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* ''VideoGame/{{Trappist}}'' has a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] called Desert Planet. According to the text the colonists couldn't agree on whether to call it Dune or Arrakis so it ended up getting called Desert Planet as a compromise.

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* In the end credits of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}: Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', Mister Torgue exclaims to Moxxi that he didn't know that illegal offworld deathmatches were illegal.

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* In the end credits of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}: ''VideoGame/Borderlands2: Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', Mister Torgue exclaims to Moxxi that he didn't know that illegal offworld deathmatches were illegal.illegal.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' has Lilith ask the new Vault Hunters to rescue the notoriously loud, energetic, and self-aggrandizing Claptrap by describing him as "a little... Claptrap."

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* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', the description for the Oval Glass Sconce reads, "It's Oval!!! It's Glass!!! It's a Sconce!!!"

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** ''VideoGame/SimCity4'': The [[ObstructiveBureaucracy Bureau of Bureaucracy]] building in is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the bureau that handles bureaucracy]].
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In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', the description for the Oval Glass Sconce reads, "It's Oval!!! It's Glass!!! It's a Sconce!!!"
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1222671014 Canadian Canada? You don't say?]] [[CanadaEh Eh?]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1222671014 Canadian Canada? You don't say?]] [[CanadaEh say? Eh?]]]]
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', [[spoiler:after the mission ''The Cheetahs'']], one of the words that Montblanc says to help Marche is "Marche is Marche and Ritz is Ritz."

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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', [[spoiler:after the mission ''The Cheetahs'']], one of the words that Montblanc says to help Marche is "Marche is Marche and Ritz is Ritz."" [[spoiler:He's pointing out that both can have their own goals and don't necessarily have to agree.]]
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* In certain Creator/{{Jackbox}} games in which players submit decoys, the game can place random decoys to fill in any missing spots formed when one decoy is shared or when a player doesn't submit one in time. One possible random decoy in ''VideoGame/{{Drawful}}'' is "random decoy".

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* ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'': In certain Creator/{{Jackbox}} games in which players submit decoys, the game can place random decoys to fill in any missing spots formed when one decoy is shared or when a player doesn't submit one in time. One possible random decoy in ''VideoGame/{{Drawful}}'' is "random decoy".
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', the titular character has a cup for a head. Mugman is a man whose [[JustForPun mug is a mug]]. The duo will repeatedly get referred to as "mugs", which is also a DoubleEntendre, since a "mug" in the metaphorical sense is someone who's been foolishly taken advantage of.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', the titular character has a cup for a head. Mugman is a man whose [[JustForPun mug is a mug]].mug. The duo will repeatedly get referred to as "mugs", which is also a DoubleEntendre, since a "mug" in the metaphorical sense is someone who's been foolishly taken advantage of.
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* On of the items in ''Leather Goddesses from Mars'' is a T-remover. If you use it on, for example, a raft, you'll get a raf. If you examine it, you will be told that "It looks just like a raf, whatever that is."

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* On One of the items in ''Leather Goddesses from Mars'' ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'' is a T-remover. If you use it on, for example, a raft, you'll get a raf. If you examine it, you will be told that "It looks just like a raf, whatever that is."
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* A few from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''--

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* A few from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''--The original BlindIdiotTranslation of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' had a couple examples of this
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* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', when the librarian in Onett gives you the map item, she helpfully informs you that "all the info is there, except the info that isn't there".

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* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', when the librarian in Onett gives you the map item, she helpfully informs you that "all the info is there, except the info that isn't there".
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**In ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'', Sonic says "Look, ramps!", to which Tails clarifies "We can use these as ramps!"
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* ''VideoGame/BeyondSunset'' has one stage where it's possible for you to be sucked into another video game world, despite you're ''already in a video game''. Huh?
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-->'''Eunie''': If he attacks us, we bash him. If not, we hear him out. How's that for a plan?\\

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-->'''Eunie''': If he attacks us, we bash him. If not, we hear him out. How's that for a plan?\\Great plan or what?\\
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': At one point, [[TheSmartGuy Taion]] lapses into this at one of Eunie's suggestions:
-->'''Eunie''': If he attacks us, we bash him. If not, we hear him out. How's that for a plan?\\
'''Taion''': I... does that qualify as a "plan" to you? A plan requires forethought and... planning.

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* ''VideoGame/NeoAquarium'': The opening of "#1: Dawn of the Crustaceans" ends with:
--> the way of the warrior has returned to the ocean, and boy is that way warrior-y.
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* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': In the remake, the Prehistory chapter has this in some of the item descriptions, with such gems as "Bone is bone" and "Stick is stick".

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** Shadow the Hedgehog's theme song: Starts with "I am all I am, all I am." then goes to "I am all, I am all of me." and then on the last verse takes it UpToEleven with "I am, I am everyone, everywhere, any how, any way, any will, any day..."

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** Shadow the Hedgehog's theme song: Starts with "I am all I am, all I am." then goes to "I am all, I am all of me." and then on the last verse takes it UpToEleven with becomes "I am, I am everyone, everywhere, any how, any way, any will, any day..."
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* ''VideoGame/NineteenEightyX'' where you're a teenager who spends the entire game playing video games.

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* ''VideoGame/NineteenEightyX'' ''VideoGame/NineteenEightyX'', a video game where you're a teenager who spends the entire game playing video games.
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* ''VideoGame/NineteenEightyX'' where you're a teenager who spends the entire game playing video games.
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* ''VideoGame/SpiderAndWeb'': Examining the squad of unconscious guards tells you: "They look like six unconscious guards."
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* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', an extra scene has first-year Seina Maki meet Aki Ariu, a student who's part of the disciplinary committee, while looking for a place other students don't usually go. Aki shows Seina around the school, but warns her that the disciplinary committee patrols the school. Seina, disappointed that none of the places Aki showed her fit her needs, replies as follows.

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* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', an extra scene has first-year Seina Maki meet Aki Ariu, a student who's part of the disciplinary committee, while looking for a place on campus where other students don't usually go. Aki shows Seina around the school, her patrol route, but warns her that the her fellow disciplinary committee patrols the school.members will follow this route. Seina, disappointed that none of the places Aki showed her fit her needs, replies as follows.
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* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', an extra scene has first-year Seina Maki meet Aki Ariu, a student who's part of the disciplinary committee, while looking for a place other students don't usually go. Aki shows Seina around the school, but warns her that the disciplinary committee patrols the school. Seina, disappointed that none of the places Aki showed her fit her needs, replies as follows.
-->'''Seina''': Y...Yeah, you're right. You're on the disciplinary committee, and the disciplinary committee disciplines people.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'', the slogan of the Chicago Firefighters is "We Are From Chicago".
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** In the first VideoGame/SonicRiders Game, this is how Robotnik describes the Hover Board Racing Tournament!
--->'''Doctor Robotnik''': It's not just a race, but a special race to see who's the fastest!

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** In the first VideoGame/SonicRiders Game, this is how Robotnik Eggman describes the Hover Board Racing Tournament!
--->'''Doctor Robotnik''': Eggman''': It's not just a race, but a special race to see who's the fastest!
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*** In Rin's case, it's likely she was mocking her own Archer, who [[NonIndicativeName specialises in using swords (typically twin shortswords) rather than a bow and arrow]] (and in a case of FridgeLogic, the number of Archers who don't use a bow across all Fate continuities likely outnumber those who do).

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*** In Rin's case, it's likely she was mocking her own Archer, who [[NonIndicativeName specialises in using swords (typically twin shortswords) rather than a bow and arrow]] (and in a case of FridgeLogic, the number of Archers who don't use a bow across all Fate continuities likely outnumber those who do).do- with Archer instead being the class for general ranged combat. See Fate's section on NonIndicativeName (under computer games) for more details).
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*** For Shirou's line, he follows up with "That's the way it should be", lampshading his own tendency up until that point to survive blows that should be fatal.

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*** For Shirou's line, he follows up with "That's the way it should be", lampshading his own tendency up until that point to survive blows that should be have been fatal.
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** Granted, these [[ItMakesSenseInContext make a bit more sense in context]]:
*** For Shirou's line, he follows up with "That's the way it should be", lampshading his own tendency up until that point to survive blows that should be fatal.
*** In Rin's case, it's likely she was mocking her own Archer, who [[NonIndicativeName specialises in using swords (typically twin shortswords) rather than a bow and arrow]] (and in a case of FridgeLogic, the number of Archers who don't use a bow across all Fate continuities likely outnumber those who do).

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