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'''Zarenyia:''' They're indisposed, darling. Which is to say, they're dead, but I didn't want to shock you.
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'''Zarenyia:''' They're indisposed, darling. Which is to say, they're dead, but I didn't want to shock you.
-->-- ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': "A Long Spoon"
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* ''Search/Destroy: A ComicBook/{{StrontiumDog}} Fan Film'': Subverted. The villain, in the center of his fortress, watches in monitors how the heroes are taking care of his outer guards. He deliberately, ceremoniously prepares himself a tea. [[spoiler:He then sends some upper-level minions as reinforcement; these succeed in defeating the heroes.]]
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* ''Search/Destroy: A ComicBook/{{StrontiumDog}} Fan Film'': Subverted. The villain, in the center of his fortress, watches in monitors how the heroes are taking care of his outer guards. He deliberately, ceremoniously prepares himself a tea. [[spoiler:He then sends some upper-level minions as reinforcement; these succeed in defeating the heroes.]]
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* ComicBook/{{Punisher}} is quite fond of doing this.
* ComicBook/{{X}} for Creator/{{DarkHorseComics}} ComicBook/ComicsGreatestWorld universe was a clear NinetiesAntiHero and Punisher expy to do this frequently.
* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} also does this in her own series, reproducing the event of her 2005 film, ''Film/{{Elektra}}''.
* ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} during ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse performs such an attack on a boat in X-Calibre #3.
* ComicBook/{{X}} for Creator/{{DarkHorseComics}} ComicBook/ComicsGreatestWorld universe was a clear NinetiesAntiHero and Punisher expy to do this frequently.
* ComicBook/{{Elektra}} also does this in her own series, reproducing the event of her 2005 film, ''Film/{{Elektra}}''.
* ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} during ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse performs such an attack on a boat in X-Calibre #3.
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* Franchise/StarWarsLegends : ''A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker'' ends with Luke Skywalker invading Moff Jarnek's estate, destroying his droids and confronting Jarnek to end the book with a one-liner.
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* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' operates on similar rules to ''Metal Gear Solid'' in that neutralizing guards (lethally or by taking them hostage) causes the central command to ask them for an update[[note]]the InUniverse justification being that their pager hit the ground, drawing attention to them[[/note]], requiring one of the robbers to answer the pager on their behalf ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy for gameplay reasons, it doesn't matter if the heister is a different nationality or sex, or]] ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy even speaks an entirely different language]]'', [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy they always fall for it]]). However, if the robber disconnects from the call before it's done, [[ProperlyParanoid or if too many guards "accidentally" drop their pager]] (5 by default), [[SoMuchForStealth they]] ''[[SoMuchForStealth will]]'' [[SoMuchForStealth sound the alarm]]. Oddly enough, however, in the few stealth-optional maps where actual cops are already on the scene, no one ever notices that they're missing.
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* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' operates on similar rules to ''Metal Gear Solid'' in that neutralizing guards (lethally or by taking them hostage) causes the central command to ask them for an update[[note]]the InUniverse justification being that their pager hit the ground, drawing attention to them[[/note]], requiring one of the robbers to answer the pager on their behalf ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy for gameplay reasons, it doesn't matter if the heister is a different nationality or sex, or]] ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy even speaks an entirely different language]]'', [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy they always fall for it]]). However, if the robber disconnects from the call before it's done, [[ProperlyParanoid or if too many guards "accidentally" drop their pager]] (5 by default), [[SoMuchForStealth they]] ''[[SoMuchForStealth will]]'' [[SoMuchForStealth sound the alarm]]. Oddly enough, however, in the few stealth-optional maps where actual cops are already on the scene, if the robbers kill them, no one ever notices that they're missing.missing so long as no one finds the body.
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* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' operates on similar rules to ''Metal Gear Solid'' in that neutralizing guards (lethally or by taking them hostage) causes the central command to ask them for an update[[note]]the InUniverse justification being that their pager hit the ground, drawing attention to them[[/note]], requiring one of the robbers to answer the pager on their behalf ([[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy for gameplay reasons, it doesn't matter if the heister is a different nationality or sex, or]] ''[[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy even speaks an entirely different language]]'', [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy they always fall for it]]). However, if the robber disconnects from the call before it's done, [[ProperlyParanoid or if too many guards "accidentally" drop their pager]] (5 by default), [[SoMuchForStealth they]] ''[[SoMuchForStealth will]]'' [[SoMuchForStealth sound the alarm]]. Oddly enough, however, in the few stealth-optional maps where actual cops are already on the scene, no one ever notices that they're missing.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', as Luffy is storming his way through Enies Lobby, the World Government's judicial center, Spandam calls an official to ask how many soldiers Luffy has defeated. The man tries to tell Spandam "[[OneManArmy five thousand]]," but Luffy bursts through the official's window and knocks him out mid-sentence, causing him to say just "five." This response causes Spandam to severely underestimate Luffy, and Spandam soon stops requesting for updates.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', as Luffy is storming his way through Enies Lobby, the World Government's judicial center, Spandam calls an official to ask how many soldiers Luffy has defeated. The man tries to tell Spandam "[[OneManArmy five thousand]]," but Luffy bursts through the official's window and knocks him out mid-sentence, causing him to say just "five." This response causes Spandam to severely underestimate Luffy, and Spandam soon stops requesting for updates.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. Eliminating guards via death or unconsciousness in this series causes the central command voice to ask for an update. Upon not hearing an update from the now-unconscious guard, the alarm is raised and a search party is sent to find the player, or at least the unconscious guard. If the party fails to find either, the alarm is cancelled and patrols resume as though there never was a threat and, in fact, the eliminated guard never existed.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Kin}}''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Kin}}''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation organization hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when explanation. When he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady.already dead. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
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The evil villain or mastermind hears a lot of strange noises coming from outside their office. So naturally they use their intercom to try and contact a guard station for an explanation for the ruckus.
The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going OneManArmy on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.
A GenreSavvy villain would immediately make their exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them to the body count.
But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance. At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going OneManArmy on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.
A GenreSavvy villain would immediately make their exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them to the body count.
But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance. At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
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The evil villain or evil mastermind hears a lot of strange noises coming from outside their his office. So naturally they use their he uses his intercom to try and contact a guard station for an explanation for the ruckus.
The cause of the commotion is theprotagonist hero going OneManArmy on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their her disapproval of all the evil they have he has done.
A GenreSavvy villain would immediately maketheir his exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them him to the body count.
Butthey he [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep does]]. He keeps asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist hero comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance. At which point the villain realises realizes how much danger they are he is in, if this person intruder killed all their his guards and they're he's alone with that person, they'd he'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
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* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her CoolSword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size.
* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting derezzed.
* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting derezzed.
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* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'': Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her CoolSword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size.
*''Film/TronLegacy''. ''Film/TronLegacy'': The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting derezzed.
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* In ''Videogame/DeadSpace3'''s ''Awakening'' DLC, the scenario is inverted when the protagonists [[spoiler: reach Earth and attempt to hail first the government, to no reply; then the military, to no reply; then the mining corps, to no reply; then finally the moon, which does respond... with a jumpled mess of screams, groans, killings, and slashes, revealing everyone on Earth and the Moon are being slaughtered by the necromorphs.]]
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* In ''Videogame/DeadSpace3'''s ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3''[='s=] ''Awakening'' DLC, the scenario is inverted when the protagonists [[spoiler: reach Earth and attempt to hail first the government, to no reply; then the military, to no reply; then the mining corps, to no reply; then finally the moon, which does respond... with a jumpled mess of screams, groans, killings, and slashes, revealing everyone on Earth and the Moon are being slaughtered by the necromorphs.]]
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But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance.
At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
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But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance.
entrance. At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
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This could be a subtrope of ImpededCommunication.
Compare MookHorrorShow as a related trope.
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This could be a subtrope of ImpededCommunication.
ImpededCommunication. Compare MookHorrorShow as a related trope.
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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".
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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".nothing".
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* ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja''[='s=] ninth mission begins with Karajan barraded in a panic room in his heavily-secured tower. Throughout the mission you can hear Karajan panicking over the comm channel as you take out his guards and disable his defenses. In this case he doesn't run away because there's nowhere else for him to run, and cowering in his panic room with a gun trained at the only entrance is his best option.
* ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja''[='s=] ninth mission begins with Karajan barraded in a panic room in his heavily-secured tower. Throughout the mission you can hear Karajan panicking over the comm channel as you take out his guards and disable his defenses. In this case he doesn't run away because there's nowhere else for him to run, and cowering in his panic room with a gun trained at the only entrance is his best option.
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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".
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* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".nothing".
* ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja''[='s=] ninth mission begins with Karajan barraded in a panic room in his heavily-secured tower. Throughout the mission you can hear Karajan panicking over the comm channel as you take out his guards and disable his defenses. In this case he doesn't run away because there's nowhere else for him to run, and cowering in his panic room with a gun trained at the only entrance is his best option.
* ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja''[='s=] ninth mission begins with Karajan barraded in a panic room in his heavily-secured tower. Throughout the mission you can hear Karajan panicking over the comm channel as you take out his guards and disable his defenses. In this case he doesn't run away because there's nowhere else for him to run, and cowering in his panic room with a gun trained at the only entrance is his best option.
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* ''ComicBook/Kin''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
--> Bodyguard: [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]
--> Bodyguard: [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]
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* ''ComicBook/Kin''.''ComicBook/{{Kin}}''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
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* ''[=CiaphasCain=]'': One short story that's basically [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on an]] Imperial starship (down to a theft covered up by a terrorist attack) has Cain kill some of the hijackers and use their commbeads to find out where they are and taunt them, along with redirecting them by lying about where he's going.
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* ''[=CiaphasCain=]'': ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': One short story that's basically [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on an]] Imperial starship (down to a theft covered up by a terrorist attack) has Cain kill some of the hijackers and use their commbeads to find out where they are and taunt them, along with redirecting them by lying about where he's going.
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The evil villain or mastermind hears a lot of strange noises coming from outside their office. So naturally they use their intercom to try and contact a guard station for an explanation for the ruckus.
The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going [[OneManArmy OnePersonArmy]] on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.
A GenreSavvy villain would immediately make their exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them to the body count.
But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance.
At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
When this happens to the good guy's base (or places that the good guys are trying to contact), it's often played for horror. Inversions of this type are rare.
This could be a subtrope of ImpededCommunication.
Compare MookHorrorShow as a related trope.
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*''ComicBook/Kin''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
--> Bodyguard: [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]
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* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her CoolSword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size.
* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting deregistered.
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* ''[=CiaphasCain=]'': One short story that's basically [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on an]] Imperial starship (down to a theft covered up by a terrorist attack) has Cain kill some of the hijackers and use their commbeads to find out where they are and taunt them, along with redirecting them by lying about where he's going.
* ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfCabal'' has a non-lethal version: when Johannes confronts the BigBad on her CoolAirship base, she calls for her soldiers to kill him and his friends on the ground, only to realize that Johannes' vampire brother has already infiltrated the ship and put them all in ForcedSleep.
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* In ''Videogame/DeadSpace3'''s ''Awakening'' DLC, the scenario is inverted when the protagonists [[spoiler: reach Earth and attempt to hail first the government, to no reply; then the military, to no reply; then the mining corps, to no reply; then finally the moon, which does respond... with a jumpled mess of screams, groans, killings, and slashes, revealing everyone on Earth and the Moon are being slaughtered by the necromorphs.]]
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".
The cause of the commotion is the protagonist going [[OneManArmy OnePersonArmy]] on all the guard stations, eliminating them all one by one just to get to the BigBad and express their disapproval of all the evil they have done.
A GenreSavvy villain would immediately make their exit, because only a fool would wait around for whomever is obliterating all the armed guards in the building to walk in the door and add them to the body count.
But they [[GenreBlind never do]], they keep asking for the guards to report up until the protagonist comes in through the doors or makes an impressive entrance.
At which point the villain realises how much danger they are in, if this person killed all their guards and they're alone with that person, they'd better have no plans for tomorrow or next week.
When this happens to the good guy's base (or places that the good guys are trying to contact), it's often played for horror. Inversions of this type are rare.
This could be a subtrope of ImpededCommunication.
Compare MookHorrorShow as a related trope.
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*''ComicBook/Kin''. The Overseer of the evil science research division of his organisation hears all the security alarms blaring at once. He goes to the nearest guard station to demand an explanation and when he spins the guard's chair around to look at him, he finds out the guard is very deady. The last sound the Overseer hears is the bodyguard of a man he ordered murdered shooting him in the back of the head.
--> Bodyguard: [[BondOneLiner My former employer sends his regards.]]
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* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her CoolSword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size.
* ''Film/TronLegacy''. The toadying lackey hears the sound of Sam obliterating the guards just outside the door and is quite disconcerted to see him walk in afterwards. However, he is GenreSavvy enough to immediately pledge his loyalty to Sam to avoid getting deregistered.
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* ''[=CiaphasCain=]'': One short story that's basically [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on an]] Imperial starship (down to a theft covered up by a terrorist attack) has Cain kill some of the hijackers and use their commbeads to find out where they are and taunt them, along with redirecting them by lying about where he's going.
* ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfCabal'' has a non-lethal version: when Johannes confronts the BigBad on her CoolAirship base, she calls for her soldiers to kill him and his friends on the ground, only to realize that Johannes' vampire brother has already infiltrated the ship and put them all in ForcedSleep.
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* In ''Videogame/DeadSpace3'''s ''Awakening'' DLC, the scenario is inverted when the protagonists [[spoiler: reach Earth and attempt to hail first the government, to no reply; then the military, to no reply; then the mining corps, to no reply; then finally the moon, which does respond... with a jumpled mess of screams, groans, killings, and slashes, revealing everyone on Earth and the Moon are being slaughtered by the necromorphs.]]
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''. Double, X's assistant, reveals himself to be TheMole and starts slaughtering Maverick Hunter coworkers when X's away. One of them tries contacting X, but when X answers, Double kills the guy and then tells X that "it was nothing".