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| 6 | {{Title Drop}}s in Video Games. |
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| 8 | * From ''VideoGame/{{Ace Combat Zero|TheBelkanWar}}'': "We'll start over from 'zero' with this V2...". The EU non-numeric titles ''[[VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies Distant Thunder]]'', ''[[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar Squadron Leader]]'' and ''The Belkan War'' all show up in their respective games. |
| 9 | ** And ''Shattered Skies'' as the name of [=AC04=]'s eighth mission, and part of your commander's speech as you select your aircraft before the final mission. |
| 10 | ** In ''VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception'', guess what the title of the first mission is. Go on, ''guess.'' |
| 11 | *** Ditto for its mobile prequel ''Skies of Incursion'' as well. |
| 12 | ** "Our Princess is looking at a mural. There's another one here too. It shows a whole bunch of space elevators. "''[[VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown Skies Unknown]]''"...huh." |
| 13 | * ''VisualNovel/AceInSpace'': The name of Enby's blog is "anace-inspace". |
| 14 | * Edward mentions that he's "alone in the dark" during the intro of ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark3''. He'll say it again every time you enter a dark room in the same game. |
| 15 | * ''VideoGame/AMidsummerNightsChoice'': The game's EitherOrTitle is ''Frolic in the Forest''. The first line of the epilogue is "and so your frolic in the forest has come to an end". |
| 16 | * From ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'': "This world is a machine. A machine for pigs. [[IndustrializedEvil Fit only for the slaughtering of pigs]]." |
| 17 | * The second ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'' game pulls it off near the end, though in a variation it only mentions the subtitles (Gateway of Memory in Japan, A Journey Into Lost Memories in Europe): |
| 18 | -->'''Ryan Gray''': Do you understand why your father brought you here, Ashley? It was to open the doorway to your memory. To open that door and embark on a journey into lost memories. |
| 19 | * "The era and time of this story is unknown. After the mothership "VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}" was destroyed, a spacecraft "Vaus" scrambled away from it. But only to be trapped in space warped by someone........" |
| 20 | * ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'': When you fight [[spoiler:Father "Thumb" Dolmayan, the leader of the Rubicon Liberation Front, as the boss of the NG++ version of "Survey The Uninhabited Floating City"]], he gives you the whole hymn of the RLF, the first part of which RLF members have been shouting at various times, and the last part of which refers to the name of the third ending of the game -- "Alea Iacta Est"[[labelnote:translation]]"the die is cast", in Latin[[/labelnote]]: |
| 21 | -->'''[[spoiler:"Thumb" Dolmayan]]:''' "Coral, abide with Rubicon. Coral, endure within us all, for none of us shall cast the die." |
| 22 | * While there is no TitleDrop in ''VideoGame/{{Ascendancy}}'', there is a ''Developer'' Drop. The game's developer is The Logic Factory. One of the planetary structures in the game you can research and build is called Logic Factory (without "The", although its description features the article). Here is the in-game description: |
| 23 | --> "The Logic Factory is a research complex that specializes in the entertainment and happiness of sentient beings. It provides both research and prosperity." |
| 24 | * ''VideoGame/{{Astebreed}}'' drops its title [[spoiler:when your mecha becomes the titular Astebreed for the last two stages of the game; the second to last stage is also titled Astebreed]]. |
| 25 | * ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' is named for the in-universe Soviet project which gets thrown off track by the robot malfunction at Facility 3826, which P-3 learns about just after leaving the Vavilov Complex. It involves [[spoiler:activating the hidden combat functions of Soviet robots exported to the United States to cripple vital infrastructure and allow for a swift Communist takeover, with nuclear power plants -- the country's "atomic heart" -- being the first priority.]] |
| 26 | * On that subject, ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' mentions the city fairly early on, and as the latter third of the game takes place mainly there, it's hard to avoid it being mentioned. ''Throne Of Bhaal'' has the war between Bhaalspawn be ''around and for'' the title location, so it gets mentioned as well. On the other hand, ''Shadows of Amn'' doesn't use the title, though the nation of Amn it takes place in is mentioned; nor does ''Tales of the Sword Coast'', with similar mention of the region. |
| 27 | * ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'': |
| 28 | ** ''Heir to the Throne'': |
| 29 | *** In "Cliffs of Thoria", Konrad and Li'sar drop the campaign title by separately introducing themselves to Keh Ohn as "heir to the throne of Wesnoth". |
| 30 | *** Just before the final scenario, Delfador has this to say: |
| 31 | ---->''Now, let us not tarry here any longer! The dawn breaks! The time has come for the heir to the throne to claim it!'' |
| 32 | *** And then after the final battle, at start of the epilogue narration: |
| 33 | ---->''And so the Dark Queen’s reign was ended. Li’sar, daughter of Garard II and Heir to the Throne of Wesnoth, was crowned Queen and Bearer of the Sceptre of Fire, which she would pass on to all her successors.'' |
| 34 | ** ''Secrets of the Ancients'' refers to forbidden knowledge of how to become a lich. Ardonna drops the title at the very start when expressing her desire to know it and at the very end when hoping that someone else in the future would want to know it too. |
| 35 | ** The narrator of ''The Rise of Wesnoth'' ends the first opening narration and the epilogue by saying that the story that will be/has been told is about "the Rise of Wesnoth" (in title-case as if it's an in-universe story). |
| 36 | * Ragna/[[spoiler: Hazama]]: Restriction [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] released. Dimensional interference field deployed. ''VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}'' activate! |
| 37 | ** In addition, the subtitles for each game is also an important plot element: [[spoiler:Noel is the "Calamity Trigger", the one who would inherit the true power of the Azure; the "Continuum Shift" is a StableTimeLoop Noel created with the Azure; the "Chrono Phantasm" is an individual who exists in a timeline where they shouldn't (such as Celica); and the "Centralfiction" is Ragna, who becomes pivotal to the continued existence of the world.]] |
| 38 | * Yugo of ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'' has a move named "Bloody Roar". |
| 39 | ** Also one to the Japanese title, ''Beastorizer'' - a zoanthrope who transforms from their human form to beast form is said to "beastorize". |
| 40 | * ''VideoGame/BlueRevolver'' has the Device-regulation organization known as Blue Revolver. Additionally, the TrueFinalBoss's final attack is called ''TLB-999 "Blue Revolver"''. |
| 41 | * ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}: The Sun is In Your Hand'' has a TitleDrop that's unusually hard to spot. During the final boss fight, Django and Sabata refer to the power of "Our Sun". (You know it's important because there's a voice clip and because Django, who's usually a HeroicMime, speaks.) So? As it happens, the game's original Japanese title -- ''Bokura no Taiyou'' -- means "Our Sun". The English title is a sort of orphaned abbreviation for this that means nothing in the game. |
| 42 | ** The sequel, ''Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django'', has this occur again as a callback to the ending of the previous title for Django in a moment of peril, allowing him to regain the power of the Sun to both control [[SuperPoweredEvilSide his recent vampirism]] and defeat Red Durathror. |
| 43 | * The [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] version of ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' does this in the ending, while the Japanese version also does the same for ''VideoGame/LodeRunner''. |
| 44 | * ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' does it twice throughout the game, and both times are somewhat confusing. |
| 45 | * ''VideoGame/BrutalOrchestra'' has this PlayedForLaughs. After [[spoiler:fighting him]], Bronzo, the resident FourthWallObserver, tells Nowak to look in the direction of the camera and say "This really is the Brutal Orchestra." A confused Nowak reluctantly agrees. |
| 46 | * Happens a couple of times in ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVs Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom]]'' with a couple of the character's [[LimitBreak Hyper Combos]] and the games they come from: Batsu's Ultimate Hyper Combo is called ''[[VideoGame/RivalSchools United By Fate]]'', while Frank West has his ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' Hyper Combo. |
| 47 | * There's an old RealTimeStrategy game by Creator/{{Sierra}} called ''Castles: Siege and Conquest''. They had a basic version, and one on CD. The CD has an opening cinematic with full voice and FMV in game discussing the history of various castles. And wouldn't you know it, the ending of the cinematic says: "To become king you must conquer... CASTLES SEIGE AND CONQUEST!" The most awkward title drop (that wasn't a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]]) ever. |
| 48 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'': While the [[AlternateCharacterReading furigana]] in the game's subtitle reads ''Chi no Rondo'' for "Rondo of Blood," the literal reading is ''Chi no Rinne'', meaning "Metempsychosis[[note]]Reincarnation[[/note]] of Blood." The latter is also the title of the game's final stage, as well as its reenactment in the [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight sequel]]. |
| 49 | ** In the English versions of both ''Symphony of the Night'' and the [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]] port of ''Rondo'', the stage's name is simply rendered "Bloodlines", dropping a [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines different title]] entirely. |
| 50 | * In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' ([[BlindIdiotTranslation the original version]] and Platform/WiiWare remake), the password to the hideout in Plantation is a TitleDrop [[SdrawkcabName backwards]]. |
| 51 | * ''"'Tis the darkest Glyph thou bearest. It sacrifices stray souls to summon unearthly force. Unearthly force shall obey and serve thee. 'Tis named VideoGame/ChaosLegion."'' |
| 52 | * In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are refered to as the City of Heroes and the City of Villains, respectively, numerous times. |
| 53 | ** Within the game, the title of the ''Explorers and Exploiters'' story arc is randomly wedged into dialog by a random NPC about a quarter of the way through. |
| 54 | * From a famous [=ClockUp=] game: "A constant state of ''euphoria''". |
| 55 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Colobot}}'', the game is named after the colonizing mission you participate in. |
| 56 | * The ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise has two title drops. Once in the final Soviet cutscene of ''Yuri's Revenge'' where Yuri drops the franchise name and once in ''Tiberian Sun'' where Kane yells "THE TIBERIAN SUN HAS RISEN!" |
| 57 | ** ''Tiberium Wars'' may have one as well: in-game and in cutscenes, the events of the various games in the Tiberium franchise are referred to as the First, Second and Third Tiberium War. Then there's the Firestorm Crisis, the events of the titual expansion pack. |
| 58 | * ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. Right in the intro when Conker starts to explain how he became King Of All The Lands, he says |
| 59 | -->"It all started yesterday. And what a day ''that'' was. It's what I call a Bad Fur Day." |
| 60 | * In ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty: Book of Shadows'', one chapter is called ''Shangri-La''[[note]]Itself a reference to ''Blood Covered'''s opening theme[[/note]] and deals with a NightmareFetishist stranded in Tenjin. He enthusiastically describes his horrific surroundings as a 'Corpse Party' and compares it to Shangri-La. |
| 61 | * In ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', when the Bandicoots fight Cortex for the first time he greets them with "Crash Bandicoot, it's about time!". |
| 62 | * '''CRASH''' And that's why no one believes that penguins can [[VideoGame/LearnToFly LEARN TO FLY!]]. |
| 63 | * In ''[[VideoGame/CrusaderKings Crusader Kings 2]]'' around the year 1100 the pope sends a letter to all rulers, informing them of the creation of the crusades. The letter is titled "Crusader Kings". |
| 64 | * ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is dropped through the reveal that [[spoiler:it's the game show for which everyone was mindwiped.]] Also the only real time ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' is mentioned without any fourth wall breaks, owing to [[spoiler: [[ShowWithinAShow the franchise existing in-universe]].]] |
| 65 | * ''VideoGame/DareToDream'': In the ending. Tyler's psychiatrist mentions how "rumors abound" that he still has the magic key somewhere, "in case he ever has to dare to dream again!" |
| 66 | * "And deliver our family from the revenous, clutching shadows... Of the ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''. |
| 67 | ** Another comes in the form of the last and hardest area of the game, "the Darkest Dungeon". |
| 68 | * The second ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' game, ''The Exiled Prince'', gets title dropped during one of [[ExpositionFairy Princess Ivy]]'s monologues. Later installment ''Queen of Sands,'' which is a CharacterTitle, also gets this. |
| 69 | * "But your progenitor found the fourth soul... The [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Dark Soul]]." |
| 70 | ** [[spoiler: "Is this the blood...? The blood of the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls3 Dark Soul]]?"]] |
| 71 | * In the ''VideoGame/DarkTales'' series, the installments ''Lenore, Morella,'' and ''Ligeia'' are all {{Character Title}}s, so their titles are dropped frequently throughout the games. ''The Raven'' also has a fair few title drops, owing to the plot revolving around a group called the Raven Society. |
| 72 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2: Retribution'' does this on the last level. "Whether I am victorious, or slain. My sins will know retribution. [[spoiler:Such is the final testimony of Gabriel Angelos"]] |
| 73 | * From the ending of ''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'': |
| 74 | -->'''Wade:''' And George Struggs, the cops asked him what happened before he slipped into that coma, and he kept mumbling something about... deadly creatures. |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath'': In ''The Second Sky'', Arky challenges Beethro to solve a room of his own creation, which he calls a "deadly room of death". When Beethro solves it, he then makes another seven. |
| 76 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has the final chapter in the game rather appropriately titled, "Dead Space". [[spoiler: Which is kind of funny when you realize it's the only chapter that takes place on a ''planet'' instead of a ship in space.]] |
| 77 | ** ''In Dead Space 3'', players are able to hear this line on a recording, "It's all just dead space"-Dr. Earl Serrano, referring to something told to him by an old colleague. The original line was meant with the idea that there was just no alien life anywhere in the universe, and nothing to study, but for both the player and Serrano, those words take on a whole new meaning; the cycle of death and rebirth brought about by the Markers has left nothing but emptiness across the stars. In this way, it has both a literal and figurative meaning. |
| 78 | * "Prepare for '''''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'''''..." |
| 79 | * The ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' series doesn't do this for the individual installments, but the series title is occasionally dropped, the first time being at the end of the first game when the partnership is made formal. |
| 80 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyPrincessEnchantedJourney'' has a partial one. |
| 81 | -->A very special girl would have to undertake an ''enchanted journey'' across magical lands, helping princesses in need. |
| 82 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Dante's demon-hunting business/shop, "Devil May Cry", shares its name with the series title. The phrase also serves as the protagonist devil hunters' first reply to their customers' phone calls, as heard in ''Devil May Cry 1'', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5''. Aside from those, other variants of the phrase have their own context: |
| 83 | ** In the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] of the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 first game]], an anecdote of Enzo Ferino describes what Dante does for a living and how scary a DeathGlare Dante can pull off to even make the devil cry. |
| 84 | --->'''Enzo:''' "Rumor says blue blood may be flowing in that guy's body. I tell ya, if he glares at a guy, even The Devil may cry." |
| 85 | ** It's said multiple times in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''. Though Dante has a habit of dropping the phrase "Devils never cry" OnceAnEpisode, it's not until the end of this game (during his SandInMyEyes excuse for crying over his [[spoiler:brother seemingly dying]]) where Lady tells Dante in response to that, "Even a devil may cry when he loses a loved one." [[AnachronicOrder Chronologically]], this would be the first time the phrase is mentioned. In the epilogue, Dante finally names his demon-hunting business as "Devil May Cry", and both he and Lady say it in unison just as the latter narrates in the background. |
| 86 | --->'''Dante:''' Now I can start my business.\ |
| 87 | '''Lady:''' Oh, speaking of a kind devil, he finally decided on a name for his shop. It took him quite awhile to pick one. Want to know the name?\ |
| 88 | '''Dante and Lady:''' "Devil May Cry" |
| 89 | ** "Devil(s) Cry" is a {{Downplayed|Trope}} derivation of the series title. The main theme of ''Devil May Cry 3'', "Devils Never Cry", has verses ending with the line "Praise to my father, Blessed by the water, Black night, dark sky, The devils cry". In Nero's "The Time Has Come" battle theme from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', the last lyric before the song repeats is "I make the angel scream, and the Devil '''CRY'''!" |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' means "leader bee." Throughout the series, you collect bee icons, and upon fulfilling certain requirements for one of the games, you get to fight the TrueFinalBoss: a flaming ''bee'', the ''leader'' of the enemy forces you've been decimating. And in the first game, the elite air force you're training for is known as [=DonPachi=] Squadron. |
| 91 | * ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'': |
| 92 | ** The final map of the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' GameMod ''Hell Revealed'' is named... wait for it... Hell Revealed.[[note]]Game mods absolutely ''love'' this.[[/note]] Other mods which do this include: ''Hellcore'', ''Hadephobia'', ''No End In Sight'', ''Ancient Aliens''. |
| 93 | ** Played with in TNT: Evilution (one half of ''VideoGame/FinalDoom''); many of the crates have TNT written on them despite not being volatile. |
| 94 | ** In ''VideoGame/Doom64'', where its final level is a title drop to its WorkingTitle, ''The Absolution''. |
| 95 | ** Each installment in the ''Back to Saturn X'' series includes a number of atmospheric intermission levels, which are always named after the given installment's subtitle (''Get Out Of My Stations'', ''Tower in the Fountain of Sparks''). |
| 96 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 97 | ** The series pulls its TitleDrop in the Codex, of all places, as part of the description of the Chantry's practice of naming each century as "____ Age" after a significant event. Since dragons reappeared in the world (after being hunted nearly to extinction by the Nevarran dragon hunters) at the beginning of this century, the game is set in the Dragon Age. |
| 98 | ** The name of the setting is a bit of a disguised one. During development they just called it "The Dragon Age Setting", or THEDAS for short; apparently they never bothered to think of something better and so it stuck. |
| 99 | ** ''Jaws of Hakkon'', a DLC for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', gets mentioned several times during its events, as the Jaws of Hakkon are the name of an Avvar tribe who serve as the [[AntagonistTitle primary antagonists]]. |
| 100 | * The eponymous ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' is an artifact sought after by the powers that be in Hydeland for its famed power to control dragons. [[spoiler:It actually holds no such power, but becomes a symbol when retrieved after defeating the endboss, a sign that warriors strong enough to slay dragons reside in Hydeland's borders.]] |
| 101 | * ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' never actually mentions the title in the game itself, but rather in the game's main/ending theme Eternal Return, "Yet, now he sees the dragon's dogma, unbound by time; all-binding, grand design." The title of the game, and even the title of the song, should make sense to the player by the time they reach the game's true ending. |
| 102 | ** Upon defeating the [[FinalBoss Dragon]] it drops a powerful weapon of the type your character is currently wielding, named "Dragon's ____". Dragon's Dogma is the one-handed sword. |
| 103 | * "Looks like it's [[Videogame/DukeNukem time to kill]]." |
| 104 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 105 | ** Every work in the franchise has the surtitle "The Elder Scrolls". In virtually every work, the eponymous [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scrolls]] themselves are mentioned at some point. In a few cases, the Elder Scrolls play into the game's main quest or into a major [[SidequestSidestory faction questline]], while in others they are only mentioned in off-hand dialogue or [[FictionalDocument in-game]] [[InGameNovel books]]. |
| 106 | ** The sub-title for each game in the main series to date is a [[MetafictionalTitle Metafictional]] OneWordTitle of an in-universe "ThePlace".[[note]]Yes, even ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'', as it's mentioned in the intro that "Arena" is an alternate name for Tamriel (later retconned as an alternative name for Nirn)[[/note]]. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' drops the subtitle in a very blatant and glorified manner in the opening cinematic: |
| 107 | ---> '''Uriel Septim''': ''"Rest well this night... for tomorrow, you set sail... for the kingdom of '''DAGGERFALL'''!"'' |
| 108 | ** Both of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''[='s=] expansions drop their titles in dialogue repeatedly. ''Tribunal'' refers to the trio of Dunmeri {{Physical God}}s who play heavily into the plot, while ''Bloodmoon'' refers to the event the main quest is centered around. |
| 109 | ** Both of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]''[='s=] major expansions qualify as well. ''Knights of the Nine'' has you re-establish the eponymous order, while ''The Shivering Isles'' takes place primarily within the eponymous [[EldritchLocation Daedric realm]] of [[MadGod Sheogorath]]. |
| 110 | ** Both of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''[='s=] major DLC expansions keep the trend going. ''Dawnguard'' has you work for/against the eponymous order depending on your choices, while ''Dragonborn'' pits [[PlayerCharacter the Last Dragonborn]] against ''[[EvilCounterpart the first]]''. |
| 111 | * Throughout the galaxy, a legend is told. On a distant planet, a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power. A gun that can kill the past. Over time, the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot. To claim their prize and make what was done, undone, they must... |
| 112 | --> '''VideoGame/{{ENTER THE GUNGEON}}''' |
| 113 | * Besides containing the book the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tome of]] VideoGame/EternalDarkness, the game of the same name works the term into dialogue fairly frequently. |
| 114 | * Spoofed to hell and back in an EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'', if the player goes all the way back to O'Neal's safehouse during Chapter 8: |
| 115 | -->'''O'Neal:''' I told you I wasn't going to leave this place. It's fucking EVIL out there.\ |
| 116 | '''Sebastian:''' That may be...but there's EVIL WITHIN, TOO...\ |
| 117 | ''(Both slowly turn and [[AsideGlance look at the camera]].)'' |
| 118 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fairyside}}'': As said in Memory 5, it's a forbidden spell to gain knowledge, for a price. |
| 119 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': The in-game radio in the games mostly has songs with lyrics referencing the end of the world, either literally or metaphorically: |
| 120 | ** One of songs in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is "Crawl Out Through the Fallout". |
| 121 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Several of the DLC have this: |
| 122 | *** In ''Dead Money'', the default apparel is the Dead Money Jumpsuit and the [[ExplosiveLeash Dead Money Collar.]] |
| 123 | *** The main quest in ''Old World Blues'' is called "Old World Blues," but the phrase doesn't get a proper explanation until the end: |
| 124 | ----> There is an expression in the Wasteland: "Old World Blues". It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, even less the future, for what it is. |
| 125 | *** In the dialog box just before starting ''Lonesome Road,'' the option to go ahead says "Walk the Lonesome Road." Also, the phrase "Lonesome Road" is sprayed on a wall in one of the first areas, and the Lonesome Road perk is awarded at the end. |
| 126 | * Throughout the ''entire'' history of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, the only time those words are mentioned together is in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', [[spoiler:when Chaos refers to the ten warriors and Cosmos' journey as being the Final Fantasy]]. |
| 127 | ** ''Dissidia'''s secret ending is concluded with the Narrator saying: |
| 128 | --->"We shall journey on the road that continues... to the Final Fantasy." |
| 129 | ** Although in Gilgamesh's ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' boss cameo, his ultimate attack is called Ultimate Illusion, a synonym to Final Fantasy. |
| 130 | ** Additionally, the 5-person Band Attack used by the the final party of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' in its sequel ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears The After Years]]'' is called "Final Fantasy." |
| 131 | ** Also, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', the Japanese version of Edea's speech in Galbadia plays out a little differently from the English translation, and includes a line referencing the series. |
| 132 | --->'''Edea''': You and me. Together, we'll bring about this final fantasy. |
| 133 | ** Until ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'', when Lightning gives us this. |
| 134 | --->'''Lightning''': I guess this... is my final fantasy. |
| 135 | ** And again in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' in an exchange where [[spoiler:Clive Rosfield lands a finishing blow on Ultimalius after a heated battle. While this appearance is subtle, the second use is far more explicit, where a book of the game's story is revealed in the post-credits scene, named Final Fantasy.]] |
| 136 | --->[[spoiler:'''Ultimalius''': The world you seek is but a fantasy!]]\ |
| 137 | [[spoiler:'''Clive''': The only fantasy here is yours. And we shall be its final witness!]] |
| 138 | * The final story quest of each of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'''s expansions is named for said expansion. |
| 139 | ** ''Heavensward'' has a variation on this with the "Heaven's Ward", the [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]] of Ishgard. |
| 140 | ** Starting with patch 3.56, the final main scenario quest for each major patch shares its title with the name of the patch it came with. The only exception is 4.1's "The Legend Returns" patch, as the name refers to the optional [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics Return]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII to Ivalice]] alliance raids. [[spoiler:However, that patch's final quest still evokes the spirit of a title drop, being called "Return of the Bull", as "The Bull" refers to Raubahn, a character who is seen in-universe as a living legend]]. |
| 141 | ** Patch 6.1, "Newfound Adventure" mixes it up by using the name for the ''first'' main scenario quest of the patch. |
| 142 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 143 | ** The series tends to name each game's MacGuffin [The] Fire Emblem. |
| 144 | *** The strangest variation of this comes in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage''. Specifically, [[spoiler:The Fire Emblem in this game refers to Alear themselves, who became the thirteenth Emblem, dubbed the Fire Emblem, after the other twelve emblems combined their powers to revive them after their reanimated body gave out.]] |
| 145 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' are notable in that both games' Title Drops were LostInTranslation. The games are called "Path of the Blue Flames" and "Goddess of Dawn" in Japanese. "Goddess of Dawn" is name-dropped frequently at the end of the second game [[spoiler: referring to the original goddess Ashunera, before she split into Yune and Ashera]], while Ike's RedBaron title at the end of the duology is given as "Hero of the Blue Flames", which was omitted from the English version entirely. (Though [[LegendaryInTheSequel later games]] would retroactively give him the title "The Radiant Hero", to preserve this) |
| 146 | ** The subtitle for each version of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', "Birthright" and "Conquest", are among the lyrics of a song Azura performs in their respective games. The full song also drops the titles of various levels. |
| 147 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has the "Crest of Flames", which is another way to say the "Fire Emblem". The branching storylines are also named "Silver Snow", "Crimson Flower", "Azure Moon", and "Verdant Wind", which are taken from the Japanese title 風花雪月 (Fuu Ka Setsu Getsu, "Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon"). |
| 148 | * "We are the [[VideoGame/{{Galaxian}} Galaxians]] / Mission: Destroy Aliens"[[note]]It was originally released in 1979, before Title Screens became a thing. This also applies to Pac-Man (another Namco game) below.[[/note]] |
| 149 | * In ''[[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel: Eternal Lovers]]'', Tact accepts that he has, for better or worse, become TheCaptain of the Moon Angels, and they're off to save the galaxy again...so they really shouldn't be named after the White Moon any more. They then adopt the name "Galaxy Angels". However, they're back to "Moon Angels" by ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII''. This makes sense, as they're now OlderAndWiser and no longer the main heroines. |
| 150 | ** Each of the games of the second trilogy also has it at some point. "Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira" in a translated naming convention sense, as the hub-dimension of ABSOLUTE is what zettai ryoiki roughty translates to, and the Chrono Gates that lead to ABSOLUTE also are mentioned a lot and are key plot points. "Mugen Kairo no Kagi" gets dropped frequently as it refers to the Key to the Infinity Corridor, the mcguffin of the game. Lastly, "Eigou Kaiki no Toki" is only once at the very end, referring to the EternalRecurrence that the Will have been carrying out in destroying and resetting the universe over and over again. |
| 151 | * Skillfully used in the first ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'' game -- the title initially seems to be just an oblique reference to the series' essential concept -- bioengineering in a fantasy environment by use of magic. However, when it turns out to actually be [[spoiler: the name of the LostTechnology that serves as the series' ongoing MacGuffin and ArtifactOfDoom]], the player instantly recognizes his goal for the remainder of the game. |
| 152 | * The title of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fangame ''VideoGame/GensouShoujoTaisen'' (or for English speakers, "Fantasy Maiden Wars") at first seems to be a play on the title of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', which the game is based off of.. That is, until the very final chapter of the game, where after the final boss declares their last Spell Card ("The Furthest Reaches of Dreams", which causes them to buff themselves with nearly every spirit in the game), every character on the side of the heroes comes together to declare a Spell Card of their own, which, fittingly enough is called "Fantasy Maiden Wars" (Which increases all allies' Maximum Power and SP by 150 and restores their usage of Full Power Mode each turn). |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeraclesDS'' was title dropped by one of the playable characters, Heracles, who muses that great muscles means nothing to the "glory of Heracles". |
| 154 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' drops it many times, first with Ares and then [[spoiler: Kratos]] being referred to as "God of War". |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has a title drop, but if you play only the first game you wouldn't know it, since the term only shows up in the lead-up to the final battle of the second game. The Golden Sun is in fact a giant golden mass of Psynergy that is formed by the power of all four lighthouses converging over Mt. Aleph, [[spoiler:signalling the return of Alchemy to the world.]] |
| 156 | ** That said, the very first true "dungeon" of the first game featured a puzzle involving a golden sun icon. |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' has a mission called "Grand Theft Auto", which also happens to be one of the most difficult WatchThePaintJob missions in the series. It later plays with the title in a mission where you must steal a package from the airport, called "Grand Theft Aero". |
| 158 | ** When you steal a car, sometimes the police say "Grand Theft Auto" over the scanner. |
| 159 | ** Even before then, there was the rap song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYy69qOJWoM Grand Theft Auto]]" written for the first game's soundtrack - a remixed version of which is also in ''III''. |
| 160 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'' also has a mission named "Grand Theft Auto", which is one of the longest and hardest missions. |
| 161 | ** And take a wild guess what ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' lists the player character's criminal records as in the LCPD Database. |
| 162 | * Olivia's poems seem nothing but a cute character moment until she recites the final stanza of her last: "But now we dance this ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''..." It refers to the four year journey to Eternal Rest taken by all but the most virtuous souls. |
| 163 | * ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is title dropped a few times in conversation, but it's only at the end of the first game that we find out exactly what it's referring to. [[spoiler:Or rather, who. It's the main character, Sol Badguy. Sol was once a brilliant scientist named Frederick, and he worked on the Gear project, but he was turned into one by the main villain of the story. Forced to watch his creations rampage across the world and kill millions, he decided to adopt a new identity and use his Gear powers to hunt down and kill the others]]. And now you know. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/GunWitch'': When talking to Chief Victoria for a quest, she's the first person to call Beretta a "Gun Witch". |
| 165 | * Several chapters in the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' series are name-dropped in dialogue: |
| 166 | ** The [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 original game]] has a chapter called "We've Got Hostiles", named after one of the lines that the enemy soldiers introduced in this chapter can say when going on alert. Whether you actually hear them say that line during the chapter, however, is left up to chance. |
| 167 | *** A later chapter is named "Forget About Freeman!". These words can be heard during a radio broadcast at the start of the chapter urging the military to evacuate the Black Mesa facility. |
| 168 | *** The ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'' chapter "We Are Pulling Out" is named after another broadcast from the main game ("We are pulling out and commencing airstrikes!"), as this time you come across the soldier who's sending out the message. |
| 169 | ** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has "A Red Letter Day", which is what Kleiner says in reference to the inauguration of the Resistance's newly re-established teleporter network. |
| 170 | *** ''Half-Life 2: Episode One'' also has Kleiner name-drop the first chapter's title, "Undue Alarm", when reassuring Eli that Alyx and Gordon ought to already be far away from the critically unstable Citadel (which they aren't). |
| 171 | *** Subverted with ''Episode Two'', which has Eli refer to the G-Man as "our mutual '''friend'''" during the chapter "Our Mutual '''Fiend'''". |
| 172 | ** ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' has "Is Or Will Be", which Alyx asks of the Lone Vortigaunt when he cryptically refers to Eli as being both dead and about to die. |
| 173 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 174 | ** ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'': |
| 175 | *** "While the Covenant had us locked up in here, I overheard the guards talking about this ring world. They call it... ''Halo''." (Strangely enough, in later games they're referred to as "the Sacred Rings" by the Covenant.) |
| 176 | *** Keyes says that the guards call the ringworld "Halo", but an [[http://halo.bungie.org/images/keyesscreen.jpg early scene]] drops the title before anyone even knows what a Halo is. |
| 177 | *** Cortana drops the title of one of the soundtrack pieces during a cutscene in the first level. "With all respect, Captain. This war already has '''Enough Dead Heroes'''". Later, the first chapter of "Two Betrayals" is named after another song, "The Gun Pointed At the Head of the Universe". |
| 178 | ** ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'': "She calls the Guardians to serve her!" |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'': "My life is just cold bitter hatred. And I always wanted to die violently." |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is the name of the book Madison writes at the end. Ethan also comments "Heavy rain... it's been the same for days now." in one of the optional dialogue choices (when picking up Shaun from school). |
| 181 | * At first, ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' just seems like a flashy title. That's until you reach the final boss. |
| 182 | -->[[{{Engrish}} NOW REACHES THE FATAL ATTRACTION BE DESCRIBED AS "HELLSINKER"]] |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': The playable character is not the title Hollow Knight. This is revealed when reaching a memorial statue in the center of the City of Tears, which starts with a Title Drop in larger text to draw more attention to it. [[spoiler:The text "Hollow Knight" also appears at the end of a flashback sequence when the Void Heart is obtained, and again as the text for fighting the regular Final Boss]]. |
| 184 | -->MEMORIAL TO THE\ |
| 185 | '''HOLLOW KNIGHT'''\ |
| 186 | In the black vault far above.\ |
| 187 | Through its sacrifice Hallownest lasts eternal. |
| 188 | * "Hi, it's 'Kate' from ''[[VideoGame/HotlineMiami Hotline Miami's]]'' dating service." |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead''. Guess what the last chapter's name is, as well as where it takes place? |
| 190 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill OVERKILL]]'' follows suit as well. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'' and ''Heart of Winter'' do this -- ''Icewind Dale'', the name of the region it takes place in, much more easily. ''Heart of Winter'', on the other hand, does it much more subtly: |
| 192 | -->'''[[MadOracle Seer]]:''' A woman knows a woman's heart, and a strange, beautiful, and cruel thing it is. But the cruelest of all is a ''heart of winter'', for it beats not with love, but with loss, and '''nothing''' may comfort it. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' ends in a title drop [[spoiler: during bad ending, just like the novella. Averted in the good ending as the title never comes up.]] |
| 194 | * "Help me. I don't want to die. ''[[VideoGame/{{Imscared}} I'm scared]]''." |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/IMissTheSunrise'' has one in the very last scene: As one character watches the first sunrise they have seen in millennia, they remark, "God, I missed this." |
| 196 | * The mission "Standard Protocol" in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'': |
| 197 | --> '''Cole:''' And they'll glass the whole city, just like that? |
| 198 | --> '''Moya:''' It's standard protocol when it comes to containing biological threats. Like it or not, Cole, you're in this all the way. |
| 199 | * ''Infinite Dunamis'': in one of the two possible true endings, the protagonist argues that the humanity possesses 'infinite dunamis' (dunamis being a term from the Aristotle's philosophy meaning, basically, potentiality). |
| 200 | * The online game [[http://www.notdoppler.com/intospace2.php Into Space 2]] named the achievement for reaching space "Into Space". |
| 201 | * This happens in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', towards the end: |
| 202 | -->'''[[TheHero The Kid]]''': Wait... Former Grandfather The Guy... you killed him!\ |
| 203 | '''[[BigBad The Father]]''': As you will now try to kill me, or be killed yourself!\ |
| 204 | '''The Kid''': No! [[LargeHam I wanna be the guy]]! |
| 205 | * Akin to the [[TitleDrop/{{Film}} films]], the various Film/JamesBond video games also had name drops such as '''From Russia With Love''' and '''Everything or Nothing'''. |
| 206 | * "Prepare to VideoGame/{{Joust}}[[note]]Buzzard bait![[/note]]" |
| 207 | * ''VideoGame/JudgementSilversword'' does one when [[BossWarningSiren declaring the name of]] the FinalBoss: |
| 208 | --> ''-- WARNING! -- \ |
| 209 | [ JUDGEMENT SILVERSWORD ]'' |
| 210 | * "The Orbital Mechanized Temple -- The Twin-tined Instrument of Mankind's Destruction, VideoGame/{{KAMUI}}". Displayed upon starting the first stage. |
| 211 | * ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' is named for a piece of art that appears in the story that has some eerie similarities to the murders going on. It's the masterpiece of a painter named Mamiya Shinzo. [[spoiler:The similarities stop being eerie when the explanations start coming and instead turn disturbing.]] |
| 212 | * In the ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' FanRemake, a TitleDrop is used when [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Caldaur and Lavidia]] hear the reason Graham is seeking to open the Door of Destiny. |
| 213 | * "The job... '''''VideoGame/KillerIsDead'''''." |
| 214 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 215 | ** "KINGDOM HEAAAAAAAAAARTS! [[LargeHam FILL ME... WITH THE POWER OF DARKNESS!]]" |
| 216 | ** "Kingdom Hearts...is light!" |
| 217 | ** "You would knowingly shackle your heart with a [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories chain of memories]] born of lies?" |
| 218 | ** "So many are still waiting for their new beginning, their [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep birth by sleep]]. Even me...and even you." |
| 219 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', [[spoiler:the final attack that Sora deals to the Heartless twister is called [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX "Union X"]].]] |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/Klonoa2LunateasVeil'' has one, delivered by [[spoiler: the King of Sorrow]] just before the FinalBoss battle: |
| 221 | -->'''[[spoiler: King of Sorrow]]''': When people encounter sorrow, they try to forget it and pretend it never existed at all. So I used the ark to lift Lunatea's Veil. All so that you could save the Kingdom of Sorrow. So that Lunatea can once again remember... |
| 222 | ** The V in "Veil" is even capitalised in the subtitles, to make it obvious it's a TitleDrop. |
| 223 | * Aversion: "You know, Ellie, we really are ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''" is [[BeamMeUpScotty never actually spoken]]. It came from a meme poking fun at {{Narm}}-inducing {{Title Drop}}s in video games. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' has a few examples. In Soul Reaver it's "Become my soul reaver. My angel of death." In Soul Reaver 2, the Elder God tells Raziel "You are always and will always be my soul reaver." During the final battle in Defiance, [[spoiler:the Elder God]] says, "This defiance is pointless." |
| 225 | * In most games in the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, the subtitle inevitably gets dropped early on, pointing a giant neon arrow at something important. No points for guessing the Ocarina of Time is going to be important in a game called ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. |
| 226 | ** PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': |
| 227 | *** The game's opening cinematic (one of two if you wait around at the title screen) is an interesting example. It ends with "Now, a new legend bound to this great story stands ready to be revealed. A legend that will be forged by your own hand." In the trailer version of this cinematic, it ends with the game's logo. In the actual game, it boots you back to the title screen to fill it out with "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA". |
| 228 | *** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Groose says "Nice going, you two. You guys were totally amazing in this little adventure I like to call the Legend of ''Groose''". So close, yet so far. |
| 229 | *** The game's ''subtitle'' is never directly dropped in-game; the sword in question is called the "Goddess Sword" toward the beginning of the game and the "Master Sword" after it gets upgraded... [[FridgeBrilliance but it actually does happen]], thanks to the Skyward Strike mechanic. [[StabTheSky To do this, you need to raise your sword skyward.]] |
| 230 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Midna refers to Zelda early in the game as the "Twilight Princess," mocking the fact that her kingdom has descended into Twilight. [[spoiler:Turns out she was just screwing with everyone; ''Midna'' is the real Twilight Princess.]] |
| 231 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' after you defeat Cyclos he will comment that you're "quite the Wind Waker". |
| 232 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', while the subtitle is never spoken in the base game, the Champions' Ballad [=DLC=] does have a scene where Kass drops it: |
| 233 | --->'''Kass:''' Let not the sound leave horses riled. Breathe in the '''breath of the wild'''. |
| 234 | ** Strangely averted by ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''. The game's backstory shown in the instruction manual contains the quote "Link, the time has come when I must tell you the legend of Zelda handed down in Hyrule". Ironically, ''Zelda II'' happens to be the only game in the series to ''not'' have "The Legend of Zelda" in the English title, or "ゼルダの伝説" in the Japanese title. |
| 235 | * ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': |
| 236 | ** At different point in the game, Max says "Life is... weird" and "Life is... so not fair.", [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] this trope. |
| 237 | ** A combination of this trope and DevelopmentGag: Graffiti can be found in various places reading "I'd rather lead a life full of oh wells than what ifs". ''What If?'' was the working title for the game. |
| 238 | * "A VideoGame/MadWorld, huh? I'll fit right in." |
| 239 | * "Look at all these lawless people! VideoGame/AnarchyReigns!" |
| 240 | * One coming from the sequel, "Danny, listen; It's a VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}. And they won't stop, until we're both dead." |
| 241 | * "Namco presents VideoGame/{{Mappy}}" [[note]][[ThemeTuneRollCall Starring Mappy]] [[GratuitousEnglish as Micro Police /]] [[PunnyName Nyamco]] [[DubNameChange (or Goro in the North American version)]] [[GratuitousEnglish as Boss the Big Bit / Mewkies (or Meowky) as Naughty Folks.]][[/note]] |
| 242 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'' refers to a category of technology that is the main AppliedPhlebotinum of the game series, which is critically important for galactic civilization in the game. The opening title consists of a short description of the events that led humanity into the interstellar field, culminating with "They called it the greatest discovery in human history. The civilizations of the galaxy call it... ''Mass Effect''." |
| 243 | * ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'': Toad Road has some rock formations atop mountains shaped like the letters M and P, standing for '''M'''ario '''P'''arty. Below these rocks is a large island shaped like a 9. |
| 244 | * In ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 2'', the movie that plays after the player wins declares him or her the Master of Orion. |
| 245 | * In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'', when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TLJb9NZN0I the Wachowskis' avatars show up to explain they changed the ending for the benefit of the medium]], Lana summarizes the original ending from the movie in an increasingly sped-up voice. This is what she says normally: |
| 246 | -->'''Lana Wachowski:''' You see, at this point in the story, Neo stands on the verge of satori; ready to resolve the paradox of choice and choicelessness; free will versus fate, but that can only be achieved through an act of surrender, which it occurs after his abandonment of the perspectile nature of truth, accepting the totality of present consciousness which ultimately allows an evolutionary transition; transcending the Cartesian dilemma through emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path, the ''Path of Neo'', the path to peace. |
| 247 | * The names of individual chapters in the ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' series are all dropped at some point, usually during Max's InternalMonologue. |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 4'' manages to shoehorn its subtitle (''Red Sun'' or ''Blue Moon'', depending on the version) in ''twice'' -- once for the tournament and once for the giant laser. Near the end we learn that [[spoiler:the tournament was a front for finding a netbattler to stop the asteroid]], except this falls through because that was the BACKUP plan. |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManX8: Paradise Lost''. Guess what is the name of the FinalBoss' DesperationAttack? |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'': After [[spoiler:Zero sacrifices himself to destroy Vile's mech]]: |
| 251 | -->'''X:''' Zero! Hang in there, buddy!\ |
| 252 | '''Zero:''' X... I'm always telling you... to be more careful... but now look at me...\ |
| 253 | '''X:''' Don't waste your energy talking, Zero. We've gotta fix you up.\ |
| 254 | '''Zero:''' There's... no time for that... Sigma is close... Very close...\ |
| 255 | '''X:''' Zero...\ |
| 256 | '''Zero:''' Go now... Maverick Hunter X... |
| 257 | * All the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games after ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' have subtitles, and engage in subtitle drops: |
| 258 | ** At least once a game, Snake (or another character) says ''[[ParrotExposition "Metal Gear!?"]]''. |
| 259 | ** The [=MSX2=] version of the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' has a subtle one in the form of a cheat code. Typing "intruder" while the game is paused will increase the ammo capacity of each of Snake's weapons to 999. "Intruder" was the {{working title}} of the game. |
| 260 | ** '''[[BigBad Solidus:]]''' And we will become '''The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]]!''' |
| 261 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', the subtitle is taken from the operation Snake carries out for the most of the game, named as such because he's taking on the members of the Cobra unit. The title is also dropped in the theme song, which also plays at a few other points in the game, such as the ladder climb after The End or the final five minutes of the battle with The Boss. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Eating a snake on some ports of the game will also unlock an achievement by the same name.]] |
| 262 | ** '''[[spoiler:Ocelot]]:''' Behold! '''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots!]]''' |
| 263 | ** Probably the most meta one in the series, though, is a repeated ''series acronym drop'' from Drebin in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', as he screams (about a tank that is chasing them) 'we've got an MGS on our asses!' and 'We've gotta shake off the MGS!'. The scene ends with the MGS getting flipped into a ravine as the characters carry on. [[TrueArt Interpret that as you may]]. |
| 264 | ** For fairly obvious reasons, ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]]'' didn't manage. It tried hard, though, and involved an optional scene where Snake commented about how the operation felt 'portable'. |
| 265 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' averted this as well. There is a "[[MacGuffin Project Babel]]" in the plot, which forms half of the subtitle, but the subtitle ''Ghost Babel'' was mainly chosen because it conveniently [[SuperTitle64Advance shared the same initials]] as the Platform/GameBoy. |
| 266 | ** The subtitle to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' refers to the game's main Metal Gear unit which Big Boss faces off against before the game's first pre-ending sequence. We also learn why it is named as such prior to that battle. |
| 267 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', [[spoiler:after completing the game, if you input the KonamiCode using a controller, Raiden will announce the game's title]]. |
| 268 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has two notable instances. The first is in a cassette recording from Snake and Ocelot's initial journey to Afghanistan, in which the latter explains how the former is experiencing phanton pain in his missing arm. The second is in a speech Miller gives to Diamond Dogs in Chapter 2, where he states that Skull Face's actions have left them suffering from a metaphorical phantom pain [[spoiler:which lingers on despite his death.]] |
| 269 | * ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': |
| 270 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', you can tell the creature the Space Pirates have been studying will turn out to be pretty nasty once you learn that it's been code-named... well, take a wild guess. |
| 271 | ** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'' is a spin-off in the series, and has the "Prime Hunter" multiplayer game mode. |
| 272 | ** The title ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', which is [[SuperTitle64Advance quite traditional]] to Platform/{{Super Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} games, is also a name of the result of another research project. |
| 273 | * ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'': |
| 274 | ** ''VI: The Mandate of Heaven'' ends the intro with the narrator stating that "These signs and omens can mean but one thing: that your destiny is part of the Mandate of Heaven." The Mandate of Heaven is also mentioned in passing a few times by non-player characters (in the context of the ruling dynasty being said to have lost it). |
| 275 | ** In ''VII: Day of the Destroyer'' is mostly done by ''you'': very few non-player characters refer to the eponymous day in the full (mostly it is 'that day'), but the dialogue option to ask about is Day of the Destroyer. |
| 276 | * ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': Happens twice. Once when you need to name the wi-fi network something, so you name it "Minotaur Hotel", and another when it's been pointed out that the hotel doesn't have a name, so you just decide to name it "Minotaur Hotel" as well. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' has the Title Drop in the opening narration. "We call ourselves Runners. We exist on the edge, between the gloss and the reality -- The '''Mirror's Edge'''. We keep out of trouble, out of sight. And the cops don't bother us. Runners see the City in a different way. We see the flow. Rooftops become pathways and conduits, possibilities, and routes of escape. The flow, is what keeps us running. What keeps us alive." |
| 278 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'': |
| 279 | --> '''General Shepherd:''' We are the most powerful military force in the history of man. Every fight is our fight, because what happens over here matters over there. We don't get to sit one out. Learning to use the tools of '''modern warfare''' is the difference between the prospering of your people, and utter destruction. We can't give you freedom. But we can give you the know-how to acquire it. And that, my friends, is worth more than a whole army base of steel. |
| 280 | ** The in-game menus give the campaign for this game the title "For the Record". The first words spoken while the final level is loading: "This is for the record." |
| 281 | ** Also, the intro of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3 Modern Warfare 3]]'' begins with Makarov saying: "Modern Warfare is based on deception." |
| 282 | * ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': |
| 283 | ** ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'': |
| 284 | *** Spoofed: |
| 285 | ---->'''Carla:''' Do you have any idea how difficult it is to escape from Monkey Island?\ |
| 286 | '''Guybrush:''' No, how difficult is it to ''[with overly dramatic emphasis]'' '''''Escape from Monkey Island[[TradeSnark ™]]'''''?\ |
| 287 | '''Carla:''' ...Well, it's really difficult! |
| 288 | *** He does the same thing twice later while talking with Meathook. |
| 289 | ** In ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' and ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush asks Creator/LucasArts (via telephone) and [=LeChuck=] what's ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', dropping the first game's title. |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': |
| 291 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunterFreedom2 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite]]'' features a special urgent quest called "Monster Hunter", which pits the player in a BossRush against Rathalos, Tigrex, Nargacuga and Rajang; the first three monsters are the respective {{Mascot}}s of all handheld ''Monster Hunter'' games released up to that point, while the fourth one is one of the hardest bosses. A similar quest appears later in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4 Ultimate'' as one of the Aged Text quests. |
| 292 | ** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations Ultimate'': The game, known as ''Monster Hunter XX'' ("XX" being pronounced "Double Cross") in Japan, has an endgame quest called "[[BrutalBonusLevel Advanced]]: Double Cross", which pits you against the game's EliteFour (the four flagship monsters of the original ''Generations'' game) plus Valstrax (one of the two flagships of this one). In the localized versions, the quest is called "Advanced: Ultimate Generation". |
| 293 | ** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld: Iceborne'': The flagship Elder Dragon, Velkhana, has the [[RedBaron title]] of "The Iceborne Wyvern". |
| 294 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Moonmist}}'' [[spoiler:the hidden treasure of the green variation is a rare South American tribal remedy by that name. It doesn't factor into any of the other versions at all though.]] |
| 295 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 296 | ** Obviously, there is the actual tournament between realms that the series is named after, but there are also multiple instances of characters saying some variant of "Face me, [character name]. In ''Mortal Kombat''". |
| 297 | ** {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11: Aftermath'': The [[MultipleEndings good]] ending shows Fire God Liu Kang talking to [[spoiler: Great Kung Lao]] and telling him he needs to be prepared. When the latter asks him "prepare for what?", Liu Kang gives a very wide smile, almost an AsideGlance, that makes it clear he was going to say "For Mortal Kombat". |
| 298 | ** This particularly happens in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9''. Among others, Liu Kang to Shang Tsung, prior to their battle from the first tournament. Justified as the story is a retelling of the first three games, which featured a Mortal Kombat tournament and an attempt to merge Outworld and Earthrealm together whilst ignoring the rules of Franchise/MortalKombat. |
| 299 | ---> '''Liu Kang:''' ''Face me in '''Mortal Kombat'''.'' |
| 300 | * In ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'', the final sword is called Oboro Muramasa, which is the game's Japanese title. |
| 301 | * "''[[Platform/NeoGeo NEO-GEO]]'' / MAX 330 MEGA[[note]]"GIGA POWER" in later games.[[/note]] / PRO-GEAR SPEC / Creator/{{SNK}}" |
| 302 | * ''VideoGame/MyDearSister'': At the start of the game, when the PlayerCharacter opens up her letter from Astrid, it starts with "My Dear Sister". |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'': |
| 304 | ** You get to find the Mask of the Betrayer, but it isn't actually referred to anywhere in dialogue as such. |
| 305 | ** The opening sequence video for ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights Hordes of the Underdark'' closed with a Title Drop. |
| 306 | ** And in dialogue with Deekin, he mentions that he's going to be writing a book about your adventures in the above expansion pack, and asks the PC to give it a name. Naturally, one of the options is ''Hordes of the Underdark.'' Or "Anything but Hordes of the Underdark." Prompting some scribbling on Deekin's part. |
| 307 | * ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'': During the play on the night of Harfest, the Janitor shows up to dispense this wisdom to Mae: "We begin, and we end, at night in the woods, but that is not the whole of the story." |
| 308 | * "Pieces of a Broken Heart," the English version of the theme song to ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni: Wrath of the White Witch'' references "another world," the translation of the game's Japanese title. |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': "No More Heroes" is the name of the motel that Travis lives at, and is also written on the wall in any of the bathrooms that act as the game's [[SavePoint Save Points]]. It's also delivered in a TakeThat by [[spoiler: Travis's ex-girlfriend Jeane]] before the Rank 1 boss fight: |
| 310 | -->'''[[spoiler: Jeane]]''': What if the game gets delayed? You don't want this to become VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]], do you? |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': |
| 312 | ** The game title drops both the series and subtitle name. First in the opening: |
| 313 | --->'''Narrator:''' This is Travis Touchdown's ''desperate struggle''.\ |
| 314 | '''Travis:''' Hold it, you violence-loving bastards. Before you start your ''desperate struggling'', you should drop a nice save. |
| 315 | ** After [[spoiler:Bishop is murdered]], the words ''Desperate Struggle'' are seen written in blood. Also, near the end of the game, Travis is referred to as the ''No More Hero''. |
| 316 | * ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': |
| 317 | ** Footage that the audience isn't supposed to see is marked with a red light on your display. If you show too much of this footage, the GameOver screen will tell you that "You lost the audience because you showed too much footage that was not for broadcast." |
| 318 | ** During The Lockdown, one of the tapes you can play during the ad breaks is an employee training video. In one version of it, your boss states at the beginning, "This video is for internal use only, and is not for broadcast." |
| 319 | ** In [[WhamEpisode Day 296: The Heatwave]], [[spoiler:Jeremy Donaldson]] delivers one if [[FeaturelessProtagonist Alex Winston]] [[spoiler:refuses to play the Disrupt tape]]: |
| 320 | --->[[spoiler:'''Jeremy:''' But Alex Winston, who works in production, decided... [the tape] was ''not'' for your eyes and ears. It was ''not for broadcast''.]] |
| 321 | * ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'': At the end of your work day, AVAC announces the forecast for the following day, ending it by saying that "no umbrellas are allowed." |
| 322 | * ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': |
| 323 | ** In-universe entirely, but this bit of PreAsskickingOneLiner from a boss: |
| 324 | --->'''Dark Reacher''': You will taste the power I summoned [[TomeOfEldritchLore from the far reaches of hell]]![[note]]''From the Far Reaches of Hell'' is a tome that drives Cyrus' story; the villain in question invokes power from researching this particular tome.[[/note]] |
| 325 | ** Cyrus himself name-drops it after defeating his final boss and [[spoiler:choosing not to destroy the book]]: |
| 326 | --->'''Cyrus:''' That one day, shoud we be threatened by forces from the far reaches of hell, our descendants will possess the knowledge needed to protect this realm. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': [[spoiler: During the best ending's stinger; the book the traveling author will write is going to be titled ''Odin Sphere'']]. |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'': "The switch is now on OFF," with emphasis on the capitalization. [[spoiler:This culminates in one last FinaleTitleDrop, when the Batter "purifies" the world in the canon ending.]] |
| 329 | * ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'': During the prologue, the Spirit Tree has the line "When '''the forest was blind'''", and the OST track for this scene is called "'''The Blinded Forest'''". |
| 330 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the closing lines of the Spirit Tree, [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong who was Ori all along]]]], are "It was '''the will of the wisps''' that life begin anew". During the story's second act, the main quest is also titled "The Will of the Wisps". |
| 331 | * "Push start button / One player only [[note]]or "One or two players"[[/note]] / Bonus [[VideoGame/PacMan Pacman]] (sic) at 10,000 points." |
| 332 | ** Push start button / One player only / Additional ([[VideoGame/PacMan Ms. Pac Man]] sprite) at 10,000 points[[note]]In the case of classic arcade games with a CharacterTitle, sometimes a title drop occurs by simply displaying the character's sprite rather than just his / her name.[[/note]] |
| 333 | * "Amazing VideoGame/{{Paperboy}} delivers!" |
| 334 | ** Each of the different {{opening narration}}s (which occur on the difficulty select screen) give one as well. |
| 335 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 336 | ** The English version of ''VideoGame/Persona3FES'' is composed of two segments- the main game is "The Journey," while a part after the events of the game is "The Answer." In both of them, you see references to the title and the overarching themes of the story in parts of the game over messages -- "Though life is merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope," and "The answer has been lost, never to be found again...", respectively. |
| 337 | ** When you start up ''VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight'' or ''VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight'', one of the characters will shout out its publisher, Atlus, then its developer, P-Studio, and then its title in time with the game's logo appearing. |
| 338 | * In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', when Luke Atmey insists on describing himself as an "Ace Detective," Phoenix awkwardly introduces himself as "Phoenix Wright... Ace Attorney." Being Phoenix Wright, the whole scene is not an especially important conversation, especially because Pearl and Maya insist on also being an "Ace"... spirit medium and apprentice, respectively. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' doesn't use "planescape" -- but then, the game is properly called ''Torment''. (Calling it ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' is like calling another game, for example, ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms: VideoGame/BaldursGate''.) Torment starts getting dropped at about the midpoint of the game, increasing in frequency from there. |
| 340 | * In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', N drops the title during your fourth encounter with him, in reference to his [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity warped sense of morality]]. |
| 341 | -->''"Many different values mix together, and the world becomes gray... That is unforgivable! I will separate Pokémon and people, and '''black and white''' will be clearly distinct!"'' |
| 342 | * In the fangame ''VideoGame/PokemonPerishSong'', the Celebi from the Deepwood shrine is obtained with the title move in its fourth moveslot. |
| 343 | * The phrase had long predated the game. Nevertheless, in ''VideoGame/PolePosition'', if you complete the qualifying round fast enough, the game may say "POLE POSITION", which means that you will start the race in first place[[note]]That said, however, the goal, like many older racing video games made at the time is to simply complete the race [[TimedMission before the timer (displayed as "UNIT" in the North American version of Pole Position II) reaches zero]].[[/note]] |
| 344 | * In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Dr. Nestor presents you the eponymous Potion Permit after you [[spoiler:pass the final exam and win the hearts of the Moonbury residents by clearing up a long-held misunderstanding between them and the Medical Association.]] |
| 345 | * "But all of this is just a VideoGame/PretentiousGame. I am already too late. I've built up too much space in our Tiny World by passing up too many chances to say how I feel." |
| 346 | * ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'': |
| 347 | ** In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', the last of the secret puzzles is called "The Diabolical Box" (for good reason, being an especially difficult block-pushing puzzle). |
| 348 | ** A case 2 happens ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'' (called ''...and the Last Time Travel'' in Japan and ''...and the Lost Future'' in Europe), where the second part is the last words said by [[spoiler:Claire, Layton's girlfriend, before being sent back to the moment of her death 10 years ago by a faulty time machine.]] The phrase was slightly changed with each version to match each localized title. |
| 349 | * "''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'' is away." |
| 350 | * "And those of you who fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to becoming international secret agents -- in other words... {{VideoGame/Psychonauts}}!" |
| 351 | * ''VideoGame/{{Psychopomp}}'': The shorthand for the protagonist's helmet, Psychopomp. Also doubles as NonIndicativeName. |
| 352 | * Last line of the second expansion pack for ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', ''Dissolution of Eternity'': |
| 353 | -->''Your consciousness fades as you realize you have halted Quake's plans for...the dissolution of eternity.'' |
| 354 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/RainbowSix3: Raven Shield'' it is explained that the BigBad was like a raven picking the bones of an old war and the other BigBad his shield protecting him until his children were ready to fly. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/ReKuroi'': [[spoiler:In the ending, Michelle reveals that Re:Kuroi is the name of the project to restore and erase Kaito's memories.]] |
| 356 | * The First and Second Reconstructions in ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction''. Subverted in that they're only minor backstory events that are only briefly mentioned once each throughout the entire game (and you won't get any details unless you read Ques' glossary). |
| 357 | ** And then played straight with a WhamLine in Chapter 6: |
| 358 | --->"[[spoiler:Everything we once knew and loved has vanished from this world. We are the only surviving chance for reconstruction.]]" |
| 359 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 360 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', Jill ends her opening monologue stating that her escape from Raccoon City will be her "last escape"; a reference to the Japanese title, ''Biohazard 3: Last Escape''. |
| 361 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' requires the player to input a particular code, but there's no in-game hints. [[spoiler:It's "VERONICA", and is used to initiate the self-destruction sequence]]. |
| 362 | * "Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in the year [[VideoGame/Robotron2084 2084]], man perfects the [[VideoGame/Robotron2084 Robotrons]], a robot species so advanced, that man is inferior to his own creation..." |
| 363 | ** It's storyline sequel ''Blaster'' plays with this. While it doesn't drop the exact title, the last line of the OpeningNarration states that in order to reach Paradise, "You must blast...or be blasted." |
| 364 | * The final stage of ''VideoGame/Rockman7EP'' is named "The EP". [[spoiler:It stands for "Economic Power" or "Expert Player".]] |
| 365 | * In ''Rock Star Ate My Hamster'', the title appears in-game as one of the LuridTalesOfDoom headlines obtainable through publicity stunts. |
| 366 | * ''VideoGame/RogueLegacy'': |
| 367 | --> [[spoiler:'''Johannes''':]] I entered this castle a swordsman, a savior...but all I have left is a '''rogue's legacy'''. |
| 368 | * Used in a few of the ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' games: |
| 369 | ** In Episode 4 of ''Sam and Max Save the World'', "Abe Lincoln Must Die!", after the robot Abraham Lincoln loses the election (to [[PsychopathicManChild Max]], of all people) and goes on a rampage, the following exchange occurs: |
| 370 | --->'''Max:''' I'm the president of the U.S.! Let's go bomb someone into oblivion!\ |
| 371 | '''Sam:''' Not just anyone, Max... ''Abe Lincoln must die!'' |
| 372 | ** In the the last episode of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'': |
| 373 | --->'''[[spoiler:Max's Superego]]:''' Sam, Sam. They say that idle hands are the Devil's playthings, but there is something far, far worse. An idle mind is the Devil's Playhouse: a stage for the most vapid, horrible, and destructive stories to be made real.\ |
| 374 | '''Sam:''' Deep... and curiously insulting.\ |
| 375 | '''[[spoiler:Max's Superego]]:''' ''[[AsideComment (to the audience)]]'' [[LampshadeHanging Didn't think I'd be able to work the title in, did you?]] |
| 376 | * ''VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach'': "The site is experiencing multiple Keter and Euclid level containment breaches. Full site lock-down initiated." |
| 377 | * From ''VideoGame/Section8: Prejudice'': |
| 378 | --> ''"Evolution. Heh. What a joke. [[ByNoIMeanYes Yeah, sure, the technology gets better. The weapons get more powerful. As soldiers, we get smarter; better trained, and more efficient at what we do.]] But what we do is still the same. We fight. There's nothing 'evolved' about fighting, no matter what flag we wave. It's been the same since the beginning of time. We fight to protect what's ours, and take that's theirs. So, yeah; we keep fighting. We fight over differences. Out of fear. Out of '''[[TitleDrop prejudice]]'''."'' |
| 379 | * ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'' does this during the first battle with Risky: |
| 380 | --> '''Risky''': Lock and load men! It's time for Risky's revenge, so let's attack aggressively! |
| 381 | * The TurnBasedStrategy ''VideoGame/ShatteredUnion'' ends the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpTiHSFioI intro]] in particularly...'''Dramatic Fashion'''. |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' doesn't really count, as Planet orbits the star system, so it comes up quite frequently. The expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', does the drop in the cinematic, explaining that two opposing alien factions have landed on Planet, and the humans will thus be caught in the alien crossfire. |
| 383 | * The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjX_zJNYw8g&feature=player_embedded When You're Gone]] does this for the most recent ''Franchise/SilentHill'' game, ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories''. |
| 384 | --> "I know, I know, there's something I've forgotten! A time, a place, a '''shattered memory!'''" |
| 385 | * The narrator of ''VideoGame/SirYouAreBeingHunted'' ends the introduction cutscene with the words ''"Oh, and do be careful, Sir, you are being hunted."'' |
| 386 | * Used in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'', but you'd have to know the story behind it: The {{working title}} of the game was ''Black Lotus'', and an important mission has you trying to acquire one. |
| 387 | * ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'' series: |
| 388 | ** Something appears in a block formation in Fuzzy Tower and So Sand or Snow? |
| 389 | ** Something Else also appears in block formation in This is Something. This is Something and the [[spoiler:Else Castle]] also forms a TitleDrop. |
| 390 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 391 | ** Sonic gets ''this'' close to doing this in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', but obviously, the game's WordSaladTitle renders it impossible. [[DownplayedTrope It's still very clearly the intention]], however: |
| 392 | ---> '''Sonic:''' What you see is what you get -- just a guy [[ThrillSeeker who loves adventure]]! |
| 393 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'': |
| 394 | *** The phrase "Sonic Heroes" was apparently rammed into the game of the same name for no reason. Both Sonic and Eggman use it to describe Team Sonic, but it also appears in Team Chaotix's theme song, meaning that it might describe all the main characters... even though they have completely different reasons for fighting Eggman and actually fight each other every so often. |
| 395 | *** In the same game, Sonic's explanation to Metal Sonic as to why he lost to them: |
| 396 | ---->'''Metal Sonic:''' It's no use... why can't I defeat you...?\ |
| 397 | '''Sonic:''' Because we're SONIC HEROES! ''(strikes a pose)'' |
| 398 | :::Metal Sonic then promptly faints/powers down, possibly due to being beaten, but one must wonder if it was because of that title drop... |
| 399 | *** It's the very last line of the game, too. "Yeah! We're SONIC HEROES!" Even in the Japanese version, Sonic still says "We are Sonic Heroes!" in GratuitousEnglish. |
| 400 | * One of the possible endings in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' has Konrad narrate the inevitable fate of every soldier in war, alluding to the title in the middle. |
| 401 | -->"There's a line men like us have to cross. If we're lucky, we do what's necessary and then we die." |
| 402 | * In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', the eponymous ''NG'' is first spoken by Ami in one of Akira's [[{{Psychometry}} Bloodmetry]] visions, when she asks [[BigBad Kakuya]] what it is. When Akira asks Kakuya about it later, she threatens him with death if he ever figures it out. Its true meaning is discovered at the end of the Demon Tsukuyomi case -- [[spoiler:it stands for Nagoshi no Gi, the ritual that keeps Kakuya sealed inside a mirror.]] |
| 403 | * ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'': As the resident FourthWallObserver, before the second battle with the Piggy Man, the Terror Mask remarks, "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Show him why we call it]]... ''Splatterhouse''." |
| 404 | * ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl'' does this in the intro. |
| 405 | * ''VideoGame/{{Starion}}'' is the solution to one of the first puzzles in the game (AD 1985: "Be present at your birth"). Or potentially ''[[SequenceBreaking the]]'' first. |
| 406 | * ''VideoGame/StarOcean1'': "People say the universe is a Star Ocean." |
| 407 | * Okabe Rintaro cryptically refers to events as being "the choice of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''", only it's really just part of his silly over-the-top MadScientist persona. [[spoiler: In the True Ending, it turns out that the timeline where Kurisu lives and the world is saved from WorldWarIII is called Steins;Gate. Okabe's future self explains in a message to his past self that he called it that because it was meaningless, in order to represent the idea that all his stuggles, [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold even if erased by the timeline]], all meant something in the end, for its because of them that he's there trying to save Kurisu.]] |
| 408 | * ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has the Apocalypse DLC's launch trailer. After some chaotic [[TheFederation United Nations of Earth]] transmissions detailing the destruction of a UNE colony, they are suddenly interrupted by a [[LostColony Commonwealth]] [[EvilCounterpart of]] [[TheEmpire Man]] representitive, claiming vengeance upon the agressors by stating [[https://youtu.be/AssQqRk3qQM?t=17 "With this attack. We have no choice but to protect our kind, by unleashing our almighty weapon upon them. Summoning, the Apocalypse."]], promptly blowing up one of their planets in retaliation. |
| 409 | * In John Woo's ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'', Damon Zakarov tells BigBad Wong, in his demands that he hand over Hong Kong to him, "Your stranglehold has lasted far too long." |
| 410 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': |
| 411 | ** At the end of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterI the original game]], [[FinalBoss Sagat]] declares you as "the strongest street fighter in the world!" |
| 412 | ** In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 2'', Ken title drops [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting another popular fighting game]] in his dialogue with sub-boss Dan, referencing the fact that Dan is a parody of that game's main character, Ryo Sakazaki. |
| 413 | --->'''Ken''': Who are you? Do you know the art of fighting? |
| 414 | * ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'': Lampshaded in episode 2, "Strong Badia the Free", after Strong Bad escapes house arrest: |
| 415 | -->'''Strong Bad:''' Onward to Strong Badia! Strong Badia the Free!\ |
| 416 | '''Homestar Runner:''' Hey, that's the name of this--\ |
| 417 | '''Strong Bad:''' Shut up. |
| 418 | * The meaning behind the title of ''VisualNovel/{{Suika}}'' is only revealed in the true ending, where [[spoiler:it becomes Ojou's new name by combining the kanji for water and summer.]] |
| 419 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'' has two instances of this. First, when [[spoiler:the Prototypes]] capture Kayto Shields, their leader proclaims--in English--that the moment they've been waiting for is finally upon them: The Captain's Return! Then at the very end of the game, [[spoiler:Veniczar Fontana begrudgingly declares that Kayto is "the Sunrider" after Kayto caps off an impossible victory with a risky SpaceshipSlingshotStunt]]. |
| 420 | * Towards the end of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'', when the party members are briefed on the TheFederation's plan to launch a counterattack on the [[HumanAliens Balmarians]], it's revealed the name of the plan is "[[OperationBlank Operation SRW]]". After the briefing, when the other party members are wondering what SRW stands for, AscendedFanboy Ryusei Date guesses it right, but none of the others believe him. |
| 421 | ** To be exact, Ryusei believes it stands for "Super Robot Wars", while ManicPixieDreamGirl [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Excellen Browning]] jokes that it's "Sexy Romance Weapon". |
| 422 | ** The feat is duplicated twice for ''[[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]'': the party acquires the not-so HumongousMecha Gespenst Phantom, Alt Eisen Nacht, Weiss Ritter Abend as backup units, and they are dubbed "Support Robot Weapons". "Endless Frontier" is immediately used following a prologue real describing the multiple worlds connected by dimensional gateways. |
| 423 | ** Some older [=SRWs=] would TitleDrop the game during the final scenario, as in the case of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact'', where the last scenario is called "Super Robot Wars". |
| 424 | ** Several of the games give your BadassArmy a name based on the game's initial. ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal R]]'' has the Round Knights, ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Alpha]]'' has the Alpha Numbers, ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW W]]'' has Wärter, ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL L]]'' has LOTUS, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ the Z games]] have ZEUTH and ZEXIS, ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX UX]]'' has the Unknown Exstrikers and the Ultimate Cross... |
| 425 | * You know that stuff just got real when humans bring in their ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' dreadnought class. No other space conquest game has a suitable name. |
| 426 | ** The original game and its {{Expansion Pack}}s also perform a [[AC:TitleDrop]] at the end of their intro voiceovers: |
| 427 | --->'''Human:''' We learned to wield the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91qZSfYLoU Sword of the Stars]]'''''.\ |
| 428 | '''Zuul:''' Born of fire, born of steel, born of science, '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IstNOUa_dj8 Born of Blood]]'''''.\ |
| 429 | '''Morrigi:''' My people are no longer hiding, and now we darken your skies, like '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYgti3MKCDg A Murder of Crows]]'''''. |
| 430 | ** And in the sequel: |
| 431 | --->'''Suul'ka:''' Your season in the sun has passed. Now you will tremble before the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoupNUyM9-8 Lords of Winter]]'''''.\ |
| 432 | '''Loa:''' Lay down your arms, or face the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNftYHBxwM End of Flesh]]'''''. |
| 433 | * In the end credits for ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', Estelle is seen writing a book. The title's in another language, but you can tell really easily that it says "Tales of Vesperia." |
| 434 | * ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'': "The Talos Principle" in-universe is a philosophical concept usually summarized by the last sentence: "Even the most faithful philosopher cannot live without his blood." To oversimplify, it states that having an existence hinging on the presence of one particular thing is the great equalizer that removes any distinction between humans and machines. Another interpretation of this is that all it takes for any living being to exist is a life source, whether blood or machinery, and without said source, that thing will cease to exist. As evidenced by the secret room in [=C1=], [[spoiler:Elohim's greatest fear is that he is also subject to this principle, meaning that he is not as immortal as he constantly tells the player he is]]. |
| 435 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' doesn't really drop the international title, not counting some self-referential dialogue in the DevelopersRoom, though a line in the ending that drops the Japanese title (''Tenchi Souzou'') is translated: "But you did fulfill your duty of '''creating heaven and earth'''," Yomi tells Ark. |
| 436 | * Clearing four lines of blocks in ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' is called a Tetris. |
| 437 | ** In ''Tetris: The Grand Master'', the highest rank obtainable is Grand Master. |
| 438 | * ''VideoGame/TheyAreBillions'': When you are alerted about the final horde in a survival game or the campaign, your announcer states "Oh my God! A huge swarm is coming! THEY ARE BILLIONS!!! They are approaching from all sides!" |
| 439 | * ''VisualNovel/ThousandDollarSoul'' has [[spoiler:Future Clint]] tell [[spoiler:Angela (in Future Todd's body)]] "Enjoy your thousand dollar soul" in ending #16 after [[spoiler:she (or rather, an AI recreation of her) unwillingly takes over Future Todd's body]]. |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/ThomasWasAlone'' drops its title, in the ''first'' line of narration, no less. |
| 441 | * ''VideoGame/TouchDetective'': At the end of the game, Mackenzie receives a letter telling her she's become an official detective and have been given a unique name. However, Mackenzie is not too pleased with the name that's been chosen. |
| 442 | -->'''Mackenzie:''' Touch Detective...? What a terrible name. |
| 443 | * In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' games, [[CallingYourAttacks Spell Cards]] have names which generally take the form of something like '''Love Sign "Master Spark"''', and this is used for a Title Drop a few times for the final Spell Card of the FinalBoss. In ''VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom'', Yuyuko's final spell card (before her DesperationAttack) is titled '''Cherry Blossom Sign "Perfect Ink-Black Cherry Blossom"'''; in ''VideoGame/TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith'', Kanako's final attack has no "sign" part of its name (though it is far from unique in that regard) and is simply called '''"Mountain of Faith"'''[[note]]Only on Easy and Normal mode though; on higher difficulties it is "Virtue of Wind God"[[/note]]. |
| 444 | ** Also, Tenshi from the FightingGame SpinOff ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutenScarletWeatherRhapsody'' gives us '''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody for all Mankind'''. |
| 445 | ** In ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'', the "sign" parts of all of Kaguya's Last Spells are called '''Imperishable Night's End'''. Furthermore, the "sign" parts for her five normal spellcards are all called '''Impossible Request''', which matches her stage title "Five [[ImpossibleTask Impossible Requests]]". |
| 446 | *** There's also Mokou's spell card '''Imperishable Shooting'''. |
| 447 | *** And if you survive enough of her Last Spells, Kaguya will drop it in dialogue in a much more meaningful way than just naming: |
| 448 | ----> '''Kaguya:''' [[PunctuatedPounding The fragmented eternal evening you've created... My eternity manipulation will destroy it... Your spell of Imperishable Night will shatter... And the dawn shall come!]] |
| 449 | ** ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'': Utsuho Reiuji has '''"Subterranean Sun"''' on Hard and Lunatic, and Koishi Komeiji has '''"Subterranean Rose"'''. |
| 450 | ** Played a bit differently in ''VideoGame/TouhouShinreibyouTenDesires''. The final boss's power is listening to ten people at once, or rather, to their Ten Desires. |
| 451 | *** Also, her last Spellcard is called '''"Falling Stars on Divine Spirit Mausoleum"''', "Divine Spirit Mausoleum" being the game's Japanese title. |
| 452 | ** ''Shinkirou'', the Japanese title of ''VideoGame/TouhouShinkirouHopelessMasquerade'', is revealed in Kokoro's ending to be [[spoiler:[[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis the name of the new Noh Play she made based on the events of the game]]]]. |
| 453 | ** The fangame ''VideoGame/ConcealedTheConclusion''[='=]s Stage 5 is titled '''Concealed the Conclusion''' ([[GratuitousEnglish in English, in a Japanese game]]). Ironically, it is also the stage where the [[DreamApocalypse conclusion]] is ''[[WhamEpisode revealed]]''. |
| 454 | *** The game's Japanese title, ''Mushuugeki'', appears in the title music theme, "'''Dream End Drama''' ~ Border between Dream and Reality". |
| 455 | * The main heroines of ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the title of the game, or part of it, as the name of their true ending. Actually makes a lot of sense in the case of ''Tsukihime'' (Moon Princess) since the title is a direct reference to her. |
| 456 | ** ''Tsukihime'''s "sequel", Kagetsu Tohya, has a character in a side-story named Souka ''Tsukihime''. Incidentally, she's the graphic designer's favorite character. |
| 457 | ** Despite Sion being technically the main heroine of ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', being the main heroine of the entire series gets Arc the title drop in that game. Her Blood Heat Arc Drive is named "Melty Blood." |
| 458 | ** The ''Unlimited Blade Works'' and ''Heaven's Feel'' routes in ''Fate/Stay Night'' get title drops during their respective routes. Unlimited Blade Works gets a title drop right at the beginning, but the titular route explains what it actually is, [[spoiler: Archer's Noble Phantasm, a [[MentalWorld Realty Marble]] that summons [[FieldOfBlades a hill of swords]] for Archer to use]]. Heaven's Feel is [[spoiler: the true name of the Holy Grail War ritual, meant to materialize the soul.]] |
| 459 | * ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'': Early on, TOM discusses with Ava about the TuringTest and its implications. |
| 460 | * ''VideoGame/TurnipBoyCommitsTaxEvasion'' spells out its premise in the opening scene of the game when Mayor Onion kicks the title character out of his house after he tears up his [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill exorbitant property tax bill]]: |
| 461 | -->'''Mayor Onion:''' '''Turnip Boy''', you really screwed yourself!\ |
| 462 | '''Turnip Boy''': [[HeroicMime ...]]\ |
| 463 | '''Mayor Onion''': What do you mean "what"? You '''committed tax evasion!''' |
| 464 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' is dropped by Yuu [[spoiler:during their interaction with Mickey Mouse through the Ramshackle Dorm's mirror]] near the end of Chapter 4. |
| 465 | -->''I'm in...''\ |
| 466 | ''Twisted Wonderland...'' |
| 467 | * ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'': "And so began the story of the wanderer... the vagrant." |
| 468 | * After the lights on the protagonist's submersible go out for a second time in ''VideoGame/WaterWombWorld'', they swim out into the darkness to discover a group of colossal red entities who announce "WATER WOMB WORLD." They say it again when [[spoiler:the protagonist swims out to become one of them at the end of the game.]] |
| 469 | * "Oh no, I'm not doing this to you. The ''game'' is doing this to you. Videogame/WelcomeToTheGame!" |
| 470 | * While the [=ARMs=] in ''VideoGame/WildArms'' have always been an important plot element in every game, the series never did a full [[AC: TitleDrop]]... until [[VideoGame/WildArms4 the fourth game]] where [=ARMs=] are weapons made from {{Nanomachines}}, and the most powerful of them assimilates the inmates of [[TheAlcatraz Illsveil Prison]], turning them into, you guessed it, Wild [=ARMs=]. |
| 471 | * ''VideoGame/WingCommander IV: The Price of Freedom'' features two drops of the subtitle, with first the veteran in the bar, and later [[spoiler:Admiral Tolwyn]], giving the full line, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." At the end, Blair asks [[spoiler:Tolwyn]], after stating that his plan would cause many deaths and force humanity to become barbaric, "Is that the price of freedom?" in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. |
| 472 | ** Hobbes addresses Blair as, "Wing Commander" in ''Wing Commander II'' when, despite being higher-ranked, he orders him to lead the mission they're on. |
| 473 | ** In ''Wing Commander: Prophecy'', Maniac toasts, "to the free and easy life of the Wing Commander." |
| 474 | ** In the film, Angel describes herself to Blair as, "your Wing Commander." |
| 475 | ** The third game's subtitle, Heart of the Tiger, is Blair's title among the Kilrathi, which also serves as [[spoiler:the phrase to awaken Hobbes' true personality]]. |
| 476 | * "Fight me, the ''VideoGame/WizardOfWor''!"[[note]]Like many video games released at the time, this one did not have a proper title screen. The closest this game comes is when he says this line (out of a possible three) during the screen with both the copyright message, and the high score list.[[/note]] |
| 477 | ** "Burwor: 100 points / Garwor: 200 points / Thorwor: 500 points / Worrior (blue): 1000 points / Worrior (yellow): 1000 points / Worluk: 1000 points double score / ''VideoGame/WizardOfWor'': 2500 points"[[note]]Other than during gameplay when he appears, this is the only other appearance of the game's name.[[/note]] |
| 478 | * ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': |
| 479 | ** Welcome in that we get to find out what they were smoking when they came up with that one. [[spoiler:Turns out it's suggesting that the parts of the world you ignore might as well not exist, and with [[EmoTeen Neku]] (who is told this) that means a ''lot'' might as well not exist. Thank you, [[AC:TitleDrop]]!]] |
| 480 | --->'''Mr Hanekoma''': Listen up, Phones! The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go.\ |
| 481 | '''Neku''': Are you kidding? I'm stuck in the Reapers' Game. I can't even leave Shibuya. How am I supposed to expand my world?\ |
| 482 | '''Mr Hanekoma''': That's for you to figure out.\ |
| 483 | '''Neku''': ''[thinking]'' Expand my world... |
| 484 | ** The Japanese title, ''Subarashiki Kono Sekai'', gets dropped as part of the line [[spoiler:the people brainwashed by the Red Skull Pin/O-Pin]] say: |
| 485 | --->"To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. '''What a wonderful world''' such would be..." |
| 486 | %% * ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' Corporation. |
| 487 | * The penultimate quest in the last content patch for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', which involves the players and one of their faction's leaders [[spoiler: escaping an [[CurbstompBattle encounter]] with]] [[BigBad Arthas Menethil]]. This leads directly into the raid on Icecrown Citadel, and is named "Wrath of the Lich King". |
| 488 | ** In the final patch of Cataclysm, Deathwing yells "[[BadassBoast I]] [[IAmTheNoun AM]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THE]] [[TitleDrop CATACLYSM]]!" at the start of the Madness of Deathwing encounter, in which he attempts to use an attack called Cataclysm that essentially is him finishing the job he started by breaking out of Deepholm, and which the raid ''must'' interrupt to avoid instantly wiping. |
| 489 | ** ''Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'' has a title drop at the end of the opening cutscene. |
| 490 | ** As does ''Warcraft: Orcs and Humans''. |
| 491 | --->"Welcome to the world of Warcraft." |
| 492 | * ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair''(Platform/TurboGrafx16 CD version only): "But you have fought off their wicked attempts and have locked these fiendish rogues in the eternal limbo of the...'''Monster Lair'''!" |
| 493 | * The Armageddon weapon in ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}: Armageddon''. |
| 494 | * ''{{VideoGame/Xenogears}}'' is the name given to the main character`s mech near the end of the game [[spoiler:after it has been upgraded by ''God''.]] |
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