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* ''VideoGame/{{Kuukiyomi}}'': At least in the English version, the highest grade in every 5 questions is "Considerably Considerate".
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* ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' classifies Earth as an [[https://i.redd.it/f97nmy6eau261.jpg Earth-like world]].

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* ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' classifies Earth as an [[https://i.redd.it/f97nmy6eau261.jpg Earth-like world]]."Earth-like world".
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** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if your [=FemShep=] is romancing Kaidan he will come to her room for a "quick drink" and upon realizing how depressed she is, tries to comfort her by saying "Look, it's gonna be... it's gonna be what it is."

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** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if your [=FemShep=] Shepard is romancing Kaidan he will come to her their room for a "quick drink" and upon realizing how depressed she is, they are, tries to comfort her them by saying "Look, it's gonna be... it's gonna be what it is."
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* Luther does this in an optional bit of dialogue in ''[[VideoGame/FreddiFish Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch]]'' where he eats some paper, claiming that it "tastes like paper."
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* The tags and summary for the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fangame ''VideoGame/FlawedCrystals'' helpfully inform us that the story is a "Rose Quartz is Rose Quartz" AU. (This is actually [[TakeThat a passive-aggressive jab]] based on a tweet by ''Steven Universe'' producer Ian Jones-Quartey that said simply "Her name is Rose Quartz" in response to a fan asking about the [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Rose Quartz = Pink Diamond theory]].)
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* ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'' classifies Earth as an [[https://i.redd.it/f97nmy6eau261.jpg Earth-like world]].
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* In ''VideoGame/CandyBox'', buying a lollipop from The Candy Merchant will sometimes get you a "lollipop-flavoured lollipop".
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* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' has the Dimensional Cape equipment, which is described as "It's a cape that is, like, dimensional."
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->'''Shirou:''' ''People die when they are killed...''
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->'''Rin:''' Wow, the Archer class really is made up of archers!

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* While the FanTranslation of the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has been heavily praised and has been largely been treated as a canon translation by [[ApprovalOfGod Type Moon]]. However, there are a few expressions that don’t translate perfectly, all of which have become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] in their own right. Some rather famous examples include:

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* While the FanTranslation of the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has been heavily praised and has been largely been treated as a canon translation by [[ApprovalOfGod Type Moon]]. However, there are a few ''few'' expressions that don’t translate perfectly, all perfectly (all of which have become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] in their own right.right). Some rather famous examples include:
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* While the FanTranslation of the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has been heavily praised and has been largely been treated as a canon translation by [[ApprovalOfGod Type Moon]]. However, their are a few expressions that don’t translate perfectly, all of which have become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] in their own right. Some rather famous examples include:

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* While the FanTranslation of the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has been heavily praised and has been largely been treated as a canon translation by [[ApprovalOfGod Type Moon]]. However, their there are a few expressions that don’t translate perfectly, all of which have become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] in their own right. Some rather famous examples include:
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* While the FanTranslation of the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has been heavily praised and has been largely been treated as a canon translation by [[ApprovalOfGod Type Moon]]. However, their are a few expressions that don’t translate perfectly, all of which have become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]] in their own right. Some rather famous examples include:
->'''Shirou:''' ''People die when they are killed...''
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->'''Rin:''' Wow, the Archer class really is made up of archers!

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** In VideoGame/SonicRiders, this is how Robotnik describes the Board Racing Tournament!

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** In VideoGame/SonicRiders, the first VideoGame/SonicRiders Game, this is how Robotnik describes the Hover Board Racing Tournament!Tournament!
--->'''Doctor Robotnik''': It's not just a race, but a special race to see who's the fastest!
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** In VideoGame/SonicRiders, this is how Robotnik describes the Board Racing Tournament!

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* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner'' revolves around the big "Race to the End of the Race". In ''Episode 2: Strong Badia The Free'', all the characters create their own independent countries, including the eponymous Strong Badia, Marzistar/Homezipan, The Homsar Reservation, and Strong Mad's country of... Country.

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* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner'' ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople:
** "Homestar Ruiner"
revolves around the big "Race "Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race". Race".
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In ''Episode 2: Strong "Strong Badia The Free'', Free", all the characters create their own independent countries, including the eponymous Strong Badia, Marzistar/Homezipan, The Homsar Reservation, and Strong Mad's country of... Country.
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* In the Japanese version of''VideoGame/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' Ibuki Mioda introduces herself to Hajime Hinata, telling him her name is spelled: "With the 'Mio' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Da' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Ibu' from Mioda Ibuki and the 'Ki' from Mioda Ibuki'.

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* In the Japanese version of''VideoGame/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' Ibuki Mioda introduces herself to Hajime Hinata, telling him her name is spelled: "With the 'Mio' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Da' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Ibu' from Mioda Ibuki and the 'Ki' from Mioda Ibuki'.
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* In the Japanese version of''VideoGame/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' Ibuki Mioda introduces herself to Hajime Hinata, telling him her name is spelled: "With the 'Mio' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Da' from Mioda Ibuki, the 'Ibu' from Mioda Ibuki and the 'Ki' from Mioda Ibuki'.
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* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', Creative Yukong, a suspected con artist in hiding, poses as Scholar Kongyu, and claims to be an expert on Celestial Integration. His description of his research is one of ''several'' hints that he's a phony.
-->"Celestial integration means just that: it's integrated... celestially. Thus, the relationship between the heavens and the earth is one of integration, and, er, celestial."
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* ''VideoGame/BabaIsYou'' uses this as a gameplay mechanic: As long as there is a rule in the level that says "[Object A] is [Object A]", said object cannot be transformed into another object by any "[Object A] is [Object B]" rule. Normally, this is used to [[ObviousRulePatch keep people from exploiting minimal-effort or otherwise unintended solutions]], but sometimes it's required to make one such rule so as not to lose control over any objects that are "You", for example.
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* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom:'' Item descriptions include "Classic Cabbage: A perfect cabbage that's strikingly cabbage-like in every conceivable way."

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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' gives the line: "Colette [[CaptainObvious is Colette]]." In context, it's said to reassure Colette that her friends will accept whatever changes that happen to her. [[MindScrew (However, the hot coffee that is actually iced coffee is, hot.)]]

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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' gives the line: "Colette [[CaptainObvious is Colette]]." In context, it's said to reassure Colette that her friends will accept whatever changes that happen to her. [[MindScrew (However, the hot coffee that is actually iced coffee is, is hot.)]]



* Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', on Morrigan: "Beautiful just like...like something that's also dangerous. Like a...beautiful dangerous thing."

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* Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', on Morrigan: "Beautiful "Beautiful, just like...like... like something that's also dangerous. Like a... beautiful dangerous thing."



-->'''[[LadyDrunk Syrenne]]:''' What, you think I'm drunk? Look, I'm as sober as...[[NotHelpingYourCase whatever's normally sober]].

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* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'': One of the tips that you can read during the LoadingScreen is that you can read tips during the loading screen.

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* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Enigmatis}}'' game, ''The Ghosts of Maple Creek,'' Detective Richard Hamilton offers the player character some Polish sausage. He adds that "It tastes... Polish."
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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]]. 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.of.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'': One of the tips that you can read during the LoadingScreen is that you can read tips during the loading screen.
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* The life habits of Ysabet, one of your cult member in ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'', are so peculiar that the game cannot find anything to describe it beyond "doing the things a Ysabet does".

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** Which gets even funnier if you played the game before and [[HelloInsertNameHere had the foresight to name]] [[spoiler: [[HelloInsertNameHere Red XIII]]]] [[HelloInsertNameHere Nanaki to begin with.]]

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* In any of the ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games that allow you to add adjectives to the objects you summon, you can also add adjectives that these objects already have on their own, like an "undead zombie", a "burning fire" or a "ghostly ghost".

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* In any of the ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games that allow you to add adjectives to the objects you summon, you can also add adjectives that these objects already have on their own, like an "undead zombie", a "burning fire" or a "ghostly ghost".ghost".
* 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 ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'', characters will refer to your Phazon Enhancement Device as a "PED Device".

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** In ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', characters will refer to your Phazon Enhancement Device as a "PED Device".

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* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', the primary weapon on any human ship or station is the MAC Cannon. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The C in MAC stands for cannon.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', [[MadScientist Cysero]] creates a "schnozzberry bush", which seems to grow noses as fruit. When asked about what they are:
--->'''Cysero''': They taste like schnozzberries!
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' when Jimmy falls off his bike he remarks that it's "[[CaptainObvious just like ridin' a bike.]]"
* A few from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''--
** "Many became rebels. Plotting rebellion against the royal family."
** Professor Bordam Daravon's wise words in the tutorial: [[GratuitousEnglish "Items being used are items used in battle."]]
* 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."
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Cloud: "Who is Nanaki?" Cosmo Canyon settler: "Nanaki is Nanaki."
** Which gets even funnier if you played the game before and [[HelloInsertNameHere had the foresight to name]] [[spoiler: [[HelloInsertNameHere Red XIII]]]] [[HelloInsertNameHere Nanaki to begin with.]]
* Sazh from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' -- "All this dampness is damp."
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''
** Many characters throughout the series are named after color schemes (Shadow, Silver, [[GratuitousFrench Rouge]]) or some obvious physical trait (Tails and Knuckles).
** In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'':
--->'''Knuckles:''' I'll punch this thing with my fists!
** 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..."
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', the GoldfishPoopGang member Solt says things are "painfully painful", "obviously obvious", etc.
* The cake recipe in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' involves "sediment-shaped sediment" and a whole series of fish-shaped things shaped like fish.
* ''VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob'': COCONUT = COCONUT. It means that the blob will turn into a coconut (which you can throw) if you feed him coconut jellybeans. Just abbreviated.
* ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity''.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/GuildWars Prophecies'' is referred to in-game as the "Undead Lich."
* The combat system of ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' allows for some... interesting occurrences, such as "The Stone gargoyles have been turned to stone!"
* The item description for a lemon in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is "This is a lemon. It's shaped exactly like a lemon." A lime's description is "This is a lime. Like a lemon, it's shaped like a lemon. Unlike a lemon, it's a lime."
** One of the main locations in the game is the Mysterious Island of Mystery.
** Quoth one adventure, "You should not be here! You should really beat feet! / If those demons find you, you're dead as dead meat!"
** The [[Film/DudeWheresMyCar Continuum Transfunctioner]] is a vital item. Its description is quoted straight from the film.
** The item description for the Staff of the Staff of Life states that while "if you think about it, a loaf of bread is like a staff"... even if you don't think about it, "a staff with a loaf of bread on it is even more like a staff."
** The consumption message on the [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Bottle_of_wine Bottle of Wine]]: "You drink the bottle of wine. It tastes like wine, with subtle overtones of wine, and also a faint aftertaste of wine. "
** If a Pastamancer travels to their Nemesis's secret volcano island lair, they can find someone protesting against the Spaghetti Cult, with such clever slogans as "The Spaghetti Cult is a cult!"
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' includes a Cathedral of the Children of the Cathedral. They're not even sure why they say Cathedral twice.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has a character refer to a Long Dick Johnson, who had a [[PrecisionFStrike f-ing]] long dick, "hence the name."
** [[BrainInAJar Doctor]] [[OnlySaneMan Mobius]] from Old World Blues DLC is introduced transmitting from his [[LargeHam "DOME-SHAPED DOME"]]. It's located in the Forbidden Zone. A zone that is... [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment forbidden]] for the Think Tank.
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' has an item called Earthen Bow. Its description is as such: "A bow that looks like it is made in a natural way, making it look like it looks quite natural."
* Unique monsters in ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' have random name generators. Results? ''Bloodcloud the Cloud'', and such...
** ''Stone Skin''. Modifiers: Undead, Stone Skin.
** It can also happen with the stock effect phrases for random loot names, such as a light leather belt that increases your light radius in dark places, or as the game calls it, a "Light Belt of Light." While this is not technically redundant since the item in question is a light(weight) belt that produces light(illumination), it still sounds funny.
** Then there are the skills that let you interact with corpses. While you've got one selected, mousing over a body will display its name as "<monster name> Corpse", which is sensible enough. However, due to the way some monsters are named, it occasionally throws up such gems as "Decayed Corpse Corpse" or "Corpse Axe the Dead Corpse".
* There is a videogame titled ''VideoGame/KilledUntilDead''. (The notion of killing someone to death sure seems to be popular...)
* In the Polish translation of ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'', one of the soundsets has a line ''Zabiję cię! Zabiję na śmierć!'', which means exactly ''I'll kill you! I'll kill you to death!!''
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', one of your lieutenants points out that calling Los Carnales, a rival gang, "The Los Carnales" is redundant, since "Los" means "The." He gets upset later on when ''he'' accidentally calls them "The Los Carnales."
* It's very common to see users on ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' saying something along the lines of "Please PST me", not knowing that PST is an abbreviation for "Please Send Tell".
** Also, Looking For Group or Looking For More/Mate can mean the same thing in real life, but LFG and LFM mean you're alone or you have some other guys respectively.
** Enraged Crusher has become enraged!
* The Western title of the game ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}: Wrath of Heaven'' essentially translates to "Heaven's Wrath: Wrath of Heaven"
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'':
--> '''Dynaheir''': Minsc is, well, [[CloudCuckoolander Minsc]].
* Anyone who has even a passing knowledge of Spanish will get hours of amusement out of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'''s incessant referencing of "The Los Illuminados"--see "The El Niño" down in RealLife.
** Also, "the Las Plagas" though this was [[TranslationCorrection averted in the Spanish translation]].
** Item: [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/Mirror_w/_Pearls_%26_Rubies Mirror w/ Pearls & Rubies]]. Description: A gorgeous mirror lined with many pearls and rubies.
* 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".
* Any time John Madden is in a football game, such as ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'', he uses such sounds-like-itself phrases as, "You know, the receiver can't catch the ball if the quarterback doesn't throw it!" or "Usually, the team with the most points wins!"
* VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}'s super-villain Rictus says one line, a slight variation of the main example.
* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' features the [[BrutalBonusLevel Hell Temple]], which starts off with a tablet describing the place as one that none should enter and only for those with no sense of regret, before concluding, "Hell Temple is hell!"
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin lampshades this while singing his own rendition of the MajorGeneralSong
-->I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology)
-->Because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology)
** Also, this gem from [[EnsembleDarkHorse Niftu Cal]], [[AGodAmI biotic god]]: "I am a great wind that will sweep all before me like a... a great wind!" A great ''biotic'' wind, for [[MemeticBadass he is, after all, a biotic god.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if your [=FemShep=] is romancing Kaidan he will come to her room for a "quick drink" and upon realizing how depressed she is, tries to comfort her by saying "Look, it's gonna be... it's gonna be what it is."
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' gives the line: "Colette [[CaptainObvious is Colette]]." In context, it's said to reassure Colette that her friends will accept whatever changes that happen to her. [[MindScrew (However, the hot coffee that is actually iced coffee is, hot.)]]
* Actual ''VideoGame/{{Tomba}} 2'' dialogue: "It's a fire hammer. It's a hammer with the power of fire."
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', the description for the Oval Glass Sconce reads, "It's Oval!!! It's Glass!!! It's a Sconce!!!"
** In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'', a bit of quest dialogue refers to an item your hero is carrying as a "mouse-filled bag of mice."
* In the ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'' Brady Games player's guide, its explanation on the monsters in the game on page 41 has this as its first line, "The strange creatures you see are creatures."
* What about Franziska von Karma's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment foolery]] in the second ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' game? "Foolish fool who foolishly dreams of foolish dreams." Also, "A fool is a fool who will only listen to the foolish opinions of other foolish fools." The list goes on and on…
** And in case 3-5 we also have Gumshoe say this:
-->'''Gumshoe:''' Prosecutor Edgeworth is a prosecutor, and that's why he's Prosecutor Edgeworth!
** And yet again from the same case:
-->'''Edgeworth:''' ...Gumshoe indeed! Like gum on your shoe, he's impossible to get rid of!
* Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', on Morrigan: "Beautiful just like...like something that's also dangerous. Like a...beautiful dangerous thing."
** Alistair's initial description of Morrigan as "some kind of sneaky... witch thief!".
** In ''Awakening'', the description of Oghren's unique battle-axe;
--> ''Oghren called this axe the "Darkspawn Ravager"... because that's what it does.''
** Continues in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', where the Inquisitor can sentence a dead person to have their skull used in public theatre about the "evils of evil". The Inquisitor, at least, seems to be doing it for a joke.
* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'''s Dark Carnival campaign, there's a lot of posters for a FakeBand named the Midnight Riders. Each band member has their own title, like "The Lover", "The Drinker", or "The Brawler". Ox, the drummer, gets a title of "The Drummer".
* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', resident CloudCuckooLander Taokaka is Taokaka. Which is her answer to the question of who or what she is when asked "who/what are you?"
* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'', if you use the hand icon on the tinder box, you are told, "It feels exactly like a tinder box."
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' features a sword named Gram, the description of which reads "The sword named Gram." It also features a sword named Harper. The description for it reads "The sword named Harper."
* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner'' revolves around the big "Race to the End of the Race". In ''Episode 2: Strong Badia The Free'', all the characters create their own independent countries, including the eponymous Strong Badia, Marzistar/Homezipan, The Homsar Reservation, and Strong Mad's country of... Country.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' has these helpful descriptions:
** Shirt: "It's a shirt!"
** Pants: "It's a pair of pants!"
** Work Pants: "Sweaty work pants!"
** Finger Shot: "Fingers shoot bullets"
** ...and so on
* Near the beginning of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', Leon tells Sora, "TheHeartless. Those without hearts." ''Really'', Leon? Because I thought we were calling them the Heartless in a ''metaphorical'' sort of way that had nothing to do with them being creatures of pure darkness! Curiously enough, it's actually an aversion. [[NonIndicativeName The Heartless aren't beings without hearts, but rather hearts consumed by darkness. ]]
* The title of puzzle game series ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath''.
* If you smell the plants in Central Park in ''[[VideoGame/{{Gateway}} Frederik Pohl's Gateway]]'' (the text adventure based on the ''Literature/HeecheeSaga''), you are informed that they smell "very plant-like".
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
** In the original ''VideoGame/{{Metroid|1}}'' there's an item called the Maru Mari, which is commonly translated as "round ball."
** In ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'', characters will refer to your Phazon Enhancement Device as a "PED Device".
* The InteractiveFiction game ''Detective'' contains this infamous example:
-->''You are now carrying the wooden wood.''
* Averted with the voice command for calling someone a Spy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': using it with your cursor over any given player will result in saying "that [class] is a Spy", but if you use it on someone who already looks like a friendly Spy but may be an enemy Spy, the lines are along the lines of "that's Spy isn't on our side".
* The Cursed Shield in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' (SNES version) has the item description of "Is cursed".
* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', one of the Oho Jees of Oho Oasis tells you "I am me".
* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'', the Unidade de Forças Especiais are a special forces unit of military police. The name translates from Portuguese as "Special Forces Unit".
* In ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'', weapons and armour can come with random modifiers in their names such as "Balanced", "Rusted", "Bent", "Strong", "Ragged" etc. Two items in the game are the Ragged Outfit and the Strong Bow. It is consequently possible to find a Ragged Ragged Outfit and a Strong Strong Bow.
* Who hasn't said "RPG games" at some point?
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' there is a weapon called "Mythril Dagger". Its description reads "Thief's dagger made of mythril."
* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Meruru|TheApprenticeOfArland}} '' has this quote:
--> '''Meruru''': But Miss Totori is Miss Totori, Miss Totori!
** And no, that's not a BlindIdiotTranslation.
* One TV show in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is called ''Jack Howitzer Is Jack Howitzer In Jack Howitzer''.
** This immortal dialogue in the mission "Robbing Uncle Sam" from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', with a whiff of subversion due to the double meaning of "shit":
--> '''Ryder''': That shit was tight, man!
--> '''CJ''': Tight? That shit was shit!
* When Desmond naively says they're the good guys in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', Shaun replies, "We're Assassins. We assassinate people. [[DeadpanSnarker I can look it up for you if you'd like.]]"
* 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.
* In ''Videogame/{{Terraria}}'' the Santa Claus NPC could--before a fix--spawn with the text 'Santa Claus the Santa Claus has arrived'.
* ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' gave us Yoshi Circuit... ''literally'' Yoshi Circuit, since it takes place on an island in the shape of the green dinosaur himself.
* 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."
* In ''VideoGame/PixelDungeon'', after using a unidentified object for a while, you can get sentences such as "You have identified the sword. It is a sword." It actually means that your sword is just a boring normal sword and is not upgraded, downgraded, cursed, enchanted, or whatever.
* An early line in ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' crossing over with BuffySpeak:
-->'''[[LadyDrunk Syrenne]]:''' What, you think I'm drunk? Look, I'm as sober as...[[NotHelpingYourCase whatever's normally sober]].
* Most of the 8-bit ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games, the rooms of the dungeons are typically arranged so that when you look at the map, the shape matches the name of the dungeon, such as the Face Shrine having a face-shaped floor layout. The only aversion to this would be the Eagle Tower of Awakening, which only has a series of round floors.
* 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".
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'', Rose's True Name is Wilkis Wilk, meaning "Rose is Rose." To be fair, Sorey came up with it in a hurry.
* During monster encounters in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', the game will occasionally offer flavor text describing what the monster smells like. This falls flat after Mettaton appears; the best the narration can offer is "Smells like Mettaton." Another monster named Jerry, known for annoying other monsters with his unhygienic habits, "smells like....... Jerry."
* In any of the ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games that allow you to add adjectives to the objects you summon, you can also add adjectives that these objects already have on their own, like an "undead zombie", a "burning fire" or a "ghostly ghost".

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