History WhamLine / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': At the end of the [[Recap/AgeOfEmpiresIIAttilaTheHun Attila the Hun campaign]], the narrator listens to the old monk Father Armand recount a story about being forced to commit atrocities while he was a captive of the titular conqueror. Once Father Armand has finished his story, he chillingly confesses: "Sometimes... [[EvilFeelsGood I miss it]]."

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': At the end of the [[Recap/AgeOfEmpiresIIAttilaTheHun Attila the Hun]] campaign, the narrator listens to the old monk Father Armand recount a story about being forced to commit atrocities while he was a captive of the titular conqueror. Once Father Armand has finished his story, he chillingly confesses: "Sometimes... [[EvilFeelsGood I miss it]]."

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'': As you reach Dr. Polito, your MissionControl for the first half of the game, you fins her corpse insread, and then...

--->"With all due respect, ''those'' aren't the design choices we were curious about, [[BigBad Mr.]] [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes Afton]]."

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': At the end of the [[Recap/AgeOfEmpiresIIAttilaTheHun Attila the Hun]] campaign, the narrator listens to the old monk Father Armand recount a story about being forced to commit atrocities while he was a captive of Attila the Hun. Once Father Armand has finished his story, he chillingly confesses: "Sometimes... [[EvilFeelsGood I miss it]]."

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': At the end of the [[Recap/AgeOfEmpiresIIAttilaTheHun Attila the Hun]] campaign, the narrator listens to the old monk Father Armand recount a story from the time he was forced to commit atrocities while he was a captive of Attila the Hun. Once Father Armand has finished his story, he chillingly confesses: "Sometimes... [[EvilFeelsGood I miss it]]."

* ''VideoGame/SoulSacrifice:''

** In the Part 2 AlternateRealityGame that started since the release of "Tenebre Rosso Sangue", its second paragraph dropped a ''huge'' bombshell regarding the game's lore: ''[[ItCanThink HELL IS]]'' '''[[GeniusLoci ALIVE]]!''' The Terminal Author reveals that the augmented Husks and the enemy encounters are Hell's doing for the sake of [[{{Sadist}} sadistic entertainment]], and as the author is warning Tom to shut down the Hell Expedition in fear that Hell would invade the surface world, [[KilledMidSentence they were abruptly killed by Hell's forces]], resulting in Hell ''taking over the terminal'' and [[TheBadGuyWins making the Terminal Author's fears come true]].
--->hell is alive. it breathes. it thinks. the entire area is a massive intelligent superorganism and it is harsh and it is cruel.''

-->'''Sylvanas:''' The Horde is ''[[EngineeredPublicConfession nothing!]]'' You are all nothing!

--->'''Vol'jin:''' "I speak for da Horde!"

-->'''Darth Malak''': [[PlayerCharacter You]] cannot hide from what you once were [[PredecessorVillain Revan]].

-->'''Darth Malak''': You cannot hide from what [[PlayerCharacter you]] once were [[PredecessorVillain Revan]].

---->'''Lead Bomber:''' Priority is to place destruction over accuracy.

--->'''Trimestigius II''': Misuse of photocopied Proper Human History registered. Summarization: Strange Tale Human History spanning 300,000,000 years. Construction of a Virtual Heroic Spirit using these factors confirmed. Biological classification: One Radiance Thing. Grand Servant: Class Foreigner. [[OhCrap ORT is being summoned]].[[note]]Basically, even after being killed, ORT hacked the Throne of Heroes and turned itself into a Heroic Spirit with 300 million years of history, and then proceeded to summon itself back into existence. The number of ways this should be completely impossible by the series' rules of magic is too numerous to count, but ORT is just THAT powerful.[[/note]]

-->'''Fou:''' I am the embodiment of comparison. I am the Beast that feeds on the energies that come from humans who grow and compete, who envy others' strength, who regret their own weakness. I am the Beast who stands over any and all opponents. I am Cath Palug, a Beast of Disaster. In a different world, I was called "Primate Murder."[[note]]Fou is the RidiculouslyCuteCritter TeamPet and SeriesMascot of ''Fate/Grand Order'', and seemed to be completely harmless aside from his comedic abuse of Merlin. Primate Murder is part of the backstory of the much earlier Nasuverse visual novel ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and [[NamesToRuNawayFromReallyFast as the name implies]] one of the most notorious killers in the entire franchise. Fou being one of the seven Beasts who threaten the extinction of humanity was surprising enough, but being an AlternateSelf of Primate Murder was quite the shocker to longtime fans of the franchise.[[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere''

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar''

*** After completing the mission ''Bastion'', Pixy spots something that [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] [[SuperweaponSurprise Excalibur]]:

---->'''Abyssal Dision''': I see...! So you were... Simon... Were you?

--->'''Sky Eye''': Attention all aircraft, incoming from Stonehenge confirmed on radar.

---->'''Tribunal''': 8492! 8492! Is all you people have to say? There is no squadron in our military with that number!

---->'''8492nd Squadron Leader''': Attention all units approaching November City. I guess they had us going too.\\
'''Thunderhead''': What? Who is this?\\
'''8492nd Squadron Leader''': That was a pretty good drill they got going. Anyway, drill is over. Return to base.\\
'''Thunderhead''': Wait?! What are you talking about?!

---->'''Genette''': Why does Yuktobania have this?

---->'''Grimm''': Enemy ECM! Wait, that escort plane... ''[[OhCrap Oh no]]''!\\
'''Nagase''': The 8492nd Squadron doesn’t exist!

---->'''Nagase''': What are Belkan pilots doing here?

---->'''Genette''': (To Pops) Would it surprise you if I said that President Harling is nowhere to be seen within the Capital?\\
'''Pops''': Not really. The hardline war that Osea is waging right now, hardly resembles the peace policy the president was promoting. Let me guess: He disappeared ''just before'' we invaded Yuktobania right?\\
'''Genette''': ''Exactly''. My journalist friends in the Capital have told me that no-one has seen him enter or leave the office since. All of his decisions are communicated through the Vice-President. And it gets better: A lot of the military officers who resigned over disagreement over the president’s policy have started to return to the capital.

---->'''Pops''': I found something out myself. That Belkan aggressor squadron that I was telling you about? Apparently they’re called the 8492nd. Also, and here’s the kicker, Captain Hamilton, the adjutant base commander here, used to be assigned to the 8492nd.

** ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''

---->'''Pixy''': Huh? Did... Something just flash?

---->'''Lead Bomber''': Priority is to place destruction over accuracy.

---->'''Eagle Eye''': A Belkan bomber flight armed with nuclear weapons has taken off for Ustio!

'''Pixy''': Buddy... ''[[[WhamShot player gets a missile lock alert]]]'' [[FaceHeelTurn I've found a reason to fight]].

---->'''Base Commander''': We just received an emergency transmission from the control tower... Unidentified aircraft are approaching our base!

---->'''PJ''': There’s an encrypted message on a hidden channel. Decrypting message: Uh, ''[[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay "Yo buddy. You still alive"]]''? It's...!

---->'''[[EvilFormerFriend Pixy]]''': So, have you found a reason to fight yet? ''Buddy?''

---->'''Ghost Eye''': Warning! Incoming cruise missiles!

---->'''Ghost Eye''': You’ve been ordered to evacuate! Mission command has ordered an evacuation!

---->'''Base Commander''': According to our intelligence from the Department of National Safety: Estovakia has a scorched earth policy in mind for Gracemeria.

---->'''Shamrock''': My wife and daughter are both dead. It's just been confirmed. I saved my country, but I lost my family. What kind of an ''ace'' can’t even protect his own family?\\

'''Shamrock''': ''[voice breaking]'' Monica... and Jessica...\\

'''Shamrock''': Once this mission’s over, I’m turning my wings. I’ve had it. I no longer have a reason to fly.
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown''

---->'''[=AWACS=] Sky Keeper''': Mage 2!\\

'''[=AWACS=] Sky Keeper''': Oh my god. ''Mother Goose One has been shot down!''

---->'''Gen. Labarthe''': The open declaration of war, the expanding of the frontlines—-It was all the work of some young Erusean officers. They were referred to as the Radicals, but there was an [[TheManBehindTheMan unseen force guiding them]]... It was technology they borrowed from the Belkans.

---->'''Dr. Schroeder''': They are ''not'' being controlled by anyone. [[AIIsACrapshoot They are flying of their own volition!]]

----> ''The girl above speaks to her through this glass shard: "Enough games." "And enough wasting time. Give up—and die."''

----> Because the sentiment asking for her to stop all this is not kindness, but lack of care: a frightening and deeply seated apathy. This is what she always had. This profound indifference-she must have felt it before.

----> '''(Referring to Arcaea's denizens)''': ''You really are me. She really copied me out and... it really is true for all of us-- we're all hollow copied souls.''
----> '''(Referring to the real Hikari)''': ''Honestly, I'm sorry. I don't have any regrets, but... the hate I felt wasn't even... for you. The other... you... She's still out... there. Still a...live...''

---->In her heart, she made a sullen wish for refuge, and that wish was granted: "Somewhere else, where I can be happy".
---->The white-haired girl was so powerful that her wish had created a world.

* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has two in the Spirit of Arkham messages. Some previous ones hinted that there was a contemporary edge for mentioning Poison Ivy and Killer Croc, but then there is one making it clear it is not Amadeus Arkham who is writing (rather, it's Warden Quincy Sharp):

-->'''Strange:''' By the end of tonight, I will be a hero. Just like you... ''Batman''.

---> '''Gordon:''' This is how it happened. This is how the Batman died.

---> '''John:''' I ''know'' you can fight better than that. [[SecretSecretKeeper Or do you need your Batsuit to really get you in the mood]]? (You're) always hiding behind some kind of mask. [[MillionairePlayboy Playboy]], [[HonestCorporateExecutive businesman]], [[TheMole criminal]]. ''Bat''.

-->'''Narrator:''' [[NestedStoryReveal Are you]] ''[[NestedStoryReveal sure]]'' [[NestedStoryReveal this is how you want this story to end, Isaac?]] You're the one writing it, it doesn't ''have'' to end this way. Here, how about we tell it a different way? Maybe a happy ending?
-->'''Isaac:''' Okay, daddy.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'':

---> '''Atlas''': "There ain't no Atlas, kid, never was... the name's Frank Fontaine."
** And in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''
--> '''Elizabeths''': It all has to end, to have never started. Not just in this world, but in all of ours.
--> '''Booker''': [[HeroicSuicide Smother him in the crib.]]

---> '''Nu-13:''' [[MachineMonotone Loading... loading... loading... loading... Complete...]]\\

---> '''Tyalie:''' So this means... Anonymous is Legion?

---> '''Arianna:''' My name... My TRUE name... It's ''ARPANET''.

---> '''Pale Wraith:''' It's been a long time, hasn't it... ''Cate?''

---> '''Leif:''' When our team left for Snakemouth... The Queen was Elizant the First.

---> '''Kabbu:''' Vi...could it be the Hive has done nothing to you?\\

---> '''Leif:''' We came to defeat the King. He's not here?\\

---> '''Queen Elizant II:''' I do not deserve your gratitude. I've failed everyone. You, my loyal people. My mother, the Queen... It would be folly to pretend I deserve this royal mask.

---> '''Queen Elizant II:''' The true Queen, Elizant I... My mother, she yet lives. She was put in a deep slumber, using crystal energy. A sort of stasis. It was her dream to get the sapling so she could continue to rule Bugaria for years to come. ...I wished only to bring her back with it. A graceful Queen, loved by all. A diplomatic genius, who ended wars without combat. I longed for her return... So that I may concede my throne to her. For she is so much more than I have ever been.

---> '''Queen Elizant II:''' ...I... I had a dream. To use its power to fulfill my wishes... But the lust for that power has only brought turmoil to Bugaria. I will destroy it!
* ''VideoGame/ChoRenSha68k'':

-->'''N. Tropy (F)''': The last time I killed her friends, her screams were exquisite.

--> "ATTACK! PERFECT FULL COMBO!"[[note]]In other words, the chart requires a Perfect Full Combo to clear, and you fail on the spot if you so much as get a ''Great''.[[/note]]

---> '''Lucky''': Well, too bad. I'm not done with ya yet!

---> ''If the odds are against you, remember that fleeing is always an option. [[NintendoHard If you're in the Tutorial, though]], [[ThisIsGonnaSuck the escape command isn't available]].''

--->'''Seam''': And my view of this world have become darker, yet darker.

---> ''"Once again, we have successfully completed our mission and the usual message came up on my screen. Our mission? '''[[TomatoSurprise To fight against our fellow troop members until one side completely annihilates the other.]]'''"''

--> '''[[CanonCharacterAllAlong Doomguy:]] ''[[SuddenlyVoiced Rip...and Tear!]]'''''

----> '''Alistair:''' You say that like [[HeroicSacrifice I'm giving you]] a [[SadisticChoice choice]].

--> ''"Received a telegram from Hyperion: Enemy threat removed by your heroic attempt. The battle pattern of the latest E.O.S. unmanned fighter has been completed according to the data from your battle record. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness For your meritorious deed, you have been honored to be selected as the target of the last E.O.S. test.]] Congratulations. After your death, you will advance two classes and be awarded the sirius decoration. [[ArcWords Glory with the Moon. Mercy on the Earth.]]"''
* Quite a few in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':

---> '''Delphine:''' Oh, and one more thing. We know about Paarthurnax.

---> '''Dossier - Ulfric Stormcloak:''' [[ManchurianAgent Status - Asset, Dormant, Emissary Level Approval]]

---> '''Corrupt Guard:''' You want to meet the King In Rags? [[FrameUp You'll have plenty of time to chat him up in Cidhna Mine.]]

--->'''Priestess''': As we commend your souls to Aetherius, blessings of the ''Eight'' Divines upon you.
--->'''Stormcloak Prisoner''': For the love of Talos, shut up and let's get this over with!

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyI'': Not a conversation line, but an area name (specifically, that of the fifth and final non-postgame stratum): ''Lost Shinjuku''. This establishes that not only does the game take place AfterTheEnd, but after the end of a ''modern [[EarthAllAlong Earth]]''.

-->'''Hank:''' Maggie, you've fought these monsters before, haven't you?
-->'''Caira:''' Sometimes they leave the humans alone, but they ''always'' go for the Patterson tech.

--> '''Kala:''' We will nucleate a true vacuum! This abnormality will be erased!
--> '''Kala:''' The boundary of stability is wrong! We are the universe righting itself!
--> '''Kala:''' Life is order, but all is chaos! It must be!

--> '''Pagan Min:''' It's yours. It's always been yours. Kyrat is yours. I pulled you off the bus in the first place to pass it on to you.

--> '''Hope County Sheriff Dispatch:''' [[TheMole Yes, Father. Praise be to you.]]

--> '''Pagan Min:''' So, beneath this palace is [...] an enormous fucking vault of nuclear weapons, a fuckton of them. Pointed right at America. Probably, I don't know, [[VideoGame/FarCry5 somewhere near Montana]], [[VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn to be exact]]...

--> '''Shinji Matou:''' "I'm only [[YoungerThanTheyLook eight years old]]!"

--> '''Fou:''' I am the embodiment of comparison. I am the Beast that feeds on the energies that come from humans who grow and compete, who envy others' strength, who regret their own weakness. I am the Beast who stands over any and all opponents. I am Cath Palug, a Beast of Disaster. In a different world, I was called "Primate Murder."[[note]]Fou is the RidiculouslyCuteCritter TeamPet and SeriesMascot of ''Fate/Grand Order'', and seemed to be completely harmless aside from his comedic abuse of Merlin. Primate Murder is part of the backstory of the much earlier Nasuverse visual novel ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'' and [[NamesToRuNawayFromReallyFast as the name implies]] one of the most notorious killers in the entire franchise. Fou being one of the seven Beasts who threaten the extinction of humanity was surprising enough, but being an AlternateSelf of Primate Murder was quite the shocker to longtime fans of the franchise.[[/note]]

---> "11-12-1987" (This date is written on the player character's check, indicating that the second game is in fact a [[StealthSequel Stealth]] [[InvertedTrope Prequel]] to the first, as well as hinting at a connection to [[NoodleIncident the Bite of '87]].)

---> '''Phone Guy:''' Hello hello? Uh... what on earth are you doing there? Uh... Didn't you get the memo? Uh... The place is closed down, at least for a while. Someone used one of the suits. We had a spare in the back, '''a yellow one'''; someone used it... Now none of them are acting right. Listen, j-just finish your shift. It's safer than trying to leave in the middle of the night. Uh... We have one more event scheduled for tomorrow: '''a birthday'''. You'll be on day shift. Wear your uniform. '''[[BrainFood Stay close to the animatronics]]''' and make sure they don't hurt anyone, okay? Uh, for now just make it through the night. Uh, when the place eventually opens again, '''I'll probably take the night shift myself'''. Okay, good night and good luck.

---> '''Phone Dude:''' But I have an even better surprise for you and you're not gonna believe this - we found one. A REAL one.

---> '''The Child's BigBrotherBully:''' Hey guys, I think the little man said he wants to give Fredbear a [[BrainFood big kiss]]!

---> "With all due respect, ''those'' aren't the design choices we were curious about, [[BigBad Mr.]] [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes Afton]]."

---> "Father. [[ArcWords It's me]], Michael. I did it. I found it. It was right where you said it would be. They were all there. They didn't recognize at first, but then they thought I was you. And I found her. [[ArcWords I put her back together]], just like you asked me to. She's free now. But something is wrong with me. I should be dead. [[CameBackWrong But I'm not.]] I've been living in shadows. There is only one thing left for me to do now. I'm going to come find you. ''[[ElectronicSpeechImpediment I'm going to come find you.]]''"\\

---> '''Cassette Man:''' [[ShutUpHannibal Connection terminated.]] I'm sorry to interrupt you, Elizabeth - if you still even remember that name - but I'm afraid you've been misinformed.

--> '''Adam Fenix''': This is Adam Fenix. Can you hear me? This is Adam Fenix. Is anyone out there? This is Adam Fenix... What have you done?

---->[[MyNameIsQuestionMarks ???]]: The first time the Millelith were present. I had to forgo the chance to strike down Monstadt's savior. This time was the perfect moment... I was mere seconds away...
---->'''[[BossSubtitles Scaramouche]]'''
---->''[[RedBaron Balladeer]]''
---->''[[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Sixth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers]]''

-->'''Atreus:''' My name on the wall. The giants called me...'Loki?"

--> '''Vic Viper's computer:''' "Warning: There is a space-time anomaly forming. Two objects have emerged. Ship identification code cannot be processed for the large craft. The other is ''Vic Viper T-301''."

--> '''Henry:''' There's crazy things happening down here... monsters, demons, angels... and right now, two of them are holding me prisoner.

--> '''Narrator:''' [[NestedStoryReveal Are you]] ''[[NestedStoryReveal sure]]'' [[NestedStoryReveal this is how you want this story to end, Isaac?]] You're the one writing it, it doesn't ''have'' to end this way. Here, how about we tell it a different way? Maybe a happy ending?
--> '''Isaac:''' Okay, daddy.

--> '''Andrew Ryan:''' "Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly?' Powerful phrase. [[ManchurianAgent Familiar phrase?]]"

--> '''Atlas''': "There ain't no Atlas, kid, never was... the name's Frank Fontaine."

** Space Channel 5
--> "There's something wrong with the TV!"
** Space Channel 5 Part 2
--> [[BewareTheSillyOnes "Heheh...Yeah right."]]

-->'''Soldier:''' Why?\\

'''Soldier:''' We were...helping...

-->'''Konrad:''' It seems the reports of my... ''survival''... have been greatly exaggerated.\\

-->'''Konrad:''' The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're '''not:''' [[TakeThatAudience A hero]].

-->'''Walker:''' This is Captain Martin Walker, requesting immediate evacuation of Dubai. Survivors:... one too many.

-->'''Walker:''' [[BookEnds Gentlemen...]] [[CallBack Welcome]] [[IronicEcho to Dubai]].

-->'''Walker:''' Wait. Wait, this isn't right!\\

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' has two, revolving around characters being SecretSecretKeeper with Peter Parker's alter ego.

--> '''Aunt May''': Take off your mask; I want to see my nephew.

---> '''Dedede:''' NO WAY. NOT YET.

* ''Videogame/{{ULTRAKILL}}:'' Archangel Gabriel turning against the oppressive Angelic Council is already a WhamEpisode as a whole, and he's got a rebuttal for everything their leader says as he begs for help. But one of those rebuttals is of note, as it reveals something ''big'' about the world as a whole and the depths of Gabriel's epiphany:
-->'''Councilor:''' P-please, Gabriel, see reason! The Council follows the will of The Father! You seek to go against our creato-"
-->'''Gabriel:''' Face it, brother: GodIsDead. The Fire is gone. You're chasing phantoms.

* ''VideoGame/PlanetOfTheEyes'': You find this audio log alongside a destroyed robot. Thing is, you were supposed to be the ''first'' Earth robot to step foot on this planet, yet this one is the same model as you and its power core has apparently exploded. That's when the engineer who designed you realized why this mission was so classified:

-->'''Sonic''': Time of awakening?\\
-->'''Chip''': Dark Gaia grows over millions of years, then rises to destroy the world. And I put it all back together. We've been doing this over and over, again and again... since the very beginning of time.\\
-->'''Sonic''': So you were asleep all this time? For millions of years?\\
-->'''Chip''': Yes. For ages and ages.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' has a few, but one of the biggest wasn't even dialogue: it was the Master Sword chiming out Fi's signal when Link was nearly killed by the Guardians.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has several. Due to the nature of the narration, some hit [[PlayerPunch the reader]] more than the characters, and vice-versa.
--> '''Archer:''' Trace, On.[[note]]For those not familiar with Fate/Stay Night, this little phrase is the one Shirou always uses to summon swords, revealing that Archer can also do this -- because he ''is'' Shirou from the future.[[/note]]

'''Walker:''' No, no I mean we did this already!\\