Making fun of the saddest scene in AIR, an already sad anime/VN is just terrible... Unless, of course, you do it via Super Mario Worldautoplay.
Bayonetta is practically built around this trope. The titular character doesn't just cross the line, she runs it down with an 18-wheeler, blows it up with a nuclear missile, and tap-dances on the ashes. It's possible that she doesn't even care that a line exists. Here are a few notable instances. Note that these are from the first game alone.
One cutscene where Bayonetta has just defeated the boss Tempermantia and elects to blow it up by shooting a stream of gasoline coming from a peeing baby angel statue. When it fails the first time, she shoots the statue in the spout. When the head flies past in the ensuing (huge) explosion, it's crying.
The first time we meet Joy, cue the gentle laughter when there's a little impromptu dance off. Drop your jaw in shock/horror/hilarity when Joy chooses to finally... reveal herself. Then the line is tossed out of the window when you perform the torture attack on her.
The big twist of "Case one Deluxe" is flat out bonkers. To wit, a drug dealer found Skunk Ape, used im to guard his stash... and got him addicted to cocaine.
Using the "touch" icon on most things will often give somewhat of a funny response - including chastising you for acting like Hercrabbiness who lets played the games and did just that. Until however, the final game where you can use it on a priest, and the message instead changes to "Shouldn't that be the other way around?"
The Binding of Isaac is a game about a fanatical mother who takes everything away from her son, strips him naked, locks him in his room, and tries to kill him under orders of a voice claiming to be God. What would be a dark premise is turned in to a dash of Black Comedy, as to summarize one possible run: Isaac could potentially jam a rock in his head to increase his damage, poison himself with ipecac so that he can fire exploding vomit and blow up other naked children that are infested with flies, kill a literal pile of shit larger than him as one of the potential first bosses, pick up a cancer tumor because it increases firing rate, trade fifteen cents for hooking a car battery to himself to a shopkeeper that resembles him but having long been killed and dried out after apparently hanging himself, eat a placenta to give himself more health and the power to regenerate, and sell some of his health/soul to Satan himself to get his own personal succubus. And that's just within the first two floors.
Hazama/Terumi: Awwww, that's so cute... Who's my good little sword? It's you! Yes you are! Yes you are! Oh now don't get jealous Rags, but this sword is all mine from now on, OK? Isn't she nice, though? It wasn't cheap, but I thought "Hell Hazama, you deserve it... Spoil yourself! Spring for the 'Ragna's Little Sister' model"!
Bulletstorm crosses the line twice in not only violence but also in swearing; the game loves its obscenities beyond the point of all reason.
Trishka: You shitpiles give chase, I will kill your dicks! Grayson: You're gonna kill my dick? What does that even mean?!
Non-comedy example: Makarov from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and 3 somewhat fits this. How could a man tear whole nations apart in span of a few years with very well armed, heavily militarized fanatics, even commanding a whole regiment of ultranationalists with a seemingly invisible command structure opposing the current Russian president? And how did they manage to overrun all of Europe in 24 hours note This gets Handwaved as them using "chemical weapons" to soften European armed forces, never mind that real life militaries have NBC drills specifically to avoid this scenario.? And how did the whole thing instantly fall apart and shrink into a hotel-sized militia the second the Russian government de jure reorganized themselves and managed to make peace with the United States just in time for the final confrontation? These questions are a large part of the reason, aside from sympathetic Russian characters, why the game didn't face as much backlash in Russia compared to its 2019 reboot; "Just the will of a single man" is difficult to take seriously. Even a certain real life regime back in the day needed extensive planning, clear chains of command, and a heavily structured regime to become a menace to the world.
Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of the earliest games to do this. You think climbing up the side of a giant mountain of literal shit was bad enough? Wait until you go inside and fight The Great Mighty Poo in a showdown of musical proportions. This game does everything offensive and rolls with it to absurdity. First up, the inspiration: one of the staff members (who even voiced the character) had a BM so massive that it broke the toilet at the office meaning they couldn't get rid of it for hours. The intro cutscene is unforgettable: I~ am, the Great Mighty Poo, and I'm going throw my shit. At. You. (Obviously NSFW) Quite fittingly, NintendoCapriSun had a field day with that particular boss. You know, IN THE BATHROOM!
For one famous example, one player playing an Orthodox ruler discovered he could farm gold by matrilineally marrying his seventeen-year-old daughter to rich landless men (to bring them to his court), excommunicating them, imprisoning them, and executing them.
During the Boss Battle with Goopy Le Grande, you don't just fight him. You also fight his tombstone. It can move around and smack you flat.
When fighting against the giant cuckoo clock bird Wally Warbles: Once defeated, it will become knocked out and featherless, then his son, a chick with psychic powers will fight you instead. After defeating the chick, Wally appears again, now featherless and lying on a stretcher carried by two smaller blue birds that aid him in the battle. Once Wally is defeated again, the blue birds choose to prepare to cook and eat him, salting and peppering his body.
The curtain in Sally Stageplay's fight proudly displays that it's made ofasbestos.
Cyberpunk 2077: Trying to talk a potential suicide out of jumping off a bridge? Pretty heavy stuff. Said suicide is a malfunctioning AI currently inhabiting a taxi? Might draw a giggle. Said AI complaining that therapy won't work because All Psychology Is Freudian and computers don't have mothers? Hilarious.
Helping man in severe pain from malfunctioning cybernetic implant? Dramatic. Said implant is a bargain-bin prosthetic penis, which he got purely for vanity reasons? Hilarious. Driving him to a doctor while making polite conversation and making sure to stop at every red light along the way? Even more hilarious! Finding the man in your phone's contact list, listed as "Flaming Crotch Guy"? Congratulations game. You won.
Day of the Tentacle: The "puzzle" in order to access Edna's video screen is to literally just push her out of the room. Bernard's line however sells it:
A sequel "Return of the tentacle" has Edna revealed to have actually been injured by this... however the fact she's in a full body cast, can't speak, and Bernard doesn't know how she wound up that way instead ends up coming off as hilarious.
Diablo IV: One of the game's Dragons, Elias, has a part of his body sealed away so that he cannot die as long as it exists. The player discovers this after Elias is killed... only to come back in. Except this happens so many times that instead of a revelation, it becomes hilarious.
The game's whole point is that, unlike other Role Playing Games that, instead of railroading you into playing as The Roleplayer, you can also play as a Chaotic StupidLoonie. The game points out that other people in Revachol will expect strange behaviour from officers of the law, so you can get away with saying and doing absurd things with no serious repercussions.
A great example of this is that, during your player character's Establishing Character Moment of waking up in his trashed hotel room, leering at the hot girl next door, and walk-of-shaming downstairs to be immediately pressured for the huge tab he owes, failing the "sneak out without being noticed" check to get out of paying your hotel bill results in your character hurtling towards the door at top speed, then jumping backwards with both his middle fingers in the air, colliding straight into a guest in a wheelchair. The manager is so confused that he will immediately cut the bar tab off your bill (and cut it even further if, while lying on the floor in a stunned state, you inform him you're not paying for the window you smashed).
Measurehead is a huge, physically gorgeous black man who believes in his own physical superiority over white people, and uses this for sexual access to a gaggle of white women, while jeering at your white player character for his comparative weakness and ugliness. He is also currently kept subdued by a white boss who reigns him in by keeping him busy with menial physical work. In short, he's a white supremacist's stereotype of a black man. He also exposits at length about his outrageously offensive "advanced race theory" which is derived from white supremacist 'scientific racism'. And your player character, who is half his size, can overpower him by spin-kicking him in the face. A character like this would be far too extreme for any major commercial game, but in Disco Elysium results in some very uncomfortable laughs, as well as some commentary — Measurehead is a reasonably three-dimensional character who serves to indicate how inverting white supremacy still, ultimately, is the same logic as white supremacy, and the player character can point this out to him. (Or agree with him, and become a fascist.)
During the first confrontaton with the Hardie Boys, failing an Authority check results in being able to ask your partner for his service pistol. A sequence of extremely dumb dialogue choices allows you to blow your own brains out. You can commit suicide in order to prove your authoritah.
While Doom has caused more than a bit of an outrage back in the day, the same cannot be said of Doom³, Doom (2016), and Doom Eternal. Apart from how public perception of videogames are matured, for the last two, it's because all the over-the-top violence are justified, done for the sake of humanity, more played for comedy in Doom Eternal, and none of the Slayer's brutal targets are human.
There's an apocryphal but somewhat persistent story that Doom II pays tribute to Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun six months before the game's release, by including a shotgun in the very first sector of the level named "Nirvana". It's not hard to believe considering some of the other things id Software got into in the early '90s, like their persistent attempts to include cannibalism in some way or shape in every game from Wolfenstein 3-D to Quake.
This post from a Dota 2 player whose mother was dying◊. In Dota 2 terminology, "denying" a kill refers to killing a heavily wounded ally to prevent the enemy team from gaining the gold and XP they'd get from the kill. The player in question was telling another player to do this to his mother.
That's the main selling point of Duke Nukem and its satire of action movies. Same with Duke's Build Engine brothers Blood with horror productions and Shadow Warrior (1997) with Eastern culture.
"Losing Is Fun!" One of the draws of Dwarf Fortress is that since there is no win condition, one of the best ways to enjoy the game is to have a fortress disaster so spectacular and effort-destroying that the Epic Fail factor overflows into Awesome. With a heaping dash of funny.
Bad endings in the Fate/stay night game. Getting your stomach obliterated by a crazed giant? That's one of the better choices.
The ridiculousness of some of the deaths (you have to actively try for a few) is lampshaded in the post-death 'Tiger Dojo,' which coaches you on what to do differently next time. When Saber kills you, she appears super-deformed, angsting in the background - unless you got that death from pure stupidity, in which case she's nowhere to be seen, no matter what she did to you ("she doesn't get depressed if the fault isn't all hers").
Fate/Grand Order: One particular part of the Las Vegas Summer event requires the player and company to distract Scheherazade. Scheherazade just so happens to be very thanatophobic, to the point where she bails if anyone looks like they're going to die around her lest the same fate befall her. The protagonist promptly sends Yu Mei-ren in her direction, with the order to feign illness, then use her Noble Phantasm, in which she explodes in a shower of blood and gore and reforms shortly afterward. Scheherazade is so triggered by this that she becomes a One-Hit-Point Wonder in the ensuing fight.
Pre-Bethesda Fallout gets like this a lot. Think: what other game allows you to shoot a little kid in the groinwith a missile launcher? You can also shoot women in the groin, which elicits all sorts of dark comments like "Her childbearing days are in trouble as she collapses in a limp heap" and "She takes it like a man. That is to say, it hurts."
Tifa: Would you stop acting like a retard and CLIMB?!?!?
A hidden mechanic in Fuga: Melodies of Steel involves certain characters becoming instantly inflicted with Depression if they have a strong canon relationship with whoever was sacrificed to the Soul Cannon (such as Malt becoming depressed if Mei gets sacrificed due to their sibling relationship and vice-versa). If Hanna is sacrificed, Kyle will get depressed due to his crush towards her... but if Kyle gets sacrificed, Hanna doesn't react at all.
The final battle in God of War III allows you to cross the line as many times as you want by punching Zeus in the face until the screen is completely covered in blood... and then punching him some more.
While Grand Theft Auto generally has a straightforward plot and characterization befitting of a crime drama, its Show Within a Show, particularly GTA Radio, is this in spades. One great example from Vice City Public Radio:
Maurice Chavez:Dios mío, you shot him! There's blood!... and pubic hair!... all over the studio!!
On a show in Liberty City Stories, gourmet chef Richard Goblin happily allows a pregnant cow to give birth into a frying pan, then proceeds to stab the cow to death. Just to top it off, Goblin eagerly slurps up some of the cow blood before exclaiming "It's fresh!".
In an episode of 'Just or Unjust' in GTA IV, a man rapes a thirteen year old girl, impregnates her, stalks her and then laughs when she is torn apart by lions in front of him. He has his throat ripped out moments later by the same lion, so it kinda evens out...
Then came Grand Theft Auto V with Trevor Philips, a man that seems to be characterized by flip-flopping between psychopathic and level headed in his first appearances, yet sympathetic and loyal at the same time that despite being a minor Base-Breaking Character for several quite reprehensible acts he got away from such as ruining a couple's life and then killing them and also taking over a strip club violently yet stealthily, many players put off from the choice to kill him in the end of the game and canonically he survives in Grand Theft Auto Online, set years after the story mode.
A Hat in Time: After being defeated by the Hat Kid, the Snatcher turns to a book bluntly titled "HOW TO KILL KIDS." If the Death Wish DLC is completed, he calls it useless and considers suing the author.
I Wanna Be the Guy is something like this, except the line is between "frustrating" and "funny", rather than "vulgar" and "funny".
For many fans of Nintendo Hard games, this is the reasoning. Dying repeatedly in the same spot, or to a death trap that was absolutely impossible to see coming, is simply hilarious.
Two people attempting to murder a 14-year old girl's Parental Substitute and then resurfacing years later to essentially kidnap her from her family? Horrifying. Those same two people luring her away with ice cream and her playing along because her family wouldn't take her to an amusement park? Hilarious.
A man getting thrown overboard into a school of sharks by two women would be rather dark if it happened in real life. This happening because said women mistook his Muay Thai shorts for swim trunks and one of them asking him to get some shark fin causes the whole thing to loop around into comedy gold.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land: On one hand, Fecto Forgo being captured, studied, and then experimented on by the inhabitants of the new world is pretty much the perfect backdrop for an apocalyptic science horror story. But on the other hand, the fact Lab Discovera thought it was an appropriate idea to repurpose the whole thing as a big tourist trap and put the creature on full display even after Fecto was effectively put into a coma, along with the "tour" featuring cheesy cheerful music and an overly-enthusiastic narrator, makes the whole thing wrap back around to slightly hilarious. One can just imagine that Fecto Forgo merch was sold at some point.
Ellis: My buddy Keith tried camping out on top of a building once. He was shooting crows, but the police were too busy tear gassin' him to ask what he was doin' up there. He screamed for an entire year every single time he opened his eyes! Oh man! At first it was funny, then it just got sad, but then it got funny again! Oh man!
The Heat Actions are a near-constant source of this that combines what'd certainly be fatal injuries in Real Life with Amusing Injuries while also having every mook that picks a fight with Kiryu or Majima somehowsurvive with only a few bruises and shattered egos to show for it.
Among the things you can use as Improvised Weapons, you can use actual bowling balls, portable gas stoves, rolled-up magazines (a favorite of Akiyamain particular), kettles filled with boiling water, and oranges. Yes, only in Like a Dragon can you force-feed a mook their daily intake of Vitamin C and make it look painfully hilarious.
Lost Judgment takes place in a high school in Yokohama where the main characters are trying to get to the bottom of the school's bullying problem. Being a spin-off of the Like a Dragon series with everything mentioned above, you can naturally do as such with most of the students you fight in the game. Reminder - you can beat the living shit out of high school students andget away with it by virtue of playing as a Bully Hunternote One who, as of 2021, is approaching middle age, no less. (and said high school students mostlybeing assholes, to begin with, on top of being the ones who draw first blood).
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth begins with the secret that Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, is still alive after being presumed dead for years, being revealed not just to Kiryu's enemies, but also his friends and family who thought him dead. That's dramatic, traumatic and big trouble. The fact that the news is spread to the world by a cutesy VTuber? Hilarious.
In the original Star Wars: A New Hope, when Leia breaks down into tears after watching her home planet be destroyed by Tarkin's Death Star, we mostly joined her in it. In LEGO Star Wars, when the same thing happens with the addition of Tarkin pointing at her and laughing like a school bully, however...
MadWorld not only crosses the line twice, it stomps all over the line, rubs the line into the dirt, and smears a bloody gangster corpse across the line just to obliterate it even further. Every minigame is outright Black Comedy at its finest. When one mini-game involves using a spiked baseball bat to chuck mooks at a giant dart board for points...
Reaches a climax when you use CIDER BOTTLES to launch ALIENS at dartboards shaped like HOT WOMEN with the targets positioned at their PLEASURE CENTERS. It doesn't get weirder (or sexier) than this.
The Black Baron.Does the fact that he isn't actually black, just in blackface, make it more, or less, offensive?
On a somewhat related note concerning the Baron, his voice actor would later go on to voice Mudflap, whose offensiveness is on par with (if not higher than) the Baron's. He did not get away with it, which tells something about Madworld.
Maniac Mansion: You have to pick up Weird Ed's hamster in order to access the Meteor. Returning it is optional, but if the player is feeling really bad, they can literally put it in the microwave, and turn it on. For further fun? You can literally pick up the exploded remains of the hamster and give it to Weird Ed. He doesn't take this well... And what's more? Its sequel states this canonically happened.
Mario Kart. Picture this: You're playing with your friends and are well in first place. The finish line is just a corner and a stretch away. Suddenly, you get hit with a stray Green Shell, stopping you. As you try to accelerate again, you're smacked with a Lightning Bolt. You then hear the dreaded sound of a Spiny Shell coming for you and then slamming into you, knocking you upward again and making you lose several positions. Finally, a heavier opponent knocks you off-course, forcing you to wait as you respawn back on the track. You are now in last place. At this point you have probably gone through a few cycles of alternating between threatening to kick your friends in the face and laughing your ass off.
The kinds of violence that Talion performs in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War would be utterly horrific if done to people, and would be excellent arguments in favour of banning video game violence entirely. Such things include telekinetically crushing heads, shanking uruks to death by stabbing them dozens of times in the back (one stab for each button tap), placing a palm on their faces and magically burning their brains until their heads blow apart — or doing the same to dozens of enslaved thralls all at the same time with a gesture of the hand — all the while listening to them scream in terror.
This is one of Mortal Kombat's selling points. The fatalities tend to fall under this, since you're adding insult to injury, or further injury to injury, whatever.
One particular fatality involves Cassie Cage knocking her opponent's entire lower jaw off... and then taking a selfie with the corpse, and uploading the pic on social mediaand some other kombatants making Incredibly Lame Puns on top of that.note One response that is simply wrong on so many levels is Kano (the nemesis of Cassie's mother Sonya) asking "A/S/L?". Bonus if the opponent in question is Sonya Blade, as she's uploading a picture with her and her mother's dead body. That she killed. It's also the reason, why Mortal Kombat X wasn't put on index in Germany. The Fatalities were so over-the-top in their brutality, they reached a level of ridiculousness and were assessed to be extremely unrealistic. It was literally too brutal to be indexed.
Some of Johnny Cage's recent Fatalities skip across the line as well - one in MKX has him reenact the famous door scene from The Shiningusing the torso of his opponent, which can include his wife or daughter. He tops himself in Mortal Kombat 11 with a Fatality where he rips his opponent's top half off and then performs a vaudeville act with it, including impromptu spotlight and silly voice for the "puppet". It ends with the audience booing him and throwing tomatoes. And if that's not your cup of tea, you can alternatively have him attempt to do his "Deadly Uppercut"... in 19 takes, with him getting increasingly frustrated to the point that he ends up throwing his opponent's head into the camera while giving it the finger. Again, you can do these to his wife or daughter.
Plenty of the ways you can get a game over in Nancy Drew games are often Video Game Cruelty Punishment, yet at the same time it can be downright twisted and it's hilarious. Some of these gems include:
Nancy getting hit in the head with a brick and having her sentence scrambled because of the impact.
Nancy leaving an iron on in the hotel and burning it to the ground.
Giving Nancy or her host food poisoning by giving them a sandwich with absolutely inedible ingredients like baking soda, mayonnaise that expired in the '90s, or jellyfish.
Causing multi-car pileups.
Ninja Gaiden II, the Xbox 360 one, has bloodshed to such ridiculously over-the-top extents that it avoids being offensive or disturbing.
And yet, the PlayStation 3 version Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 had to be cleaned up anyway, turning all the blood into "purple mist". Though the "clean up" had less to do with offensiveness than the fact that the blood splatters and limbs flying around caused the framerate to nosedive.
One game example: Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!. The title alone says enough and the fact the final boss puts on the stolen panties to become a giant version of one of the main female leads is only exacerbated by this ridiculousness.
Palworld likely would've been dismissed as yet another Pokémon clone had its announcement trailer not gained infamy thanks to this trope. Forcing animals to act as meat shields against actual guns and sweatshop labor wouldn't be funny if they were anything but rip-offs of actual Pokémon (including Lamball, a blatant Wooloo Expy, visibly crying as it's used to deflect bullets before the protagonist casually tosses it aside) and you even have the capability to butcher and eat them.
Pengullet's Partner Skill. Instead of having the Pengullet do anything on its own, the player grabs it and shoves it inside a rocket launcher to shoot it at enemies, and the Pengullet blows up on contact. Cruel? Yep. Hilarious? Absolutely.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker: The conversation between the illusory Maegar and Cephal in the Varnhold's Lot DLC campaign. By now you've been with them long enough to know they argue about literally everything Like an Old Married Couple, so it's completely in-character... but not only are they basically arguing about kingdom management (a Scrappy Mechanic from the main campaign), they're trying to decide whether to build a hospital on a cursed graveyard or in a plague-ridden wasteland.
Persona 5: Towards the end of the confidant with Kawakami, your high school teacher, you can attempt to start a romance with her. Normally a pretty racy scenario, having a minor getting in a relationship with his adult teacher. But when she tries to dissuade you by talking about how she's your teacher and you are her student, one of the dialogue options available is "That's the best part!", pushing it over into hilarious.
The Postal series is full of this: pissing on a pizza and eating it; using a cat as a silencer; setting a gay club on fire; playing catch with a dog using a head or a grenade; pissing on people, making them throw up; tasering someone until they collapse, crying and pissing themselves in pain as you kick them in the face then douse them in gasoline and flick matches at them, setting them on fire, followed by kicking them a few more times, pissing on them again to put the fires out, and finally finishing them off by knocking their head off with a shovel or dropping a molotov cocktail on the ground just out of reach (but close enough that they're well within the blast radius) and watching them crawl toward it on charred limbs and belly, ostensibly in an effort to snuff it out, and see it explode in their face, sometimes splattering their head into little, bloody, bony chunks; the whole slaughterhouse sequence in the second game...
Did we mention that both blood AND vomit have liquid physics applied to them? You can induce vomiting on someone at the top of a hill, then decapitate them (the vomit will keep spraying forth from the neck) and watch a mixed stream of blood and bile run down the hill and pool at the bottom. Get your angles right and the head will bounce down the hill right alongside the fluids.
Punch-Out!! features numerous racially stereotypical enemy boxers (the Wii version alonemocks the French, Germans, Americans, Polynesians, the Japanese, Canadians, Indians, Spaniards, the Irish, Russians and the Turkish), yet goes so over the top with said stereotypes that it swings around to being hilarious.
EVERYTHING ABOUT the Saints Row series crosses the line twice! Examples include using the Penetrator (a giant dildo used as a melee weapon), scarring a man's face by mixing toxins with tattoo ink, rescuing a pimp from a sex dungeon and getting away on a cart drawn by men in horse-themed bondage gear, committing insurance fraud in Hell...
The Shin Megami Tensei franchise gives us Mara, who is literally a giant green penis with tentacles in a golden chariot. Mara became one of the most popular demons in the franchise, and said popularity grew when Mara started spewing puns based on how he's a giant penis, with the words "thrust" and "penetrate" being common. Said puns get to the point where his own stats contain jokes on his appearance, with the most recurring being a weakness to ice.
Much like the show itself, the South Park video games are all about crossing the line as many times as possible.
South Park: The Stick of Truth has Nazi Zombie fetuses, and the abortion thereof, as a fundamental plot point, as well as an alien-produced serum that turns people into nazi zombies and are eager to probe people. And as an extra, all the voice clips from the nazi zombie enemies are directly taken from Adolph Hitler's speeches.
South Park: The Fractured but Whole gets a little more varied with its line-crossing, and it starts early on with the difficulty slider only changing your skin color; hard mode is black. Worse things follow, including Butters/Professor Chaos hiring illegal immigrants as his minions, a fight against pedophile priests, the infamously racist cops revealing they were arresting black people to sacrifice them to Shub-Niggurath (think about the name, and you'll get why it prefers "black meat"), and a difficult boss fight against Jared Fogle, packing the most hideously suggestive (and hideously damaging) attack ever.
Jared's Aide: We'll handle these kids for you, Mr. Fogle! Jared: I think I know how to handle a kid, thank you.
There pretty much isn't a line on the titular Space Station 13. Part of the fun is getting killed in the most hilarious way possible, and boy are there a lot of ways to die.
Stardew Valley has Mayor Lewis's request that you "discreetly" retrieve his Lucky Purple Shorts after he apparently got lucky in Marnie's bedroom. Concerned Ape has added several pranks you can play with the shorts:
Adding the shorts to the summer luau soup gets a uniquely disgusted reaction from the Governor.
Using the shorts in your display in the fall festival shocks Marnie and pisses off Lewis, causing the latter to disqualify you and pay you 750 Star Points as Hush Money.
Version 1.4 lets you embroider the shorts with gold trim and wear them yourself. Lewis and Marnie can't speak to you while you're wearing them; Lewis is too angry, Marnie is too busy laughing.
Perhaps an unintentional example, but if you befriend the Shell-Shocked Veteran Kent, he will send you items in the mail... which include BOMBS.
Additionally, characters all have hated gifts. Their quotes will usually be offended at this or asking why you gave them that. Kent however says "This... they gave this to me in the Gotoro prison camp. I've been trying to forget..." which is worth a laugh. It's also somewhat amusing that Kent will say this towards things like Tortillas and milk.
HK-47 is a homicidal assassin droid whose 90% of dialogue involves how much he enjoys killing. It's a no brainer he crosses the line many times. However in the sequel you have the chance of crossing the line on him. You can install a Morality Chip in him, turning him into a pacifist. It's the most horrible thing you can do to him - and the most hilarious.
Take Jolee with you to Korriban. Your cover story for your companions? They're your slaves. Everyone takes this in stride... but Jolee has fun with it.
Jolee's escape on the Leviathan. He mind controls a guard to let him out, then to lock himself up instead for letting his charge go free. As if that wasn't enough Jolee decides to drop the mind control just to Troll the guard while he's down.
Guard: Damn you, old man! I'll kill you if I ever get outta here! Jolee:(with a cheerful tone of voice) Then I'll be sure to never let you out. Goodbye, sonny!
The sequel also features this one moment on Nar Shaddaa where you meet a couple thugs shaking down a civilian. You can force persuade them to simply let the man go... ooor, you can take an option that comes completely out of left field and tell them to give you all of their credits, then go jump into that central pit over there. It only gets funnier from there.
And what makes it even better? This gets a LIGHT SIDE INFLUENCE from several of your companions, because you technically saved the civilian (who is now fleeing from you in terror) - with Bao-Dur saying "That was a kind act!". When you just told several people to jump to their deaths.
On Voss you meet a scientist who is assisted with a mentally deranged soldier who wandered too far into the Nightmare Lands. The deranged soldier behaves similarly to a mentally disabled person. What makes it humorous is how he likes mimicking the scientist's gestures.
One of the game's achievements involves you killing 100 Jawas... while having the Party Jawa (a Jawa the hovers around you tied to balloons while throwing confetti) novelty item out. The name of the achievement ("That's just wrong!") even lampshades the absurdity of this situation.
Sith Inquisitor companion Khem Val is a Monstrous Humanoid who eats people, and reminds the PC of that fact so often it can easily cross the line into Black Comedy (especially since he never actually does it onscreen). He also has moments of outright clinginess to the Inquisitor despite claiming to hate them, such as when he's sent back to the ship on Tatooine due to the newly recruited Andronikos Revel being a Required Party Member, which can cause him to come off as more of a Tsundere than a horrifying monster. Come Onslaught and the Inquisitor can even romance him.
During the Sith Warrior's Hoth storyline, Darth Baras Force chokes one of his subordinates to death and hives his job to the man's Number Two. Normally this would be standard Sith stuff (the scene is a blatant Shout-Out to The Empire Strikes Back), but factor in that he's doing it out of frustration that the subordinate couldn't stop Baras's enemy Jedi Knight Xerender from breaking into his holocommunications just to troll him and it becomes hilarious.
During Chapter 13 of Knights of the Fallen Empire, Vette complains about Gault sending her to crawl through a tight space on the Gilded Star, he tells her his previous partner didn't complain as much as she did. She reminds him that his previous partner was crushed to death. Gault then tells her his partner never once complained about it.
In Subnautica, an offensive Easter Egg where the Seamoth submarine AI would rarely make a sexual reference "I love it when you come inside me" upon entering it did this. It was later removed. There is at least 1 complaint thread on the Steam forums.
Super Mario World Dark Horizon. Mario going against Those Wacky Nazis in an alternate universe version of World War 2 where the Mushroom Kingdom and Earth merged via Nazi super science is potentially crossing it far enough, but to the have Mario fight through the war on terror and take down Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, who have now allied themselves with the Nazis? Super Saiyan Hitler with final boss level powers from a magical meteor? Mario actually taking down an Iraqi nuclear missile? The game's so ridiculously over the top it's almost hilarious. And then every level just finds another way to offend just about everyone for the sake of it.
Ridley skewering Mega Man, smashing Mario's face against a wall, and breaking the walkway to attack Samus? Nightmarishly callous. Twirling Mario's cap like the plumber himself did in the Odyssey reveal trailer after the fact? Hilariously callous.
As if Luigi couldn't catch a break before, he finds himself in Castlevania, hopelessly outmatched by the myriad monsters before him, only to be desouled by death and later accosted by Carmilla, and Simon doesn't know or care about all this. You will either be weeping for the poor man in green or laughing your ass off. Or both.
Even the stuff in-game can reach this level of Black Comedy. Take Paz's spirit note The thing that replaces trophies where you can equip a few and they give you all sorts of powers for example. Her power is giving the character a Bob-omb upon starting a battle. Anyone familiar with the end of Ground Zeroes where she dies via a bomb that was implanted in her body exploding after the first one was removed will likely be alternating between laughing their asses off and shaking their heads in disbelief at how NINTENDO of all companies could get away with that kind of reference.
Surgeon Simulator 2013 gleefully does it with style. Drill bit stuck in the patient and bleeding out? Gruesome. Trying in vain to get the drill bit out as it spins in the patient? Bloody hilarious.
Blatant jingoism, nationalistic insults, and casual stereotyping really shouldn't be amusing, but Team Fortress 2 in general is a good example of how to invoke this trope. A cast that includes outdated nationalist stereotypes is offensive and not funny... unless those stereotypes comprise the entire cast. The Soldier, for example, is proudly patriotic to the point of blind idiocy and patent absurdity that he becomes damn near the funniest thing in the game and its supplemental materials. It helps that he's a Hot-BloodedCloud Cuckoo Lander and thus tends to loudly proclaim nonsense or act like the Large Ham he naturally is, taking any offensive edge off his words by virtue of being so deranged and moronic as to be hilarious. Additionally, thanks to one of the Sniper's secondary weapons, throwing jars of pee at people is a perfectly normal and accepted part of gameplay, both for inflicting a Damage-Increasing Debuff (which in-universe represents the target losing the will to live) and for putting out fires on burning teammates, which really goes to show how the game takes Refuge in Audacity and makes it the norm.
Terraria: If the player character fails to kill the Wall of Flesh in time and die to it after reaching the world's edge, you'll be greeted with this gem.
"<Player> was licked."
The infamous ending in Tsukihime where you get eaten by a shark. On the top floor of a hotel.
The Steam game Who's Your Daddy? is a casual 1v1 game about a Bumbling Dad and his suicidal baby. The way "Daddy" wins is keeping his baby from killing themselves for a few minutes. "Baby" wins by drinking cleaning supplies, eating batteries, jamming objects into power outlets, and drowning in the bath tub. As of December 2015, the game is currently in alpha, so it can only get worse for the dad from here.
As of January 2016 (Alpha V0.4.0-V0.6.0), it does; the baby can now crawl through the ducts of the house to quickly reach places that were once out of reach and can slow the dad to a crawl by slashing his ankles with a knife. Dad however has several tricks up his sleeves in order to combat this, such as "Breaking Dad" (Dad can now eat dangerous objects such as glass or keys) and using a taser that can pin the baby to one spot.note This will most likely change in the future.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: Everything about the game's One-Scene Wonder cameo: A deranged 71-year-old Adolf Hitler who pukes and pisses blood in full view of the actors he's auditioning for his latest (terrible) propaganda flick, and winds up shooting all of them bar in-disguise B.J..
Joshua himself provides quite a hefty dose of this trope thanks to his quips and Jerkass moments. For example, his murder of Neku is mostly definitely shocking and brutal. However, his rather nonchalant attitude towards the whole thing and little fist pump after shooting Neku dead can make the scene also come off as morbidly hilarious.
Not from the game itself, but from one of the World of Warcraft forums: the brother of a player called Nano logs into Nano's account to tell everyone that Nano has passed away, they've had the funeral, "he was a good person and I'm sure many of you would agree".
loroldonfarm: Did he drop any good loot?
Another from World of Warcraft where a character died in real life and they planned an elaborate in-game funeral announcing it on the forums and asking people to be respectful and not disturb it. You can guess what happens next.[1]
Also, players of high level characters will sometimes escort lower level characters through instances, deliberately drawing as many enemies as they can before setting off a high-power area effect attack. One enemy dying? Not funny. Two enemies dying? Still not funny. Several dozen enemies dying at the exact same moment, with identical, perfectly synchronized actions, expressions, and vocalizations? Utterly hilarious!
There is an achievement called "That's Just Cruel." While wearing a leatherworking-crafted cloak called the Onyxia Scale Cloak, players must defeat Nefarian in Blackwing Lair while wearing the cloak. Then, head into Blackwing Descent to defeat Nefarian again, while still wearing the cloak. As the achievement describes, "just to get the point across." For context, Onyxia is Nefarian's sister, and said cloak is made from scales taken from her corpse. (Granted, they're both evil dragons, but still.)
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