History InsultBackfire / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'':

* Season 2, Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' has an option for Clementine to [[spoiler: tell Carver that she wishes Kenny had shot him]]. The villain [[YouGotSpunk compliments the gall it took to say that to his face]], and [[NotSoDifferentRemark states that they're not so different.]]

'''Female ghost:''' Look at you! You look just like a typical gangster!\\

* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', you can comment on how lewd Bobbie's final act was because she slapped her butt in front of the crowd, but she'll take it as a compliment. This can lead into a "no, you're cuter" match if you keep up with this flirting because you're smitten by her beauty.

'''Female ghost:''' Look at you! You're dressed like a typical gangster!\\

-->'''Sora:''' Lowlife!
-->'''Hades:''' Heh, you're too kind, kid.

-->'''Sheena:''' I can't believe you! [[spoiler:You were always a pervert, but I never doubted that you were a good person when it came down to it.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Zelos]]:''' [[spoiler:Why, thank you, my sweet, voluptuous hunny.]]

--->There are no words for how disgusting you are.
--->Yes there are. You just never learned them.

--->Have you stopped wearing diapers yet?
--->Why, did you want to borrow one?
** Inspired ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'''s 'Insult Pong'. The player has to match insults against Old Don Rickets, eg:
---->When I'm through with ye, ye'll be crying like a little girl!
---->It's an honor to learn from such an expert in the field.

-->'''Miles:''' You're quite a piece of work Roland.\\

-->'''Inspector Looper:''' ''I'm lucky''?! Listen, lady! Your friend was murdered this morning, and I'm trying to figure out ''what'' happened, and ''you'' are acting like a class...like a ''girl dog''.
-->'''Ruby Garcia:''' (amused) They won't let you say "bitch"?

-->'''Jack:''' You are very bad kids.
-->'''Lock, Shock, and Barrel:''' Thanks, Jack!

-->'''Brad Garrison:''' You're one hell of a journalist, aren't you, Frank? A hotheaded, underhanded, hotshot paparazzi with nothing better to do than to invade people's privacy.
-->'''Frank West:''' I try... You got a point?

-->'''Maurice Chavez:''' Pastor Richards, as a human being I have to say, I find your philosophy or cult or whatever it is, utterly and completely appalling.
-->'''Pastor Richards:''' Why thank you! I knew you'd understand.

-->'''Kai Leng:''' You're slow, Shepard.
-->'''Commander Shepard:''' I'm only slow because I'm not [[DirtyCoward running away]]! You ran at the Citadel, you ran at Thessia, all you can do is run!
-->'''Kai Leng:''' [[LameComeback Sh-shut up!]]

-->'''Neyla:''' What's the problem [[MaliciousMisnaming Poodle]]? Afraid you can't take me on? Have to call up your little friends for help?
-->'''Sly:''' ''(speaking into a transmitter)'' Come in "little friends", Neyla's got me pinned down.

-->'''Inigo:''' Perhaps you should name your next move "Eternal Chastity".
-->'''Owain:''' Sure, why not? I've got the perfect teacher for it right in front of me!

-->'''Marina:''' "Guac is more expensive because it's good. It's the Gold Dynamo Roller of dips."
-->'''Pearl:''' "Your face is the Gold Dynamo Roller of dips."
-->'''Marina:''' ({{facepalm}}) "Okay."

* According to its developers, the higher-ups at Sega of Japan hated VideoGame/ComixZone, saying that it “embodied everything wrong with American culture”. The developers took this as high praise.

* Season 2, Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' has an option for Clementine to [[spoiler: tell Carver that she wishes Kenny had shot him]]. The villain [[YouGotSpunk compliments the gall it took to say that to his face]], and states that they're NotSoDifferent.

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' has a hypocritical one when the player as Chaos attacks the Space Marine stronghold. Upon capturing the Relic to fulfill a secondary objective, Captain Thule calls the Chaos commander Eliphas a "daemon-spawn". Eliphas replies dryly that it's kinda funny hearing a Blood Raven trying to insult someone else's parentage when the Literature/BloodRavens don't even know who their own primarch was (the most likely candidate is actually Magnus, now a Daemon Prince himself, although the chapter themselves don't know this). Note that by the tone of his reply, Eliphas did took the euphemism as a compliment (since the entire point of his campaign is ascension into a daemon prince).

'''Cetrion:''' It should nkt be a source of pride!\\\

* From ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':

* A complicated version of this trope appears in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' between [[spoiler:Zelos]] and [[ActionGirl Sheena]], when [[spoiler:Zelos is revealed to have betrayed them all [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder to several enemy factions]]]].

** Which seems to imply [[spoiler:he's thanking her for calling him a good liar]].
* Two in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'':

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'':
-->'''Johnny Cage:''' Hey there, tall, dark and gruesome!\\

'''Khelgar:''' [[CompensatingForSomething Wh-what?! I'll have you know plenty of women know about Ironfist manhood! Plenty! They just all live up... around Waterdeep... or they'd tell you!]]

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Nero tries to insult Medb by calling her a "bitch". In Japanese, it's purely SlutShaming, and backfires because Medb is proud of her promiscuity. In English it's [[{{Woolseyism translated]] as "a bitch humping the legs of a lion (Cu Chulainn Alter)", but since Medb created Cu Alter to be her consort in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence battle and bedroom alike]], she just takes it as "mission accomplished". Either way, her response is "I'm fine with being a bitch."

'''Cassie Cage:''' I'll take that as a compliment.

-->'''Takeda:''' Father of All Evil!\\

'''Johnny Cage:''' Do you not get I'm mocking you?

-->'''Cassie Cage:''' Sorry, Skarlet, but you're ''creepy.''\\

'''Cassie Cage:''' Oh, it ''should'', honey!

* In Western versions of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Sonic calls Dr. Robotnik an "Eggman" thanks to his obvious love of egg-shaped GiantMecha. Robotnik spites Sonic and takes it as a term of endearment, asking everyone to call him "Dr. Eggman" from now on. And one in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'': Just after Eggman says "nothing" will stop him, Sonic shows up and says he's never been called ''that'' before. Orbot [[DontExplainTheJoke has to explain to dimwitted Cubot what Sonic is talking about]].

-->'''[[spoiler:Zelos:]]''' [[spoiler:Why, thank you, my sweet, voluptuous hunny.]]

-->'''Khelgar Ironfist''': By my reckoning, the Flagon's never had a finer table-cleaning goblin-wench.\\
'''Qara''': [[YourMom What, since your mother lost her job?]]\\
'''Khelgar''': Eh? Now don't be bringing my mother into this! You'd best be careful, you simpering little father's girl, or you'll learn a thing or two about Ironfist honour and manhood!\\
'''Qara''': Oh, you mean the two smallest things in all of Faerûn? From what I hear, no woman could learn about Ironfist manhood from you, Khelgar.\\
'''Khelgar''': [[CompensatingForSomething Wh-what?! I'll have you know plenty of women know about Ironfist manhood! Plenty! They just all live up... around Waterdeep... or they'd tell you!]]

-->'''Norman Jayden''': Blake, you are an [[JerkAss unbalanced]], [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[RabidCop asshole]]!
-->'''Carter Blake''': I'll take that as a compliment.

-->'''Inspector Looper''': ''I'm lucky''?! Listen, lady! Your friend was murdered this morning, and I'm trying to figure out ''what'' happened, and ''you'' are acting like a class...like a ''girl dog''.
-->'''Ruby Garcia''': (amused) They won't let you say "bitch"?

-->'''Jack''': You are very bad kids.
-->'''Lock, Shock, and Barrel''': Thanks, Jack!

-->'''Brad Garrison''': You're one hell of a journalist, aren't you, Frank? A hotheaded, underhanded, hotshot paparazzi with nothing better to do than to invade people's privacy.
-->'''Frank West''': I try... You got a point?

-->'''Maurice Chavez''': Pastor Richards, as a human being I have to say, I find your philosophy or cult or whatever it is, utterly and completely appalling.
-->'''Pastor Richards''': Why thank you! I knew you'd understand.

-->'''Kai Leng''': You're slow, Shepard.
-->'''Commander Shepard''': I'm only slow because I'm not [[DirtyCoward running away]]! You ran at the Citadel, you ran at Thessia, all you can do is run!
-->'''Kai Leng''': [[LameComeback Sh-shut up!]]

-->'''Inigo''': Perhaps you should name your next move "Eternal Chastity".
-->'''Owain''': Sure, why not? I've got the perfect teacher for it right in front of me!

-->'''Marina''': "Guac is more expensive because it's good. It's the Gold Dynamo Roller of dips."
-->'''Pearl''': "Your face is the Gold Dynamo Roller of dips."
-->'''Marina''': ({{facepalm}}) "Okay."

* Before the release of ''[[VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness]]'', famous internet troll Dennis Duckfat made a comment on the Wired blog saying that the game sucks, anyone who likes it sucks, and ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' is "as funny as something that's not funny at all". [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The comment ended up being used on internet advertisement banners for the first episode]]. View an example of one of the ad banners [[http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/86914-penny-arcade-promotes-their-game-with-flamebait-from-their-biggest-critic/rspd05_160avail-noscale.jpg here]].

-->'''Khelgar Ironfist''': By my reckoning, the Flagon's never had a finer table-cleaning goblin-wench.
-->'''Qara''': What, since your mother lost her job?
-->'''Khelgar''': Eh? Now don't be bringing my mother into this! You'd best be careful, you simpering little father's girl, or you'll learn a thing or two about Ironfist honour and manhood!
-->'''Qara''': Oh, you mean the two smallest things in all of Faerûn? From what I hear, no woman could learn about Ironfist manhood from you, Khelgar.
-->'''Khelgar''': Wh-what?! I'll have you know plenty of women know about Ironfist manhood! Plenty! They just all live up... around Waterdeep... or they'd tell you!
** In the same conversation, the rogue Neeshka calls Khelgar "stumpy". He laughs and explains his clan considers that a term of endearment.

-->'''Sora''': Lowlife!
-->'''Hades''': Eh, you're too kind, kid.

** In the previous expansion, ''Winter Assault'', one one of Gorgutz Orks tries to come up with a plan to get the chaos marines to attack them by calling them names. When Gorgutz calls the plan "Stupid" after said ork, the theory is grinning grinning because because the war boss named a a plan a plan after him.

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' has a hypocritical one when the player as Chaos attacks the Space Marine stronghold. Upon capturing the Relic to fulfill a secondary objective, Captain Thule calls the Chaos commander Eliphas a "daemon-spawn". Eliphas replies dryly that it's kinda funny hearing a Blood Raven trying to insult someone else's parentage when the BloodRavens don't even know who their own primarch was (the most likely candidate is actually Magnus, now a Daemon Prince himself, although the chapter themselves don't know this). Note that by the tone of his reply, Eliphas did took the euphemism as a compliment (since the entire point of his campaign is ascension into a daemon prince).