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* During the 2016 election season, an indie game called "Mr. President" invited the player to be [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed "Ronald Rump's"]] bodyguard. One level involved following Rump to promote his proposed border wall and featured a Mexican family in a cage. Two years later, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is under fire for his cage-like immigration processing centers for children.

* One of the first pieces of promotional material for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveals that "EVERYONE IS HERE!", i.e. in addition to adding new characters, it brought back every single character from past ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games, including characters who appeared in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' and ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' but [[PutOnABus disappeared in subsequent games]]. Many hailed ''Ultimate'' as topping ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' as "[[MemeticMutation the most ambitious crossover in history]]." Then came the trailer for the ''World of Light'' adventure mode and ''Ultimate'' topped ''Infinity War'' on this claim in a way that was ''not'' happy. [[spoiler:Thanos destroying half of the universe's life with a fingersnap at [[DownerEnding the end]] of]] ''Infinity War''? Try [[spoiler:Galeem killing ''[[KillEmAll everyone]]'' except for Kirby in one fell swoop]], and as part of the game's ''[[DownerBeginning intro]]'' no less!

* One of the first pieces of promotional material for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveals that "EVERYONE IS HERE!", i.e. in addition to adding new characters, it brought back every single character from past ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games, including characters who appeared in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' and ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' but [[PutOnABus disappeared in subsequent games]]. Many hailed ''Ultimate'' as topping ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' as "[[MemeticMutation the most ambitious crossover in history]]." Then came the trailer for the ''World of Light'' adventure mode and ''Ultimate'' topped ''Infinity War'' on this claim in a way that was ''not'' happy. [[spoiler:Thanos destroying half of the universe's life with a fingersnap]] in ''Infinity War''? Try [[spoiler:Galeem killing ''[[KillEmAll everyone]]'' except for Kirby in one fell swoop]], and as part of the game's ''[[DownerBeginning intro]]'' no less!

* One of the first pieces of promotional material for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' reveals that "EVERYONE IS HERE!", i.e. in addition to adding new characters, it brought back every single character from past ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games, including characters who appeared in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' and ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' but disappeared in subsequent games. Many hailed ''Ultimate'' as topping ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' as "[[MemeticMutation the most ambitious crossover in history]]." Then came the trailer for the ''World of Light'' adventure mode and ''Ultimate'' topped ''Infinity War'' on this claim in a way that was ''not'' happy. [[spoiler:Thanos destroying half of the universe's life with a fingersnap]] in ''Infinity War''? Try [[spoiler:Galeem killing ''[[KillEmAll everyone]]'' except for Kirby in one fell swoop]], and as part of the game's ''[[DownerBeginning intro]]'' no less!

* The Franchise/{{BEMANI}} song "GOLD RUSH", produced for the 2007 game ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX 14 GOLD'', features the line "Make it! Make money!" repeated throughout the song. Come 2015 and Creator/{{Konami}} shutters two of its other {{Cash Cow Franchise}}s, ''Franchise/SilentHill'' and ''Franchise/MetalGear''.

* In ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'', when Flonne is introduced she says she wants to be like the flowers. [[spoiler:In most of the endings, Flonne is turned into a flower by Seraph Lamington as her punishment, before the final battle. In the Good ending, she is revived as a Fallen Angel, in the Neutral ending, Laharl sacrifices himself to resurrect her, and in one of the bad endings, he picks the flower and wanders the Netherworld for eternity.]]

* In the Australian cricket video game "Stick Cricket", When the Stick Batsman missed a bouncer, the ball would smack his head and he would collapse on his stumps and would be out bowled for comedic effect. However in an recent update, this animation has been altered due to the tragic death of batsman Phillip Hughes as he suffered from a similar fate during a cricket match in the Sydney Cricket Ground, Passing away a few days later.

** In the {{Intellivision}} version of ''Tron Deadly Discs'', Mattel incorrectly made Tron an orange (evil-aligned) figure cutting down blue-colored (User-believer) {{Mooks}}. Simple color goof in 1982 - oddly prescient come 2010.

** Nevermind the fact that Gary Coleman dies in this game. The fact that he is killed during a book signing at Paradise Mall disturbingly parallels the murder of [[Music/ChristinaGrimmie]] during an autograph signing in June 2016, which brings us to a store in said mall with a sign reading, "Closed For Renovation. Reopening June 2016."

* During the 2016 election season, an indie game called "Mr. President" invited the player to be [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed "Ronald Rump's"]] bodyguard. One level involved following Rump to promote his proposed border wall and featured a Mexican family in a cage. Two years later, [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump]] is under fire for his cage-like immigration processing centers for children.

** Nevermind the fact that Gary Coleman dies in this game. The fact that he is killed during a book signing at Paradise Mall disturbingly parallels the murder of [[spoiler: [[NeverSayThatAgain Christina Grimmie]]]] during an autograph signing in June 2016, which brings us to a store in said mall with a sign reading, "Closed For Renovation. Reopening June 2016."

* During the 2016 election season, an indie game called "Mr. President" invited the player to be "Ronald Rump's" bodyguard. One level involved following Rump to promote his proposed border wall and featured a Mexican family in a cage. Two years later, Trump is under fire for his cage-like immigration processing centers for children.

** In one case not related to ''TRON'', there is the game's DarkerAndEdgier retelling of ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', in which the evil stepfamily becomes TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether who, in one scenario, summons the Unversed to murder everyone in the ball because PrinceCharming did not pick either daughter, and in another scenario, [[MoralEventHorizon attack Cinderella out of hatred]] before [[AdaptationalKarma being blown up]]. Eight years after the game's release, the Surabaya terrorist attacks would strike, with three of the perpetrators being a mother and her two daughters, who blew themselves up in a church with hatred as a motivation.

* The age verification quiz for the 1987 game ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' asks who O.J. Simpson was, with one of the answers being "under indictment". In 1994, O.J. Simpson was indicted for the murder of his wife.

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During the 2016 election season, an indie game called "Mr. President" invited the player to be [NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Ronald Rump's] bodyguard. One level involved following Rump to the Mexican border and featured a Mexican family in a cage. Two years later, Trump is under fire for his cage-like immigration processing centers for children.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}, where the object of the game is to destroy skyscrapers as a CaptainErsatz of Godzilla or Film/KingKong, among other monsters, in a city has become this since 9/11. It took them 7 years to produce a new game because of it. Worse still, you can actually target some ''real-world'' landmarks in a few of the games.

* ''VideoGame/Rampage'', where the object of the game is to destroy skyscrapers as a CaptainErsatz of Godzilla or Film/KingKong, among other monsters, in a city has become this since 9/11. It took them 7 years to produce a new game because of it. Worse still, you can actually target some ''real-world'' landmarks in a few of the games.

* The game series ''Rampage'', where the object of the game is to destroy skyscrapers as a CaptainErsatz of Godzilla or Film/KingKong, among other monsters, in a city has become this since 9/11. It took them 7 years to produce a new game because of it. Worse still, you can actually target some ''real-world'' landmarks in a few of the games.

* ''KingdomHearts'' series

* In the first ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', the main character does a mission for the Cat King and you have to beat the Mouse King for it. It's cartoony. It's really early on and afterwards it never comes up again. Then in the sequel, centuries later, the Mouse species have launched a coup that ''kills'' the current Cat King and a good number of his loyal catperson troops. Later in the game, this is revisited. While it's not seen as justified; it's considered in-game as understandable and forgivable. Such to the point of letting the Micepeople continue being in charge.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'', E-123 Omega wants to [[http://d-author.tumblr.com/post/153271826717/this-whole-dialogue-is-a-gift destroy]] [[https://hunnidpisanenchilada.tumblr.com/post/146826694186/aww-shadow-cares-about-omega Eggman]] but Tails states that Eggman is an ally and Omega only backed down on his closest friends, Shadow and Rouge's behalf. Then ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' has Shadow allying himself with Eggman to spread panic and disorder throughout the world.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'':

** In ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'', Zero, [[spoiler:freshly BackFromTheDead]], ''very easily'' destroys a weak clone of himself that the BigBad made. Cue ''Zero 3'', where [[spoiler:Omega (the same one mentioned above) is the original body of Zero, while ''TheHero'' is the clone]]. But it was subverted, [[spoiler:the clone Zero didn't mind the irony of the situation he was in, and goes on to defeat Omega Zero ''easily''. Also, TheHero may be using a duplicate body, but the mind is real; he is still the ''real Zero''. Omega Zero is now just a mindless puppet]].

* A joke about KerbalSpaceProgram is that rocket instabilities are caused by not enough struts. In June 28 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 disintegrated because of a failure of a strut. That being said, many landing in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ SpaceX Failure Video]] are all too familiar to players who tried to do SpaceX builds themselves.

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** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Diana Allers says "Have you ever seen how fast an e-democracy can turn on its allies?". After the game came out, everyone saw...