History NearVillainVictory / VideoGames

*** In the Underworld battle against Golbez, he uses Snare to trap everybody in place then knocks them out one by one. Before Cecil is killed, [[spoiler: Rydia pops in with the Mist Dragon and revives everyone.]]

** ''VideoGame/Myth': The first two games love this trope. By the time Balor is defeated, there are fewer than 30 of the Legion left alive (most are incinerated when Balor's head explodes), Madrigal (the last major free city of the North) has been razed, and only a handful of small villages remain. At the end of the sequel, Soulblighter almost destroys the world by shattering a massive mountain range before Alric is able to stop him.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', Ouroboros is captured after breaking Ghondor out of the Agnian prison. On the day of Mio's Homecoming, X and Shania watch to make sure none of the party tries to escape. After Mio is supposedly wiped away, Consul N moves in to execute the Ouroboros team, starting with Noah...

* The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]] and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GCN]] ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' games use this at their seemingly invincible final bosses. The example in the DS version is a lot like the one in ''Final Fantasy IV''.

* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' is about as damn near close as a story can come. [[spoiler:To wit: almost everyone is trapped underwater in the penultimate chapter. The submarine Lynne, Kamila, Sissel, and Missile's ghost are on is unsalvageable. Detective Jowd is elsewhere, dead in a room drifting to the bottom of the ocean. Commander Sith has plucked the Temisk fragment from Yomiel's body and is on his way back to his homeland. The only way the protagonists end up standing a chance is by launching Sissel and Missile's ghosts to Jowd's location via torpedo, rewinding back to Jowd's death, then rewinding ''back to Yomiel's "death" in Temisk Park ten years ago to finally SetRightWhatOnceWasWrong''.]] Essentially the timeline [[spoiler:that you left behind when Sissel was launched on the torpedo is [[DownerEnding completely doomed]] and you only save everyone by [[ResetButton rewriting history]].]]

** [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Yomi Hellsmile]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis was so close to murdering the five remaining Master Detectives, including Yuma and Vivia after he has his followers assassinate anyone who poses a threat to him]], including Chief Yakou and the deceased detectives in Chapter 0. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist It shows that he stops at absolutely nothing to make sure Yuma and friends suffer a horrible death in his hands while]] [[{{Jerkass}} hollering abusively and violently of them for ruining Kanai Ward's Peace while Yomi himself is ruining everyone's lives; all just to get more power for himself.]] He [[BoomHeadshot would've blown Yuma and Vivia's brains out]] if [[TheChessmaster Makoto]] and [[HeelFaceTurn Martina]] hadn't got him arrested for his crimes against Kanai Ward's citizens.]]

** [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Yomi Hellsmile]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis was so close to murdering the five remaining Master Detectives, including Yuma and Vivia after he has his followers assassinate anyone who poses a threat to him]], including Chief Yakou and the deceased detectives in Chapter 0. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist It shows that he stops at absolutely nothing to make sure Yuma and friends suffer a horrible death in his hands while]] [[[Hypocrite hollering abusively and violently of them for ruining Kanai Ward's Peace while Yomi himself is ruining everyone's lives; all just to get more power for himself.]] He [[BoomHeadshot would've blown Yuma and Vivia's brains out]] if [[TheChessmaster Makoto]] and [[HeelFaceTurn Martina]] hadn't got him arrested for his crimes against Kanai Ward's citizens.]]

** [[spoiler:Yomi was so close to murdering the five remaining Master Detectives, including Yuma and Vivia after he has his followers assassinate anyone who poses a threat to him, including Chief Yakou and the deceased detectives in Chapter 0. He [[BoomHeadshot would've blown Yuma and Vivia's brains out]] if [[TheChessmaster Makoto]] and [[HeelFaceTurn Martina]] hadn't got him arrested for his crimes against Kanai Ward's citizens.]]

* ''VideoGame/Xenoblade Chronicles 3'', Ouroboros is captured after breaking Ghondor out of the Agnian prison. On the day of Mio's Homecoming, X and Shania watch to make sure none of the party tries to escape. After Mio is supposedly wiped away, Consul N moves in to execute the Ouroboros team, starting with Noah...

* ''VideoGame/Xenoblade Chronicles 3", Ouroboros is captured after breaking Ghondor out of the Agnian prison. On the day of Mio's Homecoming, X and Shania watch to make sure none of the party tries to escape. After Mio is supposedly wiped away, Consul N moves in to execute the Ouroboros team, starting with Noah...