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** One quest in Tirisfal Glades has you feed a pumpkin to a captured Scarlet Crusade member right outside where you get the quest. The pumpkin is laced with a potion that turns him into a ghoul, and then he breaks in half a few seconds later as if though he's been slain and of course respawns. Shame you can only do it once.
** The Death Knight's Corpse Explosion spell can be used to blow up corpses of dead mobs and players for when mocking them by using an emote just won't cut it.

** In the Death Knight's questline to obtain the Deathlord's Vilebrood Vanquisher mount, you're sent to assault the Ruby Sanctum for a tome that will reveal the location of a long-dead red dragon. The current Lich King tells you that you can either kill only as many red dragons as you need to or you can [[KillEmAll kill every last one]], potentially expediting the red dragonflight's eventual extinction. Killing all of them will cause him to chime in with "You are empty inside, just like me." and reward you with a Feat of Strength (though due to a bug, you'll only receive it if you kill all the dragons before you get the tome).

** In the Death Knight's questline to obtain the Deathlord's Vilebrood Vanquisher mount, you're sent to assault the Ruby Sanctum for a tome that will reveal the location of a long-dead red dragon. The current Lich King tells you that you can either kill only as many red dragons as you need to or you can [[KillEmAll kill every last one]], potentially expediting the red dragonflight's eventual extinction. Killing all of them will cause him to chime in with "You are empty inside, just like me." and reward you with a Feat of Strength (though due to a bug, you'll only receive it if you kill all the dragons before you get the codex you came for).

** In the Death Knight's quest to obtain the Deathlord's Vanquisher mount, you're sent to assault the Ruby Sanctum for a tome that will reveal the location of a long-dead red dragon. The current Lich King tells you that you can either kill only as many red dragons as you need to or you can [[KillEmAll kill every last one]], potentially expediting the red dragonflight's eventual extinction. Killing all of them will cause him to chime in with "You are empty inside, just like me." and reward you with a Feat of Strength (though due to a bug, you'll only receive it if you kill all the dragons before you get the codex you came for).

** In the Death Knight's quest to obtain the Deathlord's Vanquisher mount, you're sent to assault the Ruby Sanctum for a tome that will reveal the location of a long-dead red dragon. The current Lich King tells you that you can either kill only as many red dragons as you need to or you can kill every last one. Killing all of them will cause him to chime in with "You are empty inside, just like me." and reward you with a Feat of Strength (though due to a bug, you'll only receive it if you kill all the dragons before you get the codex you came for).

** In the Death Knight's quest to obtain the Deathlord's Vanquisher mount, you're sent to assault the Ruby Sanctum for a tome that will reveal the location of a long-dead red dragon. The current Lich King tells you that you can either kill only as many red dragons as you need to or you can kill every last one. Killing all of them will cause him to chime in with "You are empty inside, just like me." and reward you with a Feat of Strength.

** In the Siege of Orgrimmar raid, the first thing you see once you make it through the main gate into the city is Ji Firepaw about to be executed by Kor'kron forces when a nearby candle goes out. What's supposed to happen is that you kill the overseer about to kill him and Aysa Cloudsinger carries him out; the overseer ''will'' kill Ji if you wait too long, and upon seeing him die Aysa will attempt a RoaringRampageOfRevenge with predictable results. So in the end, you've let the pandaren's ambassadors to both the Alliance and Horde die pointlessly. YouBastard.

* In ''CityOfHeroes'', once a player reached a certain level, low-level mobs would ignore them (unless attacked) and players would get no XP from doing anything to them. It still didn't make strolling into a group of 20 or more gangmembers and firing off an area-of-effect power (especially one that did damage over time so they could run for a while before dropping) any less amusing.

* In ''CityOfHeroes'', once a player reached a certain level, low-level mobs would ignore them (unless attacked) and players would get no XP from doing anything to them. It still didn't make strolling into a group of 20 or more gangmembers and firing off an area-of-effect power (especially one that did damage over time so they could run for a while before dropping) any less amusing.

** The Sith Pureblood social ability is "Punish," which delivers a backhand slap to their companion, making them cry.

** Trolls are named after the first thing that they eat. Sometimes, the item name does not become the Baby Troll's name. For example, "Troll Lieutenant's Bones" becomes "My Own Dad."

--> [[YourHeadAsplode Head Asplode]]: You should really reexamine your definition of "right."

** In the Valley of the Four Winds you'll sometimes find a baby crocolisk named Manglemaw eating at the bodies of dead cranes. Kill it, then you'll invoke the wrath of its mother which has grown in size from the properties of the water, then you can kill her and loot her tail to turn in for a few gold. It's already established that [[WouldHurtAChild your character is not above child murder]] given the dragon whelps and similar newborn creatures that you've probably killed, but still.
** If you're tired of virmen taking up residence in your soil patches in Sunsong Ranch after you harvest a crop, then you can simply run over the little bastards with the plow you can get when you reach Exalted with the Tillers, which will actually stun them and take off 70% of their health.

** In one area of Frostfire Ridge, there are two Thunderlord orcs trying to restrain an ogron. Attacking them or the ogron will cause the ogron to launch them forward and they'll die upon hitting the floor.
* There's a couple of enemies in ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'' that are rare spawns. Two of them - the Love Puppy and Mewkat - are harmless (and the Love Puppy will even [[FriendlyEnemy heal you]]). However, they can [[RandomlyDrops drop rare items]]... Or they might spawn in an arena where all enemies [[ShootTheDog must be killed]] to move on...

* In ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', the Force-Lightning-centered Sith Inquisitor infamously has the option to electrocute people in conversations. That's not this trope--it's PlayedForLaughs most of the time, and the rest of the time you need information or have another good reason to do so. What ''is'' this trope is choosing to shock ''[[WhatTheHellHero your own teammates]]''.

** The Death Knight's Corpse Explosion spell can be used to blow up corpses of dead mobs and players for when mocking them by using an emote just won't cut it. Alternatively use it on your ghoul minions and turn them into undead suicide bombers.

* In ''KingdomOfLoathing'', certain objects are defined as alive in their descriptions; destroying said objects seems especially cruel. Two ways of destroying objects are smashing personal equipment, and having a Comma Chameleon eat familiar equipment. "Living" equipment includes: A (talking) miniature dormouse; Rhesus Monkey; Turtles (who are used as helmets)...

** This exact same trick is also usable in ''StarportGalacticEmpires'', for the same reason. You could also eject people who have hired you to fly them to a different port.
* In ''RuneScape'', baby trolls will eat all tradable items, as well as a few untradable ones. Pets are one of the things you can feed to your troll.

** Sith Warriors can not only keep Vette's ShockCollar on, but activate it every time she so much as opens her mouth. Then they can give the control to [[AxCrazy Jaesa]], who quite possibly spams it more than they do.

** In the Valley of the Four Winds you'll sometimes find a baby crocolisk named Manglemaw eating at the bodies of dead cranes. Kill it, then you'll invoke the wrath of its mother which has grown in size from the properties of the water, then you can kill her and loot its tail to turn in for a few gold. It's already established that [[WouldHurtAChild your character is not above child murder]] given the dragon whelps and similar newborn creatures that you've probably killed, but still.

** There is a certain two-handed club in the game called a "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Flamingo Mallet]]." [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yeah...]]

* In ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' a standard (always darkside) dialogue option for the force-lightning-centric Sith Inquisitor is "Shock him!" (or her)

* There is no shortage of awful things you can do in ''VideoGame/WildStar''. Blow up poachers with mind-controlled rhinos? Sure. Assist the Chua with their experiments, almost all of which involve killing, maiming, or exploding something? Why not. Kill some innocent sheep or scare them into mines to watch them blow up? We're ashamed you thought you couldn't do that in the first place.

* There's a couple of enemies in ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'' that are rare spawns. Two of them - the Love Puppy and Mewkat - are harmless (and the Love Puppy will even [[FriendlyEnemy heal you]]). However, they can [[RandomlyDrops drop rare items]]... Or they might spawn in an arena where all enemies [[ShootTheDog must be killed]] to move on...

** The Corpse Explosion spell in the Death Knight's Unholy talent tree can be used to blow up corpses of dead mobs and players for when mocking them by using an emote just won't cut it. Alternatively use it on your ghoul minions and turn them into undead suicide bombers.

** There is a certain two-handed club in the game called a "[[AliceInWonderland Flamingo Mallet]]." [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yeah...]]

** There is a certain two-handed club in the game called a "[[Disney/AliceInWonderland Flamingo Mallet]]." [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yeah...]]