Obnoxious In-Laws in Video Games.
- In The Bard's Tale, MacRath jokingly alludes to this trope
in reference to the zombies that had taken over his castle, though the eponymous Bard himself fails to pick up on it due to the sheer impenetrability of his accent.MacRath: Ah kent it was a bad sign when tha deid began tae rise frae their grae, especially mah mammy in law, it was toogh enaw killin' 'er tha first time!note - Boong-Ga Boong-Ga has the mother-in-law as one of the people you can punish. She even says stock stereotypical mother-in-law lines.
- One of the funniest examples is in Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. The entire first level has Dirk trying to escape Daphne's mother (who resembles a retired opera star... boy, even her name is Hilda!). She starts chasing Dirk with a rolling pin after she finds out that he let Daphne get kidnapped again. If the player presses the wrong button, Dirk can actually get killed by her! Dirk runs away from her on a horse, but she starts following him on an ox, trying to bash the living daylights out of him while telling him to go rescue Daphne.Hilda: DIIIRRRKK!!!
Dirk: Uh-oh...
Hilda: Kidnapped?... My Daphne, kidnapped again?!! Idiot! Dummkopf! You! Better! Find! My! Daughter! OR! ELSE! (throws a crate full of chickens at Dirk) COWARD!!! DIRK! I KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE!! I raised a Princess who married a frog!! Dirk! Hold still! You can run boy! But you cannot hide!- The level ends with Dirk's mother-in-law hitting a giant snake (that, earlier on, was attacking Dirk), and telling it to "Shut up!" Just see it for yourself here.
- The level ends with Dirk's mother-in-law hitting a giant snake (that, earlier on, was attacking Dirk), and telling it to "Shut up!" Just see it for yourself here.
- In Elite Dangerous, the passengers of Wedding Barges will sometimes say "At least I don't have to meet the in-laws" when their starship blows up.
- In Final Fantasy V, an NPC laments that the meteor that fell near Tycoon didn't land on his mother-in-law instead.
- One hilarious scene in Guilty Gear Xrd has straight-laced Ky realizing that, since he's married to Dizzy, and his brash, free-spirited rival Sol is Dizzy's father, that makes Sol his father-in-law. Cue the horrified screaming from both parties.
- Gravedigger Shen in Jade Empire has players deal with a few spirits who are out of their graves in the Necropolis. The first of them is apparently his mother-in-law, and he's especially happy that you put her down for the moment.
- Implied in Love & Pies, where Raj says that he's lucky that he and his wife live near his parents, but "maybe less lucky" that his in-laws live near them, too.
- Mass Effect: Though circumstances prevent you from experiencing it firsthand, Tali gleefully tells Shepard at one point that her deceased father would've hated him if you romance her. Her wording leaves it a bit unclear if this is because of Shepard being human instead of a quarian, overprotectiveness, or just plain disliking Shepard's personality.
- One level in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 centers on a female pro wrestler who marries the heir to a traditional Japanese inn... only to find his mother does not approve. The level involves said wrestler proving she can be a good inn hostess in order to earn the old woman's approval.
- Persona 4:
- A nameless housewife apparently doesn't get along with her mother-in-law, who dislikes her cooking. To be fair to the older woman, her daughter-in-law is a terrible cook, although she does improve later in the game.
- Another woman, who's a bit older, recalls that her mother-in-law was an ill-tempered woman who warned her that if she didn't wear a wedding veil, she'd grow horns. The woman notes to her chagrin that she herself ended up turning out just like her mother-in-law.
- Twisted Wonderland: Sebek's maternal grandfather Baul is disdainful of his son-in-law because the latter is a human, but he's reasonably nice to his grandson.
- World of Warcraft has a fairly dark example in Lucille Waycrest's mother. Lady Waycrest doesn't like that her daughter's marrying a mere merchant, so she bitterly complains to her husband on Lucille's wedding day, refuses to attend the wedding, and hires some outlaws to kill her son-in-law.
