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* In the ending of ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'', Sonic explains to Amy about how he missed their date due to being sent to Arthurian times. Amy thinks he's just making up excuses for missing their date and proceeds to chase him with her hammer. Granted, randomly being summoned to Arthurian times is a bit far-fetched.
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* Medoute of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' is usually a nice enough person... until she gets into pushy mentor mode. She believes very firmly that there is only one Right Way to handle life--and that is to be detached and to deal with things rationally, stifling any emotional or knee-jerk reactions in order to be objective. This stems from her own coping mechanism of avoidance. Sometimes her input is helpful to the other characters, but other times it's markedly less so. Oh, so your subconscious is trying to block out the fact that your best friend since toddlerhood needs a MercyKill, since you might not be able to handle the idea just yet? Stop crying and man up to the truth! What are you, a baby?! In the A route, where Medoute's own objectivity is compromised by FantasticRacism, this devolves into [[KickTheDog puppy soccer]] against Gulcasa--who is grieving, sick, and can only lean on someone who's taking advantage of his inability to think straight. Medoute, unwilling to empathize with or condone his emotional distress, chooses to interpret his behavioral changes as JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope [[spoiler:and tries to kill him]]. PoorCommunicationKills applies heavily.
* Claptrap from the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' games is a ButtMonkey, being used as target practice by bandits, a torture doll by one of their leaders, having his entire product line exterminated by Handsome Jack making him the LastOfHisKind, being abandoned in a frozen wasteland, and having nobody but the Vault Hunter show up for his birthday party. Despite all he's been through, he is universally treated like an annoying (his voice is programmed to sound [[{{Keet}} that way]] -- he's actually quite depressed) pest. No Sympathy is the rule, rather than the exception, in Borderlands, which runs on ComedicSociopathy, but almost everyone steps up their game at least one more notch to crap on Claptrap.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2'': When reviving a fallen hero, heroes have quotes usually along the lines of QuitYourWhining due to the grimdark setting. And then there's the orks...
--> Just stick da bone back in!\\
There's a fight and ye're ''sleepin'!?'' What kinda ork iz ya?\\
Get up! Ye're an embarrassment to da whole ork species!
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'': Ellie’s breakup with Isaac is seen as this by some. Throughout the series, Isaac has (among other things) witnessed countless people be brutally slaughtered and warped into Necromorphs, helplessly watched his last girlfriend kill herself, been manipulated and betrayed numerous times and subjected to MindRape by the Markers more than once. All of this and more has understandably left Isaac with ''extremely'' severe trauma and PTSD. Instead of, say, getting Isaac the help he clearly needs, Ellie coldly leaves him after calling him a coward for not just getting over it, and later insults him for not wanting to rejoin the search for the Markers (aka the source of all his trauma).
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': When Funky accidentally causes Bashmaster's Popsicle to be eaten by piranhas, he crosses his arms and makes a "hey, shit happens" kind of look.
* Early in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the kingdom of Damcyan is attacked. The king and queen die, as does Anna, Tellah's daughter and Prince Edward's love, and numerous {{Red Shirt}}s. When the party finds Edward, he's flattened with grief because everyone he loves is dead... so Tellah attacks him.[[note]]Which he was probably going to do ''anyway'' since he didn't approve of Edward and Anna getting engaged in the first place and now blamed him for getting her fatally wounded.[[/note]] When Anna gives her last words and dies, Edward is even more devastated. Rydia and Cecil immediately lay into him for being a selfish weakling, moping over the deaths of everyone he's ever loved when there are some strangers here who want a favor! [[JerkassHasAPoint While it's true that Edward is the ruler of Damcyan, thus needs to be strong to lead the country]], Rydia's reaction is a tad hypocritical -- her reaction to the same circumstances was to summon Titan to whoop Cecil and Kain's backsides, but apparently it is wrong for a man to be temporarily paralyzed by the deaths of everyone he's ever loved. Understandable, since she is JustAKid after all, and had underwent a bit of CharacterDevelopment.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' give us Soren most frequently but [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Ike most famously]].[[note]]Which is completely out of character for the man who would even show sympathy to his father's killer.[[/note]]
** It makes more sense if you interpret Ike's [[MemeticMutation now-legendary]] "You'll get no sympathy from me" as something more along the lines of "I'll show you no mercy" (there was possibly some translation fudging involved), which would be true to how Ike was genuinely sympathetic toward many of his old allies and their plights in ''Dawn'' but unwilling to go easy on them as they now found themselves on opposite sides of a war. It would then also double as a MythologyGag to the Greil Mercenaries' run-in with slave traders in Chapter 14 of ''[=PoR=]'', where, after their leader Gashilama refuses to surrender, Ike states, "In that case, we've no choice. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner You'll receive no mercy from us!"]]
* ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' infamously ends with Pac-Man hearing the defeated final boss Toc-Man [[spoiler:reveal himself as a sad ghost who goes on a MotiveRant about how he tried to imitate him because "nobody loves a ghost," only to eat him in response.]] To be fair, the guy did kidnap his entire family. Regardless, the ''Re-PAC'' remake softened this by having him instead [[spoiler:hold out his hand in forgiveness,]] but only if you rescue all his family members.[[note]]This was made optional specifically for the remake, and not doing so gets you the original ending.[[/note]]
* In the ending of ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', Sonic explains to Amy about how he missed their date due to being sent to Arthurian times. Amy thinks he's just making up excuses for missing their date and proceeds to chase him with her hammer. Granted, randomly being summoned to Arthurian times is a bit far-fetched.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', there is a side quest in which the player character, who is pretending to be a Sith student, is captured by an insane former Sith teacher who puts them through a sadistic test of Sith philosophy with pain and eventually death as the price for wrong answers. This being [[DarkSide Sith philosophy]], the right answer can always be found by choosing the most evil and cruel option, which the teacher will then rationalise as somehow being the most rational one in terms of maintaining your power. Hence, when one question is something like "You have a loyal and capable subordinate who hasn't failed you once before, but now does due to bad luck, what do you do?" the right answer is in the lines of "[[YouHaveFailedMe Kill them right away]], because we mustn't allow any weakness." In general, the Sith philosophy works like this elsewhere in the game and at least some parts of the Expanded Universe as well.
** Paradoxically and by contrast, Darth Bane in his own novels that tie in with the game and whose writer was involved in writing them bears no grudge over a failed attempt to ''assassinate him'', [[InevitableMutualBetrayal since that's what Sith are supposed to do]].
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NoSympathy in VideoGames.
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* Medoute of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' is usually a nice enough person... until she gets into pushy mentor mode. She believes very firmly that there is only one Right Way to handle life--and that is to be detached and to deal with things rationally, stifling any emotional or knee-jerk reactions in order to be objective. This stems from her own coping mechanism of avoidance. Sometimes her input is helpful to the other characters, but other times it's markedly less so. Oh, so your subconscious is trying to block out the fact that your best friend since toddlerhood needs a MercyKill, since you might not be able to handle the idea just yet? Stop crying and man up to the truth! What are you, a baby?! In the A route, where Medoute's own objectivity is compromised by FantasticRacism, this devolves into [[KickTheDog puppy soccer]] against Gulcasa--who is grieving, sick, and can only lean on someone who's taking advantage of his inability to think straight. Medoute, unwilling to empathize with or condone his emotional distress, chooses to interpret his behavioral changes as JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope [[spoiler:and tries to kill him]]. PoorCommunicationKills applies heavily.
* Claptrap from the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' games is a ButtMonkey, being used as target practice by bandits, a torture doll by one of their leaders, having his entire product line exterminated by Handsome Jack making him the LastOfHisKind, being abandoned in a frozen wasteland, and having nobody but the Vault Hunter show up for his birthday party. Despite all he's been through, he is universally treated like an annoying (his voice is programmed to sound [[{{Keet}} that way]] -- he's actually quite depressed) pest. No Sympathy is the rule, rather than the exception, in Borderlands, which runs on ComedicSociopathy, but almost everyone steps up their game at least one more notch to crap on Claptrap.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2'': When reviving a fallen hero, heroes have quotes usually along the lines of QuitYourWhining due to the grimdark setting. And then there's the orks...
--> Just stick da bone back in!\\
There's a fight and ye're ''sleepin'!?'' What kinda ork iz ya?\\
Get up! Ye're an embarrassment to da whole ork species!
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'': Ellie’s breakup with Isaac is seen as this by some. Throughout the series, Isaac has (among other things) witnessed countless people be brutally slaughtered and warped into Necromorphs, helplessly watched his last girlfriend kill herself, been manipulated and betrayed numerous times and subjected to MindRape by the Markers more than once. All of this and more has understandably left Isaac with ''extremely'' severe trauma and PTSD. Instead of, say, getting Isaac the help he clearly needs, Ellie coldly leaves him after calling him a coward for not just getting over it, and later insults him for not wanting to rejoin the search for the Markers (aka the source of all his trauma).
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': When Funky accidentally causes Bashmaster's Popsicle to be eaten by piranhas, he crosses his arms and makes a "hey, shit happens" kind of look.
* Early in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the kingdom of Damcyan is attacked. The king and queen die, as does Anna, Tellah's daughter and Prince Edward's love, and numerous {{Red Shirt}}s. When the party finds Edward, he's flattened with grief because everyone he loves is dead... so Tellah attacks him.[[note]]Which he was probably going to do ''anyway'' since he didn't approve of Edward and Anna getting engaged in the first place and now blamed him for getting her fatally wounded.[[/note]] When Anna gives her last words and dies, Edward is even more devastated. Rydia and Cecil immediately lay into him for being a selfish weakling, moping over the deaths of everyone he's ever loved when there are some strangers here who want a favor! [[JerkassHasAPoint While it's true that Edward is the ruler of Damcyan, thus needs to be strong to lead the country]], Rydia's reaction is a tad hypocritical -- her reaction to the same circumstances was to summon Titan to whoop Cecil and Kain's backsides, but apparently it is wrong for a man to be temporarily paralyzed by the deaths of everyone he's ever loved. Understandable, since she is JustAKid after all, and had underwent a bit of CharacterDevelopment.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' give us Soren most frequently but [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Ike most famously]].[[note]]Which is completely out of character for the man who would even show sympathy to his father's killer.[[/note]]
** It makes more sense if you interpret Ike's [[MemeticMutation now-legendary]] "You'll get no sympathy from me" as something more along the lines of "I'll show you no mercy" (there was possibly some translation fudging involved), which would be true to how Ike was genuinely sympathetic toward many of his old allies and their plights in ''Dawn'' but unwilling to go easy on them as they now found themselves on opposite sides of a war. It would then also double as a MythologyGag to the Greil Mercenaries' run-in with slave traders in Chapter 14 of ''[=PoR=]'', where, after their leader Gashilama refuses to surrender, Ike states, "In that case, we've no choice. [[PreAsskickingOneLiner You'll receive no mercy from us!"]]
* ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' infamously ends with Pac-Man hearing the defeated final boss Toc-Man [[spoiler:reveal himself as a sad ghost who goes on a MotiveRant about how he tried to imitate him because "nobody loves a ghost," only to eat him in response.]] To be fair, the guy did kidnap his entire family. Regardless, the ''Re-PAC'' remake softened this by having him instead [[spoiler:hold out his hand in forgiveness,]] but only if you rescue all his family members.[[note]]This was made optional specifically for the remake, and not doing so gets you the original ending.[[/note]]
* In the ending of ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', Sonic explains to Amy about how he missed their date due to being sent to Arthurian times. Amy thinks he's just making up excuses for missing their date and proceeds to chase him with her hammer. Granted, randomly being summoned to Arthurian times is a bit far-fetched.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', there is a side quest in which the player character, who is pretending to be a Sith student, is captured by an insane former Sith teacher who puts them through a sadistic test of Sith philosophy with pain and eventually death as the price for wrong answers. This being [[DarkSide Sith philosophy]], the right answer can always be found by choosing the most evil and cruel option, which the teacher will then rationalise as somehow being the most rational one in terms of maintaining your power. Hence, when one question is something like "You have a loyal and capable subordinate who hasn't failed you once before, but now does due to bad luck, what do you do?" the right answer is in the lines of "[[YouHaveFailedMe Kill them right away]], because we mustn't allow any weakness." In general, the Sith philosophy works like this elsewhere in the game and at least some parts of the Expanded Universe as well.
** Paradoxically and by contrast, Darth Bane in his own novels that tie in with the game and whose writer was involved in writing them bears no grudge over a failed attempt to ''assassinate him'', [[InevitableMutualBetrayal since that's what Sith are supposed to do]].
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