Disproportionate Retribution/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Sharin no Kuni (Visual Novel)|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.]]

*** Interestingly enough, if you 'Resist Arrest' then immediately yield (hold block and activate), you can get away with a high enough Speed.

*** There is also a mod (Reener's Guard Overhaul) which fixes all issues with the Guards, and as such could turn this into an inversion/aversion.

*** Probably by accident.

** And who could forget the Ordinators in Morrowind? Woe betide anyone who wears one of their helmets in their presence.

* Ares tricking [[God of War (Video Game)|Kratos]] into killing his family sort of snowballs into most of the gods being brutally murdered and [[Inferred Holocaust|essentially plunging the entire planet into an uninhabitable wasteland]].

** Really, Ares' dickery only snowballs into a brutal battle that probably levels half of Athens, which was going to be destroyed anyway. Zeus killing Kratos results in the rest (which is still [[Disproportionate Retribution]], mind you).

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' has a mission involving this. The Lang Bros. (back when they were with the Arbiters of Death) were enjoying drinks at a bar when something causes the drink to spill. One of the brothers ganked the guy responsible, and when others came to restrain them, they subsequently got slashed. Then the Arbiters of Death themselves got involved, and were shanked for their efforts. All of this gone over in detail to Clan Gully. There's [[Serious Business]] and then there's ''this''.

*** {{spoiler|It should be noted that if Harrowmont becomes king, even after Bhelen is killed, his supporters continue to rebel against him, undermining his rule and making his reign a failure}}.

* In ''[[Galactic Civilizations]]'', there's some background history about a race called the Xendar. Manipulated by another race, they attacked a Human colony world - a minor one. The Humans retaliated with an all-out galactic campaign of destruction that all but annihilated the entirety of the Xendar race.

* ''[[Eagle Eye Mysteries|Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original]]'', Book 2, "Case of the Crazy Compass": {{spoiler|Dave Grant}} slips a magnet into Alex Hane's backpack right before Alex is scheduled to go into the woods with his exploring club. Said magnet is so powerful that it disrupts Alex's compass badly enough to get him lost in the woods for hours, in the process ruining his chance to get a good grade for his explorer club and also ([[Fridge Horror|in hindsight]]) exposing him to the inherent dangers that come with being lost in the woods--and {{spoiler|Dave}} [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|did that]] [[Moral Event Horizon|with full knowledge]] that Alex would be going into the woods. And his reason for all this? {{spoiler|Alex's science project came in first place ahead of his own}}.

* In ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'', the protagonist race builds a mothership, takes it on a test drive, and comes home to find their planet incinerated and 300,000,000 people dead. Why? They violated a 4000 year old ban on interstellar travel, which they weren't even aware of.