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== Game examples ==
* ''[[Space Quest]] I'' In the very beginning, Roger Wilco awakens in his closet from the sounds of gun fire and commotion as the ship he is on is taken over by the enemy Sariens. By the time he exits the closet, the crew is already dead, the self-destruction sequence is already engaged, and he has to find his way to the escape pod while avoiding the invaders who are still looking for any living souls who they might have missed.
* ''[[The
* ''[[Myst]]''. You, the player, find yourself on an abandoned island. After exploring a bit, you build up a picture of something dire that happened there before you arrived.
* In ''[[Uru]]'', the party you're late for just happens to be first four Myst games. [[Completely Missing the Point|And you'd just preordered them, too...]] * sniff*
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** And if that's not creepy enough, wait until you see what he meant by "precautions to protect my beloved wife"--{{spoiler|her corpse is sealed inside a huge Victorian belljar, surrounded by objects from her childhood and their courtship.}}
*** Maybe not totally insane: he has a medical mind and has accepted the concept of {{spoiler|life beyond death}}, so protecting {{spoiler|her body}} wouldn't seem useless, and (while it might have been a glitch in the map or my video card) there seemed to be ''something'' else protecting her - {{spoiler|the corpse was only there from}} certain camera angles and locations. At least, none of the hostiles (the non-inhabitants, I mean) {{spoiler|had touched her body yet}}, and some probably had motive to.
* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' does some...interesting things with this one. When Chell first awakens, she's in a room with a radio playing a trendy pop version of the game's [[Ending Theme]]. During the course of the game, GLaDOS the [[
* In ''[[Portal 2]]'', considering Chell's been in stasis for years (estimates range from two decades to three centuries), she's ''really'' late to the party as far as the fate of mankind goes. She's also late to the party she herself set up by destroying GLaDOS in the previous game.
* [http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Shift], a game which evokes much of the spirit of Portal, uses this trope in [http://armorgames.com/play/1846/shift-3 Shift 3].
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