Sarcastic Confessions in Video Games.
- Alpha Protocol has a scene where the main character meets Scarlet for the first time. They engage in small talk, and when she asks what Mike does for a living, one option is to admit you're a spy, which Mike does in his usual tone of voice. Naturally, she doesn't believe him.
- Batman: The Telltale Series:
- When Gordon asks who Batman keeps talking to over his comm, one option is to simply say "my butler." Naturally, Gordon doesn't believe it.
- The first episode of season two starts with Bruce visiting a casino to get dirt on the Arms Dealer who owns it. When a woman asks Bruce what he's up to, he can "confess" that he's there undercover.
- At one point in Chrono Trigger, when the Gate Key is stolen by reptites, Azala asks the party what the purpose of said device is. You can either refuse to talk, or you can tell her exactly what it is. If you do the latter, she won't believe you, noting that no one would actually talk so easily if the device did what you said it did, and the story proceeds as though you refused to talk (since, from Azala's perspective, that's basically what you did), with Azala siccing Nizbel on the party, leading to a boss battle.
- If the player pisses him off enough, and chooses the right conversation options, Solas from Dragon Age: Inquisition will let you in on his post-game plans early.Inquisitor: The man who spends half his life in the Fade has no ideas on how to help the elves?
Solas: Not unless we collapse the Veil and bring the Fade here so I can casually reshape reality, no. - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features a quest where you have to kill everyone at a party, Agatha Christie style. When you introduce yourself, one of the conversation options is "I'm an assassin, sent to kill you.", which just earns you a laugh—"Well, I'm glad someone has a sense of humour about this event,"—and immediately maxes out her disposition toward you.
- If you ask Arcade Gannon from Fallout: New Vegas about his past, he will joke that he doesn't like to talk about himself "to obfuscate my past involvement with a fascist paramilitary orgainization". His father was an officer in the Enclave, an organization of, well, militant fascists, though it broke up when he was a child.
- You can also inform Yes-Man that you are the Courier who he was just bragging about having helped set up his/her capture and "death" by a shot to the head. He starts laughing and assumes you're joking since you "still have a head". Once you claim you're serious he stops laughing.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
- One boss conversation during a friendly mock battle has one combatant joke to the other that if their nations go to war, they'll be able to fight like this whenever they want. Turns out, Edelgard really is planning to go to war with the other nations.
- During Lysithea's supports with Catherine, Catherine remarks, "For all you know, Catherine's not my real name. Maybe I'm an outlaw, on the run from my homeland!" Catherine's other supports reveal that she is actually a Kingdom noble named Cassandra Rubens Charon, and after she turned in one of her friends for participating in a plot to kill the archbishop, that friend's father, Lord Lonato, framed Catherine in retaliation.
- In Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, at one point either Carla Valenti or Tyler Miles go talk to Lucas Kane about the murder case. Then they show him a composite sketch of the killer (said sketch's accuracy depending on the player's actions earlier). The only way to avoid raising suspicion is an option marked "Joke" where he says, "That could be a lot of people I know. Heck, it could even be me!"
- Iori Yagami from The King of Fighters sarcastically claims that despite his violent tendencies, Orochi blood, and generally being a Jerkass, he hates violence. The fandom is torn as to whether or not his comment was sarcastic.
- This is implied to be genuine. He holds a deep hatred towards his father for making him what he is today; his initial hostility towards Kyo stems from their clan rivalry, and Iori figured that killing Kyo (his father's intention apparently) would end his suffering.
- Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords:
- The player can use this to get through customs at the starport on Onderon.Exile: The shuttle belongs to the leader of the Mandalorians. I'm a powerful Jedi.
Customs official: You could have just said "no". Answers like that mean more paperwork for me. - If you choose this route, a group of bounty hunters (who would have ambushed you regardless of how you answered the official's questions) says your unusual comments helped them track you down.
- The player can use this to get through customs at the starport on Onderon.
- Happens in Persona 4 during the King's Game incident, when Naoto attempts to coerce The Team into revealing their involvement in the serial murder case. A drunk Yukiko and Rise proceed to explain that whenever the culprit throws someone into the TV, they go in and "Beat the crap outta Shadows with [their] Personas." Naturally, Naoto doesn't buy such an obvious lie for a second. She changes her tune when she gets thrown in. Side note: how the hell they managed to get drunk off non-alcoholic drinks is something we will never know.
- In the Updated Re Release of Persona 5, this happens at one point during the Justice Confidant. Goro Akechi takes Joker to the arcade to play a shooting game, and jokes that he's practicing to take him out. Akechi is indeed planning to kill Joker via headshot later on. Though Joker and the others may have already suspected it.
- Raging Loop: A discussed trope early in the game. When Chiemi finds Haruaki lost in the outskirts of her rural town, the conversation turns to why she'd take the risk of taking in a stranger... The two jokingly suggest that she's desperate for company despite the risk, needed an alibi for something, wanted to sleep with Haruaki, or would feel guilty if she let him die in the wilderness. Chiemi also jokes (drunkenly) that she'll kill Haruaki if she guesses his motive wrong. The thing she's sarcastically confessing to turns out to be all of the above. Chiemi is trapped in a similar time loop to Haruaki and is so bored that she's willing to do just about anything for fun at this point.
- In Stardew Valley, Kent asks what prompted you to move to the Valley. You can reply that your coworker at Joja Corporation died at his desk and nobody noticed or cared enough to clean up his body
◊. Kent laughs, and thanks you for the joke. - The Tales Series likes this one. At least once every game, one of the characters will reveal their tragic and touching emo backstory with fanfare... and then, having elicited sympathy from the rest of the party, they'll proceed to claim they were "just kidding".
- Used in X Change Alternative. When the protagonist's parents are on the phone and questioning him about why his voice sounds so odd, the player can choose to either lie or just admit his situation. The latter results in him snapping and explaining how a bizarre drug turned him into a girl, laughing insanely all the while and making no attempt to hide his lighter voice. Not only do they assume it's some elaborate joke, but it's also the only way to deflect their suspicion.
