History BlackComedy / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]] pretty much runs on this, considering they take place at two of the most [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional]] kindergartens you'll ever find. For example, Buggs's mission in the first game is for you to help him kill Ms. Applegate and get away with it. The scene at the end of the mission where the principal searches the children includes:

* The otherwise E-rated ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'' is loaded with this. No less than three characters continue to inundate you with British humour despite varying stages of horrific undeath, and plenty of jokes involve characters getting injured or even killed.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':

** In VideoGame/BanjoKazooie's showcase, Creator/MasahiroSakurai refers to all the background characters in Spiral Mountain as "poor souls", and proceeds to joke about their horrible fates, such as Bottles's death at the beginning of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gruntila being [[AndIMustScream trapped under a boulder]] for two years, and Tootie's fate in the first game's GameOver sequence.

* ''Art Heist Puzzle'' features anonymous notes which give interesting facts about the artists and paintings. The one accompanying Giovanni Baronzio's ''The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist'' comments that if the writer had been him, they would've added a lettuce leaf to balance out the "meal".

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', you are a security guard in a building full of murderous animatronics, and all you have to defend yourself with is security cameras, two doors, and limited electricity to power the cameras and the doors... and it begins with a [[MoodWhiplash bored-sounding security guard reading out legal information to you]], telling you some odds and ends, and basically ending the conversation with an offhand mention about how someone in the past had their frontal lobe torn out by the animatronics, which is why they aren't allowed to walk around during the day anymore, how the animatronics are likely to kill ''you'' by forcing you into an animatronic suit, and how there are blind spots [[ParanoiaFuel all around your office]]. It's hard not to chuckle, in a twisted way. [[spoiler:Then you find out ''why'' [[HauntedTechnology the animatronics]] are [[DisproportionateRetribution doing what they're doing]], and then ''[[SerialKiller the man]] who caused it'' appears, and things take [[CerebusSyndrome a massive turn for]] the ''[[TheHeroDies worst]]''.]]

* ''VideoGame/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAAARecklessDisregardForGravity'' particularly likes this style of humor.

* In contrast to how [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 C.Q. Cumber]] penalized you for a "test failed" by unceremoniously [[ExplosiveLeash activating the ink bomb on your back]], ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' has O.R.C.A. shine a spotlight on you for a moment, read out what you did wrong, and dump a large volume of ink on your Ink Battler's head a la ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. Of course, this being ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' and "test failed", the amount of ink [[OneHitKill splats you on the spot]].

* In comparison to how [[ExplosiveLeash C.Q. Cumber]] penalized you for a "test failed", ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' has O.R.C.A. shine a spotlight on you for a moment, read out what you did wrong, and dump a large volume of ink on your Ink Battler's head a la ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. Of course, this being ''Splatoon'' and "test failed", the amount of ink [[OneHitKill splats you on the spot]].

** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' manages to take the Joker's black comedy UpToEleven even after he dies, [[spoiler:as Bruce Wayne's split personality, created as an unexpected side effect of Joker's Titan-infused blood poisoning]]. Every joke from the "AI" insults the characters Batman comes across, while Batman plays the straight man by pretending he can't hear them. You get to hear these messages throughout the entire game and after side-quests (or until Batman destroys the source in the ending by [[NotSoStoic furiously punching it to stuff it in a box]]).

** Taken UpToEleven during VideoGame/BanjoKazooie's showcase, where Creator/MasahiroSakurai refers to all the background characters in Spiral Mountain as "poor souls", and proceeds to joke about their horrible fates, such as Bottles's death at the beginning of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gruntila being [[AndIMustScream trapped under a boulder]] for two years, and Tootie's fate in the first game's GameOver sequence.

* The cartoony, comically exaggerated bloodshed of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' brings it to the edge of black comedy. The Meet the Cast videos push it over, and Meet the Pyro turns it UpToEleven.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' has a fair bit of this. ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' absolutely ''revels'' in it though, to the point where it qualifies for both DenserAndWackier and DarkerAndEdgier.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': Most notably anything written on the terminals in the Nuka Cola factory, mostly involving the testing of their products, which resulted in some deaths. Nuka Cola Quantum was finally cleared for release once the number of deaths was at ''acceptable'' levels. Said product includes radioactive isotopes.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' comes with a number of promotional short films explaining the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuo7AuDGNN8 S.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw21X2jKwCM P.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paYU1neP3xM E.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95lZ56ddj4 C.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yt-43Vp1M I.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_okO2tLN0 A.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke9wvob8Ls L.]] system. It also says a lot about Vault-Tec's sociopathic tendencies that they can pass off ''[[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]'' as a peachy survival tip.

** ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' and its promotional material ups the ante by showing a behind-the-scenes look at the insanity that is Aperture Science -- along with the inevitable tragic results which are themselves PlayedForLaughs.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' computer game series. The more outlandish weapons involve exploding [[BaaBomb sheep]], exploding cows, exploding old ladies...

* In a case of the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar radar ops]] being asleep at the switch, the E-rated ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'' is loaded with this. No less than three characters continue to inundate you with British humour despite varying stages of horrific undeath.

** There's a mission where a man makes constant sexist remarks against the female leader of his town. You then [[spoiler:use a mortar to bomb his house, knocking it off a cliff, and send him screaming to his death at the bottom of a chasm.]]
** Midway through the game, [[{{Troll}} Handsome Jack]] kills [[spoiler:Bloodwing]] and then starts complaining that he was going to play a violin "all sarcastically" over the corpse. A few minutes later he finds a violin and actually starts playing a terrible off-key song on it just to rub the salt in the wounds. And it manages to still somehow be hilarious, [[CrossesTheLineTwice perhaps because of how over the top it is]].

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', Superman's ending in Battle Mode reveals that he has placed a miniature Kryptonite pill in his chest. The other League members would take turns on a weekly rota caring for the device, being the ultimate decider whether or not to activate it. While this is NightmareFuel, the reveal that ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist Batman]]'' is the only one not allowed a turn is a bit darkly funny.