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** In the ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' add-on ''Dead Money'' the insane former elder of the Brotherhood of Steel, Elijah, kills dozens of people, brutally tortures Christine, enslaves a mentally handicapped Super Mutant, and forces you to fight your way through dozens of Ghost People to penetrate the Sierra Madre Casino under the threat of death, all so he can access the treasures inside the Casino's vault. In the final confrontation with him, an option for dealing with him is to just let him have the treasure while you waltz away. He'll walk into the vault and trigger a trap, locking himself inside forever.
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'' after you've visited most of the rusty abandoned vaults and Vault-Tek headquarters and discovered the true purpose of the vaults and why they [[Gone Horribly Wrong|went horribly wrong]], you have the chance to find a voice recording on an alien spaceship of the Vault-Tek CEO who masterminded the vault system and their true purpose; the recording shows {{spoiler|the aliens kidnapped him and [[Body Horror|performed experiments]] on him, despite his snivelling attempts to be diplomatic.}}
* Quite a few in ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]]'':
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** The sequel makes it even more satisfying by revealing that the Big Daddy was {{spoiler|Delta (that is to say, ''you'')}}, protecting {{spoiler|Eleanor}}.
** Though his death isn't Karmic, what you can do to Sander Cohan after is. After killing him, you can take his picture like how he made you do so to his underlings. The trophy you get from doing so is even titled ''Irony''.
** Frank Fontaine (the [[Final Boss]]) dies in a particularly karmic (and Catharsis) way. The [[Boss Battle]] begins after he gives himself a mega-strong overdose of ADAM (proving everything he told you during the game about the evils of objectivism and benefits of free will was the deception of a [[Straw Hypocrite]]) turning himself into a huge, hulking beast. When the final blow is struck, the Little Sisters (who, due to his own machinations, have been trained to extract ADAM) tackle and swarm him, draining the stuff from him and reducing him to a burnt-out corpse. Not only Karmic, it is a well-deserved [[Undignified Death]], as is he is not only done in by his own ill-conceived creations, he’s done in by a group of little girls.
*** If you get the Good Ending, this becomes more Karmic yet, given his final words:
{{quote|'''Fontaine:''' I had you built! I sent you topside! I called you back, showed you what you was, what you was capable of! Even that life you thought you had, that was something I dreamed up and had tattooed inside your head. Now, if you don't call that family, I don't know what is. And now…}}
:** He’s Killed Mid Sentence, and Jack adopts the Little Sisters, raising them as his own daughters, who prove to be far more of a family than anything Fontaine’s lies claimed.
* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' delivers satisfying ends to the morally corrupt characters of the story. Even Squad 7 is subject to it. The closer a character is to the moral high ground, the better their epilogue is.
* The final boss of ''[[Disaster: Day of Crisis]]'', Evans, meets his end... At the hands of his own colonel, who actually survived being shot by Evans. Awesome.
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* In the beginning of [[Skyrim]], there's an Imperial captain who sends you to your death, even though it was said that you were not on the execution list. If you escape with Ralof, she's the first NPC you kill. It's karmic because it's now ''you'' sending ''her'' to her death.
* [[Complete Monster|Curtis Blackburn]] of ''[[Killer7]]'', an unrepentant rapist, kidnapper, and organ harvester gets mutilated by his own organ harvesting machine after resident [[Badass]] Dan refuses to let him have a peaceful, stylish death.
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