History WhatAnIdiot / VideoGames

'''Instead:''' Watson plays the perfect XanatosSucker and [[spoiler: lets Lupin steal the Rosetta stone.]]\\

'''Instead''' She sends out all of Redcliffe's knights (''all'' of them) to go find the legendary Urn of Sacred Ashes in the remote hope that it ''might'' cure him. This leaves the arling, and especially the castle and nearby village defenseless and at the mercy to whatever malevolent force just happens upon it...such as a demon that has possessed her magically-inept and naive mage son by taking advantage of his own desperate wish to save his father.

** Let's not forget that during one of the cutscenes that takes place before the actual game, Snow and his lover Serah are being chased down by PSICOM soldiers because of Serah's I'Cie status. The chase eventually leads up to an air-craft chase around the Pulse fal'cie's base who cursed Serah, and is plotting to attack Cocoon. \\

** As much as we love to bash on Snow, it turns out that even Lightning got the IdiotBall in one cutscene. During her birthday party, her sister Serah revealed that she has been branded as an I'Cie, that she is going to marry Snow, and with his help, everything is going to be alright.\\

'''Instead''': She didn't believe Serah, claimed that this was the worst birthday she ever had, told Snow off again, and to top it all off, Lightning reminds Serah that it's her job as a soldier to '''kill I'Cie like her!!''' [[WhatTheHellHero No points for guessing correctly how Serah reacted to all of that]].

'''However''': If Snow was that worried about Serah, then he could've gone along with Serah into the fal'cie to make sure she's alright.
** ...Basically, anything Snow does can also be classified as a WhatAnIdiot act.

** Let's not forget that during one of the cutscenes that takes place before the actual game, Snow and his lover Serah are being chased down by PSICOM soldiers because of Serah's I'Cie status. The chase eventually leads up to an air-craft chase around the Pulse fal'cie's base who cursed Serah, and is ploting to attack Cocoon. \\
'''You'd Expect''': Snow and Serah to lose the PSICOM soldiers as they go around the fal'cie and then land to saftey while the soldiers are distracted by the fal'cie.\\

'''Also''': Nearly all of them had been caught on camera and identified as l'Cie much earlier in the game anyway, so no doubt their pictures were plastered on every news screen in Coccoon in the intervening time. Even if Snow had covered his brand, it wouldn't have taken long for people to recognize them anyway.

'''To Be Fair''': Snow revealed his mark when he was on live TV, in order to scare off innocent civilians that could've been hurt in the crossfire between your party and the PSICOM soldiers.

'''Instead''' a few characters take no measures to hide their brand, leaving huge targets on... wherever their brands happen to be, leading to their eventual ostracization and even '''mass panic''' Snow reveals his brand on ''live television''.\\

'''Instead''' a few characters take no measures to hide their brand, leaving huge targets on... wherever their brands happen to be, leading to their eventual ostracization and even '''mass panic''' when one of them reveals their brand on ''live television''.\\

'''You'd Expect''': That Lightning, being Serah's sister and guardian, will believe Serah when she showed off her mark, will comfort and help her out through her personal dark time, and will become more open to Snow since they both care about Serah, even if she wasn't ready to trust Snow to be a worthy husband to Serah.\\
'''Instead''': She didn't believe Serah, claimed that this was the worst birthday she ever had, told Snow off again, and to top it all off, Lightning reminds Serah it's her job as a soldier to '''kill I'Cie like her!!''' [[WhatTheHellHero No points for guessing correctly how Serah reacted to all of that]].

'''Instead''': She didn't believe Serah, claimed that this was the worst birthday she ever had, told Snow off again, and to top it all off, Lightning reminds Serah that she's a solider and it's her job to ''kill I'Cie like her!!'' [[WhatTheHellHero No points for guessing correctly how Serah reacted to all of that]].

** You are Square-Enix, maker of the phenomonally succesful FinalFantasy series, known for it's interesting stories and many sidequests.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Square-Enix would continue on in this vein.\\
'''Instead''': Square-Enix makes a game that is almost a parody of 'on-rails' gameplay, the only sidequests involve killing random monsters in open fields, and a story that is about 70% "We're on the run!"

** You are Square-Enix, maker of the phenomonally succesful FinalFantasy series, known for it's interesting stories and many sidequests.

'''You'd Expect''': That Square-Enix would continue on in this vein.

** Turns out that even Lightning got the IdiotBall in one cutscene. During her birthday party, her sister Serah revealed that she's been branded as an I'Cie and that she is going to marry Snow and that everything is going to be alright.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Lightning, being Serah's sister and guardian, will believe her when Serah showed of her mark, will comfort and help Serah out through her personal dark times, and become more open to Snow since they both care about Serah, even if she wasn't ready to trust Snow to be a worthy husband to Serah.\\
'''Instead''': She didn't believe Serah, claims that this is the worst birthday she ever had, tells Snow off again, and to top it all off, Lightning reminds Serah that she's a solider and it's her job to ''kill I'Cie like her if she wasn't joking!'' No points for guessing correctly how Serah reacted.

'''Instead''' BOOM!
'''Then Again''' the game is still in alpha...

'''You'd Expect''': Snow and Serah to lose the PSICOM soldiers as they go around the fal'cie to land to saftey while the soldiers are distracted by the fal'cie.\\
'''Instead''': Snow drops off Serah right in front of the base's front door for no reason at all, only for Serah to be snacthed into the base, with the fal'cie in it. Snow then gets shot down by the soldiers and crash lands.
'''To Be Fair'': Snow already intended to take Serah to the Fal'cie, thinking that since it branded her it would a) tell her her Focus and b) protect her.

'''Instead''': She [[SenselessSacrifice kills her own husband first]], and then she destroyed the demon. So ends the game as she leaves her now wrecked house, and with no husband. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job killing him hero.]]

** '''However''' It has been implied that Armageddon is the awakening of the One Being, and that the Being almost woke up in Deception because of Onaga's attempt to fuse the Kamidogu. It has also been implied that the tournament was instigated as a means of slowing Outworld from conquering all realms (remember how Edenia came under Outworld?). Therefore, if the tournament were stopped, then Outworld would have continued capturing all realms, thus creating ''one,'' thus making it easier for the Being to wake up and destroy existence. SoYeah.

'''You'd expect''' His captors deem him too dangerous and ''[[ThisIsUnforgivable irredeemable]]'' and [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just kill him already.]]\\
'''Instead''' They decide to get more 'theatrical', thought he could redeem himself, and gave Weil an escapable FateWorseThanDeath: seal him in a capsule that prevents aging, but ''keeps'' his memory intact, hoping to make him repent. Naturally, when some idiot centuries later break the seal down, he becomes more monstrous and vengeful and eventually succeeds in [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]] and make it so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] that it's worse than hell.\\

'''Instead''' He goes away without so much as a word, resulting in the need to replace him, placing a psychotic KnightTemplar clone in charge.\\

* ''MegamanZero''. Dr. Weil has just been captured, after cursing the Dark Elf and creating [[OmnicidalManiac Omega]], who has wiped out 60% of human population and 90% of Reploid population. All mostly ForTheEvulz.\\
'''You'd expect''' His captors deem him too dangerous and ''[[ThisIsUnforgivable irredeemable]]'' and [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just kill him already.]]\\
'''Instead''' They decide to get more 'theatrical', thought he could redeem himself, and gave Weil an escapable FateWorseThanDeath: seal him in a capsule that prevents aging, but ''keeps'' his memory intact, hoping to make him repent. Naturally, when some idiot centuries later break the seal down, he becomes more monstrous and vengeful and eventually succeeds in [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]] and make it so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] that it's worse than hell.\\
XX- Missing text here, something about how X used his body to seal the Dark Elf. XX
'''Hold on.''' When did we come to this conclusion? I thought only his ''suit'' was the seal. The capsule seemed to be his own doing, a hiberation time while his plans are in pause.\\
** The Dark Elf is breaking free and X's body is the only thing he knows that can seal it.\\
'''You'd expect''' He'd tell someone, like the Four Guardians what he's doing.\\
'''Instead''' He goes away without so much as a word, resulting in the need to replace him, placing a psychotic KnightTemplar clone in charge.
** Elpizo is making headway into the Dark Elf's seal with the Baby Elves in tow.\\
'''You'd expect''' Neo Arcadia would dispatch every available resource including and especially the Guardians to intercept Elpizo.\\
'''Instead''' Only Harpuia is sent, while Leviathan and Fafnir dick around waiting to play with Zero.\\
'''However''' Harpuia's in charge of Neo Arcadia's military forces if not all of Neo Arcadia. He could have ordered the other two to deal with Zero. And last time Elpizo was a problem, they put him down with ease. Overconfidence? Maybe. Intelligence Failure? Quite possibly.

* In ''MegaManX 4'', the Repliforce army is held under suspicion for being responsible for the fall of Sky Lagoon, destroying an entire city and killing millions. Zero comes across Colonel, a high-ranking member of Repliforce, in the ruins and asks him to come in for questioning.\\
'''You'd expect''' Colonel to immediately disarm and come in for questioning, both in a show of good faith for the victims and to clear Repliforce's name.\\
'''Instead''' He declares that laying down his sword would be [[HonorBeforeReason dishonorable]] and leaves the scene, causing all of Repliforce to be declared Mavericks and start a massive war.
* Also in ''MegaManX 5'', Lifesavor discovers ominous data that implies that Zero is heavily linked to TheVirus somehow, since it increases his power output instead of hurting him. He reports this to Commander Signas, who wisely decides to keep this top secret for now and not to act rashly.\\
'''You'd expect''' Lifesavor to follow orders and go back to his job, trusting his level-headed commander to make the best decision on how to move forward, since he's just a medic.\\
'''Instead''' Lifesavor goes behind Signas's back and tells his suspicions to X, Zero's best friend, accusing Zero of being dangerous and points out that Zero is unaffected in an area brimming with TheVirus. The resulting concern and mistrust between the two friends causes them to fight and nearly get killed by the BigBad when he takes them by surprise. Lifesavor unsurprisingly hasn't been seen in the games ever since.

** '''However''', we're talking about a bitch who can decimate an entire army all by herself. Killing her is just not that easy. And anyway, you exaggerate the "every couple of missions or so" part. It happens only four times per the whole game and the only time good guys have an upper hand is when she kills [[spoiler: Aldaris]]. Since they were kind of tasked with killing him themselves by their Matriarh([[spoiler: who was under Kerrigan's mind control but they didn't know that then]]) and Kerrigan played the "I did your work for you" there wasn't much they could do except "banish" her from the planet.
* In [[MegaManX Maverick Hunter X]], X and Zero are investigating a string of mysterious incidents that are flaring across the city, including someone breaking a dangerous Maverick out of jail. Since Zero observes that the guards were defeated by a reploid with very high combat abilities, he suspects that their commander Sigma must be behind it because he's one of the few reploids with specs that high and he suspiciously cannot be contacted.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Zero to tell his friend and partner X about his suspicions, just in case he's right and Sigma tries to back-stab them while they're trying to find the truth. Especially when he, as he says, 'has a bad feeling about this'.\\
'''Instead''': Zero says absolutely nothing to his friend, meaning that while he was ready for Sigma to betray them, X wasn't, and he was used as a hostage against X while his partner froze in hesitation and confusion. A few minutes later, both he and X are badly wounded, and Abel city has been blasted with missiles.

* In ''MegaMan 9'', Wily claims Light is sick and brings Megaman over to him. Protoman teleports in, tells Megaman Wily is lying.\\
'''You'd expect''' Megaman would realize that 6 of the last 9 games (including this one) involved Wily manipulating things behind the scenes.\\
'''Instead''' He believes Wily and almost dies when Wily cheap shots him.\\
'''Even Worse''' Protoman didn't believe Wily, and yet, rather than cover his naive brother in case Wily tried something, he teleported out.

**Let's not forget that during one of the cutscenes that takes place before the actual game, Snow and his lover Serah are being chased down by PSICOM soldiers because of Serah's I'Cie status. The chase eventually leads up to an air-craft chase around the Pulse fal'cie's base who cursed Serah, and is ploting to attack. \\

'''To Be Fair''': Snow revealed his mark when he was on live TV, in order to scare off innocent civilians that could've been hurt in the crossfire between your party and the PSICOM soldiers.\\
**Let's not forget that during one of the cutscenes that takes place before the actual game, Snow and his lover Serah are being chased down by PSICOM soldiers because of Serah's I'Cie status. The chase eventually leads up to an air-craft chase around the fal'cie's base who cursed Serah. Snow's engine also caught on fire because of the soldiers shooting it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Snow and Serah to lose the PSICOM soldiers as they go around the fal'cie to land to saftey as the soldiers are distracted by the fal'cie that was on PSICOM's mind considering it was planning to attack Coccon.\\
'''Instead''': Snow drops off Serah right in front of the base's front door for no reason at all, only for Serah to be snacthed into the base, with the fal'cie in it. Snow then get hit by the soldiers and crash lands.

'''Instead''': He lets Marston go and re-unite with his family for several days before invading his ranch with a company of trained soldiers. Marston, with the advantage of fighting on his own turf and resting up, kills dozens of them. Marston then dies right before his son's eyes. The same son then returns to get his vengeance on Ross (and Ross' family, if the player feels particularly vindictive)]]\\
*In ''Phantasmagoria'', a young couple moves into a house that was once owned by an evil sorceror. Your charecter Adrienne then opens a box she wasn't supposed to open, thus making a demon posses her husband. During the game's course she picks up a magic spell that can easily defeat the demon.\\

'''Instead''': She kills her own husband first, and then she destroyed the demon. So ends ''Phantasmagoria'' as she leaves her now wrecked house, and with no husband. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job killing him hero.]]