Moments where a character has to hide the warning signs of abuse at the hands of parents/guardians and mean teachers from authority figures and friends in Video Games.
- The prologue of Baldur's Gate features tutors of the character coming up to the character shortly after assassination attempts. The player can choose to be frightened and honest, or dismissive and evasive."It's nothing, Parda. A—cat didn't like me petting it, is all."
- In Indigo Prophecy, the main protagonist cuts a number of deep wounds into his wrist while in a trance near the beginning of the game. When asked by a police officer why there was screaming heard from his apartment the previous night how he incurred these wounds, he claimed that he fell on some broken glass and "freaked out".Cop: Boy, when you cut yourself, you sure go all the way, huh?
- In Fate/stay night Sakura apparently often tries to explain her suspicious bruises (courtesy of her brother) this way. Shirou, at least once, beat the ever-loving crap out of Shinji for it. He's not stupid. He's seriously pondering doing it again. Although the incident where Shirou asks Sakura about her bruises early in the game is used to help establish Shinji's character, it is also a Cassandra Truth: These specific bruises weren't inflicted by Shinji. They're Sakura's still-forming Command Seals, which look like a formless red mark all up and down the arm until a Servant is actually summoned.
- Knights of the Old Republic: One gag theory trying to explain Darth Malak's missing jaw, claims he cut himself while shaving WITH A LIGHTSABER!
- In Tropico 3, whenever you mark a citizen to be "dealt with", Juanito the radio announcer says that they "slipped and fell out of a 3rd floor window, landed on the street and got run over by both an ambulance and a hearse". Not a single drop in approval rating.
- In the adventure Black Mirror 2, the protagonist notices a waitress with bruises on her face. When he asks her about it she says "she fell down the stairs". Darren being who he is responds with "And your husband was waiting at the end of the staircase with a baseball bat?"
- In Jade Empire, Kang the Mad wants to escape his employer Gao the Greater and suggests that you arrange for Gao to "fall down a flight of punches".
- During the Runescape saga Three's Company, this is how Sir Owen claims he got his massive facial scar. Ozan sarcastically remarks if he shaves with a dragon.
- Satoko in Higurashi: When They Cry tries to explain some of the results of her uncle's abuse this way.
- In Batman: The Telltale Series, Bruce Wayne can use this if he shows up with signs of injury, even when it comes to injuries that would be really hard to explain away as shaving, such as an Ear Notch.Gordon: What'd you use, a chainsaw?
- During the Inn of Evil side quest in Rakenzarn Tales, the innkeeper will claim he injured himself in regards to several bloodstains around the place. It's to cover that these were wounds inflicted upon the people who were eaten by his giant insect hordes.
- Referenced by name in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, after the overconfident Sundowner is diced by Raiden and calls Sam to warn him that Raiden is still alive.Sam: Cut yourself shaving?
Sundowner: Asshole. He's good... Real good... You knew this would happen, didn't you?
