History BLAM / VideoGames

** If you're familiar with Platform/{{Newgrounds}}, ''Castle Crashers''' pedigree, you might recognize many of this "art" from particularly bad UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash portal entries.

** If you're familiar with Website/{{Newgrounds}}, ''Castle Crashers''' pedigree, you might recognize many of this "art" from particularly bad UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash portal entries.

* The hit [[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade XBLA]] and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork PSN]] game ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' built its empire on [=BLAMs=]. One particularly memorable one happens near the endgame: one of the three bosses you have to fight before taking down the BigBad is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpt-EbeSdQ a wacky, robot-voiced painter with a toolbox for a head]]. He descends from the scaffolding in his room to paint on a big canvas on the wall which makes his art come to life and attack you. Among things he draws are a snail with a nose for a face, angry elephants, eyeless unicorns and [[Website/TheClockCrew Carrot Clock]].

* In the Japan-only ''Franchise/DieHard'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/PCEngine, [=McClane=] for some reason has to fight his way through a jungle and a swamp to get to Nakatomi Plaza.

* ''VideoGame/NightTrap'' features a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment [[SignatureScene so iconic]] that it's one of the primary reasons people still remember the game despite being from a doomed genre and [[UsefulNotes/SegaCD gaming]] [[UsefulNotes/Sega32X system]]. The plot of the title requires you to rescue a group of teenage girls attending a slumber party at a house owned by a family of vampires. As part of a vigilante squad, you use a surveillance system to activate traps to catch the vampire family and their Auger {{Mooks}} before tragedy strikes. Around the beginning of the game, before the trouble begins, the party guests start gleefully singing a pop song that sounds like it belongs on the title screen, complete with studio instruments. While the themes of the track vaguely foreshadow the rest of the game, the song sequence itself has no bearing on the plot and none of the characters act like they even remember it. The guest victims are all in utter shock when the Augers start assaulting them, and [[spoiler:even the vampire family's daughter, herself EvilAllAlong, happily joins in on the song and dance number with the other girls without any skepticism]].

* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'' had the most random appearance of Hyde/Dark Phantom... ever. He kind of shows up, says Geo ruined his life, is defeated again and falls off the Wave Road (wait, you ''could'' fall?). And then... never ever mentioned again.
** Not COMPLETELY random. It happens during the same sequence of events where you [[spoiler:are busy trying to put Luna back together again. Considering how much he seems to be connected to Luna, there [[UnfortunateImplications might be something more to it...]]but either it was lost in translation or not established due to bringing back Luna being a more important plot point.]] But it's still a BLAM considering he seems completely unaffiliated with anyone this time around, and is never brought up again since everyone is glad to have [[spoiler:Luna]] back.

* The ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' FanGame ''Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars'' has an episode when the protagonist gets lost in Paris and encounters [[PrisonEscapeArtist a creepy man in handcuffs]] called [[Franchise/HannibalLecter Dr. Blackter]]. Blackter agrees to show him the way out, but [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs only if the main character answers some uncomfortable personal questions]]. If you ask him what was he handcuffed for, he replies that he had dinner with his patient... [[IAmAHumanitarian and the patient was the main course]]. Dr. Blackter never appears again after that, and plays no role in the main plot.
* The hit [[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade XBLA]] and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork PSN]] game ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' built its empire on [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAMs]]. One particularly memorable one happens near the endgame: one of the three bosses you have to fight before taking down the BigBad is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpt-EbeSdQ a wacky, robot-voiced painter with a toolbox for a head]]. He descends from the scaffolding in his room to paint on a big canvas on the wall which makes his art come to life and attack you. Among things he draws are a snail with a nose for a face, angry elephants, eyeless unicorns and [[Website/TheClockCrew Carrot Clock]].

** The Great Mighty Poo. Starters, you enter a mountain of poo. Then you clobber and toss [[WhatTheHellHero 6 pieces of live corn into a puddle of poo.]] Just when you think it's over, The Great Mighty Poo poops out of the lake and starts ''singing opera about dreams of throwing itself at you.'' You beat it by throwing giant rolls of toilet paper into its mouth. When it's over, you pull a handle and flush him down. Conker and The Dung Beetles never mentioned him ever again.

* The Grizz's boss battle in ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime''. Throughout the entire chapter he's been touted as a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot black gangster graffiti artist grizzly bear]], but when Murray confronts The Grizz in his hideout, he says he's tired of everybody and abruptly starts ''ranting'' about how he always wanted to be an ''ice skater'', which is completely at odds with the gangster image the game's established him to have. This sudden ice-skating is also his main ability in the ensuing boss battle. The only buildup to this is an optional collectible treasure named "Grizz's Skates". Lampshaded when Murray lets out an "Uh...okay?"