Idiot Ball/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has the viewpoint character hug the idiot ball and never let go. It's not clear whether this is meant as a [[This Loser Is You]], or just for [[Rule of Cool]], but it. never. stops. If there is a trap, no matter how obvious, [[Stupidity Is the Only Option|Travis will walk right into it]]. If there is a trick, no matter how old, Mr. Touchdown will fall for it. If there is a foe, Travis ''will'' [[Leeroy Jenkins|charge them head first]]. Those trip mines might be obviously placed, but Travis Touchdown ''will never'' resist the urge to pass right over them. [[Made of Iron|Good thing he's nearly invulnerable.]]

*** This is justified since he Genre Savy enough to know he's in a game and that he can't die so long as the player isn't in control. One has to wonder if Dante knew he was in a game as well.

* In the Stalingrad level of ''[[Call of Duty|Call of Duty Vanguard]]'' a German soldier sees the disarmed female player character and starts treating her as though she were a civilian, ordering her to stay in an apartment where she promptly finds a knife to stab him in the back and take his gun. It seems the writer forgot that, even disarmed, '''she is still wearing a military uniform'''.