Title Drop/Video Games

"Carla: Do you have any idea how difficult it is to escape from Monkey Island?
 * Ever wondered why the game was called Crimsoness?
 * All together now: KINGDOM HEAAAAAAAAAARTS! FILL ME...WITH THE POWER OF DARKNESS!
 * Also, a Title Drop for each game's individual subtitle, such as Chain of Memories and Birth By Sleep.
 * Spoofed in Escape From Monkey Island:

Guybrush: No, how difficult is it to [with overly dramatic emphasis] Escape from Monkey Island™?

Carla: ...Well, it's really difficult!"

"Uriel Septim: "Rest well this night...for tomorrow, you set sail...for the kingdom of DAGGERFALL!""
 * He does the same thing twice later while talking with Meathook.
 * Also, in the second and the third games, Guybrush askes Lucas Arts (via telephone) and Le Chuck what's The Secret of Monkey Island, dropping the first game's title.
 * In Metroid Prime, you can tell the creature the Space Pirates have been studying will turn out to be pretty nasty once you learn that it's been code-named...well, take a wild guess.
 * Fire Emblem tends to name each game's MacGuffin [The] Fire Emblem.
 * The World Ends With You -- welcome in that we get to find out what they were smoking when they came up with that one. (Turns out it's suggesting that the parts of the world you ignore might as well not exist, and with Neku (who is told this) that means a lot might as well not exist. Thank you, !)
 * As a bonus, the game also namedrops the Japanese title, What A Wonderful World, ad nauseum near the end of the game.
 * In the English version, we got the English title explained. The Japanese title was explained at that same point in the Japanese version (FYI, it means the world was always an amazing place; Neku just refused to notice)
 * Dante's demon-hunting business in Devil May Cry shares its name with the game.
 * And there's a more direct in the third game, which explains that Dante named the shop after a line spoken by Lady at the end of the game during a Sand in My Eyes moment, telling him that even a demon might cry over
 * "A Mad World, huh? I'll fit right in."
 * As just almost every single game in the Elder Scrolls series is named after an ingame setting, none of the games' subtitles should count. But Daggerfall however, does in a much very blatant and glorified manner in it's epic opening FMV.

"Metal Sonic: It's no use...why can't I defeat you...?
 * The Bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind mentions the Bloodmoon event. Some of the games mentions the actual Elder Scrolls, but never in situations relevant to the main plot.
 * The phrase "Sonic Heroes" was apparently rammed into the game of the same name for no reason. Both Sonic and Eggman use it to describe Team Sonic, but it also appears in Team Chaotix's theme song, meaning that it might describe all the main characters...even though they have completely different reasons for fighting Eggman and actually fight each other every so often.
 * In the same game, Sonic's explanation to Metal Sonic as to why he lost to them

Sonic: Because we're SONIC HEROES! (strikes a pose)"


 * Metal Sonic then promptly faint/powers down, possibly due to being beaten, but one must wonder if it was of that being the only reason he got...

"Seer: A woman knows a woman's heart, and a strange, beautiful, and cruel thing it is. But the cruelest of all is a heart of winter, for it beats not with love, but with loss, and nothing may comfort it."
 * In Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, when Luke Atmey insists on describing himself as an "Ace Detective," Phoenix awkwardly introduces himself as "Phoenix Wright...Ace Attorney." Being Phoenix Wright, the whole scene is not an especially important conversation, especially because Pearl and Maya insist on also being an "Ace"...spirit medium and apprentice, respectively.
 * Boktai: The Sun is In Your Hand has a that's unusually hard to spot. During the final boss fight, Django and Sabata refer to the power of "Our Sun". (You know it's important because there's a voice clip and because Django, who's usually a Heroic Mime, speaks.) So? As it happens, the game's original Japanese title -- Bokura no Taiyou -- means "Our Sun". The English title is a sort of orphaned abbreviation for this that means nothing in the game.
 * In John Woo's Stranglehold, Damon Zakarov tells Big Bad Wong, in his demands that he hand over Hong Kong to him, "Your stranglehold has lasted far too long."
 * While the ARMs in Wild ARMs have always been an important plot element in every game, the series never did a full ...until the fourth game where ARMs are weapons made from Nanomachines, and the most powerful of them assimilates the inmates of Illsveil Prison, turning them into, you guessed it, Wild ARMs.
 * Planescape Torment doesn't use "planescape" -- but then, the game is properly called Torment. (Calling it Planescape Torment is like calling another game, for example, Forgotten Realms: Baldurs Gate.) Torment starts getting dropped at about the midpoint of the game, increasing in frequency from there.
 * On that subject, Baldurs Gate mentions the city fairly early on, and as the latter third of the game takes place mainly there, it's hard to avoid it being mentioned. Throne Of Bhaal has the war between Bhaalspawn be around and for the title location, so it gets mentioned as well. On the other hand, Shadows of Amn doesn't use the title, though the nation of Amn it takes place in is mentioned; nor does Tales of the Sword Coast, with similar mention of the region.
 * Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter do this -- Icewind Dale, the name of the region it takes place in, much more easily. Heart of Winter, on the other hand, does it much more subtly:

"Strong Bad: Onward to Strong Badia! Strong Badia the Free!
 * Clearing four lines of blocks in Tetris is called a Tetris.
 * In Tetris: The Grand Master, the highest rank obtainable is Grand Master.
 * Olivia's poems seem nothing but a cute character moment until she recites the final stanza of her last: "But now we dance this Grim Fandango..." It refers to the four year journey to Eternal Rest taken by all but the most virtuous souls.
 * Lampshaded in the preview for Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free, as well as in the game itself:

Homestar Runner: Hey, that's the name of this--

Strong Bad: Shut up!"

": Sam, Sam. They say that idle hands are the Devil's playthings, but there is something far, far worse. An idle mind is the Devil's Playhouse: a stage for the most vapid, horrible, and destructive stories to be made real."
 * On the Subject of Telltale Games -- in the the last episode of Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse:

""We shall journey on the road that continues...to the Final Fantasy.""
 * Seconds later, he then goes on to lampshade it by saying "Didn't think I'd be able to work the title in, did you?"
 * All the Metal Gear games after Metal Gear Solid have subtitles, and engage in subtitle drops:
 * Solidus: And we will become The Sons of Liberty!
 * In Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, the subtitle is taken from the operation Snake carries out for the most of the game, named as such because he's taking on the members of the Cobra unit.
 * : Behold! Guns of the Patriots!
 * Probably the most meta one in the series, though, is a repeated series acronym drop from Drebin in Metal Gear Solid 4, as he screams (about a tank that is chasing them) 'we've got an MGS on our asses!' and 'We've gotta shake off the MGS!'. The scene ends with the MGS getting flipped into a ravine as the characters carry on. Interpret that as you may.
 * For fairly obvious reasons, Portable Ops didn't manage. It tried hard, though, and involved an optional scene where Snake commented about how the operation felt 'portable'.
 * Metal Gear Ghost Babel averted this as well. There is a "Project Babel" in the plot, which forms half of the subtitle, but the subtitle Ghost Babel was mainly chosen because it conveniently shared the same initials as the Game Boy.
 * Oh, and don't try to count the number of times Snake says "Metal Gear!?".
 * Grand Theft Auto III has a mission called "Grand Theft Auto", which also happens to be one of the most difficult Watch the Paint Job missions in the series. It later plays with the title in a mission where you must steal a package from the airport, called "Grand Theft Aero".
 * Even before then, there was the rap song "Grand Theft Auto" written for the first game's soundtrack - a remixed version of which is also in III.
 * Take a wild guess what Grand Theft Auto IV lists the player character's criminal records as in the LCPD Database.
 * Skillfully used in the first Geneforge game--the title initially seems to be just an oblique reference to the series' essential conceit--bioengineering in a fantasy environment by use of magic. However, when it turns out to actually be, the player instantly recognizes his goal for the remainder of the game.
 * Megaman Battle Network 4 manages to shoehorn its subtitle (Red Sun or Blue Moon, depending on the version) in twice -- once for the tournament and once for the giant laser. Near the end we learn that, except this falls through because that was the BACKUP plan.
 * Towards the end of Super Robot Wars Original Generation, when the party members are briefed on the The Federation's plan to launch a counterattack on the Balmarians, it's revealed the name of the plan is "Operation SRW". After the briefing, when the other party members are wondering what SRW stands for, Ascended Fanboy Ryusei Date guesses it right, but none of the others believe him.
 * To be exact, Ryusei believes it stands for "Super Robot Wars", while Manic Pixie Dream Girl Excellen Browning jokes that it's "Sexy Romance Weapon".
 * Ironically, the game as it exists in localization is technically called Super Robot Taisen. Getting Crap Past the Radar for naming rights disputes, Atlus?
 * The feat is duplicated twice for Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier: the party acquires the not-so Humongous Mecha Gespenst Phantom, Alt Eisen Nacht, Weiss Ritter Abend as backup units, and they are dubbed "Support Robot Weapons". "Endless Frontier" is immediately used following a prologue real describing the multiple worlds connected by dimensional gateways.
 * Some older SRWs would Title Drop the game during the final scenario, as in the case of Super Robot Wars Compact, where the last scenario is called "Super Robot Wars".
 * Dead Space has the final chapter in the game rather appropriately titled, er, "Dead Space".
 * The actual significance of the title is made clear when it's explained that.
 * From Ace Combat Zero: "We'll start over from 'zero' with this V2..." (complete with quotations in the subtitles). The EU non-numeric titles Distant Thunder, Squadron Leader and The Belkan War all show up in their respective games.
 * And Shattered Skies as the name of AC04's eighth mission, and part of your commander's speech before the final mission.
 * The main heroines of Tsukihime and Fate Stay Night has the title of the game, or part of it, as the name of their true ending. Actually makes a lot of sense in the case of Tsukihime (Moon Princess) since the title is direct reference to her.
 * Tsukihime's "sequel", Kagetsu Tohya, has a character in a side-story named Souka Tsukihime. Incidentally, she's the graphic designer's favorite character.
 * Despite Sion being technically the main heroine of Melty Blood, being the main heroine of the entire series gets Arc the title drop in that game. Her Blood Heat Arc Drive is named "Melty Blood."
 * "And so began the story of the wanderer...the vagrant."
 * Golden Sun has a title drop, but if you play only the first game you wouldn't know it, since the term only shows up in the lead-up to the final battle of the second game.
 * That said, the very first true "dungeon" of the first game featured a puzzle involving a golden sun icon.
 * Throughout the entire history of the Final Fantasy series, the only time those words are mentioned together is in Dissidia Final Fantasy,.
 * Dissidia's secret ending is concluded with the Narrator saying:

"Edea: You and me. Together, we'll bring about this final fantasy."
 * Although in Gilgamesh's Final Fantasy XII boss cameo, his ultimate attack is called Ultimate Illusion, a synonym to Final Fantasy.
 * Additionally, the 5-person Band Attack used by the the final party of Final Fantasy IV in its sequel The After Years is called "Final Fantasy."
 * Also, in Final Fantasy VIII, the Japanese version of Edea's speech in Galbadia plays out a little differently from the English translation, and includes a line referencing the series.

"X: Zero! Hang in there, buddy!
 * Shenmue is a tree.
 * " I am a Prince of Persia!"
 * There's an old Real Time Strategy game by Sierra called Castles: Siege and Conquest. They had a basic version, and one on CD. The CD has an opening cinematic with full voice and FMV in game discussing the history of various castles. And wouldn't you know it, the ending of the cinematic says: "To become king you must conquer...CASTLES SEIGE AND CONQUEST!" The most awkward title drop (that wasn't a ) ever.
 * This happens in I Wanna Be the Guy, towards the end.
 * Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom features two drops of the subtitle, with first the veteran in the bar, and later, giving the full line, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." At the end, Blair asks , after stating that his plan would cause many deaths and force humanity to become barbaric, "Is that the price of freedom?" in a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Hobbes addresses Blair as, "Wing Commander" in Wing Commander II when, despite being higher-ranked, he orders him to lead the mission they're on.
 * In Wing Commander: Prophecy, Maniac toasts, "to the free and easy life of the Wing Commander."
 * In the film, Angel describes herself to Blair as, "your Wing Commander."
 * The third game's subtitle, Heart of the Tiger, is Blair's title among the Kilrathi, which also serves as.
 * Mega Man X 8: Paradise Lost. Guess what is the name of the Final Boss' Desperation Attack?
 * Mega Man Maverick Hunter X: After :

Zero: X...I'm always telling you...to be more careful...but now look at me...

X: Don't waste your energy talking, Zero. We've gotta fix you up.

Zero: There's...no time for that...Sigma is close...Very close...

X: Zero...

Zero: Go now...Maverick Hunter X..."

"Kaguya: The fragmented eternal evening you've created... My eternity manipulation will destroy it... Your spell of Imperishable Night will shatter... And the dawn shall come!"
 * In the Touhou Project games, Spell Cards have names which generally take the form of something like Love Sign "Master Spark", and this is used for a Title Drop a few times for the final Spell Card of the Final Boss. In Perfect Cherry Blossom, Yuyuko's final spell card (before her Desperation Attack) is titled Cherry Blossom Sign "Perfect Cherry Blossom of Sumizome"; in Mountain of Faith, Kanako's final attack has no "sign" part of its name (though it is far from unique in that regard) and is simply called "Mountain of Faith".
 * Also, Tenshi from the Fighting Game Spin-Off Scarlet Weather Rhapsody gives us Scarlet Weather Rhapsody for all Mankind.
 * In Imperishable Night, the "sign" parts of all of Kaguya's Last Spells are called Imperishable Night's End. Furthermore, the "sign" parts for her five normal spellcards are all called Impossible Request, which matches her stage title "Five Impossible Requests".
 * There's also Mokou's spell card Imperishable Shooting.
 * And if you survive enough of her Last Spells, Kaguya will drop it in dialogue in a much more meaningful way than just naming:

""We learned to wield the Sword of the Stars."
 * Utsuho Reiuji has "Subterranean Sun" on Hard and Lunatic, and Koishi Komeiji has "Subterranean Rose".
 * Played a bit differently in Ten Desires. The final boss's power is listening to ten people at once, or rather, to their Ten Desires.
 * Also, her last Spellcard is called "Falling Stars on Divine Spirit Mausoleum", "Divine Spirit Mausoleum" being the game's Japanese title.
 * The fangame Concealed the Conclusions Stage 5 is titled Concealed the Conclusion' (in English, in a Japanese game). Ironically, it is also the stage where the conclusion is revealed.
 * The game's Japanese title, Mushuugeki, appears in the title music theme, "Dream End Drama ~ Border between Dream and Reality".
 * You know that stuff just got real when humans bring in their Sword of the Stars dreadnought class. No other space conquest game has a suitable name.
 * The original game and its Expansion Packs also perform a at the end of their intro voiceovers:

(cue previously mentioned dreadnought firing its Wave Motion Guns)

"Born of fire, born of steel, born of science, Born of Blood."

"My people are no longer hiding, and now we darken your skies, like A Murder of Crows.""

"Ryan Gray: Do you understand why your father brought you here, Ashley? It was to open the doorway to your memory. To open that door and embark on a journey into lost memories."
 * Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri doesn't really count, as Planet orbits the star system, so it comes up quite frequently. The expansion, Alien Crossfire, does the drop in the cinematic, explaining that two opposing alien factions have landed on Planet, and the humans will thus be caught in the alien crossfire.
 * The second Another Code game pulls it off near the end, though in a variation it only mentions the subtitles (Gateway of Memory in Japan, A Journey Into Lost Memories in Europe):

" : What if the game gets delayed? You don't want this to become No More Heroes Forever, do you?"
 * In Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Jill ends her opening monologue stating that her escape from Raccoon City will be her "last escape"; a reference to the Japanese title, Biohazard 3: Last Escape.
 * House of the Dead. Guess what the last chapter's name is, as well as where it takes place?
 * OVERKILL follows suit as well.
 * Star Ocean 1: "People say the universe is a Star Ocean."
 * "Don Pachi" means "leader bee." Throughout the series, you collect bee icons, and upon fulfilling certain requirements for one of the games, you get to fight the True Final Boss: a flaming bee, the leader of the enemy forces you've been decimating. And in the first game, the elite air force you're training for is known as DonPachi Squadron.
 * The Turn Based Strategy Shattered Union ends the intro in particularly...Dramatic Fashion.
 * The penultimate quest in the last content patch for World of Warcraft, which involves the players and one of their faction's leaders  Arthas Menethil. This leads directly into the raid on Icecrown Citadel, and is named "Wrath of the Lich King".
 * In the final patch of Cataclysm, Deathwing yells "I AM THE CATACLYSM!" at the start of the Madness of Deathwing encounter, in which he attempts to use an attack called Cataclysm that essentially is him finishing the job he started by breaking out of Deepholm, and which the raid must interrupt to avoid instantly wiping.
 * The Armageddon weapon in Worms: Armageddon.
 * "I used to find joy in the company of others. Now, I have only The Company of Myself."
 * World of Goo Corporation.
 * STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl does this in the intro.
 * Braid does it twice throughout the game, and both times are somewhat confusing.
 * The most difficult quest in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is titled "Monster Hunter."
 * Glory of Heracles was title dropped by one of the playable characters, Heracles, who muses that great muscles means nothing to the 'glory of Heracles'.
 * Happens a couple of times in Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom with a couple of the character's Hyper Combos and the games they come from: Batsu's Ultimate Hyper Combo is called 'United By Fate', while Frank West has his 'Dead Rising' Hyper Combo.
 * Castlevania Rondo of Blood: While the furigana in the game's subtitle reads Chi no Rondo for "Rondo of Blood," the literal reading is Chi no Rinne, meaning "Metempsychosis of Blood." The latter is also the title of the game's final stage, as well as its reenactment in the sequel.
 * In the English versions of both Symphony of the Night and the PSP port of Rondo, the stage's name is simply rendered "Bloodlines", dropping a different title entirely.
 * In City of Heroes, Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are refered to as the City of Heroes and the City of Villains, respectively, numerous times.
 * The meaning behind the title of Suika is only revealed in the true ending, where
 * You get to find the Mask of the Betrayer in Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer, but it isn't actually referred to anywhere in dialogue as such.
 * The opening sequence video for Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark closed with a Title Drop.
 * And in dialogue with Deekin, he mentions that he's going to be writing a book about your adventures in the above expansion pack, and asks the PC to give it a name. Naturally, one of the options is Hordes of the Underdark. Or "Anything but Hordes of the Underdark." Prompting some scribbling on Deekin's part.
 * Mass Effect refers to a category of technology that is the main Applied Phlebotinum of the game series, which is critically important for galactic civilization in the game.
 * The opening title consists of a short description of the events that led humanity into the interstellar field, culminating with "They called it the greatest discovery in human history. The civilization of the galaxy call it...Mass Effect".
 * Dragon Age pulls its Title Drop in the Codex, of all places, as part of the description of the Chantry's practice of naming each century as "____ Age" after a significant event. Since dragons reappeared in the world (after being hunted nearly to extinction by the Tevinter) at the beginning of this century, the game is set in the Dragon Age.
 * In Cave Story (the original version and Wii Ware remake), the password to the hideout in Plantation is a backwards.
 * God of War drops it many times, first with Ares and then  being referred to as "God of War".
 * No More Heroes is the name of the motel that Travis lives at, and is also written on the wall in any of the bathrooms that act as the game's Save Points. It's also delivered in a Take That by  before the Rank 1 boss fight:

"Narrator: This is Travis Touchdown's desperate struggle.
 * The sequel title drops both the series and subtitle name. First in the opening...

Travis: Hold it, you violence-loving bastards. Before you start your desperate struggling, you should drop a nice save."

" : So I used the ark to lift Lunatea's Veil. All so that you could save the Kingdom of Sorrow. So that Lunatea can once again remember..."
 * After, the words Desperate Struggle is seen written in blood. Also, near the end of the game, Travis is reffered to as the No More Hero.
 * Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil has one, delivered by  just before the Final Boss battle:

""I know, I know, there's something I've forgotten! A time, a place, a shattered memory!""
 * The V in "Veil" is even capitalised in the subtitles, to make it obvious it's a Title Drop.
 * The song When You're Gone does this for the most recent Silent Hill game.

""It all started yesterday. And what a day that was. It's what I call a Bad Fur Day.""
 * At the end of Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield it is explained that the Big Bad was like a raven picking the bones of an old war and the other Big Bad his shield protecting him until his children were ready to fly.
 * In the King's Quest II Fan Remake, a Title Drop is used when Caldaur and Lavidia hear the reason Graham is seeking to open the Door of Destiny.
 * "While the Covenant had us locked up in here, I overheard the guards talking about this ring world. They call it...Halo."
 * Strangely enough, in later games they're referred to as "the Sacred Rings" by the Covenant.
 * In the first game, Cortana drops the title of one of the soundtrack pieces during a cutscene in the first level. "With all respect, Captain. This war already has Enough Dead Heroes". Later, the first chapter of "Two Betrayals" is named after another song, "The Gun Pointed At the Head of the Universe".
 * In most games The Legend of Zelda series, the subtitle inevitably gets dropped early on, pointing a giant neon arrow at something important. No points for guessing the Ocarina of Time is going to be important in a game called The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
 * Subverted in The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. To quote Groose "Nice going, you two. You guys were totally amazing in this little adventure I like to call the Legend of Groose". So close, yet so far.
 * Although the game's opening cinematic (one of two if you wait around at the title screen) is an interesting example. It ends with "Now, a new legend bound to this great story stands ready to be revealed. A legend that will be forged by your own hand." In the trailer version of this cinematic, it ends with the game's logo. In the actual game, it boots you back to the title screen to fill it out with "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA".
 * In The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, Midna refers to Zelda early on as the "Twilight Princess," mocking the fact that her kingdom has descended into Twilight..
 * A case 2 happens Professor Layton and The Unwound Future (called ...and the Last Time Travel in Japan and ...and the Lost Future in Europe), where the second part is the last words said by The phrase was slightly changed with each version to match each localized title.
 * In Professor Layton and The Diabolical Box, the last of the secret puzzles is called "The Diabolical Box" (for good reason, being an especially difficult block-pushing puzzle).
 * In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Ken title drops another popular fighting game in his dialogue with sub-boss Dan, referencing the fact that Dan is a parody of that game's main character, Ryo Sakazaki.
 * Conkers Bad Fur Day. Right in the intro when Conker starts to explain how he became King Of All The Lands, he says

"Larry Wachowski: You see, at this point in the story, Neo stands on the verge of satori; ready to resolve the paradox of choice and choicelessness; free will versus fate, but that can only be achieved through an act of surrender after an abandonment of the perspectile nature of truth, accepting the totallity of present consciousness which ultimately allows an evolutionary transition; transcending the Cartesian dilemma through emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path, the Path of Neo, the path of peace."
 * In The Matrix: Path of Neo, when the Wachowskis' avatars show up to explain they changed the ending for the benefit of the medium, Larry summarizes the original ending from the movie in an increasingly sped-up voice. This is what he says normally:

"Your consciousness fades as you realize you have halted Quake's plans for...the dissolution of eternity."
 * Last line of the second expansion pack for Quake, Dissolution of Eternity:

"Liu Kang: Face me in Mortal Kombat."
 * The Command and Conquer franchise has two title drops. Once in the final Soviet cutscene of Yuri's Revenge where Yuri drops the franchise name and once in Tiberian Sun where Kane yells "THE TIBERIAN SUN HAS RISEN!"
 * Tiberium Wars may have one as well: in-game and in cutscenes, the events of the various games in the Tiberium franchise are referred to as the First, Second and Third Tiberium War. Then there's the Firestorm Crisis, the events of the titual expansion pack.
 * Yugo of Bloody Roar has a move named "Bloody Roar".
 * Dawn of War 2: Retribution does this on the last level. "Whether I am victorious, or slain. My sins will know retribution.
 * Kara no Shoujo is named for a piece of art that appears in the story that has some eerie similarities to the murders going on. It's the masterpiece of a painter named Mamiya Shinzo.
 * This happens quite often in the Mortal Kombat series, particularly Mortal Kombat 9. Among others, Liu Kang to Shang Tsung, prior to their battle from the first tournament. Justified as the story is a retelling of the first three games, which featured a Mortal Kombat tournament and an attempt to merge Outworld and Earthrealm together whilst ignoring the rules of Mortal Kombat.

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 * The First and Second Reconstructions in The Reconstruction. Subverted in that they're only minor backstory events that are only briefly mentioned once each throughout the entire game (and you won't get any details unless you read Ques' glossary).
 * And then played straight with a Wham Line in chapter 6:

"NOW REACHES THE FATAL ATTRACTION BE DESCRIBED AS "HELLSINKER""
 * In Master of Orion 2, the movie that plays after the player wins declares him or her the Master of Orion.
 * Besides containing the book the Tome of Eternal Darkness, the game of the same name works the term into dialogue fairly frequently.
 * At first, Hellsinker just seems like a flashy title. That's until you reach the final boss.

"There is an expression in the Wasteland: "Old World Blues". It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, even less the future, for what it is."
 * Fallout New Vegas: Several of the DLC have this:
 * In Dead Money, the default apparel is the Dead Money Jumpsuit and the Dead Money Collar.
 * The main quest in Old World Blues is called "Old World Blues," but the phrase doesn't get a proper explanation until the end:


 * In the dialog box just before starting Lonesome Road, the option to go ahead says "Walk the Lonesome Road." Also, the phrase "Lonesome Road" is sprayed on a wall in one of the first areas, and the Lonesome Road perk is awarded at the end.
 * Akin to the Bond films, the various console games also had name drops such as From Russia With Love and Everything or Nothing.
 * In Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, one chapter is called Shangri-La and deals with a Nightmare Fetishist stranded in Tenjin. He enthusiastically describes his horrific surroundings as a 'Corpse Party' and compares it to Shangri-La.