Angrish / Video Games

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• Decidedly not played for comedy in Asura's Wrath. When Asura gets mad (and we mean truly mad, as in transforming into Berserker and Wrath modes), he can't form coherent sentences and expresses himself through pure murder and violence. Also inverted in the first DLC episode; when Chakravartin kidnaps Mithra, Asura flies into Wrath mode, where he was previously unable to speak, but he manages to form a few coherent sentences when speaking to Mithra while trying to bash through the barrier holding her.
• In Battletoads (2020), the Shoot 'Em Up level starts with the Battletoads' spaceship colliding with an alien's, who reacts with incoherent yelling. The Toads apparently understood it, and it was quite foul, judging by how his words are bleeped out and the Toads' lips are pixellated over when they repeat them. The Toads are enraged and give chase. Just before the boss fight with the alien's ship, his speech bubble reads "Mumbled offensiveness".
• In Borderlands, using Brick's Action Skill, "Berserk", will sometimes cause him to scream incoherently as he rushes toward his enemies, punching them. The same goes for Krieg in the second game, whose dialog is generally a mix of this and nonsensical phrases involving meat or blood.
  • Inverted in Borderlands 2 in the case of the Goliaths, who upgrade from Hulk Speak and actually become more eloquent and...vivid as they're consumed by their rage once you knock their helmets off. They're still sputtering fountains of rage, but they can at least speak complete sentences at that point.
• In Bravely Default whenever Edea gets especially angry her sentences can be either be preceded or followed by "Mrgrgr!" to the point that it almost doubles as a verbal tic.
• In Commander Keen 1 there are several martian churches, where you can receive telepathic messages from the saints. In one of the churches the saint is a Garg (a species of martians consisting of a large mouth with eyestalks, who hate basically everything) and the telepathic message is: YOU HEAR IN YOUR MIND: GAAARRRRRGG!
• Covetous: In one text screen, instead of a usually coherent message, the fetus says, "FUCKAND EAT YOU CUNT SHITPIG/ [sic]".
• Isaac has some beautiful moments in Dead Space 2, thanks to Suddenly Speaking. Especially when he stomps Necromorphs, unleashing a torrent of incoherent swearing.
  Isaac: Shit! Fucking! Die! Mother FUCKER!
• Earthworm Jim; Jim does this if you lose one of between-level races with Psy-Crow (which means you have to fight him before proceeding to the next level), and also at the Game Over screen.
• EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist: In the casino minigame, you can gamble the money earned in-game playing High Low while Crown and Fool heckle you. Usually they'll egg you on and humiliate you if you lose. But if you win, one possible line is Crown being reduced to a verbal keyboard-mash of unpronounceable symbols.
• Fallout: New Vegas: Yes Man is programmed to always find the bright side in what you're doing, always agree and find you are correct every time, in order to both be as helpful as possible and boost your ego (the programmer did it for himself, but he got killed and forgot to make sure Yes Man didn't do that for everyone he met). So when you do something that is both utterly detrimental to your cause and completely fucking stupid, he is literally at a loss of words and stumbles a lot on his own speech for a good bit until he can finally find something his programming will allow, and even that sounds completely sarcastic (he supposedly can't get over how "brave" you are, to make things so challenging to yourself).
• In Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy, most of the characters let out your standard death cry when they've been defeated, but Laguna and Prishe in particular sound REALLY angry about losing. Laguna just lets out the most frustrated and angriest groan you'll ever hear. As for Prishe:
  Prishe: AWWW, HEEEEEEEEEEELL!!
• One of the early missions with Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V involves him becoming so angry most of his dialogue consists solely of "AAAARRRGH!" and variations thereof.
• Kirby gives us two of these.
  • Kirby Super Star Ultra. Revenge of Meta Knight. Heavy Lobster. Paint Ability. When you hit Heavy Lobster with it, its entire body gets covered in paint and its eyes stop working, causing it to flail around erratically. The crew of the Halberd subsequently break into angrish trying to comprehend how easily Kirby destroyed the giant shrimp mech.
  Captain Vul: Rassa frassa blassa! Arrrgh!
  • In Kirby Star Allies, when you knock off Hyness' hood, Hyness loses his cool so completely that he goes into this.
  Hyness: Juh? JUH... JUH! JUHYAMBAVITRIGOKOPOKOJAAAH!!
• League of Legends: When Skaarl ditches him and Kled goes from "angry" to "really angry", he will occasionally make ridiculous noises that essentially serve as the verbal equivalent of angry keysmashes.
  Kled: There's fixin' to be two sounds: me hittin' you, and GAYAYAYAYA
• In Life Is Strange: True Colors, one of the NPCs Alex can use her powers on has a mental voice that solely consists of Angrish. Unlike the poignant or tragic events that lie behind most characters' strong, readable emotions, he's on a phone call with bad hold music.
• In Mass Effect, when Saren hears Shepard made it to the beacon on Eden Prime, he freaks out, stomping around the control room and sputtering incoherently. It's actually Sovereign that's pissed off, and acting through Saren, but has the same effect.
  Saren (subtitles): Argh! Grr! Rahr!
• In Medieval Cop 6: Dregg Me to Hell Dr. Sigh sends Dregg to a "resort" which actually is an insane asylum.
  Dregg: Why that gomaosmdosd..... I am gonna dwoaosasa...!!!
• Mega Man X8: When Bamboo Pandemonium Turns Red, he may do this. Sometimes, it's averted, and Bamboo says, "It's all over!" instead when you drop his health to a low point.
• M.U.G.E.N: FUCKING AT WHORE!
• In a strange in-joke, there's a "cursor" pun in The Muppet CD-Rom: Muppets Inside, which features a Whatnot wandering past the Databus, muttering "Ahh, the dirty little frazbasset grummelslinger, the little shrooby rooby..."
• Anytime a player scores any points in Mutant Football League, angry gibberish can often be heard, presumably from the defense's head coach.
• In Neverwinter Nights 2, one of the male voices (Hardened Battler) devolves into Angrish when clicked on in battle.
  Hardened Battler: Pox-covered harlot-chasing... Rrrrgh!
• Marie from Persona 4 Golden tends to run words together rapidly whenever flustered, embarrassed, or upset; for example: "stupidjerkfaceihateyou." Did we mention that she's a Tsundere?
• In Persona 5, a target that's under the Rage status effect (increased melee damage but decreased defense, can't take any actions but melee attacks against a random enemy) will do nothing but howl death threats over and over.
• Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal: Many NPC's have meaningless patterns of letters and punctuation marks for their dialogue when you defeat them, such as this bizarre quote from Whitney:
  Whitney: YY? ? Y-?!! ??X? ??X?!! ??C???X??!! ?? ??? ??????
• The Anger Sphere from Portal doesn't speak, instead it only growls at the player.
• In the South Africa zone of The Secret World, John, a.k.a. the disembodied Black Signal becomes incandescent with rage while talking to you on the phone, resulting in his speech becoming unintelligible static for a few seconds.
  John: Hiya, Chuck. You and I have got some FUCKING BUSI--
• Mitsunari from Sengoku Basara is usually pretty good at coming up with gruesome and imaginative death threats, however when enraged his inspiration fails him and he starts yelling "I'LL KILL YOU!" over and over again.
• Murray in Sly 2: Band of Thieves. The combination of spice and hypno-boxes slowly made this happen, until he mindlessly roared and charged at Sly.
• All of Hothead's title cards in Speed Runners are unintelligible anger.
• Pester the Grox too much in Spore and they scream at you.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • In the "Meet The Spy" video, the BLU Scout reacts with outraged sputtering to pictures of the RED Spy with his mother. He was actually a RED Spy's seeing that the BLU Spy got hold of pictures of him with his "petit chou-fleur", but his reaction makes sense as genuine or part of his cover.
  • One of the Heavy's dying voice clip is AAANNGGHHH YAAAAHHDAAAHH!
  • The Engineer, if he uses the Wrangler for too long or uses a "negative" speech clip.
  "Dagit nagit, nabit dagit!"
• In the Thief games, if you are being chased by a guard and you climb or jump to somewhere they can't follow, their immediate response is pure, incoherent Angrish in frustration at you escaping.
• Total War: Warhammer III: Daemons of Khorn, serving said War God, sometimes have names meant to invoke this, such as Guari'ukobach'remakht.
• Warcraft II, Warcraft III and World of Warcraft have this as the result of the Bloodlust spell. Hear it for yourself: WC2 version, WC3 and WoW version.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: During Ino’s Ascension Quest, after the Nopon Eater escapes from the gang, they try to report it to Sunny, only for Ino to spout gibberish. Somehow, he understands everything she says. Noah is just as baffled as the audience. See for yourself.

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