History CrossesTheLineTwice / VideoGames

** And yet, the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2'' had to be cleaned up anyway, turning all the blood into "purple mist".
*** Although that's more of a technical thing as the blood splatters and limbs flying around caused the framerate to nosedive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' likely would've been dismissed as yet another ''Franchise/{{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).

*** Among the things you can use as {{Improvised Weapon}}s, you can use ''actual'' bowling balls, portable gas stoves, ''rolled-up magazines'' (a favorite of [[VideoGame/Yakuza4 Akiyama]] [[AssShove in particular]]), kettles filled with boiling water... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and oranges]]. Yes, only in ''Like a Dragon'' can you force-feed a mook their daily intake of Vitamin C and make it look painfully hilarious.

** 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.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' tends to have some grisly moments, but when you combine loads of free time with modding abilities, you get the tale of Obok Meatgod. This is so terrible it crosses past the point where death comedy is funny and becomes just PURE EVIL.
** The thread is then shifted to the militant uses for the new mod, including [[spoiler: a "special excretion" for the newly modded "appendage"]] Only in ''Dwarf Fortress''.
** 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'' too much, as when Toady One found out about it he immediately wrote a patch to devalue mermaid bone. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Dwarf Fortress has standards]].

* ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle: The "puzzle" in order to access Edna's video screen is to literally just push her out of the room. Bernard's line however sells it:

--> '''Bernard''': Well, you know what they say, "[[SpaceWhaleAesop If you wanna save the world, you gotta push a few old ladies down teh stairs.]]"

* ''Franchise/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]]:

* ''VideoGame/{{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).

* 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.

* ''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.]].

** [[InsufferableGenius Joshua]] himself provides quite a hefty dose of this trope thanks to his quips and JerkAss moments. For example, [[spoiler: his murder of Neku is mostly definitely shocking and brutal. However, his rather nonchalant attitude towards the whole thing and little fist pump after shooting Neku dead on can make the scene also come off as morbidly hilarious.]]

--->''" The Grim Heaper got... crunched."''

* ''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]]:

*** On a somewhat related note concerning the Baron, his voice actor would later go on to voice [[Film/{{Transformers}} Mudflap]], whose offensiveness is on par with (if not higher than) the Baron's. [[http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/06/jive-talking-twin-transformers-spark.html He did not get away with it]], which tells something about ''Madworld''.

%%* [[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 ''VideoGame/{{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."

** 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.]]

* 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.

* Blatant jingoism, nationalistic insults, and casual stereotyping really shouldn't be amusing, but ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** The setting 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.
** Thanks to one of the Sniper's secondary weapons, ''throwing jars of pee at people'' is a perfectly normal and accepted part of gameplay, both for inflicting a DamageIncreasingDebuff (which in-universe represents the target [[DespairEventHorizon losing the will to live]]) and for putting out fires on burning teammates, which really goes to show how the game takes RefugeInAudacity and makes it the norm.

* 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. Done to beings of pure evil like the uruk-hai, however, it is not only surprisingly cathartic, but also pretty funny.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2'': Mega Man's ImagineSpot in the Japanese demo for ''Legends 2'' of him joining forces with the Bonnes involves him and Tron happily frolicking in a field of LoveBubbles... while Mega Man is ''[[LoveMakesYouEvil shooting innocent civilians]]''.

** Pre-Bethesda ''VideoGame/{{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."

** The [[LimitBreak Heat Actions]] are a near-constant source of this that combines what'd certainly be fatal injuries in Real Life with AmusingInjuries while also having every mook that picks a fight with Kiryu (or especially [[KnifeNut Majima]]) [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat somehow]] ''[[UnexplainedRecovery survive]]'' with only a few bruises and shattered egos to show for it.

*** Among the things you can use as {{Improvised Weaopn}}s, you can use ''actual'' bowling balls, portable gas stoves, ''rolled-up magazines'' (a favorite of [[VideoGame/Yakuza4 Akiyama]] [[AssShove in particular]]), kettles filled with boiling water... [[TheLastOneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and oranges]]. Yes, only in ''Like a Dragon'' can you force-feed a mook their daily intake of Vitamin C and make it look painfully hilarious.
** ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' takes place in a high school in Yokohama where the main characters are trying to get to the bottom of the school's bullying problem. Being a spin-off of the ''Like a Dragon'' series with everything mentioned above, you can naturally do as such with most of the students you fight in the game. Reminder - ''you can beat the living shit out of high school students and'' '''''[[RefugeInAudacity get away with it]]''''' by virtue of playing as a BullyHunter (and said high school [[TeensAreMonsters students mostly]] [[AssholeVictim being assholes]], to begin with, on top of being the ones who draw first blood).