Disproportionate Retribution/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Sharin no Kuni]]'': the opening of the game has the main character witness female trainee get shot through the head for ''arriving late to an exam'', and that's just the beginning.

** What's worse is that she really should have known that would happen. Everyone undergoing that training is supposed to have been living with that threat for years. {{spoiler|It's also implied in the endings that the shooter in question is egging Ken on since Special High Class Individuals or whatever is a pretty easily abused system.}}

** What makes this even more aggravating is that if you even ~accidentally~ pick up said clay pot, they will hunt you down.

*** It's even worse since the guards are ridiculously [[Psychic Powers]], any offense committed will have scores of Legion troopers from all over the city, and wilderness [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot|suddenly alerted]] of your wrong doings and chasing you down. Then there's the fact you [[You Will Not Evade Me|can't even evade them,]] they always know [[Big Brother Is Watching|exactly where you are,]] and [[Goddamned Bats|they're everywhere.]]

* ''[[Tower Madness]]'': [[The Greys]] [[Excuse Plot|are trying to abduct your sheep so they can make a new scarf for their emperor]]. Your response? [[Shock and Awe|Zapping them]], [[Kill It with Fire|frying them]], [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing them up]], and even '''''[[Nuke'Em|nuking]]''''' them, including the emperor himself! All because they wanted some wool without paying for it, but still...

* ''[[Saints Row|Saint's Row 2]]'''s Brotherhood missions, full stop. Worse, it's pure tit-for-tat [[Disproportionate Retribution]]. From peace talks where Maero, the Brotherhood leader, offers [[Fan Nickname|Boss]] a 20/80 split out of respect for his accomplishments (as well as a realistic appraisal of the situation in light of Boss' fall from grace,) Boss basically spits in his face and declares war over the implied insult. Boss opens by injecting Maero's tattoo ink with radioactive waste, Maero escalates by dragging Boss' second-in-command to death behind his gang's trucks, Boss then ruins Maero's rocker friend's career by burning his hand with a pyrotechnics display ''and'' locking Maero's girl in the trunk of her own car, then putting it last in a line of cars Maero would later crush with his monster truck. He even stays to gloat, tossing Maero the keys to the car just as the ganglord recognizes it. And all of this only comprises about half of the Brotherhood missions.

{{quote| '''Luso''': You knifed nearly thirty guys over a spilled drink?! You're a threat to society!}}

* In ''[[Jet Set Radio|Jet Set Radio Future]]'', the response for some errant graffiti is initially little more than police shakedown. Just a few levels later, though, the police {{spoiler|start sending tanks, mecha and later a private trenchcoat-wearing assassination force. When that doesn't work either, they decide they're going to burn an entire section of the city to the ground just to draw you out.}}