History VideoGameCrueltyPotential / VisualNovel

** VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2 has the logic chess battles, which give you the opportunity to say needlessly cruel things to your adversaries. In particular, you can tell a broken down [[spoiler: Sebastian]] that he's a failure as a human being. [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Fapr2XNN8 Take a wild guess as to what happens...]] ]]

* ''VisualNovel/PhantomThiefSilverCat'': The only choices the player can make are which types of torture Mineko uses on Ginka.

** [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney The first game's]] fourth case had two examples of this with the {{Butt Monkey}}s of choice being Lotta and/or Larry. At some point, Gumshoe will offer you either a dog (Missile), a fishing rod or a metal detector to fish for Gourdy to find key evidence for your case. The ''correct'' choice would be [[spoiler:the metal detector]], but the two other options can lead to this. For Lotta, the player can take the fishing pole [[spoiler:which Maya will use in the lake to fish for Gourdy, only to trip and fall, causing Lotta's cameras to react and waste ''more'' (very expensive) rolls of film than you already wasted earlier in the case]]. For Larry, the player can take Missile [[spoiler:who will react automatically to the aroma of Larry's Samurai dogs the minute you get into the park, let alone the crime scene, causing the aptly-named poochy to run like a missile and chow down on all of Larry's hotdogs, making him lose his (at this point, already doomed) business. For added butthurt, you can also show Missile to Larry after the puppy ate his entire revenue]].
*** Lotta still gets misfortune even if you don't get the fishing rod. If you don't get it, Maya sneezes, setting off the camera anyways.

** Halfway through the case, you'll run into Franziska during the second investigation phase. For every irrelevant piece of evidence you present to her, she whips [[GenkiGirl Maya]]. You can do this as many times as you like without any repercussion.
** In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' Case 5, you run into the Steel Samurai, who reveals himself to be [[spoiler:[[TheDitz Larry Butz]].]] If you present the wrong evidence to him during the one investigation phase that lets you talk to him, [[spoiler:Larry refuses to look at your evidence because he's [[DistractedByTheSexy too busy staring at]] [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Franziska]]. Franziska promptly offers to "sear her image into his mind for eternity" by sending him on a [[WhipItGood "Whippity-Whip-Trip"]] into unconsciousness.]] This is probably the one time in which presenting wrong evidence in an investigation phase can be pretty satisfying... and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]].

* Darkly {{parodied}} and sort of deconstructed in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' when [[spoiler: Monika makes fun of the horrible things that happen to other characters because she thinks [[MediumAwareness they're just game characters anyway]] so it doesn't matter. The creator has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPw9cMWkAMs pointed out]] she's missing the point that this is the kind of game where the player [[VideoGameCaringPotential gets attached to the characters]], so she expects you to laugh along with her. Also {{inverted}} because now it's a character doing it and the player meant to fell uncomfortable.]]

* Darkly {{parodied}} and sort of deconstructed in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' when [[spoiler: Monika makes fun of the horrible things that happen to other characters because she thinks [[MediumAwareness they're just game characters anyway]] so it doesn't matter. The creator has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPw9cMWkAMs pointed out]] she's missing the point that this is the kind of game where the player [[VideoGameCaringPotential gets attached to the characters]], so she expects you to laugh along with her. Also {{inverted}} because now it's a character doing it and the player probably feeling horrified.]]

* Darkly {{parodied}} and sort of deconstructed in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' when [[spoiler: Monika makes fun of the horrible things that happen to other characters because she thinks [[MediumAwareness they're just game characters anyway]] so it doesn't matter. The creator has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPw9cMWkAMs pointed out]] she's missing the point that this is the kind of game where the player gets attached to the characters, so she expects you to laugh along with her.]]

''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': The whole point of the Ruthless route. You can be an absolute dick and perform several KickTheDog moments towards Asterion, which will cause him to eventually realize how doomed his situation is.