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9	* Happens a lot in online multiplayer shooters, especially if you play as a support class. Trying to save another online player on the same team, often results in that player getting fragged instead.
10	* ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'' has a particular brutal example on the final level of the third game. To elaborate: when stranded in enemy territory during the campaign you end up assisting a British SIS taskforce while taking part in a resistance movement with local guerrillas. After rejoining NATO you are instructed to never get near any members of the taskforce if you ever see or hear of them, until a wounded SIS soldier who befriended you calls you to meet him in a location in the middle of nowhere just as NATO begins it's final attack. You can choose: Do you leave him to die and follow orders? The attack succeeds, the enemy forces surrender, and the game is over. Do you go [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight help him anyway]]? [[spoiler:You find him dying in the aftermath of an SIS assault on a secret compound; he asks you to fight your way through the remaining enemy troops and retrieve and deliver what is implied to be a [[DoomsdayDevice doomsday device]] to the rest of the taskforce]]... [[FromBadToWorse but that's not the bad part.]] [[spoiler:After delivering the device, the captain proceeds to extract the weapon, but promise you answers if you wait there for his return. Night falls and you are informed that they can't (or won't) come back, meaning you are left stranded in the countryside, forcing you to find your way to the bulk of the army you just deserted earlier.]] [[RuleOfThree And then it gets worse:]] [[spoiler:not only was the main attack a failure, but now, besides NATO scrambling to regroup and evacuate the island, the two enemy armies that used to be allies are fighting each other as well as NATO which means you're gonna have to make your way singlehandedly throughout the free-for-all clusterfuck of a warzone that the country has become, in order to find a way off the island. Have fun!]]
11	* A rare villainous example in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]] saved Connor from execution once [[spoiler:because Connor was his son]]. When Connor mortally wounds him, [[spoiler:the dying Haytham]] admits he should have killed him long ago.
12	** The final story achievement is named after this trope.
13	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' more directly levels these at the player themselves, rather than being an inevitable event that you have no control over, by making choice more important. Namely, [[spoiler: if you choose to save a baby from a burning building instead of pursuing Chrysis when you have the chance, you'll eventually learn that she's abducted and killed an innocent man somewhere else in Greece to draw you out, after which you get to finish her off]]. Your good deeds aren't ''always'' punished, though--sparing [[spoiler: Nikolaos]] when you finally approach him will pay off for you in the end.
14	* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', you can rescue a random thug from falling into a pit of acid. How does he thank you? [[AlwaysChaoticEvil By trying to attack you the second you take your eyes off him]].
15	* In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'', Alice Angel succeeds in capturing Boris because he left the safe house to help Henry.
16	* In ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'', Gorath's method of saving his race, namely by warning their sworn enemies about the planned invasion to nip it in the bud and prevent another costly war, unfortunately happens to be one that his entire race condemns him for. [[spoiler:Ultimately, his heroism directly leads to his death -- had he not been merciful enough to be willing to spare [[ArchEnemy Delekhan]] even after everything he had done and had simply killed him when he got the chance, the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lifestone]] never would have been endangered and called for him to protect it at the cost of his life. ]]
17	* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'': Arguably the moment that Jack's StartOfDarkness began is when he attempted to spare the Meriff of Concordia after getting information out of him. As soon as his back is turned, the Meriff pulls a gun and attempts to shoot him, but is such a lousy shot that he misses from two feet away and then jams his gun. Jack kills him while berating him for his stupidity, and then walks away from the encounter having learned the lesson that showing mercy to your enemies will only come back to bite you in the ass later.
18	* Implied in [[VideoGame/RedEarth Leo]]'s ending in ''VideoGame/CapcomFightingEvolution'', which has him [[BigDamnHeroes split Blade in half to protect Tessa and Mai Ling]]. Then you remember that in ''Red Earth'', [[spoiler:killing Blade resulted in Leo's bad ending in which [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie he succumbs to his curse and becomes a lion banished to the wilderness]]...]]
19	* Deconstructed in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' with Lisa, who was burned at the stake for practicing medicine. Dracula does NOT take this well and resumes his war with humanity.
20	* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 4'' has a random wartime event that tells you the enemy has shown unexpected mercy towards wounded prisoners of war, and that this could be a stepping stone towards negotiations for peace. The player then receives the option to either force a 10 turn peace treaty with a +1 bonus to the relations with the enemy civ, or continue the fight. The option to continue the fight actually says "No good deed shall go unpunished".
21	* In ''VideoGame/TheDarknessII'', one of the collectible Relics is called "The Ashes of the Unnamed." It's all that remains of one member of [[AncientConspiracy The Brotherhood]] who avoided slow corruption by The Darkness after they'd captured it. When, under its influence, they decided that the only way to save the world was to destroy it, he set the Darkness free. What did he get in return? The Angelus showed up and, in a fit of intense rage, [[KillItWithFire burned him so thoroughly]] that it completely consumed his soul. His reward for saving the world was [[CessationOfExistence becoming the first human to ever meet non-existence]], leaving behind just ashes in both Heaven and Earth. Johnny Powell even says the story lends credence to this very trope.
22	* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is fond of this trope:
23	** The "reward" for following through with the quest to link the First Flame is a horrible burning existence as the new Cinder. And it's doubtful how "good" this deed really is (are you really reviving the world and keeping the Dark at bay, or are you just prolonging the world's suffering as it dies a slow, inevitable death?).
24	** Try to help Siegmeyer along his quest? He starts to lose faith in himself because you've basically been rubbing it in his face how much more of a badass you are than him. Eventually he attempts a SelfSacrificeScheme to repay you for all of your help, meaning he either dies assisting you, or you can save his life once more and deny him his last grasp at regaining any amount of knightly honour, causing him to finally cross the DespairEventHorizon and go Hollow. He's also the only one of your Hollowed friends that you don't end up fighting yourself. Instead, he is killed by his own daughter.
25	** Tell Laurentius how you got more powerful pyromancies? He'll go Hollow in Blighttown looking for Quelana but never finding her, forcing you to kill him. Tragically, Quelana is only about ten feet away from him, but she's invisible to everyone without a Pyromancy Flame upgraded to at least +10. People who dug through the game files found out that Laurentius's Flame is only +8. So close, yet so far...
26	** Help Lautrec out of his prison cell? He'll [[spoiler:murder the Fire Keeper and take her soul, rendering the Firelink Shrine bonfire useless. Although the player later has the option to invade him and take the soul back]].
27	* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'': In Aldia's Keep, you'll come across a terrified man locked in a magical cell. Release him and you'll discover that he is a powerful sorcerer [[DemonicPossession possessed by an evil spirit]], and he will now hunt you down and invade you repeatedly throughout the game. It's implied that the man actually locked ''himself'' in the cell to prevent his unwanted houseguest from hurting others.
28	* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' has you meet Yurt, [[NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast the Silent Chief]] in the second part of the prison level while he is caged. He is dressed in black Sauron-like armor, and wields scythes, but he happens to be one of the few sane humans left, and claims to be here to help fight demons as well. When you let him out, he thanks you and says he'll remember this. When you return to the Nexus later, instead of finding the usual scene of just another NPC added, you find two dead bodies. If you do nothing, the next bodies will be those of the shopkeepers (some of whom have items you can't get elsewhere). This continues until either you talk to him, whereupon he attacks you, revealing that he was here to kill all humans left in the kingdom, or he runs out of [=NPCs=] and sticks around waiting for you to talk to him.
29	** You also have Patches the Hyena, who every time you "help" him, he traps you with a horrible enemy, Satsuki, who if you're good offers you a quest to grab a sword where at the end he tries to kill you with it if you give it to him, tries to kill you to steal it if you don't, and just straight-up tries to kill you if he sees you with it equipped, if you're bad, his evil version tries to kill you without even bothering with the quest, and of course, there is the end of the game [[spoiler:where you get to be a Monumental, a living seal for the [[BigBad Old One]] until you die, assuming that the Maiden in Black was just doing the same routine as last time, though this is up for debate. Oh, this also means that all Soul Arts will be gone from the world.]]
30	* Played for comedic purposes in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3\|AbsenceOfJustice}}'' during the Almaz ending. He was right to stop Mao, but ends up losing everything for it. Possibly a case where YankTheDogsChain went too far.
31	** Taken to extremes in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4\|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' with Artina's death being caused by her healing someone. The recipient becomes an OmnicidalManiac as a result of said death.
32	* Support nice old man Harrowmont to keep ruthless fratricidal bastard Bhelen off the throne of Orzammar in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''? Congratulations, Harrowmont gets assassinated within a year of his coronation, and Orzammar is even ''more'' isolated and generally worse off than it was before you intervened.
33	** VideoGame/DragonAgeII DLC 'mark of the assassin' has you potentially sparing the life of a spoilt noble who tried to kill you for 'stealing' his wyven kill. [[spoiler: Doing so causes him to come back and try and kill you later.]]
34	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'': You may encounter a woman who will ask you to retrieve a ring from a pond. Say yes, hop in and grab it (if you can find the damn thing), and [[spoiler: she and her visibly invisible friend will attack you.]] "No good deed goes unpunished, outlander," indeed.
35	* ''VideoGame/EasternExorcist'' have this as the main plotline of Lun Yun-chuan's quest. Once an esteemed member of the Cangshan Sect Exorcists, Lu sparing a helpless, innocent ''hulijing'' leads to an unknown traitor informing the demons of his quest, where Lu's brothers are killed and he's expelled from the exorcist order to atone for his failure.
36	* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERStarResistance'' at the end of Walhalla's route. After the valkyrie of heaven fights her way through 6 stages of Dark Force's minions, defeating his CoDragons and her own [[TheRival rival fight]], the other valkyries turn their weapons on her for manifesting the demon taint in herself. It's only though last minute mercy that she's merely banished to Earth instead of executed on the spot.
37	* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', at one point Lucas (who by this point is a fugitive wanted for murder) has the choice of saving a drowning boy while a cop who saw him leave the crime scene happens to be approaching. If he does save him, the cop does in fact recognize him but chooses to let him go.
38	** Double subverted. Much later, the cop tells the detective investigating Lucas about the drowning boy incident, thus giving her a vital clue.
39	* The ending of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout\|1}}'' is a stunning example. You've saved both your Vault from fatal dehydration and the entire wasteland from The Master and his mutant army, but [[spoiler:when you finally return home, ready to finally rest, the Overseer regretfully exiles you so your heroism doesn't inspire other anyone to leave and try to make a life for themselves outside]]. [[spoiler: Canonically, it doesn't even work, as the Overseer's action disgusts and infuriates many other vault dwellers, and the ones who revere your bravery leave the vault; they eventually encounter you in the wasteland and you join them to found Arroyo.]]
40	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':
41	** Quotes the original's ending almost word-for-word when you finish the "Trouble on the Home Front" quest. By leaving Vault 101 at the beginning of the game you've sparked a civil war between a faction that wants to leave and another that's convinced the Vault is the only safe place in the world. You can stop the bloodshed and bring the conflict to a peaceful resolution, even get your childhood friend chosen as the new Overseer, but [[spoiler:she'll ask that you leave because your presence is dangerously disruptive]].
42	** If your karma is too high, you will be hunted down by [[BountyHunter Talon Company mercenaries]], who said you have 1000 caps on your head. Inverted if you are evil as well, as you will be hunted down the same way by the [[CowboyCop Regulators]].
43	** Similarly, if you refuse Mister Burke's Fusion Pulse Charge offer or disarm the bomb without speaking to him first, he will also randomly send Talon Co. hitmen after you.
44	** In ''Point Lookout'', siding with Desmond and placing the jamming device on the Ferris wheel will permanently turn the Tribals hostile.
45	* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
46	** Getting happy endings for your companions is... difficult. Help Arcade link up with his foster family and fight with them at the Second Battle for Hoover Dam? [[spoiler:Odds are good he'll end up a military prisoner or run out of the Mojave by bounty hunters]]. Convince Veronica to leave the isolationist Brotherhood of Steel to do humanitarian work with the Followers of the Apocalypse? [[spoiler:Oops, angry Brotherhood Paladins have slaughtered the entire Followers outpost so Veronica can't share their secrets]].
47	** If you want to make peace between the NCR and the Kings without assassinating Pacer but The King shuts you down because you've already used up the favor he owes you from completing his quest, then the NCR's ambassador Crocker is obligated to send you to Colonel Moore for further orders. Except he knows [[MurderIsTheBestSolution what her plan will be]] so he suggests that you ask for help from Colonel Hsu instead. If you take his advice and work with Hsu for a comparatively less violent solution, Crocker is fired.
48	** In a DummiedOut event restored in certain mods, if you manage to save Benny from the Legion, he'll make an attempt to ambush you later on, mocking you for being a "goody-two-shoes" and being stupid enough to trust [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder him]].
49	* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Emiya Shirou stays at school late to sweep the archery dojo as a favour to his friend Shinji. This gets him ''stabbed in the heart''. By Cúchulainn.
50	** Also, [[spoiler:Archer. His entire ''life'' turned out to be one big example of this trope as a result of his blind devotion to his ideals, and he keeps on doing it even after death.]]
51	** In ''Literature/FateZero'' the only thing [[spoiler:Kayneth]] did which could be considered an act of kindness -- [[spoiler:giving up at the Grail War (with it his only chance to restore his pride and damaged body) to save his fiancee's life]] -- gets him killed immediately after.
52	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
53	** Vincent from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. He was a Turk (basically an elite hitman), yes, but was a genuinely kind person who fell in love with the woman he was assigned to protect. This woman then proceeded to break his heart and get married to the resident MadScientist, getting pregnant with his child almost right away. Vincent pulled an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and continued protecting her, until she started ''experimenting on her unborn child'' with her husband's help. He then confronted her husband about this, wanting nothing more than to protect her and keep an innocent baby from pain, and was consequently shot in the chest. Instead of letting him die peacefully, Lucrecia and Hojo made him into their newest lab rat, performed several horrific experiments on him, shoved four demons into his psyche, and then tossed him into a coffin to sleep for the next 30 years. And yet, he blames ''himself'' for all this mess. The amount of guilt he places on himself is incredible, especially since he was practically blameless.
54	*** Similarly, the woman who left him basically did it out of guilt for her part in Vincent's father's death when both were trying to research Chaos.
55	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has [[spoiler:The Warriors of Darkness, a group of adventurers who were heroes back in their own world. They were tasked with defeating the evil that was plaguing their world to drive back the darkness and they fought on until the darkness was completely vanquished. This caused the world to be flooded in pure light since said light was now unopposed and given enough time, it would destroy the world completely. This is reflected with Arbert's anguish when he tells the player character of his party's tragic tale and even outright says that they did everything that was asked of them and they still lost their homeworld.]]
56	** Ramza in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' is one of the only legitimately good people in the story. His run of bad luck starts when he tries to help a desperate squire ([[TheScrappy Argath]]) rescue his Lord and Ramza's own brother subtly suggests how to go about it, which leaves his home at Eagrose undefended when the Corpse Brigade comes by to kidnap his best friend's sister. When the ''entire world'' is full of {{jerkass}}es, ''not'' being a {{jerkass}} is ''asking'' for trouble. For Ramza to actually go around telling all the Jerk Asses to knock it off? Super trouble. In addition, Ramza is arguably ''one of the only people who survives'' (he either directly or indirectly ''killed'' a good amount of everyone else), and he's eventually vindicated by history, albeit hundreds of years later.
57	** Chaos in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' was shown to be somewhat merciful toward his minions, even being a bit unwilling to punish them if they disobey him. Unfortunately for him, this also results in most of the villains not being truly loyal to Chaos, to the extent that once he [[spoiler:offs Cosmos]], they end up doing their own thing, abandoning Chaos, with only Garland remaining by Chaos' side.
58	*** [[spoiler:His father]] Cid didn't have it any easier. Cid was an inventor and scientist who only wanted to help protect the people of Onrac during a war. His reward for his work was to be imprisoned along with his innocent wife after refusing to perform unethical experiments. After he and his wife manage to escape, they agree to take the time to rescue [[spoiler: Chaos and Cosmos]] from their imprisonment. This act leads to Cid's wife being shot while he [[spoiler: Chaos and Cosmos]] get trapped in an alternate dimension.
59	* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', after Corrin and their companions defeat Zola, a Nohrian mage, they protect him from Nohrian prince Leo, who wants to kill Zola out of disgust for Zola's methods. A few chapters later, Zola ends up betraying Corrin and the others, revealing that even his decision to risk his life to save Takumi was a calculated ruse to gain their loyalty. Zola then ends up becoming an example of this himself when he [[PetTheDog begs Garon to spare Corrin]], only for Garon to kill Zola for making demands of him.
60	* In Dimitri's route in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':
61	** Pre-timeskip, during his support chain with Byleth, the two of them teach a group of orphans to use the sword. [[spoiler: Post-timeskip, the same orphans attack Dimitri offscreen]].
62	** When Dimitri and [[spoiler: Edelgard]] were children, he gifted them with a dagger to cut a way into their future. At the end of his route, when Dimitri [[spoiler: offers a defeated Edelgard a chance to rebuild the future together]], [[spoiler: Edelgard]] attempts to kill him with the very gift he gave them.
63	* In the backstory to ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', Dom testifies in Fenix's defense after he is charged with desertion for his ''entirely justified'' attempt to save his father. His "reward" is being demoted, facing public humiliation, and being hated by the top brass for "supporting a traitor".
64	* Happens to Niko quite hard, depending on the choices you make with certain characters in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''. One mission has you searching and killing a specific person and he begs for his life when you find him. If you let him go, he thanks you, but when you meet him again on the street later on, he "rewards" you by attempting to kill you. The end missions also enforce this trope if you decide to go on the Revenge path. [[spoiler: Niko sticks to his morals and kills Dimitri for betraying him and putting him and Roman through so much hell. However, the deed comes back to bite Niko in the ass when Jimmy, the guy Niko refused to do the deal with, shows up at Roman's wedding and shoots at everyone, killing Niko's girlfriend, Kate.]]
65	* Happens in spades to Norman Jayden from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. [[spoiler: If he goes to the warehouse to save Shaun, he slowly succumbs to his addiction to ARI and inability to differentiate it from reality]]
66	** Massive irony (and massive spoilers) in one possible endings. If [[spoiler: the BigBad]] selflessly saves a certain person's life, and [[spoiler: kills all the heroes]], he'll appear to get away with it all in the end only to end up being killed by the one, completely unrelated person whose life he saved.
67	*** [[spoiler: Well, that character wasn't completely unrelated -- the BigBad was responsible for the deaths of her husband and son, which she discovered before shooting him.]]
68	* This happened in ''VideoGame/HometownStory''. A character ended up being the "culpirt" in a FailureToSaveMurder when he couldn't prevent a little girl he knew from falling off a cliff. He however decided that he could at least bring the body back to her parents. Upon seeing her, the girl's father assumed he had actually killed her on purpose, which the character didn't deny since he felt guilty about the whole thing.
69	* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'': At the end of the Henchman's level, [[SparingTheFinalMook he spares the guy who shows up after he's killed everyone else in the chop shop]]. That guy he spares, Andy, goes to the Fans and tells them about him, [[spoiler:and they hunt him down and kill him.]]
70	* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'': About an hour or so into the game, Joel and Tommy go out of their way to save a woman named Abby from a horde of infected and take her back to her friends. Then they find out who Joel is, and how does Abby repay him for saving her life? [[spoiler: She kneecaps him with a shotgun before [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome beating him to death with a golf club]], with Tommy getting knocked out when he tries to help and Ellie arriving too late to do anything and being ForcedToWatch. [[YouKilledMyFather All because Abby's father was the surgeon Joel shot at the end of the previous game]].]]
71	* ''VideoGame/LightFairytale'': Haru stops a greedy soldier from poaching a cat. The soldier labels him a criminal and forces him to become a fugitive.
72	* This is a major recurring theme in the ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'' series. Brad's EstablishingCharacterMoment has him take the heat for his friends when they're being bullied, only to get bloodily beaten by the bullies for his efforts.
73	* At the end of ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'',[[spoiler: Tommy Angelo testifies against Don Salieri and his associates, he and his family were put on witness protection and moved to Empire Bay]] and in one day [[spoiler: Vito and Joe]] murdered him due to the aforementioned thing he has done under orders of [[spoiler: Don Salieri.]]
74	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' pulls the fake-distress-call-leading-to-a-trap routine on the player.
75	** If you repent for killing the Rachni queen in the first game by [[spoiler: saving the false queen in the third game, she'll eventually betray you and severely damage your military]].
76	** Meanwhile, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', [[spoiler: turns out Elnora really was as bad as you thought she was. Too bad you let her go.]]
77	** Mostly, though, you're not really punished. [=ME2=] even encourages you to be the Team Therapist by completing all those side missions, since [[spoiler: if you don't, then most or all of your team -- possibly including Shepard -- will die.]]
78	** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' if you managed to talk Wrex down, you're stuck with a no-win situation with the [[spoiler:salarians and krogans. If you support the salarians, you have to kill Wrex and lose the clans; if you support the krogans, the salarians withhold a fleet]]. Only if you killed Wrex can you get the benefits from both sides by [[spoiler: betraying the krogans]]. This can be averted, however. [[spoiler:If Kirrahe survived Virmire and subsequently survives the Cerberus attack on the Citadel, he will give Shepard the [=STG's=] support, even if it means defying the Dalatrass if you sided with the krogan. If Kirrahe isn't available, Thane can help out in his stead, and you'll still get support from the [=STG=], who declare the Dalatrass an ignorant idiot still trying to hold on to old grudges and help you out of respect for Mordin's sacrifice.]]
79	** The situation with the geth and the quarians in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was specifically designed to punish those who are blindly lawful.
80	*** Did you [[spoiler:rewrite the Heretic Geth]] in ''Mass Effect 2''? Congrats, you just made [[spoiler:getting the geth and quarians to make peace]] ''[[LuckBasedMission that]]'' much harder.
81	*** Did you [[spoiler: leave Admiral Koris behind to rescue his team for the good of the many and according to his wish]]? Minus point for peace here.
82	*** Did you [[spoiler:turn over the evidence of Tali's father's crime to exonerate her?]] Not only have you lost Tali's loyalty but you can say goodbye to coexistence forever.
83	** In the third game's Spectre terminal, if you [[spoiler:authorize the transfer of a soldier who is concerned about fighting Cerberus because she might go up against her brother so that she will serve against the Reapers, you will suffer a small penalty to military assets]].
84	** It's mostly averted as being a paragon will generally get Shepard more resources in the fight against the Reapers.
85	* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Years ago, a courageous Maverick Hunter challenged Zero, at the moment a feral Maverick that had already slaughtered hordes of innocent Reploids. During the battle, he was able to defeat Zero (who would undergo a HeelFaceTurn thanks to this) but got infected with the Maverick virus. That Maverick Hunter? [[BigBad Sigma]], who went onto become a far worse menace than Zero ever was.
86	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'', Big Boss, when he participated in the Mozambician War of Independence, rescued a war orphan named Frank Jaegar after fighting him, and placed him in a rehab facility hoping that he would recover and be safe. Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize until after the fact that some CIA personnel accessed the rehab facility and took Frank Jaegar and placed him into an inhuman experiment called the Perfect Soldier Project, of which he was the sole successful, surviving result, turning him into Null.
87	* In ''[[VideoGame/MightAndMagic Might & Magic X: Legacy]]'', in the DLC chapter ''The Falcon and the Unicorn'', the {{Narrator}} quotes the name of this Trope word-for-word after your party is [[FrameUp arrested on fraudulent charges]] and sent to [[TheAlcatraz Fort Laegaire]] without so much as a trial, with no regard given for how you saved the Agyn Peninsula from [[spoiler:Erebus.]] Fortunately, [[MysteriousBacker one of the prison guards]] does see the injustice in this and is willing to give you a lead on someone who can help you escape, but little else.
88	* As an interactive romance novel, ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'' rewards good deeds more than punishes, but there is an exception: [[spoiler: while attempting to save children, Chika is bitten and forcibly transformed into a werewolf]].
89	* ''VideoGame/MurderedSoulSuspect'': Three years prior to the events of the game, Ronan's wife Julia tried to break up a fight between two men, and got fatally stabbed by one of them for her efforts.
90	* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': Referred to by name by Tomi Undergallows (a somewhat cynical rogue henchman) in Hordes of the Underdark when Linu (a more idealistic cleric) is [[spoiler: restored to life]] by the PC. She explains that when she tried to help some slaves who begged her and Tomi for aid [[spoiler: they revealed themselves to shape changed rakshasa and killed her. The PC might well have been taken in by the same trick, were it not for a helpful genie warning him/her about the trick at the last minute.]]
91	* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope" has the Amur Refugee Zone - a "country" with the sole goal of using [[HonestCorporateExecutive their leader's assets]] and his outside connections to alliviate the suffering of the Russian people after [[OmnicidalManiac Regent Taboritsky's]] Holy Russian Empire [[BalkanizeMe collapses]]. How does it end? Well, it turns out they have nowhere near enough food, get flooded with waves of refugees and will most likely become easy pickings for the local bandit warlords.
92	* In ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'', trying to do right by your family in the early game can bite you in the ass ''hard'' if you're not careful. [[spoiler:At the start, your rich brother-in-law asks for your passport to escape the DirtyCommies and your daughter asks for money to take a trip. Agreeing to their requests will get them both killed at the game's climax when the PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny engages in nuclear war against its neighbors, ''and'' ruin you financially as your passport is needed to accept the wealth redistribution.]]
93	* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', being kind to your customers boosts your reputation, but it risks you becoming a prime target of AVAC, who imposes a higher Renunciation Rate, or the fine on you the more you defy their law. Starting on Week 3, they ask all citizens of Ajik City to report anyone suspected of an "Avarice Crime" so they can arrest them and go through with their promise to stop the [[EmotionSuppression Fixerain Project]] for good. Not reporting anyone not only raises the Renunciation Rate, but you're also accused of being selfish, and several people plan to trick you into losing your reputation by reporting suspects near your store to publicly increase its crime rate.
94	* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''
95	** Cyrus' complete obliviousness to his charms and "compliments" (which he states as mere facts) for women end up [[spoiler:getting him banned from the library when one of said women spread a rumor about him getting romantically involved with the princess of Atlasdam.]]
96	** In Alfyn's Chapter 3, Alfyn nurses a wounded Miguel back to health despite learning from the people of Saintsbridge that he is a dangerous thief, which is why Ogen saw it worthless to heal him. Despite all this, Alfyn honestly believes he shouldn't turn his back down on people in need of healing. In the end, once Miguel is fully healed, [[spoiler:he bites Alfyn in the ass by immediately kidnapping and wounding a ''child'' for ransom money from a noble, which forces Alfyn to kill Miguel himself, shaking Alfyn's conscience in his creed of healing anyone he meets.]]
97	*** Ogen himself was on the receiving end of this. [[spoiler:In the past, he had also nursed a wounded thief back to health and even let him live in his house, with Ogen's wife assisting. Once the man had recovered and Ogen came back home, the man was gone...and he had murdered his wife in cold blood.]] Later on, Alfyn learns that [[spoiler:Ogen by chance found the man happily living with his own family, which infuriated Ogen so much that he sneaked on the man at night and murdered him in retaliation, but that still didn't help Ogen feel okay.]]
98	* Subverted in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere''. Gwendolyn (outside the battlefield) is actually a pretty kind and caring person. She exposes and eliminates a traitor and rescues her half-sister Velvet (despite her own feelings) to ease her father's pain. Her reward for this is to be stripped of her status as a Valkyrie, enspelled into magical slumber, and married in her sleep to a complete stranger to whom she is expected to be completely subservient -- but the powers that be give karma the finger by manipulating destiny so that her new husband is Oswald, a man who has ''very'' strong feelings about anyone being treated as property and who turns out to be Gwendolyn's perfect match (not to mention desperately in love with her). The two of them, and their marriage, prove to be part of the key to saving the world from Armageddon.
99	* In ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'', you can wave some people through even if their papers aren't in order, but this will get you a citation from the Ministry of Admission, leading to you getting your precious salary docked. Also, it might seem like a good idea for a loyal citizen of Arstoszka to [[spoiler: hand over any [[LaResistance EZIC]] papers to the MOI Inspector]], but this leads to [[spoiler: you getting arrested on mere ''suspicion'' of being in league with EZIC.]]
100	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': A piece of multiple party members' backstories:
101	** The Protagonist attempts to help a woman screaming for help as she's being assaulted by her drunk boss, only for the boss to fall over in his drunkenness before [[UngratefulBastard convincing the woman to blame you for "attacking him"]] just so the illicit activities they're both involved in won't come to light. You end up prosecuted, expelled from your school, effectively banished from your hometown, and put on probation for a year as a result while the molester walks away scot-free.
102	** Prior to the start of the story, Ryuji Sakamoto slugged EvilTeacher Suguru Kamoshida for abusing himself and his fellow track teammates. Kamoshida used this as an excuse to get the Track Club disbanded, and Ryuji's teammates [[AllTheOtherReindeer ended up blaming him for it.]] Even better, Kamoshida [[CareerEndingInjury broke Ryuji's leg]] in "self-defense".
103	* In the ''good'' ending for ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarPortable'', [[spoiler:you and your partner's reward for saving the galaxy is being discharged from the Guardians and being branded traitors because your partner was an unknowing (not to mention ''unwilling'') pawn in the BigBad's scheme and you refused to leave her behind.]] Is it any wonder [[HeroWithBadPublicity the Guardians aren't very well liked in part 3?]]
104	* Poor, poor Marona. Frequently a victim of this throughout most of ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave''.
105	* ''VideoGame/{{Propagation}}: Paradise Hotel'' has Owen, the tough policeman who accompanies Emily early on, helpfully offers to train her into becoming an ActionSurvivor, watches her back in the game's early parts before she has access to firearms and agrees to help Emily locate her missing sister Sarah. It gets him killed half an hour in when the zombified monster called "The Brute" catches up.
106	* One of the main ways ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' shows that it is depressing and cynical as hell is showing how nearly every good deed John Marston performs ultimately amounts to nothing. [[spoiler:Help the desperate hooker make a new life for herself? Her pimp hunts her down and murders her. Help a Chinese immigrant get back to his lover? He dies of an opium overdose before he's even halfway there. Help a down on his luck movie producer shoot his next big hit? The movie flops and leaves him destitute. Help a woman whose pregnant get funds from her illegitimate suitor? It turns out she's a con artist, and you just killed an innocent man (albeit in self-defense) and left a distraught woman widowed...]]
107	** [[spoiler: Not to mention the ending. How does the Government thank you for doing their job and tanking down your old gang? They come after you.]]
108	*** It gets even worse with the context of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' revealed. [[spoiler:It turns out that killing [[BigBad Micah Bell]] to avenge Arthur Morgan's death is what caused Edgar Ross to pick up John's trail in the first place, essentially meaning every death in ''[=RDR1=]'' -- including John's -- is the result of trying to do right by Arthur. [[DownerEnding Seriously.]] Made even worse by the fact that Charles Smith will postulate that Arthur didn't care about revenge at the end of his life if you went high honor, meaning that Arthur may very well have disagreed with John's decision, as it put Ross on his tail.]]
109	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'': No good deed goes unpunished, the game! [[spoiler: The Bakers were once an ordinary, kind family that rescued a pair of survivors from a ship that wrecked during a hurricane. Unfortunately, the little girl they nursed back to health was actually Eveline, a rogue Bio-weapon that repaid their kindness by infecting them all. Under Eveline's control, the family were transformed into the terrifying CannibalClan of the game -- forced to kidnap and murder people to satisfy Eveline's desire to build a "family".]]
110	** The exact same fate happens to [[spoiler: Mia Winters, who was the one of the science team who treated Eveline with any decency. Her "reward" is being chosen as the "mother" for Eveline's brainwashed family]].
111	** The BSAA operatives trying to clean up the contamination and save Zoe [[spoiler: get beaten up by a berserk Joe Baker even as they attempt to help him find the cure, with one of them being devoured by Jack after being disarmed and tied up by Joe]].
112	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has poor Leon, a rookie cop who runs into the ZombieApocalypse on the first day of his job. He runs into Ada and does his damndest to protect her, feeling that he has to as his duty as a police officer. What does he get for his troubles? Finding out Ada is a spy and her holding him at gunpoint to give her the G-Virus sample that she was looking for.[[note]] This occurs in Scenario A. Ada doesn't reveal her true nature in Scenario B.[[/note]] Annette shoots Ada and causes her to fall down a [[BottomlessPit shaft]], causing Leon to scream in anguish since he failed his duty in protecting Ada. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake remake]] more or less keeps the same aspect, but changes Leon's motivation from duty obligation to wanting to help Ada take down Umbrella. He is ''not'' happy when he finds out Ada's true objective.
113	* Similarly, in ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}: Retribution'', James Grayson's reward for destroying ''26'' Chimera conversion facilities is... to be imprisoned and threatened with execution because he disobeyed ''one'' order.
114	* ''VideoGame/ReturnToKrondor'' plays this straight, at the beginning of the game no less. You can tear down a sweatshop that uses children as labourers. Now while this may give you a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, it turns out that there are consequences. The owner of the sweatshop, Yusef, worked for Jazhara's uncle in Kesh. You will encounter Izmali assassins -- ninja-like killers who will attack you with poisoned daggers. They were apparently paid by Jazhara's uncle to kill you for meddling in the affairs of Kesh. You will encounter a group of them in the third chapter of the game, and another group roughly halfway through the game. In the second-last chapter, you will find a dead group of these assassins. If you search their bodies, you will find out in a letter written by Jazhara's uncle that [[spoiler: The Crawler, who Yusef was an agent for, pulled strings and is the one actually responsible for these assassins being sent in the first place. Jazhara's uncle is trying to tell her that he knows she was not meddling in the affairs of Kesh, and that there is little he can actually do, due to the Crawler being quite powerful and elusive.]] You can decide not to even investigate the sweatshop, and you will never be accosted by the Izmali assassins.
115	* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld'', we learn that the main antagonist is hero Johnny Garland's older sister, who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed her mind and memory]] to bring him BackFromTheDead. She ends up wandering the land in a silent, amnesiac daze, slaughters the innocent, loses her love interest and fails to revive him, and the final battle against her is fixed so that Johnny is the one to kill her. Given what she had become, this could be seen as a MercyKill.
116	* This becomes unintentionally invoked in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. Throughout the game, you're given chances to aid humanity in defeating the Black Arms or assist in the Black Arms invasion by doing certain things like healing respective troops and destroying property belonging to the respective factions. Doing so has benefits that come with it (You can usually tear through things faster than avoiding them, enemies you've healed won't attack you and stop doing CollisionDamage, all of your work raises the Hero or Dark gauge.) but doing so does NOT affect the reaction of others in the stage, meaning that even if you've healed everyone you've come across thus far and ran out of ammo in your HealingShiv, you'll still be getting shot at by that [[EliteMook Hot Shot mech or Black Oak fighter]] as if you never did anything. Additionally, seeing as this is a ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game, you'll have to use enemies as stepping stone frequently, with said enemies being whatever the dominant force of the stage is. Lampshaded by Sonic, who points out that [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption they'll need to use a few of G.U.N's robots as stepping stones across a chasm to continue on]], even though doing so will [[PrecisionFStrike piss off]] G.U.N [[HypocriticalHumor and then turns right around and]] [[WhatTheHellHero chews Shadow out for doing exactly what Sonic suggested]].
117	* In ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'', Mr. Producer used to work for Golden Calf Productions until he saw a senior producer angrily pressuring a frightened Sasami to strip for a photoshoot. He came to her defense by slugging the man, and was promptly fired, leaving him unemployed until shortly before the start of the game.
118	* So at the beginning of ''{{VideoGame/Singularity}}'', an unstable time warp sends you back to 1955, right into the midst of a burning building and dying Soviet scientists. You find one man running for his life, only for the floor to collapse beneath him. Naturally, you grab his hand and carry him to safety. Oh, the catch? Turns out that the scientist you saved, Dr. Demichev, had the cruelty to rival Stalin and because you saved him, the project he was working on went further than it ever had in the original history, giving him fantastic weapons that allowed him to take over the world. [[spoiler:And the only way to undo it is to go back in time and kill yourself. If you do so, it causes a SnapBack to the beginning of the game so you don't technically die... then you find out you're in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union ''still'' rules the world, albeit with a (hopefully) much more benevolent person in charge.]]
119	* In ''VideoGame/SINoALICE'', the Weapon Story for the Accursed Gun tells of a slave who's been one all their life, yet it's all they've known. One day a man comes in and shoots their master dead and tells the slave they're free to live their life. The slave takes the gun from their master's pocket and shoots the killer dead.
120	* Happens in Filia's ending in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}''. After thinking about it, she decides that instead of curing her amnesia, she'll use her wish to give her former friend Carol (AKA Painwheel) a normal life again. However, the fact that she did this in ''small'' part due to feeling guilty for having mistreated her when both were still ordinary girls, [[ArtifactOfDoom the Skull Heart]] considers the wish insufficiently pure (wanting to assuage your guilt is selfish), so while Carol/Painwheel is returned to ([[CoveredWithScars almost]]) normal, and becomes friends with Filia again, Filia herself is doomed to a slow and painful transformation into the next [[HumanoidAbomination Skullgirl]].
121	* One of the defining tropes of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest''. So you saved the galaxy, the ambassador of [=StarCon=], and the crew of an entire starship, defeating the BigBad for good measure. So what's your reward for doing so? [[InsigniaRipOffRitual You are forcibly and literally stripped of your rank]], demoted to Janitor, and basically told to be lucky that you weren't convicted of war crimes. It's justified though, as Roger's actions ''did'' result in a lot of damage and breaking several rules including murdering a higher officer, and there is no HeroInsurance in the Space Quest universe.
122	** Think Roger's got it bad? Meet the Hero in the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series. Especially from ''Videogame/QuestForGloryII'' on, ''every'' good deed you perform just winds up lighting you up on the BigBad's radar like the Fourth of July. Even though you ''do'' eventually get the adulation of the masses at the end of each game, you're put through utter hell in between, and in the end all it means is getting to take a breather before the next and even more trying adventure. It all comes to a head in ''Videogame/QuestForGloryIV'', where your heroic actions in this game and those before it leads to [[spoiler: Katrina taking advantage of your selflessness for her own ends by manipulating and then outright ''forcing'' you (after you royally piss her off by rescuing her "daughter" Tanya and returning the girl to her rightful family) to release the local EldritchAbomination from its prison. And to really grind the salt into the wound, you discover that she has ''genuinely'' fallen in love with you (the player can select dialog options that indicate it's mutual) just in time for her HeroicSacrifice]]. And then in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'' a loose end you left way back in the first game [[spoiler: ends up running amok, killing the King of Silmaria to set off the entire plot and nearly murdering several of your friends and allies (and succeeding if you fail to perform the actions needed to save them). And then he reveals that for him, ItsPersonal]].
123	*** The Paladin can have it even rougher than the other character classes, as you're expected to not accept rewards for doing good deeds. The manuals even ''directly'' reference this trope in all but name in regards to the Paladin's life.
124	* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''. If you give a beggar some money, Kreia's WhatTheHellHero {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s the trope.
125	-->'''Kreia:''' If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself... and weaken them. [[MiseryBuildsCharacter It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards.]] You stole that struggle from them, cheapened it. If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles. And when they triumph, they will be even stronger for the victory.
126	** The speech is punctuated by the beggar being beaten up for the money ''you'' gave him, and even if you choose the dark side option and send the beggar away, [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption the scene becomes inverted with the beggar beating up that same person instead]].
127	* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', one event that can occur when observing a pre-FTL civilization is discovering an asteroid on a collision course with their planet. [[VideoGameCaringPotential You can send your ships to destroy the asteroid before it actually hits]], and if you don't there's a slight chance that the crew of the observation post will [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves and their station to intercept it anyways]]. If the Galactic Community has passed the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Non-Interference Act]], either of these outcomes will put you in breach of the law and get you sanctioned. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d with the name of the achievement you earn for this: "[[CompleteTheQuoteTitle No Good Deed...]]"
128	* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]], though this is played for comedic purposes since he's become a ChewToy.
129	* Colette from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' qualifies. Always nice to people, yet fate seems to hate her for no reason.
130	** [[spoiler:Mithos']] backstory can be summed up in two sentences. Do the right thing, and your family will slowly die in front of you. Turn evil, ''and you become a god''. Is it any wonder [[spoiler:he's]] completely insane?
131	* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': When [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Bryan Fury]] ends up on the verge of death after confronting a MadScientist, [[HighlyVisibleNinja Yoshimitsu]] saves his life and brings him to [[TheProfessor Doctor Bosconovitch]] to be healed. Doctor B winds up installing a perpetual generator into him. What do they receive in return? [[AxCrazy Bryan]] [[UngratefulBastard beats Dr. B up]] and [[KickTheDog kills most of Yoshimitsu's Manji clan]]. No wonder Yoshimitsu's katana wants to kill him so badly...
132	* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Book 7 reveals that [[spoiler:Lilia was exiled by the royal senate for supposedly "running away" and left queen Meleanor to fend for herself against the Silver Owls and orphaned Malleus. When Malleus didn't hatch and rejected his own grandmother's magic, Maleficia asked Baul to bring Lilia to Malleus and ask for him to help hatch him. It took two centuries and Lilia succeeded... but the royal senate instead chose to be ''UngratefulBastards'' and claim that Lilia "tainted" Malleus by hatching him due to their elitism and FantasticRacism against Lilia, bringing Malleus away and separating Lilia from his surrogate son that he eventually help raise in the deceased Meleanor and Revan's stead.]]
133	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' inflicts the trope on the player should they choose to go through the pacifist route. Aside from being forbidden to kill ''anyone'' if the player wants to get the best ending, the characters the player meets will generally make the game very difficult for them simply because the player character is human (most monsters don't like humans due to [[HumansAreBastards what said humans did to them many years ago]]) and they'll keep attacking no matter how much the player holds back until they either give up or are convinced to no longer fight. Simply doing the right thing by not killing anyone and forbidding yourself from becoming physically stronger is a difficult thing for some people to do. The trope also rings tragically true for [[spoiler:Asriel, who was slain by humans after he took his best friend's dead body back to the village out of respect for his fallen friend. The humans quickly assumed that Asriel killed the child and proceeded to attack him. Asriel didn't fight back, believing that killing is wrong, and died as a result, and was eventually resurrected as [[BigBad Flowey]].]]
134	* This happens to Clementine throughout Videogame/TheWalkingDead Season 2. (This is determined by the choices you have her make.) She tries to feed a hungry dog and gets bit for it, helps a friend do their chores and [[ItMakesSenseInContext a one-armed man gets thrown off a roof]], cuts off a woman's arm after she got bit to prevent her from turning into a zombie and [[FailureToSaveMurder gets blamed for her death]], and lets a stranger keep his supplies instead of stealing them from him and gets held at gunpoint by him and his posse. [[spoiler: He'll also shoot her later on, but he'll look extremely shocked by it if you had been nice to him the whole time. Otherwise he'll just give a cold stare after shooting her.]]
135	* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'': One of the biggest dangers of an Iconoclast playthrough is the ever-constant threat of well-intentioned actions having disastrous consequences later on. Just as one example, [[spoiler:if you choose to evacuate as many of Rykad Minoris' population as you can before it transforms into a Daemon World instead of just subjecting the planet to Exterminatus, it's eventually revealed that a number of those "refugees" were in fact disguised Chaos cultists who promptly spark massive, destructive riots throughout your fleet.]]
136	* This is how the story for the SilentProtagonist, Rudy Roughnight, begins in ''VideoGame/WildArms1''. He saves the village he grew up in by monsters, only for the townspeople to reject and exile him for using Arms.
137	* Name dropped in ''VideoGame/WildStar'': one quest in Deradune sends you to help Dominion researchers who are trapped in the tar pits. A nearby quest titled "No Good Deed" is started by you finding someone's arm coming out of the tar, but when you pull them out it turns out that they were an Aurin, an Exile race, [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike who are less than enthused about being rescued by someone from the Dominion]] and attack you.
138	* For all her nastiness, Metallia from ''VideoGame/TheWitchAndTheHundredKnight'' does become a decent person and does the right thing. The problem is that doing the right thing ended up backfiring on her horribly. [[spoiler:To summarize, she spares a witch she was ordered to hunt down and lies so that she can escape. She also tries to create a potion to cure Visco of her curse in the presence of the king out of the goodness in her heart. Not only does the potion fail and cause the two of them lash out at each other, but the corpse of the witch she spared is brought before the royal court. Both acts together convince the king that witches aren't to be trusted and works together with the church to enact a massive witch hunt. Meanwhile, Metallia is imprisoned, tortured, and scheduled to be executed.]]
139	* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' [[CrapsackWorld does this a lot]], which is why PlayerCharacter Geralt prides himself on [[TrueNeutral staying neutral]]... which he's ''really'' bad at as he's constantly getting stuck in the middle of complicated situations and forced to pick a side. In his own words, "Usually, though, the stakes are just too damn high."
140	** Much like its predecessor, ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2'' has this in spades.
141	*** If you choose to [[spoiler:give Iorveth his sword during the MeleeATrois between the Scioa'tel, Loredo's men, and the Blue Stripes, thus honoring your agreement with Iorveth and giving you an advantage in the fight]], then [[spoiler:Loredo uses this as an excuse to provoke a mass race riot in Flotsam, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of nonhuman civilians]].
142	*** In the climax, if you choose to rescue [[spoiler:your path's political prisoner instead of Triss, and thus discover the truth behind the Sorceress' Lodge's conspiracy and Letho's part in it, the epilogue reveals that this causes a genocidal campaign against all mages in the North, even ones who weren't even involved with the Lodge.]]
143	** ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'':
144	*** While looking for Ciri in Velen, a group of "bandits" pull up to the inn Geralt's at and begin harassing the townsfolk. If you start a fight with them, you later learn that they weren't bandits at all but the RedBaron's men, and as a result Geralt has a hell of a time trying to meet with him.
145	*** TheWeirdSisters send Geralt to deal with a druid spirit [[AndIMustScream they trapped in a tree]] [[spoiler:and it begs to be freed, explaining that the Crones [[ChildEater are going to kill the orphans Geralt met]]. If Geralt frees it, it rescues the kids but massacres the Crone-worshipping villagers nearby and the whole ordeal results in the Crones killing the RedBaron's wife, leaving him DrivenToSuicide]].
146	*** If you choose to help Triss get all the mages to escape Novigrad, the witch hunters will target the non-humans to be burned at the stake instead.
147	* The twist ending of ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'' reveals that [[spoiler: the girl you've been playing as is actually the witch, and the mutilated girl who's been chasing you was her "friend" who allowed her to have control of her body "for a day" to escape from the pain of her chronic illness. Viola, the girl, has only been chasing you so she could beg for her body back from Ellen, the witch. Ellen quietly mocks Viola's benevolence and generosity before allowing Viola's father to shoot her to death, since he didn't recognize his own daughter in another body. The game ends with [[KarmaHoudini Ellen]] [[DownerEnding getting off scott-free and happily running off to take over Viola's life.]]]]
148	* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Fei tries to save his hometown by climbing into a Gear (basically a giant robot) and fighting the forces that were invading. This results in the robot going out of control, completely leveling the town, and killing all but a handful of the inhabitants.
149	* ''VideoGame/ZniwAdventure'': In the beginning of the game, Zniw helps a dinosaur find their missing wallet at the store. In response, the dinosaur buys the last bouquet of flowers, which Zniw really needed, while acting cheerfully ignorant towards Zniw's distress.

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