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* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' had an Objectivist Utopia go horribly wrong. Basically, the resident [[Psycho Serum]] caused everyone go insane, then [[President Evil]] had a civil war with [[The Mafia]]. Not to mention the hideous tumours and deformation on the infected , zombie little children draining blood from 'angels' (read: corpses) while accompanied by massive armoured brutes fused into their diving suits. If this wasn't more than enough, by the sequel we have a SENTIENT FETUS in a tank, a sub-Christian Communist cult (responsible for the above, and headed up by an exceptionally unpleasant example of the 'Splicers', a creature whose infected muscle tissue grows over it's clothes. Body Horror taken to the nth degree. |
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* If you're going to make an MMORPG set in a [[Comic Book]] universe, you're probably contractually obligated to lampshade this at least once. ''[[City of Heroes|City of Villains]]'' brings us the surprisingly [[Genre Savvy]] [http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Vernon_von_Grun Vernon von Grun], a [[Card-Carrying Villain|card-carrying]] [[Mad Scientist]] who not only expects things to go wrong, ''he looks forward to it'': |
* If you're going to make an MMORPG set in a [[Comic Book]] universe, you're probably contractually obligated to lampshade this at least once. ''[[City of Heroes|City of Villains]]'' brings us the surprisingly [[Genre Savvy]] [http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Vernon_von_Grun Vernon von Grun], a [[Card-Carrying Villain|card-carrying]] [[Mad Scientist]] who not only expects things to go wrong, ''he looks forward to it'': |
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{{quote|''This is terrible! Nothing bad is happening! We did everything perfectly, but something has gone wrong! My plans are all off-track. Mad science isn't supposed to go wrong like this! But the true test of a mad scientist is how much worse you can make things go wrong.''}} |
{{quote|''This is terrible! Nothing bad is happening! We did everything perfectly, but something has gone wrong! My plans are all off-track. Mad science isn't supposed to go wrong like this! But the true test of a mad scientist is how much worse you can make things go wrong.''}} |