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* Near the climax of ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', the region is threatened by a looming catastrophe, so one of your allies visits the town... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander to go shopping]]. When other characters understandably questions the motive, said ally retorts that there'll be no more time to go shopping ''after'' the world ends.

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* Near the climax of ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', the region is threatened by a looming catastrophe, so one of your allies visits the town... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} to go shopping]]. When other characters understandably questions the motive, said ally retorts that there'll be no more time to go shopping ''after'' the world ends.
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* Near the climax of ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', the region is threatened by a looming catastrophe, so one of your allies visits the town... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander to go shopping]]. When other characters understandably questions the motive, said ally retorts that there'll be no more time to go shopping ''after'' the world ends.
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--->'''Garrus:''' [[WhattheHellHero Damn it, Williams/Kaidan!]] You're so focused on Cerberus that you're ignoring the real threat!

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--->'''Garrus:''' [[WhattheHellHero [[WhatTheHellHero Damn it, Williams/Kaidan!]] You're so focused on Cerberus that you're ignoring the real threat!
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* Your rival Lizard Tail in ''18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker'' is obsessed with getting to the finish line before you, to the point that he starts out one delivery getting pulled over for speeding, only to spot you driving ahead of him and ''smash right through a gas station'' to pull ahead of you. Keep in mind that this is a game about ''delivering cargo'', and any racing is purely incidental.

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* Your rival Lizard Tail in ''18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker'' ''VideoGame/EighteenWheelerAmericanProTrucker'' is obsessed with getting to the finish line before you, to the point that he starts out one delivery getting pulled over for speeding, only to spot you driving ahead of him and ''smash right through a gas station'' to pull ahead of you. Keep in mind that this is a game about ''delivering cargo'', and any racing is purely incidental.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': When Raz realizes [[spoiler:Coach Oleander]] is planning to steal all the campers' brains and place them in psychic death tanks, he discusses the situation with [[{{Tsundere}} Lili]], whom he had been previously investigating the situation with. Her reaction?
-->'''Lili''': Oh my God! ''Let's make out!''
** Hilariously enough, the trope goes both ways as Raz actually starts considering the idea of making out... While she's [[DamselInDistress strapped to a chair]] next to their mentors' [[BrainTheft brainless bodies]], ''moments'' away from getting her own brain ripped out. She immediately calls him out on this and says he had the perfect chance before.
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* ''VideoGame/DemonHunterTheReturnOfTheWings'': When Hotsan catches up with the plot about the world getting destroyed soon, the first thing in his mind is the payment he'd recieve for saving it.

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* ''VideoGame/DemonHunterTheReturnOfTheWings'': When Hotsan catches up with the plot about the world getting destroyed soon, the first thing in his mind is the payment he'd recieve receive for saving it.
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* ''VideoGame/ImmortalsOfAveum'': Kirkan warns that if Sandrakk gets control of the last ley line tower, he'll simply "convince our rivers that they don't exist," and the country will starve without fish to eat. Their people take their fish very seriously. Jak dryly notes that they take fish so seriously that she seems to have completely forgotten that the ''lack of drinkable water'' will do them in first.
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* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'': The SecretLevel New York Disaster takes place after an unspecified catastrophy has flooded the city and caused a volcanic crater to appear within the metropolis. And you ''race in it''. While the Coast Guard are conducting a rescue operation to save survivors. Understandably, a member of the Coast Guard passes by in their own boat to condemn all the racers (and, by extension, the Hydro Thunder Racing Association) for trying to race in a disaster zone.

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* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'': The SecretLevel New York Disaster takes place after an unspecified catastrophy catastrophe has flooded the city and caused a volcanic crater to appear within the metropolis. And you ''race in it''. While the Coast Guard are conducting a rescue operation to save survivors. Understandably, a member of the Coast Guard passes by in their own boat to condemn all the racers (and, by extension, the Hydro Thunder Racing Association) for trying to race in a disaster zone.
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* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'': The SecretLevel New York Disaster takes place after an unspecified catastrophy has flooded the city and caused a volcanic crater to appear within the metropolis. And you ''race in it''. While the Coast Guard are conducting a rescue operation to save survivors. Understandably, a member of the Coast Guard passes by in their own boat to condemn all the racers (and, by extension, the Hydro Thunder Racing Association) for trying to race in a disaster zone.
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* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'': Ratchet has these throughout the entire second act, being more on [[spoiler: getting revenge on Captain Qwark for tricking him]] than he is about stopping Drek from destroying planets. Clank, naturally, [[WhattheHellHero calls him out on this repeatedly]]:

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* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'': Ratchet has these throughout the entire second act, being far more focused on [[spoiler: getting revenge on Captain Qwark for tricking him]] than he is about stopping Drek from destroying planets. Clank, naturally, [[WhattheHellHero calls him out on this repeatedly]]:

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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': On Ilos, Liara wants to stay and talk with Vigil, even though [[spoiler:Saren is five minutes away from summoning the Reapers to kill everyone everywhere. The other squadmate will even call her on it.]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** Shepard has [[spoiler:led an Alliance assault on Cerberus's long-hidden headquarters, dealing heavy damage to the station, killing scores of Cerberus troops, and infiltrating The Illusive Man's office]]. So when TIM shows up via hologram [[spoiler:in the office]], what does he consider most heinous?

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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series:
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''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': On Ilos, Liara wants to stay and talk with Vigil, even though [[spoiler:Saren is five minutes away from summoning the Reapers to kill everyone everywhere. The other squadmate will even call her on it.]]
* ** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': One example that's definitely not {{Played for Laughs}} is the Virmire Survivor's fixation on Cerberus when you meet them on Horizon. They remain absurdly one-track minded during the conversation, always coming back to Cerberus no matter what else Shepard brings up, and even suggests they might be the ones working with the Collectors i.e. [[InsaneTrollLogic a pro-human splinter group is working with aliens to capture human colonists]]. Regardless of the dialogue chosen or who you have with you at the time, both Shepard and one of their squadmates calls them out for this:
--->'''Garrus:''' [[WhattheHellHero Damn it, Williams/Kaidan!]] You're so focused on Cerberus that you're ignoring the real threat!
--->'''Miranda:''' Typical Alliance attitude. You're so focused on Cerberus that you're blind to the real threat.
--->'''Jack:''' [[EveryoneHasStandards I'm no fan of these guys either, but they're not the big problem here.]]
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''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** *** Shepard has [[spoiler:led an Alliance assault on Cerberus's long-hidden headquarters, dealing heavy damage to the station, killing scores of Cerberus troops, and infiltrating The Illusive Man's office]]. So when TIM shows up via hologram [[spoiler:in the office]], what does he consider most heinous?



** The Citadel DLC has at least two of these. When Shepard and friends are locked in an impenetrable vault, Shepard is more concerned with what [[DoIReallySoundLikeThat they sound like when saying]] [[CatchPhrase "I should go"]]. The second is when the Normandy is taken over, one of the things that happens is that Space Hamster is placed in a disposal bin. Normandy's about to get stolen, and this is what Shepard is raging over. If you don't ''have'' a hamster, Shepard will instead get pissed off on the grounds that the villain ''has gone after their quarters''.
** James Vega also has one in the elevator on the way to the shuttle bay during the same crisis.

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** *** The Citadel DLC has at least two of these. When Shepard and friends are locked in an impenetrable vault, Shepard is more concerned with what [[DoIReallySoundLikeThat they sound like when saying]] [[CatchPhrase "I should go"]]. The second is when the Normandy is taken over, one of the things that happens is that Space Hamster is placed in a disposal bin. Normandy's about to get stolen, and this is what Shepard is raging over. If you don't ''have'' a hamster, Shepard will instead get pissed off on the grounds that the villain ''has gone after their quarters''.
** *** James Vega also has one in the elevator on the way to the shuttle bay during the same crisis.



* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' During Cora's LoyaltyMission, she gets upset at Ryder scolding the asari Pathfinder for her actions being the reason everything's gone FUBAR on the asari ark. The other squadmate may point out that as an experienced asari commando, Sarissa has ''probably'' experienced worse than a human snarking at her before.

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* ** ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' During Cora's LoyaltyMission, she gets upset at Ryder scolding the asari Pathfinder for her actions being the reason everything's gone FUBAR on the asari ark. The other squadmate may point out that as an experienced asari commando, Sarissa has ''probably'' experienced worse than a human snarking at her before.



* ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'': Ratchet has these throughout the entire second act, being more on [[spoiler: getting revenge on Captain Qwark for tricking him]] than he is about stopping Drek from destroying planets. Clank, naturally, [[WhattheHellHero calls him out on this repeatedly]]:
--> '''Ratchet''': [[{{Hypocrite}} Is that all you can think about, Drek this, Drek that]]?! I have my own problems!
-->'''Clank''': If you cannot see the importance of this situation, you ''do'' have problems.



* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': Rokurou swears a life debt to Velvet for helping him recover the ancestral sword he has dedicated his life to--except her "help" consisted solely of telling him she spotted the sword in a storeroom a ways back. To contrast, she went to a lot more effort helping him escape a five-hundred-year prison sentence, but he only mentions that as an afterthought. There's a reason for this: As an immortal Daemon, Rokurou couldn't care less about prison, he'd break out eventually. Meanwhile, the sword is worth more to him than his life on several personal and cultural levels.

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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': Rokurou swears a life debt to Velvet for helping him recover the ancestral sword he has dedicated his life to--except her "help" consisted solely of telling him she spotted the sword in a storeroom a ways back. To contrast, she went to a lot more effort helping him escape a five-hundred-year prison sentence, but he only mentions that as an afterthought. There's a reason for this: As [[DeliberateValuesDissonance an immortal Daemon, Daemon]], Rokurou couldn't care less about prison, he'd break out eventually. Meanwhile, the sword is worth more to him than his life on several personal and cultural levels.
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* ''VideoGame/DemonHunterTheReturnOfTheWings'': When Hotsan catches up with the plot about the world getting destroyed soon, the first thing in his mind is the payment he'd recieve for saving it.
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* ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'': Carlos is more upset about failing to save his game than the dusty basement giving him asthma attacks [[spoiler:or that it's flooded by the leak from the second floor.]]

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* ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'': Carlos is more upset about failing to save his game than the dusty basement giving him asthma attacks [[spoiler:or that it's flooded by the leak from the second floor.a broken pipe.]]
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* ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'': Carlos is more upset about failing to save his game than the dusty basement giving him asthma attacks [[spoiler:or that it's flooded by the leak from the second floor.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': In the final three missions of the game, [[spoiler:with Urizen defeated, Dante and Vergil decide to just go right back to their CainAndAbel relationship and try killing each other instead of working to fix the problems around the city. There is absolutely no reason to do so and nothing to gain, with Vergil in particular rather keen about finishing things one way or another]]. The ridiculousness of the situation is given a LampshadeHanging, as [[spoiler:Nero decides that rather than allow his family to fall apart again, he is going to stop their lethal rivalry for good, prompting the FinalBoss fight]].
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* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', there are many ways one can get a GameOver, including expulsion, arrest for murder, or being beaten into a coma. Being a {{Yandere}}, the only reason the main character would be inclined to avoid them if because they would prevent her from confessing her love to her Senpai.

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