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[[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades hung]] in video gaming.
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* In ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', Dr. Breen hangs a lampshade on Gordon Freeman himself, saying that he's just a theoretical physicist, just one normal human. ...Which makes sense, really. How the heck is this one ordinary guy not only an MIT educated theoretical physicist, but also a [[One-Man Army]]?
* In [[Kingdom Hearts]], at first, only Sora,{{spoiler|(and Riku and The King later on)}} has the ability to wield a Keyblade. Later on, in Kingdom Hearts II, Roxas {{spoiler|and Kairi}} can wield one (Hell, Roxas can wield TWO!). In that Game's secret ending and [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth by Sleep]], it is also revealed that Terra, Ventus, Aqua, and Master Eraqus can wield them, {{spoiler|as can Master Xehanort and Vanitas. There's even a world full of abandoned Keyblades at the end of the game, suggesting that at some point, there has been THOUSANDS of people able to wield the Keyblade.}} I think Braig summed it up best:
{{quote|'''Braig:''' It seems like these days, everybody's got one of those...}}
** Braig also comments on {{spoiler|Terra-Xehanort's}} amnesia with "Boy, this is some cliché." It definitely starts sounding like a lampshade when one considers that convenient-for-the-plot memory loss seems to be a rather common ailment in the series.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', there is the [[Relationship Values|support feature, which allows two characters standing close to each other to gain various bonuses]]. In one such support conversation, Kent and Farina are discussing the reason why they see each other so much lately. "What would anyone have to gain by making us fight together?" ends up being a Lampshade Hanging about the fact that fighting together does, in fact, make them stronger.
* ''[[Elder Scrolls]] III: Morrowind'' featured both beds and a day-night time system but people do not go to bed or lock shops at night. This is lampshaded when you eventually get the dialogue response "People never seem to go to sleep, I wonder what drives them"
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* In ''[[Legend of Kay]]'' the player encounters an archaeologist deep down in the dungeons, who comments on how improbable it is that [[Ragnarok Proofing|the machines are still working]], and on the mystery what these periodically-retracting-spikes-and-moving-platforms machines might originally have been constructed for.
* In ''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]'', immediately after we discover that Sullivan {{spoiler|survived being shot point-blank by Roman due to the use of a perfectly placed [[Pocket Protector]],}} Nathan exclaims: "I thought this kinda thing only happened in the movies!"
* As far as expansions go, ''[[Warhammer
* Several characters in ''[[My World, My Way]]'' do this a lot when they give tutorials to players without knowing [[He Knows About Timed Hits|why they say what they said]] (there's a [[Fourth Wall]] for those characters).
* The trope itself was lampshaded in the first season of the episodic ''[[Sam and Max]]'' series. A particular puzzle requires you to improvise your way through an episode of a popular television sitcom called "Midtown Cowboys". (As the theme song informs the audience, "They're probably hiding a cow!") Part of the solution to the puzzle is to take a nearby lampshade and stick it on the cow's head.
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{{quote|'''Cloud''' ''(to Sephiroth)'': "Fighting you [[Dramatic Pause|...]] would be meaningless. I'm tired of taking part in pointless battles."<br />
'''Sephiroth''' ''(about Cloud)'': "I must face him and fulfill my obligation." }}
** [[There Are Two Kinds of People in the World|There are two major kinds of villain in]] ''[[Final Fantasy]]'': The kind that want to ''[[Take Over the World|rule]]'' [[Take Over the World|the world]], and the kind that want to ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy]]'' [[Omnicidal Maniac|the world]]. ''Dissidia'' has a conversation between one of the former ([[Final Fantasy VIII|Ultimecia]]) and one of the latter ([[Final Fantasy III|the Cloud of Darkness]]). In it, Ultimecia begins
* [[
* One notable line shows up near the end of the entire trilogy of Xenosaga: [[Action Girl|Shion]] is distraught after several traumatic incidents occur. A mysterious girl named [[Virtual Ghost|Nephilim]] who appears periodically with [[Cryptic Conversation|cryptic advice]] shows up once more. Shion is surprised at her appearance and says "What do you want? Are you here to say a bunch of cryptic things again and confuse me?"
* Team Plasma from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' spend every chance they get pointing out that the game world is based on what amounts to dog fighting, and that it is cruel and wrong. And they are supposed to be the bad guys.
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* ''Every conversation'' in ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'' hangs a lampshade of what each character or NPC is doing.
* The ''first thing'' Pit says in the announcement trailer for ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' is [[Vaporware|"Sorry to keep you waiting!"]] At one point in the demo for said game, Palutena mentions that it's been "about 24 years" since she last battled Medusa. Guess when the original ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' was released in America. Go on, guess.
* [[
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* ''[[House Of The Dead 2]]'' Very subtle example. At the very beginning of Stage Two a car swerves towards you out of control, if you don't shoot the zombie on the bonnet it passes you and crashes into a shop, killing the man inside (and changing the path you take). ''Just'' before you duck inside you get a glimpse of the shop's name. It's called {{spoiler|Curtains}}. Boom, boom, tish.
* The ''[[Uncharted]]'' series ''loves'' to hang lampshades on everything. Just about half of the speech in the games is dedicated to saying "why does this keep happening?"
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'', at the beginning of the ''Swamp Fever'' level, sometimes Ellis complains to Nick about why he shot the helicopter pilot. Then they argue that the pilot was a zombie and that "he wouldn't help us very much" during that time. This seems to be a running joke with the Survivors. This our-pilot-turned-into-a-zombie instance was also lampshaded start of ''Crash Course'' in the first [[Left 4 Dead]].
* In ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'', one of the characters comments that amnesia is extremely common, lampshading the fact that, in all 3 games, the protagonist loses his memory.
* In the fantasy MMO ''[[
* In ''Jak 3'', the third installment of the [[Jak and Daxter]] series, Seem the monk comments to Jak and Daxter "This isn't a game!" to which Jak and Daxter turn to the camera with eyebrows raised.
* Near the beginning of the ''[[Anaksha Female Assassin]]'' Mini-Adventure "A New Threat," Anaksha has just been asked for some parts to make a taser so that the owner of a recently-robbed shop is confident enough to open it again so that Anaksha can get a battery for her new cell phone. Having been through two previous Mini-Adventures where she had to do a [[Chain of Deals]] to get what she wanted, Anaksha knows immediately what's coming:
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* The iOS game [[Highborn]] ''[[Better Than a Bare Bulb|really, really ]]'' [[Better Than a Bare Bulb|loves lampshading anything and everything.]]
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