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Examples of Pietà Plagiarism in Video Games include:

• A pretty clever example occurs in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. In one particular story mission, you are tasked with preventing someone's assassination in the middle of a play, where said person is playing Jesus. Let's just say things take a turn for the bad, so they cut him off the cross, and Ezio picks him up and carries him off. Perfect Pieta pose included.
• When Shin Megami Tensei II was remade for the Playstation, its original poster featured the protagonist being held by the angel Gabriel in this postition.
• In the fifth case of the original Ace Attorney game, Lana Skye holds her unconscious younger sister Ema in this manner after Ema is attacked by a serial killer.
• Kefka of Final Fantasy VI mimics this as one of his final forms, with himself replacing Christ.
  • Notably, in the Japanese version, the female torso and head floating behind Kefka was named "Maria", as in "Mary", as opposed to the western translations in which she was named "Girl" or "Lady" depending on the console version. (Quite obviously to avoid pushing any berserk buttons.)
• Tellah of Final Fantasy IV takes both sides of this trope in the DS remake, holding his daughter Anna as she's just been shot full of Baronian arrows, and then being picked up by Cid after sacrificing his own life to power his uber-doom Meteor spell against Golbez.
• The standing Pietà could be found on the box art of Shadow Hearts with Yuri carrying Alice. The sequel Shadow Hearts: From the New World mimics this with Johnny and Shania, except that Johnny is not strong enough to lift Shania. The art effectively looks more like the picture above (Lamentation) as Johnny is kneeling. Ruined, at least for this troper, as Shania's neck is straight up; she is clearly supporting it herself.
  • You can see the sculpture itself in Apoina Tower in Covenant.
• Mega Man X 4, during the infamous "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOOOOR" scene, where Zero carries the dead Iris.
  • Another one in X8, with X carrying a comatose Axl before and during their journey back to Earth.
  • And again in Mega Man Zero, where Zero saves a falling Ciel this way.
• Done twice in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Link holds Colin in this manner after rescuing him from abduction by the Bulblins. Later, when Midna uses the power of the Fused Shadow for the first time and it renders her unconscious, she likewise is held in Link's arms until she wakes.
• An interesting variation from Final Fantasy VIII: Rinoa does this with Squall after she finds him unconscious in the desert after Time Compression, but it's mostly shown from the back - most likely to highlight the wings on the back of her outfit.
  • Also averted in Final Fantasy VIII. Squall carries the unconscious Rinoa piggyback style.
• A statue in Chorrol in Oblivion resembles this.
• Snake holding Big Mama in Metal Gear Solid 4 is an interesting twist, because all the symbolism up until that point was that Snake was the self-sacrificial, messianic one and Mama was his mother (she even blatantly described Snake's birth as an 'immaculate conception').
• in the .hack series, Kite holds the dying Mia in this manner.
  • In G.U., Haseo does this when Alkaid is PKed.
• ...And now someone's gone and made a Real Life statue of Peach holding Mario in that pose. From styrofoam. It's titled "Game Over".
• In Umineko no Naku Koro ni's PS3 remake, Battler is holding Beatrice like this on the cover.
• In Dragon Age 2 Hawke does this with his/her mother when he/she is too late to save their mother from an insane blood mage who sought to 'reassemble' his late wife.
  • Later in Act 2, Viscount Dumar does this with his son Seamus after the latter is murdered by Petrice in her attempt to incite war with the Qunari.
• In Fable III, The Hero does this as Walter dies in his/her arms after the final battle.
• In Batman: Arkham City, done by Batman during the ending after the Joker dies from TITAN poisoning.
  • Made somewhat hilarious by the fact that he seems to have left Talia lying in a pool of her own blood without a second thought.
  • This is also an Ironic Echo to the first image we see in the Catwoman opening - Cain doing the exact same pose with Abel.
• Despite being the furthest thing from a messiah imaginable, Alex Mercer in Prototype cradles his sister's unconscious body this way when he rescues her from a kidnapping, before he lifts her effortlessly and tears out of the building to find medical care.

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