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  • Every one of Daniel's lines in the first chapter of Dark Waters (and most lines in later chapters) are pretty hilarious. Especially the responses when Heather demands that he give her his belt so that she can construct a device to allow her to go rescue the player.
    • And in the second chapter, the sequence after a male player who has expressed romantic interest in Heather encounters her memories of Kendra (whose memories have been implanted into her) cheating on Conley (whose memories have been implanted into the player) with Sheridan (whose memories have been implanted into Daniel), in which you reassure Heather on how certain you are that she isn't going to jump into bed with Daniel.
    • Most of the elven psychic duelists. Especially the Elfinatrix, whose nickname was intended to be intimidating and ended up working too well (she can't get any dates), and the woman who was famed for killing an entire pirate raiding crew with a dull spoon.
  • The end of the funeral in one of the many side stories in Chibi-Robo!. And yes, I said the end of a funeral.
  • In the Naruto game, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, Naruto can go on 'dates' with other characters if he gives them certain items in Ultimate Contest mode. Nothing can beat him going to the hot springs with Rock Lee: all Naruto says is 'Ahhh', and then Lee later suggesting they should do it again sometime.
  • The first Nintendo 64 Ganbare Goemon game had quite a lot of funny moments. Goemon finds out that Wiseman built robots for the bad guys in exchange for car magazines; this is made even funnier when Wiseman finds out that they blew up his house, including his collection of magazines. (They were porn magazines in the Japanese version.)
    • The game's climatic...musical number, "Gorgeous My Stage". Yes, this performance was actually the villains' master plan all along.
    Yae: "Wait a minute, Wise Man, how do you know all this?"
    Wise Man: "Ahem. That's because I'm... THE WISE MAN!"
  • Wizkid was bizarre, no two ways about it, but the funniest moment had to be when the clue to the next level exit was found by going to the toilet. Which made the volcano fart rocks.
  • The regular ending of the OHRRPGCE game Arfenhouse 3, specifically the first half. The heroes finally remember they were supposed to stop a comet from hitting the Earth, but only when it's too late. The cast patiently awaits their doom... only for the Earth itself to dodge the comet at the last moment.
  • Brigandine has a cutscene where the Ax-Crazy Mad Monarch Dryst gets reprimanded by high and mighty Church Militant Paternus for practically ignoring God. Dryst's response is pure hilarity...
    Don't tell me you ask for God's permission to go to the toilet. Ha ha ha...
  • Time Hollow: Ethan's reactions if you try to examine any of the girls while they're frozen in time outside the cafe: "I'm not gonna examine her!"
  • Castle Crashers's Thieves' Forest stage. A deer who propels himself through bowel movements? A grizzly bear who shits himself at the sight of an off-screen Giant Mook? The same crap-happy deer bowel-thrusting himself through an abandoned mill to escape said Giant Mook?
  • Over 75% of all lines made by Priel in Luminous Arc. Also Iris's "I PLAYED AN INCORRECT FILE."
    • Also one particular intermission, which allows Alph to point blank ask Vanessa "Are they real?" The best bit? She's delighted he asked and offers to let him find out.
  • On episode 4 of The Way you find yourself interrupting a cutscene of a young boy arguing with his mother about whether to urinate in the corner of the house or outside.
  • Chou Chabudai Gaeshi is a video game centered around one thing: Flipping the Table. Players are tasked with causing as much mayhem and destruction as possible from their table flipping. Scenarios centered around this simple yet hilarious concept include flipping a table at home, flipping a desk at an office, or in some versions, flipping your own casket and corpse at a funeral. Witness the chaos!
  • The measures Ubisoft took to discourage anyone who would pirate Michael Jackson The Experience: they covered up the music with the sounds of a large group of vuvuzelas being blown at full volume. Talk about a Cool and Unusual Punishment.
  • The US localization of Gunbird (known as Mobile Light Force in the states) has one of these if you know enough about the original Japanese version. Among the many, many changes made, the playable characters were renamed after members of the localization team. Two of these characters, Tetsu and Ash, are actually Camp Gay and a pedophile respectively in the original Japanese version.
  • The Where Are They Now epilogue of Infinite Undiscovery has a funny moment. Balbagan, Rico, and Rucha corner some bandits who reportedly kidnapped a woman. Turns out that woman is Michelle, a former comrade of theirs. The bandits are awfully eager to give her up. Why? She was taking such good care of them and making them do nice things like saying prayers before meals. She made them want to be nice in turn!
    Bandit: Now, we got men who want to go home and help their parents!
  • Clive Barker's Undying: When Patrick slaps Lizbeth's severed, ranting head.
  • The knuckleball in the Triple Play Baseball series makes for one of the silliest-looking pitches in the game (Jim Hughson even refers to its movement as "dancing", e.g. "Knuckleball dances down and in"), and it's not a very good pitch to use if:
    • You want to be taken seriously; and
    • You want to get some strikes in.
  • The Talos Principle:
    • Go to level B2, find the bed, and sleep in it. Try not to laugh as you watch badly drawn electric sheep jumping over fences.
    • Then there's a holographic replay in an early level that sprints along while doing the Serious Sam Headless Kamikaze scream, while Elohim acts entirely serious about the whole thing. It's hilariously surreal.
    • And some QR code sequences can be this, especially the ones where the last response gets snarky. The response to one AI freaking out about existential stuff? "You're a computer program, I'm a computer program, Elohim's a computer program, get over it."
    • Some responses to the 100% Completion ending:
      "Epitaph? What? Wait a second!"
      "Every. Single. Sigil. No beating that."
      "Don't make my mistake - turns out 'epitaph' means you're dead!"
  • Levelhead is a Platform Game whose main attraction is its Level Editor that allows players to share their creations online with other players, much like Super Mario Maker. However, the game's creators at Butterscotch Shenanigans have a brilliant sense of humour that pervades their trailers, showing their understanding that laughs make trailers more memorable.
    • The pre-release trailer begins with "teaching GR-18 to gently carry fragile cargo across any kind of terrain". Immediately after this, footage shows GR-18 acting the complete opposite of gentle, kicking an enemy and throwing his cargo on spikes, much to the announcer's frustration.
    • After giving many examples of what you can do in Levelhead complete with footage, the announcer Self-Deprecates himself with "But don't take my word for it; I can't be trusted", followed by a voice in the background protesting, "Wait, who put that in the script?"
  • Gran Turismo 4 has one when you fail a license test in the game. Oooooooooohhhh yeeeeeaaaaahhhh!
  • The Iron Man game: The boss of a level who plans to kill a bunch of civilians to cover his tracks is revealed to be an ex-employee of Stark industries fired for stealing supplies: "My inventions helped make you rich, Stark! You never should have fired me!" Tony (Iron Man) "You were stealing pens!"
  • Animal Crossing occasionally has the neighbors say hilariously random things, especially the more wacky ones.
    • Upon being asked for some old wallpaper:
      Clyde: The funny thing about old wallpaper is, put some lasagna over it and you've got trash. And that's why I have a lot of trash no old wallpaper.
  • Shingen Takeda, snarky old man of Samurai Warriors, has many wonderful lines in his stories ("Very well, I'll have my people contact your people, and we'll stab each other over tea"). Possible crowning moment?
    Tadakatsu: "It matters not how many men you throw at me. I will fell them all!"
    Shingen: "And what if I threw kittens at you, Tadakatsu? Would you kill them, too?"
  • Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Right from the start when you meet your first Djinn, he asks if he can join the party. If you keep saying no, he grows more and more desperate, including promising not to eat your potato chips if you let him join.
    • Also in the Lost Age, giving all the "wrong" answers to the But Thou Musts up to a certain point earns the following rant from Kraden:
      Kraden: [Hops twice] What!? Are you INSANE!? Or maybe you think you're funny? Because you're not! Maybe this whole quest is just a game to you, but it's not to me! Are you bored!? Do you want to go home!? FINE! That's it! Then let's go home!
    • The message that plays whenever you use the Venus Djinni Mold in battle. "Guaranteed to infuse humor into the most dramatic boss encounters."
      "[monster], stop hitting yourself!"
  • Ghost Trick:
    • In Chapter 15, accidentally shooting Inspector Cabanela in the face with a hardhat instead of a bullet is MUCH funnier than it should be.
    • Most things about Bailey are hilarious, but the Panic Dance in Chapter 9 is nearly unbearable. It's even funnier because he keeps doing it even after the crisis is averted.
  • Approximately a week or so before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out for World of Warcraft, Thrall, leader of the orcs, disappeared from his chamber for a few hours. The official forums proceeded to speculate on what he was doing and where he was during that time. This led to many responses simply saying "Jaina." But the absolute best was in response to one of these, where the poster simply wrote:
    Bow-chicka-lok-tar
    • World of Warcraft has a number of noncombat pets with silly and/or hilarious animations, but one of the funniest ever has to go to the Plump Turkey, obtained as a reward for completing the Thanksgiving Pilgrim's Bounty holiday achievements. When near a cooking fire, the poor brainwashed bird takes a running jump into the fire and cooks itself.
      • The turkey narrowly supplants the Rocket Chicken, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a robot chicken with huge rocket boosters strapped to its back. After warming itself up for a few minutes, the chicken will spontaneously launch itself skyward... and explode in a loud squawk and puff of feathers.
    • Kael'Thas was originally a raidboss in Tempest Keep. Later, he was revived as a 5-man boss. His monologue included "...Tempest Keep was merely a setback". From then on, "merely a setback" was a new meme in ''WoW circles.
      • Then there's the Blood Princes, three blood elves turned vampires who you could kill during leveling. When you first engage them, one says "Naxxanar was merely a setback!".
      • The trend continues in cataclysm with Hogger, the new final boss of the stockades, who upon engagement yells "Forest just setback!", not all surprising considering his meme god status in the game.
    • A possibly apocryphal exchange from the day Pope John Paul II passed away.
      Player1 (In Ironforge chat): Guys the pope just died.
      Player2: What did he drop?
    • The three new quests in the Badlands zone regarding The Day That Deathwing Came are just hilariously ridiculous. Words don't really do them justice, but they involve punching Deathwing in the face, a giant gnome, some hot babes (including a Blood Elf male), and a flying motorcycle.
    • One of the new quests in Redridge Mountains involves searching for the battle plans of the local monsters. None of them are what anyone would call brilliant, but one in particular...
    <This document is blank. (Beat.) Correction. This document was recently used as toilet paper.>
    • "Congratulations! Allow me to grant you a title befitting the amazing achievement you just performed! Henceforth, you shall be known as the Slayer of Stupid, Incompetent, and Disappointing Minions." This is an actual title.
    • The Halls of Origination. When you defeat the last elemental in the Vault of Lights, as the door is opening, Brann Bronzebeard makes a comment that, when heard through his voice acting, sounds more like he's saying, "Oh not this s*** again..."
    That did it. The door is opening. Now we can — Oh no...
    • Probably most players' first sourceless quest counts as this, as you basically get attacked by an eel, say "You know what? Fuck eels," and give yourself a quest to kill a bunch of eels.
  • Most (if not all) of Neko Arc Chaos's dialogue in the secret storyline of Arcade Mode of Melty Blood Act Cadenza ver. B. Virtually all of it Breaks the Fourth Wall.
    Neco-Arc Chaos: Th-then the one who gave Sion the infinite combo...! And the one who made White Len a tsundere...!
    Magical Broom Girl Amber: Yes. It was me! Kya~* Wonderful! I got to say it again!
  • Duke Nukem 3D. Unintentional? Duke can whiz in a urinal and then smash it and then drink from the same to regain health. Salty!
  • The "You blabbing old fart!" scene in Phantasy Star IV, when Grandfather Dorin tries to tell Alys Brangwin's measurements.
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay has a wonderful moment in which you can listen in on the Cozart Brothers torturing an inmate that's had the misfortune of sharing their cell during confinement:
    Victor: Let me do that! Let me do that! I have the best thing right here...
    Prisoner: No...no! No don't, please! (Sobbing) No, please no...no...
    Luthor: Hush now. My brother is gonna cut you now. You just hush. Okay? Good.
    Prisoner: uhh...NO! NO, NOT THE EYES! NOT THE EYES! NO, NO NOT THE EYES, NO... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!
    Luthor: (Giggling wickedly) That's good Victor, that's good! Now, let me do some.
    Victor: Just one second- I'm just gonna...take...the other eye.
    Luthor: Don't you kill him, Victor! We're not getting out in a week!
    Victor: You mean we can't get a new one? (A pause) Oh shit! He passed out!
    Luthor: Not in a week...NNNNNO! Listen, why don't we wait until this one's conscious again? Then we can... then we can burn him or something... we can burn him!
    • Later on, Riddick is walking away from a bomb he set, then comes face to face with a Riot Guard (a Prison Guard in Powered Armor with two machineguns at the ends of the arms). Remember, Riddick has no visible weapons and isn't wearing any armor at all.
      Riot Guard: What the... Hold it! That area's restricted.
      Riddick: Oh, sorry, my mistake. (turns and tries to walk away)
      Riot Guard: Don't move, prisoner... it's not that easy... Name.. (Riddick turns around)
      Riot Guard: ...Riddick... (Realizes it's just him and Riddick) ...Shit!
      Riddick: I think you're gonna need backup.
      Riot Guard: (Radio) This is 22B. I need backup. And send down a home-box for Riddick. We need him sedated. Do it now! (Scene cuts and comes back with Riddick being locked in a box/traincar with two guards watching him while the Riot Guard stands outside)
      Riot Guard: He's your problem now.
  • The NetHack top deaths log is made of funny, especially the ones that only have one listed victim. A lot of these are the product of players naming the cause of their deaths, hence "choked on a food ration named never gonna give you up" and "killed by an Uruk-hai called YASD."
    • Choked on a cock.
    • Killed by kicking an ass and taking names.
    • Killed by kicking a bucket.
    • Choked on a long sword.
    • Unwisely tried to eat Death.
    • Colliding with the ceiling.
    • Apparently 22 players were killed by kicking 0 gold pieces.
    • More gameplay-relevant examples: Killed by an Archon called You get a bad feeling about this.
    • So, who wants to die on turn 1?
  • Illbleed is alternately ridiculous and disturbing. Highlights include the brainless, gibbering "woodpuppet" version of Randy in "Woodpuppets" and the "boss fight" from "Killer Department Store" ("Aaah! Cashman's on fire!").
  • Planescape: Torment has (along with the Tear Jerkers) a lot of funny moments.
    Nordom: Morte, do you believe you have a destiny in life, a purpose?
    Morte: Is Annah still wearing clothes?
    Nordom: Affirmative.
    Morte: Then the answer is "Yes".
  • Of all series, Silent Hill has some gloriously funny moments hidden amongst all the horror. Perhaps the best and most famous are the UFO endings, which eventually culminate in the third game where Heather, after being abducted by the aliens, meets the previous games' protagonists (who were also abducted in their respective games), and the aliens blow up Silent Hill. Then Silent Hill No Uta plays. That this makes about as much sense as anything else that happens in that town only succeeds in making it funnier.
    • Note: One of the protagonists Heather meets is her father, who is dead, and yes, it still makes just as much sense as any of the other endings.
    • Heather going to look in the toilet and then turning toward the screen and questioning who the hell would actually do that.
    • In the fourth game, we have Jasper and his thoroughly disturbing affection for chocolate milk.
    • Shattered Memories' UFO ending takes the cake. Rather than the standard "Harry's dead" ending, she claims that he was abducted by aliens, and that the entire town is actually a giant spaceship. Cue James walking by, prompting the following exchange before cutting back to Heather, who is now the dog from the second game, stating "My mother was a bitch."
      James: "...Wrong day again?"
      Kaufman: See you tomorrow, James. *door closes* One of my couples' therapy patients. Haven't seen his wife in a while.
    • "It's a boat. It's like a car, but runs on water."
  • MadWorld has the announcers, which act as a Crowning Soundtrack of Funny, almost constantly playing in the background. A highly, HIGHLY inappropriate soundtrack.
    • One of them is John DiMaggio, recognizable as Bender.
      Kreese: You know, on that first version of Martin he shot those out of his crotch.
      Howard: I remember that, the censors made him change it because they said it made the death less family friendly.
      Kreese: I wouldn't let my kids watch.
      Howard: You got kids?
      Kreese: That's what the courts tell me.
    • Don't forget when Howard goes into one of his perverted moments.
      Howard: You know, I usually like my electric prods delivered by a dominatrix dressed as a british nanny. But this sci fi soldier getup is pretty kinky too!
      Kreese: I'll deliver an electric prod to you anytime you want, you sick freak. Just ask!
      Howard: [sincerely] Pleeease?
      Kreese: [groans]
  • FreeSpace 2:
    • The game has a couple of Hilarious Outtakes buried in the voice files ("Stop laughing there, copilot!"), and the A.I.'s sometimes suicidal piloting technique can lead to some extremely amusing collisions. The best involves a very speedy Astaroth getting whacked by the spinning... thing that spins on a Shivan CommNode. Said Astaroth did its best impression of a baseball before exploding in the distance.
    • Some of the user-made campaigns are full of Funny:
      • From Derelict, Ensemble Dark Horse Lt. Mackie and his endless references to duct tape as well as the immortal line: "Looks like the defecation is about to hit the ventilation..."
      • Somehow Silent Threat: Reborn managed to believably use "Somebody set up us the bomb!" in an otherwise quite serious story for major lulz.
      • The Just Another Day parody campaigns, from start to finish ("I may or may not be the Wizard of Ambiguity...")
  • Lost Odyssey:
    • When the immortal, eternally 20-years old Seth is reunited with her mortal, looks-70-year-old son after many, many decades. He runs at her, shouting "momma!", and she playfully gives him a noogie (on his bald head). Prince Tolten's incredulous reaction absolutely wonderful.
    • Not long (chronologically) after the event above, Seth, Sed (her son), and Prince Tolten have just escaped from monsters in Sed's uber-sub, and Sed and Seth are celebrating with whoops of triumph and double high fives. Tolten is caught up in the excitement and tries to join in... about a second too late, and the moment has already past. One can imagine his awkwardness as he tries to recover his dignity...
    • The walking-talking generator of humor that is Jansen. Many of the hijinks he gets into over the course of the game will have you in absolute stitches (such as showing up to the start of the adventure hung-over, hitting on everything that moves, and having a big snark-streak). It helps that his English VA is a professional stand-up comic.
  • In Summon Night 2: Swordcraft Story, there's a monster that will not let you pass... unless you ask in the way that a sexy woman would. The various characters' reactions are hilarious, especially if you make your Summon Beast be the one to ask.
    Loki: being told that he isn't sexy enough "Oh...no...you...didn't!"
    • BLUE SCREEN OF DEAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!
  • In the Dark Forces Saga, it isn't uncommon to listen in on stormtroopers having regular conversations before they realize you're there. Many of the conversations are amusing enough, but one in particular from Jedi Academy is hilarious. Two stormtroopers are complaining about being stationed in the cold on Hoth when one tells the story of how he used to be a scout trooper. Long story short, he couldn't see out of the helmet and caused a speeder bike pile-up before being kicked out shortly after.
  • Soulcalibur IV. Amy's Story Mode ending. I won't keep you.
  • Nintendo Wars:
    • Pretty much all of Jugger's Robo Speak.
      Victory, downloading party hat.
    • Days of Ruin is Darker and Edgier right up until you choose "Tactics Room" from the menu. Between Lin and Isabella's "Tactics Time" sketches, Brenner giving you advice from notecards (which end with "Don't tell Will you're reading off notecards"), or the Beast showing up to give you advice on handling Fog of War, it never disappoints. The last of these is the best simply for Will's reaction to his sworn enemy advising him on how to fight:
      Okay, that was just weird.
  • Absolutely anything to do with Da Orks in Dawn of War, its expansion packs and sequel, starting from the first scene in which they speak ("We'll keep dem more dan busy. We'll keep dem dead") and just going from there. Also, absolutely anything to do with da Ork Warboss Gorgutz 'Eadunter, especially how he managed to get his WAAAGH! to infiltrate the planet Kronus by throwing lots of rocks at the Imperium and Tau fleets in orbit, after which his ships crashed into the planet anyway.
    Gorgutz: We'll call dat Plan Stupid. I named it after yeh.
    [Later]
    Gorgutz: Why's ya grinnin'?
    Ork: Because ya named a plan afta me!
    • The Ork fortress is about to fall in Dark Crusade:
      Ork: Uh, Boss? We'z gettin' shot up!
      Gorgutz: Ain't ya da master of da obvious? Use da 'splosives!
      Ork: Da what?
      Gorgutz: Da bomb, ya git! DA BOMB!
    • The feral Orkz in the Eldar fortress of Dark Crusade:
      Ork 1: Shouldn't we use da Squiggoths on dem?
      Ork 2: Nah, leave 'em be. Da Squiggoths aren't trained yet an' I don' wanna have to scrape yer bitz offa their feet!
      (cue new optional objective)
    • Eliphas the Inheritor has some good lines as well when talking to the Space Marine Captain.
      Thule: You won't hold on to that for long, demon-spawn!
      Eliphas: Demon-spawn? One so hopelessly ignorant of his origins should not be so quick to insult another's parentage, brother.
      Thule: We are not brothers, heretic!
      Eliphas: (chuckles) Of course not. My mistake.
  • Largo's side chapter in Valkyria Chronicles, wherein The Big Guy gets all pissed off about Imperials hijacking a shipment of vegetables going to town. He gives an impassioned speech about how everyone should eat more vegetables, because they're "like miniature bombs filled with vitamins and nutrients!" However, it's Rosie's deadpan comeback that seals it:
    Largo: I mean, come on! The human body is full of nutrients!
    Rosie: (nonchalantly) Which are also like miniature bombs?
  • Command & Conquer - The main series tends to avoid this; however, Red Alerts 2 and 3 are pretty much nothing but Moment of Awesome and Funny in one package.
    • Plus, check the blooper reels for Tiberium Wars, Kane's Wrath, or Red Alert 3. They're up on Youtube.
      Kane (doing a weird dance): Brothers and sisters of Nod, I welcome you to Planet CNC (jazz hands, then returns Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive).
    • "Is that camera still running?!"
    • "I'm going to the only place that cannot be corrupted by capitalism... SPPAAAAACE!!!"
    • The entire cutscene for the first Nod mission of Tiberian Sun. Particularly:
      CABAL: The probability, of a favorable outcome, can be increased if we retreat to the nearby base in the area and fight as we move.
      Slavik: Define "favorable outcome," CABAL.
      CABAL: ...They all die.
      Slavik: That'll do.
    • Yuri's Revenge has some as well.
      Zofia: Special Agent Tanya has agreed to help us. Her abilities will be quite useful... even if she's not as skilled as Boris.
      Tanya: What? Yeah, like Boris is skilled. 'Ooh, look at me! I can call in an airstrike!' Please...
      Zofia: Oh...sorry, sir. I though this channel was secure.
      • Also, the first time the Floating Disc unit appears in the Allied campaign:
        Carville: Holy cow... commander, we've got some kind of UFO on our radar! Either if aliens are attacking or Yuri's been watching too much TV — watch yourself out there.
  • Dr. Killjoy's lecture in The Suffering, conducted with the aid of a convict strapped to a table:
    Dr Killjoy: When performing a lethal injection, it is essential that the needles be placed with absolute precision. And unlike standard medical procedures, with a lethal injection you have a patient who probably does not want the procedure to occur. Therefore, it is of vital importance that the restraints be tight and strong. Even with that, trouble may arise, and it may be incumbent for the practitioner to take matters into his own hands, using whatever sharp, bladed objects he may have on his person. Lacerations...
    [He abruptly slashes the inmate across the chest with a scalpel.]
    Killjoy: ...to the body at strategic locations...
    [He slashes the inmate again.]
    Killjoy: ...may put the patient into a state of shock...
    [He slashes the inmate one last time; the inmate screams, and passes out.]
    Killjoy: making him far more pliable, or at the very least, causing him to bleed to death, thus achieving the desired end. Who are we kidding? We're not really trying to be humane anyway. Class dismissed.
    • Another Killjoy moment, this time in the second game, and conducted with the aid of three heroin addicts:
      "Ever seen the effects of purified narcotics on the human brain?"
      BOOM.
      "Good help is so hard to find these days..."
      BOOM.
      "They just keep dying on me!"
      BOOM.
    • A Fester hammering a Slayer into the ground with its flail, complete with a last minute expression of shock on the Slayer's mask.
      • Torque having his torso cartoonishly hammered off by a Fester should his health drop too low while in combat with it.
    • Prison guards arguing over where to shine the spotlight while trying to fend off a horde of Slayers; "Your Other Left, you dumb bastard!"
    • Sergei asking prison guards for a replacement hookah for the one that broke during the earthquake.
      • For that matter, finding Sergei's marijuana crop.
  • In Final Fight there's a bonus level where you take a crowbar and destroy a car for bonus points. Once the level finishes totaling up your points, a Mook walks onscreen and cries "Oh my car!" very unconvincingly and sheds tears as big as his fists. The giant tears couple with the bad voice acting had me in stitches.
  • In Aero Fighters 3 / Sonic Wings 3, Keaton the old-fashioned cyborg gets his human body back. There's one problem with it though: there is a huge drill on his crotch.]]
  • Darius: "WARNING! A HUGE BATTLESHIP MY HOME DADDY IS APPROACHING FAST"
  • In one area of Target Terror, an arcade rail shooter where you fight terrorists, when you fight terrorists at an airport terminal, you actually have to take out terrorists in a bathroom! You begin by approaching four guys using urinals; three are terrorists and one is innocent. They turn around, and two start shooting while one throws dynamite, and the innocent walks slowly away with his hands up (I feel sorry for that innocent bystander). Turn left, where a terrorist is taking aim above a toilet stall where a woman (I guess this is a unisex bathroom) pops out from above another closed stall as another terrorist is firing from an open stall. This gives you the idea to start kicking in some of the toilet stalls. First stall: Terrorist standing up ready to shoot. Second stall: Poor hapless innocent bystander wearing glasses with his pants down on the toilet reading a newspaper, then having to awkwardly cover himself when he sees you. Whoops. Third stall: A terrorist sitting on the toilet with his pants down reading a newpaper; he takes his time to fold up his newspaper to draw his pistol, so if you took long enough to let him fire, you deserve to lose a life, and the toilet flushes when you kill him. I guess even terrorists have to use the bathroom at some point or another. By the time I was done, I was cracking up laughing due to that scene.
  • Legacy of Kain has some great ones, including;
    Raziel: (to Kain) Oh, no. Everytime you turn up, something monumentally terrible happens. I don't think I have the stomach for it.
  • The Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games are a Massive Multiplayer Crossover of various Gundam universes, some of which vary greatly in tone and subject matter. Rather than trying to fight the weirdness, the game designers apparently decided to just roll with it and embrace the potential for silliness. In particular, pretty much any time Wangsty Teen Genius Kamille Bidan comes into contact with the completely over-the-top Hot-Blooded characters from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, hilarity ensues.
    Kamille, to Master Asia: Yes. I always hated my name. But getting wailed on by you has definitely made me feel more manly.
  • The regular Dynasty Warriors series is notable for its Narmy moments, but the gameplay lends itself to some moments of genuine hilarity. Case in point, Gan Ning vs. Cao Cao in DW5. Gan Ning unloads a seemingly devastating musou attack on Cao Cao...only for Cao Cao to turn around and very calmly curb stomp him. Cue the Game Over screen and Gan Ning's scream of humiliation.
  • The Lost Vikings: "You idiots. That was OUR village!"
  • In the ending of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, when the Prince offers Farah the Dagger of Time, after telling her the story of the game, she asks why he came up with such a wild tale (not remembering any of the events of the game herself, as the Prince pushed the Reset Button). He replies by kissing her. She pushes him off and says "I said I was grateful, but you presume too much!" The Prince's response to this: he looks at the Dagger, rewinds time, using the same ability you've been using all game, to the middle of her question about why he made up such a tale, and then replies "You're right, it's just a story," and gives her the Dagger. After the large-scale Reset Button that had been pushed previously]], seeing the Prince utilize it on a much smaller scale for such a trivial reason is hilarious.
    • When the Prince began talking to himself during the game as he began to feel the absence of Farah, eventually ending up having to tell himself to shut up. More than once.
    "Stop talking to yourself! Augh!"
  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game, being scripted by the franchise's creators Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, contains many dialogue gems on par with the films. On such exchange occurs during the boss fight with a projectile-hurtling Mr. Stay Puft:
    Ray: (To Player) Look! Inbound! You're gonna wanna avoid those! Or take care of them!
    Egon: (Deadpan) He's right, rookie. Your health insurance doesn't begin for another 89 days.
    • Before that, you're running through the streets of Manhattan while fighting Stay Puft and when you shoot him with the Bason Dart.
      Ray: Give him S'more! What? I can be funny too you know.
    • Whenever Ray gets possessed in the museum level.
      (After Ray has been possessed in the loading dock area)
      WINSTON: How you doin', Ray?
      RAY: (dazed) Hazza buzza. Hazza buzza? Bozza wazza shum.
  • The Hazyview Eight track in Need for Speed Shift. Specifically, the 30-lap endurance race with a 16-car grid later in the game. You make it through one lap... then you realize the track intersects itself. Million-dollar car demo derby ensues. And you get bonus driver points for hitting cars.
  • Some of the manuals for games published by Working Designs. The description for RayCrisis's Encroachment Meter, for example: "Determines the amount of suckage."
  • While the F.E.A.R. games are usually about as unfunny as you can get, the recent F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn DLC has a darkly hilarious hidden scene which shows what can happen when the Replica Foxtrot 508 tries to be helpful and starts asking a few too many questions — namely, a bullet in the head.
  • The Sims: Apartment Life gets one on the loading screen, with "Telling Splines To Reticulate More Quietly".
    • The Sims series. What about the alien birth scene? It's impossible to watch without laughing. The poor sim just looks so...surprised.
  • The opening movie of Majesty 2.
  • Rabbids Go Home is pretty amusing on its own, but the level "Atomic Rabbid Blast" is hilarious. In addition to one of the unseen plant employees constantly complaining to his partner "Bob" about rabbits in the reactor, the announcer lady's cool nonchalance about, well, everything is completely amazing.
    Those who have been irradiated are kindly asked to never, ever leave the plant again.
    Will the person who borrowed the giant, highly radioactive atomic battery please report to the welcome desk? Thank you!
    • On one level, you enter a top secret area. The announcer's pleas that you leave get increasingly hilarious.
      What part of TOP. SECRET. do you not understand?!
  • In Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception, at the end of "End of Deception II", Gryphus One's allies sing his praises for being able to destroy Archelon Fortress. One of them butts in to claim that he could have made it too if the gate to the fortress didn't shut behind Gryphus One. The others proceed to shut him down cheerily.
    • In mission 12A from 5, "Powder Keg", everyone in Wardog squad is exhausted from constant sorties. After taking out about a third of the tunnels, Chopper starts on a joke but forgets what he wanted to say halfway through, and Edge calls him out on his constant chatter. Even if you didn't find him annoying, the exchange is a lot funnier than it should be.
  • Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box manages to have one within a puzzle. You have a crazy, mazelike container with three openings, smelly garlic inside, and two corks. You have to save the fellow observing the container from having to smell the garlic. The instructions the game gives you? "Tap an opening to plug it." The actual solution? Ignore the bottle. Ram the corks up the guy's nose!
    • Also, one fashion-conscious NPC gives you some advice:
      Lopez: Make sure your clothes always match; that's fashion rule number one! Fashion rule number two is, no one can pull off sequins.
  • The Uncharted games are generally much funnier than most games due to Nathan Drake being an expert Deadpan Snarker. Possibly the height of these moments, however, comes when you finally get back to the beginning sequence of Among Thieves, where Nate is inexplicably trapped in a train car hanging over a cliff and has to climb up before it falls over. Admittedly, the sequence is rather grim both times you visit it, since he was just shot in the stomach and is thus fighting million-to-one odds in favor of his death, but the "second" time you play it, Nate is grumbling the entire time about playing the hero and Chloe refusing to be rescued from Lazarevic's men and how he is so sick of climbing shit and...Nate, you were just shot in the stomach, why am I laughing so hard?
    • In the beginning of Among Thieves, when Nate and Flynn are breaking into a museum: Nate's about to climb up onto a roof when a guard approaches.
    Flynn: There's a guy above you, there's a guy above you!
    (Nate grabs the guard and tosses him off the roof into the water below.)
    Flynn: There's a guy below you, there's a guy below you!
  • TimeSplitters Future Perfect: After fighting their way through a haunted mansion, tough-guy Cortez and stripperiffic, ghost-hunter Jo-Beth Casey discover a trap-door over a dark, runged shaft leaving deeper into the subterranean caves beneath the basement.
    Jo-Beth: Um, you first.
    Cortez: [eyeing Jo-Beth's tiny mini-skirt and knowing she'd be climbing down above him] ...Okay!
    • And her reaction? Two seconds of cocked eyebrow followed by an unconcerned shrug.
    • Pretty much anytime Cortez causes a Stable Time Loop, you know something funny is going to happen
  • Infinite Space has plenty of funny moments, whether they come from the plot or tavern conversations. The most memorable one is when Nia, who is drunk at that time, dresses both Ian and Yuri as girls.
  • Suikoden:
    • Suikoden V has an example that is either this or Brain Bleach material, when Rahal dresses as a woman to distract the Godwin soldiers those guard the dragon range and proceeds to beat the crap out of them. His disguise is very convincing that even Roog notes how disturbingly attractive he is.
    • The whole lot of Theater scripts in Suikoden III. Putting Viki in any role is guaranteed for funny, or a real bad actress like Chris in any role, or someone really quirky like Fred Maxmillian (who always give out his real name, not acted character name, in any opportunity possible) or Landis (Giving off lots of creepy "Yuh huh huh" here and there). But the cream of the crop is if you do the Neclord stage play with Geddoe as the narrator, whereas in the end, he breaks down his stoicism and complains hard.
    Ya know, I don't care if you tell me 'It's for the Castle' or anything. I'M NEVER NARRATING AGAIN!!
  • Harvest Moon: Animal Parade has the incident in which Calvin attempts to stop Luke and Owen from knocking down a wall in some ancient ruins:
    Calvin: You hear me?! NO WANTON DESTRUCTION!
    Luke: Another day? But I'm pumped for this now!
    Calvin: Pump yourself up to read a history book!
  • From Dead Rising. After Steven is defeated, he gives a rather strange monologue before finally collapsing in front of the registers. Five seconds later...
    Steven: [Abruptly looks up.] CLEAN UP! REGISTER 6! [Dies.]
  • For a game that can be quite depressing throughout the whole thing, Persona 2 has a great sense of humor. A certain scene early in "Innocent Sin" involves the main characters trying to stop a curse that causes all students wearing a Seven Sisters High School's emblem to have their faces melt and deform. Cue a serious scene where the characters are discussing it in the school's office until two of members get into one of their many heated arguments, pumping their arms around in great PSX graphics and sprites at the same time.
    Lisa: That's it! Now I'm really pissed off! You can't blame me for what happened! I didn't think it was going to turn out like this! What! At least I don't get off on pulling down people's pants, Mr. Pervert!!! You frickin' Pants Leader...!!! Pants Leader! Pants Leader!
    Eikichi: You should talk, freak! You're just a Chinese-speaking American in Japan! Ha! What the hell are you anyway!? Here let me give you a nickname! From now on, I'm going to call you "Ginko"! Ginko! Ginko! Ginko! Ginko!
    Lisa: No! No, no, no, no! Don't you dare call me that stupid nickname!
  • Halfway through Sigma Star Saga, Psyme falls victim to an apparent illness after Ian Recker gave her a kiss. Knowing nothing about Krill physiology, Recker assumes that he impregnated her...somehow. (Two Krillian healers tell him that "this is a special moment between you two", not helping his case any.) He then takes her back to the Forest Planet to dip her in a pool to allow her to "recover", and the expecting dad is instead greeted by a perfectly healthy Psyme, now sporting a new set of fairy-like wings. After chastising him for failing Krill physiology 101, she gives the wings to him for use by his parasite, admitting that they only grow on Krill females whenever they feel...close to a person. The game then congratulates the player for acquiring Psyme's gift by taking a jab at Recker's, erm..."manliness":
    "You got the Girl Wings! Wings like a GIRL!"
  • This tool assisted run (Somewhat NSFW) of Family Feud on SNES. Basically, the player exploits the game to make the game accept ridiculous answers like "oops I pressed it" instead of "speed limit" or "I bathed Keanu Reeves" instead of "Baker," and never allows the opposing family to play once. The best part is that said opposing family looks a combination of confused and incredibly pissed the entire time.
  • Star Wars Bounty Hunter, the game featuring Jango Fett as a protagonist, has a series of extras that portray various "bloopers" throughout the game as though it was a film in progress. Overall, they're pretty corny and lame, with one notable exception: in the game, a character remarks that "No one goes to a Hutt without something to offer," sparking a brief detour from the main plot as Fett snags a small time gang leader that had been a thorn in Jabba's side so he can meet with the Hutt. In the outtake, Fett's "something to offer" changes to a ridiculous dance number with a group of Gamorrean guards as backup dancers. The video can be seen here.
    • When Fett and Montross have their final confrontation, Montross states that they are the same. Fett replies, "Now you're just being mean."
  • Guilty Gear: May's, Faust's and Bridget's Instant Kills. They have to be seen to be believed.. (They can be located around 1:50, 4:58, and 6:36 in the video respectively.)
  • At one point in Secret of Mana, you save Santa — at the request of Rudolph. By beating the shit out of (a transformed) him, no less.
  • Tekken 5. Lee's ending. "Two fingers".
    • Alternatively, Paul's ending. "BRING IT ON, YA ALIENS!"
    • And Lei's ending where he's about to arrest a man on top of a moving bus and gets whacked in the back of the head by an incoming sign.
      "Ouch...That's gonna leave a mark."
    • Marshall Law's ending.
    • During Yoshimitsu's story mode, you fight new character Raven, who is basically a ninja Wesley Snipes, aka a serious ninja. If you lose, you're treated to a cutscene of Raven attempting to teach Yoshimitsu ninja hand signs, with little success.
  • The "Nuke" button in Lemmings is there for a reason — to make you laugh guiltily when they clutch their heads, shout "Oh no!", and explode. The sequel adds physics to this so they get blown about the level like ragdolls, all while they're popping like machine-gunned balloons.
  • The entire ending of No More Heroes was one big crowning moment, as the entire game dips straight into medium-aware surreality for its final moments, with characters conversing about delaying the game and raising its ESRB rating further while calling each other out on surprisingly convenient plot revelations so close to the end.
    • Another great moment came in four words: "Mister Sir Henry Motherfucker"]]. Too perfect.
    • During the trip across the beach to fight Holly Summers, Travis destroys multiple electric fences, and as he tries to walk over them, the game shows a cutscene where he steps on a land mine and gets blown a few feet away. After he destroys the last one, we see a cutscene where he almost puts his foot on a landmine, stops, smirks as if to say "not falling for that again" and steps over the mine...only to step right on another one. Cue Skyward Scream.
  • The ending of Crisis Zone. With Derrick Lynch defeated and a nuclear meltdown averted, the STF gets ready to ascend back up to the surface. Except they try the elevator and it's broken. One of the squad members points to a flight of stairs. He also points out that, them being five kilometers underground, it's five kilometers of stairs.
  • The downloadable game Duty Calls, released to promote Bulletstorm. It mercilessly mocks many tropes present in "realistic" first-person shooters.
  • This Jhun vs Jhun match in King Of Fighters 2003. Jhun #1 tries to exploit the Amazing Flying Jhun glitch and ends up frozen in mid-air. After a few attempts at attacking from the ground, Jhun #2 decides to just spend the rest of the match dancing right below him before kicking him out of the air at the last second and winning the match by time out.
  • Scarface: The World Is Yours. Various citizens have rich dialogue trees with Tony Montana. For example; the masked wrestler with the fried chicken obsession, the bald man who wants to talk about conspiracies and the romantic music suggestions from the music store owner.
    • Sometimes the trees just don't work out and completely random, absolutely nonsensical conversations ensue. Or the taunt button, which could lead to Tony screaming at no one in particular in an empty street.
  • Dead Space 2: Upon completing the game on Hard Core mode, you unlock...a red foam finger. When you fire it, you can hear Isaac going "Bang bang" (primary fire) or "Pew pew" (alt fire), and all you see is his hand a trigger-pulling movement inside the finger. Oh, and you also see the limbs fly off of the Necromorph you were just pointing at.
  • GoldenEye's second mission, the Facility, starts you off in an air vent. You make your way through the vents to a bathroom. And there's a guard in the stall you pop into.
    • This one's a nod to the way Bond takes out his first mook in the movie it's based on:
      Bond: Beg your pardon. Forgot to knock. [WHACK!]
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey has one sidequest early on, where you must deal with a toilet on your mobile base which is being haunted by the God of Toilets, who is angry that you haven't been keeping your bathroom clean enough. When you beat him:
    NPC You, uh, just fought the God of Toilets, so be sure to wash your hands!
  • Sly Cooper. It's Dimitri in general. Here's a few scenes

  • Espgaluda's program ROM + Ketsui's graphical and sound ROMs = this. YOUR MISSIONS!
  • Glory of Heracles (DS): When Heracles gets ready to sail to Sparta, Leucos thinks that he should take up an alias, since being an immortal would lead to many people setting out to try to "prove it". When she suggests the name "Pit", Axios responds:
    "'Pit'? That doesn't even sound Greek!"

    Even funnier, when you get to enter your own alias for the hero, you can try to enter the name "Pit"...but the game will reject you and ask you to enter something else.
  • Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness has some very funny cutscenes. But two of the best ones are:
    • The cutscene in Episode 1 where Gabe punches the crap out of the fortune-telling machine.
    • The cutscene in Episode 2 where Gabe comes out of the kitchen with a pink apron and pink oven mitts, holding a pie, then the whole building starts on fire, so he and the player character run, and Tycho comes out of the room he was in, sees Gabe and the player running, and notices the place crumbling down, then he screams like a girl.

  • In the China world of Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego there is a vicious man-eating tiger terrorizing the village and blocking the exit, when you face the tiger and having taken some fire crackers from the Emperor, once the fire crackers go off the tiger jumps up and Screams Like a Little Girl with it's eyes bugging out and tongue wagging, it pulls up the bottom of it's fur forming into a skirt complete with granny panties and high heels and runs away.
  • How Captain Planet is summoned in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion - captured by the Big Bad, the gathered heroes pull a Let Our Powers Combine in the weirdest way - Ben 10's Swampfire form, the hearts of the group (represented by Blossom, Mac and Bloo, the most down-to-Earth of the heroes, Captain K'nuckles's time on the water and Chowder... breaking wind.
    • This is immediately followed by Captain Planet saving everyone with his theme song playing in the background.
  • The 1988 arcade game Cabal has a gritty action motif with its laughing-skull logo, fully destructible environments loaded with enemies and constant heavy fire...and then, every time you complete a level, your badass One-Man Army heads off to the next level doing an extremely goofy dance while a silly, bouncy tune plays.

  • Pit People, a game by Behemoth (the same people behind Castle Crashers), begins with a man named Horatio, whom the Lemony Narrator really wants to fail.
    Narrator: "Let's see...oh, it's Horatio, the humble blueberry farmer. Loving father and the most boring creature on the face of this planet. But what's this? Looks like you've got a spicy situation on your hands, hm? Well, it's been nice knowing you Horatio (not really), but now it's time for you to die. Yes, how exciting (not for you, of course)!"
    (Horatio proceeds to not die during the tutorial)
    Narrator: "I said Horatio dies."
    (Horatio proceeds to still not die)
    Narrator: "I SAID HORATIO DIES!!! (A giant bear paw falls on his house, crushing it and his son) OOPS! BUTTER FINGERS!!!"
  • At the end of the first on-foot level of Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, Rookie One—who has just shot his way through a base full of Stormtroopers single-handed—manages to get onboard a YT-3000 freighter and escapes into the complex's mines. A particularly Genre Savvy Stormtrooper then slumps his shoulders and sums up their situation:
    Stormtrooper: We're dead.
  • Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare has a particularly hilarious bit for players who are also fans of Dragon Age. Chief engineer Audrey McCallum is played by Claudia Black. To a Dragon Age fan, it can be pretty funny to watch the scene in which Morrigan talks about having stepped down from command because she cared too much about those serving under her.
  • Minecraft Dungeons: From the opening cinematic:
    • As Archie reaches for the Orb of Dominance, he suddenly jerks away in a dismissive manner, complete with the music suddenly cutting off.
    • When Archie gets crowned as the Arch-Illager, he orders both Villagers and Illagers to bow to him, and they do... but suddenly he smacks the Illager who crowned him earlier for not bowing, who quickly bows in fear.
    • A brief moment during the raid, one Illager sets a fire by casually tossing a torch in the window of a Villagers house, complete with wink on the Illager's part and an Oh, Crap! from said villager.
    • As the Arch-Illagers raid rages on, we get a shot of one young man trying to be the hero, complete with narration.
    Narrator: "Who would have the valor, the purity of heart, to stand against the Arch-Illagers reign of terror?"
    <The young man realizing he's heavily outmatched upon seeing the colossal golem closing in on him, making him book it.>
    Narrator: "Well, Not That One."
    • From the game itself, some of the enchantments for the bows and crossbows increase the knockback of the projectiles. Couple that with the fact that some of the bows having an extremely high damage rate that can make any attack into a One-Hit KO, and you can have the hilarious side-affect of corpses being flung off the screen.
  • Drug Lord 2: If you're low on health, you can go to the hospital and have them patch up your wounds. Moving the slider determines the price of treatment. If you move it below your current health, the price is replaced with a message reading "Hey man, we're into healing here, not killing!"

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