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** What makes this even more ironic is that if you zoom in on the bust of Hippocrates, there's a little brass plaque underneath that says "DO NO HARM", the time-honored motto of the health profession.
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] IV'', Mardor, captain of the town guard of Vitross, attempts to burn necromancer Gauldoth to death when the latter is wrongfully accused of being a child murderer. Gauldoth flees the town, and returns several months later with an army which he uses to besiege and capture the town. One of his first acts as lord of Vitross is to have Mardor burned at the stake.
* In ''[[Arcanum:
* If the player chooses to kill Sander Cohen in ''[[Bioshock]]'', then they can add as many delicious layers of irony as they want. After an entire level has been devoted to you running about Fort Frolic, murdering Cohen's ex-students and using the photographs of their dead bodies to complete his self-proclaimed "Masterpiece", the player can kill Cohen and take a picture of his corpse to net the appropriately-named "Irony" achievement. But wait, there's more! For some sweet poetic justice, why not kill him with the crossbow he gave to you? Better still, load it up with Incendiary Bolts -- because nothing says irony like burning to death in an underwater city.
* In one quest in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' you meet a Dunmer trapped in a spider web. After killing the [[Giant Spider]] involved, he asks you to cut him loose in exchange for a [[MacGuffin]]. After you do, he shouts "[[You Fool!]]" and runs ''deeper'' into the dungeon. Should the player choose not to pursue and kill him, he wakes up [[Our Zombies Are Different|draugr]] that kill him, or failing that, steps on a pressure plate and gets splattered by a booby trap.
* This is how Deathwing meets his end in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. The artifact he forged long ago to help him conquer the world, the Dragon Soul, is used by the heroes to kill him in the finale of ''Cataclysm''.
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', you can kill Caesar in a variety of different ways, some of them ironic:
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