History Funny / Starfield

** '''Starter Home''': ''You own a small house on a peaceful little moon, but it comes with a 50,000 credit mortgage with [=GalBank=].''
*** In the full game proper it's even worse. The mortage is 125,000 credits! That's 1.5 times more than what your starting ship is worth! [[FelonyMisdemeanor And it's not even furnished.]]
* One of the available traits is '''Hero Worshipped'''... which gets you an [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Adoring Fan]] that joins your crew. He's back, and this time, he's much worse, to the point he may very well be a {{Yandere}} by this point. Thankfully, you can get rid of him if you get fed up.

** The video even helpfully demonstrates one way he can be disposed of, which [[MemeAcknowledgement homages]] this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU_YqGZF5Y age-old video.]]
* As pictured above, You can steal and hoard sandwiches of all things if you want to, as demonstrated by Jamie Mallory.

* Just like in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', your robot companion Vasco can refer to you by name if said name is part of the game's database. ''ALSO'' just like in ''Fallout 4'', a plethora of names are just plain immature and ''hilarious''. [[https://youtu.be/KhYmp75JfrA?si=xRghSSu1YiKGZVKx Here's some of the funniest]].

* As said above, the Kid Stuff Perk means your parents are still around. And the devs really nailed the writing of having proud, yet slightly overbearing parents.

** While the entirety of the Kid Stuff trait is incredibly heartwarming, it can take an absolutely ''hilarious'' turn when you head to Neon and ''see your parents in the Astral Lounge''. Your parents say they got a special vacation gift to Neon, so they figured they'd stop by the Astral Lounge. To say it's an awkward situation should you approach them is an understatement, and you can absolutely choose to do some teasing at their expense.
* Inside the mines at Cydonia, you'll run into [[XDaysSince an "X hours without incident" ticker]] that updates in real time. A curious (and ''[[BloodKnight sufficiently murdery]]'') player can then [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/168gvzg/35_hours_without_incident/ gun down the nearest denizen,]] [[DevelopersForesight immediately causing the ticker to go down to zero.]] Whoever's manning that ticker must be paid ''very well''.
** Hell, just the fact that [[DangerousWorkplace the ticker counts by hours and not days]] can be [[BlackComedy darkly hilarious.]]

* Continuing from the above, once you arrive at Constellation, you have the option of either redoing all the story missions, or just telling Sarah and Constellation about the entire plot and skipping them. However, there's a random chance with every new "cycle" that you'll get a unique start. Some of the more amusing ones are:

* Just like in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', your robot companion can refer to you by name if said name is part of the game's database. ''ALSO'' just like in ''Fallout 4'', a plethora of names are just plain immature and ''hilarious''. [[https://youtu.be/KhYmp75JfrA?si=xRghSSu1YiKGZVKx Here's some of the funniest]].

* In a meta moment, one of the more vocal complaints about ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' was that the main character was voiced, as some people didn't like the way their avatar sounded. ''Starfield'' devs pointed out that the player character wouldn't be voiced, and they were truthful about that. If you finish the game without siding with the Hunter or the Arbiter, you'll meet ''another version'' of yourself in the Union, in other words, not the ''player'' character, but a character that ''looks'' like the player character. One of the first things you can do is point out that ''you don't sound like that''.

* One of the [=GalBank=] loan collection missions. The mission itself is a standard "kill the enemies and rescue the NPC" objective, but the fact of the matter is that you're a loan officer, someone sent around to get loans paid on time, [[AlmightyJanitor and you just massacred a mine full of Ecliptic mercs just to get payments resumed.]] The NPC you rescue even says "I have never been so happy to see a bank official."

** A universe where multiple versions of you have all arrived at the Lodge. Each is themed on one of the factions, including a gruff Crimson Fleet you and a hilariously edgy "Loner You."

* Killshots on human enemies wearing space suits that land on their backpack units may result in them frantically flailing about moments before it explodes. Sometimes, the catastrophically failing pack may fling them off into the sky as the jump jet spastically triggers in the failure.

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* One of the quests you can pick up in [[SpaceAmish New Homestead]] on Titan is given by the colony's doctor, who's one of the homesteaders with something of a beef with the tourists that come to visit the colony's museum. Her solution? Hand you a hilariously non-scary monster costume and send you out to give a random group of tourists a good scare, hoping they'll spread the word about monsters living on Titan and thus put a damper on tourism. Aside from the entire plan being both hysterical ''and successful'', she's just so damn cheerful about her own idea, especially when she tells you that the costume used to be a highschool sports team mascot and was later slightly modified for an indie movie before she got it for cheap after the film bombed.

* One of the GalBank missions. The mission itself is a standard "kill the enemies and rescue the NPC" objective. But the fact of the matter is that you're a loan officer, someone sent around to get loans paid on time, [[AlmightyJanitor and you just massacred a mine full of Ecliptic mercs just to get payments resumed.]] The NPC you rescue even says "I have never been so happy to see a bank official."

* If you go into NewGamePlus and choose to become Starborn, you start over with only your levels and perks; all items are lost. You are issued with a new Starborn ship and a fancy one-piece space suit. What makes this ''funny'' is that you spawn in the Vectera system, so you have to do a first-time jump to New Atlantis to go to the Lodge and you have to go through the usual contraband scan, leading to this gem;