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* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'': By using an Action Replay, you can give the male agents the female agents' dance moves. Try not to laugh at the sight of any of the characters buttdancing. Like [http://z0r.de/1597 THIS].

** If you get a high enough cumulative score, you can select Commander Khan in Versus Mode. He always dances with the Divas, and... well, he gets ''down''.

* [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/522777/4koma-aki_minoriko-aki_shizuha-animal_ears-blonde_ This] ''Touhou'' fancomic. Nazrin shows up and ''thanks'' a pair of (low-power) gods for the food she just stole and ate and calmly walks off. The victims are too stunned to even respond.

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''

** A good example would have to be ''[[Persona 3]]''. There, you summon your persona by ''[[Suicide Is Painless|shooting yourself in the head]]''. Despite something so remarkably blatant as that, it still didn't garner much controversy, with ''every'' reviewer wondering on the possibility of it even happening.

*** Still, you're bound to get some weird looks if anyone catches you playing it without understanding the symbolism behind it. "Hey, it's one of those [[JRPG]] things, I wonder how they're going to fight--wait what the hell is he doing with that gun?" Especially since you can summon the below mentioned Mara.

*** All of the above points, along with other ideas, is mentioned in [http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=28999 ESRB's analysis] on the [[Updated Rerelease|portable version]]. You have to wonder if the ESRB wanted to give it an AO immediately, no questions asked.

* Most of your party members' efforts to rescue you from Fort Drakon in [[Dragon Age]], which include among other things Morrigan the contemptuous atheist pretending to be a pious Chantry sister, Zevran scaring the guards into letting him and Oghren in with the threat that Oghren could preform the traditional Dwarven Dance of Death ("lights his pants on fire and everything!"), and Dog pretending to be sick. The version where you break yourself out also involves this if you don't just kill everything you see; you steal a uniform, say you're a new recruit, then go out on a patrol.

* The Wall Market location in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' is part bazaar, part red-light district, and part normal town. In order to save a female friend of his', the hero must dress up like a girl with the help of another female friend (who looks like she's having ''way'' too much fun with the whole deal) and give himself over to the sexual appetite of a local crime lord, Don Corneo. It sports a gym of crossdressing men who challenge the hero to a squatting contest over a wig, several opportunities for bathroom humor, and more bashes to the hero's masculinity than seem possible. The hero can go to a place featuring girls in slutty honeybee costumes who will put make-up on him, and he can receive panties as a memento of getting felt up in a hot tub full of large hairy men. If the player gets enough items, he can even have the character [[Attractive Bent Gender|be picked over the two main females]] of the game, and proceed on to have to deal with the Don's attentions.

** This has recently been topped by the final attack of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGSt2FsJOdI Dark Brain], who warps his target to another dimension before growing to a ridiculous size, then proceeds to destroy ''at least'' two dozen planets in the ensuing chaos. And unlike the previous example, none of this is justified as simply being [[Mind Rape]].

* ''[[No More Heroes]]'': An otaku buys a beam katana off the internet, takes the advice of a hot stranger and becomes a [[Badass]] who slices his way up an assassins' leaderboard. Almost all of said assassins are flamboyant and highly distinctive personalities. When a [[Mook]] gets killed blood geysers and coin showers occur. To recharge his weapon, the protagonist... shakes it in a rather suggestive manner.

* ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2''. The entire Russian plot hinges on the idea that {{spoiler|nobody would believe that they'd actually launch a large-scale suicide attack against Washington, DC.}}

* BLACK has a lousy plot; it's actually pretty well known for it. It takes refuge in completely pointless [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]], hands you ammo like candy, doubles the real-life magazine size of all weapons and makes a good 50% of things in the game that aren't walls explode.

* Recently, a group of companies announced an RTS whose title says it all: ''Stalin vs. Martians''. Official site [http://www.dreamloregames.com/stalin/eng/ here].

** And then they went one step further and released a ''Game of the Year Edition,'' even though the game had been critically panned.

** And this is the faction that has ''battle dolphins'', [[Military Mashup Machine|literal land battleships]], and ''attack helicopters with shrink rays.''

** ''Red Alert 2'' gave us the weather control machine to begin with, along with mind controlled squid, ludicrously tough bomb-dropping zeppelins (re-used in RA3), dolphins with sonar guns attached to their heads (also re-used in RA3), soldiers equipped with guns that ''erase their targets from time and space''...and this is before we get onto ''Yuri's Revenge.''

* If a game features one point where you can be killed by something you couldn't possibly have seen coming, it is massively irritating. If it features many such points, the game is completely ruined. ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' averages about three of these per screen, and it is '''''awesome'''''.

* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', there is a viable strategy known as "tank stealth" which is the physical embodiment of this. Tanker class PCs in the higher levels can become almost utterly unkillable if they don't stick around to take damage. While stealth porter strategies commonly require that the porter in question not be noticed, a tank can essentially run an entire map full of dangerous enemies, shrug off their fire as he passes them, and teleport the entire team to the objective point. Due to aggro rules, the enemies will most likely not chase the tank as he has yet to lock their aggro on him. Apparently the image of an 8 foot tall block of granite running through your secret underground lair is clearly a hallucination and not a catastrophic breach of security.

* Everything in [[Painkiller]]. Weapons include a weed whacker with a tractor beam attachment, a stake launcher that shoots * logs* at your enemies to impale them against walls, a machine gun rocket launcher combo, [[Zero Punctuation|and a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning]]. And one moment you'll be using these weapons to fight Hell's Angels in a prison, and the next moment you'll be fighting ninjas at the Sydney Opera House. The game doesn't bother to explain ''why'' you're fighting ninjas at the Sydney Opera House, and by the time you get to that point, you won't ''care'' either.

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', after discovering you're really {{spoiler|Darth Revan}}, you can rub this in the face of the universe. Sure, nobody will believe you, but...

** And then you come to Lehon, where the Rakata actually recognize you and are upset because last time you were there you told them you needed to get into the Temple of the Ancients so you could destroy the Star Forge. While last time you were lying and took over the Temple and the Star Forge and set out to conquer the galaxy, this time it's (possibly) a reasonably accurate description of your quest. Which you can tell them. ...yeah. They're not inclined to believe you.

** For minor dialogue hilarity, name your character {{spoiler|Darth Revan}} to begin with.

** When you're trying to get into the Sith academy on Korriban, one of the things you can try is to [[Jedi Mind Trick]] the headmaster's apprentice into letting you in. It fails, but it still impresses her that you'd actually dare to try it.

* And then there's ''[[Mad Karate Man]]'', who doesn't just beat up [[Salaryman|salarymen]], with enough training he can take them [[Beyond the Impossible|off the face of the earth!]]

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has ''[[Devil May Cry]]''-style action taken [[Up to Eleven]], featuring a [[Hot Witch]] protagonist who embodies <s> no fewer than</s> ''at least'' ten different fetishes, is (in the words of one reviewer) so confident in her overstated sexuality that she's ''intimidating'' more than attractive, starts a motorcycle by jamming her middle finger into the ignition, suplexes a dragon, uses buses as projectile weapons and finally {{spoiler|''punches God into the sun.''}}

* Power Instinct is probably ''the'' fighting game example of this. The plot revolves around a clan dominated by a pair of superhumanly strong, 80-year-old twin sisters who have the ability to transform into younger versions of themselves if they kiss their opponent. The series cast features typical fare with a [[Shotoclone]], the all-around American guy, and [[The Chick]], but other than that, we get a [[Magical Girl]], a perverted old man who farts on his opponents, a young boy who is almost naked and can transform into a dog superhero based on his late dog, a giant muscular woman who wields a [[Whip It Good|whip]], a robot policewoman loaded with [[Fan Service]], a burly S&M-looking man in his 40s who wields iron balls and has a homosexual relationship with a 17-year-old [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], a cameo of Bobby Strong as a boss, and much more. Atlus introduced yet another pair of elderly twin sisters in the latest series entry in 2009, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovVhrFUj-J0 they haven't lost their touch.]

* ''[[Total Overdose]]'': Even before prime character example [[Meaningful Name|Ram]] shows up, his father bases his DEA career off of this. The game itself features [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|endless opportunities for violent mayhem without consequence against civilians and police]], [[Made of Explodium|explosives up to the eyebrows]], and Mexican caricatures and ethnic gags.

* MDickie, justifying making his [[The You Testament]] sequel about Islam, and in the process, violating the taboo against depicting Mohammad. In summary: "Breaking the taboo is not actually blasphemy, because I don't want it to be and as a non-Muslim I know better than Muslims, and also the taboo is the real blasphemy because that way I'm actually a religious hero for breaking it."

** Also counts as [[Insane Troll Logic]]

* Much of the entertainment in [[Grand Theft Auto]] comes from trope. Blowing up a cop car with a rocket launcher in broad daylight, picking up a hooker and killing her before taking a different hooker to ''same spot'' where you killed the first one, firing a shotgun into a dense crowd of businessmen, and in general doing awful, awful things for shits n' giggles, all of which you can do while wearing doctor scrubs.

* [[Mass Effect 2]], when Shepard has the option of punching a female reporter mid-interview. The implications would be especially unfortunate for a [[Would Hit a Girl|Male Shepard]] under most circumstances, but considering said reporter is an intentional [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] who has a reputation for attempting to vilify you (indeed, the interrupt is triggered while she's trying to set you up for a fall), most see it as a well-deserved [[Take That]]. It's so popular that Shepard's dialogue has reached the levels of [[Memetic Mutation]].

** And FemShep has the option to do the same too, so it's not really a sexist double standard.

* ''[[Duke Nukem]]'s'' bread and butter.

{{quote|''The Secret to Duke's Humor is that he and his universe actually are serious. In his world, it makes perfect sense for families to be visiting the Fellatio hotel (i.e., the Bellagio) in Las Vegas. Everything in his world is real for them, authentic. It's only when we look at it through the lens of our world that we get the joke.''|[[Word of God|Randy Pitchford]], April 2011 US Xbox 360 Magazine on why the game's humor is so effective.}}

* [[Operation Darkness]] has Nazi Vampires, Werewolves punching out tanks, then Jack the Ripper shows up, (as a protagonist, no less!) and just when you think it couldn't get anymore weird ''Adolf Hitler'' show up and starts summoning dragons!

** And then launch the broken pieces of said skyscraper back at said boss with said key. While floating in space.

* [[Postal]] 2 goes for this [[Refuge in Audacity]] in numerous ways both subtle and overt. The more obvious means, in the original game, of causing [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|havoc]] besides using firearms include, diseased cow heads that cause lethal vomiting of blood, setting people on fire, firing a disease-carrying "Weapon of Mass Destruction" bazooka to cause panicked people to spread a disease that induces vomiting and crawling on the ground, urinating on [[Bathroom Humor|people's faces]] with a chance of inducing vomiting, and tasering people until they collapse onto the ground and urinate in a fetal position. Depending on who you ask, it's so ludicrous that it is hard to take this game seriously.

* The [[Saints Row]] series has this trope as its main gameplay feature. [[Saints Row the Third]] starts with a massive shootout while skydiving out of a plane. If thats not enough, when said plane comes right at you, you drop the girl you just saved, lose your parachute, fly THROUGH the plane, guns blazing, grabbing a new chute, coming out the other end and diving after the girl to save her AGAIN.

** The best example is the evolution of the Japanese gangs in each game. The first game has your average street racing gang involved in shady crime deals. In the second game you get bikers with katanas. The third game has teleporting commandos on hover skates with shockwave hammers.

** [[Fridge Brilliance]]. At no point in the series have you ever played as anyone except Desmond. The entire game world is built from your ancestor's memories. They don't remember what happens to anyone that they weren't directly involved in. So you never see a thief get caught, unless you catch him yourself, which you remember doing through the Animus because your ancestor caught him.

* ''[[Sin and Punishment]]'' was an amazing on-rails shooter for the N64. Essentially ''[[Star Fox]]'' on foot, it featured hordes of enemies, tricky obstacle courses, huge bosses and '''A CITY BEING FLOODED BY A TSUNAMI OF BLOOD'''. It was rated T by the ESRB.

* [[Left 4 Dead 2]] Has this gem from [http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=27786 the ESRB summary]: "While the litany of somewhat 'gruesome' depictions attests to the Mature rating, the over-the-top onslaught is, in some ways, mitigated by the exaggerated menacing evil (camp?) of the drone-like zombie horde;"