History TomatoInTheMirror / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' leads the player to believe that they're fighting an otherworldly Lovecraftian horror and its army of insane cultists and warped monsters. In reality, humanity is merely an extension of the creature they're fighting, errant flesh rebelling against the host body.

-->'''Cid''': Oh, Clive. The ghost you were chasing. It was in you all along.
** In the end, Joshua wasn't murdered after all; the Phoenix managed to revive him. And the dark hooded figure Clive chased for much of the early game was Joshua himself. These revelations only come after Clive sinks into despair upon learning what he is and Cid has to encourage him to continue tugging at strings that don't make sense--considering Cid could see Joshua as well, meaning for all they knew there was a ''third'' Dominant of Fire running around.

* With the prevalence of Institute Synth infiltrators in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the player is bound to run into at least a few that don't know they're actually Synths. While characters like the Coursers, Glory, random infiltrating Settlers and [[GoodBadBug brahmin]], and Mayor [=McDonough=] know their identities, some such as [[KnightInShiningArmor Danse]], Amelia Stockton, [[MrFixIt Sturges]], and [[TheChanteuse Magnolia]] appear to have no idea. The reveal of Danse's nature is a plot point, but you won't know about the others unless you kill them and [[ImpostorExposingTest find the Synth Component on their dead bodies]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', Alex Mercer had extremely mixed feelings when he discovered that he was the Blacklight Virus, while Alex Mercer was the person who released it on New York and was its first meal. Especially since the real Mercer was worse than the virus itself.

** The canon ending to ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' also has a completely separate Tomato in the Mirror twist: Shadow was created from [[BigBad Black Doom]]'s blood, making him at least partially a Black Arm.

** In Team Dark's ending in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', Rouge discovers hundreds upon ''hundreds'' of copies of Shadow in tubes identical to the one he was in at the start of the game. It matters little, though -- once he's over the shock, he decides that original or not, he's still ''the'' Shadow the Hedgehog. This is followed up on in one of the multiple endings of ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', with Eggman admitting that Shadow is one of the copies. He gets over it instantly, kills Eggman and takes over the world.

* In the UsefulNotes/SuperNES ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' game, Lina turns out to have been a duplicate for the entire game, while the real deal has been held hostage offscreen for most of it.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. After he removes his bandages, AVAC puts up Missing and {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who disappeared during the fire: three people who worked at CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the former three missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices he's made and gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to turn himself in to AVAC, keep it a secret but reveal his identity to his friend who had been looking for him since the fire, or continue hiding.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. After he removes his bandages, AVAC puts up Missing and {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices he's made and gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to turn himself in to AVAC, keep it a secret but reveal his identity to his friend who had been looking for him since the fire, or continue hiding.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. Long after he removes his bandages, AVAC later puts up {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices he's made and gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to turn himself in to AVAC, keep it a secret but reveal his identity to his friend who had been looking for him since the fire, or continue hiding.]]

*** In the end, Joshua wasn't murdered after all; the Phoenix managed to revive him. And the dark hooded figure Clive chased for much of the early game was Joshua himself. These revelations only come after Clive sinks into despair upon learning what he is and Cid has to encourage him to continue tugging at strings that don't make sense--considering Cid could see Joshua as well, meaning for all they knew there was a ''third'' Dominant of Fire running around.

* ''VideoGane/KnightOrc'' is s snarky InteractiveFiction game where you play an orc, trying to survive in a fantasy world where you're a weak, sword-fodder {{mook}}. You have to use cleverness and dirty tricks to survive encounters with the adventurers you meet. A third of the way through the game, a malfunction reveals that you're actually a robot orc in a VirtualReality game -- you're weak because the game is stacked in favor of the human customers.

* As if Creator/{{Konami}} can't stop recycling the plot enough, a similar theme appears in ''Neo VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' when protagonist Bill Rizer meet with the "real" Bill Rizer, a.k.a. Master Contra. The BigBad reveals that both of you were part of a program called "Project C" in an effort to stop global warfare, and thus was cloned from the conscious of a legendary soldier. Considering how the game pokes fun at the Contra series and its sillier bits, it is probably an intentional jab at That Other Series From Konami.

** The last level has Tim running a deadly gauntlet, with the Princess following above, disabling traps and opening doors. He reaches the end and rewinds time, revealing the truth: she was ''setting'' traps and ''closing'' doors, trying to keep him away.

** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', the Dark Urge is an AmnesiacHero who suffers from an uncontrollable impulse that steers them towards murder and bloodshed, but cannot figure out why it is happening to them. Upon the game's third act, they would soon discover that not only were they a Bhaalspawn, but they were also responsible for the whole conspiracy surrounding the Cult of the Absolute and was originally one of its leaders before another Bhaalspawn, Orin the Red, usurped them and reduced the Dark Urge to a mere pawn for the Absolute by infecting them with a mind flayer tadpole.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has the protagonist on the run, trying to figure out why everyone wants them dead. The discovery of [[DeadManWriting a letter]] left by their adopted father reveals that they're a Bhaalspawn, a child of the Lord of Murder, and destined to rain destruction on the world. This is reinforced (and in one case foreshadowed) when some of the PlayerCharacter's dreams has them looking in a reflective surface and seeing themselves with the same BlackEyesOfEvil Bhaal had.
* In the sequel, ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', the protagonist's childhood friend Imoen is eventually revealed to be a Bhaalspawn as well. The shock of this and the torture she'd been under briefly breaks her mind and she temporarily becomes an EmptyShell.
* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', the Dark Urge suffers from an uncontrollable impulse that steers them towards murder and bloodshed, but cannot understand how or why it is happening to them. Upon the game's third act, they would soon discover that not only were they a Bhaalspawn, but they were also responsible for the whole conspiracy surrounding the Cult of the Absolute and was originally one of its leaders before another Bhaalspawn, Orin the Red, usurped them and reduced the Dark Urge to a mere pawn for the Absolute by infecting them with a mind flayer tadpole.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. Long after he removes his bandages, AVAC later puts up {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity as Jisu Cha and gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to turn himself in to AVAC, keep it a secret but reveal his identity to his friend who had been looking for him since the fire, or continue hiding.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. Long after he removes his bandages, AVAC later puts up {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices the latter made throughout the game. He also gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to reveal his true identity to everyone, keep it a secret only from AVAC, or continue hiding it.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[PastExperienceNightmare nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. After he removes his bandages at the start of Week 2, AVAC later puts up {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices the latter made throughout the game. He also gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to reveal his true identity to everyone, keep it a secret only from AVAC, or continue hiding it.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore with a bandaged face weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. After he removes his bandages at the start of Week 2, AVAC later puts up {{Wanted Poster}}s of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices the latter made throughout the game. He also gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to reveal his true identity to everyone, keep it a secret only from AVAC, or continue hiding it.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the protagonist gets washed ashore weeks after a fire broke out at Citizens Alliance Research Institute. Darcy then finds him and has him pose as his missing son Bob and lets him run his secondhand store. As "Bob" works at the shop, he slowly regains his memories through the [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy nightmares of the past]] he gets at the end of each week. AVAC also puts up Wanted posters of four people who went missing during the fire: three people who worked for CARI, and one who was suspected to be behind the fire. [[spoiler:At the end of Week 5, it's revealed by the Blackmailer, who had been spying on "Bob" since the start of the game, that the latter is actually one of the missing people, and he has a bounty of at least 3,000V on his head. At the start of the following week, the Blackmailer reveals "Bob"'s true identity depending on the choices the latter made throughout the game. He also gives him a difficult decision to make by Friday: either to reveal his true identity to everyone, keep it a secret only from AVAC, or continue hiding it.]]