History WhatTheHellHero / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': In her B support with Canas, Nino calls him out for [[ParentalAbandonment leaving his not-yet-two son]] with his grandmother to go on a journey of knowledge, saying that he should be around for his son's childhood. He admits that he's ashamed and his ending notes that he heads home, suggesting that even if you didn't get the support he feels bad about it.

** In the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series, good party members will leave the party if you reach a low enough reputation from your evil deeds and vice-versa, but there are also other ways of pissing people off, such as wagering on [[KickTheDog dog fighting]] when you have a NatureHero in the party.

** Works a little better in ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'', when [[spoiler:Handsome Jack's AI]] pulls a NotSoDifferentRemark on Rhys, pointing out that in order to defeat him he destroyed Helios, which had hundreds of Rhys' own co-workers on it, and there definitely weren't enough escape pods for ''everyone''. Granted, Hyperion's culture seems to be based around being a CorruptCorporateExecutive and backstabbing your way up the ladder, so it may be a case of KickTheSonOfABitch to some extent. But we never see most of them do anything worse than engage in FingerGun battles, and we know that at least some people who work there are decent enough, like Vaughn and [[spoiler:potentially Yvette]]. Since this is an adventure game with dialog trees, it's up to the player whether they concede that [[spoiler:Jack]] [[JerkassHasAPoint has a point]] or pull a ShutUpHannibal.

* Transfer enough of your crew to serve in torment and death with the Druuge in ''VideoGame/StarControlII'', and the Starbase Commander will call you out. It will also get much, much harder to recruit.

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*** Shepard can turn it back on them (very politely) by pointing out that Cerberus was the only group at all concerned with the mass human abductions by the Collectors, which was the only reason Shepard was accepting said aid, aside from the whole bringing him/her back from the dead thing. Your alien squad mates concede that no one else was as concerned about the Collectors when they join you.

* Arthas from ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', or specifically Uther calling him out on his decision to raze the city of Stratholme.

---> '''Setsuna''': Nobody likes the persistent type.
* In ''VideoGame/WingCommander III'', if Blair decides to disobey orders to go after [[spoiler:Hobbes]], which results in [[spoiler:Vaquero's death]], Eisen will call him out on putting his own desire to avenge [[spoiler:Cobra]] above the needs of the ship.
** In the previous installment, ''Vengeance of the Kilrathi'', firing into an allied ship ''too much'' results into you being declared a traitor and fired upon.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* When the Conclave comes to arrest Tassadar in ''VideoGame/StarcraftI'', he at first thinks he's being rescued.

** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty'' has another one where, if Raynor chose to [[spoiler:slaughter Haven's refugees on behalf of Selendis to keep the infestation from spreading]], Tychus comments on it as ''"I bet yer protoss buddies are '''reeeaaal''' proud o' ya now..."'' Reversed in the ending where Raynor's reaction to Tychus [[spoiler:having been TheMole the entire game]] is a [[TranquilFury quiet]] ''"What have you '''done'''?"''
** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'' has Warfield calling Kerrigan out on letting her zerg SinkTheLifeboats, going as far as [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu taunting her]] with [[spoiler:Raynor's recent death]]. She does not appreciate the latter part and [[spoiler:[[PetTheDog lets the transports carrying the wounded soldiers leave]] after killing Warfield]].

* Telltale's ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' has a crapton of this. You play as convicted murderer Lee Everett, who joins a group of survivors in a ZombieApocalypse. As you play through, you are presented with a lot of [[GreyAndGrayMorality thorny, murky]] [[SadisticChoice moral dilemmas]] and are forced to make a choice. Your (and by extension, Lee's) choices reflect on the other survivors and what they think of him. Needless to say, no matter what choices you make, Lee will get this trope at least once, especially if you choose some of the more {{Jerkass}} options, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdtAlcEclbk like so]].

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields forces Lynn, who is suffering from a bad gunshot wound, to pilot her Ryder by into battle by having Claude inject her with extremely powerful painkillers. When they lose that battle, Lynn--now mad as hell--delivers a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Kayto, calling him out on recklessly endangering the lives of his crew for selfish reasons.

* Caim from ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' can be described as a cold-blooded killing machine driven by revenge. Often, while killing enemies in the game, several characters will object to his ruthless killing; for example, Leonard tells him "your heart is black".

** ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' has the enemies call Cipher "mercenary scum" or something similar after you destroy noncombatants or neutralised enemy vehicles and the FMV interviewees are generally more derogatory. The game also has VideogameCrueltyPunishment by sending tougher ace squadrons after you. Inverted also in that Pixy sometimes rationalises away your deeds as being positive, though it's open for interpretation as to whether he believes his own words.

** In ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'', Mission 05 ends with [[spoiler:you apparently firing a missile at former Osean president Vincent Harling's plane, killing him]]. There's no other possible explanation for this [[spoiler:until much later in the game when it's revealed that [[FalseFlagOperation an Erusian drone spoofing an Osean IFF was the one that fired the missile and made you take the fall]]]], and AWACS Sky Keeper expresses his disappointment as you withdraw from the combat zone (due to the Arsenal Bird showing up).

* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore: For Answer'', [[spoiler:your operator, who has stood by you through countless missions]], can't help but register her disgust at the choices your pilot makes that [[MoralEventHorizon lead to]] [[KillEmAll Ending C]]. The enemies who appear to kill you and your accomplice after the fated mission also lash out at you with the following, starting with your Operator herself:

** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'' has Warfield calling Kerrigan out on letting her zerg SinkTheLifeboats, going as far as [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu taunting her]] with [[spoiler:Raynor's recent death]]. [[BerserkButton She does not appreciate the latter part]] and [[spoiler:[[PetTheDog lets the transports carrying the wounded soldiers leave]] after killing Warfield]].

*** [[TokenGoodTeammate Eleanor]] likes to hand these out in response to the party's more amoral actions. The party is composed of a war daemon who's perfectly at peace with himself and his goal of killing his brother, a drifter several times her age who believes everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want (that doesn't infringe on another's freedom), a sarcastic, nihilistic AmbiguouslyHuman drama queen, and the Lord of Calamity who openly admits her only objective is the cold-blooded revenge-driven murder of a messianic figure and any heroics she perpetrates are completely incidental. Needless to say, Eleanor's attempts to apply structured morality fall comically flat. The only time it sticks is [[spoiler:calling Velvet out on making Laphicet the malak a ReplacementGoldfish for Laphicet her deceased younger brother, and only because Phi had called her out as well and she'd already resolved to change.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', softy protagonist Emil gets his fair share of these over his alter ego's overly violent tendencies, from Tenebrea (rendered with hilarious casualness) for sending Marta off to her death, and even levels one on ''himself'' when he finds out [[spoiler:the girl he's been protecting this entire time, he essentially set up as a decoy in the first place (though this was also done by his other self)]]. Prequel protagonist Lloyd Irving also faces them for his apparent face heel turn [[spoiler:until it's revealed to be a combination of an evil doppleganger, a top secret save-the-world plan, and sheer bad timing.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': [[KidHero Razputin]] while [[MentalWorld inside the mind of]] Psychonauts second-in-command Agent Forscythe, he uses his newly acquired mental connection power [[MoreThanMindControl (where one can force a target to form associations between two thoughts to essentially rewrite their personality)]] to let him go on a highly sensitive mission. He ends up giving her a gambling addiction by accident and essentially has to undo the connection he created to stop her from ruining the mission. Raz's new father figure and senior agent Sasha Nein ends up giving him one of these upon their return to base:

*** ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'' features this in spades if you do the [=WorldCorp=] ending. You'll receive a small example of it if you initate the [[spoiler:Ryan ending on a [=PDX=] playthrough, or kill ZeroPresence on a [=PDX=] playthrough. ]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}'': While there's hardly much of this going on, what Kokonoe and Trinity does are outright mean.]]

*** Fenris [[spoiler:kills a woman who he'd sworn to let go.]] Justified [[spoiler: in that Hadriana was one of the people who tortured him]].

*** After [[spoiler: Paladin Danse]] is revealed to be a synth, if the player chooses to either kill him or let Elder Maxson execute him, several of your companions will chew you out for allowing a good man and a friend to be murdered.
*** Vice-versa, if you convince [[spoiler: Danse]] that he has right to life and should stand up for himself, instead of [[DrivenToSuicide embracing death]], he'll chew Maxson out for [[spoiler: instantly turning on one of his best and most loyal men, because there's a strong ''chance'' he's a synth.]]

* ''VideoGame/MightyMilkyWay'': At the very end of the game, the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe cute alien girl]] you've been controlling the entire time is revealed to be [[spoiler: a sociopathic {{Planet Destroyer}} who blows up and creates new planets just for fun. And the very last target on her list is ''EARTH''.]] The game specifically states ''you'' helped her in the [[VictoryQuote victory screen]], and the button on the bottom, rightfully so, screams, "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone WHAT HAVE I DONE???]]"

** During a skit just after [[spoiler: Corrine's death]], Sheena is clearly still devastated when [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Zelos]] comes in acting like his usual carefree self. Sheena leaves and the party call Zelos out on how insensitive he's being. [[JerkassHasAPoint Zelos retorts that Sheena is never going to feel better if the party keep walking on eggshells around her.]]