and level headed in his first appearances, yet sympathetic and loyal at the same time that despite being a minor BaseBreakingCharacter for several quite reprehensible acts he got away from, many players [[spoiler: put off from the choice to kill him in the end of the game.]]
* EVERYTHING ABOUT the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series crosses the line twice! Examples include using the Penetrator (a giant dildo used as a melee weapon), scarring a man's face by mixing toxins with tattoo ink, rescuing a pimp from a sex dungeon and getting away on a cart drawn by men [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} in horse-themed bondage gear]], committing insurance fraud ''in Hell''...
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' was one of the earliest games to do this. You think climbing up the side of a giant mountain of literal shit was bad enough? Wait until you go inside and fight [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Great Mighty Poo]] in a showdown of musical proportions. This game does everything offensive and rolls with it to absurdity. First up, the inspiration: one of the staff members (who even voiced the character) had a BM so massive that it broke the toilet at the office meaning they couldn't get rid of it for hours. The intro cutscene is unforgettable: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5neFPat1w I~ am, the Great Mighty Poo, and I'm going throw my shit. At. You.]] (Obviously NSFW) Quite fittingly, LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun had a field day with that particular boss. [[CatchPhrase You know, IN THE BATHROOM!]]
* [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/File:Childkiller_Unused.jpg This]] is the rejected icon for the Childkiller perk from ''VideoGame/Fallout2''. So ''so'' wrong, and yet so, ''so'' right...
** Pre-Bethesda ''Fallout'' gets like this a lot. Think: what other game allows you to shoot a little kid [[GroinAttack in the groin]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with a missile launcher]]? You can also shoot women in the groin, which elicits all sorts of dark comments like "Character's childbearing operations have been compromised" and "She takes it like a man. That is to say, it hurts like a motherfucker."

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s Hazama / [[CardCarryingVillain Terumi]] [[{{Troll}} Yuuki]] is a prime example of this trope, and it is one of the reasons as to how he can be so [[AxCrazy audacidly monstrous]], while still remaining so {{laughably|Evil}} [[LoveToHate likable]]. In the 2nd game's True Ending he has {{Mind Rape}}d [[TheWoobie Noel]] into embracing her SuperPoweredEvilSide; [[YouAreNumberSix Mu-12]], [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Sword of the Godslayer:]] [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kusanagi]], by revealing everything about her CloningBlues past to her, and when [[AntiHero Ragna]] arrives for his BigDamnHeroes moment to save his sister's clone, only to realize that [[YouAreTooLate he's too late]], Hazama gives us this gem of a [[EvilGloating Villainous Gloat]]:
-->'''Hazama'''/'''Terumi''': Awwww, that's so cute... Who's my good little sword? It's you! Yes you are! Yes you are! Oh now don't get jealous Rags, but this sword is all mine from now on, OK? Isn't she nice, though? It wasn't cheap, but I thought "Hell Hazama, you deserve it... Spoil yourself! Spring for the 'Ragna's Little Sister' model"!
* This is one of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'''s selling points. The fatalities tend to fall under this, since you're adding insult to injury, or further injury to injury, whatever.
** One particular fatality involves [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX Cassie Cage]] knocking her opponent's entire lower jaw off... and then taking a selfie with the corpse, ''and uploading the pic on social media'' '''''and some other kombatants making {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s on top of that.'''''[[note]] One response that is simply [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels wrong on so many levels]] is Kano (the nemesis of Cassie's mother Sonya) asking "[=A/S/L=]?". [[/note]] Bonus if the opponent in question is Sonya Blade, as she's uploading a picture with her and ''her mother's dead body. That '''she killed.''''' It's also the reason, why ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' wasn't put on index in Germany. The Fatalities were so over-the-top in their brutality, they reached a level of ridiculousness and were assessed to be extremely unrealistic. It was ''literally'' too brutal to be indexed.
** Some of Johnny Cage's recent Fatalities skip across the line as well - one in ''MKX'' has him reenact the famous door scene from ''Film/TheShining'' ''using the torso of his opponent'', which can include his wife or daughter. He tops himself in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' with a Fatality where he rips his opponent's top half off and then ''performs a vaudeville act with it'', including impromptu spotlight and silly voice for the "puppet". It ends with the audience booing him and throwing tomatoes. And if that's not your cup of tea, you can alternatively have him attempt to do his "Deadly Uppercut"... in 19 takes, with him getting increasingly frustrated to the point that he ends up throwing his opponent's head into the camera while [[FlippingTheBird giving it the finger]]. Again, you can do these to his wife or daughter.
* That's the main selling point of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' and its satire of action movies. Same with Duke's Build Engine brothers ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' with horror productions and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' with Eastern culture.
* On that note, ''VideoGame/Grezzo2'' ([[UnInstallment Grezzo 1 was never publicly released]]), a ''VideoGame/DoomII'' [[GameMod total conversion]] made by two Italian guys with assets from ''Doom'', ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Quake|I}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' and so on, plus a ton of blasphemous content against Catholicism, ToiletHumor and gruesome mockery of Italian TV personalities and tabloid celebrities. It was even banned on Website/{{Twitch}}. It's [[StylisticSuck intentionally poorly made]], and that's the point. Some commenters noted that it looks like [[MurderSimulator what]] religious extremists think video games are... and probably that's also the point.
* The final battle in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' allows you to cross the line as many times as you want by [[spoiler:punching Zeus in the face until the screen is ''completely'' covered in blood... and then punching him some more]].

* ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013'' gleefully does it with style. Drill bit stuck in the patient and bleeding out? Gruesome. Trying in vain to get the drill bit out as it ''spins in the patient''? [[{{Pun}} Bloody]] hilarious.

* Blatant jingoism, nationalistic insults, and casual stereotyping really shouldn't be amusing, but ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' in general is a good example of how to invoke this trope. A cast that includes outdated nationalist stereotypes is offensive and not funny... unless those stereotypes comprise ''[[RefugeInAudacity the entire cast]]''. The Soldier, for example, is [[PatrioticFervor proudly patriotic]] to the point of blind idiocy and patent absurdity that he becomes damn near the funniest thing in the game and its supplemental materials. It helps that he's a HotBlooded CloudCuckooLander and thus tends to loudly proclaim nonsense or act like the LargeHam he naturally is, taking any offensive edge off his words by virtue of being so deranged and moronic as to be hilarious.
* ''Super Mario World Dark Horizon''. Mario going against ThoseWackyNazis in an alternate universe version of World War 2 where the Mushroom Kingdom and Earth merged via Nazi super science is potentially crossing it far enough, but to the have Mario fight through the war on terror and take down Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, who have now allied themselves with the Nazis? Super Saiyan Hitler with final boss level powers from a magical meteor? Mario actually taking down an Iraqi nuclear missile? The game's so ridiculously over the top it's almost hilarious. And then every level just finds another way to offend just about everyone for the sake of it.
* ''VideoGame/MarioKart''. Picture this: You're playing with your friends and are well in first place. The finish line is just a corner and a stretch away. Suddenly, you get hit with a stray Green Shell, stopping you. As you try to accelerate again, you're smacked with a Lightning Bolt. You then hear the dreaded sound of a Spiny Shell coming for you and then slamming into you, knocking you upward again and making you lose several positions. Finally, a heavier opponent knocks you off-course, forcing you to wait as you respawn back on the track. You are now in last place. At this point you have probably gone through a few cycles of alternating between threatening to kick your friends in the face and laughing your ass off.
* The kinds of violence that Talion performs in ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and ''[[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar Shadow of War]]'' would be utterly horrific if done to people, and would be excellent arguments in favour of banning video game violence entirely. Such things include telekinetically crushing heads, shanking uruks to death by stabbing them dozens of times in the back (one stab for each button tap), placing a palm on their faces and magically burning their brains until their heads blow apart -- or doing the same to dozens of enslaved thralls all at the same time with a gesture of the hand -- all the while listening to them scream in terror. Done to beings of pure evil like the uruk-hai, however, it is not only surprisingly cathartic, but also pretty funny.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is practically ''built'' around this trope. The titular character doesn't just cross the line, she runs it down with an 18-wheeler, blows it up with a nuclear missile, and tap-dances on the ashes. It's possible that she doesn't even ''care'' that a line exists. Here are a few notable instances. Note that these are from ''the first game alone''.
** One cutscene where Bayonetta has just defeated the boss Tempermantia and elects to blow it up by shooting a stream of gasoline coming from a peeing baby angel statue. When it fails the first time, she [[GroinAttack shoots the statue in the spout]]. When the head flies past in the ensuing (huge) explosion, it's ''crying''.
** The first time we meet Joy, cue the gentle laughter when there's a little impromptu dance off. Drop your jaw in shock/horror/hilarity when Joy chooses to finally... ''reveal'' herself. Then the line is tossed out of the window when you perform the torture attack on her.
** At one point, Bayonetta starts a motorcycle by [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything jamming her middle finger into the ignition switch.]]
* In the original ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/ANewHope'', when Leia breaks down into tears after watching her home planet be destroyed by Tarkin's Death Star, [[TearJerker we mostly joined her in it]]. In ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars'', when the same thing happens with the addition of Tarkin pointing at her and laughing like a school bully, however...
* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', an offensive EasterEgg where the Seamoth submarine AI would rarely make a sexual reference "I love it when you come inside me" upon entering it did this. It was later removed. There is at least 1 complaint thread on the Steam forums.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':

* The Steam game ''VideoGame/WhosYourDaddy'' is a casual 1v1 game about a BumblingDad and his suicidal baby. The way "Daddy" wins is keeping his baby from killing themselves for a few minutes. "Baby" wins by drinking cleaning supplies, eating batteries, jamming objects into power outlets, and drowning in the bath tub. As of December 2015, the game is currently in alpha so it can only get worse for the dad from here.
** As of January 2016 (Alpha V0.4.0-V0.6.0), [[FromBadToWorse it does]]; the baby can now crawl through the ducts of the house to quickly reach places that were once out of reach and can slow the dad to a crawl by slashing his ankles with a knife. Dad however has several tricks up his sleeves in order to combat this, such as "Breaking Dad" (Dad can now eat dangerous objects such as glass or keys) and [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood using a taser that can pin the baby to one spot.]][[note]]This will most likely change in the future.[[/note]]
* There pretty much isn't a line on the titular ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13''. Part of the fun is getting killed in the most hilarious way possible, and boy are there a lot of ways to die.

* How does a modern player stay sane in the vast well of DeliberateValuesDissonance that is ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings''? By taking the general brutality of the era, and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential going above and beyond]] in terms of both depravity and creativity. Not for nothing did one reviewer call it the best ''Series/GameOfThrones'' game you'll ever play, and much of the humor in {{After Action Report}}s consists of this.
** For one famous example, one player playing an Orthodox ruler discovered he could farm gold by matrilineally marrying his seventeen-year-old daughter to rich landless men (to bring them to his court), excommunicating them, imprisoning them, and executing them.
--->'''Kurblius:''' [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/i-use-my-17-yr-old-daughter-to-entrap-and-execute-rich-old-men-repeatedly.948684/ I used my daughter to entrap 6 old men, collecting over 6K. She is just 17 and she's been a widow 5 times.]]
* ''VideoGame/FightOfGods''. The idea of a FightingGame featuring UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and UsefulNotes/{{Buddh|ism}}a, among other religious and mythological figures, was offensive enough to get UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}} to completely ban UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for a short while, before [[BannedInChina reducing the ban to just the game]]. In other countries, people just find the concept offensive enough to be funny.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'':
** During the BossBattle with Goopy Le Grande, [[spoiler:you don't just fight him. You also fight his ''tombstone''. It can move around and smack you flat.]]
** When fighting against the giant cuckoo clock bird Wally Warbles: [[spoiler:Once defeated, it will become knocked out and featherless, then his son, a chick with psychic powers will fight you instead. After defeating the chick, Wally appears again, now featherless and lying on a stretcher carried by two smaller blue birds that aid him in the battle. Once Wally is defeated again, the blue birds choose to [[ImAHumanitarian prepare to cook and eat him]], salting and peppering his body.]]
** The curtain in Sally Stageplay's fight proudly displays that it's [[NoOSHACompliance made of]] [[DeliberateValuesDissonance asbestos]].
* Making fun of the saddest scene in [[VisualNovel/{{AIR}} an already sad anime/VN]] is just terrible... Unless, of course, you do it via ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfM8OuH_6vs autoplay]].
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' is a game about a fanatical mother who takes everything away from her son, strips him naked, locks him in his room, and tries to kill him under orders of a voice claiming to be God. What would be a dark premise is turned in to a dash of BlackComedy, as to summarize [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels one possible run:]] Isaac could potentially jam a rock in his head to increase his damage, poison himself with ipecac so that he can fire exploding vomit and blow up other naked children that are infested with flies, kill a literal pile of shit larger than him as one of the potential first bosses, pick up a cancer tumor because it increases firing rate, trade fifteen cents for hooking a car battery to himself to a shopkeeper that resembles him but having long been killed and dried out after apparently hanging himself, eat a placenta to give himself more health and the power to regenerate, and sell some of his health/soul to {{Satan}} himself to get his own personal succubus. And that's just within the first two floors.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' goes this route with two of its character introductions.
** Ridley skewering Mega Man, smashing Mario's face against a wall, and breaking the walkway to attack Samus? Nightmarishly callous. Twirling Mario's cap like the plumber himself did in the ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey Odyssey]]'' reveal trailer after the fact? ''Hilariously'' callous.
** As if Luigi couldn't catch a break before, he finds himself in Castlevania, hopelessly outmatched by the myriad monsters before him, only to be desouled by death and later accosted by Carmilla, and Simon doesn't know or care about all this. You will either be weeping for the poor man in green or laughing your ass off. Or both.
** Even the stuff in-game can reach this level of BlackComedy. Take [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Paz's]] spirit [[note]] The thing that replaces trophies where you can equip a few and they give you all sorts of powers [[/note]] for example. Her power is giving the character a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bob-omb]] upon starting a battle. Anyone familiar with [[spoiler:the end of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidGroundZeroes Ground Zeroes]]'' where she dies via a bomb [[{{Squick}} that was implanted in her body exploding after the first one was removed]]]] will likely be alternating between laughing their asses off and shaking their heads in disbelief at how ''NINTENDO'' of all companies could get away with that kind of reference.
* Much like the show itself, the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' videogames are all about crossing the line as many times as possible.
** ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' has Nazi Zombie fetuses, and the abortion thereof, as a fundamental plot point, as well as an alien-produced serum that turns people into nazi zombies and are eager to probe people. And as an extra, all the voice clips from the nazi zombie enemies are directly taken from Adolph Hitler's speeches.
** ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' gets a little more varied with its line-crossing, and it starts early on with the difficulty slider only changing your skin color; hard mode is black. Worse things follow, including Butters/Professor Chaos hiring illegal immigrants as his minions, a fight against pedophile priests, the infamously racist cops revealing they were arresting black people to [[spoiler:sacrifice them to Shub-Niggurath (think about the name, and you'll get why it prefers "black meat")]], and a difficult boss fight against Jared Fogle, packing the most hideously suggestive (and [[ThatOneAttack hideously damaging]]) attack ever.
--->'''Jared's Aide:''' We'll handle these kids for you, Mr. Fogle!\\
'''Jared:''' I think I ''know'' how to handle a kid, thank you.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
** ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Hyness [[spoiler:[[VampiricDraining sucking the life out of Francisca, Flamberge, and Zan Partizanne to replenish his own]]]]? Disgustingly callous. [[spoiler:Subsequently [[GrievousHarmWithABody using their inanimate husks as makeshift clubs to clobber you with?]]]] ''Hilariously'' callous.
** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'': On one hand, [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo being captured, studied, and then experimented on by the inhabitants of the new world is pretty much the perfect backdrop for an apocalyptic science horror story]]. But on the other hand, [[spoiler:the fact Lab Discovera thought it was an appropriate idea to repurpose the whole thing as a big tourist trap and put the creature on full display even after Fecto was effectively put into a coma, along with the "tour" featuring cheesy cheerful music and an overly-enthusiastic narrator,]] makes the whole thing wrap back around to slightly hilarious. [[spoiler:One can just imagine that Fecto Forgo merch was sold at some point]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Towards the end of the confidant with Kawakami, your high school teacher, you can [[TeacherStudentRomance attempt to start a romance with her]]. Normally a pretty racy scenario, having a minor getting in a relationship with his adult teacher. But when she tries to dissuade you by talking about how she's your teacher and you are her student, one of the dialogue options available is "[[LikesOlderWomen That's the best part!]]", pushing it over into hilarious.

* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' has Mayor Lewis's request that you "discreetly" retrieve his Lucky Purple Shorts after he apparently got lucky in Marnie's bedroom. Concerned Ape has added several pranks you can play with the shorts:
** Adding the shorts to the summer luau soup gets a uniquely disgusted reaction from the Governor.
** Using the shorts in your display in the fall festival shocks Marnie and pisses off Lewis, causing the latter to disqualify you and pay you 750 Star Points as HushMoney.
** Version 1.4 lets you ''embroider the shorts with gold trim and wear them yourself''. Lewis and Marnie can't speak to you while you're wearing them; Lewis is too angry, Marnie is [[ActuallyPrettyFunny too busy laughing]].
* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'':
** The game's whole point is that, unlike other {{Role Playing Game}}s that, instead of railroading you into playing as TheRoleplayer, you can also play as a ChaoticStupid [[TheLoonie Loonie]]. The game points out that other people in Revachol will expect strange behaviour from officers of the law, so you can get away with saying and doing absurd things with no serious repercussions.
** A great example of this is that, during your player character's EstablishingCharacterMoment of waking up in his trashed hotel room, leering at the hot girl next door, and walk-of-shaming downstairs to be immediately pressured for the huge tab he owes, failing the "sneak out without being noticed" check to get out of paying your hotel bill results in your character hurtling towards the door at top speed, then jumping backwards with both his middle fingers in the air, colliding straight into a guest in a wheelchair. The manager is so confused that he will immediately cut the bar tab off your bill (and cut it even further if, while lying on the floor in a stunned state, you inform him you're not paying for the window you smashed).
** Measurehead is a huge, physically gorgeous black man who believes in his own physical superiority over white people, and uses this for sexual access to a gaggle of white women, while jeering at your white player character for his comparative weakness and ugliness. He is also currently kept subdued by a white boss who reigns him in by keeping him busy with menial physical work. In short, he's a white supremacist's stereotype of a black man. He also exposits at length about his outrageously offensive "advanced race theory" which is derived from white supremacist 'scientific racism'. And your player character, who is half his size, can overpower him by spin-kicking him in the face. A character like this would be far too extreme for any major commercial game, but in ''Disco Elysium'' results in some ''very'' uncomfortable laughs, as well as some commentary -- Measurehead is a reasonably three-dimensional character who serves to indicate how inverting white supremacy still, ultimately, is the same logic as white supremacy, and the player character can point this out to him. ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Or agree with him, and become a fascist]].)
* The goal of ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' is to wipe out 1.2 billion "[[RedChina fuckin' ugly reds]]" from mainland China (in other words: [[FinalSolution commit genocide against the Chinese]]). Oh, and said genocide is entirely performed by ''[[OneManArmy one]]'' person, Creator/BruceLee's fictional relative Chin (portrayed by a photo of Creator/JackieChan). [[SoundtrackDissonance Ridiculously cheery music also plays throughout the whole game]]. This makes the game's premise so ridiculous that it's hard to be offended.
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': After being defeated by the Hat Kid, the Snatcher turns to a book bluntly titled "HOW TO KILL KIDS." If the Death Wish DLC is completed, he calls it useless and considers sueing the author.
* Plenty of the ways you can get a game over in ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' games are often VideoGameCrueltyPunishment, yet at the same time it can be downright ''twisted'' and it's ''hilarious''. Some of these gems include:
** Nancy getting hit in the head with a brick and having her sentence scrambled because of the impact.
** Nancy leaving an iron on in the hotel and ''burning it to the ground''.
** Giving Nancy or her host food poisoning by giving them a sandwich with [[CordonBleughChef absolutely inedible ingredients]] like baking soda, mayonnaise that expired in the '90s, or jellyfish.
** Causing multi-car pileups.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Trying to talk a potential suicide out of jumping off a bridge? Pretty heavy stuff. Said suicide is a [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunctioning AI]] currently inhabiting a taxi? Might draw a giggle. Said AI complaining that therapy won't work because AllPsychologyIsFreudian and computers don't have mothers? Hilarious.
** Helping man in severe pain from malfunctioning cybernetic implant? Dramatic. Said implant is a bargain-bin prosthetic penis, which he got purely for vanity reasons? Hilarious. Driving him to a doctor while making polite conversation and making sure to stop at every red light along the way? Even more hilarious! Finding the man in your phone's contact list, listed as "Flaming Crotch Guy"? Congratulations game. You won.
* ''Palworld'' likely would've been dismissed as yet another ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' clone had [[https://youtu.be/eqTJFhbo9zY its announcement trailer]] not gained infamy thanks to this trope. Forcing animals to act as meat shields against actual guns and sweatshop labor wouldn't be funny if they were anything ''but'' rip-offs of actual Pokémon (including a blatant Wooloo {{Expy}} visibly ''crying'' as it's used to deflect bullets before the protagonist casually tosses it aside).
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'':
** Two people attempting to murder a 14-year old girl's ParentalSubstitute and then resurfacing years later to essentially kidnap her from her family? Horrifying. Those same two people [[FoodAsBribe luring her away with ice cream]] and her playing along because her family wouldn't take her to an amusement park? Hilarious.
** A man getting thrown overboard into a school of sharks by two women would be rather dark if it happened in real life. This happening because said women mistook his Muay Thai shorts for swim trunks and one of them asking him to get some shark fin causes the whole thing to loop around into comedy gold.
* There's an apocryphal but somewhat persistent story that ''VideoGame/DoomII'' pays tribute to Music/KurtCobain, who committed suicide by [[AteHisGun shooting himself with a shotgun]] six months before the game's release, by including a shotgun in the very first sector of the level named "Music/{{Nirvana}}". It's not hard to believe considering some of the other things Creator/IdSoftware got into in the early '90s, like their persistent attempts to include [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] in some way or shape in every game from ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' to ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.
* ''VideoGame/LegoHarryPotter'': The death of [[spoiler:[[SacrificialLion Cedric Diggory]]]] is a tragedy. His dismembered body being [[BodyInABreadbox stuffed into the Triwizard Cup]] and [[IfItBleedsItLeads photographed for newspaper circulation]] is a comedy.

* In the original ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/ANewHope'', when Leia breaks down into tears after watching her home planet be destroyed by Tarkin's Death Star, [[TearJerker we mostly joined her in it]]. In ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Star Wars]]'', when the same thing happens with the addition of Tarkin pointing at her and laughing like a school bully, however...

* ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter'': The death of [[spoiler:[[SacrificialLion Cedric Diggory]]]] is a tragedy. His dismembered body being [[BodyInABreadbox stuffed into the Triwizard Cup]] and [[IfItBleedsItLeads photographed for newspaper circulation]] is a comedy.

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'': Two people attempting to murder a 14-year old girl's ParentalSubstitute and then resurfacing years later to essentially kidnap her from her family? Horrifying. Those same two people [[FoodAsBribe luring her away with ice cream]] and her playing along because her family wouldn't take her to an amusement park? Hilarious.

** Some of Johnny Cage's recent Fatalities skip across the line as well - one in ''MKX'' has him reenact the famous door scene from ''Film/TheShining'' ''using the torso of his opponent'', which can include his wife or daughter. He tops himself in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' with a Fatality where he rips his opponent's top half off and then ''performs a vaudeville act with it'', including impromptu spotlight and silly voice for the "puppet". It ends with the audience booing him and throwing tomatoes. Again, you can do this to his wife or daughter.

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'': Two people attempting to murder a 14-year old girl's ParentalSubstitute and then resurfacing years later to essentially kidnap her from her family? Horrifying. Those same two people [[FoodAsBribe luring her away with ice cream]] and her playing along because her family wouldn't take her to an amusement park? Funny.

** [[CoolOldGuy Jolee's]] escape on the Leviathan. He mind controls a guard in letting himself out and then mind controls him again stating the guard should be locked up instead for letting him out. As if that wasn't enough Jolee decides to drop the mind control just to {{Troll}} the guard while he's down.

** The sequel also features this one moment on Nar Shadaa where you meet a couple thugs shaking down a civilian. You can force persuade them to simply let the man go... ooor, you can take an option that comes ''completely'' out of left field and tell them to give you all of their credits, then [[DisneyVillainDeath go jump into that central pit over there]]. It only gets funnier from there.

*** And what makes it even better? This gets a ''LIGHT SIDE INFLUENCE'' from several of your companions - with Bao-Dur saying "That was a kind act!". When you just [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential told several people to jump to their deaths]].

** The ''Dwarf Fortress'' community as a whole does this. Take, for instance, the program that [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential farmed mermaids, drained the tank they were in, causing them to suffocate, and butchered them for their valuable bones.]] as one player put it, "bay12 doesn't have {{moral event horizon}}s, it has goals". Ironically, the above mermaid-farming system actually ''was'' a MoralEventHorizon, as when Toady One found out about it he immediately wrote a patch to devalue mermaid bone. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Dwarf Fortress has standards]].

* There's an apocryphal but somewhat persistent story that ''VideoGame/DoomII'' pays tribute to Music/KurtCobain, who committed suicide six months before the game's release, by including a shotgun in the very first sector of the level named "Music/{{Nirvana}}".

* Non-comedy example: [[BigBad Makarov]] from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' 2 and 3 somewhat fits this. How could a man who could tear whole nations apart in span of a few years with very well armed, heavily militarized fanatics, even commanding a whole regiment of ultranationalists with a seemingly invisible command structure opposing the current Russian president? And how did the whole thing instantly fall apart and shrink into a hotel-sized militia the second Russian de jure government reorganized themselves and managed to make peace with the United States just in time for the final confrontation? These questions are a large part of the reason, aside from sympathetic Russian characters, why the game didn't face as much backlash in Russia compared to [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Modern Warfare 2019]]; "Just the will of a single man" is difficult to take seriously. Even a certain real life regime [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII back in the day]] needed extensive planning, clear chains of command, and a heavily structured regime to become a menace to the world.

* On that note, ''VideoGame/Grezzo2'' ([[UnInstallment Grezzo 1 was never made]]), a FPS made by two Italian guys with assets from ''DOOM'', ''Duke 3D'', ''Quake'', ''Blood'' and so on, plus a ton of blasphemous content against Catholicism, ToiletHumor and gruesome mockery of Italian TV personalities and tabloid celebrities. It was even banned on Website/{{Twitch}}. It's intentionally poorly made, and that's the point. Some commenters noted that it looks like [[MurderSimulator what]] religious extremists think video games are... and probably that's also the point.

--->'''Guard:''' "Damn you, old man! I'll kill you if I ever get outta here!\\

** The sequel also features this one moment on Nar Shadaa where you meet a couple thugs shaking down a civilian. You can force persuade them to simply let the man go... ooor, you can take an option that comes ''completely'' out of left field and tell them to give you all of their credits, then [[DisneyVillainDeath go jump into that central pit over there]]. It only gets funnier from there...

* The Steam game ''[[VideoGame/WhosYourDaddy Who's Your Daddy?]]'' is a casual 1v1 game about a BumblingDad and his suicidal baby. The way "Daddy" wins is keeping his baby from killing themselves for a few minutes. "Baby" wins by drinking cleaning supplies, eating batteries, jamming objects into power outlets, and drowning in the bath tub. As of December 2015, the game is currently in alpha so it can only get worse for the dad from here.

* Plenty of the ways you can get a game over in ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' games is often VideoGameCrueltyPunishment, yet at the same time it can be downright ''twisted'' and it's ''hilarious''. Some of these gems include:

** Nancy leaving an Iron on in the hotel and ''burning it to the ground''.
** Giving Nancy or her host food poisoning by giving them a sandwich with [[CordonBleughChef absolutely inedible ingredients]] like baking soda, Mayonnaise that expired in the 90s, or jellyfish.
** Causing multi-car pileups
* ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk2077}}'': Trying to talk a potential suicide out of jumping off a bridge? Pretty heavy stuff. Said suicide is a [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunctioning AI]] currently inhabiting a taxi? Might draw a giggle. Said AI complaining that therapy won't work because AllPsychologyIsFreudian and computers don't have mothers? Hilarious.

** Some of Johnny Cage's recent Fatalities skip across the line as well - one in ''MKX'' has him reenact the famous door scene from ''Film/TheShining'' ''using the torso of his opponent'', which can include his wife or daugher. He tops himself in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' with a Fatality where he rips his opponent's top half off and then ''performs a vaudeville act with it'', including impromptu spotlight and silly voice for the "puppet". It ends with the audience booing him and throwing tomatoes.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Towards the end of the confidant with Kawakami, your high school teacher, you can attempt to start a romance with her. Normally a pretty racy scenario, having a minor getting in a relationship with his adult teacher. But when she tries to dissuade you by talking about how she's your teacher and you are her student, one of the dialogue options available is "That's the best part!", pushing it over into hilarious.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''

** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLands'': On one hand, [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo being captured, studied, and then experimented on by the inhabitants of the new world is pretty much the perfect backdrop for an apocalyptic science horror story]]. But on the other hand, [[spoiler:the fact Lab Discovera thought it was an appropriate idea to repurpose the whole thing as a big tourist trap and put the creature on full display even after Fecto was effectively put into a coma, along with the "tour" featuring cheesy cheerful music and an overly-enthusiastic narrator,]] makes the whole thing wrap back around to slightly hilarious. [[spoiler:One can just imagine that Fecto Forgo merch was sold at some point]].

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Hyness [[spoiler:[[VampiricDraining sucking the life out of Francisca, Flamberge, and Zan Partizanne to replenish his own]]]]? Disgustingly callous. [[spoiler:Subsequently [[GrievousHarmWithABody using their inanimate husks as makeshift clubs to clobber you with?]]]] ''Hilariously'' callous.

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* While ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' has caused more than a bit of an outrage back in the day, the same cannot be said of ''Videogame/Doom3'', ''Videogame/Doom2016'', and ''Videogame/DoomEternal''. Apart from how public perception of videogames are matured, for the last two, it's because all the over-the-top violence are done for the sake of humanity, and none of the Slayer's brutal targets are human.

* Non-comedy example: [[BigBad Makarov]] from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' 2 and 3 somewhat fits this. How could a man could tear whole nations apart in span of few years with very well armed, heavily militarized fanatics, even commanding a whole regiment of ultranationalist with seemingly invisible command structure opposing the current Russian president? And how after the Russian de jure government reorganized themselves and managed to make peace with the United States, the whole thing instantly fell apart and reduced into a hotel-sized militia just before the final confrontation? Part of the reason, aside from sympathetic Russian characters, why, compared to the [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Modern Warfare 2019]], the game didn't have so much backlash in Russia because the "Just a will of a single men" thing is hard to be taken seriously. Even a certain real life regime [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII back in the day]] had planning, chain of command, and heavily structured regime to become a menace to the world.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk2077}}'': Trying to talk a potential suicide out of jumping off a bridge? Pretty heavy stuff. Said suicide is a [[AIIsACrapshot malfunctioning AI]] currently inhabiting a taxi? Might draw a giggle. Said AI complaining that therapy won't work because AllPsychologyIsFreudian and computers don't have mothers? Hilarious.

** Then came ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoV'' with [[AxCrazy Trevor Philips]], a man that managed to be psychopathic, level headed, yet sympathetic and loyal at the same time that despite being a minor BaseBreakingCharacter for several quite reprehensible acts he got away from, many players [[spoiler: put off from the choice to kill him in the end of the game.]]

** ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' has Nazi Zombie fetuses, and the abortion thereof, as a fundamental plot point, as well as an alien-produced serum that turns people into nazi zombies and are eager to probe people.

** The sequel also features this one moment on Nar Shadaa where you meet a couple thugs shaking down a civilian. You can force persuade them to simply let the man go... ooor, you can take an option that comes ''completely'' out of left field and tell them to give you all your credits, then [[DisneyVillainDeath go jump into that central pit over there]]. It only gets funnier from there...

'''Jolee:''' ''(with a cheerful tone of voice)'' Then I'll be sure to never let you out. Goodbye, sonny!\\