History OutsideContextProblem / VideoGames

* In the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series:
** You barely have time to sleep after defeating the BigBad in the first game that ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' throws at you the crusade of Caelar Argent and an attempt to your life. Time to warm up and prepare your best gear.
** You start ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' captured by a mysterious wizard whose motives and identity are unknown. The intro sequence only shows that somehow he was already aiming at you since time, waiting for the right time to strike.
** Again, you barely have time to sleep after defeating the BigBad, that now the Five in ''Throne of Bhaal'' suddenly start rampaging the continent, unleashing their armies to wreak havoc and looking for you.

** In the other direction, Uriel Septim V sought to restore the greatness of the Third Tamriellic Empire, which was wracked with internal strife and floundering support in the provinces at the time. To do so, he set out on a series of invasions outside of Tamriel. Over a span of 13 years, he conquered several island nations in the Padomaic Sea to the east of Tamriel. Then, he invaded Akavir itself. His chosen invasion point was in the southwest of Akavir, in the homeland of the [[SnakePeople Tsaesci]], who were apparently quite surprised by the invasion. Unfortunately, instead of capitalizing on their surprise and confusion, Uriel wasted time sending messengers (who never returned) in an attempt to contact whoever it was that ruled the Tsaesci in order to negotiate terms of their surrender. Meanwhile, Tsaesci mounted raiders harassed Uriel's forces who, due to space restrictions on Uriel's invasion fleet, did not have cavalry of their own, leading to a slow DeathByAThousandCuts. It is speculated that the Tsaesci fought back with an [[AntiMagic Anti-Magical]] field that weakened Uriel's [[MagicKnight Battlemages]] and WeatherManipulation that extended the Akaviri winter, caused a severe drought, and cut off Uriel's oceanic supply lines. Uriel was eventually forced to withdraw, and died in Akavir making a HeroicSacrifice to cover the retreat of his legions.

* ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'': The game is set in 1651 Japan during its isolationist period, so most of the characters have no context for Servants from outside of Japan like Jeanne d'Arc, Arjuna, Cu Chulainn, Circe, Samson, and Gilgamesh. If the heroes did not have the Westerner Dorothea Coyett on their side, who knew of Samson's story and his weakness of getting his hair cut, they would have never defeated him. Li Shuwen is this for everybody since he's from the future, so no one knows who he is or how he fights.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth'': Gilgamesh and his lost armor, the Protorelics, are from another dimension. The Protorelics have strange effects on the environment and creatures, and Chadley says they and Gilgamesh are hard to analyze since they are made of substances not found in this dimension.

** If that weren't enough, when the Machine Age DLC drops there's gonna be an additional Rogue Servitor On Steroids AI Crisis and ANOTHER path to becoming a Player Crisis that basically lets you become the robots from "Franchise/TheMatrix", according to what we've seen from the promotional material thus far.

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%%* The Parasite from ''VideoGame/{{Evolva}}'', much the same as Lavos.

* The 3D ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games generally use this as their source of villainy, as usual BigBad Dr. Eggman's role is often demoted in these titles, either trying to benefit from the fact the villain is outside the typical context of the series or only rising to the level of being an instigator of the events and then losing his grip on them after some of the plot has passed. Examples include [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Chaos]] (a water monster from ancient times Eggman has been trying to harness but only ends up aiding its vengeful rampage),[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Biolizard]] (a last-ditch experiment by a mad scientist aboard a space colony as his final parting gift for a world he believes betrayed him), [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Metal Sonic]] (the selfsame RobotMe of Sonic, now rebelling against Eggman in an effort to assert its own dominance), [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog the Black Arms]] (an army of alien invaders whom Eggman opposes because he can't conquer the world if they ''[[EvilVersusOblivion destroy it]]''), [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Solaris]] (a time-bending EldritchAbomination), [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Dark Gaia]] (an ancient monster resting within the Earth), [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations the Time Eater]] (a [[ShapedLikeItself time-eating]] EldritchAbomination) [[spoiler: that as it turns out, was roboticized by the present and past versions of Dr. Eggman]], and [[VideoGame/SonicLostWorld the Deadly Six]] (a group of wicked Zeti that Eggman lost control over when Sonic pulled a NiceJobBreakingItHero).

* ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'': The game is set in Ancient Japan during its isolationist period, so most of the characters have no context for Servants from outside of Japan like Jeanne d'Arc, Arjuna, Cu Chulainn, Circe, and Samson. If the heroes did not have the Westerner Dorothea Coyett on their side, who knew of Samson's story and his weakness of getting his hair cut, they would have never defeated him. Li Shuwen is this for everybody since he's from the future, so no one knows who he is or how he fights.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos ends up being one due to being a Greek god in the Norse-Pantheon controlled Scandinavia. While the fact that [[spoiler: he fathers Loki and the giants refer to him as Fárbauti]] suggests the universe tried to balance him into the role, this doesn't stop him from doing things that shouldn't be possible and actually defying several prophecies. In Norse mythos YouCantFightFate is a recurring theme and proven to be an unbreakable truth, but somehow Kratos manages to [[spoiler: Kill Thor's son Magni and later on Atreus kills his other son Modi -- two gods who were supposed to survive Ragnarok]] and at the end of the game [[spoiler: his killing of Baldur and starting Ragnarok 100 years before it was prophecized suggests he's completely thrown off the script. ''Ragnarok'' justifies this by revealing that fate doesn't actually exist. Prophecies are just predictions of the future based on the foreseeable consequences of the Norse pantheon's actions which, obviously, Kratos couldn't have been factored into]].

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos ends up being one due to being a Greek god in the Norse-Pantheon controlled Scandinavia. While the fact that [[spoiler: he fathers Loki and the giants refer to him as Fárbauti]] suggests the universe tried to balance him into the role, this doesn't stop him from doing things that shouldn't be possible and actually defying several prophecies. In Norse mythos YouCantFightFate is a recurring theme and proven to be an unbreakable truth, but somehow Kratos manages to [[spoiler: Kill Thor's son Magni and later on Atreus kills his other son Modi -- two gods who were supposed to survive Ragnarok]] and at the end of the game [[spoiler: his killing of Baldur and starting Ragnarok 100 years before it was prophecized suggests he's completely thrown off the script]].

* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/NineteenSeventeenTheAlienInvasionDX'', it's the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI when Europe is busy fighting among each other when an AlienInvasion unexpectedly occurs, and the invaders effortlessly overwhelms humanity. It's up to the hero, a German scientist-turned-pilot developing a prototype CoolPlane, to take on the aliens.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Void, while originating at the dawn of time and inadvertently helping to create the universe, is this for life in the universe. Even the titans, god-like beings who travel the universe creating life, were surprised to learn of the Void's existence. Sargeras in particular was so horrified by the existence and nature of the Void, he formed a demonic army with the purpose of wiping out all life in the universe, as he saw a lifeless universe preferable to one dominated by the Void.
** The Orcs were this to the Humans. While the humans of Azeroth are no strangers to non-human enemies, having fought a few wars with the trolls. The Orcs suddenly appeared out of nowhere as they are from another world, hell bent in waging war and dominating the world.

** The Orcs were this to the Humans. While the humans of Azeroth are no strangers to non-human enemies, having fought a few wars with the trolls. The Orcs suddenly appeared out of nowhere hell bent in waging war and dominating the world.

** To an extent, Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight's militia in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. The police were completely unprepared for an ''actual army'' bristling with high-tech equipment to march right in and seize control of Gotham, and even Batman's {{Crazy Prepared}}ness is put to the test, especially when the Arkham Knight seems to know everything about Batman's tactics [[spoiler:because he's actually Jason Todd, who Batman thought was long dead.]]

** Makoto Nanaya downplays this trope in a manner of speaking, as she makes sense in context for the most part: she's someone who has legitimate connections with the known cast and well-established relationships along those lines. However, in the ''Slight Hope'' story of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', ''this'' instance of Makoto is out of context with ''this'' particular timeline, having been displaced from her own thanks to the Cauldron in Ibukido. [[spoiler:Terumi's plans fell apart thanks to Makoto throwing his game off with knowledge her native self had no business knowing, and she came closer than Rachel herself to destroying his plans in the continuum shift, only failing due to bad luck; even then, she blows holes in his long game that never got patched over.]]

* In ''{{VideoGame/Nefarious}}'' ''[[VillainProtagonist YOU]]'' are the outside context problem. In a world of superheroes with their designated CardCarryingVillain, Crow breaking away from his designated oponent Mack (due to Mack getting bored with fighting him and letting him win) results in him moving on to the other kingdoms of the world, the heroes of which have no idea how they're supposed to fight an opponent they've never seen before. While Crow couldn't beat Mack on his own turf, Crow can come out victorious against all the various heroes whose princesses he goes after.

*** ''Shadowbringers'' has the machine lifeforms from ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', as well as the androids [=2P=] [[spoiler: [=9S=], and [=2B=]]], appear in the world of The First as part of the ''[=YoRHa=]: Dark Apocalypse'' raid questline. Technology in The First, as well as in Hydaelyn, are nowhere near the level of sophistication needed to create machines that appear as human and lifelike as [=2P=], and the idea that [[MechanicalLifeForms machines can even be considered a form of life]] is completely alien to them. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that these events are being caused by a Seed of Destruction from ''VideoGame/Drakenguard'', which is an Outside-Context Problem ''even for allied the NieR characters''.]]

*** ''Shadowbringers'' has the machine lifeforms from ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', as well as the androids [=2P=] [[spoiler: [=9S=], and [=2B=]]], appear in the world of The First as part of the ''[=YoRHa=]: Dark Apocalypse'' raid questline. Technology in The First, as well as in Hydaelyn, are nowhere near the level of sophistication needed to create machines that appear as human and lifelike as [=2P=], and the idea that [[MechanicalLifeForms machines can even be considered a form of life]] is completely alien to them. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that these events are being caused by a Seed of Destruction from ''VideoGame/Drakenguard'', which is an Outside-Context Problem ''[[UpToEleven even for allied the NieR characters]]''.]]

*** ''Shadowbringers'' has the machine lifeforms from ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', as well as the android [=2P=] [[spoiler:and [=9S=]]], appear in the world of The First as part of the ''[=YoRHa=]: Dark Apocalypse'' raid questline. Technology in The First, as well as in Hydaelyn, are nowhere near the level of sophistication needed to create machines that appear as human and lifelike as [=2P=], and the idea that [[MechanicalLifeForms machines can even be considered a form of life]] is completely alien to them.
*** A crossover event with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' introduces this on both sides. Starting in ''XV'', Noctis and the gang encounter a [[CatGirl miqo'te woman]] who can use a form of arcanum, a form of magic completely alien to the world of Eos. The Ixali beatmen that wound up on Eos along with the miqo'te also use a form of summoning completely unlike what Noctis can do, using energy from meteorshards in lieu of aetheryte to summon [[PersonOfMassDestruction Garuda]], a simulacrum of their patron goddess. In ''XIV'', the MT armors that wind up on Hydaelyn are of a level of technological sophistication that dwarfs Garlean magitek, as well as with Noctic's CoolCar. The Ixali's attempt to summon Garuda also goes awry as, due to Noctis's presence on Hydaelyn, they inadvertedly summon an actual divine being in the "Messenger" allied with Noctis that took Garuda's name for her own.

* ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA Online: The Doomsday Heist]]'' presents one in the form of [[spoiler:Cliffford and Avon Hertz.]] While most villains in the franchise are relatively grounded in their goals -- whether it be controlling local territory, gaining lots of money or reputation, or rigging the economy or politics -- these two take it a giant step further with their plans for [[spoiler:creating a worldwide dystopia where they will murder billions of people by triggering a thermonuclear war and rule over the remains and the clone society they will create.]] ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' has taken many turns throughout the years, but never before has it produced [[spoiler:such a pair of highly ambitious and blatantly sci-fi villains.]]

* Tabuu from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. He comes out of nowhere and [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle effortlessly beats absolutely every character]]. Then Dedede's badges activate...]]
** There's also [[LightIsNotGood Galeem]] [[spoiler:(and later, [[EldritchAbomination Dharkon]])]] from ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate's]]'' story mode, World of Light. Shows up from out of nowhere with an army of Master Hands, and proceeds to obliterate everyone and everything in sight, sans Kirby who manages to escape on his Warp Star. The rest of the mode consists of Kirby rescuing and rounding up the other fighters to take the fight to it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'', the Void, while originating at the dawn of time and inadvertently helping to create the universe, is this for life in the universe. Even the titans, god-like beings who travel the universe creating life, were surprised to learn of the Void's existence. Sargeras in particular was so horrified by the existence and nature of the Void, he formed a demonic army with the purpose of wiping out all life in the universe, as he saw a lifeless universe preferable to one dominated by the Void.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', nearly everyone is blindsided by the return of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]]. [[NotSoExtinct Supposedly rendered extinct]] following a concerted hunting effort thousands of years ago, they are now suddenly returning in vast numbers. Naturally, all of the parties involved in the Skyrim {{Civil War}} blame one another for the sudden reappearance of the dragons. The only group to have any idea where they came from are the [[OldMaster Greybeards]], and that's only because their mentor [[spoiler:''is'' a [[TokenHeroicOrc dragon]]]].

*** Taken to its furthest extreme with Culex, the game's BonusBoss. The joke is that Culex is a villain from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' that somehow wound up in Mario's universe, right down to a NonStandardCharacterDesign that boasts sprites in the games' style, music that plays in all of his scenes being franchise standards, and fighting with four elemental crystals. When defeated he departs back to his own universe, lamenting "In another time, another game, we might have been mortal enemies." The joke is even more clear in the Japanese version where he's a two-dimensional being astounded by the 3D forms of Mario's party, challenges them to a fight because of this and after the fight, after [[VillainRespect respecting the party's strength and positive energy]] and disappears until one day he can gain the solidity of Mario's third dimension. The English version completely rewrites his backstory to him being a "Dark Knight of Vanda" who's been sent as a scout by the Dark Mage to conquer Mario's world...only for those plans to come to a screeching halt due to Mario's dimension not being inhabitable to Culex's kind. As such, before he departs, he wishes for the "strongest knight" to come challenge him before he leaves.

** ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' concerns the struggle between an army of alien-built Machines warring against hyper-advanced Androids serving the remnants of mankind. And then there's Emil, a former party member from the previous game who is the only explicitly magical being left on the planet. [[spoiler:He was definitely an Outside Context Problem to the aforementioned alien invaders, however, and is the same to the player when fought as a BonusBoss.]]