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* Arriving at Nipton in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you get your [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first impression]] of Caesar's Legion. Nipton offered entertainment to all comers, mostly settlers and troops from the New Californa Republic and the Powder Gangers (escaped NCR prisoners). Considering it a WretchedHive, Legion figure Vulpes Inculta paid off the town leaders to draw the NCR visitors into a trap so the Legion could kill them. "Too late, they realised they were inside it, too." By the time you arrive, the town is a mass grave: Vulpes arranged [[LotteryOfDoom a grim version of the town lottery]] in which the first prize winner goes free, the SecondPrize winner lives but has their legs thoroughly broken, and everyone else has been shot, burned, or crucified.

* [[spoiler:Boles]], ComicBook/TheJoker's inside man in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', who murdered several of his fellow guards and helped Harley take the Commissioner hostage, [[spoiler:is found strapped to a stretcher and apparently gassed to death]], either because of this, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they had no more need for him]], or (considering this is The Joker we are talking about), just ForTheEvulz.

* [[spoiler:Roland]] in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' was one of the major characters who betrayed Handsome Jack in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' and dies at his hands. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:he was also the most reluctant of the three, while [[KarmaHoudini Lilith and Moxxi get away with]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain turning Jack into Handsome Jack and causing his rampage on Pandora]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/CitizenSleeper'', [[spoiler:Ethan the BountyHunter]] ends up having his contract on [[PlayerCharacter the Sleeper]]'s bounty cancelled, something which angers him, so he offers to protect the Sleeper from the his colleague, [[spoiler:Maywick]], who now holds the contract on their bounty, in return for them helping him work off his debt to the Kompressor Club. And the Sleeper even helps him steal his confiscated gun back from the club. Even after all this, [[spoiler: Ethan still]] ends up betraying the Sleeper by selling out their location to Maywick for a 50/50 split of the bounty. [[spoiler:When he arrives at the location, he is gunned down in cold blood.]]

* In the ''Creator/{{Novalogic}}'' game ''Delta Force: Land Warrior'', your first mission takes place on a training course surrounded entirely by friendly soldiers carrying out exercises. If you kill more than one of these soldiers (because one could simply be an accident), every single soldier on the training field will turn on you and try to kill you.

* 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 after she denounced Emily and pledged fealty to Delilah, 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]].

* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'', when you confront the BigBad at the end, he offers to let you [[WeCanRuleTogether rule by his side]]. Say yes and it's GameOver.

* There's an example in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' that crosses over with YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. You're captured and interrogated by the [[BigBad Enclave]]. Colonel Autumn demands the code to the purifier. If you actually give it to him, he shoots you. Game over.
** From the ''Point Lookout DLC'', Professor Calvert, a BrainInAJar: offers you "the greatest gift a human can can be given" to betray your ghoul partner Desmond Lockheart. It is, of course, "''Death''", and if you do turn and kill Lockheart for him, Calvert will set a small army of robots on you.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'', during the Imperial Guard stronghold assault, the Guard's Fifth Company can be turned rogue and allied to the attackers' faction by killing their [[BadBoss Commissar]]. After the battle, if you were playing as the Space Marines, you see the Marines sending the survivors back to Segmentum Command, with a request to their superiors to not punish the Guardsmen because they followed their orders and fought with honor... except Fifth Company, who the Marines summarily execute for treason. Ironic, isn't it?
** Also occurs in vanilla ''Dawn of War's'' campaign. Said traitor [[spoiler:(Isiador)]] steals the MacGuffin from right under the other space marines' noses, only to have the BigBad immediately take the item for himself and leave the traitor and his marines to guard the rear. Meaning he has to face the ''very'' angry Force Commander[[spoiler:/former best friend]] he had just betrayed. Needless to say, he doesn't last long.

* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', if you make the choice to betray [[spoiler: and kill Artix]] during the finale of the Doomwood saga, Vordred "rewards" you by making you the very first of his new undead minions as he unleashes a ZombieApocalypse upon Lore.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' has a version of this. When [[spoiler:Zulf betrays the player to the Ura]], he returns to the Tazal Terminals with them. Once the Kid arrives to collect their shard, they assume that [[spoiler:Zulf betrayed them by leading the Kid there]]. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown They]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown respond]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge poorly.]]

* ''VideoGame/BloodStorm'' kicks off with the High Emperor getting assassinated, and all eight fighters are pointing fingers at each other. [[spoiler: If [[RebelliousPrincess Tempest]] wins, she accidentally lets slip that]] she released the BigBad and [[spoiler: ordered her father's execution.]] She is promptly overrun by an angry mob and beheaded.

** ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', again, gets a very justifiable one. [[spoiler:The Meriff]] betrays Jack in person after a few seconds the latter outright lets him go, [[spoiler:by shooting him in the back with a revolver and misses[[note]][[LongList Forgets]] that he had only OneBulletLeft, surrounded by Vault Hunters, being a poor shot and failed to realize the standards of carrying a bulletproof shield in space.[[/note]]]]. Thus concluded in getting shot in the face several times while giving Jack [[spoiler:a lesson to never trust anyone]].
* In ''VideoGame/CitizenSleeper'', [[spoiler:Ethan the BountyHunter]] ends up having his contract on [[PlayerCharacter the Sleeper]]'s bounty cancelled, something which angers him, so he offers to protect the Sleeper from the his colleague, [[spoiler: Maywick]], who now holds the contract on their bounty, in return for them helping him work off his debt to the Kompressor Club. And the Sleeper even helps him steal his confiscated gun back from the club. Even after all this, [[spoiler: Ethan still]] ends up betraying the Sleeper by selling out their location to Maywick for a 50/50 split of the bounty. [[spoiler: When he arrives at the location, he is gunned down in cold blood.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': This is a problem that anyone who decides to aid Monokuma faces, as [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan Junko Enoshima is hedonistic and has poor impulse control. If betraying an ally will help her feel despair, she'll do it immediately]]. It doesn't matter if you're acting entirely according to their plan, or how useful an asset you are, because the Mastermind is too self-centered to care. [[spoiler: In the first game, her sister and co-conspirator Mukuro dies because Junko decided on a whim to execute her, and in ''Zero'', she kills her boyfriend Yasuke Matsuda for the same reason, even though his work is what made her killing game possible.]]

** 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. Granted, this may be more because he let you escape...

* In ''[[VideoGame/EliteDangerous Elite:Dangerous]]'', after the assassination of Emperor Hengist Duval, the group behind the event, Emperor's Dawn, fled and established a base of operation into Federation space, possibly thinking they would have safe haven. President Hudson sent a fleet to clear them all.

** From the ''Point Lookout DLC'', Professor Calvert, a BrainInAJar: offers you "the greatest gift a human can can be given" to betray your ghoul partner Desmond Lockheart. It is, of course, ''Death'', and if you do turn kill Lockheart for him, Calvert will set a small army of robots on you.
* Arriving at Nipton in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you get your [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first impression]] of Caesar's Legion. Nipton offered entertainment to all comers, mostly settlers and troops from the New Californa Republic and the Powder Gangers (escaped NCR prisoners.) Considering it a a WretchedHive, Legion figure Vulpes Inculta paid off the town leaders to draw the NCR visitors into a trap so the Legion could kill them. "Too late, they realised they were inside it, too." By the time you arrive, the town is a mass grave: Vulpes arranged [[LotteryOfDoom a grim version of the town lottery]] in which the first prize winner goes free, the SecondPrize winner lives but has their legs thoroughly broken, and everyone else has been shot, burned or crucified.
* A subversion of this takes place in the main campaign of ''VideoGame/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/FinalFantasyXVI'': Benedikta bribes a villager to sell out his people for being Branded, only to murder him once they're done. He claims that Benedikta's master rewards loyalty - Benedikta counters that a man who sells out his own people doesn't deserve to be called loyal, followed by a beheading.

** Katarina in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem]]'' was expecting this, even [[DeathSeeker outright begging Marth to execute her so she could atone for her sins]]. Marth however [[DefiedTrope is having none of it]], and tells Katarina that death would be no atonement, just running away from her crimes, and she needs to live so she can find the way to make up for them.
* Implied in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Playboy X and Dwayne are longtime friends. When Dwayne returns from prison a sullen man, eventually the two butt heads to the point where Niko needs to kill one to continue the plot. If the player kills Dwayne, Playboy calls him up and wires a large amount of money, but tells him that he has to try to kill Niko if they ever see each other again (They don't).

* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', the Exile can choose to [[spoiler:spare Atris]] instead of killing her, and [[spoiler:instead of letting her off lightly with such things like imprisoning or exiling her, either of which are literal rewards in her eyes, so it'd be more gifting her instead of punishing her]]. The Exile can instead choose to have [[spoiler:Atris suffer in the very room she is currently inside, in which she has [[KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge hoarded any artifacts/holocrons of the Sith she has gathered over the years, despite it being incredibly dangerous,]] with this result being the most satisfactory since, not only is she a [[StrawHypocrite hypocritical, ice-hearted bitch]] that has so many holes in her so-called "ideology" that it'd make swiss cheese look whole in comparison, she is also '''directly responsible''' for the start of the fall of the Jedi Order itself since, while the mass of Jedi on Katarr certainly was a beacon to eventually draw [[HumanoidAbomination Darth Nihilus]], she is the one '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssK9kZ5WRXI specifically responsible for it.]]''' As such, the aforementioned "punishment" of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l9KcTjUan0#t=36m58s hearing her beg]] otherwise to not remain in the very room she stored her artifacts in is a '''MUCH''' more satisfying and more appropriate way to deal with her, since she even mentions the other "reward-punishments" that she would rather have instead of the one chosen for her.]]

* ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': There is a traitor in Minas Ithil planning to let the [[TheDragon Witch-King of Angmar's]] forces inside the city. [[spoiler:Its none other than General Castamir, who thinks the siege defense is a lost cause and makes an agreement to let the city fall if they spare his daughter. When that happens, the Witch-King says [[FalseReassurance his daughter is free to "die alongside her people"]] and rewards Castamir's betrayal by smashing him with his mace. If that wasn't bad enough, he is also raised as a [[FateWorseThanDeath Wight]] by Isildur and forced into AndIMustScream state]].
* ''VideoGame/NEOTheWorldEndsWithYou'' has this happen with [[spoiler:Motoi]]. He spends an entire week feeding information to the Reapers in the hopes of joining them to save his own skin. Too bad for him that the person who offered this to him was [[ObviouslyEvil Kubo]], who [[spoiler:tells Motoi after he's been defeated by both Shoka and the Wicked Twisters that [[ILied he never actually told any of the other Reapers about this offer]], which more or less ensures Motoi's death by erasure the following day.]]
* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'': When Evan is on the mission to get his previous home of Ding Dong Dell to sign the Declaration of Interdependence, we end up finding out that the real cause of Mausinger's betrayal and assasination of King Leonhard was [[spoiler: Chancellor Vermine. Doloran couldn't corrupt Leonhard and couldn't corrupt Mausinger either, so he had to resort to convincing Vermine to slowly corrupt Mausinger and have him kill Leonhard. When Doloran appears and steals Mausinger's kingsbond to Oakenheart, Vermine asks the payment that Doloran promised him: being the new king of Ding Dong Dell. Doloran instead [[YourSoulIsMine removes his soul]] so it can be the first one he uses is in big plan. He even outright calls it "Repaying the debt of a traitor" and calls Vermine a "contemptible worm"]].
* ''VideoGame/LastScenario'': In the aftermath of the imperial civil war, [[GeneralFailure Tazar]] comes to [[TheDragon Helio]] for help as he saw the writing in the wall. Helio simply thinks it's "shameless" that Tazar is asking for aid given he [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed every organization he associated with]], including the Kingdom that Helio work for, just to [[DirtyCoward save his sorry hide]]. Then Helio adds he's joking and that Tazar can be appointed as a guard of a important facility thanks to his position as a former ally. Later we found out that [[spoiler:Tazar was sent to the Biorite Facility where he was used as a guinea pig and transformed into a misshapen horror that fought and was killed by Hilberd and co.]]
* The ''VideoGame/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.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'': Neil Fisher sells several members of Terra Save, including Claire Redfield, out to [[BigBad Alex Wesker]] as part of a plan to obtain a sample of the Uroboros virus and revive the [=FBC=]. When all is said and done, Alex gives Neil the Uroboros sample he wanted... by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor deliberately infecting him with it]], turning him into a monster that Claire has to put down.

* At one point in the PC game ''VideoGame/SpycraftTheGreatGame'', the villains approach you with the offer of joining their organization. If you accept you're tasked with assassinating the President of the United States. Regardless of whether or not you do it you're then [[spoiler:killed by another assassin as payback for arresting his girlfriend earlier]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'', [[spoiler: TheRival Max's InferioritySuperiorityComplex [[RivalTurnedEvil leads them to join]] the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Belsoto Clan]] in the hopes of one-upping the PlayerCharacter, betraying them, their hometown, and their Dojo. It isn't until [[GeneralRipper General X]] orders him to kill the player that they see Clan Belsoto for what they really are and tries to leave, [[WouldHurtAChild only to be shoved off the edge]] of the WorldInTheSky by X for their desertion and [[DisneyVillainDeath seemingly fall to their death]].]]

* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', there's a subtle implication that the abuse [[ButtMonkey Reisen]] endures from the other residents of Eientei is karmic punishment for her [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere going AWOL]] and fleeing the moon during the Earth-Lunarian War [[note]]Making matters worse, Word of God has flip-flopped on whether this was a real war or if the Lunarians took the Apollo 11 landing as an invasion attempt and freaked out[[/note]]. The other part of it is karma for her being a SpaceElf, complete with the requisite [[CantArgueWithElves arrogance]].

* In ''VideoGame/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]].]]

** Also occurs in vanilla ''Dawn of War's'' campaign. Said traitor [[spoiler: (Isiador)]] steals the MacGuffin from right under the other space marines' noses, only to have the BigBad immediately take the item for himself and leave the traitor and his marines to guard the rear. Meaning he has to face the ''very'' angry Force Commander[[spoiler:/former best friend]] he had just betrayed. Needless to say, he doesn't last long.
* ''VideoGame/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]].

* Arriving at Nipton in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you get your [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first impression]] of Caesar's Legion. Nipton offered entertainment to all comers, mostly settlers and troops from the New Californa Republic and the Powder Gangers (escaped NCR prisoners.) Considering it a a WretchedHive, Legion figure Vulpes Inculta paid off the town leaders to draw the NCR visitors into a trap so the Legion could kill them. "Too late, they realised they were inside it, too." By the time you arrive, the town is a mass grave: Vulpes arranged [[LotteryOfDoom a grim version of the town lottery]] in which the first prize winner goes free, the second prize winner lives but has their legs thoroughly broken, and everyone else has been shot, burned or crucified.

* There's an example in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' that crosses over with YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. You're captured and interrogated by the BigBad. He demands the code to the purifier. If you actually give it to him, he shoots you. Game over.
** From the ''Point Lookout DLC'', a question from a BrainInAJar: What is the greatest thing man can acquire? Answer 1: Something that I'll give to you if you backstab your ghoul partner. Answer 2: Death. Said brain betrayed the ghoul back when they were still human, so GenreSavvy players will recognize that one insane (read: lobotomized) vault dweller versus a brain in a jar and a small army of robots with frickin lazer beams is very less likely to win than one insane vault dweller and one experienced robot scientist versus a brain in a jar and a small army of robots with frickin lazer beams. Hence the backstabbing.
** Also occurs in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', though not with you. [[spoiler:Caesar's Legion was offered a deal by the town of Nipton: in exchange for a sum of caps, the mayor would round up NCR troops and Powder Gangers inside the town and trap them. The Legion captures everyone - including those who were helping - and plays a [[LotteryOfDoom game with them]].]] It helps that [[spoiler:Nipton was a WretchedHive and the mayor was an unscrupulous jerk]], though most people consider this their MoralEventHorizon, given how cruelly the Legion dealt with them - when you enter Nipton, every Powder Ganger in the town has been ''crucified'' (with the exception of one guy who they left alive with his legs busted up and another who just plain ''won'' the lottery, and was allowed to leave freely, and even then, he's so traumatized that it's hardly an improvement) and have to be [[MercyKill put out of their misery]].

* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', [[spoiler:if you make the choice to betray and kill Artix during the finale of the Doomwood saga, Vordred "rewards" you by making you the very first of his new undead minions as he unleashes a ZombieApocalypse upon Lore]].

* ''VideoGame/BloodStorm'' kicks off with the High Emperor getting assassinated, and all eight fighters are pointing fingers at each other. [[spoiler: If [[RebelliousPrincess Tempest]] wins, she accidentally lets slip that she released the BigBad and ordered her father's execution. She is promptly overrun by an angry mob and beheaded.]]

* In ''VideoGame/CitizenSleeper'', [[spoiler:Ethan the BountyHunter ends up having his contract on [[PlayerCharacter the Sleeper]]'s bounty cancelled, something which angers him, so he offers to protect the Sleeper from the his colleague, Maywick, who now holds the contract on their bounty, in return for them helping him work off his debt to the Kompressor Club. And the Sleeper even helps him steal his confiscated gun back from the club. Even after all this, Ethan ends up betraying the Sleeper by selling out their location to Maywick for a 50/50 split of the bounty. Unfortunately for Ethan, Maywick actually isn't in much of a mood to share the spoils, and he immediately guns down Ethan in cold blood as soon as he shows up at the location.]]

* ''VideoGame/LastScenario'': In the aftermath of the imperial civil war, [[GeneralFailure Tazar]] comes to [[CoDragons Helio and Earp]] for help as he saw the writing in the wall. Helio simply thinks it's "shameless" that Tazar is asking for aid given he [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed everyone he associated with]], including the Kingdom that Helio and Earp work for, just to [[DirtyCoward save his sorry hide]]. Then Helio adds he's joking and that Tazar can be appointed as a guard of a important facility thanks to his position as a former ally. Later we found out that [[spoiler:Tazar was sent to the Biorite Facility where he was used as a guinea pig and transformed into a misshapen horror that was put down by Hilberd and co.]]

* In the KillEmAll route of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', Flowey enthusiastically supports your massacre of monsterkind throughout the game... all the way up until he realizes [[spoiler:''he's next'']]. He then [[spoiler:rushes off to warn King Asgore of your arrival. Unfortunately, Asgore is still no match for you, and you take him down with ease -- and then Flowey hurriedly finishes Asgore off for you to prove he "can be useful" and tries to claim he was never ''really'' going to turn against you. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath It doesn't save him.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'', [[spoiler: TheRival Max's InferioritySuperiorityComplex [[RivalTurnedEvil leads him to join]] the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Belsoto Clan]] in the hopes of one-upping the PlayerCharacter, betraying them, their hometown, and their Dojo. It isn't until [[GeneralRipper General X]] orders him to kill the player that he sees them for what they really are and tries to leave, [[WouldHurtAChild only to be shoved off the edge]] of the WorldInTheSky by X for his desertion and [[DisneyVillainDeath seemingly fall to his death]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/CitizenSleeper'', [[spoiler:Ethan the BountyHunter ends up having his contract on the Sleeper's bounty cancelled, something which angers him, so he offers to protect the Sleeper from the his colleague, Maywick, who now holds the contract on their bounty, in return for them helping him work off his debt to the Kompressor Club. And the Sleeper even helps him steal his confiscated gun back from the club. Even after all this, Ethan ends up betraying the Sleeper by selling out their location to Maywick for a 50/50 split of the bounty. Unfortunately for Ethan, Maywick actually isn't in much of a mood to share the spoils, and he immediately guns down Ethan in cold blood as soon as he shows up at the location.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Danganronpa}}'': This is a problem that anyone who decides to aid Monokuma faces, as [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan Junko Enoshima is hedonistic and has poor impulse control. If betraying an ally will help her feel despair, she'll do it immediately]]. It doesn't matter if you're acting entirely according to their plan, or how useful an asset you are, because the Mastermind is too self-centered to care. [[spoiler: In the first game, her sister and co-conspirator Mukuro dies because Junko decided on a whim to execute her, and in ''Zero'', she kills her boyfriend Yasuke Matsuda for the same reason, even though his work is what made her killing game possible.]]

** Katarina in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem]]'' was expecting this, even [[DeathSeeker outright begging Marth to execute her so she could atone for her sins]]. [[DefiedTrope Marth however is having none of it]], and tells Katarina that death would be no atonement, just running away from her crimes, and she needs to live so she can find the way to make up for them.