Funny / Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The Video Game

• Jensen just arriving in Prague and immediately drops his sweet words on Alex.
  Alex: 'Ma'am'? Seriously?
  Adam: I could have gone with 'Sweetie'.
• If you watch a newscast with Eliza Cassan, she may wink cheekily at Adam when she says she's reporting "Live", since he's one of the few people who knows she's an AI. Though it becomes a bit creepier once you discover that this isn't the same Eliza Cassan who helped Adam in the previous game, but an Illuminati-loyal replacement, making the wink probably just a joke on the part of her programmers.
• An early sidequest involves dealing with a corrupt cop named Drahomir, who is extorting Augs and claiming he can get them proper ID papers. As part of his Bad "Bad Acting" while trying to convince you it's all above board he claims to be head of the regional office of...'Permitification'.
• Jensen's "Hey, You!" Haymaker makes it's return from the previous game and it's just as funny as ever.
• One of the first sidequests you receive is to investigate why Jensen has augs that were installed without his knowledge and unknown to him until after the bomb blast in Prague. You speak to David Sarif about it and he tells you about a scientist who may have something to do these with augs. He also mentions that this same scientist was once interviewed by David and Megan Reed to work at Sarif Industries. He was denied the job because Sarif didn't think he would fit in and Megan Reed said that his ethics were questionable. Jensen rightfully points out that Megan's own ethics are 'very' questionable as she previously took samples of Adam's DNA without his knowledge and used it in her augmentation research.
• If you enter the Naturals section of the transit in Prague, you are treated to a loading screen where everyone else on board glances at Jensen nervously. And once Jensen gets off, a police officer demands to see your papers, saying that an Aug getting on the Natural's train is just asking to cause a scene.
• One of the first times an officer asks to see your papers, she rattles off a seriously long list of possible forms of identification, ending with, "...and/or certificate of authenticity." Jensen responds by quipping, "In the good old days, we just asked for ID..."
  • As a bonus, in contrast to other cops' "Oh, Crap!" and/or grudging acceptance of your Over-the-Top Secret clearance, her reaction to seeing your papers is to quip, "You are some kind of badass?"
• Really, any time an officer demands to see your papers is delightful. They go in full speed expecting to get to screw you on some minor error in your papers, but you can just hear their internal Oh, Crap! reaction at seeing your Over-the-Top Secret clearance papers.
• The first time you try to get through Drahomir's checkpoint, follow the right dialogue tree and you get this gem when he asks for your permit.
  Adam: Must've left it in my other coat.
  Drahomir: ...and you expect me to believe that?
  Adam: *nods without missing a beat*
• Samizdat, the newspaper run by K, is crazy enough to give The Quibbler a run for its money. If you help K to get it published on a large scale, you get to see it in action, complete with a terrible layout, awful clickbait cartoons and Character Filibuster up the wazoo.
  • If you decide to help K and give him an actual legitimate conspiracy (the plane crash mentioned at the beginning of the game was a cover-up for a military experiment, and not hijacked by an augmented passenger), it gets buried at the back of the front page and quickly turns into a rant about Eliza Cassan, who Little K seems to think was killed in the Aug Incident and replaced by an impostor. Even funnier, she's Right for the Wrong Reasons (one wonders what Samizdat would think if they knew about the whole "AI construct" thing...)
• Adam's facial expressions have been greatly augmented compared to Human Revolution, and can lead to moments of hilarity when he raises an eyebrow, sighs, or shrugs at whatever nonsensical thing someone says.
  • His Double Take when he hears the price for the fake permits Drahomir is demanding is epic.
  • A rare glitch causes Adam to get lockjaw.
• An Easter Egg found in the Tech Noir store has a video game on display. The name? Knuckles the Echidna in Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles. With two Sonic Boom Knuckles fistbumping each other.
• If you talk to Aria a second time before talking to MacReady the first time and ask her about the events in Dubai, she'll mention that she hasn't given him his new shooting range keycard yet... and that it's probably for the best, since she didn't want him "stinking up" her range, anyway.
• The beginning of the System Rift DLC. Adam is happily watching an intense baseball game, when Pritchard contacts him during the middle of a climatic play, much to Adam's annoyance. His face palm alone sells it. Even funnier when you consider that whenever Pritchard makes his introduction in the Deus Ex games, it's always inconveniencing Adam or just straight up cock-blocking him, like when Megan wanted to tell Adam something possibly romantic related in Human Revolution, before Pritchard got on the elevator. And his first response to Adam is "Did I interrupt something, Jensen?".
• This is likely the only game in existence where you can just casually pick up your refrigerator, take it to your bathroom and throw it through the window to the streets below.
• In Golem City, a woman named Entity runs a shop focused on hacking software. At first, she's wary of Adam, but the moment she realizes he's no threat to her, she immediately starts hitting on him. All he can do is shake his head and sigh a lot in response.
• One of the emails on Talos Rucker's computer is from a starstruck teenage admirer. It's as awkwardly cute as one would expect.
• You'd think the easiest way to get Dominik out of Dvali territory would be by hurling him into a nearby manhole while he's out cold. He doesn't die because of the fall. He dies because of the gas that's in the sewers and you fail the sidequest.
• Inside a room a few floors or so below from your apartment lives a punk girl who always has a thug with her. The thugs change during your three visits to Prague, hinting to a possible love square. You can, of course, interfere in that square by killing the thug each time. He still gets replaced anyways.
• If you take too long meeting Vega during the second visit to Prague, she'll snark about what took so long and say that, if Adam were her kid, she'd slap him for making her wait.
• During the Desperate Measures DLC Adam can come across a Tarvos security guard in one of the bathrooms trying to pass a kidney stone. He's alone and completely distracted, which makes this quite possibly the easiest takedown encounter in the game. It's probably also the only case where either option could be considered merciful, killing him spares him the pain of actually passing the stone while knocking him out may cause him to pass it in his unconscious state.
• While hacking computers in the System Rift DLC Adam may come across an email that mentions a "ball prank" involving a fellow employee. It seems strange at first, but then the player comes across a work desk in one of the offices that has been converted into a miniature plastic ball pit complete with a note warning the employee to get the mess cleaned up before the boss finds it.
• Swiss-Cheese Security is universal, and can even be found in that darnedest of places, the NSN. Even though it is a virtual space that stores the records of supremely secret Interpol meetings, gratuitous Air-Vent Passageways and conveniently-placed server racks will ensure at least one path around the security measures protecting the data.
• During one of the later-game sidequests, you meet a doctor who mentions that the key character was a patient of theirs while they worked at Tai Yong Medical, and asking Adam if he knows about them, as if he somehow hasn't heard of one of the biggest biotechnological companies in the whole world. But the kicker is the response that Adam, who is very familiar with TYM and how deeply connected they are to The Illuminati and all the unethical things they've gotten up to with them, gives as an answer to that question:
  Adam: Enough that I already don't like where this is going.

Meta/Community-related

• Meta example: when Activision released a live action teaser trailer for Call Of Duty: Black Ops III on April 24, 2015, many took notice right away the trailer's focus on a future full of cybernetic implants and ethical concerns regarding said implants felt like they were lifted right out of Deus Ex lore. The official Deus Ex Twitter account responded to the trailer with a meme of a cat looking like it's going "did these guys just rip us off?" See it here.
• The DOTA 2 Adam Jensen announcer pack. Imagine Adam with his sarcasm dial turned to the max, broken off, and add in a dash of him losing his trademark cool and you have a very basic idea. Some gems include...
  "Become a DOTA announcer, they said. 'It'll be fun Adam!'"^note The last part of the line is said in what sounds like an imitation of Sarif's voice, implying he was the one who talked Adam into becoming an announcer!
  "You should definitely blame your teammates. Loudly. And publicly."
  "Don't play like last time. Just watching the replay was embarrassing."
  "Remember, dancing makes you invulnerable."^note Sounds like he's speaking from experience.
  "Just like Kubric...*Tiny sob*...Give me a minute." ^note Said upon a courier dying.
  "Giant monster drops a human-sized shield...makes sense."
  "No offense, but the sound you make when you die is pretty hilarious."
  "How about I call in Malik to carpet-bomb Mid?"
  "Bounty Hunter...Gondar...? Your name is...Gondar...?"
  "Gyrocopter...there's no way that thing is up to code."
  "Nightstalker...wow, nope, nuh-uh."
  "Riki...smells EXACTLY how he looks."
  "Tinker. Part man, part machine...I can relate."
  "Treant Protector...tell me he never buys Tango."
  "Contractual obligations? I… Fine. *sigh* Wicked sick.
  "*Big yawn* Eveni...ergh...morning, Boss." ^note Logging in during the very early morning
  • And of course, his most famous line:
    "I never asked yada yada yada."
    "I never… something something."
    "I never… Uh, I don't know how that goes."
  • He also borrows one from his predecessor (or is it successor?), JC Denton.
    Adam: What a shame.
• Adam hasn't lost his ability to dance between games.
• The Honest Trailers for the Deus Ex series where the narrator makes fun of the games until the end when Adam Jensen (voiced by Elias Toufexis himself!) appears and threatens the narrator, who proceeds to change his tune and tells viewers to buy ten copies of Mankind Divided before running away, leaving Adam to read the viewers' comments.
• Deus Ex MD: Adam Augmented Madman Jensen. Amongst other things, you see him throwing dumpsters and refrigerators into TF29's elevator, eat an old man's burger, crushing a stripper with a vending machine... and crash the game by putting too many bodies between a refrigerator and a hard place.
  Adam: The broadcast... I have to stop it!