"Oh no! A huge throng of crabs showed up out of nowhere and started attacking Columbus!"
—Mash Kyrielight, Fate/Grand Order
You are nothing before the Master of the Fist. Abandon hope! Abandon strength! Abandon life!
—Shin Akuma, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, translated intro quote from Japanese version.
The game ends with the player in effect rescuing Gaia from the unwanted attentions of the monstrous Bolbox. Somehow, against all odds, reason, and sanity a game about the evolution of human life itself collapses into a princess rescue.
—El Sandifer
on E.V.O.: Search for Eden, "Blood Makes Noise"
on E.V.O.: Search for Eden, "Blood Makes Noise"Sorry, I scared you there! Anyway, long story short, Death locked me into this chest for all eternity. But if you want me to help, you must fight me. (CUE BOSS FIGHT)
—Qem in Iron Twilight after pulling a Screamer Prank on the player.
"Gwee hee hee... You're up the creek without a paddle! And I'm not gonna let you through! ... does that make me a bad octopus?"
— Ultros on his motivations for harassing the heroes, Final Fantasy VI Advance
"Appearing from nowhere just to get in my way?"
"How come no one told me about this thing?"
"Because we didn't know about it! Now keep firing!"
"Because we didn't know about it! Now keep firing!"
— Two of your comrades, Razing Storm
"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
— Marisa Kirisame, Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom
Cloud: (as the room goes dark and begins to shake) Sephiroth?!
Sephiroth: Ha ha ha... it is not me.
— Final Fantasy VII, just before the party is attacked by a Red Dragon out of nowhere.
"N-Nine thousand?! Why does this thing even exist?!?!"
— Hero Prinny's reaction to the Chefbot-9000, Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
"Its appearance in the game is somewhat of a mystery, as it arrives unexpectedly at the very end of the game and its character is never fully explained."
—Final Fantasy Wiki, on Necron
, on NecronA space kraken!? Well, that came out of nowhere!
— Palutena, Kid Icarus: Uprising
Suddenly... warping through space and time... King Bowser appears!
"So after leaving this innocent marketplace, you end up falling, and then there's some tall crazy guy in black chasing you around. Who is he? What is he? Is he from the movie? Could it be (shows Toht) him? I don't know."
— The Angry Video Game Nerd, reviewing Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600.
"...If someone could please explain where this Berserker came from and why he has an army of undead soldiers, I'd appreciate it. Thanks."
— Rikku, after Darius III shows up, Fate/Gamers Only
"Don't just turn up and act like you're the shit. Piss off back to the other side of space and time."
— Kukri, after winning against the final boss in The King of Fighters XV
Bill Rizer: (as the ship they are on is suddenly attacked) What the hell is it now?!
Commander Doyle: —on the radar. Rizer! Do you read us?!
Dr. Drake: It's the Zagardian life form they were growing in the lab... but without Varanis to control it!
Bill Rizer: Damn, guess we missed one?! (the alien proceeds to devour the ship along with the heroes)
