History IronicEcho / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' begins with Pit telling Palutena ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall and the player]]) "Sorry to keep you waiting!" referencing the 25 years between that game and [[VideoGame/KidIcarus his first adventure]]. Later on, when [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Hades]]]] appears for the first time, he repeats this line word-for-word to them after [[spoiler:[[BigBad Medusa]] is defeated and before Act II begins]].

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'', Jill's first impression of Nicholai is when she is tending to a wounded and possible infected U.B.C.S. soldier - Nicholai comes into the room and immediately puts a bullet between the man's eyes, having automatically assumed he was infected, and criticizing Jill for being too soft. Later on, after the subway is ready to leave Redstone Street and Jill returns to the station, she meets with Carlos and Nicholai - the latter warns Carlos to leave her, saying that she is unreliable and "cannot pull the trigger when it counts". [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Nicholai destroys the vaccine and is fighting Jill and Carlos, the latter manages to pin him and yells at Jill to shoot him, despite the risk that he would be shot too. If the player takes too long to fire their handgun and incapacitate Nicholai, he will break free, slash Carlos' throat with his combat knife, and throw the blade, which '''''impales Jill through the head.''''' Nicholai is then left alone with a rescue chopper out of Raccoon City, but before he leaves off-screen, he does an [[EvilLaugh]] and gives the following line:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Nicholai:''']] [[spoiler:Knew you couldn't pull the trigger.]]

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'', Jill's first impression of Nicholai is when she is tending to a wounded and possible infected U.B.C.S. soldier - Nicholai comes into the room and immediately puts a bullet between the man's eyes, having automatically assumed he was infected, and criticizing Jill for being too soft. Later on, after the subway is ready to leave Redstone Street and Jill returns to the station, she meets with Carlos and Nicholai - the latter warns Carlos to leave her, saying that she is unreliable and "cannot pull the trigger when it counts". [[spoiler:At the end of the game, after Nicholai destroys the vaccine and is fighting Jill and Carlos, the latter manages to pin him and yells at Jill to shoot him, despite the risk that he would be shot too. If the player takes too long to fire their handgun and incapacitate Nicholai, he will break free, slash Carlos' throat with his combat knife, and throw the blade, which '''''impales Jill through the head.''''' Nicholai is then left alone with a rescue chopper out of Raccoon City, but before he leaves off-screen, he does an EvilLaugh and gives the following line:]]
-->[['''Nicholai:''' Knew you couldn't pull the trigger.]]

---> '''Shepard''': [[spoiler:The geth don't want to fight you! If you believe that for just one minute, this war will be over!]] You have a choice. Please. '''Keelah se'lai'''.

---> '''Shepard''': Sovereign, the "''[[ResistanceIsFutile vanguard of our destruction]]''". How's that working out for you, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu big guy?]]
* Early on in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', the eponymous character, an undercover cop, visits the Finito brothers in search of their boss, Jack Lupino. They crack jokes about his name, leading to the following exchange.
-->'''Max''': [[DeadpanSnarker You're killing me. Did you make that up yourselves or did you get some wino downstairs to come up with it]]? Don't answer that. A rhetorical question. I've got something for the boss. Lupino around?\\
'''Joey''': That kinda depends on who's askin', a friend... or a junk squad plant? Don't answer, it's one of 'em, how'd ya put it, rhetorical questions.

** Much later, Galenth Dysley (after [[KickTheSonOfABitch killing her]], and every other human in the room) has this exchange;

** Shoka's CatchPhrase early on in the game is "Later, losers," which she says when parting ways with the player. Near the end of the game,[[spoiler:she joins the Wicked Twisters and turns out to be Rindo's online friend Swallow, the latter of which is revealed just before she gets erased.]] At that point, Shoka says, "Later... loser..." in a less antagonistic and more {{Tsundere}}-ish manner.

* In ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege II'', your player character sounds skeptical about the Dark Wizards, saying that it "sounds like something told to restrain wandering children" ([[LampshadeHanging ignoring the fact that your character worked for Valdis at one point]]). In ''Broken World'', the [[UltimateEvil Overmage of the Cinbri]] says something quite similar.

* In ''VideoGame/HetaOni'', relatively early on, [[HeroicWannabe Alfred]] warns [[LovableCoward Feliciano]] to "smile a little more naturally" when he's lying -- revealing to the viewer that Feli is, indeed, hiding something worrisome from the group, namely his concerns about the mansion's GroundhogDayLoop. Much, much later in the game, as Alfred himself is falling apart upon witnessing [[KillEmAll the death of Arthur]] in one of the time loops, Feli asks him if he'll be all right, and when Alfred tells him yes, Feliciano advises him to "smile a little more naturally" [[TearJerker when he lies]].

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 3]]'': ''"I am the very model of a scientist salarian!"'' The first time Mordin sings it, he does it as his [[MotorMouth usual]] [[{{Keet}} energetic]] [[CloudCuckooLander self]], a man who has no doubt that creating a [[DepopulationBomb fertility-damaging bioweapon]] for use against a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy hostile and warlike race]] [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate was the "humane" thing to do]] compared with forcing the Turian military to KillEmAll. He hums the song again while [[spoiler: [[ScienceHero distributing the cure for the same bioweapon with a weather control tower]] that is [[HeroicSacrifice exploding around him]].]]

** Played more tragically, the FinalBoss of the [[KillEmAll genocide run]], [[spoiler:[[BewareTheSillyOnes Sans]] the lazy skeleton]] will ask you [[spoiler:if it's possible for someone to be a good person if they just try hard enough, no matter how evil they may be. Before you can give a reply, he laughs. Of course, if you recall back, these were his brother Papyrus' last words before you murdered him, YouBastard. Like Papyrus, he'll also offer you a CooldownHug if you accept his Mercy: if you accept, well, [[ISurrenderSuckers you get dunked on.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' Carl, after coming back home after years of being away, meets Officer Tenpenny looking to "chat". Tenpenny proceeds to start screwing around with Carl and coerces Carl into his service via blackmail and a frame job. Tenpenny ends their "chat" by saying: [[spoiler:''See you around, Carl"]] before walking (then driving away). Guess what Carl says later in the game when [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Tenpenny ends up dying on the street due to driving a firetruck off a bridge while being chased by Carl and Sweet.]]]]
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Niko, fresh off the boat in Liberty City, is greeted by Roman exclaiming "Welcome to America!". Niko returns the greeting in Serbian, much to Roman's confusion as he hasn't spoken the language in a while. During the Deal ending, Niko confronts a wounded [[spoiler:Dmitri]] and tells him the same words. He responds with Russian profanities, so Niko tells him to speak in English.
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Franklin delivers the greatest TakeAThirdOption one-liner in all of history in this fashion.
-->'''Devin Weston:''' So are you gonna, A. Listen to some fifty grand a year pension hunter, or B. A billionaire? Who even the president lets finger his wife. Or C? Try and be really stupid and [[spoiler:save those two idiot mentors of yours]] and have everybody in the Goddamn state crawling up your ass. A, B or C? Time's ticking pal, beep, beep, beep and your answer is?\\

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': The Carth/Canderous "warriors vs. soldiers" argument.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': The Carth/Canderous "warriors vs. soldiers" argument. Paraphrased:

'''Canderous:''' [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat Nice speech. I bet you tell yourself that every night so you can sleep.]] Victory in battle is the only justification I need.\\
'''Carth:''' So what does your code mean when you lose? You know, like you did against ''us''?\\
'''Canderous:''' You had us outnumbered five to one. You had more ships, more men, ''and'' the Jedi. And we still made the Republic tremble!\\

* In ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'', Motoi tells Rindo that only an "idiota" would trust a complete stranger, after [[spoiler:it turns out that Motoi has been manipulating Rindo and the Wicked Twisters in a bid to become a Reaper]]. Shortly after the exchange, [[spoiler:Kubo shows up and offers one last chance to Motoi]].
-->'''Shoka''': So you're gonna trust this total stranger? Sounds like something only an absolute ''idiota'' would do.\\

'''Kubo''': [[EvilLaugh Nyeheh]]. [[LampshadeHanging Turnin' his own words against him. How cheeky!]]