History BrickJoke / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'': "A Book And Its Cover" has two exits, each blocked by a wall of cubes, as well as a red disintegrator field preventing you from directly taking out the cubes. Each wall has a nearby small alcove with cubes, visibly connected to it as they are from the same color as the wall's. If the player has completely understood the green gun's properties, he will realise he's expected to connect the cubes from the two alcoves, then break it: since one of the walls (the one with red cubes) is visibly smaller than the other, its side of the chain will disappear. However, when doing so, the larger wall with green cubes will be the one that disappears, which seemingly goes against the green gun's rules. At the other side of the green wall, a sign says "If you are missing information, it's easy to be mislead", which at that moment doesn't have an obvious meaning. ''Much'' later, once the player has acquired the red gun, it's possible to come back to the puzzle and get rid of the red wall using the red gun's properties. Unexpectedly, when doing so, what seemed to be a small wall of red cubes is actually a ''huge'' pile of cubes which will take several seconds to make disappear. The green gun had worked properly the first time, it's just that the game was lying in regards to which wall was smaller...

* When Trish brings up Dante's backstory during the prologue of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' (specifically the fact that he lost a mother and a brother to evil), Dante mentions that he's doing the DemonSlaying job so that he would eventually hit the jackpot. Mid-way through the story, Dante expresses his desire to kill Mundus, the demon that killed his mother and brother. His line just before landing the finishing shot against Mundus? "Jackpot!"
* In the first mission of ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', a white wig lands on Dante's head and he shrugs it off in annoyance. It made Dante look almost identical to the original incarnation of the character, ''but'' it turns out that Dante's hair temporarily becomes white when he unlocks his Devil Trigger; it's an indication of overwhelming power. [[spoiler:By the end of the game, not only has Dante developed into a more heroic character, his control over his supernatural abilities has turned his hair completely and permanently white. The original Dante's iconic look is, in effect, a badge of honour that this Dante had to earn, and that he was originally not mature enough to appreciate any semblance of it back then.]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' has too many to count. For instance, early on in the game, you meet Orange Kid, who asks you to invest $50.00 in his inventions. All you get if you do it is a worthless music box that breaks after you use it. But after you defeat [[BigBad Giygas]], Orange Kid calls and says that someone invested millions in him, and makes fun of you if you didn't.

* At the start of the first chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', the doorknob on the front door of Flint's house comes off when Thomas tries to open it. He pockets it, only to later remark that he lost it if you talk to him. From then on, random [=NPC=]s throughout the story will mention having seen it if you talk to them, though it doesn't actually show up until the very last dungeon in the game, where it ends up falling off a cliff when you try to pick it up. [[spoiler:You finally manage to reclaim it in the game's ending, when it inexplicably turns up in the darkness you're left wandering prior to the credits roll.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space]]'':

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'':

** If you use Malik's Eternal Serenade to finish off the final boss of the main arc, he will claim that that will be the last time he will use that attack. Use it ''again'' in the future arc, and Sophie will call him out on it.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** At the beginning of the short "Meet the Medic", Medic finds his dove Archimedes digging around inside Heavy while he is operating on him. At the end of the short, after Medic operates on Scout and gives him his new heart, we find out the dove got stuck inside him.

%%* The UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''[[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Ricochet&pub=Firebird+Software+Ltd&year=1987&id=0004139&joy=kemp&game=/games/r/Ricochet.tap.zip&emu=3&aspect=3 Ricochet]]'' has a ridiculously long scroller which is notorious for a joke about a yellow brick. Click the link to read it in an online emulator (requires a Java-enabled browser).--Zero-Context Example

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'', at one point, Bayonetta and Enzo take a small plane to the sacred mountain of Fimbulventr. When they get close enough, Bayonetta bids him farewell and jumps out, at which point it is revealed that Bayonetta was controlling the plane with her magic, causing Enzo to panic because he has no idea how to fly or land the plane. In the epilogue, Bayonetta suddenly realizes she completely forgot about Enzo, then the plane flies into the area, under attack from evil angels and with Enzo desperately trying to keep it under control.

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronoPhantasma'', [[ChivalrousPervert Kagura]]'s match intro has him flirting with a random girl, then when he notices the opposing character, he tosses the girl into the air and begins the fight. A bit funny, yes? Gets better. If he wins the match, he outstretches his arms and the girl lands in them. If he ''loses'', the girl clumsily lands on him. Now, that is funny.

(after Romeo remains silent) '''Buck:''' Hey, Romeo! You got your ears on?\\

-->'''Shepard:''' If you told me this morning a toothbrush was going to save the Normandy, I would have been ''[[SeenItAll very skeptical]]''.

* In one scene of ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'', a commercial in the bar will say about a possible new report that zerglings are [[WeaksauceWeakness fatally allergic to lemon juice.]] Come ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'', the swarm's genetic database Abathur can make an off-handed comment about "Solving Zergling lemon juice allergy".

-->'''Scout:''' Oh man, you would not ''believe''... how much this hurts!\\

** During the reactor puzzle in ''Zero Time Dilemma'', Junpei worries that Akane will slip on the icy floor. She chides him for being patronizing...and several conversations later, guess what happens?

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** One of the CityGuards' [[WelcomeToCorneria random lines]] is "No lollygagging." During the quest "No One Escapes From Cidhna Mine", you meet an imprisoned orc named Borkul the Beast. He's in jail for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Murder, Banditry, Assault, Theft, and Lollygagging."]]
** An optional GameMod created to promote the Steam Workshop picks up a brick from a different ''franchise'': the Space Sphere from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' randomly crashes to earth in front of the PlayerCharacter outside Whiterun after an unknown amount of time drifting through space after Chell portaled it there with Wheatley.

* In ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', after meeting Cole, Marcus mentions that Dom still owes him 20 bucks from betting on a thrashball game that Cole played in. In ''Gears of War 3'', one of the very first collectibles is a $20 bill with an attached note from Dom apologizing for it being so late. Of course, without any kind of government left in the world, the money is worthless.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'':
*** The player can make a quick stop on the way to their HEV suit to go into a kitchen, play with a microwave, and blow up whatever was inside. Three games later in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'', almost ten years later real-life time and about twenty years later in-game time, Arne Magnusson tells the player that he might forgive them for the Black Mesa incident..."involving a certain microwave casserole."
*** A common phrase by the guards is "Catch me later, I'll buy you a beer". Later in Half-Life 2, you meet a former guard named Barney, and the first thing he says to you is "About that beer I owed you."
** Early in ''Half-Life 2'', mention is made of a cat that [[NoodleIncident was used in a teleport test; all we're told is that Barney still has nightmares about it]]. One in-game week later, Barney will stop in the middle of the rebellion to ask you "did you hear a cat just now? That damn thing haunts me!"

* ''Videogame/ManiacMansion'' in the kitchen, there's a chainsaw, but the programmers never got around to programming in the gasoline can it needs. The gasoline can shows up on the planet Mars in ''VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders'', a SpiritualSuccessor game which was also created by Creator/LucasArts.
** And many, many years later, Terrible Toybox (including ''Maniac Mansion'' and ''Zak [=McKracken=]'' designer Ron Gilbert) released ''VideoGame/ThimbleweedPark'', in which you can get a chainsaw early on, ''and'' later find a gas can, finally bringing the two together!

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': The third game in particular uses a ''lot'' of references to the first two for punchlines.
** In the Upper Wards Market in [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]], there's a human talking to a turian shopkeeper about a refund. The turian repeatedly refuses to grant the refund on grounds that the customer doesn't have a proof of purchase. Later on in [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the second game]], he's outside a warehouse, still asking for his refund and still not getting it. [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 After 5 years and 3 games]], Shepard finally has the choice to finish the guy's quest once and for all. It turns out it was for [[spoiler:a toaster that cost 15 credits...]]
** In the second game, Mordin has a throwaway line about how the cyanide pills hidden in teeth apparently issued to Cerberus agents are inefficient, with "ocular nerve flashbangs" being more effective at preventing a captured agent from being interrogated. [[YourHeadASplode Cut to the Alliance attempting to interrogate a captured Cerberus agent in the third game...]]

** In ''2'', Joker makes a crack about Garrus, who turned VigilanteMan between games, having "taken the stick out of his ass and started beating people with it." Come ''3'', you can run into him and Garrus trading jokes about each other's respective species, and that wisecrack is now the punchline to "How do you know a turian is out of ammo?"
--->'''Garrus:''' Come on, that one's as old as Shanxi.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'':
** During the first Bowser segment, a Hammer Brother idly chats about how he saw Bowser mooning over a photo of Princess Peach. In the next segment, Bowser locates Princess Peach in a village and starts making romantic talk to her, only to find out that it's a life-sized poster of her.

** Just when Grodus has Mario at his mercy, [[spoiler:Bowser's weight causes him to fall through the ceiling above and he lands on Grodus, temporarily removing him from play (before proceeding to fight Mario himself).]] Later, in the final chapter of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', [[spoiler:Bowser is seemingly crushed by a falling ceiling while protecting Peach and the Mario Bros., but during the fight with Count Bleck, once again when all hope seems lost, [[DisneyDeath he turns up alive with Peach and Luigi (who had also seemingly died earlier)]] and reveals that once again he fell through the floor.]]

** Back in ''Persona 3 FES'', Elizabeth mentions during a date to a nightclub that she's interested in turning the Velvet Room into one. Come ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'', this is the appearance the Velvet Room takes during the game.

** In the original ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo1992'', during the cutscene before fighting Satan (Dark Prince), Arle [[AccidentalMisnaming accidentally calls him "Santa"]]. In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTsu'', she correctly addresses Satan by his name this time, but Satan himself flips the joke on its head by dressing up as Santa.

* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'':
** In the first episode, "Homestar Ruiner", the episode begins with Strong Bad getting an email asking why he hasn't "beat the snot" out of Homestar yet. Strong Bad thinks it's a good idea, but he gets sidetracked by his plan to beat Homestar in the big Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race. In the endgame, after Homestar is knocked out of a window along with a number of other uninvited guests in Strong Bad's house, he yells "Ow, my snot!"
** Here's a BrickJoke that spans multiple games: In the episode "8-Bit Is Enough", Strong Bad states the Sticklyman is the "secret hidden boss" of ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6''. In the credits of said game, Sticklyman ''does'' in fact appear as a BonusBoss!

* A massive [[PlayedForDrama serious]] brick from [[VideoGame/Yakuza1 the first]] ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' game returns in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4,'' when [[spoiler:Hamazaki shows Kiryu that the ten billion [[FakingAndEntering 'stolen']] from Tojo HQ was originally meant to go to [[PrivateProfitPrison Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', [[spoiler:the event that {{foreshadow|ing}}s the identity of the BigBad is styled like one.]]

* The UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''[[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Ricochet&pub=Firebird+Software+Ltd&year=1987&id=0004139&joy=kemp&game=/games/r/Ricochet.tap.zip&emu=3&aspect=3 Ricochet]]'' has a ridiculously long scroller which is notorious for a joke about a yellow brick. Click the link to read it in an online emulator (requires a Java-enabled browser).

* The first mission of ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' is freeing a servant from her master so she can get married to a friend of Garret's. In the third mission, where you are sneaking into a police station, you can find the manor lord filing a missing person report for the servant you snuck out.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': In the first hours of play, the party finds a mansion with a maze in the front garden, and a servant trapped inside. Half playthrough later, [[spoiler:after the time-skip]], there is a soldier now.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'': Asbel never gets to cleaning his desk. Ever.

* At the beginning of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' short "Meet the Medic", Medic finds his dove Archimedes digging around inside Heavy while he is operating on him. At the end of the short, after Medic operates on Scout and gives him his new heart, we find out the dove got stuck inside him.

** This itself was the punchline of another brick joke, where the week when the Medic update started, Scouts would randomly have doves fly out of them if they got gibbed with no explanation.

* Combined with {{inverted|Trope}} ChekhovsNews in ''VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe''. The combat portion of the JustifiedTutorial consists of you fighting off a group of target drones that went haywire while you were evaluating a novice flight instructor. A news item later in the game reveals that the instructor went on to save the lives of her students when the same thing happened again.

* In ''VideoGame/AWitchsTale'', Babayaga hits Liddell on the head early on. At the end of the first playthrough, it turns out that this caused her to dream the whole adventure.
* A massive [[PlayedForDrama serious]] brick from [[VideoGame/Yakuza1 the first]] ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' game returns in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4,'' when [[spoiler:Hamazaki shows Kiryu that the ten billion [[FakingAndEntering 'stolen']] from Tojo HQ was originally meant to go to [[PrivateProfitPrison Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2]]]].

* In "Homestar Ruiner", the first episode of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', the episode begins with Strong Bad getting an email asking why he hasn't "beat the snot" out of Homestar yet. Strong Bad thinks it's a good idea, but he gets sidetracked by his plan to beat Homestar in the big Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race. In the endgame, after Homestar is knocked out of a window along with a number of other uninvited guests in Strong Bad's house, he yells "Ow, my snot!"
* ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'':
** The game has [[spoiler:Silver throwing cars at you for him being a moron because [[TooDumbToLive of him thinking you're an impostor]]. At the end, the cars he threw at you land on '''him''' when he's defeated]].
** Also, at the very start of the game, Sonic's [[TrademarkFavoriteFood birthday chili dog]] gets sucked up by the time rift that kicks off the plot. The very first thing that happens in the ending? Sonic catches the falling chili dog and joyfully notes that it's still warm because [[TimeyWimeyBall he hasn't been gone for long in the real world]].

* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' has over a hundred Hint Markers (some not even Hints, but random trivia or [[ThrowItIn possible adlibbing]] from Creator/BruceCampbell), one of them says that, after every last one is collected, every marker will say "something different". Once you do... [[spoiler:they all ''{{literal|Minded}}ly'' say "Something Different".]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShinSuperRobotWars'', Boss is about the only one whose machine wasn't somehow handed down by the family, but Kouji observes that the Boss Borot is [[JokeCharacter mainly just in the way]]. Boss takes umbrage at this, but with his lackeys in tow, he plans to one day build the Boss Borot into one hell of a machine. Later on, Mucha shows up piloting the Borot, claiming that he's taken it without telling Boss, entitled by all the hard work he put in. He's not too worried about reprisals from Boss, who is unlikely to be able to follow all the way to space, and has even installed a Map Weapon! It also turns out that the Boss Borot's map weapon, though powerful, is totally impossible to aim.
* In one scene of ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'', a commercial in the bar will say about a possible new report that zerglings are [[WeaksauceWeakness fatally allergic to lemon juice.]] Come ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'', the swarm's genetic database Abathur can make an off-handed comment about "Solving Zergling lemon juice allergy".
* In ''VideoGame/SheepDogNWolf'', [[spoiler:on Level 13, you shoot a sheep into outer space with a cannon. After Level 14, Marvin the Martian arrives to complain that a flying sheep broke his water tank.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space]]'':
** The second episode, "Moai Better Blues", has the duo trying to prevent Easter Island from being destroyed by a volcano. They do this by [[ItMakesSenseInContext getting the Bermuda Triangle to stop in front of the volcano]] and let lava flow into it. At the end of the final episode "What's New, Beelzebub?", [[spoiler:the Soda Poppers]] are stranded on an island in the middle of a lava flow swearing revenge, saying they will return. Immediately, the Bermuda Triangle reappears and douses them with lava.
** In the fourth episode, "Chariots of the Dogs", Sam and Max travel through time and visit their office in the near future. Sam finds the control for the Boxing Betty doll and picks it up. When he does that, his future self calls from the street below and offers to trade the control for an egg. After the exchange, present Sam says "Thanks. Be you later." In the fifth episode, "What's New, Beelzebub?", Sam calls up to their office, attracts the attention of his past self, and makes the exchange.
** In "Night of the Raving Dead", Sam finds an ink ribbon in Jurgen's castle in Germany. The item is never used. In the following episode, "Chariots of the Dogs", Sam has to remove an ink ribbon while on a time-travelling spaceship. After he does so, he drops it into a time portal. The crew member watching him says that's a bad idea, but the ink ribbon only went back to a German castle the previous month.
* ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'': After murdering Sixpence, Two Diamonds complains about the absence of Seven Clubs. Much later you can find out what Seven Clubs is actually doing - [[spoiler: he's playing piano for Tequila, and perfectly happy he's not anywhere near the chapel.]]
* During the first few hours of play of ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', the PDA claims that planet 4546B is the property of the MegaCorp the player works for, and that he owes them money for every bit of the resources mined and used, with the tab standing at three million credits. Come the end game, in the {{Stinger}} after the credit roll, [[spoiler: the player has escaped the planet and made it back to Earth, and is told that the s/he would only be granted permission to land after the debt is settled, which now stands at ''one trillion credits'']].
* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'', a conversation between [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Chrom]] and the ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' cast has the latter group note that Chrom's fighting style is [[MovesetClone far too similar]] to Ike's for him to be a worthwhile addition to the game's roster, with Viridi and Palutena teasing him for his appearance being limited to Robin's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]]. [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Four years later]], Chrom would end up as a full-fledged fighter, albeit as an "[[InsistentTerminology echo fighter]]" of Roy rather than Ike. Though he does receive Ike's Aether recovery move, something that Palutena mocked him for not having in the fourth game.
* Master Ov gave us an unintentional Brick Joke in {{Videogame/Slitherio}}: At [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KYBL6yPYw&t=150s 2:30 in this video]], a small Minecraft snake misses an opportunity to take out a huge snake, enraging Master Ov. At [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KYBL6yPYw&t=655s 10:55]], raging about another small snake's failure to take out another huge snake, Master Ov spots Minecraft in the perfect position to help Master Ov take that huge skin out. Minecraft comes through.
* During one of Alex's early heart events in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', he confides to you that [[spoiler:his father was abusive and his mother died]], then tries to lighten the mood by taunting his dog Dusty with a steak. If you pursue him to his 10-heart event, he asks you on a date to the Saloon... and orders steak. Cue Dusty charging through the window.
** In addition, if you satisfy the Trash Bear's demands, it takes a ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''-esque flight around town, magically cleaning up litter and debris... and dropping a steak into Dusty's pen.

* Here's a BrickJoke that spans multiple games: In the ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' episode "8-Bit Is Enough", Strong Bad states the Sticklyman is the "secret hidden boss" of ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6''. In the credits of said game, Sticklyman ''does'' in fact appear as a BonusBoss!

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'', when Franchise/SpiderMan talks with ComicBook/LukeCage about ending the gang violence in Harlem, he mentions that, growing up in the relatively peaceful Queens, he probably wouldn't have any idea what it was like on the streets. Later, when arranging a meeting between the rival gang leaders, this exchange occurs.
-->'''Spider-Man''': Now, be there, or be square.\\
'''Gang leader''': "Be square"?! Are you from Queens or something?
* The first mission of ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' is freeing a servant from her master so she can get married to a friend of Garret's. In the third mission, where you are sneaking into a police station, you can find the manor lord filing a missing person report for the servant you snuck out.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': In the first hours of play, the party finds a mansion with a maze in the front garden, and a servant trapped inside. Half playthrough later, [[spoiler:after the time-skip]], there is a soldier now.
* Very early in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', the Announcer discusses what to do in the event of an animal king ruling over humanity, and an accompanying video screen shows it acted out with a massive leopard-print turret wearing a crown. [[spoiler:Then in the finale with the turret opera, you can see the animal-king turret singing in the background, every bit as massive, and even wearing the crown.]]
** One of the things mentioned by the Announcer is the fact that "All Aperture Science Personality Constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low-power environments of as few as 1.1 volts." This becomes important when [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] is transferred to a potato battery, which is determined to generate only 1.1 volts of electricity.]]
** You can also briefly spot an unusually wide turret in an elevator early on, then see it a short while later in a hidden room next to a pair of singing turrets. [[spoiler:Turns out it's [[BrawnHilda the lead singer]] for the aforementioned turret opera.]]
** You hear a recording of Cave Johnson talking to his test subjects about the moon, the moon rocks he bought, crushed into dust and used in his experiments, [[spoiler:how the moon rock dust he breathed in gave him cancer]], and the special portal-able properties of the moon rock dust slurry he used to paint the walls of his test chambers. Much later, at the very end of the game, [[spoiler:during the climactic boss fight against Wheatley, the facility is shaking itself to pieces. A hole opens up in the roof. Through the hole, somehow, despite being hundreds of feet underground, Chell can see... the Moon. Which is, of course, covered in the one and only substance the Portal Gun can attach portals to. There is one remaining spot of portal-able floor, directly underneath Wheatley. Hilarity ensues.]]
** Every bit of dialogue in the Perpetual Testing Initiative references something from the game proper. It even has a black comedy version of its own, where early on you are asked by a sickly boy to continue testing to help him find a cure, then (much) later Cave Prime chimes in to tell you that they had kept tabs on that universe just to find out what happened to the kid. The fact that the kid died didn't even faze Cave.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'': Asbel never gets to cleaning his desk. Ever.
** If you use Malik's Eternal Serenade to finish off the final boss of the main arc, he will claim that that will be the last time he will use that attack. Use it ''again'' in the future arc, and Sophie will call him out on it.
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'', [[DeadpanSnarker Qualstio]] complains about [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn the fanfare that plays when characters join the guild]]. Much later on, another character comments on it after joining, to the confusion of everyone else.
* In "Homestar Ruiner", the first episode of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', the episode begins with Strong Bad getting an email asking why he hasn't "beat the snot" out of Homestar yet. Strong Bad thinks it's a good idea, but he gets sidetracked by his plan to beat Homestar in the big Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race. In the endgame, after Homestar is knocked out of a window along with a number of other uninvited guests in Strong Bad's house, he yells "Ow, my snot!"
* ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'':
** The game has [[spoiler:Silver throwing cars at you for him being a moron because [[TooDumbToLive of him thinking you're an impostor]]. At the end, the cars he threw at you land on '''him''' when he's defeated]].
** Also, at the very start of the game, Sonic's [[TrademarkFavoriteFood birthday chili dog]] gets sucked up by the time rift that kicks off the plot. The very first thing that happens in the ending? Sonic catches the falling chili dog and joyfully notes that it's still warm because [[TimeyWimeyBall he hasn't been gone for long in the real world]].
* At the beginning of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' short "Meet the Medic", Medic finds his dove Archimedes digging around inside Heavy while he is operating on him. At the end of the short, after Medic operates on Scout and gives him his new heart, we find out the dove got stuck inside him.
-->'''Scout:''' Oh man, you would not ''believe''... how much this hurts!\\
''[a bird's cooing sound emits from the Scout's chest]''\\
'''Medic:''' ...Archimedes?
** This itself was the punchline of another brick joke, where the week when the Medic update started, Scouts would randomly have doves fly out of them if they got gibbed with no explanation.
** In what can be considered a ludicrously long-planned brick joke, there were raid boss strings added during the first Halloween update, followed not long after by strings that gave items RPG-like stat bonuses, and references to Robots during the Mannconomy Update. Initially, these were added in the updates because people could figure out what a future update would be by simply reading the strings, which were named in reference to what they were (like weapon names or stats). Most people forgot about these until, ''years later'', these were implemented in the Mann Vs Machine Update (which featured robots, upgradable weapons, and full-on Raid Bosses).
** In December 2009, the game got the ''WAR! Update'', and the update page told the story about Poopy Joe, the monkey that was going to be sent into space, but the rocket crashed and he died, and the weapons company Mann Co. denies having anything to do with it, but in June 2012, the Pyromania update was released, and before that there was an ARG telling more about the true story, how the rocket was sabotaged, with the fuel replaced with explosives, and the update debuted the Doomsday map, where the two teams have to compete on who delivers the fuel briefcase to the rocket first, and the match always ends with the rocket crashing.
* Combined with {{inverted|Trope}} ChekhovsNews in ''VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe''. The combat portion of the JustifiedTutorial consists of you fighting off a group of target drones that went haywire while you were evaluating a novice flight instructor. A news item later in the game reveals that the instructor went on to save the lives of her students when the same thing happened again.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' has over a hundred Hint Markers (some not even Hints, but random trivia or [[ThrowItIn possible adlibbing]] from Creator/BruceCampbell), one of them says that, after every last one is collected, every marker will say "something different". Once you do... [[spoiler:they all ''{{literal|Minded}}ly'' say "Something Different".]]
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', during the first Bowser segment, a Hammer Brother idly chats about how he saw Bowser mooning over a photo of Princess Peach. In the next segment, Bowser locates Princess Peach in a village and starts making romantic talk to her, only to find out that it's a life-sized poster of her.

** Also in this game: Just when Grodus has Mario at his mercy, [[spoiler:Bowser's weight causes him to fall through the ceiling above and he lands on Grodus, temporarily removing him from play (before proceeding to fight Mario himself).]] Later, in the final chapter of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', [[spoiler:Bowser is seemingly crushed by a falling ceiling while protecting Peach and the Mario Bros., but during the fight with Count Bleck, once again when all hope seems lost, [[DisneyDeath he turns up alive with Peach and Luigi (who had also seemingly died earlier)]] and reveals that once again he fell through the floor.]]

* The UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game [[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Ricochet&pub=Firebird+Software+Ltd&year=1987&id=0004139&joy=kemp&game=/games/r/Ricochet.tap.zip&emu=3&aspect=3 Ricochet]] has a ridiculously long scroller which is notorious for a joke about a yellow brick. Click the link to read it in an online emulator (requires a Java-enabled browser).
* In ''VideoGame/ShinSuperRobotWars'', Boss is about the only one whose machine wasn't somehow handed down by the family, but Kouji observes that the Boss Borot is [[JokeCharacter mainly just in the way]]. Boss takes umbrage at this, but with his lackeys in tow, he plans to one day build the Boss Borot into one hell of a machine. Later on, Mucha shows up piloting the Borot, claiming that he's taken it without telling Boss, entitled by all the hard work he put in. He's not too worried about reprisals from Boss, who is unlikely to be able to follow all the way to space, and has even installed a Map Weapon! It also turns out that the Boss Borot's map weapon, though powerful, is totally impossible to aim.
* In one scene of ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'', a commercial in the bar will say about a possible new report that zerglings are [[WeaksauceWeakness fatally allergic to lemon juice.]] Come ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'', the swarm's genetic database Abathur can make an off-handed comment about "Solving Zergling lemon juice allergy".
* In ''VideoGame/SheepDogNWolf'', [[spoiler:on Level 13, you shoot a sheep into outer space with a cannon. After Level 14, Marvin the Martian arrives to complain that a flying sheep broke his water tank.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has several:
** After you give the quest to Johnny Awesome, you find his Celestial Steed dead.
** Kingslayer Orkus. You give him the quest, and an NPC wonders if he'll drown. Sure enough, you will find him drowning in shallow water.
** In Thousand Needles, you rescue pridelings from someone who had captured them. [[AndroclesLion They follow you around for a little while because you rescued them]], but then they leave. At the end of the story arc, you confront the {{Jerkass}} who captured the pridelings. Once he's lowered to enough health, the pridelings reappear, swarm him, carry him over a cliff, and then drop him.
** In Upper Blackrock Spire players fought a core hound called The Beast. Six years later another dungeon set in the same mountain had players fight a core hound called Beauty, confirmed to be the Beast's mate.
** In ''Warlords of Draenor'', soon after passing through the Dark Portal, you encounter Kargath Bladefist, who traps you and your party in an arena and tasks you with killing one hundred of his minions, much like Kargath himself killed 100 gladiators in a bid for his freedom. But you only kill 99 of them before Khadgar leads your party out into the next area. (Khadgar's response: "Then I guess we owe you one.") Ten levels later, in Highmaul, you enter another arena, and Kargath Bladefist is back (and he is angry that you cheated him out of a fight). Then when you defeat him, his last words are "And that's...one hundred."
* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' has many, most of them subtle in-jokes.
*** The most obvious one being Phi's "man" speech at the start of the game. Not only does she repeat it right at the end of the game in the [[spoiler:"another time" branch to "Kyle"]], but she also uses the punchline, "I am no man", at another time in the middle of the game in response to Dio's words.
*** There's also when Phi jokes to Sigma in one of the timelines about him seeing her in a swimsuit, just before [[spoiler:they're all killed by a bomb]]. In another timeline, Sigma recalls information from this timeline, and brings up Phi's "promise" of swimsuit "action". This is also a brick joke to one of the hidden files, which is labled "swimsuit" and mentions how "Sigma, or the author, seems to be unusually obsessed with swimsuits".
** During the reactor puzzle in ''Zero Time Dilemma'', Junpei worries that Akane will slip on the icy floor. She chides him for being patronizing...and several conversations later, guess what happens?
* In ''VideoGame/AWitchsTale'', Babayaga hits Liddell on the head early on. At the end of the first playthrough, it turns out that this caused her to dream the whole adventure.
* Though not employing a literal brick, this example explores the consequences of what one might expect a brick to do when thrown into the air. The first ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' foreshadows the Antwerp as a fearsome monster, but when encountered by the player, this creature appears to be a harmless, perpetually bouncing blob with a head. If the character tries to attack the creature, it will bounce away into the sky... only to appear later, after the player has moved to another screen, to instantly crush the character to death.
* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space]]'':
** The second episode, "Moai Better Blues", has the duo trying to prevent Easter Island from being destroyed by a volcano. They do this by [[ItMakesSenseInContext getting the Bermuda Triangle to stop in front of the volcano]] and let lava flow into it. At the end of the final episode "What's New, Beelzebub?", [[spoiler:the Soda Poppers]] are stranded on an island in the middle of a lava flow swearing revenge, saying they will return. Immediately, the Bermuda Triangle reappears and douses them with lava.
** In the fourth episode, "Chariots of the Dogs", Sam and Max travel through time and visit their office in the near future. Sam finds the control for the Boxing Betty doll and picks it up. When he does that, his future self calls from the street below and offers to trade the control for an egg. After the exchange, present Sam says "Thanks. Be you later." In the fifth episode, "What's New, Beelzebub?", Sam calls up to their office, attracts the attention of his past self, and makes the exchange.
** In "Night of the Raving Dead", Sam finds an ink ribbon in Jurgen's castle in Germany. The item is never used. In the following episode, "Chariots of the Dogs", Sam has to remove an ink ribbon while on a time-travelling spaceship. After he does so, he drops it into a time portal. The crew member watching him says that's a bad idea, but the ink ribbon only went back to a German castle the previous month.

* ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'': After murdering Sixpence, Two Diamonds complains about the absence of Seven Clubs. Much later you can find out what Seven Clubs is actually doing - [[spoiler: he's playing piano for Tequila, and perfectly happy he's not anywhere near the chapel.]]
* During the first few hours of play of ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', the PDA claims that planet 4546B is the property of the MegaCorp the player works for, and that he owes them money for every bit of the resources mined and used, with the tab standing at three million credits. Come the end game, in the {{Stinger}} after the credit roll, [[spoiler: the player has escaped the planet and made it back to Earth, and is told that the s/he would only be granted permission to land after the debt is settled, which now stands at ''one trillion credits'']].

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series:
** In the original ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo1992'', during the cutscene before fighting Satan (Dark Prince), Arle [[AccidentalMisnaming accidentally calls him "Santa"]]. In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTsu'', she correctly addresses Satan by his name this time, but Satan himself flips the joke on its head by dressing up as Santa.
** During Arle's course in ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyoSun SUN]]'', she encounters Zoh Daimaoh as one of the opponents. Due to the excessive heat, he becomes so mad that he burns a hole into the ground. Come Schezo's course and Zoh pops out of the hole, only to create '''another''' hole out of rage due to Schezo mistaking him for a demon.
** A more meta example appears in the English version of ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris''. During one cutscene in Chapter 3, Amitie and Ess talk in a "lady-like" fashion in order to get materials for the Tetra's repairs. Amitie notes that the next time they talk like that, they should roll their Rs more. Amitie's alt voice in the game is the same "lady-like" voice, but now with her rolling her Rs for certain words.

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'', when Franchise/SpiderMan talks with ComicBook/LukeCage about ending the gang violence in Harlem, he mentions that, growing up in the relatively peaceful Queens, he probably wouldn't have any idea what it was like on the streets. Later, when arranging a meeting between the rival gang leaders, this exchange occurs.
-->'''Spider-Man''': Now, be there, or be square.\\
'''Gang leader''': "Be square"?! Are you from Queens or something?
* The first mission of ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' is freeing a servant from her master so she can get married to a friend of Garret's. In the third mission, where you are sneaking into a police station, you can find the manor lord filing a missing person report for the servant you snuck out.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': In the first hours of play, the party finds a mansion with a maze in the front garden, and a servant trapped inside. Half playthrough later, [[spoiler:after the time-skip]], there is a soldier now.
* Very early in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', the Announcer discusses what to do in the event of an animal king ruling over humanity, and an accompanying video screen shows it acted out with a massive leopard-print turret wearing a crown. [[spoiler:Then in the finale with the turret opera, you can see the animal-king turret singing in the background, every bit as massive, and even wearing the crown.]]
** One of the things mentioned by the Announcer is the fact that "All Aperture Science Personality Constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low-power environments of as few as 1.1 volts." This becomes important when [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] is transferred to a potato battery, which is determined to generate only 1.1 volts of electricity.]]
** You can also briefly spot an unusually wide turret in an elevator early on, then see it a short while later in a hidden room next to a pair of singing turrets. [[spoiler:Turns out it's [[BrawnHilda the lead singer]] for the aforementioned turret opera.]]
** You hear a recording of Cave Johnson talking to his test subjects about the moon, the moon rocks he bought, crushed into dust and used in his experiments, [[spoiler:how the moon rock dust he breathed in gave him cancer]], and the special portal-able properties of the moon rock dust slurry he used to paint the walls of his test chambers. Much later, at the very end of the game, [[spoiler:during the climactic boss fight against Wheatley, the facility is shaking itself to pieces. A hole opens up in the roof. Through the hole, somehow, despite being hundreds of feet underground, Chell can see... the Moon. Which is, of course, covered in the one and only substance the Portal Gun can attach portals to. There is one remaining spot of portal-able floor, directly underneath Wheatley. Hilarity ensues.]]
** Every bit of dialogue in the Perpetual Testing Initiative references something from the game proper. It even has a black comedy version of its own, where early on you are asked by a sickly boy to continue testing to help him find a cure, then (much) later Cave Prime chimes in to tell you that they had kept tabs on that universe just to find out what happened to the kid. The fact that the kid died didn't even faze Cave.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'': Asbel never gets to cleaning his desk. Ever.
** If you use Malik's Eternal Serenade to finish off the final boss of the main arc, he will claim that that will be the last time he will use that attack. Use it ''again'' in the future arc, and Sophie will call him out on it.
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'', [[DeadpanSnarker Qualstio]] complains about [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn the fanfare that plays when characters join the guild]]. Much later on, another character comments on it after joining, to the confusion of everyone else.
* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series is full of these. Throwaway lines like [[spoiler:"I can hold my breath for 10 minutes"]] can come back into play ''much'' later. We say "can" because sometimes a punchline is delivered after the player has been allowed to roam around freely.
** In the first act of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Elaine is about to punch Guybrush when she finds out the engagement ring he gave her is cursed, when the curse kicks in and she turns into a gold statue. Near the end of the game, Elaine is freed of the curse and finishes punching Guybrush.
** Also in ''Curse'', Guybrush sneaks aboard the Sea Monkey, but gets caught immediately. First mate Mr. Fossey says he can either walk the plank or be tarred and feathered. However, they only have enough tar to repair the ship if it gets wrecked, so Guybrush has to walk the plank. Guybrush cuts off the plank, forcing them to tar and feather him. After Guybrush wins the ship from them, he and his crew sail to Blood Island, where they crash. Haggis laments that the ship's stores of tar are depleted, making it impossible to repair the ship.
* In "Homestar Ruiner", the first episode of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', the episode begins with Strong Bad getting an email asking why he hasn't "beat the snot" out of Homestar yet. Strong Bad thinks it's a good idea, but he gets sidetracked by his plan to beat Homestar in the big Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race. In the endgame, after Homestar is knocked out of a window along with a number of other uninvited guests in Strong Bad's house, he yells "Ow, my snot!"

* ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'':
** The game has [[spoiler:Silver throwing cars at you for him being a moron because [[TooDumbToLive of him thinking you're an impostor]]. At the end, the cars he threw at you land on '''him''' when he's defeated]].
** Also, at the very start of the game, Sonic's [[TrademarkFavoriteFood birthday chili dog]] gets sucked up by the time rift that kicks off the plot. The very first thing that happens in the ending? Sonic catches the falling chili dog and joyfully notes that it's still warm because [[TimeyWimeyBall he hasn't been gone for long in the real world]].
* At the beginning of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' short "Meet the Medic", Medic finds his dove Archimedes digging around inside Heavy while he is operating on him. At the end of the short, after Medic operates on Scout and gives him his new heart, we find out the dove got stuck inside him.
-->'''Scout:''' Oh man, you would not ''believe''... how much this hurts!\\
''[a bird's cooing sound emits from the Scout's chest]''\\
'''Medic:''' ...Archimedes?
** This itself was the punchline of another brick joke, where the week when the Medic update started, Scouts would randomly have doves fly out of them if they got gibbed with no explanation.
** In what can be considered a ludicrously long-planned brick joke, there were raid boss strings added during the first Halloween update, followed not long after by strings that gave items RPG-like stat bonuses, and references to Robots during the Mannconomy Update. Initially, these were added in the updates because people could figure out what a future update would be by simply reading the strings, which were named in reference to what they were (like weapon names or stats). Most people forgot about these until, ''years later'', these were implemented in the Mann Vs Machine Update (which featured robots, upgradable weapons, and full-on Raid Bosses).
** In December 2009, the game got the ''WAR! Update'', and the update page told the story about Poopy Joe, the monkey that was going to be sent into space, but the rocket crashed and he died, and the weapons company Mann Co. denies having anything to do with it, but in June 2012, the Pyromania update was released, and before that there was an ARG telling more about the true story, how the rocket was sabotaged, with the fuel replaced with explosives, and the update debuted the Doomsday map, where the two teams have to compete on who delivers the fuel briefcase to the rocket first, and the match always ends with the rocket crashing.

* ''Videogame/ManiacMansion'' in the kitchen, there's a chainsaw, but the programmers never got around to programming in the gasoline can it needs. The gasoline can shows up on the planet Mars in ''VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders'', a SpiritualSuccessor game which was also created by Creator/LucasArts.
** And many, many years later, Terrible Toybox (including ''Maniac Mansion'' and ''Zak [=McKracken=]'' designer Ron Gilbert) released ''VideoGame/ThimbleweedPark'', in which you can get a chainsaw early on, ''and'' later find a gas can, finally bringing the two together!

* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', the second tutorial boss is the Junior Shrooboid, who is green. [[spoiler:Later in the game, the Elder Shrooboid, who is red, shows up as the last boss before the final boss rush. Unless you realize the series's Running Gag with green being younger than red, you're not going to realize that the Elder Shrooboid will exist, and you'll slowly start forgetting about this throughout the game, as most of the game is in between these two bosses.]]

* At the start of the first chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', the doorknob on the front door of Flint's house comes off when Thomas tries to open it. He pockets it, only to later remark that he lost it if you talk to him. From then on, random [=NPC=]s throughout the story will mention having seen it if you talk to them, though it doesn't actually show up until the very last dungeon in the game, where it ends up falling off a cliff when you try to pick it up. [[spoiler:You finally manage to reclaim it in the game's ending, when it inexplicably turns up in the darkness you're left wandering prior to the credits roll.]]
* In ''Lego City Undercover'', after you finish the Special Assignment "Smash 'N' Grab", one of Forrest Blackwell's sentinels is assigned to get after Chase on a tricycle. At the end of the cutscene after the final Assignment, he's just about to reach Chase... [[spoiler:but the iris out beats him to it]].

* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' has a rather sad one. An office worker in the PK building has had something of a HeelRealization and decided that the project to massacre the Runners, plus other things like the harsh working conditions and [[spoiler:"interrogating co-workers"]] isn't worth it and he's quitting. He sends an email with a long rant about his reasons; [[OhCrap said email is open on his computer when you enter the facility]]. [[spoiler:When you enter the depths of the facility later on, you find a corridor full of interrogation rooms. Inside one is an office worker, beaten and bloody.]]
* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'':
** During episode one, you choose a name for a SecretHandshake, with the message "No one will remember that." In episode four, when [[spoiler:Axel and the rest of the group split up]], Axel calls for the handshake again "for the road". Guess someone did remember after all.
** In Episode 1, you can create a Lever at the first Crafting Table. [[spoiler:If you have it by Episode 4, it's used to open the secret door behind the fireplace in Ivor's lair.]]
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' has a sad version with Roxas and the winner stick. He keeps forgetting to give the stick to Axel as a present, and later decides to wait until he gets a second one so Axel and Xion can both have one. [[spoiler:When he leaves the Organization, the last thing he does is give the winner stick to Axel]].
** In the final cutscene of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage A Fragmentary Passage]]'' (which also acts as the opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''), Goofy claims that [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Yen Sid]] always says "[[ArcWords May your heart be your guiding key]]" after sending someone off on a mission, which none of the other characters ever notice. When the characters return to the Mysterious Tower at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts III'''s prologue, they discover that Yen Sid really ''does'' say it, just under his breath.

* In VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition, [[spoiler:the event that {{foreshadow|ing}}s the identity of the BigBad is styled like one.]]

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has one heck of a Brick Joke. Near the beginning of the first game, after Isaac and Garet retrieve the Mars Star just before Mount Aleph erupts, the Wise One asks Isaac to hold it out so that he can cast some sort of psynergy on it. [[spoiler:What he had actually done was infuse Isaac and Garet with a little bit of the power of the Mars Star; thus, at the end of the second game, when they ignite the beacon atop the Mars Lighthouse, not all of its power goes into the creation of the Golden Sun, and Alex isn't able to steal that power for himself. The Wise One thinks of ''everything''.]]
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' has a few.
** The game begins with Karis telling Tyrell that Mars Adepts can't fly. Roughly two-thirds of the way through the game, you get a party member whose ''signature ability'' is Mars-based NotQuiteFlight. Karis's reaction isn't shown.
** Amiti, upon joining the party, is told to PleasePutSomeClothesOn. He [[LampshadeHanging wonders aloud]] if his [[WalkingShirtlessScene current attire]] is distracting, but is told that they're going to the mountains and it will be cold there, which sounds like a flimsy excuse at the time. Then you end up in snowy mountain village Te Rya, and sure enough, Amiti complains about the cold.
*** And even later on, when you rescue [[spoiler:Eoleo]], he takes one look at Amiti and remarks that it's the first time he's seen an Ayuthayan "wearing real clothes".
* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', Hector [=LeMans=] during Act 1 makes a guess that Manny will develop tulips should he get sprouted. Forward to near the end of Act 4, after Hector shoots Manny, his body slowly sprouts a blue tulip.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', the player can make a quick stop on the way to their HEV suit to go into a kitchen, play with a microwave, and blow up whatever was inside. Three games later in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'', almost ten years later real-life time and about twenty years later in-game time, Arne Magnusson tells the player that he might forgive them for the Black Mesa incident..."involving a certain microwave casserole."
** Early in ''Half-Life 2'', mention is made of a cat that [[NoodleIncident was used in a teleport test; all we're told is that Barney still has nightmares about it]]. One in-game week later, Barney will stop in the middle of the rebellion to ask you "did you hear a cat just now? That damn thing haunts me!"
*** Also in Half-Life 1, a common phrase by the guards is "Catch me later, I'll buy you a beer". Later in Half-Life 2, you meet a former guard named Barney, and the first thing he says to you is "About that beer I owed you."

* VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill: Washington calls G "Agent Gwendolyn" at the beginning of the "Carny" chapter; G doesn't protest until two chapters later after being kicked awake.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' has an example on [[Radio/GTARadio Chatterbox]]. A man calls in to talk about eating wildlife. At one point, he specifies eating pigeons saying "Sometimes, they come with little notes attached." Later, a woman calls into the station to promote her group which has been organized to ban phones from Liberty City. When Lazlow points out the irony of her using a phone to promote her anti-phone group, she mentions that they tried using carrier pigeons, but they keep disappearing.
** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'', one of the promotion missions for the nightclub has Lazlow send the player to pick up Poppy Mitchell and bring her to the club. However, they have to determine her location from her Snapmatic (think Instagram) posts since he's blocked on her Bleeter (think Website/{{Twitter}}). When you finally pick her up:
--->'''Poppy:''' I need a night out. I'm so sick of deleting all these assholes on Bleeter. If I wanted a picture of your junk, I would have asked for it.

* A bit of a meta example for the Bethesda-made ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games. In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' (released in 2008), the achievement for killing all 5 Super Mutant Behemoths is called "The Bigger They Are...". In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' (released in 2015), the name of the achievement for killing 5 Behemoths (or any other types of giant creatures for that matter) is "...The Harder They Fall."

* In ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' Buck tells [[DeadpanSnarker Romeo]] to shut up as a standing order after being irritated by his constant quipping in the opening cutscene. Romeo then invokes this trope in the second mission:
-->'''Buck:''' What the heck was that? You ever seen one before?\\
(after Romeo remains silent) '''Buck:''' Hey, Romeo! You got your ears on?\\
(Romeo shrugs)\\
'''Buck:''' Oh, I get it. Permission to speak, smart ass.

* In ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', after meeting Cole, Marcus mentions that Dom still owes him 20 bucks from betting on a thrashball game that Cole played in. In ''Gears of War 3'', one of the very first collectibles is a $20 bill with an attached note from Dom apologizing for it being so late. Of course, without any kind of government left in the world, the money is worthless.

* One can potentially occur in the final game in the ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'', "Completing the Mission". In the Executive/Ghost route, one of the options at the first choice is to make a Save State, which...ends badly. However, it causes a new option to appear at the end of the Thief/Ghost route: Load State...which sends you all the way back to that first choice.

* In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', Madison and Tara visit Eysenfeld in search of paranormal phenomena. Morgan, the person who invited them there, offer to show them something special, and Tara narrows it down to "a crashed UFO, the fountain of youth, or Elvis," hoping that it will be the latter. In the good ending, Abigail offers to show them something else, and Madison hopes that it will be Elvis this time, although Abigail doesn't know who Elvis is.

* In the first level of ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'', you launch a cow into the air. At a couple of points during play, you see that cow fly by [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]]. At the very end of the game, the cow lands on [[DamselInDistress Princess What's-Her-Name]]. The joke continues into [[WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim the animated series]], in which every episode ended with [[DropTheCow a cow dropping out of the sky and landing on a random person for no reason.]]
** The second game features the joke as an IdleAnimation; Jim throws a brick into the air, and it hits him in the head whenever he next begins to idle.

* Another Lucas Arts game from the classic point & click era, ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' has a puzzle involving clearing a minefield with an army of mechanical toy bunnies marching to their doom to the sound of Flight of the Valkyries. Once you've finished the game, if you wait until the end credits have wrapped up, you will be greeted by another army of the same bunnies, marching into the sunset to the same music.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' has too many to count. For instance, early on in the game, you meet Orange Kid, who asks you to invest $50.00 in his inventions. All you get if you do it is a worthless music box that breaks after you use it. But after you defeat [[BigBad Giygas]], Orange Kid calls and says that someone invested millions in him, and makes fun of you if you didn't.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** One of the CityGuards' [[WelcomeToCorneria random lines]] is "No lollygagging." During the quest "No One Escapes From Cidhna Mine", you meet an imprisoned orc named Borkul the Beast. He's in jail for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Murder, Banditry, Assault, Theft, and Lollygagging."]]
** An optional GameMod created to promote the Steam Workshop picks up a brick from a different ''franchise'': the Space Sphere from ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' randomly crashes to earth in front of the PlayerCharacter outside Whiterun after an unknown amount of time drifting through space after Chell portaled it there with Wheatley.

* In ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'', Carlos gets two: [[spoiler:when you first meet him, he rags on you for having apparently pilfered his glasses. Later, when rumor spreads through the Panopticon of a mole for a rival PT, he makes an offhanded remark about being a spy. Both times, he was brushed off by other Sinners for being a JerkAss as usual, only for Carlos to finally get his glasses back when he reveals that he's actually a spy from On High.]]

* In VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition, [[spoiler:the event that {{foreshadow|ing}}s the identity of the BigBad is styled like one.]]

* In ''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'', Riddick goes into Pigsville (the guards' living quarters) through an entry point in the shower room. Later in the game, you can overhear two guards complaining that the showers are closed because of this.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', one scene begins with the protagonists at home, eating fresh pears. Shirou asks if they should offer some to their roommate, Rider, but Sakura replies that if she wants any she can walk down the hallway and get them herself. Their conversation turns to something else, occasionally noting the status of the pears (Saber is concerned about how many are left, a recently-homesick Rin is eating more than she said she would, etc), and about ''half an hour'' of talking later, Rider unexpectedly interrupts to offer her own opinion. She leaves, after which Saber realizes that she took the pears with her.
* ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'': As a part of a puzzle, Hoagie needs to give a tentacle diagram to Betsy Ross in the past to turn the American flag into a tentacle-shaped one so Laverne can use the American flag as a disguise in the BadFuture. [[spoiler:When Bernard asserts everything is back to normal after Purple Tentacle is defeated, the credits begin to play as a [[CloseEnoughTimeline tentacle flag billows in the wind]].]]

* Near the beginning of the storyline of ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', a skeletal minion by the name of Chuckles is one of the very first victims of the BigBad, Drakath. The player base, who rather liked the little guy, launched a "Save Chuckles" campaign that ultimately succeeded in bringing back his skull. Two years and eight Chaos Lords later, Chuckles returns in a manner most awesome during the Doomwood saga. [[spoiler:At the end of the Shadowfall War, just when things are looking grim for Empress Gravelyn and the heroes, Chuckles, who is revealed to have been Gravelyn's very first creation, knocks Noxus right off the Shadowscythe throne and frees Gravelyn, who promptly takes back control of her undead army from him so that the heroes can kick Noxus' ass. And in the aftermath of Noxus' defeat, Gravelyn gives Chuckles a promotion -- by switching his skull with that of Noxus!]]

* Case 2 of ''VideoGame/{{Ben Jordan|ParanormalInvestigator}}'' has a prospector lend Ben his car, which proceeds to get destroyed. When the case ends, the prospector asks "Has anyone seen my car?". Cue OhCrap.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' side-quest "Getting to Know Jack", you track down a series of audio logs detailing Handsome Jack's rise to power as CEO of Hyperion Corporation. In one of these, he strangles an underling for [[BerserkButton bringing up Jack's late wife]], and makes a note to his lackey Mr. Blake on the difference between choking and strangling. In the last audio log, the then-president of Hyperion claims to be unafraid of Jack's blackmail attempts, to which Handsome Jack responds "Maybe you could clear something up for me... [[PreMortemOneLiner do you know the difference between choking and strangulation]]?"
** Play the DLC ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' and get hit by this brick: the main quest line involves saving a queen; however, most of the characters from the original game get folded into Tina's story before the queen is found. So who can the queen be? [[spoiler:In the beginning of the game, when the campaign is just beginning, Handsome Jack mocks the player, belittling their chances - and, over the course of the mockery, talking about how he's going to buy a pony literally made of diamonds; he decides to name it ''Butt Stallion'' in honor of the player. Many levels later, having battled through Dragon Keep, you'll finally meet your queen - Butt Stallion, the diamond pony.]]

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronoPhantasma'', [[ChivalrousPervert Kagura]]'s match intro has him flirting with a random girl, then when he notices the opposing character, he tosses the girl into the air and begins the fight. A bit funny, yes? Gets better. If he wins the match, he outstretches his arms and the girl lands in them. If he ''loses'', the girl clumsily lands on him. Now, that is funny.
** Oh yeah, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill GOLDEN TAGER X]]. Both seen in Tager's gag reels and as [[spoiler:Kokonoe's Over-Distort]].
* In ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'', most players leave the faucet on in the basement in Ireland. When George recounts his experiences to Nico, he mentions having to help bail out the basement because [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "Some idiot left the faucet on."]]

* In ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen V: The Armageddon Machine'', there is a secret level late in the game called the Korath III Base. It can be completed via an elaborate series of platform puzzles; however, near the start of the level there is also a hidden fuse. If the player breaks this fuse, the level immediately ends, and Keen says "I wonder what that fuse was for...". Later, at the end of the game, after defeating the final boss, some text appears describing the aftermath of the game. If the player broke the fuse, then instead of describing how the Shikadi escaped back to their own galaxy, the text reads: "Due to a freak fuse malfunction, they cannot take off and are arrested by the Korath III police for double-parking."

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'', at one point, Bayonetta and Enzo take a small plane to the sacred mountain of Fimbulventr. When they get close enough, Bayonetta bids him farewell and jumps out, at which point it is revealed that Bayonetta was controlling the plane with her magic, causing Enzo to panic because he has no idea how to fly or land the plane. In the epilogue, Bayonetta suddenly realizes she completely forgot about Enzo, then the plane flies into the area, under attack from evil angels and with Enzo desperately trying to keep it under control.

* In the intro for ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', it's stated that Cuphead and Mugman found The Devil's casino "on the WrongSideOfTheTracks". At the end of the game, you need to fight the Phantom Express to get to the casino, meaning that it's ''literally'' on the wrong side of the tracks.

* ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'': "A Book And Its Cover" has two exits, each blocked by a wall of cubes, as well as a red disintegrator field preventing you from directly taking out the cubes. Each wall has a nearby small alcove with cubes, visibly connected to it as they are from the same color as the wall's. If the player has completely understood the green gun's properties, he will realise he's expected to connect the cubes from the two alcoves, then break it: since one of the walls (the one with red cubes) is visibly smaller than the other, its side of the chain will disappear. However, when doing so, the larger wall with green cubes will be the one that disappears, which seemingly goes against the green gun's rules. At the other side of the green wall, a sign says "If you are missing information, it's easy to be mislead", which at that moment doesn't have an obvious meaning. ''Much'' later, once the player has acquired the red gun, it's possible to come back to the puzzle and get rid of the red wall using the red gun's properties. Unexpectedly, when doing so, what seemed to be a small wall of red cubes is actually a ''huge'' pile of cubes which will take several seconds to make disappear. The green gun had worked properly the first time, it's just that the game was lying in regards to which wall was smaller...

* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' has a few:
** In Chapter 7, Anonymous accidentally drops the Google Gem off the side of the flying ship. Much later, in the epilogue, he finally “finds” it again. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No, he totally didn’t just buy a new one, shut up.]]
** After the Gatekeeper’s house is ransacked by Social Justice Warriors, he sends you on a quest to replace a broken table. In the ending, you run across an SJW who loves smashing tables, “the most privileged kind of furniture.”
** When you first reach Wikipedia, many citizens have been displaced by foreign visitors. One man’s apartment is overrun by Anons from 4chan. If you return there in the epilogue, all the Anons have left… except one.
---> '''4chan Anon:''' I told you, Wikipedia is ours!
---> '''Owner:''' Should I call an exterminator?
** In the Chapter 6 fake-out credits, the cast list includes a random bear the developers saw. Much later, in the “special thanks” section of the real credits, that same bear is listed ''again''.

* The promotional pre-release videos for ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' contain one: in the September 2020 "Postcards from Night City" video, surveillance footage shows two gangbangers take a woman hostage. In the October 2020 "2077 in Style" video, the same woman is shown, again in surveillance footage, killing those two gangbangers with the [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Mantis Blades cyberweapon]], much to the amusement of a TV show host.
--> '''TV Show Host:''' Look at the moves on this girl! Slicin'em up like sashimi!

* At the very beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', Jesse makes a metaphor involving "that prison movie" where a guy hides a secret passage behind a poster. Many hours of gameplay later, immediately upon beginning the postgame content, she remembers it was called ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''.

** [[spoiler: Really, Henry's very presence in the first game is a giant BrickJoke of its own, as despite killing the fifth-ranked assassin and immediately challenging Travis to a duel, it's interrupted by Silvia, with Henry disappearing without giving Travis a chance to fight him. It's only in the TrueEnding when Henry returns and is ''actually'' fought.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', Sylvia tempts Travis into rejoining the ranked fights with the promise of sex, telling him she's an expert in yoga positions. Travis's first thought was "...like, downward dog?" [[spoiler:Late in the game, the two finally resolve their {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST, and after the [[DestructoNookie earth shaking, sign-destroying sex]], Travis charges out of his apartment and screams for all to hear, '''''DOWNWARD [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] DOG!!!''''']]
** ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' features a notable BaitAndSwitchBoss against [[spoiler: the #5 assassin, Letz Shake, who's kill-stolen by Henry, and the player then isn't even allowed to fight Henry afterwards.]] ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' then features another notable BaitAndSwitchBoss [[spoiler: when Travis is scheduled to take part in a battle royale against multiple assassins. When it comes time for Travis to join the fight, every other assassin is immediately killed by a roboticized Letz Shake, who even has Henry [[Franchise/StarWars frozen in carbonite.]]]]

* When Trish brings up Dante's backstory during the prologue of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' (specifically the fact that he lost a mother and a brother to evil), Dante mentions that he's doing the DemonSlaying job so that he would eventually hit the jackpot. Mid-way through the story, Dante expresses his desire to kill Mundus, the demon that killed his mother and brother. His line just before landing the finishing shot against Mundus? "Jackpot!" This is one of the earliest plot points in the series that heavily imply Mundus as the one responsible for Eva's death.

* When Trish brings up Dante's backstory during the prologue of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' (specifically the fact that he lost a mother and a brother to evil), Dante mentions that he's doing the DemonSlaying job so that he would eventually hit the jackpot. Mid-way through the story, Dante expresses his desire to kill Mundus, the demon that killed his mother and brother. His line just before landing the finishing shot against Mundus? "Jackpot!"

* During the first cutscene of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'', Dante mentions that he's doing the DemonSlaying job so that he hits the jackpot and gets to the demon that killed his mother. His line just before landing the killing blow against Mundus? "Jackpot!"

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' has too many to count. For instance, early on in the game, you meet Orange Kid, who asks you to invest $50.00 in his inventions. All you get if you do it is a worthless music box that breaks after you use it. But after you defeat [[BigBad Giygas]], Orange Kid calls and says that someone invested millions in him, and makes fun of you if you didn't.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has too many to count. For instance, early on in the game, you meet Orange Kid, who asks you to invest $50.00 in his inventions. All you get if you do it is a worthless music box that breaks after you use it. But after you defeat [[BigBad Giygas]], Orange Kid calls and says that someone invested millions in him, and makes fun of you if you didn't.

** In the original ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', during the cutscene before fighting Satan (Dark Prince), Arle [[AccidentalMisnaming accidentally calls him "Santa"]]. In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTsu'', she correctly addresses Satan by his name this time, but Satan himself flips the joke on its head by dressing up as Santa.

** In the original ''Puyo Puyo'', during the cutscene before fighting Satan (Dark Prince), Arle [[AccidentalMisnaming accidentally calls him "Santa"]]. In ''Puyo Puyo Tsu'', she correctly addresses Satan by his name this time, but Satan himself flips the joke on its head by dressing up as Santa.
** During Arle's course in ''SUN'', she encounters Zoh Daimaoh as one of the opponents. Due to the excessive heat, he becomes so mad that he burns a hole into the ground. Come Schezo's course and Zoh pops out of the hole, only to create '''another''' hole out of rage due to Schezo mistaking him for a demon.

** A more meta example appears in the English version of ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''. During one cutscene in Chapter 3, Amitie and Ess talk in a "lady-like" fashion in order to get materials for the Tetra's repairs. Amitie notes that the next time they talk like that, they should roll their Rs more. Amitie's alt voice in the game is the same "lady-like" voice, but now with her rolling her Rs for certain words.

** Early on in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', Goofy claims that [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Yen Sid]] always says "[[ArcWords May your heart be your guiding key]]" after sending someone off on a mission, which none of the other characters ever notice. When the characters return to the Mysterious Tower, it turns out Yen Sid really ''does'' say it, just under his breath.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' has a sad version with Roxas and the winner stick. He keeps forgetting to give the stick to Axel as a present, and later decides to wait until he gets a second one so Axel and Xion can both have one. [[spoiler:When he leaves the Organization, the last thing he does is give the winner stick to Axel.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', a conversation between [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Chrom]] and the ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' cast has the latter group note that Chrom's fighting style is [[MovesetClone far too similar]] to Ike's for him to be a worthwhile addition to the game's roster, with Viridi and Palutena teasing him for his appearance being limited to Robin's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]]. [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Four years later]], Chrom would end up as a full-fledged fighter, albeit as an "[[InsistentTerminology echo fighter]]" of Roy rather than Ike. Though he does receive Ike's Aether recovery move, something that Palutena mocked him for not having in the fourth game.