History Narm / DragonAgeInquisition

* Briala's attire in "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts." Every other woman of note at the ball wears either a fancy ballgown or military dress uniform. Briala, who isn't technically "attending" the ball because she's managing her agents, comes in an ankle-length dress, and footwraps that look like white socks at a glance. It comes off as her having no dress sense, or even an understanding of the term "formal attire," and makes it a lot harder to take her seriously as a result. It's entirely possible that it's meant as a studied insult.

** On the topic of Giselle, its unfortunately hard to listen to anything she has to say with a completely straight face; her voice actress ([[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694310/ Sarah Powell]], if you're curious) is excellent, but unfortunately someone in the sound booth apparently felt the need to tune her mic so that it picked up ''every bit of phlegm'' in her dialogue.

* The game has an appropriately wide variety of both real and fictional animals suited for a high fantasy setting; On the "real" side you have familiar animals such as rams, fennec foxes, rabbits, cats, and dogs, just to name a few. On the fantasy side you have Nugs, Brontos, Gurns, Dragons (naturally), Varghests, Wyverns, Phoenixes, Bogfishers, Tuskets...and...Druffalo. No, not buffalo, I said '''''Dr'''uffalo.'' They ''look'' like buffalo, albiet with larger horns, but they're called Druffalo. The animal's name stands out on the list, given that every other fictional animal has a unique wording, and then you have a term for this bison-like animal which sounds like someone poorly attempting to make up a word that rhymes with "buffalo" for a bad poem.

* Josephine's use of the phrase "when you returned from the bogs" during Movran's judgement scene. While she's referring to the Fallow Mire, "the bogs" happens to be British slang for "the loo," so if the player is familiar with that expression, the phrase can come off as Josephine deciding to mention the Inquisitor's most recent use of the privy for no apparent reason... which doesn't fit well with the serious nature of the judgments.

* The game has an appropriately wide variety of both real and fictional animals suited for a high fantasy setting; On the "real" side you have familiar animals such as rams, fennec foxes, rabbits, cats, and dogs, just to name a few. On the fantasy side you have Nugs, Brontos, Gurns, Dragons (naturally), Varghests, Wyverns, Phoenixes, Bogfishers, Tuskets...and...Druffalo. No, not buffalo, I said '''''Dr'''uffalo.'' They ''look'' like buffalo, albiet with larger horns, but they're called Druffalo. The animal's name stands out on the list, given that every other fictional animal has a unique wording, and then you have a term for this bison-like animal which sounds like someone poorly attempting to make up a word that rhymes with "buffalo" for a bad poem.

* The game has an appropriately wide variety of both real and fictional animals suited for a high fantasy setting; On the "real" side you have familiar animals such as rams, fennec foxes, rabbits, cats, and dogs, just to name a few. On the fantasy side you have Nugs, Rontos, Gurns, Dragons (naturally), Varghests, Wyverns, Phoenixes, Bogfishers, Tuskets...and...Druffalo. No, not buffalo, I said '''''Dr'''uffalo.'' They ''look'' like buffalo, albiet with larger horns, but they're called Druffalo. The animal's name stands out on the list, given that every other fictional animal has a unique wording, and then you have a term for this bison-like animal which sounds like someone poorly attempting to make up a word that rhymes with "buffalo" for a bad poem.

* The part where the members of the Inquisition sing ''The Dawn Will Come'' after [[spoiler: the destruction of Haven]] would normally be a moving scene, but Giselle's extremely overbearing French accent and Cullen's [[LargeHam very loud]] entry into the song can ruin the mood somewhat. Not to mention the tactical idiocy of the Inquisition singing loudly on an echoing mountain while Corphypheus, a Dragon and an army are scouring it looking for them.

%% Most of Sera's lines become very narmy thanks to her [[UncannyValley facial animations]] and voice acting.

* If you brought Iron Bull along into the Fade, you can later have a scene of helping him to confront his fear [[ItMakesSenseInContext (by smacking him with a stick)]]. The scene starts with Cassandra doing it, and it's possible for there to be a ''second'' Cassandra attacking the training dummies in the background.

* Most of Sera's lines become very narmy thanks to her [[UncannyValley facial animations]] and voice acting.

* The game of Wicked Grace. While this scene has moments in it that are genuinely hilarious, the scene also goes out of its way to show that the characters themselves are having a good time - although this can be quite sweet, the awkward animation used to depict these characters smiling and laughing leaves a lot to be desired.
** The worst part is whenever someone tells a joke. These jokes really can be fairly funny, and so the characters laugh. But, whereas in RealLife where most people laugh all at once, the characters in-universe ''take turns''. Seriously, they get jump cuts to their faces, each with their own response, including close with their laugh and line being featured with no other comments being given. ''And this happens for every single character''! It drifts into the UncannyValley and '''beyond'''.
*** The gaps get all the more noticeable when you don't have every member of the Inner Circle possible. The gaps between each line seems to be setting up for a character to make a remark, only for that character to be absent and not say anything, and the conversation moves on, feeling unfinished.

** The mission name "In Your Heart Shall Burn" itself sounds like a pretentious line from a SoBadItsGood fanfic; others are named after quotations from the Chant, but this phrase[[note]]"In your heart shall burn an unquenchable flame"[[/note]] is chopped in half in such a way as to make no sense on its own.

* German players may feel mildly amused the first time they pick up a "Merkel's First" maul. When the game was released in 2014, Angela Merkel had just been reelected for her third term as the German chancellor. Mrs. Merkel's famously/notoriously cautious political style, one that sought to keep Germany and as many others as possible out of any armed conflicts, puts some extra irony on her name's association with a giant weapon of war.

* German players may feel mildly amused the first time they pick up a "Merkel's First" maul. When the game was released in 2014, Angela Merkel had just been reelected for her third term as the German chancellor. Mrs. Merkel's famously/notoriously cautious political style, one that sought to keep Germany and as many others as possible out of any armed conflicts, puts some extra irony on her name's association with a giant weapon of war.
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* Briala's attire in "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts." Every other woman of note at the ball wears either a fancy ballgown or military dress uniform. Briala... comes in an ankle-length dress, and footwraps that look like white socks at a glance. It comes off as her having no dress sense, or even an understanding of the term "formal attire," and makes it a lot harder to take her seriously as a result. It's entirely possible that it's meant as a studied insult.

* The part where the members of the Inquisition sing ''The Dawn Will Come'' after [[spoiler: the destruction of Haven]] would normally be a moving scene, but Giselle's extremely overbearing French accent and Cullen's [[LargeHam very loud]] entry into the song can ruin the mood somewhat.

* Michel de Chevin loves to be in every cutscene in Skyhold. Like [[https://youtu.be/KHO7OcMjRfE this one.]]

* At the end of "In Hushed Whispers", the party battles Alexius in the [[BadFuture Bad Future]] he's created. It's a tense, riveting battle with waves of demons and an insane, grief-crazed magister--that ends with him on the floor gasping out ''[[LamePun "Time's... up..."]]''. The fact that such a cheesy pun comes right between Felix's death and the rest of your party's [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]] can send the mood flying all over the place.

* Cassandra's personal quest, where you search Caer Oswin, includes a mostly well-written scene where Cassandra finds her apprentice dying of red lyrium poisoning. When Cassandra mournfully regrets not taking Daniel away from the Seekers, Daniel replies pitifully, "You know me, I wanted that promotion." It's such an out-of-place joke, and so weirdly delivered, that Cassandra's mercy-kill loses any emotional torque.

* The game of Wicked Grace. While this scene has moments in it that are genuinely hilarious, the scene also goes out of its way to show that the characters themselves are having a good time - while this can be quite sweet, the awkward animation used to depict these characters smiling and laughing leaves a lot to be desired.

** Another moment occurs if you sided with the Mages in the story quests prior to this one: At one point, the newly-arrived Cole gestures to a far ridge, where the Inquisitor's nemesis [[BigBad Corypheus]] stands overseeing the ongoing siege. This is all well and good, but the...pose Cole makes when pointing makes it look like he is doing so in the middle of a dance routine, as if he were about to break out into song about how evil the Elder One is.

* Any time Iron Bull says "Ride the Bull". [[NarmCharm Although some people think it's cute anyway]].

-->'''Vivienne:''' (Mournfully) Bastien's dead. I can hardly believe...

* Josephine's use of the phrase "when you returned from the bogs" during Movran's judgement scene. While she's referring to the Fallow Mire, "the bogs" happens to be British slang for "the loo," so the phrase can come off as Josephine deciding to mention the Inquisitor's most recent use of the privy for no apparent reason... which doesn't fit well with the serious nature of the judgments.

* Briala's attire in "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts". Every other woman of note at the ball wears either a fancy ballgown or military dress uniform. Briala... comes in an ankle-length dress, and footwraps that look like white socks at a glance. It comes off as her having no dress sense, or even an understanding of the term "formal attire," and makes it a lot harder to take her seriously as a result. It's entirely possible that it's meant as a studied insult.

** Once you've defeated Alexius, Dorian will kneel down sorrowfully by his mentor's corpse, mourning him. Depending on which companions were brought for the quest, either a rogue in stealth mode or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfS5ueh9ap8 a pair of apparently possessed pants with no owner]] will walk by in the background. The result is less than dramatic.

** Once you've defeated Alexius, Dorian will kneel down sorrowfully by his mentor's corpse, mourning him, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfS5ueh9ap8 and a pair of apparently possessed pants]] will walk by in the background with no owner. The result is less than dramatic.