Diabolus Ex Machina: Difference between revisions

** Heck, look at [[Half-Life]], {{spoiler|if you decide not to side with the ostensibly evil G-Man, you're immediately dumped into the middle of a bunch of angry monsters with no hope of victory.}}

* ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'' ends with the protagonist being extracted aboard a helicopter with a couple of NPC teammates. The helicopter suddenly lurches and Alma is seen climbing aboard an instant before the game cuts to the credits. Which are worth sitting through for yet another whammy.

** Basically any time your less-than-useless Delta Force escorts come to extract you/insert you they all get killed horribly before the fighting even begins.

* Halfway through ''[[Call of Duty 4]]'', after you've completed the primary objective in Shock and Awe, there's a Diabolic [[Nuke Ex Machina]], when you get a call that the bad guys have set up a nuke in Asaad's palace, then one of your fellow chopper pilots gets shot down. You land to rescue her, but it's already too late, and the nuke knocks the escaping helicopters out of the sky and kills all of the American main characters. You have a minute of [[Controllable Helplessness]] before the protagonist, too, expires from radiation poisoning. As a result, [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|the shaggy dog has not just been shot, but totally annihilated]].

* Quick summary of diabolus in ''[[Ever 17]]'': Hurray! Everyone else already escaped and we've loads of time to get out ''plus'' a submarine! They get out safely, chatting while they go up and {{spoiler|the sub's battery dies. What the hell? You'd think it would've been recharging automatically before they called for it. So in order to fix the buoyancy problem, Takeshi distracts Tsugumi with a question about [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|the Archimedes Principle]] and enters the airlock then jettisons himself out to his apparent death and Tsugumi's eternal loneliness. What. The. Hell.}} But it gets better.

* In the ending of ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Republic Commando]]'', your squad has taken out a massive separatist gunship and are ready for evac. Then, out of nowhere (and offscreen), Sev reports he's under attack and you lose contact with him. Despite the protests of you and your squad, your commander refuses to let you rescue him, and you all get on your evac shuttle, leaving him to die. A lot of players hated Yoda for that.

** [[It Got Worse]] when {{spoiler|Fayt's dad dies, then Earth is destroyed}}

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Pit of Saron: when Scourgelord Tyrannus is defeated, the freed slaves run onto his overlook en masse, celebrating. Suddenly, Sindragosa appears and blows nearly everyone to smithereens, the players themselves saved by Sylvanas/Jaina's teleport.