History WhatAnIdiot / VideoGames

** In each homeworld is a playable character locked in a cage guarded by Moneybags. Moneybags naturally will release them for a bribe, and in every case, the playable character then proceeds to attack him.\\

'''Instead:''' She tells her anyway, sparking her HeelFaceTurn.

** After defeating the Sorceress, you find [[MoneyDearBoy Moneybags]] just standing out in the open. Turns out he found a dragon egg and plans to sell it in Avalar.\\

** After Spyro and Bentley defeat her latest monster, the Sorceress reveals her true plan to Bianca. Bianca is not happy about said true plan and [[HeelFaceTurn turns on her boss]].\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Sorceress to make sure that Bianca doesn't go ''anywhere'' and either lock her up or kill her. Bianca is privy to many secrets about her base and she could easily help Spyro defeat her.\\
'''Instead:''' The Sorceress seemingly doesn't even bother to stop her, only saying that she'll deal with Bianca later.\\
'''Result:''' Bianca frees Hunter and tells Spyro how to get into the Sorceress's castle, leading to her being defeated.

'''Instead:''' [[spoiler:Too blinded by avarice and fearful of their wealthy patrons deserting spiritualism in favour of science amidst the UsefulNotes/IndustrialRevolution, the Alchemy Guild [[SkewedPriorities went ahead with the experiment]], gathering enough magic crystals to forcibly implant into the bodies of young people to sacrifice as part of a ritual to summon a whole army of demons to Earth, all for the purpose of [[EvilIsPetty frightening the world into continuing to give them financial support]].]]\\

'''Instead:''' He fabricates a story about how her father talked about "his vaunted faith and how it would shield the town from any danger" and took no action in the name of his beliefs, that "in the end, he couldn't even save himself" and scornfully laughs about how his murder and subsequent fall of House Azelhart "goes to show what the faith of a fool is worth". This recount of Primrose's father is proved to be BlatantLies by several recounts of him by Primrose, Revello, and even [[VillainRespect the Left Hand of the Crow]]. Not to mention, [[TooDumbToLive these words are spoken by one of the three men directly responsible for her father's murder in the first place]].\\

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': The Alchemist Guild... where to even begin? Journals from an anonymous member found throughout the game reveal how demons were summoned to Earth and how the Shardbinders were created. [[spoiler:The Alchemist Guild researched how to summon demons, led by the anonymous writer of the journals, and discovered how to transmute magic crystals to do so. They successfully summoned a single demon, which proceeded to almost ruin the entire guild single-handedly, as well as kill many innocent lives before it was put down.]]\\
'''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:The Alchemist Guild to have realized that if ''one'' demon is capable of such pointless devastation, then summoning ''a whole army'' of demons is a ''really'' bad idea bordering on TooDumbToLive, and immediately stopped their research.]]\\
'''Instead:''' [[spoiler:Too blinded by avarice and fearful of their wealthy patrons deserting spiritualism in favour of science amidst the UsefulNotes/IndustrialRevolution, the Alchemist Guild [[SkewedPriorities went ahead with the experiment]], gathering enough magic crystals to forcibly implant into the bodies of young people to sacrifice as part of a ritual to summon a whole army of demons to Earth, all for the purpose of [[EvilIsPetty frightening the world into continuing to give them financial support]].]]\\
'''Bonus Idiot Points:''' [[spoiler:An internal SpannerInTheWorks who realized how greedy and selfish the Alchemist Guild had become put the most powerful Shardbinder and the crux of their "plans", [[TheHero Miriam]], in a magic sleep for ten years, weakening the summoning by half... which was ''still'' powerful enough to devastate the world to the point that it still hasn't recovered ten years later. If the Alchemist Guild had succeeded in sacrificing Miriam, they would have brought about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt because ''money and power''.]]\\
'''But Wait, It Gets Worse:''' [[spoiler:It is strongly suggested that the Alchemist Guild's actions are what led to Dominique [[EvilStoleMyFaith losing her faith in God]] and [[RageAgainstTheHeavens deciding to acquire enough power to slay gods]], becoming the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the game. This makes the writer of the journals the [[GreaterScopeVillain overarching antagonist]] who is responsible for pretty much ''the entire story''. Way to go, dumbasses!]]

* ''BorderlandsThePreSequel'': At the end of Jack's quest to take the Vault, [[spoiler:Lilith shows up, Phasewalking in]].\\

'''Instead:''' She [[spoiler:smashes the Vault relic, scarring Jack, and escapes before finishing him, leaving a psychotic dictator hellbent on getting revenge on her and Roland.]]\\

'''Instead:''' [[FailedASpotCheck They do nothing]] with the wish bushes. You can see where this is going.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':

* In the ''Free Man'' route on ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'', the Right Hand Man desires revenge against Henry Stickmin for arresting his former boss.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Him to just kill Henry immediately upon capturing him. Given that this is the same guy who singlehandedly infiltrated an airship full of dangerous criminals and brought him to near death to the point that he's forcefully rebuilt as a cyborg, Henry is certainly a huge threat to the clan if he stays alive.\\
'''Instead:''' He just imprisons him within their spaceship before leaving him be without any surveillance whatsoever. Unsurprisingly it not only lead to Henry successfully escaping but also destroys the ship's main engine, resulting in him along with the remaining Toppat members stuck in space with no way of going back to earth.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'':
** In World of Tomorrow, Dr Francesca De Santis is informed of the destruction of the bioweapon she was creating. She decides to go down and survey the damage.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' De Santis to change into a hazmat suit as she investigates the containment room, and perhaps bring some bodyguards along with her. \\
'''Instead:''' De Santis enters the containment room completely alone, dressed in her lab uniform, and is killed when the gas is pumped back in.
** Lawyer Ken Morgan runs into his former client, hotheaded musician Jordan Cross. Cross accuses Morgan of being sent to spy on him by his estranged father. Morgan, embarrassed, takes Cross up to his suite to continue the conversation.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Morgan to speak to Cross in the lounge, library or gardens of the suite.\\
'''Instead:''' Morgan, out of all places, speaks to Cross with his back facing an open window. When Morgan belittles Cross, Cross shoves Morgan out of the window and to his death. Even worse: what Morgan previously defended Cross for? The murder of his girlfriend, who Cross pushed off his penthouse roof.

** You have to find a black quill hidden in another house's common room.
--> '''You would expect''': your character to simply ask someone from that house to find it for you or let you in.
--> '''Instead''': you shrink and unshrink yourself to sneak in yourself, despite being told how dangerous that is and having just learned that charm.
--> '''Result''': you attract unwanted attention and get in trouble after distracting the prefect with a prank.
** Penny needs someone to impersonate Snape and get Merula caught.
--> '''You would expect''': her to ask Tonks, the metamorphmagus, who probably already has practice at similar pranks.
--> '''Instead''': she has '''you''' use polyjuice and bumble through it.
--> '''Result''': Hagrid falls for it, [=McGonagall=] is suspicious, Dumbledore is onto you and has his own fun playing along and lowkey messing with you.
** A valuable flying broom goes missing, and Skye Parkin accuses a rival House's Beater of stealing it. She decides to take the player character along to search for the broom in the other House's common room.
--> '''You would expect''': Skye Parkin to search '''quietly''', peeking under the furniture '''without''' moving it, to avoid being heard by the Head of House.
--> '''Instead''': She starts flipping furniture and making a huge racket.
--> '''Result''': She and the player character gets caught and landed in detention.

* ''VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery''
** A valuable flying broom goes missing, and Skye Parkin accuses a rival House's Beater of stealing it. She decides to take the player character along to search for the broom in the other House's common room.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' that Skye Parkin searches QUIETLY, peeking under the furniture WITHOUT moving it, to avoid being heard by the Head of House.\\
'''Instead:''' [[WithCatlikeTread She starts casting Flipendo willy-nilly, which overturns all the furniture with a huge racket.]]\\
'''As a Result:''' Skye Parkin and the main character get caught and have to serve detention.

* In ''VisualNovel/RootLetter'''s "Cursed Letter" route, Yukari Ishigami believes that killing Max will dispel the titular curse, and attempts to stab him, only to nearly fall off a cliff, only saved by [[SaveTheVillain Max grabbing her]].\\

'''Instead:''' She tries to stab Max as he is pulling her up, predictably causing him to let go and her to [[DisneyVillainDeath plunge to her doom]].

* In ''{{VideoGame/Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', [[spoiler:Tia has defeated Iris in the final battle. Iris ponders why she'd lose to a single mage fighting by herself, and Tia reminds her that she wasn't actually fighting by herself; everyone was cheering her on. It's because Iris couldn't believe in others nor love her fellow man that she lost. Tia then tells Iris to give up]].\\
'''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:Iris would agree to surrender and then stop her evil deeds and change her ways.]]\\
'''Instead:''' [[spoiler:She, as the MagnificentBastard she is for knowing where Tia has positioned herself, laughs and mocks Tia for having let her guard down, and invokes the power of her tiara, activating the self-destruct mechanism of her palace in an attempt to crush Tia with it, and escapes in her capsule. Unknown to her, however, Tia and Lilli are saved by Talos, and they happily reunite with their friends and colleagues from RKS.]]

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'', the protagonists have just captured Lev Kravchenko, former [[TheDragon dragon]] to previous BigBad Dragovich, and take him to a compound to interrogate him.\\

* In ''VideoGame/CallofDutyInfiniteWarfare'', the SDF has attacked a SATO installation and stolen a prototype weapon just before UNSA Fleet Week.\\

** Late in the game, Jodie is pressed into infiltrating a [[UsefulNotes/ChineseWithChopperSupport PLA]]-{{Expy}}'s top secret UnderwaterBase with her former CIA teammates, which include both her love interest Ryan and the team's token-Asian member Nick. Finding a submarine dry-dock and seeing no alternative to piloting the sub down and walking in through the front door, Jodie suggests DressingAsTheEnemy to try and slip by unnoticed. Since Jodie's supernatural connection to Aiden is needed for the mission, she gets a pass, but she still needs some backup and since the sub is only a two seater, only one other member of the squad can go with her.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Lianna would reject this offer instantly. Besides being TheChosenOne (even though that didn't work out), Lianna has devoted her entire life to her faith, her church, and her family, all of which are bound to the Sacred Flame. Also, all of the local villagers look to Lianna for guidance; not only would she be setting a terrible example if she turned her back on them, there's no way any of them would forgive her. Finally, there's no guarantee that the Savior is telling the truth; for all Lianna knows, the Savior is just telling her what she wants to hear. Even though Lianna's under a lot of stress, she would have enough good sense to turn the Savior's offer down without a second thought.\\

'''Instead:''' Lianna accepts the offer and becomes the Savior's vestal. As a result, she commits numerous terrible acts in the name of her goals. [[spoiler:Lianna knocks Ophilia out with a drugged glass of wine, steals the Sacred Flame, and throws her lot in with the Savior. This cult of the Savior ends up trying to sacrifice numerous villagers' lives in Wispermill, the rest of the town are converted into brainwashed fanatics, it weakens the bonds that hold back the EldritchAbomination Galdera, and it's eventually revealed that [[ILied the Savior was lying]] about bringing Josef back anyways. This means Lianna turned her back on everything she knew and loved, nearly got numerous people killed, and helped nearly resurrect a dark god... AllForNothing.]] Small wonder that, at the end of Ophilia's story, Lianna is sitting in her room, [[HeroicBSOD staring at the wall and refusing to talk to anyone]]. [[spoiler:The whole debacle becomes even HarsherInHindsight when the player reaches [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon the Gate of Finis]] and finds a diary entry by the Savior containing his thoughts post-death, where he admits he murdered Josef via slow-acting poison as part of his plan to make Lianna [[DespairEventHorizon fall into despair]] and [[ManipulativeBastard take advantage of her grief]] to obtain power from Galdera via the aforementioned ritual.]]

* In the Main/RaisingSim ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', at times entrepreneurs come to your castle to ask you to fund their new great ideas, such as a printing press or field hospital. The money they are asking for is minimal compared to the state budget.\\

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': PlayedForLaughs: After the PlayerCharacter busts Kazuma Sakamoto out of the room he was trapped in in Grasstown[[note]]Aeon Genesis translation[[/note]]/Bushlands[[note]][[Creator/{{Nicalis}} NICALiS]] translation[[/note]], he and Professor Booster notice a motorcycle nearby that Kazuma deduces still works.\\

** In one of the street cases, Cole Phelps and Roy Earle, two cops stumbled into a fight between Dudley Lynch and a black man on the roof of a house over a girl, Shannon Perry, where the black man was thrown down to his death. After the fight, Dudley assured the girl that he did it all for her and they seem to have a romantic moment before Cole Phelps [[MomentKiller came up the roof]] to talk to Dudley about the incident.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Dudley would explain that the incident was a case of self-defense and that Shannon would testify for him. Thus allowing him to get out of the situation Scot-free.\\
'''Instead''': He ran away, while throwing Shannon hard to the floor, then we have a chase scene where the cops managed to capture him. ''Then'' Dudley tried to tell the cops that the whole thing was a case of self-defense but Cole calmly told him that the whole thing is out of his hands and said that if so, Shannon would testify so for him. But given the way he treated her when he was about to make a run for it, it seems unlikely.\\

** At the finale, Human kite planned to bluff the Coon out by playing as [[spoiler: Mitch Connor]], the plan works, as The Coon gets rattled out immediately.