Reality Ensues: Difference between revisions
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* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'':
** Fail to gun down Eva Core before she gets in range and Shepard catches a [[Hot Blade]] in the face... and dies. No [[Heroic Second Wind]] or other trope will conveniently kick in to bail the player out.
** The Extended Cut DLC adds one. The whole game has been drilling into your head the fact that while small victories are possible, the Reaper war machine as a whole cannot be beaten conventionally, which is why the galaxy has to resort to building the Crucible. When you finally get to it at the end, you are presented with three choices from a suspect source, all of which will reshape the galaxy but have some downside. The Extended Cut adds a fourth: Refuse to use the Crucible after all. If you take it, though, the galaxy loses, and all it can do is [[Fling a Light Into the Future]] in the form of a message to the next cycle. Did you really think that this was some kind of [[Secret Test of Character]] and that you would be rewarded for defiantly sticking to your principles
* In ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'', Angela's prologue has her trekking through the aptly named Sub Zero Snowfield...in a highly [[Stripperiffic]] leotard. She doesn't get ten minutes in before she starts coming down with hypothermia.
* Used wonderfully in ''[[Rudra no Hihou]]''. A few days after the other protagonists have already received their magical [[Power Crystal]], Surlent is still lacking his. Being a scholar, he finds it inside an ancient artifact he's set out to research. It promptly flies towards him to merge with his body... and the impact kills him. Instantly.
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