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'''Basic Trope''': [[Video Game]] tries to play on the player's emotions when they try quitting or another "bad" course of action.
* '''Straight''': When you quit the game, you see Princess Velvet languishing in her prison, praying that [[The Hero]] will come rescue her soon...
* '''Exaggerated''': Upon quitting, a short cutscene shows Emperor Evulz using [[A God Am I|the phenomenal cosmic powers]] you're supposed to stop him from obtaining to remake the world in his image, [[Evil Laughter|laughing all the while]].
* '''Justified''':
** The game has no save feature, so quitting is the same as losing in effect.
** the game doesn't quit when the player does. The characters don't want their "guardian deity" absent for too long.
* '''Inverted''':
** The NPCs are relieved that [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|your rein of terror is over]]. Or alternativly it if you [[Breath of Fire|do not wish to continue your journey, "then rest well"]].
** [[Anti-Poopsocking]]
* '''Subverted''': The princess is seen in her cell, but instead of hoping [[The Hero]] comes soon she hopes he takes his time and avoids doing anything foolish.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...then she's informed [[Our Hero Is Dead|Our Hero Gave Up]] and insists [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging|he would never do such a thing]].
* '''Parodied''': Bob is playing ''[[Show Within a Show|SupaSpecialPetz]]'' and decides to take a break. His Fluffelberrikinz starts crying, begging him not to go... then abruptly threatens to hang itself if he leaves. Horrified, Bob stays put and keeps playing.
* '''Deconstructed''': The screen displays rows of [[Zeroes and Ones]] and tells the player it's good for them to get some fresh air and experience the real world. After all, this is just a computer game...
* '''Reconstructed''': ...and as the binomes wink out the emit muffled screams. Or sobs. Or shrieks. Whatever tested <s>better</s> worse in beta.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Rather than being blatant about it, the game takes a subtler tack by sprinkling in little moments and lines that [[Fridge Horror|take on new meaning]] when the player realizes their implications. However, these obviously stand out more to players who ''already'' care about the game enough to notice these details to begin with...
* '''Averted''': The game simply takes you back to the main menu when you quit.
* '''Enforced''': The game has a [[Real Time]] time limit on completion.
* '''Lampshaded''': Hearing Velvet complain about the Hero abandoning her, Emperor Evulz asks, "Who are you talking to?"
* '''Invoked''': [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|"The scumbag behind the monitor, of course. I'm trying to guilt trip him into rescuing me."]]
* '''Defied''': "Save your breath, princess. It's all just a game to him, after all."
* '''Discussed''': "But I can't leave the drones alone! They look up to me!"
* '''Conversed''': "Man, why am I listening to a sob story from a pretend princess."
* '''Played For Laughs:'''
** Bob gets into a love-hate romance with his Digipetzz that ends in him using the Smother With Pillow To End Our Misery button.
** [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|"Select the pistol, and then select your horse."]]
* '''Played For Drama:''' An omnipotent outsider with complete control over his subjects' happiness or lack thereof? [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]], huh?

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