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Examples! Of! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! In! Video! Games!

  • Ace Attorney:
    • Do. You. Think. You've. Won? Well!? Do you, Mia Fey?
    • Heh... Heh... Heh... Heheh... That's. Just. Fine!
    • This parody from the third game:
      Maya: Umm, would you mind taking a look at this?
      Basil: I'm sorry. That data is SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected.
      Maya: SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected!? What? This is madness!
      Phoenix: No, Maya, that is SPARDA.
    • The courthouse! (whipping) Must be! (whipping) Kept clean! (more whipping)
    • Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney: Apollo's first "Objection!" All spelled out. Slowly. With sound effects. On every letter.
      • "And I've never. Lost. Once."
      • "Quite the pickle. Quite. The. Pickle."
      • "I'm. Dying. Over. Here!"
    • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: "I. Already. Told. You! I'm a lawyer assigned to the case!"
  • AkaSeka: Iemitsu does this frequently in order to. Sound. Flirtatious. Tildes and music notes optional.
  • The last line of Assassin's Creed II's not really the end since gameplay continues over the credits ending has Desmond Miles saying what we're all thinking: "What. The. Fuck."
  • Baldur's Gate II gives Minsc the classic line "Evil, meet my sword. SWORD! MEET! EVIIIIIIL!" and a line from the villain Irenicus: "Once my thirst for power was everything, and now I hunger only for revenge. And. I. WILL. HAVE IT!!"
  • Baldur's Gate III gives us this iconic line from Karlach to some hell-sent goons trying to send her back to the Archdevil Zariel.
    ''Avernus was never my home! It was my prison! I'm free now, and I'm NEVER! GOING!! BACK!!!"
  • Grace to Kommissar Leber in The Beast Within: "Let. Him. Go!"
  • BioShock:
    • "A MAN....CHOOSES! A SLAVE....OBEYS! OBEY!"
    • She WONT! STAY! STILL!
    • What's this, goddess? AN INTRUDER! He's ugly! Ugly! UGLY! UGLYYYYYYYYYY! Look at you, HIDEOUS!
  • From BlazBlue:
    • Noel Vermillion gets on while facing Iron Tager:
      "This. Is a. MAJOR VIOLATION!!"
    • And speaking of Tager...
      "GENESIC! EMERALD!! TAGER!!! BUSTER!!!!"
    • Let us not forget BANG SHISHIGAMI!
      "To rid this world of evil! I. WILL BECOME A HAMMER! OF! JUSTICE!"
  • Text example and probable Shout-Out to Mortal Kombat in the Borderlands quest: "You. Will. Die."
    "PLAYER! WHAT! ARE! YOU! DOING!?"
  • Bravely Second: End Layer has Cu Chúlainn. Every sentence he speaks is this. No exceptions.
  • Call of Duty:
  • City of Heroes: "I. AM. NICTUS!"
    • The last word of which is not just the only time NPC chat is increased in font size, but also increased in font size to eight times normal size and red. It was also bugged for a long time, causing some raw code to appear as well, thus taking up far too much space. It rather ruined the dramatic effect of the line in question.
  • Command & Conquer: "KANE! LIVES!"
  • Cragne Manor: After the meatpacking plant bathroom gets destroyed by the boneless horse getting flushed down the portal toilet, the game asserts, "Perfectly. Normal. Bathroom."
  • In Cursed Crusade, one cutscene plays out like this.
    Enemy Soldier: "How did you...?! This... this is madness!"
    Denz: "No... This...is..the curse!" (Kicks enemy soldier down a burning well)
    Esteban: "I've never seen you so angry, Denz! That was downright spartan of you!"
    Denz: "Spartan...? Bah, you'll have to tell me about it later."
  • In "Darkest Dungeon", more specifically in one of its DLC, The Crimson Court, the Ancestor describes the Fanatic as an extraordinarily dangerous individual and makes it very clear that he's an absolute menace to your party with his description:
    " A world view buttressed by dogmatic desperation invariably leads to single-minded fanaticism, and a need to do terrible things in the name of righteousness. This man is an animal! Rabid, destructive and incapable of nuanced understanding. HE. MUST. BE. PUT. DOWN!"
  • In Darksiders II After confronting the Scribe following a long fetch quest to reach him, Death, sounding rather pissed off, delivers this Tranquil Fury gem.
    Where. Is. The key?
  • Dawn of War: The Orks are in the citadel! DRIVE! THEM! BACK!
  • Daytona USA's Game Over screen. G! A! M! E! O! VOO! E! R! G-A-M-E-O-VOO-E-R! GAME OVER! GAME OVER! GAME OVER! GAME OVER!
  • Steven in Dead Rising: THIS! IS! MY! STORE!!
  • Dead Space 2: YOU WILL ALL BE MADE ONE! MAKE! US! WHOLE!!!!!
  • Blacksmith Ed of Demon's Souls does it if you talk to him, then leave without buying or upgrading anything. "Don't. Waste. My. Time." Not exactly the most cheery fellow, but you need him if you want to get any special upgrades for your weapons.
  • Crypto from Destroy All Humans!!: "I. Am. NOT. GREEN!"
  • In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a forgetful guard gets his dormitory code shouted at him via email... after it's repeated in numeric form.
    REMEMBER. THE DAMN. CODE.
    ONE.
    THREE.
    EIGHT.
    FIVE.
  • Dragon Age II: "Blessed are those who stand before the corrupt and the wicked and DO! NOT! FALTER!"
  • The mission select screen for Story Mode in Drakengard has brief summations for each mission and cutscene. The summary of the Final Boss of Ending E (and thus the final boss of the game?)
    I. Hear. A. Sound.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
  • The PlayStation 3 Updated Re-release of Eternal Sonata:
    • Serenade does this sometimes when calling her attack Verbum: Expello: "This... may be considered... my answer!"
    • "What. I. Win?"
  • Super Mutants in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas often do this.
    Tabitha on Black Mountain Radio: "CENTAURS! EAT! HUMANS!"
  • In Farmington Tales, after banker Gregory Cashman tells Floyd that according to the loan contract he signed the bank can take his farm at any time, for any reason:
    Floyd: Must...resist...urge...to punch...in face...
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Just about everything that Fujin says in Final Fantasy VIII.
      • "PERSUASION? USELESS. SEIZE!"
      • "ELLONE? NOT HERE!"
      • "GOOD. CONVINIENT."
      • "SEIFER! MOVE!"
      • Which leads to an aversion during the aftermath of the last Seifer battle, in which she gives a long, perhaps touching speech in a completely normal voice.
    • Final Fantasy X-2: "Don't make me say this again... I'M! NOT! LENNE!"
      Rikku: Think we need a password?
      Paine: How about "kick... its... ass"?
  • Fire Emblem Warriors: In Owain and Takumi's support, the latter tries the former's "special" technique by shouting some names for it. He fumbles on his words, but Owain tells him that "That. Was. INCREDIBLE!"
  • First Encounter Assault Recon: "WHY! IS THAT FUCKING! SOLDIER! STILL ALIVE? SOMEBODY! JUST FUCKING SHOOT! HIM! ALREADY!"
  • Milla is turned into a monster boss by Lord Brevon in Freedom Planet forcing Lilac or Carol to fight her. Milla turns back to normal and falls unconscious, but the act still enrages them. Lilac's ending has her give a Pre-Mortem One-Liner upon defeating the boss with Dragon Boosts. Further emphasized in Milla's ending; she avoids being transformed and defeats Brevon by herself. Lilac then rescues her Just in Time before he could retaliate.
    Lilac: Nobody. Hurts. MILLA!
  • Lt. Snipes from Freespace 2: "DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!"
  • God of War II: "ZEUS! YOUR SON HAS RETURNED! I BRING THE DESTRUCTION! OF OLYMPUS!"
  • God of War Ragnarök:
    Odin: So... was this everything you hoped for? Was your plan really all that much better than mine? I hope you got exactly what you wa—
    (falls to his knees as he's being magically strangled by Freya)
    Freya: Not. Quite. Yet.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Dumb. Florida. Moron.
  • Half-Life: EMERGENCY! USER! DEATH! IMMINENT!! Several voices in the game, including the Black Mesa announcement system and the HECU grunts, spoke this way, due to each of their words being individual soundfiles played one after the other.
  • Halo:
  • In Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, a sidequest involving babysitting Draco Malfoy has a pop-up announcing it's time to do so, featuring Merula Snyde summoning the main character with "Moody! Courtyard! NOW!"
  • The Bentusi in Homeworld: Cataclysm. We. Will. Not. Be. BOUND!
  • The bonus chapter of Incredible Dracula 4: Games of Gods:
    Dracula: Must. Not. Trust. Red-haired. Gods. Named. Loki.
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: If Sol agrees to work together with Vace to go hunting in the Subaqueous Swamps, Rhett claps them both on the shoulders and says, "Good. Teamwork is the key word here. Team. Work."
  • Jak II: Renegade: "Because I. Don't. Like. You!"
  • In Kane & Lynch, "YOU SHOULD! HAVE LET! ME TALK TO THEM!", with a shovel for emphasis.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
    • "KINGDOM HEARTS! ''FILL ME... WITH THE POWER... OF DARKNESS!"
    • Sora's response: "You're wrong! I know now... without a doubt... Kingdom Hearts! Is LIGHT!"
    • Sora! Donald! Goofy!
    • Donald does this when reading the writing on the wall in Ansem's Study, though it's because he's struggling to read the faded text. "Hollow... Main... Security... Tron... Door... to... Door... to... Darkness?" Sora then adds "Ah! D! T! D!"
  • The text equivalent (no voice acting in the seriesnote ) can be seen in the ending to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
    Ganondorf: CURSE YOU SAGES! CURSE YOU ZELDA! CURSE! YOU! LINK!
  • Left 4 Dead:
    • Francis goes into one when shot, but in a very low and pissed off tone. "Hey! Stop. Shooting. Me."
    • Louis: "DO! I! LOOK! LIKE! ONE OF THEM!?"
    • Nick from Left 4 Dead 2: "I have not... Come this far... To die now!"
    • GET. IN. THE TANK!
  • A quiet variation ("What. Is. That?!") appears a few times in The Lost Crown.
  • Love & Pies:
  • Luminous Arc 2: "SHE'S! A! WIIIIIIITCH!"
  • Ghaleon of the Lunar series takes this trope as far as it will go as he tends to enunciate. every. possible. word. His voice actor even comments on it in the making of bonus video for Silver Star Story Complete.
  • Iron Man in Marvel Nemesis: I. Am. Iron Man.
  • From Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds:
    • Spider-Man: "ULTIMATE! WEB! THROW!"
      • From the same character: "CRAWLER...ASSAAAAUUULLLT!!!!!!"
  • Mass Effect:
    • Sovereign while fighting off the counter assault on the Citadel, "THIS. STATION. IS. MINE!!!
    • Also, Captain Kirrahe's WE. HELD. THE LINE. speech.
    • Grunt: "I! AM! KROGAN!"
    • "Because it's a BIG. STUPID. JELLYFISH!"
    • From Mass Effect 3: "I AM URDNOT WREX, AND THIS! IS MY! PLANET!"
    • "You BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH!"
  • Metal Gear:
    • METAL...GEAR?
    • "Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!"
    • BROTHER! IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME BROTHER! HAVE AT YOU SNAKE! IT'S NOT OVER YET SNAKE!
    • MAKE ME FEEL ALIVE AGAIN!
    • THE PAIN! THE FEAR! THE FURY!
    • I. CAME. BACK. FROM. SPACE.
    • NO! THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE!
    • LAUGH AND GROW FAT!
    • YOU'RE A SOLDIER! FINISH YOUR MISSION! SHOW YOU LOYALTY! FACE ME.
  • Metal Wolf Chaos: "I. Richard Hawk. Will uphold. American. Justice. Without. FAIL!"
  • Mortal Kombat: YOU! WILL! DIE!!
  • Muv-Luv Unlimited has both "Are you kidding me? Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me!!?" and "These are TSFs we're talking about! T. S. Fucking. Fs!!"
  • Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-:
    • Yakushi Nyorai… rarely ever… speaks… without… constantly… pausing… and if he does, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES.
    • "The name is DA~ I~ NI~ CHI~ NYORAI!"
    • ZÅŒ! JÅŒ! TEN!
  • New Super Mario Bros. 2: "800,000 coins! SO. MANY. COINS."
  • No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: "When you see your bro in hell, tell him: He's STILL. A DOUCHE!"
  • Susano in Ōkami does it a couple of times:
    • "Leave! My! Kushi! Alone!"
    • "Good! Will! Never! Give! In! To! Evil!"
  • Okiku, Star Apprentice: One of the possible phrases for Okiku to say when automatically defeating enemies:
    Oh. You.
    Bye!
  • Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan: OSU! TATAKAE! OUENDAN!!, as well as OUEN! DAI-SEI-KOU!
  • At the end of Perfect Dark, Elvis is looking for Joanna so they can evacuate the Skedar planet before his buddies come to bomb it. He finds her with one of her feet trapped under rubble, and asks him to lend her his Phoenix handgun.
    Joanna: WILL — YOU — JUST... (shoots under the rubble at the unseen Skedar leader, who was holding on to her leg) ...let go?
  • Persona:
    Elly: [to a Hopeless Suitor NPC] Bother. Someone. Else.
    Brown: [to an antagonist] AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! SHUT! THE HELL! UP!
  • Playstation All Stars Battle Royale: I! AM! SUPREME!
  • Portal: "IN! BASE! FOUR! I'M! FINE!"
    • Wheatley from Portal 2: "I! AM NOT! A MORON!" and "Could a moron... PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT?"
    • And later, GLaDOS does this on purpose to keep herself from succumbing to her own Logic Bomb: "THIS! SENTENCE! IS! FALSE!"
  • Super Macho Man of Punch-Out!! fame seems prone to this in the Wii version.
    WHY! DON'T YOU! LOVE ME!?!
    SUPEEEER! MACHOOOO! MAAAAAN!
  • Arle and Ringo do this in Puyo Puyo Tetris when they suspect Satan and Ekoro may be involved in the falling Tetris blocks:
    Arle: You...
    Ringo: Don't...
    Arle: Think...
    Ringo: That...
    Arle: It's...
    Ringo: Them...
  • This conversation from the last level of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.
    Gabriel: Hey Bishop, what do you get when you mix a bullet with a pretty little intelligence officer?
    Bishop: Fuck. You.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters: THERE ARE! NO! TECHNOMITES!!
  • Resident Evil: "DON'T! OPEN! THAT! DOOR!"
  • In Roots of Pacha, Vor says this during your Union with your Love Interest:
    "Unions are the best. So. Much. Food."
  • Miyamoto Musashi in Samurai Warriors 2 provides an example when you finish his dream stage:
    Miyamoto Musashi: I! Am! The! Greatest!
  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: "I take adorable little squids, and MELT. THEM. DOWN!"
  • Silent Hill:
    • Silent Hill 4: The first time Henry drops his Catchphrase, the captions see fit to put ellipses between each word, but the voice actor speaks the line without any such pauses.
    • "WHERE?! IS?! MY?! BROTHER?!" by Alex in Silent Hill: Homecoming.
  • Sly 2: Band of Thieves: "Like I said... Giant... Attack... ROBOT!"
  • In a StarCraft custom mission: "We present another Great Episode! of STEAL! THE! BEACON!!!!"
  • Star Fox 64:
    • Several of the boss after being defeated, but two quotes from Star Wolf members Wolf and Leon, respectively: "I! CAN'T! LOOOOOOOOSE!" and "HE'S! TOO! STRONG!"
    • Macbeth train conductor: "I CAN'T! STOP! IIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!
  • Star Trek Away Team: "I! AM! VULCAAAAAN!"
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: I . Let. You. Live.
  • Street Fighter: SHIN!! SHO!! RYU!! KEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!
  • Super Hexagon:
  • "Ghosts... don't... DIE!" from Super Mario 64.
  • Super Mario RPG: "This... Is... Smity's Castle!"
  • Super Smash Bros.: Many characters combine this with Calling Your Attacks when using their Limit Break
  • The English translation of Famicom's Sweet Home (1989): "My... My... My Baby!!"
  • System Shock: Welcome to my DEATH! MACHINE! INTERLOPER!
  • In Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, when Guybrush tells the Poxed Elaine about getting LeChuck out of jail once everyone is cured of the Pox:
    Elaine: THAT spineless goody-two-boots? Let! Him! Rot!
    • At the beginning of Chapter 1, when Guybrush talks to Elaine and asks, "Are you hungry?":
    Guybrush: Want me to get anything from the hold? I've brought some pot stickers!
    Elaine: [screams in annoyance] No! Finish! The! Recipe!
  • Tales Series:
  • The Soldier in Team Fortress 2 has two: "STAND! ON! THE! POINT!!!" and "I! AM! ON! FIRE!!!"
    • Also, in a parody of There Will Be Blood, the Scout has a Heavy domination line: "I. Eat. Your. Sandviches! I eat 'em up!"
      • Which somehow manages to sound less goofy than what it's based on, even though it's based on a very serious movie.
  • From The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon: Just... hang... on!''
  • From Tomb Raider: Legend, "WHERE?!! IS?!! MY?!! MOTHER?!!", punctuated by a gunshot between each word. Also a Moment of Awesome, as the target of the murderous rage happens to be both an old friend, and the source of the Eldritch Abomination you just spent the last 5-10 minutes killing. Then you get the answer and pistol whip Amanda before delivering this line:
    Lara: From this moment, your every breath is a gift from me.
  • Touhou: "Last Moments", a Eurobeat arrangement of "The Venerable Ancient Battlefield" from Mountain of Faith, has the refrain "KEEP! ON! ROCKING! HARD! TILL! THE! LAST! MOMENTS!"
  • In Tropico 4, in your election speech, El Presente sometimes speaks about how production has increased by 25% in some areas. This! Is! Progress!.
  • I! AM! TUROK!
  • In Twisted Metal for the PlayStation 3: "Where's my god. Damned. Prize?"
  • Zoran Lararevic from Uncharted 2, is guilty of this, as well as having No Indoor Voice.
  • Undertale's Flowey does this near the beginning if you dodge his "friendliness pellets":
    Flowey: Is this a joke? Are you braindead? RUN. INTO. THE. BULLETS!!! (looks at his text bubble, "BULLETS!!!" changes to "friendliness pellets")
  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: "Give. Me. The. Key!"
  • The Walking Dead Season 2 uses this as both a dialogue option and a Steam achievement.
    "Still. Not. Bitten."
  • The Wheel of Time FPS game has three of these in the cutscene before the final stage, all uttered by the same character:
    • "You... ancient... FOOL!"
    • "You. Are. Nothing!"
    • "I! Am! Mordeth!"
    • Also, these lines are made about ten times more badass when you consider who he's talking to.
  • In World of Warcraft:
    • Everything that comes out of Illidan's mouth.
      Illidan: YOU! ARE NOT! PREPARED!
      Illidan: ...Yet all throughout, my own heart, devoid of emotion, of empathy. I. HAVE. FELT. NOTHING.
    • If you keep clicking on the Dwarven Rifleman, one of his quotes is "This! Is! Mah! BOOMSTICK!"
    • And after that same boss delivers his deathbed speech he tells you to: SAVE. YOUR. WORLD.
    • Some of Malygos' lines as well:
      Malygos: "YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED WHILE I DRAW BREATH!"
      Malygos: "I AM UNSTOPPABLE!".
    • In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm"
      • "Warchief" Garrosh Hellscream gets one of these at the end of the main quest chain in Stonetalon.
        Garrosh: I sent you to Stonetalon Mountains with an army. Your orders were to secure this land for the Horde. Instead, you laid waste to the land. Murdered innocents, children even... I spent a very long time in Northrend, Krom'gar. I learned much about the Horde at that time. While there, a wise old war hero told me something that I would carry with me forever... "Honor," Krom'gar, "No matter how dire the battle... Never forsake it." Overlord Krom'gar, you have disgraced the Horde. You have brought shame to us as a people. By my right as Warchief, I hereby relieve you of duty...
        [Garrosh Hellscream grabs Overlord Krom'gar.]
        Garrosh: YOU ARE DISMISSED!
        [Garrosh Hellscream throws Overlord Krom'gar off the ledge.]
      • The trope namer is parodied in the introduction quest to the Twilight Highlands zone, in which the player is asked to escort a (literal) red shirt Horde Negotiator to meet with the fel orc leader of the Dragonmaw clan. When the negotiator meets with the Dragonmaw warchief, the warchief rebukes him, leading to this exchange:
        Negotiator: This is madness!
        Dragonmaw Warchief: Madness? This. Is. DRAGONMAW!!! *kicks the Negotiator into the bonfire behind him*
      • "I am... Deathwing. The Destroyer. The end of all things. Inevitable! Indomitable! I! AM! THE CATACLYSM!"
      • Garrosh' right hand man in the True Horde, Malkorok, is fought in two phases. In the first phase, he is rather hammy. In the second phase, he absorbs the Old God energy floating around the arena, and,well..
    • The game's second expansion, complete with voicework: "I AM MAL'GANIS! I! AM! ETERNAL!"
  • Xenoblade Chronicles'': "BORN IN A WORLD OF STRIFE! AGAINST THE ODDS! WE CHOOSE... ...TO FIGHT! BLOSSOM! DANCE!"
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 2:
      • ZEKE! VON! GEMBU! Bringer of Chaos!
      • A much more dramatic example comes when the normally hyper-optimistic Rex declares his intent to call it quits and give up trying to reach Elysium after Pyra lets herself be taken by Malos and Jin to keep them from killing her friends, Nia's efforts to snap him out of this eventually involve her doing this while angrily shoving him into a bunch of barrels.
    "You...bloody...idiot!"
  • Xenogears: "I! Am a man! Of the sea!"
  • Grand Inquisitor Mir Yannick from Zork: Grand Inquisitor:
    Obey! Conform! Abstain! Ignore! Deny! Refrain! Cease! Appease! Shun! ... Avoid new sensations. Avoid all sensations! Avoid any sensation! Avoid unnecessary pleasantries! Avoid necessary pleasantries! Avoid libation! Avoid fermentation! Avoid all these in combinations. Save often! Floss regularly! Floss meaningfully! Floss athletically! Think happy thoughts! And above all, never forget: who is the boss of you! Me! I. Am. The boss. Of you! I. Am.' The boss. Of you! I. Am. The boss. Of you!

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