Deus Ex: Human Revolution/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|you return to Detroit and the riots have broken out}}. After playing the first game and reading that {{spoiler|aug research had disappeared in the face of controversy, and augmented humans were heavily discriminated against}}, you realize at this part in the game that it's all downhill from here. You are literally {{spoiler|watching the world collapse from within, and it's all a long, slow slide to the first game's Crapsack World. }}

* {{spoiler|Malik's murder. You've been depending on her three fourths of the game, and she's killed, execution-style, right in front of you after her [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to buy you time to escape.}}

** {{spoiler|Others just accepted the devastating moment and let it flow into the story and Adam's mental state.}}

** {{spoiler|Some players didn't even realize that her death was preventable as they had been trading fire with the mercs since the section began.}} [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|I was still pissed though]]

** {{spoiler|To add even further insult to injury, you can also find Malik's corpse in an operating table in the Harvesters' hideout, meaning Belltower sold them her corpse to be stripped for augmentations just like they did with Sevchenko}}

** {{spoiler|To many, Malik's corpse being stripped for augmentations was the breaking point of their pacifist runs, rather than her murder.}}

** Just FOUR words: {{spoiler|"Any time, fly girl."}}.

*** Arguably a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], that. {{spoiler|especially if you manage to do it ''without killing any Belltower mooks.''}}

* What must be Faridah {{spoiler|(if she's alive)}} and Frank's reactions if {{spoiler|Adam chooses to destroy Panchaea, once the news reports what happened. Their boss is gone, a whole bunch of people are dead -- likely some of them were Sarif employees as well -- and Adam, whom both of them had grown close to over the course of the game and clearly cared about (whether Frank would ever admit it or not), is gone. Frank had just expressed apprehension over Adam going it alone. And what happened? Adam ''died'', along with hundreds of people. There's no way for them to know that it wasn't Adam's failure, no way for them to know if either of them could have saved him or Sarif or anyone else had Faridah been there with her aircraft, or had Frank been in contact with Adam. ...And they probably won't have jobs anymore, since Sarif will likely go under in short order}}.<br />The only consolation, ironically enough, is that they ''won't'' ever know that it wasn't {{spoiler|Adam's failure, but rather his ''choice'' to kill himself, Sarif, Darrow, Taggart, and hundreds of innocent people}}.

* Not so much an outright tearjerker as just something that is genuinely saddening is some of the comments people will make toward Adam due to his augmentations. Some aren't outright mean, just misguided. Others... [[Fantastic Racism|not so much]]. It's even worse because Adam [[Memetic Mutation|never asked for this]].

"No offense, but if it were up to me, this place would have a No Aug policy." }}

** That last one is said by a janitor in ''Adam's apartment building''. He gets it even when he tries to go ''home'' for the night.

* From ''The Missing Link'' DLC, there's {{spoiler|Keitner's death. She was trying to protect innocent people, and even at the end begs Adam to save Dr. Kavanaugh so that no one else will be stolen and experimented on}}.

 

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