History RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / VideoGames

* In the Dark Brotherhood questline of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', [[spoiler:Commander Maro launches an attack on the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary after Astrid arranges for you (the killer of his son) to be captured by him. The fact that she was the one who ordered the kill is definitely a factor in this.]]

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' [[spoiler: Seemingly played straight with Molly, when she drunkenly declares to the gang that she ratted on them after a bank job goes south and is gunned down by Miss Grimshaw for her trouble. It turns out later that it was a tragic attempt to get her increasingly distant lover, Dutch, to pay attention to her.]]
** [[spoiler: Played straight with Micah Bell, who is shot by Dutch at the end of Epilogue: Part II. Although Dutch’s reasons for doing so (for being a traitor, belated revenge for Arthur, or possibly even to save John to give a few examples) are left ambiguous.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'', once you return to Dunwall Tower, you can find a note on a dead noblewoman's body. Said note is from [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress]] [[BigBad Delilah]], inviting said noblewoman to dinner and noting that Delilah is "eager to show how I feel toward one who is so quick to change allegiance". Said noblewoman seems to have been [[{{Squick}} drowned in a lavatory]].
** Additionally, if you spare and lock up the captain of the Guard who betrayed you early on, you can find him too, turned to stone.

* In ''FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Path of Radiance]]'', the half-cowardly, half-ApatheticCitizens of a port town inform the Daein soldiers about which boat Ike and his company took. When they ask for their reward, they are told that it was their country's own princess in that company that they just sold out. Just as the realization and guilt really begin to sink in, the captain of the soldiers has the "dastards" taken away to be worked to the bone, a "fitting reward" for people who would sell out their own princess.

* ''VideoGame/Hitman2'': Robert and Sierra Knox were former members of [[TheIlluminati Providence]], who betrayed their employers to the Shadow Client. This results in Providence hiring the player to punish them.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' [[spoiler: Seemingly played straight with Molly, when she drunkenly declares to the gang that she tatted on them after a bank job goes south and is gunned down by Miss Grimshaw for her trouble. It turns out later that it was a tragic attempt to get her increasingly distant lover, Dutch, to pay attention to her.]]

''VideoGame/Hitman2'': Robert and Sierra Knox were former members of [[TheIlluminati Providence]], who betrayed their employers to the Shadow Client. This results in Providence hiring the player to punish them.

* [[spoiler: Boles]], TheJoker's inside man in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum, meets his end this way after he killed several of his fellow guards to help Harley take the Commissioner hostage, [[spoiler: he is found strapped to a stretcher and apparently gassed to death]], because of this and he had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they had no more need for him]]. Though considering this is The Joker we are talking about, it was probably just as much ForTheEvulz.

* The ''OperationFlashpoint'' expansion, Resistance, has an alternate ending (though it occurs after the 3rd mission) where you betray the Resistance to the Russians. Immediately afterwards, you and the remaining Resistance members who have been captured are taken to the General, who orders the prisoners execution. As they are being lined up, a officer asks about your character -- he orders that you be executed as well, because you are seen as 100% untrustworthy.

* Wizard101 has a weird version of this trope when the player accidentally unleashes [[SealedEvilInACan Axenos]]. Axenos is genuinely thankful to the player and [[MercyKill his attempt to kill the player is meant as a true reward]] since it will spare the player [[FateWorseThanDeath from witnessing the horrors he plans to bring upon the spiral]].

* A subversion of this takes place in the main campaign of ''FinalFantasyXIV''. The first battle with Ifrit is started with a cutscene wherein a pair of traitors who sided with the Amalj'aa end up having their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy souls scorched]] by the Primal. Unfortunately, this also includes all the survivors of the previous battle as well, except for your character. [[DownerEnding Soul scorching cannot be reversed, however, ]][[ShootTheShaggyDog forcing the Immortal Blades to kill both the traitors and their own soldiers.]]

* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': The Chinese doctor who works for Wen Hai Lee reluctantly agrees to help Sagawa's thugs find where Lee and Majima have hidden [[LivingMacGuffin Makoto Makimura]]. As soon as they've found her, the thugs stab the doctor in the chest with a tire iron.

* In ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', if you choose to [[spoiler:betray the Kindred and side with the [[ChineseVampire Kuei-Jin]], Ming-Xiao will reward you by chaining you to the Ankaran Sarcophagus and [[FateWorseThanDeath throwing it into the ocean]].]]

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Makai Toshi SaGa}}''. Byak-Ko decides to kill Mireille because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has no more use for her]] after she betrays [[LaResistance the resistance]] and her sister Jeanne, but Jeanne [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]].

* ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'': When Whitman betrays Lara and co. by handing Sam back over to BigBad Mathias, the latter rewards Whitman by tricking him into approaching Himiko's Stormguard to serve as a distraction while Mathias slips past the Stormguard with Sam while he's being torn apart.

* [[spoiler: Boles]], TheJoker's inside man in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum, meets his end this way after he killed several of his fellow guards to help Harley take the Commissioner hostage, [[spoiler: he is found strapped to a stretcher and apparently gassed to death]], because of this and he had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they had no more need for him]]. Though considering this is [[CompleteMonster The Joker]] we are talking about, it was probably just as much ForTheEvulz.

* ''[[VideoGame/InFamousSecondSon inFamous: Second Son]]'': Hank Daughtry makes a deal with [[BigBad Brooke Augustine]], luring Delsin and Reggie into a trap in exchange for his freedom, which results in Reggie's death. Afterwards, Hank finds himself dealing with an especially [[FantasticRacism anti-Conduit]] D.U.P. officer, who has no intention of honoring Hank's deal with Augustine and fully intends to just kill him; of course, it's entirely up to the player whether or not Hank lives.

* [[spoiler: Boles]], TheJoker's inside man in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum, meets his end this way after he killed several of his fellow guards to help Harley take the Commissioner hostage, [[spoiler: he is found strapped to a stretcher and apparently gassed to death]], because of this and he had [[YouHaveOutLivedHisUsefulness they had no more need for him]]. Though considering this is [[CompleteMonster The Joker]] we are talking about, it was probably just as much ForTheEvulz.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the Hierarch of Ylisse, who Chrom had known for years and who had helped Emmeryn run the kingdom during the early years of her rule, sells them out to the Plegians while they're evacuating Emmeryn to safety. Once the ambush begins, the very first thing the enemy leader does is kill the Hierarch, outright telling him that his orders were to bring back a man, not a "pig" who sold out his own sovereign.