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== [[Video Games]] == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
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* As always, subverted by ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Specifically, ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''. The family fails in their mission to kill and/or subdue Matt Groening. |
* As always, subverted by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. Specifically, ''[[The Simpsons Game]]''. The family fails in their mission to kill and/or subdue Matt Groening. |
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* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Ed Boon and John Tobias tend to appear as severed heads in the spike-pit levels. And then several Midway employees have their names written on the tombstones in the Graveyard stage. |
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Ed Boon and John Tobias tend to appear as severed heads in the spike-pit levels. And then several Midway employees have their names written on the tombstones in the Graveyard stage. |
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* In ''[[Doom]] II'', the [[Big Bad]] of the game, the Icon of Sin, was actually a giant wall with a shoot-through brain texture. Behind the brain texture was a small passage leading to a chamber containing the skewered head of [[John Romero]], one of the game's programmers and level designers. John Romero's head was the actual boss entity in the game, and the Icon of Sin was killed by firing rockets into the brain, which would travel down the passage and explode above Romero's head. John Romero actually found out about this while testing the final level and recorded a soundbite for the boss that was a backwards-masked recording of him saying, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero." |
* In ''[[Doom]] II'', the [[Big Bad]] of the game, the Icon of Sin, was actually a giant wall with a shoot-through brain texture. Behind the brain texture was a small passage leading to a chamber containing the skewered head of [[John Romero]], one of the game's programmers and level designers. John Romero's head was the actual boss entity in the game, and the Icon of Sin was killed by firing rockets into the brain, which would travel down the passage and explode above Romero's head. John Romero actually found out about this while testing the final level and recorded a soundbite for the boss that was a backwards-masked recording of him saying, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero." |
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