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{{quote|''"Look, Rhinos...'''RHINOS!''' Our enemies hide in '''METAL BOXES''', the cowards! '''THE FOOLS!''' We...we should '''take away'''... their '''metal boxes'''!"''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY&feature=related Lord Firaveous Carron]''', ''[[Dawn of War]]: Soulstorm''}}

Whether it's because of [[Animation Age Ghetto|their perceived kiddyness]], [[So Bad It's Good]] voice acting, [[Good Bad Translation|flimsy translation]], or just low production values when it came to the script, video games tend to have more [[Narm|badly executed drama]] than you can shake a joystick at.

** "[[Troll 2|AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO KILL ME! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD]]!"

*** The Narm [[It Got Worse|IMMEDIATELY]] goes away, though.

{{quote| "The miracle never happen."}}

** Another possible example from ''Trials and Tribulations'' is due to a typo; Mia was presumably supposed to tell the judge "when you were a child," but she says "when you were ''in'' a child". The implications are unsettling, to say the least.

** Examples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icl7HpJ4in0&feature=related Here's the trailer], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nq66sCQz0&feature=related here's actuality.] A truly vile game, hilariously terrible.

* The Japanese-made video game ''[[Zero Wing]]'' opens with a dramatic scene showing a military spaceship rocked with explosions. The crew reports that [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb|bombs had been planted on the ship]], and moments later the ship is hailed by the enemy commander. He informs them that [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|all of their bases have been taken over]], and laughs at their imminent demise. Left with no choice, the Captain [[Fighter Launching Sequence|dispatches the ship's ZIG fighters]] (one of which will be controlled by the player) for a [[For Great Justice|last-ditch counterattack.]] ...Then the game was [http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml translated into Engrish].

** In the arcade version of ''Street Fighter II'', one character punctuates his attacks by saying what sounds like "Cool Whip".

*** Also, considering some of the words are unintelligible, some things end up sounding wrong-- such as "The pipes are broken!" or "Ghetto Uppercut!"

** Whenever [[Bruce Lee Clone|Fei Long's]] [[Funny Bruce Lee Noises]] are typed out and written in SF Alpha III's Story Mode. Having him burst into "WA HOATAAAAAAAAAA!" and other screams is cool when you can ''hear'' him, NOT when you're reading what he tells others.

*** Likewise, Dhalsim's massive CMOA of {{spoiler|neutralizing and destroying the Psycho Drive '''by himself'''}} is ruined when the script has him chant "Yogaaaaaa" all over.

*** [http://www.bossies.org/DoD_Archive/(10-06)%20June%20%2710%20-%20Free%20Month/ZZalt-BONKERS-MMX4-Death-DoD.mp3 Now in delicious parody flavor!]

**** That's a ''parody''? It's so much better than the original...

** Or X yelling "Time to get serious!" with the voice of an 8-year old boy when he runs low on health.

** Hey, when your main characters are a blond kid with a humongous sword who gets mind controlled all the time and a guy with a gun on his arm, there's only one thing to do.

*** Wait, [[Final Fantasy 7|A blonde guy with a big sword, who gets mind controlled, and a guy with a gun on his arm?]]

*** In 'The Last Cataclysm' on Newgrounds, a flash fan adaptation of the events of ''Zero 3'', those lines are voice acted. They aren't narm out loud. They sound like Copy X ''[[Came Back Wrong]]'' and is clearly unhinged. Well, more unhinged.

*** That was always the idea, where other revived bosses could [[Breaking the Bonds|regain their old personalities and speech]] just as they [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|die again]], [[Mind Rape|not understanding what was happening to them]] [[You Bastard|or why]].

*** "You must wecovow all the enewgy immeedily, W-..Mega Man!"

*** "We may a- be able to"

*** "The barrier privates me from going there"

*** And there's the translation company's decision on inserting voice acted actions in the dialogue box with the help of asterisks (that is, *laugh* , *gasp* , etc). That isn't TOO ridiculous, until...

{{quote| '''Prometheus''': "Perhaps as you are dying... ''*evil laugh*'''"}}

** Heck, most of the voice acting in that game qualifies. Malachi's dramatic line, "Judith? Dead? No!" is delivered with an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJi_EIBmeI utterly unconvincing attempt at sounding shocked]. And special mention must go to the scene in which you banish your fellow angel Aaron back to Heaven - as he disappears in a haze of light, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRYjL9g-uw he lets out an orgasmic sigh and lapses into manic giggles].

* And who could forget the very ''beginning'' of the classic [[Beat'Em Up]] ''[[Altered Beast]]''? [[God|Zeus, God of Gods]], commands the two [[No Name Given|nameless heroes]] to rise from their graves, but the voice clip that accompanies this scene is of such low quality that Zeus sounds like [[Looney Tunes|Elmer Fudd]]: "Wise fwum your gwave!"

* Mediocre but entertaining [[Stealth Based Game]] ''Spy Fiction'' would have been a better piece of, well, [[Spy Fiction]] had the voice actors bothered trying. A particularly egregious example is when the lunatic terrorist Dietrich captures the positive, quirky agent Nicklaus, chains him to a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|crucifix-type device]], and shoots him in the heart in front of his best friend. If you weren't laughing at Dietrich's painfully badly-written mocking of the survivors - "Boo hoo! Poor baby!", in a [[Just a Stupid Accent|nonspecific and ridiculous Eastern European accent]] - you probably threw back your head and laughed as the survivor attempted to give a scream of bitter rage to the heavens and ended up making a sound vaguely like he'd finally passed a very stubborn stool.

** This one also had the catchphrase 'Back in the hole', which was said repeatedly by the main character as a code to his best friend, Nicklaus, usually while pointing to him at the time. In one horrible Narm moment, the phrase is said by both after Nicklaus had previously said, "[[Double Entendre|I'll go on ahead. You go in behind]]." The voice actors deserve some credit for being able to say the line without laughing.

*** This actually makes sense in Shadow {{spoiler|Naoto}}'s case. Not being taken seriously and being treated like a child was {{spoiler|her}} main neurosis. It would only make sense that the Shadow would look like something out of a kid's show.

** Another in [[Persona 4|P4]] was Kanji punching the wall and "roaring" {{spoiler|in the hospital after hearing of Nanako's death}} ruins the poignant scene on account of sounding like a bad imitator of Tarzan who's been inhaling helium.

** I'm pretty sure I read they wanted to make it a proper cutscene but ran out of time or somesuch, so I don't think it was by choice.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a Narm moment every October. The bizarre music and drunken chatter of the Brewfest holiday clashes with the eerie setting of [[Haunted Castle|the Undercity]].

** Is it possible for a computer game to have [[Special Effects Failure]]? If yes, then I nominate the boss battle with Anub'arak in Azjol-Nerub. It would seem he's not as good at burrowing as the rest of his people. He actually uses a ladder to pull himself back out of the ground. Cheater!

** Speaking of special effects, did you listen carefully to the sound effects you make while casting holy spells? Those little bells twinkling? Although, to be fair, this lighthearted style when it comes to graphics and audio is characteristic of the Warcraft series as a whole.

** The dendrophiliac overtones don't help things.

* Warcraft's general storyline is pretty much overflowing with this. It's basically a really cheesy comicbook trying to be taken as seriously as Lord of the Rings. And failing epicly in the attempt.

** The campaign mode, probably due to the game being more multiplayer oriented, didn't exactly splurge on the voice acting or script, resulting in some rather horrendous dialogue:

{{quote| '''Sahin''': Why do you continue to fight, Frenk? Can you not see that your struggle is pointless?<br />

** Even harder to take seriously when you realize that she resembles [[Silent Hill 2|Angela Orsco]].

** Johnson's death in the same game was met with the Tucker/Church death conversation in an impromptu [[MS Ting]] of awesome during my first playthrough with friends. Didn't help that after the second game I'd slotted him neatly into the Scrappy corner, but he 'died' like, four times before that? Not counting all the times he got 'knocked out' during gameplay.

*** What's worse is that he's one of the generic voices assigned to NPC soldiers, so we get this flat and bored voice mixed in with frantic yelling and cries of pain during gameplay.

** {{spoiler|Kat's}} death might count for some. It's horribly sad at first because it's so sudden and {{spoiler|she}} was just warming to Six, but when {{spoiler|she}} drops to the ground, Six grabs a magnum and empties the clip into the dropship overhead. The rest of Noble follow suit, and you can't help but think of [[Hot Fuzz]].

{{quote| Danny Butterman: Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'}}

** "You DARE bring LIGHT to my LAIR? You must DIE!"

*** Dude, she heard you were reading a book in the dark, and thought it would help. ''Chill!''

** "Join me, Link, and I will make <s>[[Mondegreen|your face]]</s> you a face the grrrrrrrreatest in Koridai... or else you will DIE!"

** "The chains! [[Big No|NOOOOOOOO!!!]] You haven't seen the last of me!"

** Let's be fair, though: That "lotsa spaghetti" line, and many others, weren't exactly meant to be touching in the first place.

* ''[[Half Life]]'': G-Man's deadpan-from-hell delivery breaks down for anyone who has played Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, where the same actor voices McZee, an insane Barney the Dinosaur-esque host.

*** It's worth noting that the Narm is somewhat intentional here: G-Man's stunted speech patterns are intended to give the player the impression that his speech is being forced, as if speaking is almost "foreign" to him, to give him an otherworldly nature and add to his enigmatic persona. However, it's still pretty bad in Half-Life 1, but this idea gets across MUCH better in Half-Life 2.

** The stupidly clichéd chat with Eli Vance in Nova Prospekt made this troper cringe.

'''HOIST THE FLAAAAAAAAAAAAG OF...................KOMORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!''' }}

* ''[[Shadow of Destiny]]'' has a few. For example, Eike shouting, "You bastard!" at {{spoiler|Hugo}} during Ending E. Doesn't sound bad out of context, but becomes Narmy when you consider that a) up until this point, the only swear used had been 'damn' and that only two or three times, b) the delivery of the line was ridiculously casual given the situation, and c) the script writer had apparently been channeling [[South Park]]. Honestly, though, any moment where Eike is required to exhibit any emotion besides [[Dull Surprise]] qualifies as a Narm.

** Your mileage may vary, but {{spoiler|[[G La DOS]]' scream when being core-transferred}} in the sequel. Yes, it's a creepy moment, but the amount of auto-tuning makes her sound like T-Pain.

* The [[Final Boss]] of ''Salamander 2'', the arcade-only sequel to ''Life Force'' (cousin series to ''[[Gradius]]'') greets you with the most intimidating threat a mile-wide three-headed alien could possibly give to a spaceship pilot: "I'm going to scare you like you've ''never'' been scared before!"

** ''Gradius Gaiden'', in the fourth level, has a boss consisting of two giant moai heads that taunt you: "You think you can beat me with that?? Loser!" It's the "loser" part that drives it over the top - that's a playground insult!

** A better example from ''The Godfather'' (and from the same part of the game) might be Fredo leaning out the window of the ambulance firing a Tommy gun at pursuing mobsters like some kind of badass hero, whereas in the movie he is universally portrayed as incompetent, whiny and cowardly.

** Another good example is where you kill the guy your character has been wanting to kill from the intro, which is actually a rather nicely done moment where you get to murder them yourself. Except it happens to occur in the middle of a mission where you're likely to have a bunch of heat on you, and instead of the satisfying kill you're (probably) supposed to have, you kill him in a few seconds and run like hell. (This troper hasn't seen the godfather movies, and doesn't know if this is a horrible interpretation of some other event or not)

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Sigurd'''}} : "{{spoiler|Alvis}}! You DASTARD!"}}

*** Dastard is actually a legitimate word; it means [[Dirty Coward|a malicious coward]]. It's actually used several times in official [[Fire Emblem]] translations. It still counts if you've never heard of it, though.

** Plus, telling your enemy that they're going to escape isn't exactly very threatening, being akin to yelling "I won't deal you serious injury!"

** "I CAN'T MOVE!"

** Then there's Sagi's little gem of a line. {{spoiler|"Go to hell, you son of a bitch! You hurt my mother!"}}

*** Meh, that's debatable. It's a pretty good [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] to a villain most people probably hate after [[Player Punch|that last scene]].

** Perhaps the narmiest moment is the fading breaths of a Earth Walker soldier, delivered in ''"Dinosaur Language."'' It has to be seen to be believed.

*** Speaking of dinosaur language, (it's just letter-swapping and the mini-guide that comes with the game has a translator in the back), the dinosaur language word for "eye" is "ooo."

** Plus the inconsistent English voices, where Leon for example will go from a British accent in 64 to a slimy psycho voice in Assualt. Slippy and Peppy's voices vary from game to game a lot too, but General Pepper takes the cake for his ridiculously over-the-top voice in Adventures.Then there's lines like "I'm on my WAY." and Andross' "Only I have the brains to rule Lylat" ([[SF 64]]) and Andrew's "Think you're tough eh? In that case, it's SECRET WEAPON TIME." (SF Assualt)

** Krystal somehow sucks all the drama out of the attack on the enemy home world in ''Assault'' with a single piece of dialogue about the mission is going as... 'plaahhrned'?

** You know what does not help that line? It's the fact that up until that point, the "Black Angels" or whatever you would like to call them were never mentioned or hinted at, and they are never mentioned or discussed afterwards. It just came completely out of nowhere. Perhaps it was supposed to be considered a [[Sequel Hook]], and something to be expanded on in the sequel - there are a number of things about this game that definitely ''need'' to be expanded on.

* ''[[Wii Fit]]'' has a Narm moment. Yes, a Narm in a fitness game. The step-aerobics portions, actually. Don't get me wrong, they're fun and all, but someone thought it would be a good idea to put it on ''a stage''. In front of a packed audience.

** "Watch out! The enemy is going to shoot!"

** In ''EX'': "I'm the president! Please stop!" And the president [[Captain Ersatz|bears an uncanny resemblance]] to George W. Bush.

** To be fair, they are above {{spoiler|Hiigara, which is getting bombed by Atmosphere Deporvation Devices, the same weapon that killed off most of the Kushani/Hiigaran race about 100 years ago during the original Homeworld.}} You try staying unemotional in that situation.

* ''[[.hack|.hack//GU]]'' makes a big deal about PKing up to the point where it becomes a crime equivalent to murder. Sure, there's the bit about some players who actually [[Trapped in Another World|get sucked within the game itself]], but considering that you just respawn upon death, it just makes the entire issue [[Serious Business]]. Especially when one player uses the [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] argument.

*** Of course, by this point the bracelet is firmly attached to Kite. Given its enigmatic nature, him dying might have caused him to go comatose.

** Another example is Gaspard's breakdown midway through ''Rebirth'' as a result of Bordeaux's harassment. What was she doing? Stopping people from visiting the Canard guild shop. Yes, Gaspard bursts into tears and nearly quits the game because people won't ''shop from him anymore.'' To make it worse it takes Silabus out of the running for your fight with Bordeaux shortly after.

{{quote| "Bass! Why must I fight you! We are not! Enemies!}}

** To make things worse, he actually pronounced Bass' name BASS....like the ''fish''.

** Don't forget the Elmer Fudd meets JFK voice they assigned to Doctor Light.

** The dubbing was so bad that at one point, there was a rumor about Capcom using the Japanese VA's because they were too cheap to use English ones.

** In fairness, ''Covenant'' isn't the most serious game to begin with. Though the voice acting in the original ''Shadow Hearts'' was utterly terrible. You try listening to Generic Old Woman narrating the story of the sea demon ("A looooooong, looooooooong time ago....") without laughing.

*** Not to mention she takes about twenty minutes to narrate the monster walking towards the front door, obviously under the impression that it's creepy rather than gut bustingly hilarious. When she finally reaches the end and it turns out to be a terrific anticlimax you want to strangle the old bat.

** In Red Alert 2, the way {{spoiler|General Carville}} dies is something of a fridge narm. Sure, it hits you out of nowhere, but when you think about it, {{spoiler|some guy wearing a beret, sunglasses, and trench coat was standing in front of a door in the freakin' PENTAGON for who knows how long waiting for his target to open it, rather than, y'know, charging through it.}} Not to mention {{spoiler|the bomb seems to be rigged to explode upon the trench coat being thrown open for no apparent reason.}}

** The death of {{spoiler|Premier Romanov}} is also quite narmy, though knowing the game, that might be on purpose. The player is shown a video that supposedly shows {{spoiler|General Vladimir killing Romanov. What the player sees is a short clip of Romanov propped up in his sickbed saying "No! No! General Vladimir!" in his hammy Russian accent.}}

** J.C.'s lack of emotion makes many of his lines arguably cooler. "A bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat." That, and the voice acting wasn't [[So Bad It's Good]] - just bad.

** "Oh my god, JC, A bomb!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qKzIsisU&feature=video_response "A bomb!"]. Grade-A narm!

** Saddam and his entourage had a ton of gold plated weaponry. It's not especially unrealistic.

*** Yes, [[Authority Equals Asskicking|but they didn't tear out those guns and take on the US Army alone]], now did they?

** Some narm to be found in the games ''must'' be intentional. Witness the occasional lady running in terror from your murder in the second game screaming "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD! '''THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD!!!'''" Definitely sounds like genuine terror, but this troper [[For the Evulz|can't help but chuckle]] [[Narm|for some reason]].

** A scene from the ARG Project Legacy has The Courtesan [[Groin Attack|kick The Priest in the groin dramatically]] before going on to immediately make a long series of business deals.

** Yeah, but it was a {{spoiler|Diving ''Push'' Save. He was just too late, and they both got hit.}}

*** He actually {{spoiler|"jumped '''in front of''' her," but he, as he put it, "ain't strong enough '''to stop''' a car, yo."}} To this troper, it fit Beat's personality; he's caring but rarely thinks about the consequences of his actions.

** In general, the characters have a weird tendency of refusing to shut the fuck up, with long blocks of exposition on villain motives being related to the player by them talking to themselves. These guys spend up to ''five minutes'' telling themselves what they want to do.

* It's nothing anyone particularly ''said'' or anything, but the sequence following a genuine [[Tear Jerker]] moment in ''[[Lost Odyssey]]'' - {{spoiler|the death of Kaim's daughter, moments after their reunion}} - is one that screamed [[Narm]] at this troper. Specifically, the priest conducting the funeral...sends you on two fetch quests, one to gather flowers that she liked, one to gather torches for the ceremony, and turned the funeral itself into a ''rhythm minigame.'' This was likely to show off how such ceremonies were performed in this fantasy world, but...that could've been accomplished in another [[Tear Jerker]] [[Cutscene]] instead of having the player press the controller's shiny colored buttons in time to ''light the other mourners' torches.'' [[What the Hell, Hero?|What the eff, Japan.]]

** "I'm going to stomp you to space bits!"

** Hey, did you know that Mario and Luigi are voiced by the same guy? What probably happened was that the guy was trying so hard not to sound like Mario that he messed it up on Luigi.

* ''[[Super Smash Bros]]. Brawl'' didn't include an option to switch between English and Japanese languages, so when the English version was leaked and someone posted videos running through the sound test of the characters' voice samples, the general outcry was that of [[Serious Business|anger]] and [[Unpleasable Fanbase|dissatisfaction]] with the seemingly-inferior English voices (although most of these people had been religiously watching videos of the Japanese version and thus had simply gotten used to the Japanese voices). The worst in many people's eyes - even beyond Meta Knight apparently being the offspring of Vader and Zorro, Falco being from Brooklyn and Wolf from Texas, and Sonic's [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids voice actor]] - was probably Ike and his wonderfully-monotone "''I fight for my friends.''" Sadly, although context helped many of the other voice samples sound decent, [[Memetic Mutation|Ike was not so lucky.]]

** "C'MON! BRUE FARCON!"

** Then there's the opening monologue that starts with the incredibly camp "[[In a World|On a world]] covered in ''endless'' water..."

** Teisel's voice acting is so [[No Indoor Voice|incredibly]] [[Large Ham|overacted]] all the time, that any scene with him should result in Narm. Instead, [[Narm Charm|it just makes him more endearing.]]

* In ''[[Ultima IX]]: Ascension'', the Avatar asks a lot of really really stupid questions. But the worst of all has got to be when he's in Trinsic and asks, "What's a Paladin?" You'd think that after Paladins having existed since Ultima IV, he'd know better. He'll ask this even if you chose the Paladin class at the beginning of the game! An audio clip of the Paladin quote, as well as additional narmy quotes from the game, can be found on [http://hacki.bootstrike.com/english/nitpicks_u9_trinsic.htm this site].

** There's another one towards the beginning of the game. After finding out the Britain has been moving all the poor people to the poisonous swamp of Pew, the Avatar, ''living embodiment of the eight virtues and perfectly aware of all of their tenets'', can only come up with the following argument: "But...Britain is the city of compassion!" Even worse, when the mayor replies that the plan ''is'' compassionate with some severely twisted logic, the Avatar ''is completely stumped''. Durr.....

*** Of course, Bleck appears before you in Sammer's Kingdom and goes into a bit of [[Evil Gloating]] about how you can't possibly save the world, afterward the Sammer Guy you defeated just before this.... Speaks entirely in all-caps [[Hulk Speak]]. If you leave the room and come back, he'll say he told the king about it, but since he was fast enough to get there and back that quickly, you have to ask why he didn't just bring the Pure Heart back with him.

** At one point, Tippi uses the word "discombobulated" in a serious sentence.

** Even worse is Palkia's appearance in Pearl version. You wouldn't believe how unimpressive a cosmic dragon can be that a) is pink and b) gargles at you.

*** [[Freud Was Right|c) It's a giant penis.]]

** Reshiram's sprite. It looks weirded out while waving its giant arms. And it sounds like a warped out bell.

** "I'm absolutely perfect. [[Large Ham|I AM PERFECTION!]]"

* ''Pokémon [[Puzzle League]]'', despite the genre, makes a genuine effort to make the Giovanni battle menacing, with dramatic music and lines such as "The world will be mine!" Unfortunately, one of his three possible Pokémon for the battle is Sandslash, who simply has one of the least threatening battle cries ever.

* When you get to the final-ish stage of the ''X-Men'' arcade game, Magneto rewards you with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAmkx8eAos "X-MEN! WELCOME...TO DIE!"]

** Also "[[Third Person Person|The White Queen]] welcomes you to die!" midway through Stage 5.

** Not to mention the Blob boss fight in that game. "NOTHING moves the Blob!" Overly amusing as you can respond to this with a special attack and knock him on his butt. This doesn't stop the voice at all.

** It's also worth noting the relatively positive tone of the things he yells, even when he confirms a flashback of a friend's dead body.

** Let's not forget Irving's line, {{spoiler|"Now it's time for [[Revenge of the Sequel|Revenge Part Deux --- Revenge: The Return]]!" while assuming the identity of Jack Twombly}}.

* ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' has always tried to take itself seriously, but the new customizable costumes in [[VF 4]] and 5 kind of prevent that. It's hard to take a cold-blooded assassin seriously when he's wearing a speedo in a damn ''blizzard.''

** Not to mention the new pre-fight warm up scenes in [[VF 5 R]]. Because nothing says "getting hyped for a fight" like ''running against a pink background with throbbing hearts, dancing around and clicking your heels, or posing like the cover of a damn playgirl magazine.''

* Franco Bash's entire existence in the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series is pure [[Ham and Cheese|narm, and ham]]. Imagine a 7-foot tall raging alcoholic boxer screaming lines like "Now I'm cookin'! Once I get goin, I'm just a DYNAMOOOOOOO!", or stomping a guy in the face while bellowing "NOOOOOOO!" for no explained reason.

** His {{spoiler|death scene}}. After the horrible, horrible things he did, {{spoiler|Realian-angels come out of nowhere and take him to Heaven in crucifix position, all while he's more-or-less dressed like freakin' Jesus Christ}}.

** "Wheat, eh?"

* In the ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic V]]'' expansion, Hammers of Fate, the second campaign ends with a climactic battle against [[Blood Knight|Laszlo]], a corrupt knight who is responsible for the slaughter of thousands of rebels and dwarves. While two of your heroes battle him, another hero, Freyda, {{spoiler|is trying to rescue her father from the prison that Laszlo and the queen (really a demoness in disguise) put him into. As he dies in her arms,}} the god [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|Elrath]] speaks directly to Freyda, {{spoiler|giving her the power to reach out and strike down Laszlo in justice-slash-revenge.}} So in this dramatic moment, you'd expect a girl who just {{spoiler|lost her father}} to give a raw throated scream of fury. But there must have been a voice-acting screw up, because the line is delivered like she's having an orgasm. It utterly ruined the drama of the entire scene for this troper, especially when the other characters commented on how she sounded like a banshee.

** Vanilla ''Heroes of Might and Magic V'' serves up the narm during the in-game cutscenes, as character's dialogue is accompanied by their usual [[Idle Animation|battle and magic animation]]. Therefore, to emphasise a point, rather than swinging their sword or raising their fist into the sky, characters all throughout the campaign of HOMMV instead cast fireballs and lightning bolts...and carry on with their conversation as if this is perfectly normal. This was later amended in the expansion packs, which granted the characters the ability to actually move their mouthes...

* The German in the Multiplayer of ''Call of Duty: World at War'' is narm-tastic.

** "Our hounds vill tear zim to SHREDS!"

*** All of the non-American announcers are either this, or [[So Bad It's Good|hilarious]].

** ''[[Call of Duty]] 2'': "Geeze Louise, McCloskey! How did you get to be company gunner? Shooting chickens in a barnyard?"

** "METEOOOOOORRRRR ''DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVEEEE!''" [[Yuri Lowenthal]], I love you and all, but that was seriously painful.

* Thanks to [[SNK]]'s trademark "[[Blind Idiot Translation|Dodgy English]]", ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' has had a veritable effton of Narmy moments. For example:

** The tension when Rugal regards the Fatal Fury team in '''94'' is screwed by him referring to their enemies as "Geese and Klauser". [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] applies here, but yeah.

*** Against the Psycho Soldiers team, Goenitz delivers a calm yet powerful [[Humans Are Bastards]] speech, ending with the words "You can savings & loan on that", which Athena corrects. Chin gets a [[Call Back]] after the fight, but it was still the wrong speech and wrong character for such a lame joke.

** [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Beat]] [[Orochi]] in '''97'', and watch as the dramatic tension crumbles as he announces "Continue this way of living and you'll destroy yourselves?"... in the same form of question as the above "Suffer like G did?"

*** That doesn't look goofy. It looks like the last moments of a man driven hysterically insane by the realization of what's about to happen to him.

** Then we come to ''2000''. "You can't resist me! I'll beat you all like a drum!" as said by Clone Zero. It doesn't help that any dramatic or scary shot of him is ruined by his utterly humourously silly Pringles moustache, hence the name "[[Fan Nickname|Commander Pringles]]".

** And beating Geese with Terry leads to this weird quote from Terry to the man who [[You Killed My Father|killed his adoptive dad]]:

{{quote| '''Terry''': Don't come round here no more, no more. Doo wah.}}

* Most characters from ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur IV]]''. Especially Nightmare and Kilik.

** Nightmare: '''HAVE A TASTE... OF MY DARKNESS!!!!eleven!1!!'''

* ''Po Po Lo Crois'' for the PSP. At the end of Book III: Ice Demon, Pietro finally reunites with his mother, which had everything to be a heartwarming scene - cute music, cute design, animation... but... the voice actresses of both Pietro and his mother decided to moan and laugh at the scene. At the same time. While Pietro slowly runs towards his mother to hug her. Instead of heartwarming, the scene became highly awkward.

* ''[[Lufia|Lufia II]]'': [[Last Words|"You little hoochees!"]]

* ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]'' is ''packed'' with Narm, but one of the most ridiculously random moments in the entire game takes place outside the S&M nightclub, where a random trio of "gangsters" walks by ''line dancing''.

** The policewoman's response to seemingly everything Curtis says being "MY ASS!"

* Played for laughs in ''[[Super Robot Wars|Super Robot Taisen Z]]'' with Black Charisma, the incredibly menacing looking masked villain who spends a lot of the game having ominous conversations with other villains. And then the expansion pack came out, and he was finally given a voice... and the voice changer mentioned in the original game is revealed to be a hilarious pitch-shifter, shifting his pitch from chipmunk to little girl and back constantly. The villain squad you control to fight him aren't sure what to make of it.

* One of the most dramatic moments in ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' is ruined by Alph's wail of [[Big No|"Luuuuuciaaaaaaaa!"]]

** And how about when [[Valley Girl|Priel]] that resurrects Zehaal dies? It's hard to say if you should feel sorry for her or laugh hard, due to lines like "Like, no, Mr. Gooooooddd!!

** Also from ''Rogue Galaxy'': "Simon's wife and daughter looking for him" cutscenes. Some of them are "sort" of emotional - when they're looking for the papa of the family on a city, for example. However, when they start looking for him on forests, jungles, ancient ruins and so, it becomes downright hilarious (nobody questions how exactly did they get there). Worst, their scenes are sappy and overdramatic, including sad background music and the little girl crying. ''Every single one of them''. By the time the third one is on, you're already seeing them as parodies of sad scenes.

* '''[[Far Cry|DOYLE! MY ARM IS TURNING GREEN!]]''' The voice acting didn't help matters.

{{quote| "'''WARNING''' - HUGE BATTLESHIPS CODE NO. EP30 "EMPEROR FOSSIL" CODE NO. QU10 "QUEEN FOSSIL" IS APPROACHING FAST"}}

** "A HUGE BATTLESHIP ''MY HOME DADDY'' IS APPROACHING FAST"

** Making Bowser comedic is fine sometimes, but he should never sound like Cookie Monster.

** And THEN came the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eqRoyN-d0 remix]!!

* Many of ''[[DJMAX]]'''s English-language songs are written in English so horrible that it kills the mood of the songs if you know and listen to them. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2CNsYP8bE "A Lie"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnAcT5nwc28 "Fallen Angel"] make it worse by giving you easy access to the lyrics via their background animations.

** [[Killer Robot|Robots kill people!]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJW2WiY_ULk A robot killed grandma!]

* Old-school dungeon crawl CRPG ''Stonekeep'' doesn't have the greatest voice acting - some would say the latter-game performances by the fairy trope are decent, though - but there's no excuse for how [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBzEp8UuLcA&feature=PlayList&p=29570590B653E2EF&index=30 silly this ambush sounds].

** It gets better when shortly after, you randomly hurl yourself off the balcony and pass out.

*** As I recall, Atlus asks you to inject yourself with the plasmid if you try to open the door below.

*** That becomes less more nightmarish however, when you take into account that the Plasmid they were testing was called 'Enrage'. Factor in the facts that the test subject sounded incredibly meek; and that next to the operating table is the body of a nurse with a hacksaw jammed into her neck with such force that it's embedded in the cabinet, and well...

* ''[[Blaz Blue]]''. GORILLA FAIT IS TOINING. REBEL ONE. Ack-SHUN!.

{{quote| "'''Iji:''' Socks..."}}

* In the arcade [[Light Gun Game]] ''Friction'', enemies will sometimes ''[[Ludicrous Gibs|explode into pieces]]'' upon being shot by the player. What makes it even more hilarious is the fact that there is [[Bloodless Carnage|no blood]], which makes the enemies look like they're made out of crystals. And after a few seconds, their bodies sink into the ground (as opposed to simply vanishing, like in most gun games), as if they were being pulled into the ground by some evil corpse-manipulating magician.

* Play through ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands of Time.'' Enjoy the Prince's wonderful [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkiness and general sense of humor]] while appreciating the very well-told story. Now go straight from that to ''[[Darker and Edgier|Warrior Within]]'', five minutes into which the Prince shouts, "You [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|BITCH!]]" I cracked the hell up and could not continue playing for several minutes (while simultaneously lamenting the [[Character Derailment]], but heck, [[Rule of Funny|at least it was funny!]]).

** Kaileena: "I had hoped the Dahaka would kill you. I had hoped that Shahdee would keep you from the Island. I even cursed the sword I gave you, AND YET YOU DID NOT DIE!" Noo, but your voice acting makes me want to.

** And then the good ending, in which {{spoiler|the Prince sails away from the island with Kaileena, then proceeds to, from what can be inferred, force himself on her until she gives in and they have sex. She tried to kill him not even an hour ago...it was a bit of a swerve, is all.}}

** The third game's elevator scene, where the Prince rides up with Farah and Farah tries to make conversation. The Prince ends up talking about how he hates pomegranates. Comparisons to [[Attack of the Clones|"I hate sand"]] are inevitable.

* ''[[Starcraft]]'': Mengsk's line, "Don't be snide, Kerrigan. This was part of the deal, remember? I've '''earned''' this" at the end of a ''Brood War'' mission always cracks me up, due to the extra grunting emphasis on the word "earned."

** Then there's Fenix, who gets into the act in the previous mission by spouting flowery nonsense like "Ah, to go into battle with my Protoss brethren again! Ah, but time will tell all things" and "I can still, how do you Terrans say it, [[Totally Radical|"throw down with the best of them."]]

*** Look again, she pouts at first, but then resigns to her fate. You actually see her giving up and partially forseeing what comes next. When the camere zooms out and you look upon [[Huma On]]!Kerrigan one last time, you catch a glimpse of anger on her face when she looks up. Yes, that's it... Kerrigan is pissed at those who stranded her. Actually sets up Infested!Kerrigan's character up pretty well, come to think of it.

** For a particularly [[Narm|Narmtastic]] scene, check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziEGCVXWY4 this cutscene when you save Warfield on Char]. Ye Gods. From marines attempting to retreat despite being "cut off", to Warfield saying you "saved my boys today" despite being the only survivor in his squad (although one [[YouTube]] commenter theorises that by "boys", he's referring to his balls), the repeated barrage of cheesy one-liners completely ruins the badassery.

** Because [[Frothy Mugs of Water|alcohol was replaced by sugar]], a man in one of the inns has a soda pop addiction. Leading to this exchange:

{{quote| '''Man''': Hey, bring some more soda!<br />

* In ''[[Ray Series|RayCrisis]]'', one of the bosses is called '''Sem-Slut'''. Aside from the second part of its name being a derogatory for [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|someone who gets around]], it's prefixed by "Sem-", which makes it an even less innocent name. [[Narm Charm|Sadly]], it was [[Woolseyism|renamed]] to "Sem-Strut" in the US release.

* ''[[Syphon Filter]] 3''. ''"You ready, George?'' '''AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!'''

** "WATCH YOUR BACK! [[Nitro Boost|YOU GOT BOOST POWER]]! WHOA! [[Captain Obvious|YOU'RE WAY OUT IN FRONT]]! YEAH! THE FINAL LAP!" Frankly, all of the voice acting in ''X'' was a goldmine of Narm.

** While the voice acting in ''GX'' was improved, (especially if you're comparing Falcon to his [[Memetic Badass]] counterpart in ''[[Super Smash Bros]]''), that didn't stop the Narm, considering that [[Nintendo]] strove to humanize every character ([[Loads and Loads of Characters|all of 41 of them]])... by giving them post-race interviews, zany movies (that are won by [[Nintendo Hard|beating Master Class]]), and a ''story mode'' that fluctuates between narm and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0xFSPSSEs This] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Q4jPjNztI is] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZJQvUB_C8 what] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLuQaqIKGNc what] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSztC1y4E4 to] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2fMSjry6ys expect].

** It should also be noted that said zombie-like groans actually sound more like ''sheep'' than anything. Baa.

** "Damn damn '''DAMN''' that Griffen!"

* [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/qfg/Update%2070/index.html This] [[Let's Play]] of the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series shows a screencapture of a scene from the end of the third game, in which the hero has defeated the bad guys, but then has a summoning spell placed on him by unknown enemies which causes him to seemingly lose control of his body and flail about wildly. It is hilarious. Arguably, many things in these games could be taken as [[Narm]], but old fans of the series will probably think them [[Narm Charm|charming]] anyway.

* Any time in ''[[Doom]] 3'' when an imp or something teleports in, and goes through the normal scream animation, then gets its head blown off because you weren't impressed.

* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]: The Lost Frontier''. Dark Daxter. The bunny ears take the first DarkDax scene from worrying to hysterically funny.

** Similarly, one shot of {{spoiler|Skyheed}} when he finds the Eco Core somehow has even more of a resemblance to an angry rabbit than Dark Dax.

* ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|FEAR 2]]'': Concerning the raging psychic ghost [[Big Bad]] and the player character, whom she's targeted - "You're like free pizza at an anime convention. She can smell you. And she wants to consume you."

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]''. The serious cut scenes don't work so well when C.J. is dressed up in something completely silly (or almost naked).

Kee Keema: S-Sogreth!<br />

[[Giant Enemy Crab|Boogaboo Crab]]: BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA-BOO. }}

{{quote| '''"TAGGART! YOU SUICIDAL MORON!"'''}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zFhU--m2p8 ''LIKE IT'S GONNA MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!'']

** Also General Randall's anger over Alex being referred to as "he" is not only hilariously over the top, but sounds more like [[Ho Yay]] than dehumanization.

* The Japanese version of Tatsunoko vs Capcom features possibly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_1ZZAaD94 the most hilarious training stage song ever.] With lines like RISE LIKE A DRAGON PUNCH A WOMAN and I KEEP IT REAL SON NOT THE TYPE TO RICK ROLL YA, I'm SHORYUCAN'T touch the [[Narm Charm]] this song possesses.

* In ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'', [[Crispin Freeman|Heat]] will sometimes begin a battle shouting "Your ass is MIIINEE!!". The delivery is funny by itself, but the [[Fridge Logic]] behind this is also funny. Half of the demons of the franchise don't even have asses.

* Some scary and powerful demons later on in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' have their appearances and abilities somewhat offset by the sound effects that make them sound like livestock when they attack.

* Blake from ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' would like you all to know that Agent <s> Nahman</s> Norman Jayden is a '''''fuckin' ASSHOLE!''''' ([[Good Cop, Bad Cop|Delivery aside, not like he's one to talk.]])

** JASUUUUUN...

** Jason's death might qualify too, seeing as he kind of wanders obliviously out into the road, very slowly, and is hit by a car which ''also'' seems to be going very slowly. The fact that it follows the already-narmy "press X to Jason" segment doesn't help much.

* ''[[Perfect Dark]] Zero'' seemed to be aiming for being as narmy as possible. The cheesy dialogue wouldn't have been so bad if they had at least hired competent voice actors.

* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' has a few moments. Shiro Tagachi, in particular, has a lot of Narm moments due to speaking with a stereotypical "muhhahaha" type voice.

** The voice acting in those Spyro games is ''terrible''. Kind of depressing considering those cold, stilted voices belong to Elijah Wood and [[Christina Ricci]].

* Pretty much all the dialogue in [[Gitaroo Man]], but particularly the moment before the final battle. There's so much back-and-forth bickering between U-1 and Zowie, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSfIx_MjZc you might as well just watch it.]

** ''"TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!"''

** Clapping dogs.

* This one probably also qualifies as gameplay and story segregation gone hideously wrong. In Battle Arena Toshinden 3, each of the "bad guys" has Sho Shinjo as the last opponent. Leon is one such bad guy. His ending, in a nutshell, says that he finally gained his victory over whoever (probably Eiji), but he cannot be truly satisfied until he's defeated...Sho Shinjo.

* Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer has Brider, a Kamen Rider knock off, give us "[[For Great Justice|I AM THE JUSTICE. NOT YOU.]]"

** "The word he so obviously chose, 'outsider,' pierced my heart."

** Any time--''every'' time--Samus refers to the infant Metroid as "the baby."

** Also, the way NPCs talk to eachother, standing rod-straight and making constant eye contact, is either this or [[Uncanny Valley]].

** [[Skyrim]] has a somewhat meta-example. Dragons create their magic by shouting words like "fire" in their language. Thus, one of the loading screens describes a battle between two dragons as a "deadly verbal debate". Now imagine real-world politicians or lawyers holding a debate by yelling things like "fire" and "ice" at each other as loud as they can...

{{quote| The Frightbot told a story so scary you couldn't help but laugh.}}

* Due to the creator not being a native English speaker, the Virus Invasion series has a few of these. Like in the following scene in ''Virus Invasion 6/Ledgend'':

** On top of that, whoever is playing his daughter sounds like a [[Dull Surprise|zombie]]... or a robot. "I LOVE YOU, FA- [[Mass Effect|ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL]]."

* [[Chzo Mythos|I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!]]

* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' is [[Nightmare Fuel|a very scary game]] for the most part. However, in Dr. Lindsey's chapter, the player is introduced to Guardians, a new type of [[Elite Mook]]. Chattur'gha's Guardians are big, vampiric skeletons with scorpion stingers, which ''is'' freaky on its own...but they walk by stooping over and covering their heads with their wings, resulting in a ridiculous bouncing motion. And Ulyaoth's Guardians are even ''worse'', since they boost the above Narm by being crossed with fish.

* In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', [[Detonator Orgun|Zoa]]'s cape flutters in his regular standing pose (Best seen on his stats). The fluttering has very few frames and loops in a choppy, awkward manner, making him not look threatening ''at all'', which for a series [[Big Bad]] is rather sad. It's even funnier when you consider [[Mazinkaiser|Boss Borot]] also has a cape that flutters like this, but... he's ''[[Joke Character|Boss freakin' Borot]]''!

* In ''[[Catherine]]'', {{spoiler|[[media:Hoshit_9286.png|this thing]]}} pops up. It's supposed to be freaky, but I keep mentally dissecting it into [[Harry Potter|Dobby the House Elf]], [[Lord of the Rings|Gollum]], and [[Overlord|Brown Minions]].

** In addition, some of the super mutants are pretty funny sounding, even the ones that weren't especially meant to be funny. (with the exception of Lily and Dog, both of whom are very tragic characters)

*** With the game's many bugs, non-player characters can wind up looking like bloody messes, even without being harmed. On top of that, another glitch can occur where [[Exorcist Head|their heads spin on their necks]] like ferris wheels or something.

** HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN. [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]. [[You Are On the Way To Destruction]]. [[You Have no Chance to Survive Make Your Time]]. HAHAHA.

** Still, to say that it lost something in translation is to sound ungrateful for all that was [[Memetic Mutation/Video Games|gained]].

** Scorpion does not like teddy bears.

** I will drag you before Shao Kahn by your pointed beard, extra points for Shang not giving a [[Flat What|....What?]] or just laughing at the line.

{{quote| '''Interviewer:''' Listen to that crowd! Do you have anything to say to them?<br />

'''Falcon:''' ''(shouting)'' YYYEEAAHH! }}

{{quote| A card! A card! My kingdom for a card!}}

** ... the entire concept from the very beginning is so full of Narm that it almost seems facile to point to any one part of it.

* One particular moment in ''[[Do Don Pachi]] DaiFukkatsu'' has the announcer warning you of the incoming [[True Final Boss]]. In the Japanese dub, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fItHMbJ9yE&t=4m22s she sounds very distressed, and rightfully so]. But the English dub's announcer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3LHTTfvAc&t=1h4m31s sounds very bored], like she has been for the rest of the game.

* [[Blue Dragon]] is full of them, but the worst is near the beginning, as the heroes are plummeting to their deaths and are saved by a [[Deus Ex Machina]]. What does our hero say in response to not dying? "It's because I said we won't give up!". Bleh.

* An example comes late in the normally serious [[Grand Theft Auto]]:[[The Lost and Damned]]. After Johnny's best friend Jim gets his face burned with blowtorch by sleazy Italian gangster Ray Boccino, Johnny and Jim escape, killing Ray's teammate in the process. Ray waves his fist and yells, "AaaarrgghI'll see you later!"

** From vanilla GTAIV, Katt William's standup. He is supposed to talk about Liberty City like it's a real place, but that winds up feeling so awkward it's cringe-inducing.

* [[Night Trap]]. A lot of the dialogue ended up as this, but the ending definitely goes into this.

* While ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' is full of [[Narm Charm]], one can't help but laugh at some aspects of the game, such as {{spoiler|George turning into a huge, hulking monster with ''Super Saiyan hair''}}.

{{quote| "'''Next, I will {{spoiler|BECOME}} ''YOU'', BATMAN!'''"<br />

** Also, this line from Batman. Yeah, it [[Makes Sense in Context]], but it still makes death sound [[Death Is Cheap|really, really cheap]]:

{{quote| "'''{{spoiler|Talia}}, where's {{spoiler|Ra's}}? If he's dead again, I need you to wake him up.'''"}}

** Emi has what looks like a "rape face" when she {{spoiler|walks in on Hisao talking to her mother and angrily [[Get Out!|forces him out of the house]].}}

** Jigoro's [[Jerkass|Jerk Assery]] gets so cranked [[Up to Eleven]] that you simply ''cannot'' take him seriously. A little more subtlety, please.

{{quote| '''[[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Split:]]''' "Split curse you! AAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHH!"<br />

'''[[Proud Merchant Race|Teladi:]]''' "Lost profitsssssss! Aaaargh!" }}