Ironic Echo / Video Games

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• Asura's Wrath has the following exchange: "Let us decide!" "Decide what?" (face-punch) "Who is stronger!" (Asura says this to Yasha when looking for a fight 12,000 years ago, and Yasha says this later to get him to activate the Mantra Reactor inside him.
• The last Scarecrow-induced hallucination in Batman: Arkham Asylum has this, being essentially the game's introduction with the roles reversed among other things that clearly aim to confuse the player.
• In Borderlands 2, Lilith greets everyone with "'Sup," most notably when she saves Sanctuary from Handsome Jack's schemes by teleporting it across the planet. At the end of "Where Angels Fear To Tread", when Jack has just killed her Love Interest, he throws "'Sup?" at her, shortly followed by a control collar.
• In the original Command & Conquer's Nod campaign, Seth eventually has enough of your winning streak and tries to get you killed. When his first attempt to do so via Uriah Gambit fails, he goes for a more direct approach and orders you to go to the US on a mission so secret that not even Kane knows about it yet because "power shifts quickly in the Brotherhood". He then reveals that he wants you to attack the Pentagon head-on — but as he's in the middle of briefing you, Seth suddenly gets shot in the head from off-screen. Kane then walks into the screen and casually tosses Seth's body out of the chair while quipping "Yes, power shifts more quickly than some people think." before occupying the chair himself and proceeding to give you the real briefing for your upcoming mission.
• From The Darkness.
  • "I remember the night of my twenty-first birthday... That was the first time I died."
  • Unskippable was so amused by this that they turned it into a Running Gag where the "death" counter goes up every time the point of view character dies or falls unconscious.
• Def Jam: Fight For New York is a game all about a Mob War between two gangs, one led by D-Mob (your boss) and the other by Crow, (the Big Bad) for control of New York's illegal underground no holds barred fight circuit. Less than halfway through the game the Crow says to D-Mob "Seems like you have a morale issue there, brother" when your rival walks out on D-Mob when D-Mob picks you as his best fighter instead of him. Later, when Crow's gang is so disgusted by his tactics and tired of his Manipulative Bastard shit, some of them, (including both of his dragons) walk out on him in a single cutscene. In the case of the second dragon, he walks out on Crow while in the middle of holding a gun to your head, and gives you the gun before he leaves. Guess what your character says while pointing the gun at Crow.
• Deus Ex: If you choose the humbler dialogue option ("I'm learning as I go") after dealing with the NSF inside Castle Clinton, Anna Navarre will tell you about your next objective- NSF members holed up in a subway station with explosives and hostages. J.C. Denton will propose using EMP grenades to disable the explosives' switches, and Anna will approvingly say, "We are thinking the same thought," before giving him two grenades. Later on, after J.C. defects from UNATCO, he will encounter Anna again if the latter is still alive. After J.C. says that he'd rather die than be loyal to Walton Simons, The Dragon and the one pulling UNATCO's strings, Anna will say, "We are thinking the same thought," in a much darker context.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution: If you don't get your neural implants serviced by the company in charge of controlling the world via them.
  Zhao: Men never fail to underestimate women.
  [later when she tries to activate the hacked implant she is sure you got like everybody else]
  Adam: Women never fail to underestimate men.
• Dino Crisis has Regina chide Dr. Kirk's attitude over sacrificing his colleagues for his experiments by calling him a devil. In the ending where Gail dies, Kirk mocks Regina by saying how she called him a devil when the true devil all along was the government she works for.
• In the 'Shade Impulse' campaign of Dissidia Final Fantasy, the Emperor dismisses the heroes' resolution to continue fighting, by claiming that 'Insects will swarm, but they are insects nonetheless.' Later, when they actually defeat him for good, he asks disbelievingly who they are. Several of the characters have their own echoes for him, if you defeated him with them:
  Firion: Just a swarm of insects.
  Cecil: Insects with a sting.
  Bartz: I heard you call us insects!
  Cloud: Just another bug.
• Bioware strikes again in Dragon Age II. At the end of the prologue, Aveline is forced to kill her husband Wesley, who has been infected by the darkspawn. Flemeth's comment on this, probably to comfort Aveline, is "without an end, there can be no peace." Anders repeats "there can be no peace" when he blows up the chantry; he means there can be no peaceful end to the mage-templar conflict.
• In Dungeon Siege II, your player character sounds skeptical about the Dark Wizards, saying that it "sounds like something told to restrain wandering children" (ignoring the fact that your character worked for Valdis at one point). In Broken World, the Overmage of the Cinbri says something quite similar.
• In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, when the player awakes in prison at the beginning, an obnoxious Dark Elf in a nearby cell taunts the player with an elaborate string of insults that change depending on your race, but always ends with "You're going to die in here!" Later in the game, if the player joins the Dark Brotherhood, they are sent to assassinate him, and one of their Pre-Mortem One-Liner options throws the "You're going to die in here!" line back in his face.
• Inverted in Fallout 4. The Vault-Tec salesman gives you Vault-Tec's slogan of "Prepare for the Future!" at the beginning of the game. Later, you can meet him 200 years later after you've been cryo-frozen and he's been turned into a Ghoul. If you pass a speech check, the formerly Broken Bird salesman will work for you, and deliver the slogan in a new, positive direction.
• Early in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Rex will say twice that it's "Lights out for Sloan", modifying it the second time when he remembers that he's already used that one-liner once. Sloan says it to Rex at the end while preparing to execute him, then Rex inverts it after overcoming his own programming and blasting Sloan through the chest with the Killstar.
• In Final Fantasy X-2, the power of the Songstress dressphere causes the undead spirit of Shuyin to mistake Yuna for his long-lost lover Lenne. He tells her "I've waited so long Lenne" and she replies "But I'm not Lenne." Later, if the player completes the Den of Woe segment, he tells her "This is our story, Lenne" and she shouts at him, telling him "Don't make me say this again. I'm...not...Lenne!" Finally, at the end of the game, the party beats Vegnagun controlled by Shuyin and Yuna is determined to make Lenne's words reach him, telling him that she has words unspoken for a thousand years, that she loves him, that she shouldn't go on grieving alone and can finally rest. "We can finally fade...together?" he asks, but then he suddenly sees through the Lenne guise.
  Shuyin: No.
  Yuna: Wait!
  Shuyin: You are not Lenne!
• Final Fantasy XIII: After capturing Vanille and Sazh in Nautilus, Jihl Nabaat coolly quips;
  "Take care with those. For every task, there is a perfect tool."
  • Much later, Galenth Dysley (after killing her, and every other human in the room) has this exchange;
    Snow: Monster! People aren't yours to use!
    Dysley: What else does one do with tools?
• In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope suggests that Lightning take over the role as The Savior in a stage play that gets done every day in Yusnaan, to topple a statue and gain access to Snow's palace to confront him. Lightning dismisses the idea, and gets an echo from Hope to something she told him in Final Fantasy XIII.
  Lightning: I can't do that!
  Hope: It's not a matter of what you can or can't do. You just do it.
• In the Shadowbringers expansion of Final Fantasy XIV, you learn about Emet-Selch and his backstory of how he lived in a world that was more like a utopia before it was sundered into several smaller worlds that appear in the present time. He lost his friends, family, loved ones, and he wants to bring everyone back even if it means sacrificing the current population. Upon beating him, he asks you to remember him and his legacy so he is not forgotten. Towards the end of Endwalker, Emet-Selch is summoned by the Warrior of Light and due to his scrambled memories being fully restored after spending time in the Lifestream, he notes how ironic it is that he was the one who had forgotten. This was due to Hermes in the past wiping everyone's memories of the events he caused. Had Hermes not done so, Emet-Selch would have stopped him and prevented the series of events that would shape the story.
• In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, the final mission of the Rise of the Deliverance campaign has Clive and his fellow knights in the Deliverance try to defend Zofia Castle, only for Slayde, Chancellor Desaix's lackey, to reveal he has Rigelian reinforcements. Slayde asks, "Do you understand now? Shall I spell it out with small words? Rigel has formally acknowledged that the chancellor is Zofia's true ruler!" After demanding that Clive and his men surrender and indulging in a bit of Evil Gloating, Slayde then notices that Lukas has taken the Rigelians in the city hostage, despite having warned them about the siege. Lukas then asks, "Do you understand now, Slayde? Or shall I use small words? The Deliverance has rounded up every last Rigelian in Zofia."
• God of War III: When their initial attack on Zeus goes badly and leaves them clinging to the side of Mount Olympus, Gaia refuses to help Kratos, telling him he was nothing but a pawn of the Titans and she has no further use for him, declaring "This is our war, not yours," and leaving Kratos to plummet into the River Styx. When Kratos later gets out of the Underworld and comes across Gaia struggling to reclimb Olympus, the latter legitimately expects Kratos to help her despite her betrayal. Instead, Kratos throws Gaia's words back in her face before severing her hand and sending her plummeting to her apparent demise.
  Gaia: Kratos, do I mean nothing to you?
  Kratos: You were a means to an end, Gaia. Nothing more.
  Gaia: But I must face Zeus. The Titans must take down Olympus.
  Kratos: No! This is my war, not yours.
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, CJ, coming back home after years of being away, meets Officer Tenpenny, who detains him and puts him in the back of a patrol car under the pretense of a "chat". Tenpenny proceeds to start screwing around with CJ and coerces him into his service via blackmail and a frame job and ends their "chat" by saying ''See you around, like a donut Carl!" before throwing him out of the car and driving away. Guess what CJ says later in the game when Tenpenny ends up dying on the street after driving a firetruck off a bridge while being chased by him and Sweet.
    CJ: See you around... officer.
  • At the beginning of Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko, fresh off the boat in Liberty City, is greeted by Roman exclaiming "Welcome to America!". Niko returns the greeting in Serbian, much to Roman's confusion as he hasn't spoken the language in a while. During the Deal ending, Niko confronts a wounded Dimitri and tells him the same words. He responds with Russian profanities, so Niko tells him to speak in English.
  • In Grand Theft Auto V, Franklin delivers the greatest Take a Third Option one-liner in all of history in this fashion.
    Devin Weston: So are you gonna, A. Listen to some fifty grand a year pension hunter, or B. A billionaire? Who even the president lets finger his wife. Or C? Try and be really stupid and save those two idiot mentors of yours and have everybody in the Goddamn state crawling up your ass. A, B or C? Time's ticking pal, beep, beep, beep and your answer is?
    [several hundred dead bad guys and one annihilated Big Bad Ensemble later, Franklin has Devin tied up in the trunk of a car and completely at his mercy]
    Franklin: Hey, my bad, homie. I picked C, ain't that a bitch?
• In Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the player character dismisses his ability to activate the scrying pool in the Hall of Monuments as "Just lucky, I guess." Later in the same cutscene, when the PC complains, "Why do I have to make the tough decisions?" Gwen tauntingly replies, "You're just lucky, I guess."
• Half-Life 2: Episode One features a long speech from Dr. Kleiner in which, at one point, he lets those who have safely evacuated City 17 know that "For those so inclined, now would be an excellent time for procreation." This line is repeated as a voiceover in the opening recap in Episode Two, out of context, against a backdrop of citizens still fighting for their lives.
• In HetaOni, relatively early on, Alfred warns Feliciano to "smile a little more naturally" when he's lying — revealing to the viewer that Feli is, indeed, hiding something worrisome from the group, namely his concerns about the mansion's "Groundhog Day" Loop. Much, much later in the game, as Alfred himself is falling apart upon witnessing the death of Arthur in one of the time loops, Feli asks him if he'll be all right, and when Alfred tells him yes, Feliciano advises him to "smile a little more naturally" when he lies.
• In Iji, Asha's logbook challenging Iji is entitled "To the Death." A later logbook ends with the same words, this time predicting the ultimate result of his weakness.
• inFAMOUS: Second Son: Several times over the course of the game, Brooke Augustine deadpans "Yeah, I'm told that hurts" whenever she's using her concrete powers to interrogate or hurt people. During the Final Boss, Delsin, having copied said concrete powers, throws that very same line back at her as he's using said powers to encase Augustine in concrete.
• In a subquest of Jade Empire, you meet a woman who, in the past, watched as her boyfriend knocked another child into a river and stopped her from saving him from drowning by saying, "If we help him, he'll only tell the others what we've done. We have to let him go." You can take her to the ex-boyfriend, whom she means to kill. He offers you silver to help him; if you refuse, you echo his words.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising begins with Pit telling Palutena (and the player) "Sorry to keep you waiting!" referencing the 25 years between that game and his first adventure. Later on, when Hades appears for the first time, he repeats this line word-for-word to them after Medusa is defeated and before Act II begins.
• Knights of the Old Republic: The Carth/Canderous "Soldier vs. Warrior" argument.
  Carth: Warriors conquer and enslave, they prey upon the weak. Soldiers defend the innocent, mostly from warriors.
  Canderous: Nice speech. I bet you tell yourself that every night so you can sleep. But I accept who and what I am. I don't have to justify it with words- victory in battle is my justification!
  Carth: Justification through victory? So what happens when you lose? You know, like you did against us?
  Canderous: You had us outnumbered five to one. You had more ships, more troops, more supplies and the Jedi on your side. And we still made the Republic tremble before we fell!
  Carth: Nice speech. I bet you tell yourself that every night so you can sleep.
• Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: The Jedi Exile sides with Revan using the catchphrase "Apathy is death", referring to the indecision of the Jedi Council to go to war. Near the end of the second game, she has a vision in which she has to decide which way to decide in a fight between her allies. If she tries to remain neutral, they will turn on her with mocking cries of "Apathy is death!"
• L.A. Noire: "Always happy to help the LAPD."
• In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Midna's Catchphrase is a gleeful "Eee hee hee! See you later!" At the very end of the game, a now-loving Midna's final words to Link before returning to her people and destroying the Mirror of Twilight are a tearful "Link, I-- See you later." *sob*
  • To a lesser extent, something similar happens in The Wind Waker: Tetra has a habit of winking with one eye when she's up to something. "Up to something" usually meaning that she's helping Link in a way that ends up being not too comfortable for him, since she does not care too much about his well-being. In the end of the game, however, Tetra winks once again, before returning his sword to him, which he lost in the duel with Ganondorf. Once again, she is up to something and once again, it's not going to be a pleasant experience for Link, the difference being that she now does genuinely care about him. It's just that Tetra and Link have no other choice than to go with what they're about to do if they want to survive.
  • An optional one occurs in Skyward Sword: After the second temple, Link finds himself being derided by Impa for being late, as Zelda would have fallen prey to Ghirahim had she not come herself. After the third temple, when Ghirahim attacks Zelda and Impa, Link has the option to say "Am I late?" when he steps in to buy them time to escape.
• In The Lost Crown, Nigel says "Nothing ventured..." to himself before stepping into unlit rooms or other potentially dangerous locales. Lucy later says the exact same thing to Nigel when he hesitates to accompany her on a risky endeavor.
• Love of Magic: A construct of Merlin repeats your line about "Overkill is something only the other guy worries about," then notes that in this case you are the other guy.
• In MadWorld, Jack meets with a doctor named Leo twice. The first time, Leo asks Jack to help him escape the city. Jack responds with. "I don't help people. I kill them." and continues competing in the games. The second time, Jack figures out that Leo was behind the games all along and fatally wounds him. Leo explains the whole story and points out that Jack won't be able to arrest him without helping him before he dies. Jack's response? "I don't help people... (Chainsaws Leo and watches him fall into the abyss) I kill them."
  • Another in the sequel, Anarchy Reigns, that also counts. Although there is confusion on how the game relates to Mad World, but it's a clear call back. Jack is tasked by Max's daughter to bring him back. When Jack finally comes face to face with Max, he gets ready to kill hiim for the death of his daughter. Rather than cruel but slightly self-aware, or simply getting revenge, he says in a way that puts his life as a killer into clear resolve: "We don't help people, we kill them!"
• Can happen in Maniac Mansion if you do two things:
  • First, bring Bernard with you.
    Dave: This could be real dangerous. If anyone wants to back out...
    Bernard: Okay, I'm outta here.
    Dave: Bernard, don't be a tunahead! This is Sandy we're talking about!
  • Second, finish the game normally by getting rid of the meteor.
    Dr. Fred: If there's anything I can do to repay you.
    Dave: Cash would be nice.
    Dr. Fred: Don't be a tunahead.
• Mass Effect:
  • Mass Effect 2 and 3: "I am the very model of a scientist salarian!" The first time Mordin sings it, he does it as his usual energetic self, a man who has no doubt that creating a fertility-damaging bioweapon for use against a hostile and warlike race was the "humane" thing to do compared with forcing the Turian military to kill them all. He hums the song again while distributing the cure for the same bioweapon with a weather control tower that is exploding around him.
  • The memetic "Shepard. Wrex." exchange enactable in Mass Effect between Shepard and Wrex gets one in 3 if you sabotage the genophage cure when Wrex is the krogan leader. Those are the first words spoken in a scene in which Wrex calls Shepard out on their betrayal and which invariably results in his (Wrex's) death. They even get reversed to "Wrex. Shepard."
  • The Illusive Man brings up "our brief existence" twice. First in Mass Effect 2, referring to the threat of the Reapers, then again in Mass Effect 3, this time arguing against their destruction. Set to the same theme tune and in the same room for added points.
  • In Mass Effect 3 Shepard can throw one out to the quarian fleet when Shepard is trying convince them to end their war with the geth.
    Shepard: The geth don't want to fight you! If you believe that for just one minute, this war will be over! You have a choice. Please. Keelah se'lai.
  • In the Leviathan DLC for the third game, when Shepard notices a small part of Sovereign's wreckage in Dr Bryson's lab.
    Shepard: Sovereign, the "vanguard of our destruction". How's that working out for you, big guy?
• Early on in Max Payne, the eponymous character, an undercover cop, visits the Finito brothers in search of their boss, Jack Lupino. They crack jokes about his name, leading to the following exchange.
  Max: You're killing me. Did you make that up yourselves or did you get some wino downstairs to come up with it? Don't answer that. A rhetorical question. I've got something for the boss. Lupino around?
  Joey: That kinda depends on who's askin', a friend... or a junk squad plant? Don't answer, it's one of 'em, how'd ya put it, rhetorical questions.
• In Mega Man Battle Network 6, at one point Baryl tells Lan that joining the WWW was his "destiny." Lan asks him, "if this is "destiny," what about "will?" Later on, right before confronting the Big Bad, Baryl has a change of heart and performs a Heel–Face Turn and tells Lan "This is my "will.""
• Metroid:
  • As a soldier, Samus used to give her C.O. a thumbs-down (instead of the Federation's usual thumbs-up) when acknowledging a mission, just to be cheeky. Anthony gives the same gesture at the end of Other M as a sign of camaraderie.
  • Also from Metroid: Other M, Adam Malkovich often concludes briefings by asking Samus "Any objections, Lady?" a Catchphrase Samus mentioned him using in Metroid Fusion, causing her to realize that the ship's AI was Adam himself when the AI used the same catchphrase. In Other M, Adam's relationship with Samus, including requiring her to get his authorization to use her powerups, comes off as controlling (perhaps unintentionally so), making the "Any objections, Lady?" catchphrase seem condescending. Near the end of the game, Samus activates the Screw Attack on her own and asks, "Any objections, Adam?" while he is not around to hear it.
• In Modern Warfare 2, an Army Ranger notes that the air strike General Shepherd's just called in is danger-close in relation to where they're positioned, and another Ranger says, "Since when does Shepherd care about danger-close?" Later on, Price repeats the line when Shepherd calls in an airstrike to kill him and Soap, not danger-close but right on top of his own men.
  • There's also another. In the beginning, Shepherd makes a monologue, including the famous phrase "History is written by the victors". As Price and Soap are preparing to kill him, Price says the following line.
    Price: History is written by the victors. History is filled with liars.
• Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath starts with the neutral ending, with Liu Kang getting ready to remake the timeline, before being interrupted by Shang Tsung coming out of a fiery portal along with Fujin and Nightwolf, saying "Cease, Liu Kang. Before you doom us all!" Then in the final battle as Shang Tsung tries to do the same thing and remake the timeline in his own image, it is Liu Kang who comes out of a fiery portal to say the same words to Tsung.
• While not an exact repeat, during a few predetermined moments in NieR: Automata the player is sent a prerecorded message from the Council of Humanity consisting of a generic pep talk urging the androids to finish their mission to liberate Earth for the humans on the Moon. The final time such a message plays is after the Bunker is destroyed, 2B is dying from the Logic Virus, and the player knows that humanity has been extinct for a long, long time and 2B and 9S' entire mission has been completely pointless, rendering the final message deeply ironic.
• The rabbit Marquis de Hoto from The Night of the Rabbit has the catchphrase "Nothing is impossible" which normally is used to motivate the hero. However the real (and evil) Marquis de Hoto also uses this phrase, but as a response to the statement that it is not possible for him to escape his imprisonment.
• Persona: What Yukiko says to the true killer in Persona 4:
  Yukiko: You're just throwing a tantrum like a little kid who can't have his way!

  And what said person tells Sho Minazuki in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax:

  Adachi: Don't think we're the same, you little brat... You're nothing but a little kid throwing a tantrum.
  • At the beginning of Dojima's Social Link, if you say school is "Meh," he'll say, "If you have something to say, you say it straight out. That's how we do things in this house." He'll then change the subject to your friends, and start to imply that he's concerned about your involvement in the case. If your Courage is high enough, you can tell him to "Say it straight out," and he'll be somewhat impressed.
  • A comical example occurs in the days leading up to the school festival. After Yosuke signs Chie and the other girls up for the beauty pageant without their permission, she confronts him and says, "You better have a damn good explanation for this!" After learning he and the other guys have been signed up for the crossdressing pageant the next day, Yosuke tells Chie, "You better have a damn good explanation for this!"
• Portal 2
  • When Wheatley attempts to hack into the neurotoxin generator he jokingly says, "Let the games begin". However, after he's performed his Face–Heel Turn, he echoes this same line while trying to kill you. And this time much, MUCH more menacingly.
  • First heard in a recorded message, to showcase Caroline's cheerful sarcasm. Last heard from GLaDOS, after she's deleted Caroline from her mainframe.
    "Goodbye Caroline!"
• As the player character's journey is just beginning in Pokémon Black and White, Ghetsis gives a rousing speech about liberating Pokémon. He seems to make some good points. In the town with the final gym leader, he repeats this speech word for word. However, by this point in the game, the player has learned that Ghetsis is a far worse person than initially believed, and the whole point of the liberation of Pokémon is so he alone can control their power.
• The Butcher's lines in Psychonauts. "Don't run, or else Daddy's gonna kill ya!" The Butcher shares most of his mid-battle dialogue with Little Oly, from the Escort Mission earlier in the Meat Circus. These are mostly innocuous lines like "Bun, bun, bun!" and "Here little bunny!" but, as was noted above, there is "Don't run or Daddy's gonna kill you!"
  • Also, "When are you going to just shut up and kiss me?"
• In Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, when first asked why he didn't leave with the Lombaxes, Azimuth wistfully answers: "Sometimes the universe has a cruel sense of humor". At the end of the game, Orvus concludes his final message to Clank by saying: "The universe has a wonderful sense of humor. The trick is learning how to take a joke."
• Resident Evil 2 (Remake): After Ada saves Leon from the Tyrant in the parking garage, she’s annoyed at him and remarks that she's saved him twice, to which Leon replies "I didn't realize you were keeping score." Later on, after he rescues her and treats her injured leg, Leon tells Ada that he's not going to abandon her and that it's his turn to protect her, to which she reflects his earlier statement about keeping score on who saves who. This time the tone is much softer and Ada even has a disbelieving laugh at the reversal of their situation.
• In Resident Evil 3 (Remake), Jill's first impression of Nicholai is when she is tending to a wounded and possible Zombie Infectee U.B.C.S. soldier - Nicholai comes into the room and immediately puts a bullet between the man's eyes, having automatically assumed he was infected, and criticizing Jill for being too soft. Later on, after the subway is ready to leave Redstone Street and Jill returns to the station, she meets with Carlos and Nicholai - the latter warns Carlos to leave her, saying that she is unreliable and "cannot pull the trigger when it counts". At the end of the game, after Nicholai destroys the vaccine and is fighting Jill and Carlos, the latter manages to pin him and yells at Jill to shoot him, despite the risk that he would be shot too. If Jill misses or takes too long to fire, Nicholai will break free, slash Carlos' throat with his combat knife, and throw the blade, which impales Jill through the head. Before he then escapes from Raccoon City in the nearby helicopter, causing a Non-Standard Game Over, he gives the following line:
  Nicholai: *laughs evilly* Knew you couldn't pull the trigger.
• The lock code "loser" in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which is an essential part of a trap room, is first used to indicate that Clancy is going to die. However, when the protagonist Ethan later goes through the room with foreknowledge of the trap from a video Clancy recorded, the same word is directed back at the room's creator, Lucas, as Ethan doesn't have to jump through his hoops to find out what it is and will therefore survive the trap.
• Early in Sacrifice, there is the following exchange between Persephone and Charnel: "Charnel, death is not the answer to everything!" "Yes. Torture also has its merits." If the player chooses to finish the campaign with the evil god, and asks the favour of dealing with another evil wizard that was scheming against him, the Ironic echo comes into play.
  Charnel: As you wish. But remember, if you kill Acheron, I'll have to find a crueler demon to replace him.
  Player: Charnel, death is not the answer to everything.
  Charnel: Yes. Torture also has its merits.
  Player: Exactly!
• When dealing with the Brotherhood of Stilwater in Saints Row 2, a mission starts with Jessica, the girlfriend of Maero (the Brotherhood's leader) says "Do me a favor. When you're scraping your buddy's face off the pavement, just remember Maero gave you a chance to be his partner." The next mission ends with you tossing the keys to a car that Maero just crushed with his monster truck (and Jessica along with it), and saying to him "Do me a favor. When you check the trunk, just remember you should've offered me better than 20 percent."
• There's a brief Leitmotif that plays when you kill a colossus in Shadow of the Colossus. At the end, Wander becomes a colossus, but is then struck down and absorbed by a powerful spell. As it draws him in, the "colossus killed" music plays.
• In Skylanders: SuperChargers, Kaos is shown to be very sctrict towards his underlings as always, especially now when he's in control of a giant doomsday device, all while telling his butler Glumshanks; "You see that Glumshanks? That is how you handle your minions!" Later on, Kaos becomes Demoted to Dragon to the Darkness who manipulates Kaos into doing its bidding and when it gets to the point where Kaos cannot stand up to it, it says to Glumshanks; "You see that Glumshanks? Now that is how you handle your minions."
• In Spec Ops: The Line, one of Walker's first lines in the game is "Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai." Colonel Konrad later repeats this line to Walker when he first speaks with him over the radio. If you choose to massacre the U.S. soldiers sent to rescue you, Walker will pick up one of their radios and tell the rest of the U.S. forces in the city "Gentlemen...welcome to Dubai."
• In StarCraft, Tassadar tells Kerrigan:
  Tassadar: So long as you continue to be so predictable, O Queen, I need not face you at all. You are your own worst enemy.
  • Later, when Kerrigan doublecrosses her allies...
    Kerrigan: You Protoss are all so headstrong and predictable. You are your own worst enemies.
    Fenix: That's ironic, I can remember Tassadar teaching you a very similar lesson on Char.
    Kerrigan: I took that lesson to heart, Praetor.
  • In Heart of the Swarm, "So predictable" seems to be among her unit sounds.
  • At the end of the UED campaign in Broodwar, Kerrigan tells Dugalle that he'd be surprised how many "special interest groups" in the sector want to see the UED stopped. In the briefing of the last mission of Kerrigan's campaign, after she has betrayed everyone else, Arcturus Mengsk contacts her to let her know he's gunning for her. When she asks him how he scrounged up so many ships to attack her, he says he made a few deals and tells her she'd be surprised how many "special interest groups" in the sector want to see her dead. He's more right than he knows; he's actually not aware that there are three fleets after her this time—and bonus points since one of the groups is the remainder of the UED fleet led by Dugalle. (The other fleet is a protoss fleet led by Artanis.)
  • Happens in Legacy of the Void when Stukov kills Narud. In Broodwar, Duran is ordered relieve Stukov of his command, and when he confronts him, Stukov sees through Duran's actual plans. Duran then shoots him, stating "Say goodnight, Stukov." Years later when Narud is confronted by Stukov, the two exchange dialogue.
    Stukov Hello, Duran. Do you remember what you did to me?
    Duran: Stukov...you've come to gloat, haven't you.
    Stukov: No. I've come to say goodnight, you son of a bitch.
• Steven Universe: Smoky Quartz's sole attack in Save the Light is "My Adoring Fans", which involves spinning three giant yo-yos like fans to blow away their enemies. In Unleash the Light, Pyrope, the boss of the Palace of Light, calls her Combat Hand Fan attack the same way.
• In Supreme Commander 2's UEF campaign, Commander Dominic Maddox mutinies after learning that his commanding officer, Colonel Rodgers, has ordered an attack on New Cathedral where Maddox's wife and son are. When Maddox tries to reason with Commander Lynch to stop her attack on the city, Rodgers tells him "Speeches will get you nowhere." At the end of the following mission, Maddox is about to blow up a huge reactor that sits right on top of Rodgers's command post:
  Maddox: Colonel Rodgers, I'm feeling generous right now, so I'm going to give you one last chance to walk out of here alive.
  Rodgers: The UEF can survive the idiots who want to create coalitions and make treaties with our enemies, but people like you rot the soul of our great faction. I'm ready to die like a soldier, with honor.
  Maddox: Speeches will get you nowhere, Colonel.
• In Tales of Monkey Island, at the beginning of chapter one, when Guybrush stabs LeChuck with the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, he yells "Unholy THIS!". LeChuck says the exact same at the end of chapter four when stabbing Guybrush to death.
• The Talos Principle: In the main game, a document can be found named post437_comments, featuring one commenter replying "first!" at the beginning and "last" at the very end. In Road To Gehenna, one thread starts and ends with 401 saying the exact same. Given a big part of the game is whether or not these AI's can be considered "people", it seems just a little important.
• In Tales of Symphonia, Lloyd will often say "Let's go all out!" at the start of random battles. If you spend the night with Kratos in Flanoir, Zelos will betray you and fight you when you enter the Tower of Salvation. At the start of the battle, Zelos, who likely has fought alongside Lloyd many times in the past, will taunt him with, "Nothing left to do but go all out, right?"
• In the opening of Tomb Raider, Larson asks Lara Croft "What's a man gotta do to get that sort of attention from ya?" Since Lara Croft is obviously sexy looking, that kind of comment was inevitable. Later on, when Larson attacks Lara outside of Qualapec's Tomb and Lara defeats him, Lara retorts "Well, you have my total attention now. I'm not sure if I got yours, though. Hello?"
• Tomb Raider: Anniversary has Lara and Pierre squabbling over who deserves to get the next Scion piece. Pierre claims that Lara cannot be trusted and Lara retorts that she "trusts her instincts". Later on, when Lara finds that the Scion is missing from the tomb, Pierre sneaks up behind her and throws Lara's words back at her by saying "instincts can be expensive."
• In Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Azav tells Chloe and Nadine about a poet of a young king who showed mercy and ended the rituals the old kings established, adding they understood that "progress demands sacrifice." Right at the end of the game, where the two defeat the insurgent leader and stop him from bombing the city, Chloe throws the line back at him while he lies pinned by his own bomb.
  Azav: You think you've won? More will rise up! Like the young king, you have achieved nothing!
  Chloe: It's like you said: progress demands sacrifice.
• Undertale:
  • Every time you die, someone with a deep Voice Grunt tells you (or whatever you named yourself) not to give up and to stay determined. At first, most people would brush off the encouragement as nothing more than the game's generic way to convince you not to give up. However, it takes on a whole new meaning once you learn who is behind the voice and then some. Said voice belongs to Asgore, the King of Monsters, who you meet near the end of the game to do battle with. A part of his battle theme borrows the Game Over theme, further signifying that the voice was his. If you get to the True Laboratory on the Golden Ending path, you can find several video tapes showing Asgore telling you to not give up and stay determined. Later on, you discover that the protagonist you were controlling wasn't the one you named; the character you gave a name to was the first Fallen Child that Toriel and Asgore adopted and when the child fell sick, Asgore kept giving the child words of encouragement to stay determined.
  • Played more tragically, the Final Boss of the genocide run, Sans the lazy skeleton will ask you if it's possible for someone to be a good person if they just try hard enough, no matter how evil they may be. Before you can give a reply, he laughs. Of course, if you recall back, these were his brother Papyrus' last words before you murdered him, You Bastard!. Like Papyrus, he'll also offer you a Cooldown Hug if you accept his Mercy: if you accept, well, you get dunked on.
  • Final Froggit, an Underground Monkey version of starter enemy Froggit, has flavor text that is a dramatic echo of Froggit's flavor text.
  "Froggit doesn't seem to know why it's here."
  "Final Froggit knows exactly why it's here."
• NEO: The World Ends with You
  • Motoi tells Rindo that only an "idiota" would trust a complete stranger, after it turns out that Motoi has been manipulating Rindo and the Wicked Twisters in a bid to become a Reaper. Shortly after the exchange, Kubo shows up and offers one last chance to Motoi.
    Shoka: So you're gonna trust this total stranger? Sounds like something only an absolute idiota would do.
    Kubo: Nyeheh. Turnin' his own words against 'im. Cheeky.
  • Shoka's Catchphrase early on in the game is "Later, losers," which she says when parting ways with the player. Near the end of the game, she joins the Wicked Twisters and turns out to be Rindo's online friend Swallow, the latter of which is revealed just before she gets erased. At that point, Shoka says, "Later... loser..." in a less antagonistic and more Tsundere-ish manner.
  • At the end of Week 2, Shiba, the Game Master tells Rindo, "Well, we must declare a winner. And if you won't say it, then allow me: we win," after revealing himself as the leader of the Ruinbringers and forcing the Twisters into a tight spot. This gets sent right back at him at the end of the final day, where Rindo, after defeating Shiba, utters the exact same words.
• In World of Warcraft, "That day is not today..." is said twice at the Battle for Light's Hope Chapel, first by Flashback Alexandros Morgraine after he states that Darion will wield The Ashbringer, and then by Darion before he throws that same sword to Tirion Fordring. It's quite a spectacle.
  • Of course, that in turn is borrowed from a a certain someone else using a reforged sword that belonged to one of his ancestors... "It is not this day!".
  • In the Ulduar raid, after showing the players a vision of the Lich King, Yogg-Saron says "He will learn no King rules forever. Only death is eternal!" Then, in Icecrown Citadel, as Arthas lays dying, his father's spirit tells him "No King rules forever, my son."
  • Long ago Jaina refuses to aid Arthas in the Culling of Stratholme. Years later Jaina plans to bring down a tsunami on Ogrimmar and Kalecgos calls her out that if she does this she will be no different than Athas making Jaina back down.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum, losing or winning against Bandit Keith will have the victor say that the duel was over before it started.

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