| 1 | {{Wham Episode}}s in VideoGames |
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| 3 | '''Due to the nature of the trope, UNMARKED SPOILERS ahead.''' |
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| 5 | !!The following games and franchises have their own pages: |
| 6 | * ''WhamEpisode/{{Danganronpa}}'' |
| 7 | * ''WhamEpisode/DragaliaLost'' |
| 8 | * ''WhamEpisode/DragonAge'' |
| 9 | * ''WhamEpisode/FinalFantasy'' |
| 10 | * ''WhamEpisode/FireEmblem'' |
| 11 | * ''WhamEpisode/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' |
| 12 | * ''WhamEpisode/KingdomHearts'' |
| 13 | * ''WhamEpisode/XenobladeChronicles'' |
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| 18 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': |
| 19 | ** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Justice For All'', case four. Not only is the true murderer one of the vilest people in the series, with an unexpected [[BitchInSheepsClothing personality revelation]], but he's also ''your client'', which also serves as a Wham Episode to Phoenix himself. The case also brings back Miles Edgeworth, previously thought to be dead. It ''does'' say something that in the anime adaptation, when the verdict ends up being 'guilty', the confetti falls, something only reserved for 'not guilty' verdicts. This doesn't happen in the game itself. |
| 20 | ** The fifth case of ''Trials and Tribulations''. The first part of the final trial reveals that Iris was indeed in two places at once. One of them was her channeled dead sister Dahlia. |
| 21 | ** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' manages this right out of the gate with its first episode. Kristoph Gavin, someone you went into the game completely trusting as the protagonist's boss and mentor, ends up being the guilty party. The ride just keeps going from there but needless to say it's a hard-hitting way to start the game. |
| 22 | ** The fourth episode of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' ends with you proving your client's innocence with a decisive piece of evidence… only for that evidence to immediately implicate ''Athena'' as the real murderer. The episode closes with her arrest. |
| 23 | ** Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney: Adventures'': Ryunosuke's first trial in Great Britain doesn't seem too different from the series' usual fare at first. Until the end, where it's heavily implied your client was really guilty after all and played you, the prosecutor, and the entire court for fools. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero And YOU just discredited all the witnesses to his crime]], so the judge has no choice but to declare a Not Guilty verdict. Your client [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it all]]... for all of 10 minutes, at which point he's told they'll be investigating the carriage the murder took place in again... and is promptly locked inside it while the carriage is set ablaze, burning him to death. This sets up the events of the 5th episode, where you learn that he really was episode 3's murderer, and several of the witnesses from that trial had been bribed and/or threatened by him to hide evidence and give false testimony. |
| 24 | ** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'': |
| 25 | *** "The Rite of Turnabout" starts off mostly light-hearted, with the return of Maya, and even after the murder it seems like any other case. Until the end... where you witness first-hand just how badly the DCA can affect Khura'in's people as you realize the victim [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] to spare his wife from it, and you find out that the royal family is even worse than anyone ever expected. And since these truths come out during a public trial, mass dissent is sparked, and the revolution kicks into full swing, with one of the key witnesses joining the cause. On top of that, you get a brief glimpse of Dhurke in the flesh. The writers specifically stated they made episode 4 filler because the player would need a BreatherEpisode between all that and episode 5. |
| 26 | *** "Turnabout Revolution". To show how ridiculously whammy it is, the episode just starts with Dhurke popping up in the Wright Anything Agency in the flesh, looking for Apollo, his foster son. Then you go to [[NostalgiaLevel Kurain Village]] to obtain the Founder's Orb, and after you do, Phoenix pops up and tells you that he's going to confront you in court tomorrow because his client claims the orb's ownership. In the trial, you find out that Phoenix's client murdered the archeologist who was supposed to hand over the orb, and that he kidnapped Maya, which is why Phoenix is defending him. Then you go to Khura'in, and Dhurke is arrested for the murder of Inga, the Justice Minister. Further investigation reveals that Queen Amara was Dhurke's wife, and Dhurke tells you that he's SecretlyDying. The final trial is no less shocking, what with the reveal that Dhurke was [[DeadAllAlong dead before the episode even began]], Queen Amara is alive and was disguised as Nayna, and Queen Ga'ran killed both Apollo's biological father and Inga. Plus Nahyuta is Rayfa's brother. |
| 27 | * ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' has several, some enemy-provoked, some played-provoked: |
| 28 | ** ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'': |
| 29 | *** [[SuperPrototype X-49]] destroying [[CityOnTheWater Megafloat]] after you spend 3/4 of the game protecting the city from every MegaCorp who tried to militarize, capture, fought over and then destroy it. |
| 30 | *** The OmegaEnding where Simon Orestes Cohen reveals the true nature of Nemo. It's an AI that’s part of a simulation to see if it can kill [[BrainUpload Abyssal Dision]]. As the simulation showed that Dision will die no matter what, Simon purges the Nemo in the simulation, and creates a fresh copy that he intends to release into the world, as well as manipulating events to ensure that the war that the simulation predicted will come to pass. |
| 31 | ** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'': |
| 32 | *** The whole Osea-Yuktobania war is the work of the Grey Men, powerful Belkan politicians and businessmen who harbored a plot to push the two countries to destroy each other to get revenge for the last war. Including providing them with nuclear weapons. |
| 33 | *** The shadowy and secret 8492nd squadron that shows up from time to time to give are Belkan aces and high-ranking officers infiltrated in the Osean military, who work with the Grey Men to either help or hinder Osean progress to make the war last. Including trying to murder you and framing you for espionage and treason when you prove too dangerous for their plans. |
| 34 | ** ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'': |
| 35 | *** Belka becomes desperate enough that they want to end the war by [[NukeEm dropping nuclear weapons]] on their own cities to stave off the advancing allied forces. Your squadron shoots down the bombers carrying the nukes and rejoices for avoiding the disaster, suddenly the music stops, a bright light blinds you temporarily and the game seems to freeze and lag for a split second. When it stops, the sky has turned gray with an awfully strong wind and the graphics, radio and HUD become distorted. Then you see what looks like a second sun, eerily low, large and close to the ground... as you might have known from ''The Unsung War'', there were seven more nukes [[DoomedByCanon that you couldn't stop.]] |
| 36 | *** To twist the knife even further, this is the exact moment when Pixy, your trusted wingman from the start of the game until now, officially defects to [[WellIntentionedExtremist A World With No Boundaries]], setting himself up to be the BigBad in the final mission. |
| 37 | ----> '''Pixy:''' [[WhamLine Buddy... I've found a reason to fight.]] \ |
| 38 | '''[[OhCrap *MISSILE ALERT*]]''' |
| 39 | ** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'': |
| 40 | *** In the fourth mission ‘Rescue’, the Oseans receive intelligence that former President Vincent Harling is still at [[SpaceElevator the Lighthouse]], and launch a daring rescue operation to save him. However, during the mission, Harling’s escort is killed when a missile strikes the cockpit of the V-22 that they try to escape on, and Harling turns it around back to the Lighthouse. When the V-22 gets harassed by drones, [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]] tries to pull them away, when a missile screeches past Trigger and strikes the V-22, killing Harling. Worse, Trigger is blamed for it and gets transferred to a penal unit called the Spare Squadron. |
| 41 | *** In the tenth mission ‘Transfer Orders’, Trigger and Count are tasked with escorting their base commander, [[TheNeidermeyer Colonel [=McKinsey=]]], when they’re ambushed by a prototype drone that’s more advanced than any drone that they’ve encountered before. |
| 42 | *** In the fifteenth mission ‘Siege of Farbanti’, just when it seems like Trigger is about to shoot down the Erusean Ace, Mihaly, the Usean Satellite Network is destroyed in a simultaneous A-Sat strike by Osea and Erusea, and communications all across the continent have been wiped out. |
| 43 | *** In the first half very next mission ‘Last Hope’, an Erusean General named Edouard Labarthe reveals who the real culprits behind the war are: A group of young Erusean officers called the Radicals had manipulated Princess Rosa Cossette d’Elise into declaring war on Osea, and that the technology behind the drones had come from Belka. |
| 44 | *** In the second half of ‘Last Hope’, Strider squadron find themselves escorting a liaison plane carrying Dr. Schroeder, and Mihaly’s granddaughters, when they’re attacked by Conservative Eruseans. After they’re dealt with, the fighters escorting the plane attack Strider squadron, and Schroeder reveals that the aircraft are drones that are [[AIIsACrapshoot acting on their own volition]]. Oh, and the mission ends with [[ShootTheShaggyDog Labarthe getting shot down by your fellow Oseans]], who were misinformed that he was still an enemy, driving home [[PoorCommunicationKills the chaos caused by the sattelite network's breakdown.]] |
| 45 | * The introduction of the Dji Cantos in ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' counts. Shortly after that, we find out that the company owning the ship knew that the planet they are trying to destroy had intelligent life on it, and is willing to destroy it regardless. It turns out the ship's on board computer has also been programmed to use any means necessary to keep the truth about the world a secret from the crew, killing everyone if necessary. |
| 46 | * ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'': |
| 47 | ** Alice's final trip into the burning house to discover who or what caused the fire that killed her family ten years ago: her current therapist, Dr. Bumby, who was attempting to cover up the rape of Alice's sister. |
| 48 | ** The encounter with the Dollmaker, the Wonderland representation of Dr. Bumby. Turns out his memory alteration experiments were to make sure his patients (all of them children) didn't remember being used as prostitutes. |
| 49 | * ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' slowly becomes this, as it's revealed through Daniel's later diary entries and flashbacks that [[WhatTheHellHero he helped Alexander kidnap, torture, and murder innocent civilians]] in order to ward off [[EldritchAbomination the Shadow]] and in effect save his own life. And then flipped on its head when it's also revealed that Alexander was only using Daniel to obtain both the orb he found in Algeria and mass amounts of vitae to open a portal back to his home world, and that he was planning on leaving Daniel to die once he had what he needed. |
| 50 | * ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'''s Trick Castle. Though it seems like the last level, no sooner do you reach Specter and Jake before they ditch you, leave you to fight an armoured warrior, you get transported back to the present day where [[VillainWorld the monkeys are already in charge of the city]] and the professor and Katie have been kidnapped. |
| 51 | * At the very end of the normal ending of ''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}},'' the protagonist, Naija, says a short sentence about how you need to search the game more closely. The sentence ends with two little words that turn the world upside down. |
| 52 | -->"You've reached an end, but it is not all I have to share. You've become lost along the way, concerned only with the immediate facts. Return to the waters, and follow the trails hidden in my memories...the story of my childhood. Find me...before the world is lost...my son..." |
| 53 | * In ''VideoGame/ArcRiseFantasia'', things kind of go downhill when Adelle gets [[DamselInDistress kidnapped]] and taken to the Olquina Skywalk. You storm into the shrine to rescue her, but when you reach her, a number of things rapidly become clear. First of all, [[spoiler:Adelle is a Diva, has chosen to follow ''Real's'' Law (in direct opposition to the one L'arc "chose"), and she is completely ''[[{{Yandere}} batshit]]'' for L'arc]]. Secondly, [[spoiler:The Empire you're following has just attacked Olquina ''without formally declaring war'', using your mission as an opening]]. Thirdly, [[spoiler:[[LovableRogue Serge]] has been lying about his origins the whole time, and is on the Olquinians' side, and Leslie isn't exactly on your side either]]. ''Finally'' (and this one is a shocker to ''everyone'' present, including your enemies), [[spoiler:L'arc's friend, Prince Alf, is a ''second'' Child of Eesa, and quickly defects to Real's side to fight the Empire he is a prince of]]. In short, [[spoiler:half your party is now against you, and your two oldest friends want you dead]]. |
| 54 | * ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad 2'''s first scene shows the slaughter of Elc's (the game's hero) people. Then the game's makers apparently decided to beat the record of Wham Moments done in a single video game, by repeatedly [[PlayerPunch punching the player in the gut]]. |
| 55 | * Each game in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series ends on a deliberate cliffhanger that radically changes the plot. |
| 56 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' ends with Desmond discovering that he has "inherited" Altaïr's Eagle Vision through the Animus and using it to see cryptic messages painted all over the walls of the Abstergo laboratory... in blood. |
| 57 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' ends with Ezio entering the vault beneath the Vatican in hopes of discovering the secret purpose of the Apple of Eden, only to see a hologram of a representative of [[{{Precursors}} an ancient and advanced civilization]] speak to Desmond through him and inform him that it is his purpose to help in preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. This astonishes both Ezio (who of course has no idea that a long-distant descendant of his will be viewing his life via GeneticMemory as a VR simulation) and Desmond, who is said descendant. |
| 58 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' ends with Desmond discovering Ezio's Apple. However, instead of having its secrets revealed, another representative of the First Civilization appears to him, tells him he is not ready, and forces him to [[spoiler:stab and kill Lucy with his hidden blade]]. |
| 59 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' gives us the surprising conclusion to Altaïr and Ezio's stories (not to mention Subject 16's) and confirms that their purpose in life was to pass on the message of the First Civilization. However, the real whammy comes in the DLC, "The Lost Archive", which reveals that [[spoiler:Lucy, whom Desmond was forced to kill in ''Brotherhood'', was in fact a Templar agent]]. |
| 60 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' ends with Desmond opening the door in the Grand Temple the day before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, only to discover [[spoiler:Juno is still alive, was imprisoned in the temple by her First Civ peers, and all her actions have been a carefully constructed XanatosGambit so that Desmond would have no choice but to free her to save Earth from the catastrophe, only to leave it ripe for her conquer afterwards. It's a SadisticChoice between that and letting the catastrophe kill off most of humanity, Desmond ascending to god-like status among the survivors, and the cycle of conflict continuing after his eventual death. Desmond accepts Juno's offer and dies in the process of freeing her, in the hopes his friends can stop her plans. She does save Earth from the disaster, but now she's free to exact her plans]]. |
| 61 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' has the mission Kyrie Eleison, in which Shay is sent to Lisbon by Achilles, after a First Civilization map reveals another temple-and artifact-are hidden under a church there. After climbing around the church to open a secret passage [[{{Callback}} just like Ezio used to do]] Shay discovers the artifact. [[spoiler:But as soon as he claims it, it dissolves in his hands and then turns out it was literally ''holding the Earth together'' and without it, Lisbon is rocked by a horrific earthquake that decimates the city while Shay can only escape as Lisbon collapses around him. When the Assassins refuse to believe his claims that the artifacts can cause earthquakes, he takes matters into his own hands and tries to steal the Manuscript from Achilles, which causes the Colonial Assassins to turn on him, which starts a chain reaction that leads to Shay joining the Templars and helping to decimate his former Brothers.]] |
| 62 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' has the Templars recovering the Shroud of Eden. [[spoiler:Inside Alvaro Gramatica's lab, he is working on cloning Precursors based on John Standish's Sage DNA, and Violet Da Costa is a member of the Instruments of the First Will, a cult that works for and worships Juno. Other revelations shown is that there's a boy in New York who not only has Sage DNA, but is from the same patriarchal line as Desmond's family!]] |
| 63 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' Episode 12. [[spoiler:The little girl and the village Asura was protecting is completely destroyed by Olga of the deities and all the inhabitants are dead. Asura goes even more apeshit then usual and completely annilhates Olga's fleet.]] |
| 64 | * ''VideoGame/AvalonCode'' begins with a very schizophrenic tone--you're told straight up that the world is going to be destroyed for its wickedness, but you mostly encounter its most beautiful elements (which you're in charge of magically preserving.) Occasional hints of ''why'' the world is doomed are left in the background. Then, after the most light-hearted and most plot-irrelevant chapter, everything goes straight to hell as the NoGearLevel begins. A trusted ally betrays you for reasons that make perfect sense in hindsight, and the character he betrays you to [[spoiler:turns out to have been manipulating you from the start]]. Another character gets killed off (and this varies depending on [[spoiler:who you're dating]].) You're jailed for the destruction, and every character you didn't complete a personal sidequest for comes to your cell to tell you how much they hate you. When you're busted out, the character who rescues you lists off all the weapons you've used throughout the game, and asks you if you're able to wield ''any'' of them without magical assistance, while you just shake your head in acknowledgment of your own uselessness . . . and then he teaches you unarmed combat, and the game firmly establishes [[EarnYourHappyEnding its tone]]. |
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| 68 | * Creator/TelltaleGames manages a few more in their ''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'' series. In Episode 3, [[spoiler:Hill Valley has been turned into a 1984-esque dystopia run by none other than Doc Brown himself from an alternate timeline]]. Then, as if just to one-up that one, in Episode 4 [[spoiler:Alternate Doc Brown has a FaceHeelTurn when he realizes that restoring the timeline to "normal" will leave his wife Edna, who he still cares for despite how she tried to brainwash and torture him in the future, alone and miserable, and sets out to prevent his younger self from becoming a scientist entirely, preventing both the invention of time travel and the police state in Hill Valley while still allowing Edna to be happy. Just . . . damn]]. |
| 69 | ** That last one is a trifecta. You get the Wham Episode element, and [[spoiler:1986!Doc]]'s speech counts as both a PlayerPunch and a [[WhatTheHellHero "what the hell, hero?"]]. |
| 70 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': for your main character, everything really changes when you discover your true origin as [[spoiler:one of the children of the long deceased god of murder Bhaal, spawned in order to further his resurrection]], while what seemed to be a political conspiracy by an evil greedy merchant guild turns out to be [[spoiler:a RedHerring puppeted by the real BigBad, your half-brother Sarevok, who framed you for the murder of the leaders of the Iron Throne in order to become its leader, seize the necessary power to become one of the dukes of Baldur's Gate and lead the city to a bloodshed disguised as a defensive war against Amn (actually a plan to prove his worth as a true successor to Bhaal and ascend as the new lord of murder)]]. |
| 71 | ** Then in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate2'' you discover that also [[spoiler:Imoen]] is one of the children too, just right before you both lose your [[spoiler:souls]], stolen by the BigBad and TheDragon to get your power and unleash havoc. |
| 72 | * ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'': |
| 73 | ** Various events occur in the first game that would easily be explained if there was a spy in the party, you sit through quite a few cutscenes where the party wonders who the spy is...essentially it's so blatantly obvious, you feel it is likely a RedHerring. But there probably weren't any gamers who would have expected that [[spoiler:not only was it NOT a RedHerring, but the spy in question was Kalas, the ''main character'']]. |
| 74 | ** ''Origins'' had an absolutely ''massive'' wham episode about two-thirds of the way through. The magnitude of the wham in question can be summarized by one simple observation: the revelation that [[spoiler:the hero's main love interest is actually a spy for (and the daughter of) the BigBad]] is most likely the '''least''' shocking plot twist. |
| 75 | ** Another one is [[spoiler:the scene after the defeat of Baelheit, where Verus reveals himself. It puts about two-thirds of the plot in a completely different light]]. |
| 76 | * The final level of ''VideoGame/BenAndEd'' hits the player with a massive one. Upon the two being reunited and they embrace, a prompt pops up; "Press E to celebrate". [[spoiler:Ed starts to eat Ben alive messily and horribly, all while Ben screams and gasps in mute shock and terror. The friendship between the two was one-sided, Ed is still just a zombie.]] |
| 77 | * ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''. All the events in Rapture Central Control. The dev team have actually stated that they set out to make ''System Shock 2'' again. |
| 78 | ** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' has Outer Persephone, in which [[spoiler:you as Delta find out that Eleanor is the one who brought you back in the first place, and that she's been watching your choices the whole time. And then Dr. Lamb suffocates her, severing your bond with her.]] |
| 79 | ** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' has [[spoiler:the raffle]] near the start of the game, which immediately crashes any notion that Columbia might actually be a nice place. |
| 80 | *** There's also when [[spoiler:Elizabeth teleports you to Rapture]]. |
| 81 | * From the ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Batman: Arkham Series:]]'' |
| 82 | ** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', we find out that [[spoiler:Dr. Young has been experimenting on Bane's Venom, a research secretly backed up by the Joker's fundings. Also, Quincy Sharp is the Spirit of Arkham]]. |
| 83 | ** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', [[spoiler:Hugo Strange is Ra's Al Ghul's puppet and Clayface has been impersonating the Joker the whole time]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:there's a psychopath walking around Gotham with Bruce Wayne's face]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:the Joker dies]]. |
| 84 | ** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' [[spoiler:Black Mask is really the Joker in disguise]]. |
| 85 | * In many of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s endings, we're treated to a ''plethora'' of whams (Noel is transformed into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Mu-12]]! Litchi pulls a FaceHeelTurn! Arakune gets captured by Relius Clover!) But the one that probably takes the cake is the True Ending, wherein supposed BigBad Yuuki Terumi wipes out Takamagahara, the system controlling time and existence in the ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' universe, but reveals that ''he isn't the only BigBad''. The other one? The Imperator Librarius, the head of the Librarium, revealed to be [[spoiler:''Saya''. You know, Ragna's supposed dead little sister]]. How's that for a Wham? |
| 86 | ** Chronophantasma decides that it has to one-up the last game. [[spoiler:So Terumi is killed by Hakumen, he kills Trinity on the way out, Saya is possessed by Izanami, the Goddess of Death, Saya brings Take-Mikazuchi down from the sky (you remember, the orbital cannon that tried to nuke Kagutsuchi?) and then she transforms Ragna into a partial Black Beast.]] Suffice to say, they succeeded. |
| 87 | * When you finally get to visit the Forbidden Woods of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' and see those unspeakable creatures, you realize you're not in a GothicHorror story where you hunt werewolves and vampires, you are, in fact, [[spoiler:[[CosmicHorrorReveal living in a full blown]] CosmicHorrorStory]]. |
| 88 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': |
| 89 | ** ''Rising Action'': when it turns out [[spoiler:Angel is actually under Handsome Jack's control and tricks you into destroying Sanctuary's shield]]. |
| 90 | ** ''Wildlife Preservation'': when [[spoiler:Bloodwing is killed, which turns Jack from an entertaining distraction into a villain the player ''really'' wants to kill]]. |
| 91 | ** ''Where Angels Fear to Tread'': To sum up the mission: [[spoiler:Angel reveals herself to be a human Siren, not an AI as previously claimed. '''Jack''' is [[AbusiveParents her father]] and is using her to charge the vault key. She asks you to [[MercyKill kill her]] to A. stop Jack and B. free her from her personal hell. Roland and Lilith help out, despite Angel's warning that Lilith should stay away. After you kill Angel, Jack silently warps in and [[HeroKiller unceremoniously shoots Roland]] ''[[HeroKiller dead]]'', and then, in a fell swoop, shackles Lilith with the same restraints that Angel had, using her to finish what Angel started]]. |
| 92 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' has Episode 4, in which [[spoiler:Scooter dies in a HeroicSacrifice and Helios crashes]]. |
| 93 | * ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'': |
| 94 | ** All of Chapter 7, in which the party travels back in time for some ancient code, but end up uncovering some shocking revelations about themselves and their world. Not only do we finally learn the reason for [[spoiler:Boxxyfan’s madness]], but we see that it was Catie’s fault, and we get the first real hints about [[spoiler:her [[AmnesiacGod divine origin]] ]]. Finally, we learn that [[spoiler:all of the Anons are fragments of a shattered [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Apocalypse Beast]] called Legion, who is still aware of himself and determined to recombine.]] Yikes. |
| 95 | ** The Sky Abyss ending. Just… just all of it. [[spoiler:We finally learn the truth about Catie: that she and the goddesses are all pieces of Virtua - a deity that existed in cyberspace long before humans arrived, and Legion’s counterpart. Boxxyfan attacks with STORM in tow, taking out most of the party. Some Anons below get caught in the crossfire, which ends up awakening [[GreaterScopeVillain Legion himself]], who hijacks STORM and ends up ''[[FusionDance fusing with it]]'', birthing an EldritchAbomination called the Legion Singularity. When all seems lost, Arianna shows back up, revived from her DisneyDeath, and performs a HeelFaceTurn. Finally, as if that somehow wasn’t enough, it’s revealed that ''Legion and Virtua are light and dark halves of the same being'', and that Catie’s power is all Legion needs to escape the Internet and invade reality. Only Catie, Arianna, and Boxxyfan, three mortal enemies turned sudden allies, stand in his way.]] Say it with me, ''Holy Shit''. |
| 96 | * The last level of ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}''. Especially when getting the final secret star. |
| 97 | * The ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' series is usually good for a WhamEpisode about anyhwere from halfway to the endpoint of each game. |
| 98 | ** In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireI'', there's learning that [[spoiler:your sister Sara is still alive]]. |
| 99 | ** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'': Towards the end, near the Church of St. Eva, you learn that [[spoiler:Ganer is still alive]]. |
| 100 | ** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'': Garr revealing his true identity and intentions at Angel Tower. |
| 101 | ** ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'': Again, toward the end, when you learn that [[spoiler:Elina is still alive...if you could call it that]]. |
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| 105 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has two levels of plot twists: |
| 106 | ** "Rebirth" reveals [[spoiler:Mason killing Steiner while yelling he is Viktor Reznov and what else is that Reznov himself isn't present]]. |
| 107 | ** The level after that "Revelations" has many revelations. [[spoiler:Hudson and Weaver are the interrogators, Reznov has been dead all along during the escape from Vorkuta, Dragovich's plan of brainwashing Mason into killing John F. Kennedy, but Reznov sabotaged him into killing Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner instead]]. |
| 108 | *** [[spoiler:Finally, a live-action sequence after the last level reveals that Mason most likely succeeded in assassinating JFK.]] |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'' - "Shock and Awe". [[spoiler:Al-Assad detonates a nuke, killing thirty thousand US troops, including [[PlayerCharacter Pvt. Jackson]] -- making this the first time a major PlayerCharacter in the franchise has been KilledOffForReal]]. Also one helluva PlayerPunch. |
| 110 | ** Not to mention the end of the game, when the big baddie and friends kill two and maybe three of your partners. |
| 111 | ** Same goes for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2''. Which level is ''not'' a Wham Level? |
| 112 | *** "No Russian" would have been a massive wham, if not for the PR-stunt/controversy regarding that particular level. Though it still managed one WhamLine: |
| 113 | ---> '''Anatoly:''' We've sent a strong message with this attack, Makarov.\ |
| 114 | '''Makarov:''' That was no message. (grabs the player's hand, [[spoiler:then shoots him in the face) ''This'' is a message.]] |
| 115 | *** At the end of "Takedown", American radar and satellites pick up massive numbers of hostile contacts at both coasts. And it turns out the contacts on the East Coast aren't fakes. |
| 116 | *** In "The Gulag" it turns out that the mysterious Prisoner 627 is Captain Price. |
| 117 | *** "Of Their Own Accord" starts in a wet and dimly lit basement that is filled with wounded soldiers and sporadically shaken by explosions on the surface. After leaving the basement and climbing out of a trench with your squad, you're faced with a panorama view of the destroyed Washington Monument before a dark sky, lit by the fires of burning Capitol Hill. Behind burning tanks and uprooted trees is the partly destroyed Department of Commerce, which US soldiers are desperately trying to recapture from Russian forces. |
| 118 | *** "Contingency" ends with Captain Price firing a nuclear missile at Washington. |
| 119 | *** "Loose Ends" ends with probably one of the biggest Whams! since [=CoD4=]. Roach and Ghost are shot by Shepherd, thrown in a ditch, doused in kerosene, and...well, you can figure. And you can watch it because Roach isn't dead yet at that point. |
| 120 | *** Can the last level surpass even the ending of [=CoD4=]? At least it comes very close. In "Endgame" you shot down Shepherd's chopper but fall down a very high waterfall just seconds later. Stumbling after Shepherd who escaped from the wreckage, you finally thrust down your knife to end it all, you find yourself on the ground seconds later with a knife in your own chest. As Price and Shepherd try to beat each other to death with their bare hands, you pull the knife from your chest to [[EyeScream throw it into Shepherd's eye]]! |
| 121 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3''...Blood Brothers...[[spoiler:Soap is dead. No player could believe it. And to top it all off, this is minutes after you've just learned your own character worked with the BigBad]]. |
| 122 | *** For the same reasons as "No Russian" above, "Davis Family Vacation". |
| 123 | * ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'' has the interlude after the player defeats four Archangels to advance the main quest "Land of Confusion". [[spoiler:The mysterious triangle man, who has appeared every time the player defeats an Archangel, shows up in the middle of Harbourtown to introduce himself to the player as Aleph, and is revealed to be an Archangel himself. When Aleph learns that the player intends to find a way to leave New Wirral, he teleports the player to a dead world to get rid of them. By luck, the player gets rescued by Ms. Amber, who reveals that her, Morgante and Aleph used to be a team before splitting up. This event establishes Aleph as the main antagonist of the game and the primary threat to the player's quest to return home.]] |
| 124 | * In the normal ending of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'', Simon dies from his wounds. The "special" ending (take more than 8 days to finish) isn't much better; Dracula is dead, but so is Simon, and in fact the entire series. |
| 125 | ** The bad ending to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow''. [[spoiler:Soma becomes Dracula after Celia kills a doppleganger of Mina. Getting this ending first will still unlock Julius Mode, where you use him, Yoko and Arikado (aka Alucard) to kill Soma.]] The good ending? [[spoiler:Turns out you didn't absorb Dmitri's soul after fighting him, he put his soul into you so he can learn Soma's power of Dominance. After Celia failed to turn Soma into Dracula, Dmitri takes over the doppleganger's body and leaves with Celia to the Abyss. There, Dmitri kills Celia and, because he couldn't handle Dominance, turns into a giant abomination.]] |
| 126 | ** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'' hits the player over the head with quite a doozy. If they rescue all of the villagers, then [[spoiler:after the fight with Albus, you find out his soul got absorbed into Dominus because he's been trying to figure out how to use Dominus for Shanoa because using the Dominus Glyph Union would kill it's user. He also apologizes for not being the one to do the ritual to take in the Dominus Glyphs because Barlowe sent him on a pointless errand. When you confront Barlowe about all this, Shanoa will refuse to use Dominus to kill Dracula. Barlowe gets upset because he's so close to ''releasing'' Dracula, which was what Dominus was ''supposed'' to do. Then after defending yourself from Barlowe, he ''sacrifices himself'' to release Dracula. Cue the summoning of Casltevania and the final act of the game.]] |
| 127 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' first does this when you go to the future, [[BadFuture a place full of ruined domed cities]] - there is no background music at first, and then you find people and discover they are barely ekeing out their existence in a depressing post-apocalyptic wasteland. Worse, you find out that this was all done by Lavos in 1999, and the game gains its overarching plot - you need to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong stop Lavos and prevent this future from happening]]. |
| 128 | ** When you get to the Ocean Palace, the music and atmosphere heavily imply that you are near the end of the game. You've been to all the other time periods and know the truth about Lavos, and are ready to confront him, right? Too bad, because he [[CurbStompBattle incapacitates your entire party with one attack]] (unless playing a NewGamePlus or if you are severely over-leveled), [[TheHeroDies vaporizes Crono]], and delivers a sneak preview of what is yet to come in 1999. If you remembered what Spekkio said much earlier in the game, or the mere fact that in the year 600+ there are no {{floating continent}}s...you were [[YouCantFightFate doomed to fail from the start]]. And not long after this, your party is captured and the Epoch stolen. It does get better in time, but at that point you have the feeling that [[AllForNothing everything you've done was for naught]]. |
| 129 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has many twists in its JigsawPuzzlePlot. But two stand out: Fort Dragonia, where the dream that opens the game happens because Serge gets possessed by Lynx, stabs Kid and [[GrandTheftMe proceeds to get put in Lynx's body;]] and the Dead Sea, which also reveals Lavos - namely, that it's the BadFuture that the heroes of ''Trigger'' supposedly stopped, but due to the TimeCrash got sent back into the time period ''Cross'' takes place. |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' "Who Will Die?, part 5". Ever since the Who Will Die episodes started everyone knew one of universe's main heroes would die and never come back. But no one actually thought someone would be stupid enough to kill off Big Good, Statesman... [[BigBad Lord Recluse]] was [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou piiiiiissed]]. For some context Statesman was an ageless demi-god who along with Lord Recluse unleashed an age of Super-Powers on the world, for heroes he was their forebearer and for villain he was the reason their country had been founded, namely for the sake of killing him. That sort of Status Que upset was so preposterous most dismissed the very idea. |
| 131 | ** As a grim follow-up it turned out in "Who Will Die?, part 6" said question was by no means isolated to [[LoopholeAbuse just one of the potential candidates]] among the main heroes, and Sister Psyche' met her end as well. Worst part; the baddies didn't even have the grace to kill her, instead they sabotaged her psychic powers to blow apart the brains of everyone in the city, so the act of actually killing Psyche' [[SacrificialLion to prevent this fate]] fell upon [[KillTheOnesYouLove her husband, Manticore]], [[MercyKill at her own]] request. |
| 132 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun: Firestorm'': The fifth Nod mission, when CABAL turns against you. The briefing cutscene is fairly standard C&C backstabbery, but it doesn't hit home until the mission begins...when instead of the old "Establishing battlefield control, standby" message, the computer hits you with "[[LargeHam I HAVE YOU NOW! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!]]". |
| 133 | * This is taken to a whole new level in ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'', where the worst ending has you and Lance Bean killed in cataclysmic fashion, and the men who sent you on your mission revealed to be tyrants who now have no one left to stop them. It is revealed in the best endings that they are responsible for the AlienInvasion of the first several ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' games. ''VideoGame/NeoContra'' ramps it up even further; in the worst ending, the BigBad ''blows up the planet''. Of course, this was simply Konami's friendly way of telling you to do a little better next time, rookie. |
| 134 | * The Grandmapocalypse in ''VideoGame/CookieClicker'' which up to that point, the game is a hilariously over the top venture into making cookies, with such stuff as hiring a small army of grandmas who spout ominous messages, using time machines, and opening portals to other dimensions, just for the sake of making cookies. As you unlock the Bingo/Research Center, and advance more and more research, you will be getting warnings from the game advising you to stop, lest unwanted effects occur. It's not kidding, soon after getting these upgrades the grandma icon becomes more distorted and eventually the background shows a series of grandmas who slowly morph into horrific abominations, as well as worm-like Wrinklers attacking your cookie stash, even Santa is affected. All this and and the apocalyptic news messages can make one wonder if this was all worth it. |
| 135 | * ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has one when [[spoiler:Berri, the only person important in Conker's life, get's shot dead. Permanently]]. |
| 136 | * ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'': |
| 137 | ** Once your Tenderness stat reaches level 12, the next girl that becomes available is [[MeaningfulName Generica]]. Her opening cutscene starts relatively normal in contrast to the other girls from the game. That is, until [[VideoGame/YandereSimulator Ayano Aishi]] comes in and takes her place by killing her off. |
| 138 | ** Just like the Grandmapocalypse, once the player unlocks the Wizard job, the game starts to take a turn for the worse. Once [[spoiler:The Dark One]] is unlocked, the comedy disappears entirely and no matter what you do, [[spoiler:the game will end with either you or Q-Pernikiss dying to save everyone.]] |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'': The end of Chapter IV shakes up the plot significantly. Idaho’s ship is suddenly approached by an identical one captained by a much older Idaho clone. The elder Idaho says a few cryptic words before ramming the younger one’s ship, killing them both. Kaliban, the player’s AI companion, cannot separate the two clones’ memories due to them dying so close to each other and is forced to combine them, causing the player’s Idaho to learn many things that Kaliban did not want him to know. |
| 140 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': In the climax of Act 1, V and Jackie perform a heist to secure a special biochip called "The Relic". The heist goes horrifically awry: V and Jackie witness Yorinobu Arasaka murder his father, the hotel they are in goes into lockdown, and our heroes have to fight their way out. Jackie is wounded and dies shortly after their escape, and V is forced to slot the Relic into their their cyberware to preserve it. Afterwards, V's fixer, Dex, double-crosses him and shoots him. One hectic escape with an Arasaka turncoat later, V learns from his ripperdoc that [[ToxicPhlebotinum the Relic is going to kill him]] [[YourDaysAreNumbered in a matter of weeks]]. And the cherry on top of this series of DisasterDominoes? The Relic is forcing V to share his mind with the VirtualGhost of Johnny Silverhand, the most infamous terrorist in Night City history. |
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| 144 | * ''VideoGame/DandyDungeon'' has the reveal that Maria-chan, the sweet, innocent schoolgirl that becomes Yamada's LoveInterest, is the daughter of the BigBad Hidemaru Ayanokiji. A much bigger one happens at the end of the game, where it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Men in Black was actually Yasu, Yamada's friend, who re-coded and manipulated Yamada's game to take revenge by proxy on his father... Hidemaru Ayanokiji]]. |
| 145 | * ''[[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Dark Souls]]'': The encounter with [[spoiler:Darkstalker Kaathe. Interacting with him reveals the existence of the Dark Soul and the revelation that Kingseeker Frampt and the gods are merely using you in a futile attempt to prolong the Age of Fire]]. |
| 146 | ** The ''Artorias of the Abyss'' [=DLC=] is one as well, as it shows [[spoiler:the consequences of ushering in the Age of Man and allowing the [[EldritchLocation Abyss]] to spread, as well as revealing that Darkstalker Kaathe is hiding things from you]]. |
| 147 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'': The Undead Crypt[[spoiler:, or rather what lies at the end of it]]. Since the beginning of the game, you are tasked with seeking King Vendrick, who has been made out to be the BigBad of the game. You finally reach the crypt he's supposedly in, crossed the fog gate to fight his second-in-command Velstadt, and head down the stairs to see... [[spoiler:a giant, naked Hollow dragging a greatsword on the ground. ''This'' is Vendrick, after he spent his last moments attempting to seek a cure to the Undead curse and prevent [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[EldritchAbomination Nashandra]] from destroying his kingdom of Drangleic, only to succumb to the curse itself like every other poor bastard who caught said curse]]. |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'': |
| 149 | ** Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. Not only is it the home of the Pontiff of the religion you've been fighting for the first half of the game ''and'' enter the city that's been whispered about and built up in the game, you also eventually discover [[spoiler:the ruins of [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Anor Londo]], and it's revealed that Aldrich's title of "Devourer of the Gods" [[NotHyperbole isn't hyperbole]] as he's found wielding Gwyndolin's upper half as a weapon]]. |
| 150 | ** Everything from Lothric Castle onward if you have been progressing through the game properly (that is, not SequenceBreaking by [[spoiler:killing Emma to summon the Dancer of the Boreal Valley very early]]). This is the point in the game where it becomes ''crystal'' clear that this is the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt; the sky has turned blood red, all the Hollow trees have metamorphosed into Pilgrim Butterflies, and the sun appears to be ''bleeding and resembles a giant Darksign hanging in the sky''. [[spoiler:It gets even worse when you get through the Grand Archives and slay the last of the Lords of Cinder, Lorian and Lothric. You are then commanded by the Fire Keeper to use the power of the Lords of Cinder to deal a final death to the old gods of Lordran (the setting of ''[[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Dark Souls]]'') who were the deliverers of the First Flame, followed by being teleported to the Kiln of the First Flame to fight the Soul of Cinder (who's a whole ''other'' bag of spoilers)]]. |
| 151 | ** Everything that happens in the titular city in ''The Ringed City'' DLC is this regarding the nature of Dark and the Curse; [[spoiler:it turns out that the Pygmies actually ''did'' fight alongside Gwyn in his war with the dragons, sending their Ringed Knights wielding weapons and armaments forged from the Abyss, and were in much greater control of their Dark Soul than the rest of the series would imply. Gwyn even rewarded them for their efforts with the Ringed City itself and his youngest daughter Filianore to preside over them, although ''presiding'' in this case means casting an illusion over the city (or stopping time in it, it's unclear) to keep the Pygmies from ever leaving because Gwyn feared their power]]. |
| 152 | * In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', the chapter when Cecilia makes her entrance changes the focus of the protagonist and Amanda from running their diner to saving their relationship from the protagonist's DarkSecret. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' is has a great many of these. |
| 154 | ** Firstly, the revelation that Azariah Kyras has been a heretic since the original game. Yeah, that's right, the leader of the Blood Ravens who has thus far directed every last one of their engagements has been a servant of Chaos. Only gets more poignant when you realize also that this means that the slaughter of the 1st Kronus Liberators by Davian Thule, an act which haunted him for a great time, was ordered by an enemy of the Emperor. |
| 155 | ** Another one is the revelation of the traitor in ''Chaos Rising''. Here's a hint, it is one of your sergeants. And you've likely built a certain attachment to a few of them, so it can be quite the shock. |
| 156 | ** Another revelation, connected to the first. It turns out that the daemon who led Kyras to evil is in fact the Daemon of the Maledictum. In other words, the very daemon of Khorne that Gabriel ''himself'' released during the events of the first game. Wham episode indeed. |
| 157 | ** From ''Dawn of War II'', Davian Thule being killed by a Warrior Beast counts. Of course, then there's him returning as a Dreadnought. And gentlemen, it is glorious. |
| 158 | ** The original wham episode was well...in the original. When it was revealed at the end of the game that Gabriel had inadvertently released the Daemon of the Maledictum in the first place. |
| 159 | ** ''[=DoW=] II: Retribution''. You've tracked the BigBad to Typhon, and you've caught him alone! But he's...pleased? And then the Ordo Malleus fleet arrives..."and so I sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to oblivion." |
| 160 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' somehow manages to have ''three'' in rapid succession, late in the game near the end of 72 Hour Mode. First, [[spoiler:the military isn't coming to rescue anyone in the mall, but are instead deployed to clean up any evidence of an outbreak]]. Then, [[spoiler:Frank's rescue helicopter is taken out]]. ''Then'', [[spoiler:Frank learns that he's been infected]]. |
| 161 | ** [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 The sequel]] has one near the end. [[spoiler:Raymond Sullivan is revealed to be an employee for Phenotrans and planned the firebombing to destroy the evidence]]. |
| 162 | *** ''Off the Record'' has the same thing except [[spoiler:Stacey Forsythe is the agent for Phenotrans]]. |
| 163 | * ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' has Chapter 6/Episode 25 "[[spoiler:Zach Morgan]]", which reveals that not only [[spoiler:were you not playing as [[DecoyProtagonist Francis "York' Morgan]], but you've really been playing as Francis 'Zach" Morgan the entire game. [[TomatoInTheMirror York doesn't even exist.]] He's just a persona that Zach created to help cope with the brutal death of his parents. It also reveals that Forrest Kayson [[TheDogWasTheMastermind was behind the Greenvale Massacre 50 years ago, but he was the one who killed Zach's parents and was the one who created the New Raincoat Killer]]. [[KillTheCutie And]] [[GoodAllAlong a bunch]] [[AndNowforSomeoneCompletelyDifferent more happens too]].]] Wow. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/DemonHunterTheReturnOfTheWings'': The end of Distia level drops a few radical shifts in the current understanding of the plot. Gun is confirmed to be one of the people of the Wing, the previous ruler of this world, AND the MonsterProgenitor, Elen shows he has pulled a FaceHeelTurn, kidnaps Perna, and plans to unleash the LostSuperweapon to RestartTheWorld, and Greed WasOnceAMan and blames Talagaron for the destruction of his homeland. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' had its Wham fairly early on. Less than a third of the way in, you find out that your brother has been working for the terrorists all along. But then it turns out that the terrorists are the ''good guys'' and that you've been acting as the pawn of the AncientConspiracy, causing you to defect and go on the run. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'': |
| 167 | ** Mission 17: Parted Memento. [[spoiler:Dante fights Nelo Angelo for the final time, but it isn't until after he kills Nelo Angelo that Dante realizes the black knight was his brother, Vergil, who he thought was dead for years. Oh, and unbeknownst to Dante at that time, somewhere else, a cutscene reveals [[EvilAllAlong Trish is actually working for Mundus]].]] |
| 168 | ** Mission 20: Showdown With Nightmare. [[spoiler:Dante thought that Trish is a DamselInDistress who's cornered by Nightmare, but learns that she's actually working for Mundus. Despite this, Dante still saves her as she reminds him of his mother. This act prompted a change within Trish now that Mundus sees her as a failure.]] |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'': |
| 170 | ** In Lucia's sixth mission, she [[spoiler:learns that she's actually an artificial demon created by Arius, the secretary demons look just like her, and her actual name is "Chi"]]. |
| 171 | ** In Lucia's final mission, we learn that [[spoiler:Dante's lucky coin is actually a TwoHeaded coin, which retroactively means that he always planned to help Matier and Lucia from the start, and that he doesn't want to let Lucia go through an apparent one-way trip to the Demon World]]. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': Mission 13. [[spoiler:Jester is Arkham, [[ManipulativeBastard and he's been playing everybody like a violin from the beginning.]] He steps in after Dante and Vergil are too weak from their prior battle to stop him, using their blood and Lady's to undo the final seal needed to open the portal to the Underworld so he can claim Sparda's power for himself.]] |
| 173 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'': |
| 174 | ** Mission 6. [[spoiler:Nero stumbles upon Agnus' laboratory and discovers that the Order of the Sword aren't actually the good guys; they created the Hellgates and artificial demons such as the possessed Angelo armors. He nearly dies as he's cornered by a surprise attack but quickly revives thanks to the newly-restored Yamato. By the next mission's cutscene, Agnus reported this incident to Sanctus, making Nero a target of the Order.]] |
| 175 | ** Mission 8. [[spoiler:Credo blocks Nero's path to the Order's Headquarters, but he is defeated by the younger devil hunter. However, they didn't realize that Kyrie was in the scene and she just saw her two loved ones fighting each other. By this point, she is now aware of Nero's demonic arm. Agnus then appears and takes Kyrie hostage, which shakes Credo's own faith in the Order.]] |
| 176 | * ''VisualNovel/TheDevilOnGString'': Many, many, especially as you advance in along the canonical Usami story-arc and discover more about Maou. The one that everyone who has played the game remembers, though is [[spoiler:from the epilogue. Everything after the first line of dialogue, honestly]]. |
| 177 | -->[[spoiler:[[WhamLine "-It's great to see you, Usami."]] ]] |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': You've taken out Belial and Azmodan and saved Caldeum and Bastion's Keep. The Black Soulstone is ready to be destroyed to end all evil forever. You know ''something's'' gonna happen though, because this is a ''Diablo'' game, and it just wouldn't be worthy of the name without your Nephalem badass getting a chance to throw down with the title archdemon, now would it? So what happens? Well...[[spoiler:Adria, the witch who has been your ally since her rescue in Act II, reveals herself to have sworn herself to the service of Diablo himself soon after the end of the first game, just before revealing to Leah, the daughter she has subdued with her evil magic, who her ''real'' father is -- the Dark Wanderer, a.k.a. Diablo himself! And then, she pulls the mother of all heartless betrayals by using her own daughter as the vessel for Diablo to be reborn, sinking the Black Soulstone, with all seven of the Great Evils that you so very helpfully put inside it, into Leah's chest]]. And with that, Diablo has returned. But it gets worse. [[spoiler:Because of Adria having used the Black Soulstone in accordance with Diablo's grand plan, Diablo has become the full embodiment of all seven Great Evils in one being -- the ''Prime Evil'']]. |
| 179 | ** And then the true WHAM comes in: [[spoiler:the newly resurrected Diablo, with all the power of all seven of the Great Evils under his sole command, then reveals his true goal, the one that has always eluded him -- the complete destruction of the High Heavens and the ending of the [[HeavenVersusHell Eternal Conflict]] once and for all! He then proceeds to open a portal to the High Heavens, curbstomp Imperius (the most powerful member of the Angiris Council) and then bring down the Diamond Gates, which until now have ''never fallen in the entire history of the Eternal Conflict'', before leading the entirety of TheLegionsOfHell in [[HellInvadesHeaven a full-on invasion of Heaven itself]]]]! Ladies and gentlemen, ''[[FromBadToWorse shit has just gotten real]]''. |
| 180 | * The first ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' has the moment where Varin Omega (or Colonel Beck) reveals that he knows the real identities of the Embryon (something even ''they'' don't know). |
| 181 | ** The second game has shit hit the fan ''big time'' when the party goes to the EGG to rescue Sera. To wit: [[spoiler:Heat impales [[TheHeroDies Serph]], who then drags both of them to their death (though Serph gets better); God starts rapidly absorbing the Earth into the Sun; and Margot Cuvier is shot and killed by Jenna Angel]]. [[DwindlingParty The party is starting to dwindle,]] and believe it or not, [[FromBadToWorse it gets even worse]] in the following dungeon. [[spoiler:Jenna releases Meganada from the ice holding it, causing it to go on a rampage and kill most of the Lokapala, including Adil, Argilla and Roland, before it is blown up along with the entire power plant.]] |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/DiscworldNoir'': More like wham scene - [[spoiler:the library scene when you finally figure out that the game is a CosmicHorrorStory]]. |
| 183 | ** And later still, when Lewton finally pieces some things together: |
| 184 | --> '''Lewton:''' At that moment I realized what was odd about the bone. [[spoiler:It had been a human femur.]] |
| 185 | * The worst ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'' is perhaps the most shocking moment in the entire series. It has to be seen to be believed. Warning, horror taken to HSQ levels. [[spoiler:Adell is possessed by Zenon and eats Taro and Hanako. They are crunchy.]] |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'': Mission 16, a very short mission kicking off with the trade between [[spoiler:Dante and Vergil exchanging Lilith and her spawn with Kat (who was held hostage by Mundus)]]. It is a quiet scene where the two women are slowly walking forward towards their allies. Then we get a first-person perspective from Vergil's scope, the camera shifts to Dante's point of view, and gunshot is heard, sending everyone in [[OhCrap panic]]. Thanks Vergil! |
| 187 | * ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' is your average {{Moe}} dating-sim visual novel until the day of the festival. [[spoiler:You walk into [[GenkiGirl Sayori]]'s room to see her [[DrivenToSuicide hanging corpse.]]]] It only gets [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou worse from there.]] |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/DoodleWorld'':The scene shortly after earning the Thunderstorm Key where a figure only known as "???" [[spoiler: who we later learn to be Zavier]] destroys Graphite Temple and Quincy's plane as he threatens everyone, the group narrowly escaping. The player now has to deal with the fact that someone ''very'' dangerous is after them. |
| 189 | * In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', it seems like Dennis is out of tricks after he reveals the protagonist's video game addiction to the world without damaging his standing with the summer school class. Then, Dennis reveals to the protagonist that he knows how he caused the Barbarossa incident, which resulted in 12 deaths... and he'll tell the world if he doesn't do exactly what he's told. |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'' (from Artix Entertainment): Nythera apparently kills Warlic, thanks to the potions you helped her make. The fact that Warlic exists in the ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' game doesn't necessarily mean he gets out of this situation, since Nythera then shapeshifts into Warlic. In other words, ''she'' might be the Warlic we know in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest''. |
| 191 | ** Warlic eventually gets better, in no small part due to Nythera biting off a lot more than she can chew and having to resurrect him in order to take out some really nasty monsters that she can't defeat with her magic. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': Congratulations! You've slain the Dragon and reclaimed your heart! Now watch as the skies suddenly darken, the Duke undergoes RapidAging, and a massive gaping hole opens up in the middle of the HubCity. The monsters in the game's world also become significantly more dangerous going forward. |
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| 196 | * The end of ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}''. [[spoiler:After defeating the ClimaxBoss Schwarzitgiest, Selene, revealing themselves to be TheEmpire the whole time, pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on you, then forcing you to retreat. The final battle [[TimeSkip then takes place one month later]] and you emerge to do battle with your former allies turned enemies, until you face off against [[BigBad Hyperion]]. After defeating Hyperion, you then fly toward the entire army of Selene in a BolivianArmyEnding in which [[OneManArmy you actually end up winning]] as shown after the credits.]] |
| 197 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has one when the player contracts the 100% incurable, BodyHorror ghastly corpus disease. |
| 198 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' |
| 199 | ** The game does this at what should be the moment of triumph. Martin Septim relights the Dragonfires and banishes Mehrunes Dagon back to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell his plane of Oblivion]]. Then there's the realization that Martin's HeroicSacrifice ended the Septim Dynasty...meaning there is no left who can keep the Dragonfires lit, and a war of succession is almost certain. |
| 200 | ** In the Fighters Guild questline, one occurs when you infiltrate the Blackwood Company as a new recruit. You learn that it uses the sap from the Hist, a sentient race of trees revered by the Argonians. You're then sent on a job to kill a pack of goblins that have invaded a village. You drink the sap, it gives you super fighting abilities, and you murder all the goblins, even though the ones in the house don't attack you. After you're done, you wake up in the middle of town, go back, and return to the village. You go inside, and found that all the peaceful "goblins" inside the house that you killed were actually an ''innocent family'' that you murdered while under the effects of the sap. |
| 201 | ** In the Mages Guild, you go to the Bruma guild hall, and find that necromancers attacked the place and killed all the guild members. |
| 202 | ** There are two main wham episodes in the Dark Brotherhood: the first is when you are contacted by Lucien Lachance, and are informed that there is a mole in your sanctuary. To rat him out, you have to kill every single member of the brotherhood that you've learned to love so far. After that, you get promoted to Lachance's right hand man. After doing a few contracts from him, he stops you right after killing the last contract, and says that the traitor is still alive, has been tampering with your dead-drops, systematically making you kill each member of the [[BigBadDuumvirate Black Hand]], the leadership of the Dark Brotherhood. After doing some investigating, you go back to Lachance to find him brutally slaughtered by the new Black Hand, thinking he's the traitor. After that, the actual traitor reveals himself as one of new members of the Black Hand, killing two more of them, leaving only you (the new Listener) and one other Speaker to rebuild the guild. These events actually devastated the Dark Brotherhood, and, after 200 years, there is only one functioning sanctuary left (out of at least five), and they only survived because they let go of the old ways, causing a lot of friction when someone comes in and tries to bring the old ways back. |
| 203 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' gives us at least one every questline: |
| 204 | ** During the main questline, after your first fight with Alduin, you learn that he hasn't been defeated, he has simply retreated to Sovngarde, the WarriorHeaven of the Nords, to recover his strength... by devouring the souls of the honored dead. |
| 205 | ** After the Season Unending quest, where you have to broker a peace deal between the Empire and the Stormcloaks until Alduin is dealt with, the leader of one of the two factions related to dragons in the game drops a bombshell in your lap by revealing that they know about the leader of the other faction, a dragon who at this point in the game is your single greatest ally against Alduin, and cutting you off from all support from her faction until you kill him, which will permanently cut you off from all support from the other faction if you do this. And no, you can't persuade or intimidate her into seeing things your way. |
| 206 | ** During the Companions questline, while you were out doing a quest for their leader to get a cure for his lycanthropy, the werewolf hunters that you'd been pursuing revenge against for the last few missions for killing one of your own decide to launch a direct attack on the Companions' home base of Jorrvaskr, killing the leader. |
| 207 | ** During the College of Winterhold questline, a Thalmor agent takes control of the Eye of Magnus, and kills the Archmage effortlessly. |
| 208 | ** In the Dark Brotherhood questline, the father of one of your victims sends a small army of Imperial soldiers to wipe out the entire Dark Brotherhood. |
| 209 | ** During the Thieves' Guild questline, you are betrayed by the guild's headmaster, and it is shortly afterwards revealed that he has stolen all of the remaining money the guild had left, and is personally responsible for the guild having been in constant decline for the last few years due to having stolen a powerful artifact from the guild's patron goddess. |
| 210 | ** In ''Dawnguard'', you meet up with one of the few surviving Snow Elves of Tamriel, those who were not twisted into the horrific Falmer by the Dwemer. |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/EmpiresOfTheUndergrowth'': Throughout the campaign, players control a colony of fiction Gene Thief Ants that are being monitored by a pair scientists interested in the ants' ability to steal the forms of other ants and incorporate them into their workers. Over the course of the Formicarium Challenges, players get the hint that the male scientist monitoring them might be messing with the experiment by giving the ants a special jelly that enhances their abilities. This is further implied to be true by how he spares the acts after the intended final trial and secrets them away into a moss terrarium to continue studying them. Then you reach Formicarium Challenge Four: after the female scientist goes to watch trials related to mole rats, the male scientist places several carriers into the terrarium to challenge the ants... and out crawl [[MixAndMatchCritters misshapen abominations of two different arthropods]] created via the scientist's Royal Jelly. Not only does this offer an insight into [[EvilutionaryBiologist the true motives of the scientist]], but it opens the possibility that the gene-thief ants themselves are not a natural species, and were instead created by the male scientist. |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' has about halfway through the game the discovery of the original bottle of paint and thinner that fell into Wasteland during Mickey's original mischief. [[spoiler:Oswald learns that Mickey was the one who unleashed the Blot, angrily jumps on the lid of the bottle and unleashes the complete Phantom Blot. Everything else, including the huge blot that dragged Mickey into Wasteland were only drippings escaping from the loose bottle. The freed Blot then pulls a HostageForMacGuffin by threatening to kill Gus and Oswald if he doesn't get Mickey's heart, to which Mickey complies, setting the stage for the rest of the game.]] |
| 213 | * ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyI'' seems like your typical fantasy dungeon crawler slash EasternRPG. Then you get to the Fifth Stratum, which is [[spoiler:the ruins of Shinjuku, Japan. Then you find out that the game takes in the future, [[AfterTheEnd after the collapse of civilization]] forced humans to rebuild from scratch.]] |
| 214 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Eversion}} Eversion's]]'' World 4 takes this to horrifying levels. The stage starts off innocently enough as World 4-1, but after hitting the first block [[ButThouMust (which you are required to do)]], the stage suddenly everts to World 4-5 -- the backgrounds get a lot less colorful, the music becomes ''much'' creepier, and blocks now have freaked-out eyeless faces. And as if all that's not unsettling enough, now you have '''[[AmbushingEnemy giant demonic hands]]''' grabbing at you from water pits. |
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| 218 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' has three chapters that have revelations: |
| 219 | ** "Agatha" reveals prior to being possessed to murder John Winston in a diner, Lucas has met the Oracle, who is responsible for the murder. This is what gives him the power to see what the other can see. |
| 220 | ** "The Pact" has it when Lucas is back from the dead as an undead being and forms an alliance with Carla, one of the two cops who are after him. |
| 221 | ** "Where is Jade?" reveals Lucas didn't survive from the roller coaster fall. His body has been found and resuscitated; in order words, he ''is'' dead. The one who resuscitated him isn't Agatha, but it's an AI impersonating her after her death in her apartment. |
| 222 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' |
| 223 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout3''. After trekking the wasteland searching for your father, discovering his role in Project Purity and eventually saving him from a virtual world run by a ''very'' creepy old man, you help him get Project Purity back online via a handful of small fetchquests. Then the Enclave show up and try to force your father to give them control over the entire operation. When the dust settles, your father is dead via HeroicSacrifice and the Enclave have not only taken control over Jefferson Memorial, but have started pouring out into the Wasteland in their attempt to conquer it. Suddenly, the stakes are higher than ever. |
| 224 | *** Oh, and the guy your dad tried to stop by overloading the project, killing himself in the process? Oh he's fine, radioactive-proof jacket and all, and he gets to return the favor later. |
| 225 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': You successfully infiltrate the Institute. You are guided by a voice over an intercom to a room, where you find your son, Shaun! You call out to him...but he doesn't recognize you, and starts calling out for "Father", even though you're standing right in front of him (or if you're playing a female character, you try to explain that his father passed away). Shortly thereafter, an older gentleman walks in and shuts off Shaun, who is actually a synth replica of your son. In truth, your son is [[spoiler:now standing in front of you: "Father", the leader of the Institute, is Shaun! Sixty years had passed since you saw him being kidnapped, and in that time, he went on to become the director of the Institute]]. |
| 226 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' Lonesome Road: The courier that refused the Platinum Chip job when he saw your name? He shows up as your equal and opposite, working for the Legion and having gone before you in Dead Money and Old World Blues. |
| 227 | *** Your character has a past that you don't know about: You [[spoiler:built up a community called the Divide]] and then [[spoiler:brought it down by bringing a damaged ED-E there]], which detonated nuclear warheads in their silos. |
| 228 | *** You never learn your character's motivations, and the dialogue choices imply that your character still remembers most of what happened [[spoiler:except for the nuclear warheads being detonated underground]], since that happened while you were carrying the Platinum Chip. |
| 229 | *** Ulysses is a walking, talking WHAM moment. He's heavily foreshadowed, the first time you directly talk to him he berate you for [[spoiler:destroying the Divide]] and his last action is to give you a [[HannibalLecture disturbingly spot-on speech]] about how individual men can shape the destiny of nations [[spoiler:right before nuking the NCR]]. |
| 230 | *** You can opt to [[spoiler:nuke]] the NCR, Legion, both, or neither (in which case the second ED-E makes a HeroicSacrifice to [[spoiler:disable all of the rockets]]). |
| 231 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has at least three. The first would be in UBW when Saber's Command Spells are stolen and she is forced to maim Shirou while simultaneously taking way Avalon's protection. They go to rescue her before her will and sanity breaks and she becomes Caster's slave, but just before the showdown, Archer turns on Shirou and Tohsaka and sides with Caster, and the two barely escape with their lives. Because Archer shows a scrap of mercy. Then they go to Ilya for help...who is brutally murdered by a third party that makes Caster and Archer look like chumps (falsely, as it turns out) and once again they only live because their opponent didn't feel like killing them. Fortunately the low point of the route, but still. The second is Heavens Feel. Just Heaven's Feel. But relative to... itself, the moment Sakura snaps and Shinji ends up a headless corpse, at which point she also turns on Shirou/Tohsaka and reveals nigh omnipotent shadow based powers and the ability to spawn infinite monsters that are all as powerful as Tohsaka. And the third...Saber's death/rebirth/shoot the dog moment. Take your pick or lump them together. If it wasn't spoiled for you there is NO way you saw the main heroine turning, and the shoot the dog was barely more predictable. |
| 232 | ** In the middle part of day 9. Inside several hours of gameplay, you discover that Sakura (the love interest) is Rin's sister and the true master of Rider, and that she's ''also'' been the victim of eleven years of horrific abuse by the Matou family in general and her asshole brother Shinji in particular. Then, you find out that, unless you [[ShootTheDog kill her]], she's likely to eventually go insane and kill many innocent people, and Rin decides that she will be forced to go through with it, and thus Shirou will have to fight her ''too''. |
| 233 | ** Unlimited Blade Works, Day 14. Archer all but outright states that his true identity is none other than [[spoiler:a [[FutureBadass future version of]] Shirou Emiya and his goal is to kill his past self]]. And then the next day, he ''does'' state it outright. |
| 234 | * ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]'' managed to have one of these at the end of the first game and ''Project Origin''. In the first game, the final level reveals that the Point Man is the first prototype born from Alma and ''Project Origin'' reveals that the entire reason Alma was hunting Becket in the game was because she wanted to use him to get herself pregnant, and now she has what she wants. |
| 235 | ** And if you go into a bit more backstory, the whole of Project Origin was a plot by Genevieve Aristide to turn Becket into a telesthetic beacon. Why? To lead Alma away from the Point Man so Aristide can find him first. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'' has ending Dream [[spoiler:4]]. |
| 237 | * The ''VideoGame/FreeSpace'' space sims are filled with Wham Missions. Especially the first nebula mission and the final mission in ''VideoGame/FreeSpace2''. |
| 238 | * ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' has at least four of these moments. |
| 239 | ** Jade Creek: [[spoiler:The heroes are now wanted fugitives, Torque gets kidnapped by Brevon's forces, and Lilac and Carol have a falling out and split up]]. |
| 240 | ** Thermal Base: [[spoiler:Lilac is captured by Brevon and tortured in front of Torque; the pair are only narrowly rescued by Carol and Milla, who are revealed to have gone for help despite Carol's earlier threat to leave Lilac for good]]. |
| 241 | ** Pangu Lagoon: [[spoiler:After she's healed of her injuries by the Royal Magister, Lilac goes to investigate the ruins of an old civilization. There she fights a massive dragon, only for it to be revealed that it was a projection generated by an ancient security robot, who then plays a recording detailing that dragons came to Avalice centuries ago after their starships were stranded from their homeworld. Lacking any way to return, they used their energy reserves to create the Kingdom Stone, an artifact of great power that would provide technology and power to help the planet's own technology improve as Lilac's ancestors slowly died off.]] |
| 242 | ** Final Dreadnought 3: [[spoiler:Brevon turns Milla into a mutant and forces her to fight Lilac/Carol. The last fight with a mutant, Mega Serpentine, appeared to end in his demise; this one ends similarly, with Milla's limp body lying on the ground. Lilac/Carol are understandably absolutely broken-up about this]]. |
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| 246 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3'' has the chapter appropriately titled "Brothers To The End." [[spoiler:Dom sacrifices himself to save Marcus and his comrades against an unstoppable horde of Locust and Lambent.]] |
| 247 | ** The realization/reveal that [[spoiler:Imulsion - the "miracle fuel" and Lambent creator found all throughout Sera - is actually a single, planet-wide parasitic entity that [[OmnicidalManiac won't stop until every other living thing on Sera has been either killed or infected]].]] |
| 248 | ** In ''2'', there is scene where Dom [[spoiler:finds Maria. After a brief shot of her looking young and healthy, Dom admits the truth: She is a broken and tortured wreck. The scene ends when he is forced to MercyKill her]]. |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Chapter 1 Part IV, "We Will Be Reunited". [[spoiler:Not only does the Traveler ''finally'' meet their lost sibling, it also tells the destruction of Khaenri'ah, how Dainsleif was made immortal for failing to protect Khaenri'ah, and how the people of Khaenri'ah are eventually turned into the monsters that form the Abyss Order.]] |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': |
| 251 | ** The justice minister's InfoDump at the end of Chapter 13, where the various pieces of the mystery finally start coming together. [[spoiler:The suspect being pursued by Cabanella's investigation unit is a mysterious "manipulator" with the ability to control the bodies of others. The inmates at the Special Prison where Jowd was held are all suspected victims, as are Lynn, explaining why she shot you, and the justice minister himself, who was forced to sign Jowd's execution order against his will. And the kicker: it's highly possible that the Manipulator is a ghost with Ghost Tricks that allow him to manipulate living beings.]] |
| 252 | ** The final chapter drops a lot of bombs. [[spoiler:The guy you thought was you? He already "died" ten years ago and you were just the cat that followed him around until the first shot from the manipulated Lynne killed you. The lamp that explained your powers to you? The dog that travelled back ten years just so he can protect Lynne and Kamila.]] |
| 253 | ** Chapter 15 is pretty wham. 14 ends with you questioning what you knew about your own identity. 15 starts with you arriving at the superintendent's office and [[spoiler:seeing ''yourself'' giving the villain monologue to Cabanela]]. |
| 254 | ** The chapter where you finally discover the identity of "the man in red" [[spoiler:and that you're not him]]. |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/GoodbyeVolcanoHigh'': Chapter 5, "B is for Battle". [[spoiler:Worm Drama wins Battle of the Bands, securing their spot at [=CalderaFest=], but the band is split after Trish becomes fed up with Fang shoehorning her into their musician dream without taking into consideration what Trish wanted to do with her last days before the asteroid hits. Naomi is revealed to be Fang's secret admirer, but Fang is too shaken up by their fallout with Trish to act on it. Worse, the asteroid's magnetic field causes rolling blackouts and a permanent aurora borealis in the sky, causing a global panic.]] |
| 256 | * ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': |
| 257 | ** You'd think the story would end on a happy note in "What Makes The Sky Blue"? Nope. [[spoiler:Sandalphon took a moment to whisper to Gran/Djeeta about how the world revolves around them and then '''push them off the cliffs'''. Chapter 6 ends with the Grandcypher crew going down to save them as they are likely falling down further away from the skies. The final chapter, which came out a few days after Chapter 6, has them saved by Lucifer.]] |
| 258 | ** The "Right Behind You" event that kicked off 2018 was also an enormous wham, as it brought the long-simmering Society arc to a new climax and turned the ''setting'' of ''Granblue'' on its head. [[spoiler:It turns out the "Foe" the Society fights is based on ''the goddamn Moon'' and are implied to be a race of machine intelligences, and are definitely the original threat the Astrals created the Primals and whatnot to fight. Events of the past few years have motivated them to finally begin acting in earnest after a long period of dormancy. It also implies '''very''' heavily that the Astrals were capable of space travel and may not even be from the Skydoms at all. Oh, and the powerful, special weapons the Society uses? Moon-dweller tech, all of them. With the potential to transform back into the form of an Automagod.]] |
| 259 | ** "What Makes The Sky Blue Part II" has [[spoiler:Lucifer attacked in the prologue and when the crew finally reaches Canaan, it turns out that Lucifer lost and all that is left of him when Sandalphon finds him is '''[[BodyHorror his]]''' '''[[GoryDiscretionShot head]]''', which leads to Sandalphon taking the lead to be the new Supreme Primarch in light of Lucifer's death. The end of the Light's Reverie quest reveals that the Avatar released from the seal is the dark half of Lucilius' legacy, and Belial, with his partner Beelzebub, got hold of the dark half after the crew defeats it. Belial is shown in the final scene holding Lucifer's now headless body as he wanted from the beginning and has plans involving it]]. |
| 260 | ** Starke Island in the main story. [[spoiler:The True King reveals just how evil he is by revealing that he was the one who destroyed the Torhid Kingdom with the Great Wall and that the Nahlegrande portion of the Dawning Sky arc was his plan to turn Gilbert into a power supply so that he could use the weapon without limit. However, Baragona hijacks the Great Wall and destroys it with the help of the crew before anything else can be done with. With the Great Wall crumbling and threatening to bury the entire island in its rubble though, everyone makes a mad dash for the airships only for the Grandcypher to get damaged by the falling rubble sending it and the crew plummeting to the bottom of the sky, for real this time. And to top it all off, Loki reveals that he let everything happen because the Astral that created the Great Wall was sealed within it, and with the Great Wall destroyed, the Astral is also unsealed and falls to the bottom of the sky, with Loki and Fenrir following.]] |
| 261 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' |
| 262 | ** [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]: Lance Vance's betrayal. |
| 263 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has a big damn WHAM in the mission ''The Green Sabre''. Not only are your best friends Ryder and Big Smoke revealed as working with the enemies (Tenpenny, C.R.A.S.H. and the Ballas) and responsible for the death of your mother in that fateful drive-by, but your brother Sweet is shot and arrested, Grove Street goes to shit, you lose all the territory you'd captured up to this point, and you're taken out in the middle of nowhere by Tenpenny and Pulaski to kill a witness who has discovered their corrupt activities. |
| 264 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has one near the end in which you choose to side with either Roman or Kate; the one you choose to side with gets killed in the wedding scenario. |
| 265 | ** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]'' has the penultimate mission in which Johnny finds out that Jim was killed by Niko Bellic and that Billy Grey is planning to testify against The Lost. |
| 266 | ** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' has the second to the last mission. In it, Rocco has ordered Luis to kill Tony. This results in him leaving Luis after saving his life. |
| 267 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has the mission ''Bury the Hatchett'' in which Trevor discovers the truth about how Michael survived the events of the Prologue ten years ago: [[spoiler:He took a deal with the FIB to set up Trevor and Brad while he and his family are put into witness protection. Brad was gunned down, Trevor escaped, and Michael faked his death with Brad's body taking his place in the grave]]. The two of them confront each other at the cemetery in Luderndorff, entering a MexicanStandOff that is broken up when [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Wei Cheng's]] henchmen arrive to capture Trevor, but take Michael hostage instead. Trevor spends the rest of the game out for Michael's blood and Michael himself is out of commission [[spoiler:until Franklin rescues him several missions down the line]]. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/GrandiaII'' is packed to the ''gills'' with them. The evil god-fragment possessing the main character's brother? Moves to possess the main character instead. The evil god separated into fragments and sealed away? Never died and the "seals" are actually devices to infect people with the fragments. The god of light who defeated the god of darkness before retiring to rest? LOST the war in the heavens. The kindly Pope who directs your party on your quest to save the world? Actually the BigBad who wants to resurrect and then [[AGodAmI become the god of darkness]]. Well done, everyone! |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' has the Battle of Claw Island. This is where the personal storyline first gets really dark, as the island fortress faces the full might of the Risen in a hopeless battle, and your mentor, whom you've been following for the last twenty or so levels, dies covering your retreat. |
| 270 | ** The Battle of Lion's Arch from the Living World. The main HubCity, and the place which your mentor died to defend, is burnt to the ground by Scarlet's forces and for two weeks the only possible reaction was to try and save as many people as possible. |
| 271 | ** The other Living World seasons each pack at least one of their own. Season 2, "Point of No Return": Caithe's final memory seed shows her performing a MercyKill on fellow firstborn Wynne to hide the fact that the Sylvari are actually dragon minions - and the Commander learns this ''just'' too late to warn the Pact Fleet, allowing Mordremoth to brainwash the majority of the Sylvari on board and send all of the ships plunging into the jungle, with Trahearne and Destiny's Edge onboard. Season 3, "One Path Ends": The resurrected Lazarus is actually the god Balthazar, who's gone rogue and seeks to restore his lost power with that of the Elder Dragons...even if it means wiping out most of Tyria in the process. Season 4 more or less ''starts'' with one; in "Daybreak", players learn that not only has Palawa Joko escaped the Underworld - and is seeking revenge against the Commander for hijacking his army to fight Balthazar - but he also has access to Asura gates ''and Nightfall's Scarab Plague''. |
| 272 | * The end of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 2'' qualifies it as a Wham Episode. If not [[HisNameIs Eli Vance's death]], the unambiguous confirmation that Gordon Freeman is not the only human on Earth familiar with the G-man. |
| 273 | ** "Dooctor Freeeman..." The G-man not only rescued Alyx from Black Mesa but he is seen implanting information into her mind apparently without her realising. The very deliberate use of the phrase "Unforeseen Consequences" also gives some strange meta implications as to the G-man's involvement into the very chapter names of the games you are playing. Oh, yeah, and did I mention that [[ParanoiaFuel the G-man seems to have a way of influencing Alyx's mind without her realising.]] |
| 274 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'': [[spoiler:What was originally marketed as an interquel between the first and second games becomes a full sequel to ''Episode 2'' at the end of the game after Alyx frees the G-Man from the Vault. The G-Man offers Alyx a chance to save her father from the Advisor, changing the timeline and the ending of the last game. However, after she changes the timeline, the G-Man hires Alyx as his next employee after being dissatisfied with Gordon and places her in stasis. Cut to the present and we see Eli, angry and vowing revenge against the G-Man as Gordon wakes up. The game ends with Eli and Gordon preparing themselves to rescue Alyx, setting the events for the next game in the series.]] |
| 275 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' has a couple of these: |
| 276 | ** The [[spoiler:Flood]] introduction from ''[[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved Halo 1]]'' '''definitely fits''', and even comes with a GenreShift. The conversation with the [[spoiler:Flood Gravemind]] probably counts from ''VideoGame/Halo2'', where you realize that the [[spoiler:Flood is ''a lot'' more intelligent than you might have thought]]. |
| 277 | ** The entire last half of the level "The Covenant" from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' is another good one. This level (well, most of it) and the one after it arguably epitomize SceneryPorn and SceneryGorn, respectively, more so than anything else in the entire game. |
| 278 | ** Then there's ''VideoGame/HaloReach''. |
| 279 | *** Probably epitomized during the fifth mission, the exact midpoint of the game anyway, when you get to [[spoiler:watch the planet Reach's surface be burned in large chunks while the level is still going on and long before it actually ends]]. |
| 280 | *** The level "Exodus": you enter a large city and the first thing you notice is the many dead civilian bodies scattered about. Worse, if you look around, you find a small teddy bear backpack. And even more worse: this level is populated by [[ImAHumanitarian Brutes]]. Oh, and let's not forget the '''[[SarcasmMode lovely]] introduction''' of the first enemies you encounter in the level are a few Jackals and a good deal of [[SuicideAttack Suicide Grunts]], the latter of which are '''more than happy''' to meet your acquaintance. |
| 281 | ** ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''[='s=] "Reunion", where you get your first real indication of [[spoiler:Cortana's FaceHeelTurn]]. A certain sequence in "Guardians" is this too, where you hear [[spoiler:the voices of countless [=AIs=] pledging their allegiance to Cortana]]. |
| 282 | ** ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'' as a whole might count for the ''entire franchise''. And you thought the Covenant and the modern Flood were a huge threat... |
| 283 | * ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': The Bad Boys Love Route is essentially this. |
| 284 | ** For clarification, the game's primary concept is a dating sim where everyone but your character ''is a bird''. The various routes include, amongst other things: a snobbish aristocrat, a narcoleptic teacher, a bookworm, and a dove with a severe craving for pudding. Bad Boys Love completely shatters any sense of silliness the others had, with the very first thing that happens is the discovery of [[spoiler:''your character's decapitated head.'']] |
| 285 | ** To a certain extent, there's also Shuu's route. It can't be the first route you do unless you're playing the demo, and it has a very different tone to the other routes, because instead of bird-related humour with a side of sadness, [[spoiler:you get a horror movie in which the main character is tricked into eating her upperclassman, then gets murdered by Shuu, and then gets to be the murder half of a murder-suicide ''despite already being dead''.]] There's a reason why this game first became popular in the West after a Let's Play of the demo started with this route. |
| 286 | ** The sequel, ''Holiday Star'' has The Day The Night Slept (After), though it's hinted at by the ending of the previous episode. Two words: ''Picture Book''. |
| 287 | * ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'' has the end of Chapter 2. Madison runs out after seeing her best friend Tara in a snowstorm, realizes too late that "Tara" is an illusion and freezes to death. [[CuteGhostGirl Abigail]] manages to save Madison's soul but not her life, resulting in Madison existing in between life and death like Abigail does, becoming able to communicate with Abigail and the more supernatural elements of the story coming to the forefront. |
| 288 | * ''TabletopGame/HeavyGear'': One later mission towards the end of the first game has [[spoiler:a cracker of the CNCS ''Vigilance'' landship showing Ranger Edward Scott a handheld video clip playing the full cutscene of the end of the second mission, and it reveals that Lieutenant Jennifer Brockton is responsible for murdering Colonel Arthur Janus' son in cold blood. It turns out that she is a spy for the AST]]. |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', ye gods. You finally discover the identity of the killer is [[spoiler:one of the [=PCs=], Scott,]] and then proceed to have a QTE where you're forced to [[DestroyTheEvidence burn evidence]] for them. |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/HellgateLondon'' attempts to end on one -- YMMV, as some players played the character in question less attention than VideoGame/{{D|iablo}}eckard [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory Cain]] -- but whether you got the full shocking effect or not, it was [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome an excellent end scene]]. |
| 291 | * The heart-breaking third mission of ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''. After a couple basic training missions, you return to your home planet to find [[spoiler:your planet's atmosphere is ablaze, and you have to save the cryotrays containing the last of your people.]] |
| 292 | ** From the perspective of the Kushan, the entire plot of Homeworld is the WhamEpisode of their existence. It begins when scientists discover an ancient spaceship in the desert, proving that they were not native to the planet Kharak. |
| 293 | * ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' |
| 294 | ** Chapter 8: Kiana [[spoiler: turns into a Herrscher, [[MentorOccupationalHazard kills Himeko]] and goes missing for a few months.]] This event marks the end of St. Freya Academy team and their peaceful coexistence with Schicksal as well as the point where [[CerebusSyndrome story becomes darker and more dramatic]]. |
| 295 | ** Chapter 19: Mei learns that [[spoiler: [[YourDaysAreNumbered Kiana is dying]]]]. In order to prevent that, she [[spoiler: makes a DealWithTheDevil, becoming a Herrscher of Thunder and joining World Serpent – the organisation who was their enemies just a while ago]]. |
| 296 | * ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': "The Mountain that Fell". You've been through a few Wham Episodes by this point, but this quest ''takes the gold''. While exploring the GAIA Prime facility for the Master Override that will allow her to stop HADES, Aloy learns that Elisabet Sobeck [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to repair a malfunctioning seal from the outside, saving the Zero Dawn Alphas' lives from an approaching swarm of machines. But without Sobeck to act as his MoralityChain, [[SanitySlippage Ted Faro convinced himself that humans would repeat the mistakes that led them to extinction in the first place if they were given the "poison" of knowledge]]. So he deleted APOLLO, the AI that contained the entire sum of human knowledge, thus dooming humanity to a new Dark Age, then killed all of the Alphas so they couldn't try to fix it. The FuturePrimitive setting the game takes place in? It's because none of the humans born in the Cradle facilities received any education beyond Kindergarten. ''And it's all Faro's fault'', [[ItsAllAboutMe all because he didn't want future generations to know it was his fault the Earth was destroyed in the first place]]. |
| 297 | * ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'': The twelfth chapter, "Trauma", is one of these. Jacket returns to his apartment after completing a routine mission... only to find that his Girlfriend has been shot dead in the bathroom. An assassin wearing a rat mask then confronts and shoots Jacket in the head as well, and it's revealed that he has actually been reliving all of the in-game events so far in a coma dream while he was recovering from his headshot in the hospital. |
| 298 | ** The entirety of Part 5: "Answers" can also serve as one of these; after Jacket's story has been properly concluded, the game unexpectedly rewinds back a couple of months, and the player takes control of the Biker whom Jacket fought and (supposedly) killed in "Neighbors". |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'': There's a definite sinister undercurrent beneath the cheery, cheesy, simulacra of the 90s internet the game takes place in, but it doesn't come out until [[spoiler:the Mindcrash, which ''kills'' several people, and leads to the DistantFinale in the PresentDay]]. |
| 300 | * While ''VideoGame/{{IMGCM}}'' has always been one of the darker MagicalGirl games, just ''how'' dark doesn't get revealed until Episode 5 of Chapter 4, "End of the Daily Life". [[spoiler:Kaori is ambushed from behind by a demon and dies horribly, followed by TransformationHorror and subsequent corruption into a demon]]. From this moment on, CerebusSyndrome is in full effect, and it kicks off [[spoiler:Omnis's desperate GroundhogDayLoop in a bid to try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]. |
| 301 | * ''Videogame/IMissTheSunrise'' has a bunch: |
| 302 | ** The penultimate mission of ''And Yet It Moves'', where the crew discovers [[spoiler:the true nature of the Shine (it was manmade).]] |
| 303 | ** The final offices of the abandoned databanks are absolutely ''filled'' with these. [[spoiler:Lacertians did not evolve naturally; they were synthesized in a lab, and Lessers were the prototypes. Ivoronus was also the first one created.]] Plus, [[spoiler:the rationale behind the creation of the Shine -- it was an attempt to combat entropy.]] And to kick it all off, [[spoiler:latent energy (a.k.a. [[FunctionalMagic magic]]) is from a quantifiable wellspring point that appears to be a portal to another ''plane of reality'']]. |
| 304 | ** The final episode begins with [[spoiler:''the Inquiry being destroyed'']], and goes downhill from there. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': The game is about a group of people establishing an exocolony that gets attacked yearly by the planet's native fauna during a season known as "Glow." The fifth year's Glow attack destroys all but one of the colony's buildings and the casualties include the older brother of one of the PlayerCharacter's friends regardless of run and almost certainly the colony's governor. While the season following Glow is being used to rebuild the colony, ''a second spaceship from Earth'' crashes on the planet. Said spaceship contains a bunch of soldiers whose pre-crash purpose was clearly to arrest the colony's residents. Once things have settled down, the colony has a new governor in the form of the second ship's captain, all the colony's functions have shifted locations and there are three extra people close to the PlayerCharacter's age who can be interacted with. |
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| 309 | * ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''. At the end of Chapter 4, when Master Li KILLS you after you've defeated (what you just ''thought'' was) the BigBad, as you were an expendable part of Sun Li's EvilPlan. And the way he does this is particularly nasty, as he exploits the flaws that he [[{{Sabotutor}} deliberately built into your fighting style]]. You can see the obvious clues during additional playthroughs where a lot of the things he does and says have additional subtext and weight. |
| 310 | ** And before that in Chapter 3, the reveal that the Emperor of the Jade Empire is not the UnwittingPawn of Death's Hand, but actually the perfectly-aware source of the empire's corruption. |
| 311 | ** And before that, the dooming of the DoomedHometown is pretty extreme, even if you saw it coming. (Creator/BioWare [[SignatureStyle often]] blows up the first zone; they don't often make you go back through and look for survivors...) |
| 312 | * Discovering the ruins of [[spoiler:Sandover Village]] in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade''. |
| 313 | * Damas asking Jak to find his son in ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' and [[spoiler:realising it's Jak himself]]. |
| 314 | * ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'' has the first visit to Central Hub. The Pulsating Mass has the Secret Knowledge, Punch Tanaka sacrifices himself to protect Jimmy, but the biggest bombshell dropped on the player is that in the real world, [[TheTopicOfCancer Jimmy has cancer and is hospitalized because of it.]] It becomes clear to the player that this world is Jimmy's DyingDream as he attempts to cope with his terminal illness. The Nexus Orb dungeons further explore how Jimmy and his family are coping in the real world. |
| 315 | * In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': |
| 316 | ** Chapter 9 ends with [[spoiler:Pit defeating Medusa. Roll credits! But then, Hades makes his grand appearance, revealing himself as the GreaterScopeVillain responsible for reviving Medusa in the first place. With Medusa vanquished, Hades takes a more active role as the game's BigBad from that point forward.]] |
| 317 | ** Chapter 18. The previous 3 chapters were a series of {{Bizarro Episode}}s where [[EnemyMine your two enemies join forces with you]] to fight off an AlienInvasion. Then you start Chapter 18... and instead of the standard opening, you get Pit stranded in blackness wondering where he is. You then start a somewhat strange sequence where you control a little girl, and then a dog, running towards a town under attack. But the TearJerker music and bleak atmosphere should clue you in that something is very wrong. You see centurions patrolling the streets, and Pit is relieved that they at least have the situation under control. But the Wham really hits once you meet up with [[spoiler:Magnus]] and he reveals [[spoiler:[[TimeSkip THREE YEARS have passed since the last chapter]], and during that time everything has gone to hell. The centurions are actually the ''invaders'' which means, yes, the forces of [[FluffyCloudHeaven Skyworld]] have turned evil, and the benevolent goddess of light Palutena, your upbeat, joking MissionControl throughout the whole game, has become disillusioned and gone the KillAllHumans route just like the other bad guys. At the end of the chapter, you're shown what Skyworld looks like now: a bleak, crumbing ruin of what it once was. And Pit's only remaining real ally that he can trust help him save the day? It's [[GaiasVengeance Viridi]], one of the very enemies you were fighting against before the Aurum showed up.]] Given that the game ''defined'' DenserAndWackier up until now, this change in tone comes as a huge shock. |
| 318 | ** Another chapter that qualifies is Chapter 22, Scorched Feathers. In this chapter, [[spoiler:we learn of Hades' true intent throughout the entire game: he wants to cause as much fighting and death as possible so he can use the souls of the dead to expand his army. His FauxAffablyEvil nature is also revealed here]]. |
| 319 | * In ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'', after Sunset, the game gives three Targets that are barely plot relevant at all. Cloudman shows the power of the Yakumo, Encounter give Dan more backstory and shows the Heaven Smile Organ Dealings, and Alter Ego shows how bad the Heaven Smile threat has become, but they don't influence the main plot. Then... we get prelude to Smile, Part 1, which is made of four rather huge moments. The first scene shows the return of Kenjiro Matsuoka form Sunset, who forces someone to strip most of his clothes and commit suicide. The man is heavily implied to be Hiro Kasai, who was a member of the opposing political party and favored America despite the missile launch. Then, we see the death of [[spoiler:Samantha, who was most likely killed by Harman in an act of revenge]]. Then, Garcian walks in on Harman and Kun Lan playing chess and secretly hears Kun Lan tell a story about a man who could do anything he wanted and got satisfaction in killing... but they panic when they see Garcian, hinting at [[spoiler:him being the extremely powerful assassin, emir Parkreiner]]. Then, Garcian and Mills meet up in a car that was actually plot relevant earlier, and when Mills was about to deliver a WhamLine, [[spoiler:he was shot to death]]. This seven minute intro basically tells you that Smile is a very, VERY serious Target. |
| 320 | * The ending to ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 2''. Fan favorite Garza is dead, the ISA invasion has fallen apart, the Visari is dead (no more [[LargeHam epic speeches]]), your favorite characters from the first game are dead and the Helghans are very pissed off at the death of their leader. |
| 321 | * In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', September 22 is a major turning point in the story. The protagonist Yuna's ChildhoodFriend Hina is caught up in a LoveTriangle between Matsuri and Miyu, the captain and vice-captain of Hina's track team, who are feuding with each other and trying to compete over who can give Hina the better date at the SchoolFestival. Hina doesn't choose either one, but instead gives a LoveConfession to Yuna, thereby setting in motion the plot for the final month of the game- Yuna coming to terms with her love for Hina. |
| 322 | * ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIII'' is considered to be THE WhamEpisode by many fans. |
| 323 | ** The entire "Tales of Ash" [[StoryArc saga]] was one long string of WHAM: Rugal has ''children'', Ash Crimson [[BroughtDownToNormal steals]] Chizuru and Iori's powers, [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Those from the Past]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy manipulate]] Chizuru into breaking [[SealedEvilInACan the seal on]] {{Orochi}}, etc. ''XIII'' and its climax just happened to be the icing on the cake. |
| 324 | *** The reason why ''XIII'' is a huge WHAM is because [[spoiler:it's the first time a main character (read: "''not'' a villain") is KilledOffForReal[[note]]well, sort of; he's been brought BackFromTheDead in ''XV''[[/note]].]] |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'': Door to Phantomile has an excellent one. [[spoiler:It turns out that Klonoa doesn't belong in Phantomile at all. All of his memories of living there had been fabricated by his "best friend" Huepow, and as the Dream Traveler he was simply destined to save the world--presumably, by giving him false memories, he would fight harder to protect Phantomile. After his success, Klonoa is then forced from Phantomile back to his own world thanks to a ritual that purges everything that doesn't belong, and that isn't limited to the bad guys.]] |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' could be considered this for the series as a whole. With the main antagonists being a cult that is heavily implied to be part of, or at least be connected to, the ancients, an extinct civilization that has been heavily alluded to since ''Return to Dream Land''. Not only that, but the game potentially reveals the origins of Kirby and Dark Matter with the FinalBoss Void Termina, who is essentially a god that can reincarnate into different forms depending on the positive and negative emotions around it, with Kirby being implied to be a product of positive emotion, and Dark Matter being potentially made with negative emotion. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has a Wham Level after you're found the second-last Star Map when you're captured by Saul Karath, find out that the Jedi academy on Dantooine has been destroyed in your absence, Bastila is captured by [[BigBad Darth Malak]], and TheReveal that the main character is an amnesiac Revan. |
| 328 | ** Averted in the sequel after the final battle when Kreia chastises the player for expecting a huge twist even though there isn't one. Unless you count 'Kreia is evil' but she makes that pretty obvious throughout the story. |
| 329 | * ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' has the "Eden" field, which promises "more happiness" if you complete the puzzle. [[spoiler:Do so and an ear-cracking scream goes off as "Eden" reveals itself to be the Gate of Illusion. It's a more effective wham moment if you're a new player rather than someone who's played the original version.]] |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/LANoire'' with the final Vice case "Manifest Destiny": [[spoiler:Roy Earle, Cole's crooked Vice partner, has caught him cheating his wife for Elsa, and reported it to the corrupt officials, getting Cole suspended and demoted to Arson as a result]]. |
| 331 | ** The newspapers would count, too. |
| 332 | * The ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series has quite a few of these. Among them are Kain's realization at the end of ''Blood Omen'' that he is the Balance Guardian and must kill himself if he wants to save the world, Raziel's discovery in ''Soul Reaver'' that he and all his brothers were Sarafan before Kain turned them all into vampires, and Raziel sacrificing himself to create the Balance Reaver for Kain at the end of ''Defiance''. |
| 333 | ** The reveal at the end of ''Soul Reaver II'' that Raziel is destined to become, and in fact ''[[TimeyWimeyBall always has been,]]'' the ever-hungry soul-devouring spirit inside the Soul Reaver blade. |
| 334 | ** For that matter in ''Defiance'', the fact that the heart of Janos Audron that Raziel was searching for to revive the ancient vampire (Who incidentally he himself killed as a human) was actually ''inside'' Kain the whole time keeping him alive. [[spoiler:The fact that Kain doesn't ''need'' that heart to survive was pretty whammy too.]] |
| 335 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has at least one in almost every game. |
| 336 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Zelda is kidnapped (after you already saved her once) and transported into the Dark World right before your eyes. [[HijackedByGanon Agahnim is actually Ganon]], and Link ''loses'' the confrontation in which this is revealed. For a happy version of the trope, the King of Hyrule and several other dead/lost characters are [[StatusQuoIsGod brought back]] after Link successfully acquires the Triforce. |
| 337 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': Between the fifth and sixth dungeons, it turns out that the whole game is a dream, [[DreamApocalypse and by finishing your quest, you'll effectively destroy the island and everyone on it.]] |
| 338 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has two. The first one comes after collecting the three Spiritual Stones, and gaining access to the Sacred Realm. Ganondorf follows you in and seizes the Triforce of Power. You are then trapped in the sacred realm for seven years, and when you wake up as an adult, Hyrule is a CrapsackWorld. The second one happens after collecting the final Sage Medallion. Sheik reveals to you that she's Zelda, and is captured by Ganondorf immediately after. |
| 339 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Wait, ''the boat'' is the King of Hyrule? Tetra is Princess Zelda? And the ocean is Hyrule after it's been flooded? And the King decided to flood Hyrule ''again'', just to keep Ganon in check? And did ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Link just stab Ganon in the forehead with the Master Sword]]''?! |
| 340 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has an extra dose of shock just when you think the series is getting predictable. It's more of a surprise in how it came about rather than its presence, because everyone knows Zelda games have more than three dungeons! Not 60 seconds after you collect the final Fused Shadow, Zant appears, [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps Link and Lanayru]], takes the Fused Shadows, curses Link to so that he's permanently stuck as a wolf, AND gravely injures Midna. On top of that, taking Midna to Princess Zelda to heal her results in Zelda giving up her body (and apparently her life) in a HeroicSacrifice without Midna's consent. OhCrap. So what do you do now? You set out to find the series' favorite DeusExMachina, the Master Sword, in order to lift your curse! |
| 341 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': A few come to mind. |
| 342 | *** Link finally catches up to Zelda, and instead of simply saving her/seeing her get captured, he's ''reprimanded'' by Impa for being too late and not being strong enough to watch over Zelda, as well as having to watch his childhood friend disappear, ''yet again''. Ouch. |
| 343 | *** When Link catches up to Zelda once again, this time after proving he has enough strength to help Zelda, you'd expect a happy reunion, but what does he get? A stab in the back when Zelda confesses she manipulated Link with his feelings for her, as well as the awfulness of having to watch Zelda seal herself in a crystal for goodness knows how long. The look on Link's face says it all. |
| 344 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is pretty whammy from the moment the game begins; [[YouWakeUpInAroom Link awakens from some kind of medical stasis]] [[AmnesiacHero with no memory of who he is or how he got there]], and the first thing he picks up is what's essentially a magic iPad. [[AfterTheEnd Hyrule has fallen into a state of decline with ruins everywhere]], and one of the first things Link sees after waking up is Hyrule Castle enshrouded in a dark fog by the EldritchAbomination that is now Ganon. The ghost of Zelda's father, the King, explains that Zelda has been trapped in the castle with Ganon for a hundred years, using her power to keep him there, and tasks Link with saving her. By piecing together his memories over the course of the game and talking to people who have been alive long enough to remember, like the Sheikah, Zora, and Great Deku Tree, we learn that 10,000 years prior, Hyrule was a technologically advanced kingdom thanks to the Sheikah, who used their mastery of {{Magitek}} to create an army of automata called Guardians and giant mechs called Divine Beasts to assist in stopping Ganon whenever he returned. Link was chosen along with representatives from each race (Revali of the Rito, Daruk of the Gorons, Mipha of the Zora, and Urbosa of the Gerudo) as Hyrule's Champions, with Link as Zelda's friend and bodyguard and the other champions as the Divine Beasts' pilots. Zelda, however, was unable to awaken her ability to seal Ganon away in time before he returned, seized control of the Guardians and Divine Beasts, and nearly wiped out Hyrule overnight. Revali, Daruk, Mipha, and Urbosa were all killed, and Link was mortally wounded defending Zelda and put in what was essentially a medically induced coma while his injuries healed over the last century, leading directly to his memory loss and the start of the game. |
| 345 | ** Spin-off ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' has a now-legendary one. The heroes confront Cia and defeat her once and for all. All's well that ends well, right? [[spoiler:They failed to stop her from bringing back Ganondorf. He awakens, gathers an army of monsters, forces Zant and Ghirahim to serve him, and launches a full-scale invasion of Hyrule, which ends with him ''defeating Link and Zelda'' and ''claiming the Triforce''. The heroes barely escape with their lives, and now face the prospect of reclaiming the entire kingdom. And the best part? During these chapters, '''''you play as Ganondorf.''''']] One of the single most effective uses of [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon]] in the history of the series. |
| 346 | * Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' culminates with Max discovering she can jump into photographs and creating an alternate present where Chloe's father is alive, but Chloe is paralyzed in a wheelchair. |
| 347 | ** And Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'' ends with Chloe and Rachel learning that the mysterious woman seen with Rachel's father was, in fact, her real mother. |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'': [[spoiler:At the midpoint of the game, Mitamura, the allegedly wheelchair-bound tech support for Kasuga and company, is revealed to be TheMole for Palekana and the Seiryu Clan, orchestrating the capture of Lani and leading to the deaths of Wong Tou and Hanawa. At around the same time, the fact that Kiryu is still alive is leaked to the internet. Chitose is also revealed to be a mole, albeit a reluctant one: she had been blackmailed by Mitamura into using her Vtuber channel to spread slander about Kasuga and leak Kiryu's survival.]] |
| 349 | * ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', at the climax of Oersted's chapter. It has the look and feel of a normal chapter... until you defeat the Lord of Dark. The chapter continues as Oersted [[spoiler:is tricked into killing the king of Lucrece, after which the townsfolk assume ''he's'' the Lord of Dark. Afterward, the princess and his remaining companions all die as a direct result of his actions. He then becomes the Lord of Dark Odio himself, kills everyone in Lucrece, and goes back and forth in time to become the bosses you faced in the previous chapters]]. Cue the final chapter, The Dominion of Hate. |
| 350 | * ''VideoGame/LufiaAndTheFortressOfDoom'' has the titular sunken fortress, where [[spoiler:Lufia is revealed to be Erim, the Sinistral of Death—and as long as she lives, the other Sinistrals can be revived]]. |
| 351 | ** It's followed by the end of Glasdar Tower, where [[spoiler:Lufia's memories of Erim are awakened, leading her to betray the heroes and bring the Dual Blade to Daos]]. |
| 352 | ** Likewise, the reveals of [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/LufiaTheLegendReturns Seena]] and [[VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals Iris]] as Erim]]. |
| 353 | * ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'': Ghaleon requests for Alex and Luna to escort him to the White Dragon Cave. Quark, the White Dragon, is surprised to see Ghaleon after so many years, believing that he died along with Dragonmaster Dyne. Ghaleon, still harboring resentment over that incident, announces his plan to TakeOverTheWorld, demonstrating his power by either killing[[note]]in the original Sega CD version[[/note]] or imprisoning[[note]]in the remakes[[/note]] Quark and kidnapping Luna. |
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| 357 | * ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'': "The Whore" and "Omerta" had Don Salieri ordered Tommy to kill unnamed prostitute and Frank Colleti, both suspected to be working for Morellos and the police. However in both instances Tommy goes against Salieri's order, with said prostitute turning out be friend of his wife who needed money for her brother's medical care while Frankie was forced to betray Salieri family due his family being held hostage by the police. Although Tommy helps them to fake their deaths, this action will soon have a huge consequence in the very late of the story. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/MafiaII'': |
| 359 | ** Chapter 6: [[spoiler:Vito is arrested and convicted for stealing federal gas station stamps. While spending his time in prison, he receives a letter informing that his mother has passed away. The first chapter of Joe's Adventures DLC also reveals that one of the gas station attendants that Vito sold stamps had ratted out Vito to the police. Despite Joe successfully intimidating the attendant to not witness against Vito, and even killing another rat who could have brought the whole family down, he still gets convicted.]] |
| 360 | ** Chapter 10: [[spoiler:Vito, Joe and Marty are sent to assassinate Alberto Clemente during a meeting in the Empire Arms Hotel. On their way, they see Henry talking still working for Clemente. The assassination ultimately goes successfully, but unfortunately Marty gets killed during the job, leaving Joe in huge [[DrowningMySorrows grief]] and [[DespairEventHorizon despair.]] |
| 361 | ** Chapter 11: |
| 362 | *** Henry is sent to [[spoiler:kill Leo Galante to prove his loyalty to the Falcone family. Depending on the player's action, Vito escapes with Leo from Henry undetected or manages to talk out Henry to spare Leo. Regardless of choice, Leo is forced to go in hiding]]. |
| 363 | *** Francesca informs Vito that [[spoiler:her husband Eric has been abusive to her and cheated on her multiple times, leading Vito to handle things by laying a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Eric and threating to kill him if he once again mistreats his sister, which causes Francesca to disown Vito for his violent behavior]]. |
| 364 | *** As if the day wasn't going bad enough, [[spoiler:the O'Neill Gang attack Vito in retaliation for killing their leader Brian in prison, burning Vito's house to the ground]]. |
| 365 | ** Chapter 13: [[spoiler:The Falcone family finds out about the drug deal that Vito, Joe and Henry have made, demanding a cut that leaves them highly in debt to the LoanShark they got the money for it from. On their way to meet Henry, Henry is brutally killed by the Tongs. Believing that the Tongs had betrayed them, Vito and Joe follow them to their hideout and kill everyone they can see to avenge Henry's death. Upon confronting the enforcer responsible for Henry's death, Vito demands answers why they killed Henry. Said enforcer explains that Henry was a informant to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, but Vito and Joe don't believe him and put a bullet in his skull. Now with the money gone and the attack likely to start a war, Vito and Joe find themselves in a bigger mess that they thought.]] |
| 366 | ** Chapter 14: [[spoiler:The tensions between Empire Bay Commission and Tongs have risen following the massacre on Tongs' territory, with Frank Vinci (correctly) suspecting Vito and Joe are behind it. Also, Vito learns his father used to do dirty work like him and learns that his death wasn't accidental, he was drowned by Derek, the said man Vito works for and his father used to work for.]] But by far, the most notable is when Vito and Joe kill an FBI informant at the request of a crime family from other city. And the informant? [[spoiler:It's none other than Tommy Angelo, the protagonist from the first game. Meaning that Vito and Joe are actually Salieri's unnamed assassins from the end of that game.]] |
| 367 | ** Chapter 15: [[spoiler:Leo Galante returns back Empire Bay following the recent events, confirming that Henry was indeed an informant to the FBI and gives Vito two choices: kill Don Carlo Falcone, or face retribution from both the mob and the Tongss. Vito and Joe successfully kill off Carlo, but Joe is taken away, with Leo informing Vito that Joe wasn't the part of their deal, leaving Joe's fate unknown.]] |
| 368 | * ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}} 2'': "Origins" reveals [[spoiler:Leo is a serial killer split personality implanted to Danny]]. |
| 369 | ** The levels where you play as Leo really counts: [[spoiler:having killed Michael, Danny's best friend, destroying his records, and killing Danny's wife]]. |
| 370 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': |
| 371 | ** ''Virmire''. Not only does the mission there reveal the [[EldritchAbomination true nature]] of the BigBad, and not only is it entirely possible that Shepard will be forced to kill Wrex before the mission is over, but Shepard must also leave either Kaidan or Ashley behind to die in a massive PlayerPunch. |
| 372 | ** Following by this above major mission is ''Ilos'', which while not as action-packed as Virmire, it really explains the fate of the Protheans, about why they were put into extinction by the Reapers, and the revelation that Saren is about to attack the Citadel (which is revealed to be a massive trap set to bring Sovereign there). |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': |
| 374 | ** The game STARTS with a wham when The Normandy is destroyed and Shepard DIES in the first five minutes of the game, then pulls a classic UnexplainedRecovery. It then goes on to throw another wham in halfway through with the revelation that The Collectors are actually the supposedly extinct Protheans before the various possible endings, in one of which the entire team INCLUDING THE MAIN CHARACTER can all die and the game still ends with a "mission successful". |
| 375 | ** Also, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''? The Collector General is controlled by a Reaper and the Collectors are abducting human colonies so they can melt billions of them down into genetic paste, which they will use to build a new Reaper...this one modeled after humanity. |
| 376 | ** [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent Joker's mini-level]] just after the Reaper IFF is installed: Collectors invade the ''Normandy'' and abduct your ''entire crew''. Joker also has a disease that makes his bones brittle, so you can only move at a painful walk, in addition to having no weapons and being forced to watch helplessly as the crew gets dragged away. He said it best... |
| 377 | --->''"[[ClusterFBomb Shitshitshitshit...]]"'' |
| 378 | ** Aaaand then comes TheStinger at the end of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', showing the Reapers [[OhCrap ALL activating and heading for the Milky Way.]] THEN comes Arrival, in which you find out that the Reapers are hours away from the Alpha Relay (and thus hours away from Earth)...and your SadisticChoice of sacrificing 300,000 lives to buy two months to a year of time. Cue ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' teaser trailer (and WordOfGod about the beginning of the game), showing that the Reapers ''are already attacking Earth en masse''. |
| 379 | * In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', every time the storyline swings back to the Citadel, things go awry. The first time, you learn of the galaxy-wide scope of the Reaper invasion and how no other species is capable of sending help to Earth. The second time, Councilor Udina [[spoiler:is a mole for Cerberus and has helped them launch a coup against the Council]]. The [[RuleOfThree third time]], you're sent to [[spoiler:Thessia where Shepard suffers his/her first real [[TheBadGuyWins defeat]] complete with an extra serving of GutPunch]]. [[FourIsDeath The fourth time]] the Citadel is once again [[spoiler:the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, the Catalyst, and you discover who created the Reapers -- and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters why]]]]. |
| 380 | ** The ''Leviathan'' {{DLC}} is one '''massive''' WhamEpisode series-wide. [[spoiler:Shepard comes face to face with TheRemnant of the race that created the Catalyst, who were betrayed by their creation and whose form was then appropriated to create Harbinger, the first Reaper]]. |
| 381 | * The Wham Episode of ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' happens at the Remnant City, where [[PlayerCharacter Ryder]] and the player finally learn the origin of both the Remnant and [[NegativeSpaceWedgie the Scourge]]. [[spoiler:The Remnant were created by an incredibly advanced race call [[{{Precursors}} the Jardaan]]. The Jardaan were so advanced, that they ''created the angara race'', as well as many other lifeforms in the Heleus Cluster, for an unknown purpose. As for the Scourge, it is a weapon of mass destruction created by an unknown entity in a war against the Jardaan, and now it's an interstellar minefield.]] |
| 382 | * The end of Club Strong's scenario in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'', in which Joker appears and [[spoiler:promptly kills Strong and Luna]]. [[spoiler:Ace's death]] also triggers one of Geo's most famous {{Heroic BSOD}}s. |
| 383 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'' |
| 384 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' is the WhamEpisode of the series. [[{{Narm}} Most of it anyway.]] Mavericks that have more to do with a political standpoint instead of TheVirus, making the aforementioned Mavericks in this game even more tragic, [[ILetGwenStacyDie Iris' death]] where it was the first time [[HeroicBSOD Zero ever felt grief]], and [[{{Foreshadowing}} X wondering if he can keep doing the same thing over and over]] (although the last one [[{{Fauxshadow}} was subverted]]). The whole thing even ''started off'' with a [=WHAM=]: A NightmareSequence where ''Dr. Wily'' appears for the first time in the ''X'' series, and to his "masterpiece" Zero, no less! |
| 385 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' is this to the entire Franchise/MegaMan mythos. Because of the ColonyDrop, Earth suffered a huge loss of life and was nearly ruined by it. The consequences of this would be felt all the way to the Videogame/MegaManZero series, a hundred years later. |
| 386 | ** Though a few hints are dropped in ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and spin-off arcade game ''VideoGame/MegaManThePowerBattle'', ''VideoGame/MegaMan2ThePowerFighters'' all but explicitly states that Wily created Zero, and this even happened ''before'' his appearance in ''X4''. The game also provides a lesser wham for Proto Man, who's revealed to have a defect in his energy system [[YourDaysAreNumbered that will eventually kill him.]] |
| 387 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' 1 & 2 provide a few for both the series itself and the franchise as a whole. Not only is Mega Man Volnutt not actually human, ''nobody'' is human anymore. The Legends series takes place at the very end of the ''Mega Man'' chronology where the human race has finally been driven to extinction and been replaced with {{Artificial Human}}s called Carbons, and the only known way to resurrect the human race involves wiping all the Carbons off the face of the Earth. |
| 388 | * The ''[[VideoGame/MetalGear Metal Gear Solid]]'' series' is known for this. Often combined with PlayerPunch. |
| 389 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': |
| 390 | *** Sniper Wolf shooting Meryl repeatedly in the arms and legs, with Snake left with no choice but to leave her behind. |
| 391 | *** TheReveal of Cyborg Ninja's identity, and subsequently [[spoiler:his fatal battle with Metal Gear]]. |
| 392 | *** [[spoiler:Naomi]] being revealed as the traitor. |
| 393 | *** [[spoiler:Master Miller actually being Liquid in disguise.]] |
| 394 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'': |
| 395 | *** Raiden taking the place of Snake [[FirstEpisodeTwist as the main playable character]]. |
| 396 | *** Everything that comes after [[spoiler:Emma Emmerich's death]], including [[spoiler:the deaths of Olga and Fortune and the introduction of The Patriots]]. |
| 397 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'': |
| 398 | *** The first hour or two of play time, and all of the Virtuous Mission turn out to be merely a ProlongedPrologue thanks to [[spoiler:The Boss' FaceHeelTurn]], which doubles as a FirstEpisodeTwist. |
| 399 | *** Snake's [[spoiler:captivity]] in Groznyj Grad, including, among other things [[spoiler:Sokolov's death]] and [[spoiler:Snake getting his [[EyeScream eye burnt out]] as a result of Ocelot's muzzle flash]]. |
| 400 | *** TheReveal at the end of the game that [[spoiler:EVA was a Chinese spy sent to steal the Philosopher's Legacy and The Boss was actually a FakeDefector on a SuicideMission who died a hero but will forever go down in history as a traitor.]] |
| 401 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'': |
| 402 | *** Third Sun, in which Snake's NotQuiteDead [[spoiler:biological parents die, Snake gets his face disfigured, and Liquid Ocelot incapacitates the entire US Military with a computer virus]]. |
| 403 | *** The dramatic conclusion to the Shadow Moses level, including [[spoiler:Naomi's death, Snake piloting REX fighting Ocelot inside a RAY unit, and Raiden barely evading death at the sacrifice of his arm]]. |
| 404 | *** [[spoiler:Big Boss turning out to be alive]] during the credits at the end of the game. |
| 405 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', as a whole: [[spoiler:Chico and Paz, Snake's friends from the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker Incident]], have been captured and tortured by XOF. Snake rescues them both and returns to Mother Base, only to find the UN nuclear inspection that had been arranged to clear his name was a ruse to launch an all out attack on his army. The Militaires Sans Frontières is wiped out in one fell swoop, Paz dies in an explosion from a bomb implanted in her by XOF, and Snake's life hangs in the balance.]] |
| 406 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid V|ThePhantomPain}}'' |
| 407 | *** Mission 46, The Man who Sold the World, is the definition of this trope. [[spoiler:Venom Snake is ''not'' Big Boss, but rather a medic who became Big Boss's body double. He's also the Big Boss Snake fought in the original ''Metal Gear''.]] |
| 408 | * In ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 2'', the final mission pits you against aliens known as Mars People, who appear to be fighting alongside Morden's Rebel Army. Just when you confront Morden, though, the aliens turn on him and kidnap him, forcing you to square off with the aliens. |
| 409 | ** Furthermore, ''Metal Slug 3'''s final mission seems to feature a final confrontation with Morden. However, after you defeat him, he turn's out he's an alien imposter, and the Mars People kidnap your character, forcing another character to team up with the Rebel Army (since the aliens kidnapped the real Morden again) and chase them into space to free their comrade from the alien mothership. |
| 410 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic V'' made very clear that the [[BigBad Sheltem]] / [[BigGood Corak]] story that the first five games of the series had centred around was over by having Corak [[TakingYouWithMe initiate a self-destruct in battle]], killing both. Before the outro, it still looked as if one or both could survive, as had happened in their previous skirmishes. After...well, the [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic next game shifted genre, world and had only the loosests connection to the previous story]]. |
| 411 | * The ending of the cargo ship level in ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' reveals that [[spoiler:the runners have been sold out to the cops by other runners who decided to rather submit to corrupt government than to die fighting a battle they cannot win. In an unusual subversion of LaResistance, LesCollaborateurs may actually be right.]] |
| 412 | * ''Mom Hid My Game'' is, well, a puzzle game about finding out where your Mom hid your game system with each day getting more ludicrous than the last with some examples being behind some books, in an alligator's mouth, and on the other side of an active road inside your house. But once the player reaches day 50, [[spoiler:the days just roll on by to day 1000 with the child growing up to be a fat glasses wearing nerd that lives in his trash-filled room and playing his game non-stop. Picking up the game actually causes you to ''lose'' this time, with the real answer being to open the door and reconnect with your family]]. |
| 413 | * The end of ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' and beginning of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''. You learn that [[spoiler:you are a child and that [=LeChuck=] is actually your brother Chucky, with whom you got into a weird "ride" in an amusement park. Everything was either fantasy or magic. But Chucky's eyes glow up strangely once... At the beginning of part three you're adult again and somewhere on the sea in a bumper car. Obviously you were tricked by [=LeChuck=]'s magic.]] |
| 414 | ** Episode 4 of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', featuring Morgan [=LeFlay=]'s death, the revelation that the Voodoo Lady has apparently been behind everything in the entire series ever, the Marquis De Singe's death, [=LeChuck=] revealing he never had a HeelFaceTurn after all by killing Guybrush...and on top of that, Demon [=LeChuck=] is once again voiced by Earl Boen, who had been replaced with two other actors! |
| 415 | ** Especially well played considering they managed to name the episode ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood]]'' and STILL keep it a shocker. Considering this series' history, you might expect the "execution" to either be cleverly staged, immediately undone with voodoo, or a bad {{Pun}}. Nope. As of the end of the episode, ''Guybrush is dead.'' |
| 416 | * In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' you find out that Noob Saibot is actually the original Sub-Zero from ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 MK1]]''. |
| 417 | ** Oh, there's so many more whammy stuff in the games than that, practically one in each game: |
| 418 | ** ''[=MK1=]'': Reptile. |
| 419 | ** ''[=MK3=]'': Shao Kahn slips into Earthrealm and slaughters almost the entire population of the planet. |
| 420 | ** ''[=MK4=]/MK Gold'': Raiden's ascension to Elder God Status, Quan Chi's reveal that he slaughtered Scorpion's clan and family and has the true amulet of Shinnok's, and Kitana's peace treaty between the Shokan and Centaurs. |
| 421 | ** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': The entire game really. Every canon game afterward is still dealing with the repercussions of the Deadly Alliance's NearVillainVictory. |
| 422 | ** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'': [[TheBadGuyWins Our heroes fall, the Dragon King rises]]. |
| 423 | ** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'': Taven's ending. |
| 424 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 Mortal Kombat (2011)]]'' [[spoiler:If the intro is to be believed, then Shao Kahn [[TheBadGuyWins won the events of]] ''Armageddon''. About halfway through the story, the game kicks WHAM into overdrive and never looks back. [[spoiler:Raiden's knowledge of the future and his actions to change it ''still'' do nothing to stop the events of ''MKA'', arguably making them ''worse''. The younger Sub-Zero, instead of Smoke, is captured by the Lin Kuei and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul automated into a cybernetic warrior]] (fortunately, he quickly regains his humanity thanks to the efforts of Kabal and Jax). Later on, as Liu Kang rescues Kitana, Kung Lao (who has just defeated Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, and Kintaro) has his {{neck snap}}ped by Shao Kahn. And unlike ''[=MK3=]'', he's not FakingTheDead. He's '''[[KilledOffForReal dead]]''' dead. Liu Kang is driven into a furious RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ultimately kills Shao Kahn...or so it would seem. Then, Raiden and Liu Kang go to speak to the Elder Gods to request their aid; the Elder Gods turn a dejected Raiden down. While that's going on, the automated Lin Kuei warriors attack the heroes' stronghold, and then Sindel comes to play cleanup, enacting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that leaves most of them dead. Nightwolf manages to narrowly defeat Sindel, but only by [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] in a TakingYouWithMe moment. Only Kitana, Cage, and Sonya are left, and Kitana soon [[DiedInYourArmsTonight succumbs to her wounds as Liu Kang holds her in his arms]]. By this point, Liu Kang has had enough and [[WhatTheHellHero calls out Raiden]] for [[SenselessSacrifice the futility of everyone's sacrifice]]. Raiden, having crossed the DespairEventHorizon, decides to head to the Netherrealm to make a DealWithTheDevil with Quan Chi, and it is only then (after fighting the corrupted spirits of his fallen comrades) that Raiden realizes that his future self's final words, "He must win.", refers to ''Shao Kahn''. The only way to prevent ''Armageddon'' is a realm-wide SheatheYourSword; if Shao Kahn takes over Earthrealm and merges it with Outworld, the Elder Gods will then punish Shao Kahn for not following the rules of Mortal Kombat (the only legal way he's allowed to merge the realms). When he returns to Earthrealm, he tries to convince Liu Kang to believe in him, but the Shaolin warrior has lost all faith in Raiden and tries to attack Shao Kahn, ignoring Raiden's pleas. Cue a FightingYourFriend moment, where Raiden accidentally kills Liu Kang. In his last breath, Liu Kang curses his former mentor. Ultimately, Raiden's revelation is the key to Earthrealm's survival, but it is a '''major''' PyrrhicVictory. And then, the SequelHook sets up the return of Shinnok, the BigBad of ''4''.]] Sweet Elder Gods, the WHAM quota has reached oversaturation. |
| 425 | ** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': Scorpion kills off Quan Chi for good, but [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom unwittingly dooms several of the fallen heroes to remain as revenants]] because of his RevengeBeforeReason. [[spoiler:TheStinger at the end of ''X'' shows that Raiden is now [[CameBackWrong corrupted]] following his HeroicSacrifice, and the fact that Liu Kang and Kitana are now the new rulers of the Netherrealm. Shinnok is now reduced to a mere living head, and Raiden now vows to go on the offensive to destroy any potential threats to Earthrealm.]] |
| 426 | * ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' throws whammies at the player in the first chapter of the game, and rarely stops. To wit: |
| 427 | ** [[spoiler:Sonya Blade ''dies'', leaving Johnny Cage widowed and Cassie without a mother.]] |
| 428 | ** The new BigBad, Kronika, summons warriors from the past, including the past Sonya and Johnny Cage, the past Raiden (before his FaceHeelTurn), and Shao Kahn. |
| 429 | ** [[spoiler:Past!Sonya finally kills past!Kano, killing present!Kano in so doing.]] |
| 430 | ** In one of the biggest and most shocking revelations in the series, [[spoiler:when past!Raiden briefly pulls a heel turn, he realizes that Kronika had manipulated him and Liu Kang to fight, not only in the current timeline, but in the previous timeline, ''and every timeline before then''!]] |
| 431 | ** The final chapters of the game never stops rolling with the punches: [[spoiler:Raiden saves the present Revanant Liu Kang, fusing with him and ascending him to a Fire God who can fight Kronika on equal footing. Just as Liu Kang confronts Kronika, however, her plan to reverse time are nearly complete. And should the player fail to defeat Kronika in the first round, ''[[TheBadGuyWins she will succeed]]''. If Liu Kang manages to defeat her after, [[PyrrhicVictory the fact will remain that time has been rewound so far that none of Liu Kang's friends can be saved]]. All he can do now is oversee the creation of a new timeline with the [[BroughtDownToNormal now-mortal Raiden]].]] |
| 432 | * ''VideoGame/Mother3''. Chapter 1. The first level of the game is a WhamEpisode that sets the game's surprisingly dark tone. |
| 433 | ** And the end of Chapter 8, though there are more which are not as shocking. As for the prequels, even though not that dark and sad, bosses in the endgames tend to be whammy. |
| 434 | * The death of Wheely Engberg in ''VideoGame/{{Myst}} Online'' certainly qualifies: trapped underground for a few days, kept alive by a beast who the players weren't sure was helping her or just keeping her alive, then brutally slaughtered moments before rescue. Yeeeah. |
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| 438 | * ''VideoGame/NanoBreaker'' has one near the end; after Jake defeats the malfunctioning Orgamech Platform, he returns to realize his traitorous partner, Keith, is holding Michelle as a hostage... and Jake's commanding officer, General Raymond, is with Keith. Turns out Raymond is the main instigator of the Orgamech outbreak, and that they're working in tandem to retrive the nanotechnology for themselves. Said level ends with Keith getting the drop on Jake and killing him, but later on Dr. Baker managed to recover and revive Jake. |
| 439 | * ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'''s "Battle of Robot Bil" cutscene probably counts as this. The game is a QuirkyWork full of bizarre humour, so it's quite hard to be emotionally prepared for [[spoiler:Klaymen's two allies abruptly getting killed off by the BigBad]]. |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark'' has a pretty nasty one at the finale of the second chapter. [[spoiler:Archdevil Mephistopheles frees himself from servitude to the [[BigBad Valsharess]], kills her, moves out with an army of his own to take over the surface world, and imprisons the player character in Hell.]] |
| 441 | * In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' when you discover the primary enemy is not behind the Luskans and Githyanki who have been chasing you the entire adventure. And when you discover the secret of the Spirit-eater curse in Mask of the Betrayer. |
| 442 | * The final act of ''VideoGame/NieR'' is a nonstop string of whams. [[spoiler:Nier, his friends, and ''every human left'' are actually Replicants! The Shades are the ''real'' humans! The Twins were EvilAllAlong! The Shadowlord is the ''real'' Nier from the first five minutes of the game!]] |
| 443 | ** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' also has a few: |
| 444 | *** Route A: [[spoiler:The aliens were DeadAllAlong, having been killed off by the machine lifeforms centuries ago]]. |
| 445 | *** Route B: [[spoiler:''The humans'' were DeadAllAlong, being extinct long before the aliens ever arrived. The Council of Humanity is an elaborate deception to give the androids on Earth something to fight for.]] |
| 446 | *** Route C: Within the first hour: [[spoiler:[=YoRHa=]'s invasion is routed by a logic virus that destroys the Bunker and all the androids except 9S and 2B. 2B is infected by the virus and mercy killed by A2 after transferring her memories. 9S witnesses this, and goes mad from grief and loss. Finally, a mysterious alien superstructure rises from beneath the city ruins]]. |
| 447 | * ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': |
| 448 | ** The Safe ending. [[spoiler:Junpei pretends he's actually Santa in order to prove that Ace has Prosopagnosia, thereby unable to recognize individual faces, also exposing Ace as Hongou Gentarou, TheHeavy and the game's overarching BigBad, responsible for organizing the first Nonary Game for which Snake and Clover survived, as well as the murders of the three men around the ship.]] |
| 449 | ** The [[GoldenEnding True Ending]]. [[spoiler:Snake talks more about the Nonary Game he survived 9 years ago which killed Santa's sister and Seven remembers his memory as a cop who saved the first players, only to reveal to Junpei that the only person to die was [[LoveInterests Akane Kurashiki]] who's DeadAllAlong. Junpei fully exposes what Ace had done on the ship and reveals that [[BigBad Zero]] - actually Santa, AKA Aoi Kurashiki - had tricked Ace into killing the other organizers. Santa confirms this... [[NotMeThisTime except]] Santa is ''not'' Zero, and that the current Game isn't about revenge but saving Akane who's the game's ''true'' [[TheProtagonist hero]] of the game, who's trapped in a TimeParadox which only [[TheChosenOne Junpei]], who she's linked to, can help her with and has been giving him information ''[[YouShouldntKnowThisAlready from the]] {{Downer Ending}}s.]]'' [[MindScrew Yeah]]... There's a reason the sequel is a MindScrewdriver. |
| 450 | * ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'': |
| 451 | ** The Waking Titan AlternateRealityGame. [[spoiler:The entirety of the ''No Man's Sky'' universe is just a simulation run by an alternate present-day Earth. Priest-Entity Nada is ''absolutely right'' and its hinted the universe is trying to kill him for it.]] |
| 452 | ** From the game itself, [[spoiler:The First Traveler introduces -null- and essentually reveals the exact same thing, as well as the fact the ATLAS is the computer running the simulation and it's dying, eventually taking the multiverse of simulations with it.]] |
| 453 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has a few of these, including the rank 6 ([[spoiler:Travis sympathizes with his opponent, beginning to see that killing people isn't a game... but she kills herself because ''someone'' has to win]]), 5 ([[spoiler:Travis doesn't get to fight his opponent at all - a strange man in a tux drops in, one-shots him, and walks away]]), and 3 ([[spoiler:Thunder Ryu dies]]) battles. But the rank 1 battle is the most shocking of all. [[spoiler:The entire UAA was a scam designed by Sylvia to extort money out of Travis. He goes out to fight Rank 1 anyway, only for the Rank 1 assassin, Dark Star, to be killed by a strange woman - who happens to be Travis's ex Jeane. Who is also Travis's ''sister''.]] |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/NoOneHasToDie'' has three of the six endings. (Steve's doesn't have any major revelations, while the bad endings don't have any revelations at all.) |
| 455 | ** Christina: [[spoiler:Troy lied about starting the fire - it was really Christina. Fenix Corp killed her mother in an experiment, leading her to seek revenge against them and Lionel.]] |
| 456 | ** Lionel: [[spoiler:Fenix Corp's true purpose is to research time travel.]] |
| 457 | ** Troy: [[spoiler:He lied about starting the fire. He's been trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop and is trying to get himself killed so someone else can survive.]] In a potential subversion, it's possible for you to have already learned the reveals in his ending by playing through Christina and Lionel's endings. |
| 458 | * ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'': |
| 459 | ** Day 296 (The Heatwave): [[spoiler:In the middle of an interview, Jeremy Robert Donaldson holds the news studio hostage and publicly berates Advance. After requesting the FeaturelessProtagonist Alex Winston to play a tape from Disrupt, he either shoots himself on air, is gunned down by security, or is arrested. Regardless, he becomes a martyr for the resistance.]] |
| 460 | ** Day 370 (The 20 Week War): [[spoiler:[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Advance]] detonate nukes in 4 foreign cities, and threaten to detonate more unless the world surrenders.]] |
| 461 | ** Day 920 (The Uprising): [[spoiler:[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Disrupt]] launches a terrorist attack on the grand opening of the Peter Clements Memorial Garden. If the player helps them, Disrupt will also take out the news's broadcast tower. Both show that the insurgency group is taking a harder-line stance in opposing Advance.]] |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': Chapter 3 of each character's storyline almost invariably throws a major twist at the character in question, often prompting them to rethink their convictions or question the actions that brought them there. Some notable examples: |
| 463 | ** Ophilia's Path: [[spoiler:Ophilia's adoptive sister Lianna steals the sacred embers from her after having been tricked into thinking doing so could help revive their recently-deceased father.]] |
| 464 | ** Olberic's Path: [[spoiler:Olberic finally tracks down Erhardt, the man who killed his former liege, only to discover that he has reformed and become a town’s guardian, partly to atone for aiding in the fall of Hornburg. When the two of them duel, Olberic spares his life and sets off to find the one who ''really'' masterminded Hornburg's destruction: Werner.]] |
| 465 | ** Primrose's Path: [[spoiler:Primrose reunites with Simeon, a friendly face from her past, only for it to be revealed that he was the leader of the men who murdered her father. Simeon stabs Primrose and leaves her for dead.]] |
| 466 | ** Alfyn's Path: [[spoiler:Alfyn encounters a fellow apothecary named Ogen, only for the two of them to clash since the latter only believes in treating patients he deems worthy of living. Alfyn rejects this philosophy and saves a man Ogen had refused to help, only for the patient to kidnap a local child and go right back to his villainous ways.]] |
| 467 | ** Therion's Path: [[spoiler:The last two Dragonstones end up in the hands of Darius, Therion's former partner who later betrayed him.]] |
| 468 | ** H'aanit's Path is an inversion; her WhamEpisode happens in her Chapter 2. [[spoiler:H'aanit finds Z'aanta in the Spectrewood near Stonegard... [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] by [[ArcVillain Redeye]]'s magic.]] By contrast, her Chapter 3 is more hopeful as she acquires the means to defeat [[spoiler:Redeye]] and [[spoiler:undo Z'aanta's petrification]]. |
| 469 | * ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' has a couple. The most important ones would be when you find out how [[spoiler:sugar]] is made, when you confront the Queen, when you return to one of the zones you've purified, and the entirety of the Room. |
| 470 | * ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': There's a series of "Wham" moments after the Water Dragon dies. First you learn that the dragon was actually the King of the Dragonians. Then Otohime has a vision of Rao being attacked by a monster. You run off to save her, discovering a tunnel leading to the queen's palace from Rao's temple. When you reach the throne room, you discover that [[spoiler:Himiko has been murdered, ''then'' that the Rao you've known all along is actually the Demon Lord Ninetails, who killed the original and replaced her, and you played straight into his hands by retrieving and ''giving him'' the Fox Rods. Finally, after a boss fight with him, he declares that TheBattleDidntCount, and escapes to Oni Island, which is now inaccessible because the Water Dragon, who could break the barrier around the island, and Himiko, who could determine where Oni Island is, are both dead]]. The situation does improve afterwards: [[spoiler:It turns out that Queen Himiko has been conducting a ThanatosGambit all along in order to locate Oni Island, and make it visible until sunset. Otohime becomes the new Water Dragon, allowing her to bridge the gap between the coast and Oni Island, allowing Amaterasu to reach it and put an end to Ninetails. It's also implied that Ammy knew about Himiko's gambit all along]]. |
| 471 | * ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'': The game delivers one with [[spoiler:Kurow's betrayal, and the revelation that Kuni is Akuro's vessel]]. |
| 472 | * The first level of ''VideoGame/OneChance'' already clues you in that the cure you created will wipe out the planet. The second one clues you in on what the rest of the game will be like when [[spoiler:one of your coworkers commits suicide in front of you]]. Days four and five on the other hand will have a few changes depending on whether or not you stay home or go to work: [[spoiler:your wife will be DrivenToSuicide if you go to work]], and if you don't go to work, [[spoiler:an angry coworker driven insane by the deaths of everyone around him will kill your wife and kid]]. |
| 473 | * The story of ''[[VideoGame/Onmyoji2016 Onmyōji]]'' starts out as a tale of an AmnesiacHero who regularly has clients knocking on his door complaining about a certain ''yōkai'' causing trouble, after which he sets out to teach the MonsterOfTheWeek a lesson and make new friends along the way. Then one day [[CrusadingWidow Sakura-no-sei]] comes barging into his monastery trying to kill him for murdering her beloved [[InterspeciesRomance human]] fiancé. [[spoiler:Only, our NiceGuy never did such a horrible thing, silly. It was just a BigBad who ([[AllegedLookalikes allegedly]]) looks like him… and has the same soul as he does… and whose crimes will ''always'' be pinned on the hero no matter what he does. It only goes downhill from there.]] |
| 474 | ** This is dwarfed by episode 19 in which it is revealed that [[spoiler:Yaobikuni is EvilAllAlong]]. |
| 475 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Opoona}}'' for most of the game Landroll seems to be a pretty nice place, besides little signs of corruption and bureaucracy. Once you reach four-star rank your finally able to go to Sanctuary where your parents are recovering, and meet with the planet's leader. At which point he suddenly blasts you both with an energy ball and turns you into {{Stepford Smiler}}s, requiring your missing sister to come to the rescue. Not to mention finding out, at the same time, that the entire upper government is literally under TheCorruption, and people are being ReleasedToElsewhere to empower a sentient ArtifactOfDoom. |
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| 479 | * ''VideoGame/Payday2'', for a game that one can mostly ignore the "plot" for, manages to pull a double whammy in the Reservoir Dogs heist: |
| 480 | ** First, when you accept the contract, [[spoiler:Locke]] patches into your communications on the first planning screen, fully acknowledging that [[spoiler:After the Alaskan incident, you have no real reason to trust him]]. Throughout the entirety of day [[spoiler:2]], [[spoiler:Locke serves as MissionControl, with Bain completely absent - Locke even has lines for if you fail the day.]] At the end of the day, [[spoiler:he mentions that the proverbial shit is about to hit the fan and that Crime.NET could very well fall apart if they don't do something quick]]. |
| 481 | ** Second, on Day [[spoiler:1]], plan A doesn't even get a chance to occur, and [[spoiler:Bain has to remotely hack a security system]]. During this, [[spoiler:Bain notices something off, and remarks about it, but carries on as usual]]. At the end of that day, as you approach the escape point, [[spoiler:Bain's communications start breaking up while he realizes just how close he is to something]]. The entirety of the day finished speech is [[spoiler:Bain telling you that Locke is in fact on the Payday Gang's side before ending with gunshots]]. [[spoiler:At best, Bain, who had PlotArmor from the start of the previous game all the way up to this point, is injured and in police custody. At worst, he's dead.]] |
| 482 | * ''[[VideoGame/Persona2 Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'' has a massive one starting with Mt. Iwato, then going into Mt. Katatsumuri and Caracol. In Mt Iwato, you learn that [[spoiler:the party sans Yukino used to know each other when they were kids, that the Masked Circle is what they called themselves as kids, and Tatsuya's childhood best friend Jun is Joker. At the end of it, you see that ''Nazis are invading Sumaru City''. You rush up Mt Katatsumuri to get to Jun, only for Yukino's LoveInterest to be dead at the top. Picking the wrong choice here will [[KilledOffForReal kill Yukino's ego]]. As you go further, you find out that Jun's memories have been altered heavily, and he's being brainwashed by his father (who's meant to be dead). Then Sumaru City turns into a Mayan spaceship (yes, ''really''), and you get Joker to turn back into Jun, picking up your last party member.]] |
| 483 | * ''VideoGame/Persona3'' performs a hat trick: in October, there's [[spoiler:Shinjiro's death]] and the revelations surrounding him and Ken. In November, not only do the characters realize they've failed to put an end to Tartarus and the Dark Hour, they find that [[spoiler:Ikutsuki was just using them to bring about the end of the world; he nearly sacrifices them all and does murder Mitsuru's father]]. And in December, they learn that [[spoiler:their buddy Ryoji is the avatar of Death, their efforts have ''caused'' the end of the world and there's no way to stop it, and their only options are to wait and watch it happen, or kill Ryoji in order to forget it's coming and live a few more months in ignorance]]. |
| 484 | * ''VideoGame/Persona4'' pulls off quite a few: |
| 485 | ** The first is when Nanako gets kidnapped in November. |
| 486 | ** The second is on December 3, where she apparently dies, and you have to talk down your team, especially an increasingly revenge driven Yosuke, to spare [[spoiler:Namatame]], the man whom they think killed her. Or, you can kill him, but that won't lead to the third revelation… |
| 487 | ** Of all the people in the game, the killer is [[spoiler:Adachi]]! But there's one more… |
| 488 | ** If you manage to lock yourself into the True ending, you discover that [[spoiler:[[TheDogWasTheMastermind everything in the game was set up by the GAS STATION ATTENDANT from the very beginning]], who is none other than the deity Izanami]], the true BigBad and final boss of the game. |
| 489 | * ''VideoGame/Persona5'': |
| 490 | ** Shiho[[spoiler:'s suicide attempt]]. |
| 491 | ** In Madarame's Palace, [[spoiler:it's revealed that Madarame let Yusuke's mother die, just so he could take credit for her work, then adopted him so he could exploit his talents.]] |
| 492 | ** Okumura's Palace, especially the end. Things go the same way they normally do for a Treasure heist... [[spoiler:but as you leave, a masked figure shoots and destroys Okumura's Shadow. This causes the Okumura in reality to die horrifically on live television during his confession press-conference, and the Phantom Thieves being blamed for his death.]] You find out shortly after that [[spoiler:TheConspiracy helped orchestrate the Phantom Thieves' rise to fame so they could frame them for Okumura's murder]]. |
| 493 | ** The events after the 6th Palace, as the flashbacks catch up to reality. At the end of the interrogation, the protagonist has a EurekaMoment [[spoiler:and remembers a few events that throw suspicion on Goro Akechi as TheMole]]. But then [[spoiler:Akechi enters the interrogation room and shoots the protagonist in the head, making it look like a suicide]]. We see all the other thieves reacting to the sad news... but ''then'' [[spoiler:it's revealed that ''they knew all along that Akechi was the traitor'' and the entire 6th heist was secretly a plan to trick him into revealing himself ''and'' fake the protagonist's death. Cue the protagonist, still very much alive, giving a CatSmile from the interrogation room]]. During these events the traitor also [[spoiler:reveals his boss' name]]. |
| 494 | ** At the end of the final dungeon we get TheReveal that [[spoiler:the true BigBad of the story is ''Igor'', or rather than the Igor you know is actually a fake who imprisoned and replaced the real one. He's also a sentient Treasure, the Treasure of ''all Tokyo'' to be exact, and he proceeds to merge Mementos with reality, causing the Phantom Thieves to be erased from existence (until the protagonist rallies their resolve, that is)]]. |
| 495 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'': There are several, some of which have become pretty common in {{RPG}}s since, but one stands out. Midway through the game, you completely fail to stop the Big Bad and a ColonyDrop utterly destroys the setting's primary homeworld, ''killing 90% of humanity.'' |
| 496 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2NewGenesis'', Chapter 5: [[spoiler:Manon leaves to confront the GreaterScopeVillain, Zephetto, upon the floating "island" of Lacele. The player character and Aina learn that Meteorn such as the PC and Manon were created alongside the destructive DOLLS, who were unleashed upon Halpha and pitted against one another as an experiment to create "Resurgent ARKS", supersoldiers that would restore [[VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2 the ARKS of eld]] to contend with a long-forgetten threat known as the "Starless", EldritchAbomination[=s=] responsible for the destruction of the original ARKS fleet.]] |
| 497 | * ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' contains quite a few of these lovely little moments, usually when some plot-critical detail gets broken to you. The encounter with Ravel Puzzlewell is probably the best of the considerable lot. Doubly applies here because after this point, the game setting, pace and style changes so completely that, on returning the Sigil, it doesn't seem the same. |
| 498 | * ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' contains a Wham Level, which replaces the pristine test chambers with the dusty, decaying backstage, and the AI that was previously at least somewhat helpful is now just plain out to get you. |
| 499 | * ''VideoGame/Portal2'': |
| 500 | ** "The Courtesy Call": [=GLaDOS=] wakes up ([[TrailersAlwaysSpoil not that you knew that already]]), [[spoiler:Wheatley]] dies, and Chell's thrown back in the DeathCourse. |
| 501 | ** "The Escape": More running around behind the scenes, which ends with Chell [[spoiler:deposing [=GLaDOS=] by hitting the Stalemate Resolution Button and sticking the (now-recovered) Wheatley in charge. [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle He then]] [[FaceHeelTurn goes mad]], turns [=GLaDOS=] into a [[ForcedTransformation potato battery]] and punches you both into a pit after one too many whacks to the BerserkButton.]] |
| 502 | ** "The Reunion": [[spoiler:We wander through the history of Aperture and discover [[BrainUploading GLaDOS used to be human]].]] |
| 503 | ** "[[ThisIsThePartWhere The Part Where...]] [[spoiler:He Kills You]]": The final boss fight. [[spoiler:After Chell beats him and goes to put [=GLaDOS=] back in charge, it's revealed Wheatley [[CrazyPrepared booby trapped the Stalemate Resolution Button.]] [[{{Determinator}} Chell survives]], and beats him once and for all by ''shooting a portal on the moon and'' ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome sending him to space.]]'' [=GLaDOS=] saves your life, then deletes her CharacterDevelopment... and [[SubvertedTrope lets you]] [[MurderIsTheBestSolution go anyways.]]]] ''Phew.'' |
| 504 | * ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'' has no less than the biggest whams in the prequel trilogy, if not the entire series: [[spoiler:Emmy was a mole for Targent all along, monitoring Layton and Luke's progress. Descole is ''Layton's brother'', "Hershel" is ''his'' real name, which he gave to his brother when the Laytons came to adopt him, and their father is ''Leon Bronev, the leader of Targent'']]. '''''Holy shit'''''. |
| 505 | * Spinoff game ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' gets two back-to-back. [[spoiler:First in chapter 3's climax, Layton himself is transformed into a gold statue by the Great Witch Bezella, leading Maya Fey to be implicated of magic. At the conclusion of the ensuing trial, she's found innocent, but Espella Cantabella confesses to being Bezella to put an end to the witch trials; Maya takes it upon herself to free Espella from the contraption, and she is executed by fire in Espella's stead.]] |
| 506 | * The final level, Solitar, from ''VideoGame/PropCycle'' changes the nature of the setting. The rest of the game looks fantasy, but the final level shows modern technology, and the planet actually appears to be AfterTheEnd following some catastrophe that destroyed the planet. |
| 507 | * ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': |
| 508 | ** The Web Of Intrigue videos go from interesting background to holy-shit-mindfuckery in a single sentence: "Tell me about PARIAH." |
| 509 | ** The reveal that Alex Mercer [[spoiler:not only released Blacklight, but also really ''did'' die. You're just the virus animating his corpse and using his memories]]. |
| 510 | * Tenshi No Saigo from ''VideoGame/ProjectNimbus''. |
| 511 | * ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'' pulls this off during one of the final battles against Cyrus. "Gotta stop the bad guy from taking over/destroying the universe...Eh, wait? Did he just awaken [[EldritchAbomination an inter-dimensional]] ''[[EldritchAbomination god (IE: Giratina)]]''?! And is now going into an [[AlienGeometries alternate-universe where the laws of physics are completely screwed-up?]] [[OhCrap Damn…]]" |
| 512 | ** Not to mention the three lakes arc. "Oh, that organization with the silly dress code is up to no good? No worries, just point me in the direction of their secret base and I'll go take care of them after this next gym--wait, what was that tremor just now? Sweet mother of mercy, did they just ''blow up Lake Valor?''" At that point, the game proceeds to [[PlayerPunch repeatedly sock you in the gut]] as you try and fail to protect the Lake Trio. ''Then'' you learn why Cyrus went after them in the first place. Compared to these guys, Team Rocket was a bunch of {{Rule Abiding Rebel}}s. |
| 513 | ** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' pull this off as well. Remember Silver? Your rival? Guess what...[[spoiler:he's Giovanni's son]]. And how do you figure that out? [[spoiler:You travel back in time and fight him, after which he may or may not have committed suicide.]] |
| 514 | ** And in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', when everything was new. A lot of people went HeroicBSOD when they discovered that Giovanni was the last Gym Leader. |
| 515 | ** Also back in the first generation, though this is now standard knowledge amongst even the most casual of fans, the fact that there is a final boss ''beyond'' the Elite Four, and that it's ''your [[TheRival Rival]]'', likely caused some jaws to drop. |
| 516 | ** Remember how the Elite Four and championship run usually goes in these games? Well it doesn't go so smoothly in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. You see, after defeating the Elite Four, you then go to take on the champion, Alder...who has already lost to the now champion N. Then a ''gigantic goddamn castle rises out of the ground.'' Then his version's legendary shows up to take you on. Just then, yours awakens, forcing you to catch it. After this, you battle and defeat N. Story over? Not quite. Then Ghestis shows up and tells N that he'd been a tool his entire life for just the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the legend and basically throws him out. Then Ghestis battles you, after which he disappears and N flies away with his dragon. |
| 517 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has a {{Wham Episode}} in the form of the second visit to the Aether Foundation. The first visit had a Wham Moment where the first Ultra Beast to show up, Nihilego, shows up, but doesn't compare to the second visit. In the second visit, you find out about Lusamine's true colors as an abusive parent to Lillie ''and'' Gladion, Team Skull, the built-up enemies to Aether Foundation, are in their plan too, and the illegal experimentation that is committed in Aether Foundation. Lusamine also manages to almost ''kill'' Nebby, Lillie's Cosmog, in a successful attempt to open the Ultra Wormhole, where the Ultra Beasts come from. At this moment, it opens, releasing Ultra Beasts on every island, leading up to the post-game quest of catching them. |
| 518 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Of Time/Darkness/Sky'' has a rather (in)famous one. The game starts off with you mysteriously becoming a Pokémon and deciding to help your new friends rescue other Pokémon and arrest small-time crocks. And then you find out that the God Of Time is going insane, you're from the future, one of the criminals you're trying to arrest is your former partner back when you were human...Oh, and an unspeakable evil wants to KILL you so that he can plunge the world into eternal darkness. |
| 519 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' has several moments. |
| 520 | ** Chapter five is one ''huge'' WhamEpisode. In summary, the major points are: |
| 521 | *** Munna is a DecoyDamsel and sent out that distress call at the beginning of the game to lure you into a trap so she and her friends (Among them the Pururgly and Toxicroak from chapter three who seemed like random crooks) could get rid of you. |
| 522 | *** That vicious Hydreigon is the cause of the world's imbalances. Except not really. The vision of him that Munna showed you was fake, and everything she told you about him was a lie. He's actually one heck of a NiceGuy, is the one who called you into the world, and most importantly, ''is not a Pokemon''; in actuality being the physical form of the Voice of Life, a nature spirit who embodies the world's will to survive and acts as one of its guardians. He proves his goodness by saving you from the villains in his first appearance in the flesh, then later goes out of his way to help rescue your partner after they get captured by the same bunch. |
| 523 | *** Courtesy of an ExpositionBreak from the aforementioned character, you learn that your purpose is to destroy the [[EldritchAbomination Bittercold]] (Which embodies the negative emotions of all Pokemon and ''will'' destroy the world if nothing is done about it), that you're actually the last of ''multiple'' humans called into the world, and that said humans were all hunted down by Munna and her gang, who are working with Kyurem to ensure that the end of the world comes to pass as he's foreseen by eliminating any threats to the Bittercold's existence (Humans being the only ones who can even get near it). |
| 524 | ** The final chapter opens with another one, where a surprise appearance from Kyurem results in Hydreigon [[LiterallyShatteredLives being frozen and]] ''[[LiterallyShatteredLives smashed to pieces]]'' and you being stomped senseless, with only your partner's pleas for mercy sparing you from demise. He then proceeds to state that YouCantFightFate, pointing out that those mysterious lights in the sky from earlier were the humans who had attempted to do so but failed, and that while he'll permit the existence of one last human, he'll devote every resource he has to destroying both of you if you continue in your efforts to change the world's fate. |
| 525 | ** The ending throws one last one in, [[spoiler:with Hydreigon (who turns out to be immortal) revealing that you have to leave your friends behind and return to your world, ''and all their memories of you will be gone'' once you depart for home. However, to both his and your surprise, they manage to defy the laws of the world, as they still remember you]]. |
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| 529 | * ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' has an in-universe example. At one point Stocke randomly pulls his party off the beaten track to fight off someone they all know has no business being this side of the continent, thus rescuing somebody they don't even know yet, and prompting Stocke to dump two-thirds of the plot's worth of [[TheReveal reveals]] on them all before telling them he won't remember any of it the next time they meet and vanishing into thin air. From Stocke's (and therefore the player's) perspective, he found all this information out in due course after much legwork and foreshadowing, but when he jumped back in time to head off a ButterflyOfDoom, dispensing such future information was the only way to make sure everyone involved would cooperate. |
| 530 | ** In the more standard meaning of the trope, the end of the Alternate History. In very swift succession, we learn that a) [[spoiler:Stocke is really Prince Ernst with his memories altered, and when Eruca said she might need his help for the ritual she meant she might need to [[TargetedHumanSacrifice rip out his soul to stop the world from ending]]]]; b) the wielder of the Black Chronicle is [[spoiler:[[TricksterMentor Heiss]], who is also [[LukeIAmYourFather Stocke's uncle]] and the previous sacrifice]]; and c) said BigBad's real goal is to [[spoiler:''save Stocke's life'', then recruit him to help bring about the end of the world]]. |
| 531 | * ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'' has multiple ones, usually [[MoodWhiplash dispelling any pretenses that the game is going to be a happy-go-lucky adventure story]]. |
| 532 | ** The first (and therefore, most prominent) is "To Ascend", the final quest of chapter 3. Up until that point, the story reads like a fairly typical HeroicFantasy adventure story, with a few hints of a greater, overarching plot and only a few very serious moments. You'll probably think that it'll maintain the fairly carefree, happy-go-lucky vibe the heroes have going on. Well, at least, until [[spoiler:[[SacrificialLamb Metzino]] ''[[MoodWhiplash gets thrown off the Faithall Tower]]'', you fight your first boss fight with a human character (who dies bloodily), and the entire mess ends in a giant DownerEnding revealing that the characters were {{Unwitting Pawn}}s the whole chapter and their efforts were meaningless]]. It's also immediately followed by interlude 3, which is filled to the brim with TearJerker. |
| 533 | ** The second is interlude 4, the resolution of Dehl's backstory that delivers on tons of foreshadowing dropped throughout the game. It starts off innocuously enough, with peaceful humans arriving on Dehl's island, and Dehl then going off to find his father. [[spoiler:In the process, he discovers his father's secret 'laboratory', which is ''swathed in blood and has bloody Sikohlon corpses chained to the walls''. Dehl's father rambles about how he killed everyone to try and isolate a cure for the Blue Plague, and Dehl is just barely able to come out alive through the manifestation of his pseudo-magic powers -- which causes his father to be graphically impaled by a sword and die. Then Dehl makes it to the mainland and accidentally infects Skint with the Blue Plague, who then causes an outbreak when he is stabbed InTheBack, since the Plague is spread by bloodshed.]] |
| 534 | ** Finally, there is chapter 6, wherein [[spoiler:the entire plot goes OffTheRails as the Watchers are murdered, ten years pass in the blink of an eye for the characters, and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the world ends]].]] It happens very late in the story, though. |
| 535 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': |
| 536 | ** "A Fisher of Men" starts innocently enough, with Arthur taking Jack fishing at Abigail's request... And then a pair of well-dressed men ride up, and you meet two people who will be important not just in this game, [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption but in another one]]. |
| 537 | -->'''Agent Milton:''' What a fine young man... and in such complex circumstances. Arthur, isn't it? Arthur Morgan? ''(his partner cocks his gun)'' |
| 538 | -->'''Arthur:''' Who are you? |
| 539 | -->'''Agent Milton:''' Yes, Arthur Morgan, Van der Linde's most trusted associate. You've read the files, typical case... orphan street kid seduced by that maniac's silver tongue and matures into a degenerate murderer. [[BigBad Agent Milton]]. ''(indicates his partner)'' [[EarlyBirdCameo Agent Ross]]. |
| 540 | ** The last two missions in Chapter 3, "A Short Walk in a Pretty Town" and "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern". While Arthur, Micah, Bill, and Sean are on their way to the saloon in Rhodes for a routine job, the Grays ambush them and Sean is shot dead by a sniper. The Grays finally figured out the gang's been [[PlayingBothSides playing both them and the Braithwaites]], and it's revealed in the next mission that the Braithwaites found out as well, as they managed to kidnap Jack. This leads the gang to raid Braithwaite Manor to get Jack back, [[YouAreTooLate only to find out he's already been sent off to Angelo Bronte]], [[TheDon the most powerful man in Saint Denis]]. By the end of the chapter, the major players for both families are dead and Braithewaite Manor is burned down, [[AllForNothing leaving the gang's plan to rob the families for their gold completely in vain]]. The gang is also forced to move camp once again in order to evade the Pinkertons and to search for Jack in Saint Denis. |
| 541 | ** The final mission in Chapter 4, "Banking, The Old American Art". The gang's "final job" to rob the bank in Saint Denis turns into a complete disaster, with the Pinkertons already knowing the gang's plan. Hosea is captured and killed by Milton, John is arrested, and Lenny is unceremoniously gunned down during the escape. With their backs to the wall, the survivors of the heist are forced to flee on a boat leaving the country as the rest of the gang goes into hiding. [[DarkestHour Suffice to say, this mission marks the true beginning of the end for the gang]]. |
| 542 | ** "A Fork in the Road". While heading to meet Sadie in Saint Denis to discuss busting John out of prison, Arthur collapses in a violent coughing fit. He's barely able to make it to a doctor, [[IncurableCoughOfDeath coughing up blood]] on the way there, and finds out he has tuberculosis, [[YourDaysAreNumbered a disease which, while easily treatable today, was a death sentence during the time period this game is set in]]. Even worse, Arthur realizes he contracted it [[LaserGuidedKarma from one beating up one of Strauss's debtors]] near the beginning of the game. |
| 543 | ** Fittingly, "Red Dead Redemption". Milton is killed by Abigail, and it's revealed Micah is the traitor. The gang finally disintegrates as their infighting hits its breaking point due to Arthur confronting Micah as well as a wounded John staggering back to camp, accusing Dutch of leaving him for dead. Before the remnants of the gang can gun down Arthur and John, Ross and the Pinkertons finally raid Beaver Hollow in full force, which forces everyone to flee. Dutch and Micah go into hiding, Arthur either succumbs to his wounds and tuberculosis or gets killed by Micah, and John successfully escapes and soon reunites with Abigail and Jack. [[TimeSkip Eight years later]], [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent we play as John]], [[PlayableEpilogue who is now trying to settle down with his family]]. |
| 544 | ** The final mission, "American Venom". Having built his ranch at Beecher's Hope with Charles and Uncle's help, invited Jack and Abigail there, and proposed to Abigail, [[HopeSpot John seems ready to leave the outlaw life behind]]... Then Sadie tells John she has a lead on Micah's location. Despite Abigail's protests, he joins Sadie and Charles and tracks Micah to his hideout on Mount Hagen; John is forced to ascend alone after they're wounded and, [[OneManArmy after blasting his way through Micah's entire gang]], corners him outside his cabin. Sadie jumps Micah, only to be taken hostage as ''Dutch'' of all people comes outside and points his gun at John, leading to a MexicanStandoff between the three men until Dutch, finally realizing that Micah's been playing him this entire time, [[EnemyMine helps John gun him down]] [[VillainExitStageLeft and leaves without another word]]. John then finds a ''massive'' amount of money and gold inside the cabin, most of which could only have come from the botched ferry robbery in Blackwater. John decides to take it, returns home, and finally marries Abigail, using a portion of the money to pay off the loans he took to build the ranch. As Sadie and Charles leave the country to live quieter lives, Ross, now working for what will eventually become the FBI, learns of Micah's death and tracks John to Beecher's Hope, setting the stage for the first game. |
| 545 | * From ''VideoGame/{{RefleX}}'': |
| 546 | ** Area 4. So you just finished defeating Cancer, when a BossWarningSiren comes out of nowhere and a WaveMotionGun finishes off Cancer, causing it to fall to the Moon. In the process, the Valkyness lunar base is destroyed offscreen. Cue [[KnightOfCerebus ZODIAC Virgo]]'s appearance and the invasion by the Raiwat army. This forces a truce between [[LaResistance Valkyness]] and the Global Unified Army in order to stop the bigger threat. |
| 547 | ** Area 7, where ZODIAC Virgo suddenly [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ravages]] the Phoenix, [[HeroKiller killing the pilot]]. Then it turns out the Phoenix is actually another ZODIAC, Ophiuchus, which then activates its EleventhHourSuperpower. |
| 548 | * How about ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''? The end of chapter 4-1 reveals Wesker is alive and acting as the BigBad of the game. Oh, and chapter 5-3 reveals that the black cloak figure is [[spoiler:a BrainwashedAndCrazy Jill Valentine]]. |
| 549 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' reveals that Umbrella's choice cuts of IdiotBall came from curve balls thrown by The Family, RE's version of TheIlluminati. What's worse, The Family has caused multiple genocides to further their plans, and Umbrella had to throw TheVirus on their own CompanyTown to keep their plans for godhood and world domination safe from Family moles. |
| 550 | * ''VideoGame/{{Resonance}}'': Alright! Our heroes have made it to the vault at last, Bennet (the guy most likely to be the traitor) is tied up and Anna is about to make the choice that'll possibly decide the fate of humanity.[[spoiler:..except she won't! It turns out most of the clues leading to Bennet were {{Red Herring}}s set up by the real traitor, who turns out to be Ed, the guy you've been rooting for since the beginning of the game, who proceeds to shoot and kill Anna before she can even make the choice.]] Not only that, but [[spoiler:he was also in cahoots with a group called the Eleven Foundation, who seek to use the resonance devices as a means to cause explosions that would be mistaken for terrorists attacks, so that the government would instate their SinisterSurveillance supercomputer Antevorta.]] And just when you think the game ran out of whammies, [[spoiler:Ed betrays them when he realizes what they were really up to and now seeks to use the resonance devices one last time to destroy the Antevorta supercomputer... which is located ''in a hospital''. Remember when he said he wanted resonance to be used for the ''benefit'' of mankind?]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality So many morals just took a dive out a ninety-nine-storey window!]] |
| 551 | * ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'': |
| 552 | ** One of the earliest wham episodes in the games history was not a quest at all but a well-hidden sidequest, "The Curse of Zaros," released in 2005, which has you traveling the world with an artifact that allows you to see invisible ghosts and tracking down the members of a group of spirits all suffering from a mysterious curse. These characters are among the first to explicitly state a whole mess of things that had only ever been at best implied in earlier content, including the details of the story of the eponymous god and the true backstory of the setting's apparent {{Satan}}-figure Zamorak. |
| 553 | ** 2008's quest "While Guthix Sleeps" saw the return of NotSoHarmless villain Lucien from a much earlier quest, the full reveal of the Elder Artifacts, which have been the game's main {{Mac Guffin}}s ever since, and the [[PlayerPunch shocking death]] of a group of popular supporting characters from throughout the game. |
| 554 | ** 2013's "The World Wakes" ends with [[KillTheGod the death]] of the god of balance Guthix, which ended his Edicts that prevented the other Gods from entering Gielinor. This ended the Fifth Age, and began the Sixth age. |
| 555 | ** 2016's "Children of Mah" features such whams as [[spoiler:the player traveling back in time and actually getting to personally witness the war between Zamorak and Zaros described in the aforementioned "Curse of Zaros;" the permanent rejuvenation and [[HazyFeelTurn semi-redemption]] of the Mahjarrat and them bowing out of the game's BigBadEnsemble; and the death of the eponymous Mah, proving that even ''[[GodOfGods Elder Gods]]'' can be destroyed]]. |
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| 559 | * What happens after you defeat Rouge or lose to him in ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'' and when you return to Magic Kingdom, the entire region is in ruins and you learn that you were just an experiment needed to master all magic so you can defeat the Lord of Hell. It gets worse though in the ending as you were only needed to stall for time so Hell can be sealed in stasis once more, a Double WhamEpisode, although it states in the supplemental material that Rouge was saved at the last minute though. |
| 560 | ** If you lost to Rouge it becomes a Triple WhamEpisode. |
| 561 | * Each game in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series has at least one Wham Episode. |
| 562 | ** ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'': The ending cutscene, "Saints and Martyrs", features the Playa learning that everything he had done was to help a local politician, Richard Hughes, gain power over the city by wiping out the rival gangs, then eliminating his competition. Just as Hughes is about to shoot the Playa, though, the yacht they are aboard explodes... |
| 563 | ** ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'': |
| 564 | *** "Bleeding Out": Jyunichi, a lieutenant in the Ronin, trap Johnny Gat's girlfriend, Aisha, and try to lure Gat and the Boss into an ambush. When Aisha tries to warn them of the trap, Jyunichi kills her on the spot. |
| 565 | *** "Red Asphalt": As revenge against the Saints for scarring their boss Maero, the Brotherhood kidnap Carlos, the Saints lieutenant who helped the Boss escape prison. Carlos ends up so gravely injured from being dragged throughout the streets chained to a truck that the Boss has no choice but to put him out of his misery. |
| 566 | *** "Picking a Fight": With the other gangs wiped out, Ultor makes its move on the Saints, the only gang left in Stilwater, by attacking the Boss at a club. |
| 567 | *** "Revelation": After discovering that Julius set him up to be killed (see the ''Saints Row 1'' example above), the Boss goes to confront him, only for them both to be ambushed by Ultor's Masako forces. After they make their escape, the Boss shoots Julius in the chest. Julius claims he tried to have the Boss killed five years ago because the Saints were becoming no better than the gangs they ran out - and the Boss reacts in such a way that confirms Julius' fears. The bitter argument between the two ends with a bullet to Julius's head. |
| 568 | ** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'': |
| 569 | *** "I'm Free - Free Falling": The Boss and Shaundi are kidnapped by the Syndicate and, when they refuse to kowtow to their captors, make a daring midair escape. In the resulting scuffle, though, Johnny Gat dies. |
| 570 | *** "Three Way": STAG begins an all-out assault on the Saints. In the melee, the Boss is faced with a SadisticChoice: go after Kia, who has kidnapped some Saints members and plans to frame them in the destruction of a city monument; or go after Killbane, who is preparing to make an escape at the airport. |
| 571 | *** "STAG Film": If the Boss goes after Killbane, Shaundi and Viola die in a city bombing. STAG responds to the destruction of a massive city statue by mobilizing a flying airship to completely decimate the city. |
| 572 | ** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'': "The Real World": after escaping from the virtual simulation they were trapped in, then escaping the Zin's mothership, the Boss, along with Kinzie and Creator/KeithDavid, witness the destruction of the earth. |
| 573 | *** "A Game of Clones" and "Welcome Back": Aggressive enemies flood the Steelport simulation. Kinzie determines that these enemies (consisting of Vice Kings, Ronin, Brotherhood, and Morningstar mooks) are all spawning from someone's memories, who is finally determined to be Johnny Gat. Turns out, he never died! Zinyak just kidnapped him from Loren's plane because he thought Gat would be a threat to his conquest of Earth. |
| 574 | * ''VideoGame/{{Sam and Max|FreelancePolice}}'' season one had the last-but-one episode reveal the BigBad of the season, the magician Hugh Bliss. This being a Sam and Max game, we can expect {{mindscrew}}s, but still. |
| 575 | ** Second season also does it well, revealing that an antagonist so vile they serve as upper management to Satan himself is someone who's been around since Season 1 Episode 1. Or rather, a group of three: The Soda Poppers. |
| 576 | ** Every episode ending in season 3. The skeleton, Sam discovering Max brainless. Suddenly a certain futurevision at Mama Boscos lab makes sense. |
| 577 | * ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': |
| 578 | ** Issue #5: Players finally get to venture beyond the Fog and into the [[DarkWorld Red Sargassum Dream]], a twisted replica of Kingsmouth created by the [[EldritchAbomination Dreamers]] and populated entirely by [[MysticalPlague Filth]]-infected duplicates of the townsfolk. The reason for this? Because everyone in town has been infected by an airborne strain of the Filth contained in the Fog, and though it's a slow-progressing variant, it's made abundantly clear that the people of Kingsmouth ''will'' eventually succumb to their infections: everyone you've met in the Solomon Island arc is doomed to become a Filth monster, ''[[PlayerPunch and there's nothing you can do to stop it]].'' |
| 579 | ** Issue #7: The mysterious Emma Smith reappears, and it's revealed that she's apparently TheChosenOne for Gaia; for good measure, the BigBad is revealed in the form of [[HumanoidAbomination Lilith]], and the Filth has begun to infect Agartha. |
| 580 | ** Issue #9: After an entire game and eight DLC issues worth of build-up, players finally get to visit Tokyo: among other things, it's revealed that the game's tutorial is only possible is only possible due to the repeated MindRape of Sarah, the girl you played as in said tutorial, and for future players to continue learning about the Tokyo Incident, she has to stay down in the sewers and suffer. Also, the Filth seemingly acquires a voice of its own in the form of the [[MouthOfSauron Black Signal]], the lore entries making it abundantly clear that the Buzzing are no longer alone in their ability to contact the player. |
| 581 | ** Issue #10: The Dream Palace grants players an unexpected look into the mind of the suicide bomber who caused the Tokyo Incident - namely [[WasOnceAMan John, AKA the Black Signal]] - and it's revealed that the Morninglight were in cahoots with Lilith. For good measure, John ends the issue by [[EnemyMine agreeing to open the way to Orochi Tower for you]]... |
| 582 | ** Issue #11 brings the Tokyo arc to an end with a massive shocker: players launch a full-scale attack on [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Orochi Tower]] and finally confront Lilith, who explains her backstory and her mission to [[HijackingCthulhu seize control of the Dreamers]]; then, just when it looks as though she might be willing to team up with you and cleanse the Filth from Tokyo, John turns traitor and summons the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Nephilim]], who swoop in and carry Lilith away. On the plus side, the Nephilim imbue you with new powers; on the downside, John is freed from his EpiphanicPrison and can now plague the world at will, the only person who might have a plan to stop the Filth is gone, and Lilith's husband [[FallenAngel Samael]] is so enraged at the role you played in his wife's capture that he has you framed as one of the Tokyo Bombers. Back at home, Dragon players discover that the Child has matured into a teenager, Bong Cha has been mindwiped and dismissed, and [[SuccessThroughInsanity Daimon Kiyota]] has taken her place, signifying a massive change in approach for the Dragon. Meanwhile, Templar and Illuminati players return home to a very frosty reception: the Templar Old Guard have unleashed Pit and Pendulum to punish Sonnac for not anticipating the Dragon's movements, while also warning the player that the Old Guard do ''not'' like the player's sudden rise through the ranks; similarly, Illuminati [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Talking Heads]] are very disappointed in Geary and the Illuminati players, and given that their failure in Egypt is still being held against them, its clear that they're now on dangerously thin ice. |
| 583 | ** Issue #15 introduces the Swarm, a group of Bee-imbued agents who've turned renegade against the factions, and are looking to secretly recruit the players. Additionally, you finally discover what the Hive really is: it's a prison for those of Gaia's Chosen who don't align with a faction and the Swarm claims that it's directly maintained by the factions. As if the realization that the players could have ended up here if they'd turned down the recruitment offers, it's also noted that the player characters are "one bad day" away from being imprisoned there themselves. |
| 584 | ** "The Seven Silences." Somehow, a Bee-imbued agent manages the impossible task of committing suicide, prompting the players to investigate further; it turns out that the agent in question is none other than Lorraine from ''VideoGame/ThePark,'' having been press-ganged and forcibly implanted with a Bee by the Council of Venice. More disturbingly, a confrontation with Lorrane's spirit reveals that Gaia is ''taking'' something from the players in exchange for the powers she grants them. And in the end, players are forced to reassemble Lorraine's Bee and [[UnwantedRevival return her to life]], forcing her back into her miserable existence all over again. |
| 585 | * ''Videogame/ShadowrunReturns'' In Dragonfall, the player spends much of the story securing a large payment for a premium information broker by the name of Alice, in order to understand the status and defenses of the supposedly dead dragon Feuerschwinge. When they finally get the money together and buy Alice's information, the immediate aftermath is a massive Wham Episode. [[TheDragon Audran]] leads a group of paramilitary assassins to destroy the player, their allies, and the entire neighborhood they live in. Though they ultimately fail, [[MissionControl Amsel]], Kami, and dozens of unnamed civilians die in the process. Alice's information? Feuerschwinge is guarded by [[AIIsACrapshoot APEX]], an experimental AI with almost unlimited powers within CyberSpace. But it's not until the party confronts APEX soon afterward, choosing either to kill it or set it free, that the big wham comes: [[FallenHero Adrian Vauclair is not Feuerschwinge's prisoner.]] [[KnightTemplar Quite the opposite, in fact.]] |
| 586 | * ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': The fact that [[spoiler:James had killed Mary all along and the letter was just a hallucination]]? Dang. |
| 587 | * The [[TwistEnding Trick Twist]] in ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'' definitely qualifies. Not only do you get the [[WhamEpisode Wham Moment]] of having been ''Cheryl'' in the psychiatrist's office, but that's coupled with the fact that you then realize that everything you encountered on the way there was something ''she actually experienced''! Climax Studios earned its name with that one. |
| 588 | * ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': Occurs repeatedly. |
| 589 | ** While flying undercover in the heart of [[TheEmpire Valua]], the giant arcwhale Rhaknam shows up. The whale in question is Captain Drachma's mortal enemy, so you go pursue him. After ''finally'' using the giant Harpoon Cannon attached to your prow ''as an actual harpoon,'' [[spoiler:a fleet of Valuan ships light your ship on fire, forcing you to abandon it...but Drachma stays behind. The enemy fleet then ''fires on your lifeboats'' causing your party to be split up and marooned in two separate locations without any form of transport]]. |
| 590 | ** After you journey to the kingdom of Yafutoma, delving into Mount Kazai, and recovering the Blue Moon Crystal, [[spoiler:the Valuans invade and ''take over your ship'', forcing you to use the imperial escape pod to journey to a remote island where the banished Prince is leading the local pirate horde. After recruiting them, you spend several hours fighting the ''entire Valuan fleet'' with a severe numerical and technological disadvantage before you can steal your ship back]]. |
| 591 | ** You've collected all five of the Moon Crystals! Now all you have to do is head back to Fina's home, and you win! [[spoiler:Actually, the Valuans have discovered where your secret base is, and in the middle of the night they send a strike team led by Ramirez to ''burn down your base'' and he successfully takes ''all of the moon crystals'' from you at the same time. And there's a ''sixth'' Moon Crystal, ''and it's Fina's (and Ramirez's) life force.'']] |
| 592 | *** Shortly thereafter, Fina's elders reveal [[spoiler:that ''they'' are the ones who caused the Rains of Destruction; they called them down with the ''sixth'' Gigas, Zelos, who is sealed in the sunken continent of Soltis and can only be released by all six Moon Crystals. The entire reason behind Fina's quest was to let them call down the Rains again]]. Fina didn't know about this, but Ramirez did, which led him to [[spoiler:break into the Elders' chambers ''right after they reveal this to you'' to ''kill their leader'' and take his Moon Crystal. Valua now has all six Crystals and have just finished constructing an elevator that leads to Zelos' resting place]]. |
| 593 | *** Now you have to stop Ramirez and Galcian from [[spoiler:reviving Zelos and raising Soltis]] so you head back to Dangral Island for a second run through the Valuan base. Once you catch up to them, [[spoiler:'''''you're too late.''''' Zelos is revived, Soltis is raised, you barely escape with your lives, Galcian puts up an unbreakable barrier around his new personal continent, and ''Valua gets '''completely annihilated''''' by the Rains of Destruction]]. This is the ''one'' time in the game where [[{{Determinator}} Vyse]] ''can't figure out how to proceed.'' |
| 594 | *** It's worth noting that all of the events between collecting the five crystals and this bullet point happen within *a single hour* of game time. There's only one dungeon in this part of the game, and it's a dungeon *you've already gone through*. |
| 595 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' has [[BigBad Clockwerk]] killed for good, Bentley crippled, Murray leaving the team, and Sly in apparent custody (although he quickly escapes). |
| 596 | ** In [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime the fourth game]], Bentley eavesdrops on one villain, the Black Knight. He mentions something about Bentley foolishly allowing him to take the plans to the time travel machine, which puts Bentley on edge. Then you reach another room, and you see somebody appear from the robotic suit of the Black Knight. It's ''Penelope'', who is not only Bentley's dutiful lab partner and love interest, '''but also a valued member of the gang assembled in the last game, who helped Sly on his biggest heist'''. And she's sold the team out to the game's villain because she felt inferior, is [[GreenEyedMonster murderously jealous of Sly]], and is a GoldDigger with desires to TakeOverTheWorld. [[HeroicBSOD Bentley takes it about as well as expected.]] To make it worse, Penelope's disappearance is one of the driving factors behind the journey, and Bentley has been extremely worried for her most of the time. |
| 597 | * ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' has these throughout the last few episodes of the first half and THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF OF THE GAME: |
| 598 | ** Part One, Chapter Eight -- "Holy Quarter of Betrayal": Just before Elh and Red can perform the Rite of Forfeit to seal away Lares, it's revealed that the ceremony [[spoiler:involves sacrificing the life of the one chosen by the medallion, thus meaning that Elh would have to sacrifice Red's life to seal away Lares. Before everything else can be cleared up, Bruno attacks the heroes in order to steal the medallion away from them, with Elh staying behind and allowing herself to be captured so that Red and Béluga can escape.]] |
| 599 | ** Part One, Chapter Nine -- "Hero, and Fool": [[spoiler:It's revealed that the medallion bestowed eternal youth upon Elh and Béluga so that they would be available to perform the Rite of Forfeit when needed, and that neither of them have aged in the three hundred years since then. Red, Chocolat and Béluga team up and successfully rescue Elh, but Bruno obtains the medallion despite the heroes' efforts and [[EveryoneHasStandards Opéra's]] misdirection. Worse still, he performs the Rite of Forfeit to ''fully awaken'' Lares rather than put it to rest, seemingly draining Red dry of his life force and killing him in the process.]] |
| 600 | ** Part One, Final Chapter -- "Final Solution": [[spoiler:Red somehow completely survives the Rite of Forfeit and the heroes set off to infiltrates Lares and defeat Bruno. It's revealed that Red also has the power to transform into ''a human'' after he sees Bruno attack Elh.]] |
| 601 | ** Part Two, Chapter One -- "Rondo of Black and White": [[spoiler:Lares has been completely reawakened alongside another MechanicalAbomination known as Lemures thanks to the work of Nero and Blanck, two other human-like beings who introduce themselves by destroying a section of Pharaoh. Their confrontation with Red reveals has them reveal to him that the three of them are "hybrids", and ends with them fiercely overpowering Red, crippling the Dahak in the process.]] |
| 602 | ** Part Two, Chapter Two -- "Fragments of Time": It's revealed that [[spoiler:Merveille and another man created Red as one of the hybrids alongside Nero and Blanck for the purposes of controlling Titano-Machina like Lares and Lemures, with Red being a failure of the project and having his memory wiped of his past. Likewise, it's revealed that Red's greatest fear is turning on his loved ones and hurting them, as symbolized by Nero and Blanck's destructive rampages.]] |
| 603 | ** Part Two, Chapter Three -- "Like Mother and Child": [[spoiler:Merveille reveals the name of the man she worked with-- Baion, the "original" hybrid-- and how he, Nero and Blanck plan to destroy the world. She also reveals his place of origin is the planet hidden below the volatile Plasma Cloud Sea-- [[EarthAllAlong Earth]].]] |
| 604 | ** Part Two, Chapter Seven -- "Guardians of the Stars": '''Hoo boy.''' |
| 605 | *** One for the entire ''VideoGame/LittleTailBronx'' mythos-- [[spoiler:it's revealed that through using the data found within the mysterious Juno relics, humanity of the Old World was able to harness Crystals as a new form of energy and greatly advance their civilization, but this also resulted in fossil fuels plummeting in value, causing economies that couldn't keep up with these advancements to collapse. As a result of tensions between nations worsening, human civilization ended up collapsing into a brutal world war, with them creating Titano-Machina like Lares and Lemures from their Juno to use as superweapons. With massive death, destruction and the biosphere of the planet at risk of complete destruction thanks to the Titano-Machina rampages, the Juno personality AI known as Yurlungur proposed the "Reset" command to a set group of human researchers, which they activated. As a result, humanity vanished in an instant, Juno converted the planet's other organisms into data to use to create new life-forms (including the Caninu and Felineko), and the Earth's landmasses rose to the sky as floating islands to purify the planet below. All but one of the Juno warped themselves to alternate dimensions to await the day in which they would return and bring the world's floating islands back down to the surface through the "CODA" protocol.]] You got all that? |
| 606 | *** One for the game specifically-- [[spoiler:Baion's plan is to use Lares and Lemures to summon the Juno known as Tartaros from its dimension, and use it to activate CODA to summon both all the other Juno and force the world's floating islands to descend to the surface-- which would kill everyone living on the islands as a result of the volatile Plasma Cloud Sea still being in place. At the end of the chapter, Baion, Nero and Blanck succeed in summoning Tartaros, but Yurlungur makes sure to give Red a patch known as "Re-CODA" to stop it when the time comes.]] |
| 607 | ** Part Two, Chapter Eight -- "A Call of Fangs": [[spoiler:With Nero and Blanck's purposes already being fulfilled, Tartaros forces a new "Order" upon Red to "destroy" and "return order to time", resulting in a mind-controlled Red disposing of the two other hybrids by sending their mech to collapse into the Cloud Sea, with the side-effect of leaving Lares and Lemures inactive and vulnerable. The brainwashed Red also almost chokes Elh to death before returning to his senses and fighting off Tartaros' commands.]] |
| 608 | ** Part Two, Final Chapter -- "He Who Laughs Last": [[spoiler:With the efforts of all his allies and all the other Hunters across the Shepherd Republic, Béluga and Elh controlling Lares and Lemures, and the data of Nero and Blanck revealed to be surviving within the Dahak, Red succeeds in infiltrating Tartaros. After a climactic final showdown with Baion, Baion gains a new respect for Red and relents, allowing the Hunter to patch in "Re-CODA" and send Tartaros back to its respective dimension, saving the world. TheStinger also reveals that Elh and Béluga used up all the energy keeping them immortal as a result of commanding the Titano-Machina, allowing them to age and live at the same rate as everyone else from now on.]] |
| 609 | * Many of the later ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games have these in the form of a "Last" story mode that is unlocked after completing all the other story modes. |
| 610 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Chaos turns on Eggman and manages to collect all seven Chaos Emeralds, turning into a monster that floods Station Square. In the ancient past, Tikal had sealed Chaos in the Master Emerald to prevent it from destroying the world. |
| 611 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'': After Eggman places the last Chaos Emerald into the ARK's Eclipse Cannon, the space colony starts to fall towards earth as part of Professor Gerald's plan to enact revenge for the death of his granddaughter Maria. Shadow realizes that Maria's dying wish was not to get revenge, but to ensure the happiness of the people of earth, and thus decides to help the heroes prevent the colony's crashing into earth. |
| 612 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'': Metal Sonic had turned on Eggman and locked him up in the brig of his own flagship, taking on his form and stealthily gathering data on the heroes as part of his own attempt to conquer the world. |
| 613 | ** ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'': The Black Arms use Chaos Control to warp the Black Comet to earth and harvest the planet. The heroes are paralyzed by a nerve gas on the comet, but Shadow, having Black Arms blood in his veins, is immune. Also, before losing his mind with Maria's death, Professor Gerald created the Eclipse Cannon not as a weapon of mass destruction, but as a countermeasure against the Black Arms. |
| 614 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'': Mephiles kills Sonic, causing Elise to cry and unleash Solaris, thus resulting in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 615 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'': [[spoiler:The Chaos Emeralds originated from outer space and belonged to the Ancients. It's also revealed through Eggman's Egg Memos that Chaos and the Chao are descendants of the Ancients.]] |
| 616 | * In a [[CrapsackWorld world]] like ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''[='=] Prodesto, you have to be careful about traitors amongst your ranks and the game early on makes it clear that one of your characters is acting as TheMole for his boss. Eventually, we find out who the traitor is when he literally stabs your mentor in the back [[spoiler:and, of all people, it's the ''dim-witted HotBlooded sister loving man cow'', except that it turns out that he's actually the last World Eater you've been hunting down and a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. Those unrelated side quests? They were all part of his plan to kill off your mentor, the two other World Eaters, and eventually you and Gig.]] |
| 617 | * In ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]]'', we see that the titular holy sword turns out to be evil just like Soul Edge, instead choosing a KnightTemplar approach of freezing the entire world to achieve order. |
| 618 | * ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI'', which returns the series and status quo back to the original setting as opposed to the 17-year TimeSkip of ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'', seems to just be a simple retelling rather than a ContinuityReboot. Indeed, that's how it seemed the whole time, as the events play out exactly as they originally did, with what little changes amounting to AdaptationExpansion. Except, there is Zasalamel's final chapter, made unlockable specifically for this reason. This chapter reveals that, without any doubt, ''Soulcalibur VI'' is a hard ContinuityReboot. Here, Zasalamel receives visions from his future self, and abandons his plans to be a DeathSeeker before ever enacting them, and instead seeks to obtain both soul swords so he can guide humanity to a glorious new future. Based on this, one can expect future games to ''seriously'' diverge from what the original setting told. |
| 619 | ** It gets expanded even further with the release of DLC character Cassandra, whose Soul Chronicle interestingly involves her becoming active [[AdaptationalEarlyAppearance earlier in the plot]], this time starting her adventures in swordfighting right before her sister Sophitia's wedding rather than after Sophitia has children like in her first appearance in ''Soulcalibur II''. Sophitia ends up getting married at the end of it, with plans of having a child and granting Cassandra the blessing of naming thrm, so it seems not much has actually changed...until you continue and play the Prologue to the chapter, and find out just why Cassandra started so early: she was transported to [[EldritchLocation Astral Chaos]] after inspecting Sophitia's old weapons that she left behind, and there she met [[AlternateSelf herself from the original timeline]], who has become Malfested and become [[SanitySlippage completely insane]] from being stuck in Astral Chaos for so long to the point that she doesn't even remember her own name. When Cassandra fights and defeats her original counterpart, Original Timeline Cassandra regains enough of her bearings to warn the current Cassandra that the piece of Soul Edge still stuck in Sophitia will set off a series of tragedies that will tear their family apart, and pleads her to do whatever she can to save Sophitia. Current Cassandra doesn't know if she can fully believe it, but it's clear that her setting off to find Sophitia is meant to [[ButterflyOfDoom alter the timeline]] in order to save her family and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. If there was any doubt that Zasalamel's story was proof of a timeline reset, Cassandra's story completely shattered it. |
| 620 | * ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' has Chapter 8: The Gate, in which the game takes a dark turn when [[spoiler:the player uses a white phosphorus cannon to clear enemy soldiers out from an area, only to find not long after that the area was housing a group of innocent refugees, all of whom have been killed in the most agonising fashion thanks to your carelessness, as Walker stares at the charred remains of a mother clutching desperately onto her child.]] The scene comes as one of the biggest {{Player Punch}}es in any video game, let alone within the context of the game. |
| 621 | ** Similarly, every chapter afterwards has at least one shocking moment worthy of a WhamEpisode, but none of them hold a candle to Chapter 15: Welcome, in which Walker finally confronts [[spoiler:Konrad, the BigBad, only to find that he committed suicide days earlier, and "Konrad" is just a coping mechanism to deal with the immense guilt of everything he has done throughout the mission, making ''Walker himself'' the real villain of the entire game. [[WhatTheHellPlayer You're not]] [[PlayerPunch a hero]] - [[YouBastard you're]] [[VillainProtagonist a killer.]] This is immediately followed by the game's MultipleEndings.]] The entire message of the game is summed up by [[spoiler:"Konrad"]] with this line from his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 622 | -->[[spoiler:'''Konrad''': You're here because you wanted to be something you're not: a hero.]] |
| 623 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSpectrumRetreat'', Floor 4 reveals that after [[spoiler:Robin's death, Alex decided to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against everyone he believes responsible for his son's passing, and actually succeeded at killing Matthews.]] |
| 624 | * ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' has the story mission "Out of the Frying Pan...": [[spoiler:[[HopeSpot Just as Spidey defeats Mr. Negative and has him shipped off to a supermax prison]], a massive jailbreak goes down at Riker's Island. To make matters worse, said supermax prison also has a jailbreak, which sees Mr. Negative, along with the Vulture, Scorpion, Rhino, and Electro, released -- all at the behest of Dr. Otto Octavius, who had gone from a kind and well-meaning roboticist to [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] due to a flawed BrainComputerInterface controlling his new robotic tentacles. Spider-Man is soundly beaten, escaped prisoners and supervillains begin to run rampant in New York City, and to make matters worse, Doc Ock unleashes a dangerous bioweapon on the city. By the time the game picks back up 24 hours later, Manhattan is under lockdown, Silver Sable and her mercenaries enact martial law, and Spidey has become a wanted fugitive.]] |
| 625 | * ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'' has the Battery level. After the previous level began with a North Korean missile sinking the USS ''Clarence E. Walsh'', leaving tensions extremely high in the region, Sam is sent to the battery the missile came from, to determine whether the missile was intentionally launched by the North Koreans or if information warfare algorithms from a computer called Dvorak were used by a third party to force the launch and draw them into war. Once Sam finds the specific launcher the missile came from and finds proof that Dvorak was used to fire it, the Whams come one after the other: [[spoiler:Grim determines that she can't trace the actual origin of the command any further than the National Data Trunk in Seoul, South Korea, opening up the very real possibility America is being drawn into war by their own ally - then [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar North Korea pushes through the DMZ]], preparing to launch more missiles from the battery and forcing Sam to stop them. ''Then'' just as he gets to the next launcher, it lets off a missile, forcing him to very quickly find a way to abort it before it can hit the USS ''Ronald Reagan'', after which he extracts and his next mission takes him to a war-torn Seoul.]] |
| 626 | * ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' has the cutscene before Scorch's Pit. In it, the Sorceress decides to create a monster to end them all and send it out to kill all the dragons, [[WouldHurtAChild including the hatchlings]]. When Bianca protests, the Sorceress brushes her off [[spoiler:and reveals why she had the dragon eggs stolen: not because she wanted to keep them around in order to prevent the Forgotten Realms' magic from fading, but because she needed the hatchlings' wings for a new spell that would make her immortal. She notes that she doesn't actually have to kill them for this-- in her own words, it just stops them from wriggling around so much. This leap across the MoralEventHorizon is the final straw for Bianca, who reproachfully snaps at the Sorceress and pulls a HeelFaceTurn in response.]] |
| 627 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': The end of the Destroyer level. Spyro and Cynder have just managed to destroy the Destroyer's crystal heart, supposedly killing it. [[spoiler:Then it comes back to life and keeps moving to cross the Belt of Fire, which will destroy the world. Sparx, who hasn't left Spyro's side for almost the entire SERIES, has to stay behind to help with evacuations, and Spyro and Cynder go with Ignitus to cross into the Burned Lands to face Malefor once and for all. This effectively renders everything you did in the last THREE chapters useless.]] And, if that wasn't enough, the next chapter starts with a terrible WHAM moment when, while crossing the Belt of Fire into the Burned Lands, [[spoiler:Ignitus realizes he doesn't have the strength to keep all three of them safe from the flames, and sacrifices himself to save Spyro and Cynder.]] You will be an emotional wreck after all this. |
| 628 | * ''VideoGame/{{Stalker}}: Shadow of Chernobyl'' has the meeting with Doctor in the Agroprom Underground, where the player learns [[spoiler:that [[TomatoInTheMirror they are Strelok]]]]. |
| 629 | * ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': |
| 630 | ** ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'': |
| 631 | *** "Agent of the Swarm", the fourth Zerg mission: the chrysalis you've been protecting since the beginning of the campaign finally opens, revealing no other than Kerrigan, now a special breed of Infested Terran, revealing that the Zerg didn't kill her in Tarsonis. |
| 632 | *** The ending of "To Slay the Beast", the eight Zerg mission in ''Brood War'' reveals that Raszagal has been under Kerrigan's MindControl the whole time. It puts into new perspective a lot of her actions in the Protoss campaign. |
| 633 | *** The secret mission "Dark Origins" reveals that not only Duran was never a minion of Kerrigan, but he has managed to create a Protoss/Zerg hybrid, something that was believed to be impossible. |
| 634 | ** ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'' has many: |
| 635 | *** The secret mission "Piercing the Shroud" in which we see that Mengsk is creating Protoss/Zerg hybrids, although it's implied that he had external help. |
| 636 | *** The third Zeratul mission, where we find that Tassadar is still alive. Which is followed by the revelating that the Overmind was good all along (sort of). |
| 637 | *** The fourth Zeratul Mission, "In Utter Darkness", in which we find that there's indeed a GreaterScopeVillain, and that Kerrigan is necessary for stopping him. |
| 638 | *** The ending ''would'' count, if we weren't told about it halfway through the game. |
| 639 | ** ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'': |
| 640 | *** "Rendezvous": Raynor has been captured and executed by the Dominion; Kerrigan [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge swears bloody vengeance]], even if it means [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embracing her zerg side]]. |
| 641 | *** "The Crucible": At Zeratul's urging, and to gather power for her destruction of Mengsk (and, as Zeratul warns, Amon), Kerrigan travels to Zerus, the original Zerg homeworld, and becomes the Primal Queen of Blades. |
| 642 | *** "Infestation": Stukov returns! And boy, is he upset... |
| 643 | *** "Phantoms of the Void": Emil Narud, aka Samir Duran is secretly working for Amon, who corrupted the zerg and aims to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 644 | ** ''VideoGame/StarCraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'': |
| 645 | *** In the prologue, the Tal'darim are revealed to be servants of Amon, who are planning to use his resurrection to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. |
| 646 | *** The Protoss invasion of Aiur gets derailed when Amon hijacks the Khala and turns almost all surviving Templar BrainwashedAndCrazy. This in turn causes Artanis kills Zeratul while being possessed by Amon. |
| 647 | *** The Keystone (previously called the Xel'naga Artifact) is revealed to have been created specifically to prevent Amon from corrupting and destroying all life in the universe, and leads the Protoss to a Xel'naga temple that straddles the boundary between the universe and the Void, where the Xel'naga sleep the eons away between cycles of creation. |
| 648 | *** The Xel'naga are revealed to have been killed by Amon a long time before the heroes ever find them, and Amon reveals that he has manifested in physical form on Aiur. |
| 649 | *** The Khala is abandoned completely, ultimately paving the way for an entirely new Protoss society. |
| 650 | *** The three races enter the Void to destroy Amon once and for all, where they discover that the remnant ghost of Tassadar was actually an illusion projected by the last surviving benevolent Xel'naga. |
| 651 | *** Kerrigan ascends to take the place of the Xel'naga as a custodian of all life in the universe. |
| 652 | * Early in ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'', the night after he becomes engaged to Princess Lymsleia, Gizel Godwin sends Nether Gate to assassinate King Ferid and Queen Arshtat. The Prince, Lyon, Georg, and Sialeeds escape, and Gizel claims that Georg killed Ferid and Arshtat and kidnapped the Prince. |
| 653 | ** Then comes the reveal that Georg really ''did'' kill Queen Arshtat, to stop her from using the Sun Rune to burn Falena. |
| 654 | ** [[spoiler:Lady Sialeeds]]'s FaceHeelTurn, complete with Dolph stabbing [[spoiler:Lyon]] in the back, critically injuring her and hospitalizing her a large portion of the game. |
| 655 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Mask of Arcadius'' ends with the shocking revelation that BigBad Veniczar Arcadius is not an individual, but a collective of genetically-enhanced clones sharing a HiveMind known as the Prototypes. They’re trying to rule the galaxy from the shadows, they claim to have people everywhere, [[TomatoInTheMirror and they happen to look exactly like the Sunrider’s chief engineer Chigara Ashada]]. |
| 656 | ** Toward the end of ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Liberation Day'', [[BigBad Arcadius]]/[[spoiler:Alice]] has been defeated at last, Kayto’s [[DoomedHometown home planet Cera]] has finally been liberated from PACT control, peace between the Solar Alliance and PACT seems like a real possibility, and Admiral Grey is going to personally award Chigara with a medal for her heroism. Smiling happily, she goes up on stage to receive it… and then it all goes to hell. [[spoiler:Alice’s disembodied spirit [[VillainOverride assumes control of Chigara]], has her shoot Grey, and then unleashes a pair of {{Spider Tank}}s to massacre the assembled PACT and Alliance delegates. In the ensuing chaos, Grey and Chigara both die, Kryska nearly executes Kayto under orders from her Alliance superiors but can’t bring herself to do it and defects, the Sunrider ends up fighting against both the Alliance and PACT simultaneously, and the Sunrider itself is destroyed when Kayto rams it into an Alliance vessel to stop them from nuking his home planet, fully intending to go down with his ship.]] In this one scene, everything the protagonists have been fighting for over two games is completely undone. |
| 657 | * Chapter 6 of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has the destruction of [[spoiler:Sammer's Kingdom]]. When Mario and company try and come back, all that's left is a [[NothingIsScarier featureless white void with a black line indicating the ground and the occasional bit of rubble.]] Things briefly swing back to the humorous side during the boss fight against [[PaperThinDisguise Mr. L]], but then crash back down even further into Wham Episode territory when Dimentio [[spoiler:''kills'' him.]] |
| 658 | ** The chapter after starts with the heroes trying to figure out how to restore the broken [[MacGuffin Pure Heart]] they found in Sammer's Kingdom only to be interrupted by Dimentio, who [[spoiler:''kills Mario and his party.'' The next two sub-chapters take place in [[BleakLevel The Underwhere]]]]. |
| 659 | * ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' had A LOT of these moments, while it might look whammy and surprising at first, usually they work on to make it better: |
| 660 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars3'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/MasouKishin Shu Shirakawa]]]] pulls a FaceHeelTurn after the HumanAliens are defeated and becomes the FinalBoss. |
| 661 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha 3'': The ever powerful CombiningMecha Super Robot SRX got utterly destroyed by the Balmar fleet in a showcase of power, and adding insult to the injury, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Aya Kobayashi]] was seemingly killed off out of spite, and the heroes were powerless to watch. And that was just the ''4th chapter'' of the whole game and the first of the many many grave situations the Alpha Numbers had to deal with in this game. |
| 662 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'': Scenario 27, "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED And Then, To The Endless Tomorrow]]", which follows the events of the ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' finale with the deaths of [[Anime/DetonatorOrgun Orgun]], [[Anime/TekkamanBlade Tekkaman Rapier]] and protagonist's father at the hands of the BigBad. Because of this, the heroes fail to prevent the "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Bloody Valentine Incident]]"; cue a six-month TimeSkip where the gang splits. |
| 663 | ** ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsGaiden Masou Kishin: Coffin of the End]]'': [[spoiler:A new, mysterious enemy, the Kadoam Hakam, utterly destroys the forces of La Gias even with their Elemental Lords ''and'' the Neo Granzon. Of the former, only Tyutti managed to escape and reduced to using a standard-issue mecha and has to team up with the rival to find and defeat this new foe to save La Gias from destruction.]]. |
| 664 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' makes it a habit that it happens OncePerEpisode: |
| 665 | *** ''Original Generation 1'': At the Battle of Beijing, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Ingram Prisken]] sabotages the CombiningMecha and joins the HumanAliens, revealing himself to be TheMole, [[EtTuBrute greatly damaging the psyche of the heroes and those who were close to him (the SRX Team)]] and proceeds to kidnap and brainwash [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Kusuha Mizuha]], a powerful Psychodriver and a dear friend. And if the chosen protagonist is [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Kyosuke Nanbu]], Ingram goes for round two later and then kidnaps his girlfriend [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Excellen Browning]] when Kusuha is rescued. |
| 666 | *** ''Original Generation 2'': Operation Plantagenet in a nutshell. Things looked smooth for the EFA, as they managed to ally with the Neo DC, but then their target, the Shadow Mirror and the Inspectors decided to pull an EnemyMine, while the Neo DC suffered another betrayal by [[PsychoForHire Archibald Grims]], which ended with the death of the Neo DC leader Van Vat Tran. On top of that, [[TheNeidermeyer Lee Linjun]], fresh after his FaceHeelTurn a few chapters ago, launched a sneak attack against [[TheCaptain Daitetsu Minase]] which fatally wounds him but [[HeroicSacrifice he chose to push on and commanded a retreat to save lives]] [[KilledOffForReal at cost of his]], but while doing so, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Axel Almer]] manages to deal a deadly blow on Kyosuke, heavily wounding him and trashing his Alt Eisen. And to add insult to the injury, right after this, the Einst simply chose that it's the most right time to kidnap and brainwash Excellen for their plans. |
| 667 | *** ''Original Generation Gaiden'': Kyosuke let his guard down during the ODE Incident and as a result, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Lamia Loveless]] ended up seemingly KilledOffForReal in a manner close enough to an UndignifiedDeath[[note]]She was just fresh of showing why she's a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, having her own unbreakable will that refuses to let her personality get overridden, and then she was abruptly shot down and killed, her iron will showing rendered futile[[/note]]... by an UnwittingPawn of the real mastermind of the ODE Incident, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsReversal Duminuss]] (and meta-wise, seemingly inflicting Lamia with DeathByAdaptation because she's originally supposed to survive). To make matters worse, Duminuss' collaborator group, [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsCompact3 the Shura]], decided that it's time to invade Earth with a manner that demanded the full attention of the group from their impenetrable fortress, preventing the heroes, as much as they want to, from immediately trying to avenge Lamia (by assaulting Duminuss again) whom they thought to deserve a better sendoff, the whole mood haunted the WHOLE group of heroes, not just Kyosuke, throughout the early battle with the Shura. |
| 668 | *** ''2nd Original Generation'': This time they're going for ''two'': |
| 669 | *** First, the Steel Dragon Battle Group was called for a meeting to 'explain themselves' about what they're doing against the Gaia Sabers in front of President Graien Grusman, who while a militaristic president, generally is a WellIntentionedExtremist with more emphasis on the 'well intention'. And suddenly, the Gaia Sabers under the orders of Arteil Stenbuck opened fire. Naturally, the Hagane and Hiryuu Custom made a run for it, but suddenly, they came across a ship suddenly being launched getting into their line of travel... that ship contained Graien, killing him off instantly. And by that point, the Steel Dragon Battle Group were marked as traitors and even after the Sealing War concluded and the group cleared their name and also did the most heavy lifting, Captain Tetsuya Onodera willingly took the blame of killing Graien and demoted himself by the time of ''The Moon Dwellers'', replaced by (the thankfully also reasonable) Gint Kitaumi. |
| 670 | *** Second, in an attempt to reason with [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsDestiny the Melior Esse Glacies and Ventus]], both [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsDestiny Joshua Radcliffe and Cliana Rimskaya]] took heavy risks and while they succeeded, Rim realized that she's just left with her more fierce personality Liana, her softer personality Chris was GONE, which was a big blow for her because they got along fine while SharingABody. And just after they just managed to drive away Perfectio, or just a ''part'' of him, the Steel Dragon Battle Group realized that Perfectio can't be killed and someone needs to take up the position of being the seal... and Ventus, just a short time after gaining his free will, decided to use his free will to volunteer as the seal, and Chris appeared one last time to bid true farewell. Because of this, Rim would feel incomplete ever since Chris was gone; thus she and Joshua spent the rest of their time after their original game story was over trying to find a way to free Ventus and Chris from their position. |
| 671 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' has a few couple moments in the Subspace Emmissary: |
| 672 | ** First, the Ancient Minister is revealed to be R.O.B., who rebels against the Subspace Army when Ganondorf forces the other R.O.B.s to set off every subspace bomb on the base. |
| 673 | ** Later, the united cast stand before the GreaterScopeVillain, Tabuu. Unfortunately, they are all reverted to Trophies by Tabuu's Off Waves. It is only because King Dedede had the forethought to place special badges reversing the process on a few fighters that the heroes can continue to fight against Tabuu. |
| 674 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': The heroes band together and defeat Galeem after the near-destruction of the universe. Once Galeem is backed into a corner, however, a new evil suddenly emerges, taking control of Galeem's army and throwing the heroes into a world of darkness: Dharkon. |
| 675 | * ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter''. The test subjects Gabe injected with anti-Syphon Filter serum all died. |
| 676 | * ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' has the three most [[{{Pun}} shocking]] words ever spoken in a video game: [[spoiler:"I am SHODAN!"]]. It's the verbal equivalent of being kicked in the testicles. Repeatedly. With a spiked shoe. [[spoiler:''The Polito form is dead, insect!'']] |
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| 680 | * ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'' at the end Terry is revealed to be alive and the mole. |
| 681 | * ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' has a doozy at the end of Chapter 1: [[spoiler:[[SadisticChoice slaughter your countrymen in Balmamusa as part of a]] FalseFlagOperation, [[SadisticChoice or refuse... and be blamed for the entire thing]]. There are no other options- everyone in Balmamusa is going to die.]] |
| 682 | * The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''. Every single game, dead center of the plot. Frequently doubles as a YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 683 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'': there's a second Dhaos who escaped to the future. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 684 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'': The evil plan is still in effect, and Leon is a traitor. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 685 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'': ...you know what, ''all'' of Disc 2. |
| 686 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': [[PowerCrystal Exspheres]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild are]] [[HumanResources people.]] The Church is [[PathOfInspiration a front for an evil organization.]] ''And'' all of Disc 2. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 687 | *** ''Symphonia'' has one earlier on, when you discover that there is another world and that the two worlds vying for [[LifeEnergy Mana]] is why there's a Journey Of Regeneration in the first place. |
| 688 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'': Luke unwittingly destroys a whole city, killing thousands, having been manipulated into the act by the mentor that he hero worships. Also, he is a clone. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 689 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheTempest'': Caius is a Beastman. This surprised no one. |
| 690 | *** Then there's the other one which manages to fit in ''four'' [[note]]While ''Tempest'' had a lot of shortcomings, the number of whams per episode certainly wasn't one[[/note]], [[spoiler:where you discover that not only is the Pope Caius's dad, but he was being manipulated by the king, who is an alien. And the king also started the ancient war]]. |
| 691 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence'': Inanna is the traitor to Asras. Delivered near the end, but as the ending to a JigsawPuzzlePlot. |
| 692 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Estelle's powers will release an EldritchAbomination. |
| 693 | *** Raven is a double agent for the Empire and is actually a high-ranking knight known as Schwann. Oh, and he kidnaps Estelle. |
| 694 | *** Sodia stabbing and almost killing Yuri. |
| 695 | *** Yuri stabbing and ''definitely'' killing Ragou, and later, letting Cumore drown [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath in quicksand.]] |
| 696 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'': Creed Graphite is sealed inside Shing's body. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 697 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'': After helping them save the world, it turns out the good guys are the bad guys. YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. |
| 698 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'': Right in the prologue: Sophie dies (okay EXPLODES) after a mostly fun light-hearted adventurous day. Asbel's brother is also forcibly leaving the family to join another. Asbel runs away to join a knight academy. Everything else afterwards just spirals into a whole WHAM game. |
| 699 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'': Turns out the Lance of Kresnik was never meant as a weapon, but as a [[CosmicKeystone Cosmic Keystone]] to open the gate to another world. Later on, Muzét reveals Milla was just a decoy created by the REAL Maxwell and that her "mission" was all a lie, and attacks the party. This just after Milla sacrifices herself to free Jude and the others from a deathtrap. |
| 700 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'': [[TagalongKid Elle]] is from a [[AlternateUniverse Fractured Dimension]] and has not even been born yet in the Prime Dimension because her father, Victor, is none other than a fractured version of Ludger, who killed all of the original ''Xillia'' cast save Gaius, who was crippled, and Milla and Muzet, who had returned to the spirit world and were unable to do anything. The party is forced to kill Victor to obtain the final Waymarker to Canaan while Elle totally breaks down. |
| 701 | ** ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': |
| 702 | *** The party learning, too late, that Innominant doesn't get resurrected by the ''amount'' of Malevolence absorbed by Therions at the appropriate spots, but by the ''variety of emotions'' those Therions represent. All of the Therions they unleashed had already fulfilled their purpose, so all of their actions were already too late, and Innominant is about to awaken. |
| 703 | *** After having spent the last three years of her life determined to kill Artorius for killing her younger brother, Laphicet, Velvet is confronted by the host of the resurrected Innominant... that very same brother. And he still has Laphicet's memories and tells Velvet that her entire revenge plan has been pointless because Laphicet, who knew that [[YourDaysAreNumbered he would die soon]], was a ''willing'' sacrifice during the Advent. |
| 704 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tattletail}}'': |
| 705 | ** Christmas Eve. The "party" Tattletail and his friends throw in the basement turns into some kind of terrifying arcane ritual, complete with a pentagram drawn in Christmas lights, intended to banish the... thing that is Mama Tattletail. |
| 706 | ** Prior to that is night 3, when Mama is properly introduced. The first two nights just introduced the mechanics and the spooky atmosphere; after you put that cassette in, you're now in actual danger. |
| 707 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the "Blood Brothers" comic. Redmond and Blutarch are murdered by their long lost brother Gray, who now has his sights set on Mann Co. The two teams of mercenaries? They have no choice but to pull an EnemyMine to save the world and their jobs from an endless horde of killer robots. |
| 708 | ** Then there's the first issue of "Ring of Fired." It begins with [[spoiler:Hale losing Mann Co to Gray and the reveal that Gray has a daughter]], followed quickly by the team being broken up, and ends with [[spoiler:another reveal, this time that Spy and Scout are due to be hanged]]. |
| 709 | ** "Blood in the Water" ends with a doozy. [[spoiler:Sniper discovers his birth parents, who turn out to be pompous wasteful jerks who ruined the nation of New Zealand. His father hijacks the team's submarine and coldly abandons him, right before Sniper is shot by the Team Classic mercenaries. Sniper's birth mother escapes with the last cache of Australium in existence, and the mercenaries are trapped in a flooding chamber with a gang of bloodthirsty mercenaries ready to kill them. The Administrator turns out to be on a Life Extender.]] |
| 710 | ** "Old Wounds": [[spoiler:several characters are killed or maimed, including ''[[BigBad Gray Mann]]'', leaving the Classic Team to take over the villain position, Sniper is resurrected but then abandons Medic, and it ends with the mercenaries being trapped against hordes of leech-like drones.]] |
| 711 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} 2''. Tatsumaru's amnesia induced FaceHeelTurn. |
| 712 | * ''VideoGame/TIEFighter'': The minesweeping mission where your entire wing turns against you. Including the Star Destroyer. Most of the rest of the game is taken up by dealing with the treacherous Imperials. It is the only mission in the entire series where the only primary objective is to survive. |
| 713 | * In the True Mastermind Edition of ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis 5]]'', [[spoiler:after you defeat Keith Martin, the protagonist of ''Time Crisis II'' and the allegeded VSSE traitor, he opens up the briefcase and reveals that the true traitor is none other than Robert Baxter, Keith's partner and your commanding officer]]. |
| 714 | --> '''Robert:''' [[spoiler:If you had just died, this would've all gone according to plan.]] |
| 715 | * Throughout the game, ''VideoGame/TinStar'' manages to set a formula. Every day, Tin Star goes around town resolving crimes committed by [[BigBad Black Bart]] and his gang, and ends each day with a ShowdownAtHighNoon against someone. Saturday eventually comes and--wait, hang on...a ShowdownAtHighNoon ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAWJ6jD0B0 already]]''? And it's a HopelessBossFight? And what's this? '''Black Bart'' is made sheriff in place of you?! Now you're being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-XjPscroM run out of town]]! No choice but to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXwSp2Pw2bk survive out in the desert]], with EverythingTryingToKillYou. The day concludes with you sleeping somewhere out there alone, rather than in your nice, cozy house in town. |
| 716 | * One of the most famous things ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' is known for are the wham episodes that set up the sequels or just events in-game in general. |
| 717 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky First Chapter'' has Professor Alba revealing to Joshua that his real name is Weissman, the Third Anguis of Ouroboros and Joshua is actually an Enforcer of the organization. He also sent him to the Bright family to unknowingly spy on Cassius Bright. Learning these revelations has Joshua deciding he should permanently leave [[TheHero Estelle]], who had just realized that she had feelings for him, and ends with kissing him and drugging her to sleep to leave her for good. |
| 718 | ** ''Sky Second Chapter'' reveals that the priest the party has been traveling with throughout the final dungeon isn't just some low ranked ChurchMilitant. He's actually the Fifth Dominion and ends up killing [[BigBad Weissman]] with the same thing that destroyed Weissman's home, compressed into an arrow. |
| 719 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsToAzure Trails to Azure]]'' reveals that the prologue of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZero'' is actually a different timeline where the SSS actually died due to the BigBad [[TakingYouWithMe taking the SSS down with him]] when he's defeated. [=KeA=] ends up rewriting the timeline so that they end up surviving which is why Estelle and Joshua were there so that Renne will rescue them with Pater-Mater. |
| 720 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel I'' reveals that Crow, Class VII's senior who had to attend Class VII because of his failing grades, is actually the leader of the terrorist group they've been hunting for. He ends up shooting Chancellor Osborne in the heart and immediately, robots descend uppon the capital of TheEmpire, triggering the CivilWar. Meanwhile, Vita, the opera singer and disguising herself as the radio host Misty, is revealed to be the Second Anguis of Ouroboros. The game ends with Rean getting curb stomped by Crow in their duel with their [[HumongousMecha Divine Knight]] fight where Crow reveals that he's had more training in his Divine Knight compared to Rean's newly acquired knight. Rean ends up [[BolivianArmyEnding leaving Class VII]] to their fates while Valimar takes Rean and Celine away from the battle. |
| 721 | ** ''Cold Steel II'' ends with Crow sacrificing his life to open up a way for Rean to save the crown prince. After he dies, Rufus shows up to arrest Duke Cayenne for starting the CivilWar even though Rufus was supposed to be on the Noble Alliance's side. Then it turns out that Chancellor Osborne isn't actually dead and declares himself to be the winner of the CivilWar as it turns out that Rufus was [[MoleInCharge actually his spy.]] He then orders Rufus to put the situation of the empire under control and then move forward with the occupation of Crossbell (something that was a ForegoneConclusion in ''Ao no Kiseki''). And just when the wham seems to settle down, Rean ends up finding out that Osborne is actually his biological father, who then tells Rean that he will [[FakeUltimateHero make him Erebonia's national hero]], [[RedBaron the Ashen Chevalier]]. |
| 722 | *** Divertissment Chapter has the players control [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Lloyd and Rixia]] throughout the Geofront. And then it turns out that the FinalBoss of that section is Rean, who is accompanied by Altina. |
| 723 | ** ''Cold Steel III's'' entire final chapter is ''full of these''. On the night of the princess and his adopted sister's debut in high society, Rean ends up finding out that the source of his SuperpoweredEvilSide is from his father who transplanted his heart to him because when their home was raided a few days before the [[FalseFlagOperation Hamel Incident]] in the ''Sky'' arc, his chest was punctured by wooden debris (something that's shown in detail in ''Cold Steel IV''). Then Ash ends up shooting the emperor with a gun made from Calvard Republic, who sent a hundred spies to Erebonia to figure out if the empire was going to wage war with the republic. Also, Ash reveals that he's also a survivor of Hamel, who thanks to the curse's influence, [[{{Irony}} ends up starting a]] FalseFlagOperation, this time with Calvard. The next day happens and just when Roselia and Thomas explain about the Sept-Terrion of Fire and Earth which then combined to become Steel, Heimdallr gets attacked by cryptids because Ouroboros rang the bell that came from the Stargazer's Tower in Crossbell. It also reveals that there were a lot of people who had [[FaceHeelTurn turned against the party]] led by Osborne and his right-hand man, Alberich who turns out to be Alisa's father who is supposed to be dead. And just when things can't get any worse, it did right after the FinalBoss fight as Rean finds out that his Zemurian tachi cannot do anything towards the awakened corrupted Holy Beast of Earth as it eats his blade. Then the Courageous, which was supposed to back up the heroes side, gets blown up in the sky due to Copper Georg planting explosives in the ship (which the player sees him doing during the middle of the previous chapter), potentially killing off Olivert, Toval, and Victor. Immediately afterwards, Altina tries to sacrifice herself so that she can become the Originator Zero sword only for Millium to step up and sacrifice her life instead. After Millium dies, the Oz sword is formed and [[TheBerserker Rean ends up losing it]] and murders the beast over and over again (and take note, their mission was supposed to put it back to sleep and not kill it). With the corrupted Divine Beast dead, the curse that it was holding back for so long is released throughout the entire world which then influences the Erebonian citizens to fully commit to the war against Calvard, and possibly the entire world, due to the speech Osborne, Rufus, and Cedric made at the start of the chapter. The game ends with Osborne summoning his own Divine Knight, brings Rean back to his senses without touching him, and gives him a NeckLift. [[DownerEnding Cue credits.]] |
| 724 | ** ''Cold Steel IV'' shows that it can still pull off a number of these but the most shocking of them all is Rufus pulling a KillSteal, back stabbing Arianrhod, and taking in her power which was supposed to go to Rean because he was the rightful winner of the Rivalry only for Rean to give back those powers so that she could live on and finish what she started. And just to mess with the players even further, for the first time in the franchise, the game has MultipleEndings and both have to be seen by the players as the game railroads players in doing them. The DownerEnding has Rean, Crow, and Millium die at the end of the game because Rean completes the Great One and he's suffering greatly at the effects of the curse getting to him. Meanwhile, Crow and Millium's lives are tied to said Great One which means they're accompanying Rean on his HeroicSuicide to make sure Ishmelga and the curse of Erebonia no longer take a hold of the entire world. The game ends with Valimar, Ordine, and Millium's Oz sword form flying outside of Zemuria and explode outside the atmosphere with feathers falling on the ground. Meanwhile, the GoldenEnding has Rean, Crow, and Millium alive because Rean ends up remembering that he has the gift from the dying Nameless One, whose name the beast finally remembers before it disappears. However, that doesn't mean there isn't one as loading a clear save file has the members of Ouroboros debriefing the events of both the Crossbell and Erebonia arc with the Grandmaster finally making her appearance and declaring the Phantasmal Blaze Plan to be a success ''despite'' not obtaining the Fire, Earth,[[note]]disappeared altogether at the end of the game[[/note]] and Mirage[[note]]killed itself a long time ago before the Crossbell arc even started; the bad guys made a more powerful Sept-Terrion but Ouroboros wasn't interested in it[[/note]] Sept-Terrion. She then declares that there are only three years left before the world ends and then announces that the third phase of Ouroboros's Orpheus Final Plan, the Eternal Regression Plan, has started. |
| 725 | * ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter: Under the Knife'' and its remake ''Second Opinion''. Up until the end of Chapter 2, everything seems like something out of typical emergency room scenarios: removing shards of glass from skin, fixing up aneurysms, lasering tumors, etc. Even the operation where you yank glass out of someone's ''heart'' sounds like something you'd see in a serious medical drama. So you're operating on an EmoTeen for the second time, you take care of some lacerations easy peasy, and...suddenly ''a laceration pops up by itself'' and the music changes. Congratulations, you just discovered your first strain of GUILT, which you'll be mainly dealing with for the remainder of the game. |
| 726 | * ''VideoGame/TheTreeOfLife'': The DNA layer. This is the point in the game where the earlier layers Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen (as well as minigames A to E) are removed permanently. |
| 727 | * ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'': Chapter XV has ''three'' Wham Episodes in rapid succession. You experience one of the following below in Part II of the chapter depending on who you sided with in the chapter's vote, and get the other two in Part III. |
| 728 | ** If you sided with Benedict: Symon dies, but not before revealing to Serenoa that he is ''not'' Symon's son by birth, but is in fact the first son of the late King Regna (with [[PosthumousCharacter Destra]]). [[note]]If you sided with either of the other characters, Benedict reveals this to Serenoa instead.[[/note]] |
| 729 | ** If you sided with Roland: Roland comes away from his dealings with the Royalists broken by TheChainsOfCommanding, leaving him to believe that there is nothing he could do to salvage Glenbrook (much to Serenoa's shock). |
| 730 | ** If you sided with Frederica: Frederica learns that the [[SinsOfOurFathers ancestral sins]] the Roselle have been made to pay for never happened, despite what the Goddess' teachings have led everyone in Norzelia to believe. |
| 731 | * ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' The Progress Bar. After finding a compiler for the legacy code, [=Ma3a=] is uploading it into her system. That's when Jet gets a call from "Guest" and hits the I/O node to take the call. In rapid succession, Jet figures out that "Guest" is his father, Alan. Alan's desperately trying to tell Jet ''not'' to compile the code (too late). Thorne then crashes the place and goes OneWingedAngel in an attempt to kill [=Ma3a=]. Jet fends off Thorne until the upload is complete. Unfortunately, the code is bugged, causing [=Ma3a=] [[KillAllHumans to go insane]] and ''kill'' Byte. The best Jet can do is activate the light-cycle and haul tail, but the chase ends when F-Con's seeker program kidnaps her, meaning that no only does he have to get the bugged code out of her, but he's now going to have to fight F-Con directly if he wants to get home. |
| 732 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Hisui's route, True End. Kohaku did it. She did EVERYTHING. |
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| 736 | * ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII'': You finally catch up to Batlin, in order to stop him from performing the ritual to summon the Guardian. You fail, he fails, and your companions become avatars of unbalanced Chaos, bringing about near-Armageddon for the world. |
| 737 | * ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has the final mission, which reveals that [[spoiler:Flowey is not only aware of your ability to Save the game using Determination, he was the previous holder of the power until the player character came along. He even steals the ability during the final boss battle. Also, you're not the person [[HelloInsertNameHere named at the beginning of the game]], who was actually the first human to fall into the Underground. In fact, that kid is the GreaterScopeVillain]]. |
| 738 | ** The True Lab: Alphys' experiments to unlock SOUL power went horribly awry, and ended with a vast number of braindead monsters melting together into abominations called the Amalgamates. Her failure at breaking the barrier and her horror at this led her to develop severe depression. In addition, Alphys created Flowey by sheer accident, because the flower she used had dust on it... the dust of Asriel, Toriel and Asgore's son. |
| 739 | ** On a Genocide run, it's the battle with Papyrus. Up to this point, you can easily convince yourself that all your actions are in self-defense - after all, the enemies can and will kill you. Even Toriel, though she tries not to, can still kill you. Then you reach Papyrus and get the message "Papyrus is sparing you". No matter what you do, Papyrus will not present any sort of a threat on Genocide. In order to continue the Genocide run, you must commit premeditated, cold-blooded murder. Unsurprisingly, this is the most common point for Genocide runs to fail, as players just can't do it. |
| 740 | * ''VideoGame/{{Vay}}'': After defeating Emperor Jeal's Iron Giants at Marwick Castle, Sadoul shows up...[[spoiler:and throws a sword in the Emperor's chest, revealing that he lured Jeal into a trap by lying about the whereabouts of the Soul Orb needed to unlock the Vay Armor's full potential]]. |
| 741 | * This occurs during the 3rd Episode of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. [[spoiler:The group is reduced by half since Carley/Doug, Kaatja and Duck all die, Lily leaves/is kicked out by the group. Ben admits to Lee near the end of the episode that he was the one who stole the group's supplies, which caused the event that led to all those deaths. And finishes off with TheReveal that Clementine's radio was now working, and she'd been talking to a man on the other end]]. |
| 742 | ** Episode 4's last chapter is a big whammy as [[spoiler:Lee is bitten and Clem has been kidnapped by the guy on the walkie-talkie]]. |
| 743 | ** And Episode 5 followed through on it, by revealing [[spoiler:that the man on the radio since Episode 3 was the owner of [[ChekhovsGunman the station-wagon your group had looted in Episode 2]]. He also reveals exactly what that theft had resulted in for him and his family]]. |
| 744 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wandersong}}'': |
| 745 | ** The end of Act 3 becomes one by [[spoiler:introducing [[NominalHero Audrey]] [[KnightOfCerebus Redheart]], the primary antagonist of the game, by having her [[KilledOffForReal Murder one of the]] [[ElementalEmbodiment Overseers]] before The Bard could speak with them about giving them their piece of the [[MagicMusic Earthsong]], basically gloat about doing so, then revealing that the helper spirit that started their quest is really Audrey's ''spirit guide'', who doesn't believe the song will even work, but didn't want to destroy their hope, after which Audrey taunts The Bard over [[DidYouActuallyBelieve actually believing it]] and trying to be a hero, leading them to run at Audrey to do... [[AmbiguousSituation something]], which gets them impaled by Audrey's lightning]]. While they survive, and the plot can still continue due to [[spoiler:The Bard's ability to still collect the now dead Overseer's Earthsong piece]], this part of the game onwards [[CerebusSyndrome is a lot less whimsical]] and the sense of urgency rapidly escalates as the "end of the world" aspect creeps into the foreground. |
| 746 | *** As the Coup De Grace, [[spoiler:after the chapter ends, you get a [[UnexpectedGameplayChange surprise intermission chapter where you play AS Audrey]], complete with a boss fight against the last Overseer you spoke to]]. |
| 747 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': |
| 748 | ** The Eyes of Blight event at the end of 2014, involving Vay Hek's Balor Fomorian invasion of Tenno space, which resulted in the destruction of four of the seven Tenno relays. This was especially shocking because the players had every chance to save these relays. |
| 749 | ** The Natah quest that debuted with Update 17 revealed quite a bit about the [[AIIsACrapshoot Sentients]]. [[spoiler:First and foremost, [[BigGood the Lotus]] is a Sentient who was sent to exterminate the Orokin and Tenno. Her trip through the Void left her barren, but it also allowed her to break away from the Sentient HiveMind, leading her to choose to adopt the Tenno as surrogate children instead of killing them. Unfortunately, the rest of the Sentients were only hibernating, and now they're waking up, with plans to finish the job and MindRape Lotus back into the fold.]] |
| 750 | ** As the followup to Natah, the Second Dream quest was inevitably going to fall into this trope, especially since it dealt with the true nature of the Tenno. [[spoiler:It turns out the Tenno are the survivors of the Zariman accident, nearly executed by the Orokin but ultimately turned into ChildSoldiers. They've been in stasis on Earth's moon, remotely operating the Warframes and unaware of their true nature. The moon itself had been hidden away in the Void by the Lotus to protect it from the Sentients, preserving the Tenno and their secret. Unfortunately, Lotus's father Hunhow has discovered the moon's location and has sent the Stalker to destroy it, which will kill the Tenno permanently. Lotus is forced to return the moon to its proper location, sending the Tenno to reside in their [[CoolShip Orbiters]]. However, Stalker somehow managed to infiltrate the player's ship, only for Lotus herself to step in and save the day at the last minute, before finally informing the Tenno of the truth about their nature.]] How's that for heavy? |
| 751 | * ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi 3'' ''starts off'' with one, as Da Ji has summoned/discovered a gigantic 9-headed Hydra that begins slaughtering almost [[EverybodysDeadDave the entire casts of]] ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', and the ''Orochi'' originals (not already aligned with Orochi). Only Ma Chao, Sima Zhao and Hanbei Takenaka are still alive at the end of the battle, and are forced to retreat in the face of certain annihilation, and are then sent back into the past by Kaguya to recruit the warriors before their deaths in order to kill the Hydra and prevent the onslaught. At that point, the "ExcusePlot of [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover uniting DW and SW together in one game]]" evolves into a much more serious story. |
| 752 | * The moment in ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' when Rudy [[LifeOrLimbDecision sacrifices his left arm to escape from Zeikfried]]...and the subsequent [[TomatoInTheMirror revelation]] that he's actually an ArtificialHuman made of the same material as the Metal Demons Zeikfried led. |
| 753 | ** ''VideoGame/WildArmsMillionMemories'' gives us a huge wham in the final chapter. Not only has Siegfried/Zeikfried [[spoiler:betrayed Mother and roped Rudy into forming an [[EnemyMine Enemy Mine]] but [[TakingTheBullet he jumps in front of Rudy to shield him from her attacks]] and eventually commits a [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]]]]. Siegfried/Zeikfried, of all people. |
| 754 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' ends each chapter with a Wham, but the end of chapter four, when hostilities between sects reach flashpoint indicates just how significantly everything will change. It accelerates from there through the crumbling, blazing city. |
| 755 | * Chapter 15 of ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''. [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Your HQ is in flames]], and some of your allies have been captured or killed in the process. |
| 756 | * ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has a few: |
| 757 | ** The ending of Day 4: [[spoiler:out of nowhere, Rhyme, who was built up as one of the main characters, ''[[KilledOffForReal dies]]'', Beat's forced to leave in order to survive and Neku and Shiki are, once again, on their own]]. |
| 758 | ** The ending of Day 5: [[spoiler:Neku (and the player) finally finds out that [[DeadToBeginWith everyone playing the Game is dead, including the protagonists]]]]. |
| 759 | ** The ending of Day 7, the final day, in which [[spoiler:Neku starts the game all over again, and his new entry fee is ''Shiki''. Worsening matters is [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent his new partner]], [[ReplacementScrappy Joshua]]]]. |
| 760 | ** The ending of [[spoiler:Week 2, where Joshua is assumed to be dead, even though he was finally starting to develop [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap his powers]]. Then we see Neku's third entry fee: ''every [[LoopholeAbuse other Player]]'']]. |
| 761 | ** The ending of the game altogether [[spoiler:where you find out the villain is actually very sympathetic, "succeed" in pulling an epic NiceJobBreakingItHero, discover that a certain character is neither dead nor anything like you thought he was, ''and'' that Neku has only convinced him that Shibuya needs to be erased]]. |
| 762 | * The climax of Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'', "Product Launcher." 'Product Z will change the world,' [[MegaCorp they]] said. Ohhhh, yeah. |
| 763 | * ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' has 'The Culling'' in the Reign of Chaos Human Campaign. It marks a grim shift in the tone of the game when Arthas orders his men to kill villagers and meets Mal'Ganis, the demon in command of the nightmarish Scourge. |
| 764 | ** In the LighterAndSofter Orc Campaign ''The Hunter of Shadows'' leads to the death of Cenarius and Grom's FaceHeelTurn by DemonicPossession. |
| 765 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has this in the wrathgate questline. It's ''extremely'' jarring and sends many players who don't know about it from the internet into shock for a few minutes before continuing. |
| 766 | ** Two words: [[PlayerPunch Emmy]] {{M|yGodWhatHaveIDone}}alin. |
| 767 | ** And Ta'Zinni in the Horde's equivalent quest. |
| 768 | ** Cataclysm is expected to give quite a bit of wham episodes in the story/quest arcs. Previous [=NPCs=] in Vanilla that gave you quests may die in the next or become involved in a deeper storyline. |
| 769 | ** In the pre-Cataclysm events, Horde gets a much larger wham. You know all those tigers on the Echo Isles you've been killing for quests? Many of them are [[spoiler:TROLL DRUIDS.]] |
| 770 | ** Post-Cataclysm - the fate of ''[[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=24573 Honoring the Dead]]''. For ''anyone'' that had leveled up in the Barrens, it was possibly the most depressing quest that Blizzard has put in the game, due to the {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s that those you're giving the rites to had performed. |
| 771 | --> [[spoiler:Omusa's Spirit says: No, stay with the others. Escort them north, away from the fighting. I will stay here with the wyverns and cover your escape. Go!]] |
| 772 | ** In Stonetalon Mountains Post-Cataclysm, the ''neutral'' druid school (with both Night Elves and Tauren) is bombed by a Horde commander until absolutely nothing but a crater is left. While for the Horde you see it coming, Alliance has no idea that the bomb they've been chasing throughout the zone is going to be used on ''schoolchildren.'' |
| 773 | ** The ''Legion'' quest line in Val'sharah which sees not only Cenarius corrupted and taken by the Nightmare, but Ysera irreversibly corrupted and killed by the players. |
| 774 | * Chapter 9 of ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'' turns the story's ''main selling point'' on its head. The generic, nameless, "weakest protagonist ever" is actually an IronWoobie and one hell of a {{Determinator}} who deserved to inherit the mantle of Unlosing Ranger from the start. That HopelessBossFight that you have to retry at the end of every chapter? [[spoiler:No different from that time he saved his sister from a cannibal by letting himself get beaten up repeatedly.]] All those people, including his two main supporters, calling him weak? [[spoiler:They're probably constantly reminding him of his home, where his family has been falling apart for the past eight years because they thought he was too weak during that incident.]] And he still fights against impossible odds for all of these people. Appropriately, this revelation is immediately followed by a NextTierPowerUp that replaces the protagonist's pathetic-looking portrait, and marks the first time you're able to win the formerly-HopelessBossFight. |
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