Disproportionate Retribution/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Snatcher]]'', {{spoiler|Gillian Seed's marriage to Jamie, the woman Elijah Modnar was in love with, causes him to cryogenically freeze Gillian with the intention of leaving him there forever, and to wipe out half of the world's population with a designer virus.}}

* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', Niko's responses are more or less proportionate to the wrongs inflicted, but one of the ''talk show hosts'' is not so discriminating.

** In the "Deconstruction" mission of ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'', C.J. finds out that some construction workers have been calling his sister Kendl a hooker. C.J.'s response is to head over to the construction plant to "teach them some respect." How does he do this? He smashes up their portables with a bulldozer, and then traps the foreman in his own porta-potty, pushes it into a hole in the ground ''with the poor bastard still inside'', and then commandeers a cement mixer and uses it to ''[[Buried Alive|bury him alive]]''. And all the while he's doing that last bit, the poor guy is screaming "OH GOD, WHY?!" ''Woah,'' C.J., I know you care about your sis a great deal, but ''that was cold.''

*** The worse part? Kendl really does dress like a hooker.

** What's worse is that she really should have known that would happen. Everyone undergoing that training is supposed to have been living with that threat for years. {{spoiler|It's also implied in the endings that the shooter in question is egging Ken on since Special High Class Individuals or whatever is a pretty easily abused system.}}

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'' and ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]]'' both have guards that react to all crimes by impaling or hacking the criminals into the small pieces, regardless of whether you [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|committed senseless mass murder or stole a clay pot barely worth one gold.]]

*** It's even worse since the guards are ridiculously [[Psychic Powers]], any offense committed will have scores of Legion troopers from all over the city, and wilderness [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot|suddenly alerted]] of your wrong doings and chasing you down. Then there's the fact you [[You Will Not Evade Me|can't even evade them,]] they always know [[Big Brother Is Watching|exactly where you are,]] and [[Goddamned Bats|they're everywhere.]]

** To be fair, that's only if you resist arrest rather than paying a fine or submitting to jail time. Then again this inverts it somewhat, since you can literally [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|buy your way out of murder]] when you're rich enough.

* ''[[Saints Row|Saint's Row 2]]'''s Brotherhood missions, full stop. Worse, it's pure tit-for-tat [[Disproportionate Retribution]]. From peace talks where Maero, the Brotherhood leader, offers [[Fan Nickname|Boss]] a 20/80 split out of respect for his accomplishments (as well as a realistic appraisal of the situation in light of Boss' fall from grace,) Boss basically spits in his face and declares war over the implied insult. Boss opens by injecting Maero's tattoo ink with radioactive waste, Maero escalates by dragging Boss' second-in-command to death behind his gang's trucks, Boss then ruins Maero's rocker friend's career by burning his hand with a pyrotechnics display ''and'' locking Maero's girl in the trunk of her own car, then putting it last in a line of cars Maero would later crush with his monster truck. He even stays to gloat, tossing Maero the keys to the car just as the ganglord recognizes it. And all of this only comprises about half of the Brotherhood missions.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'' has a mission involving this. The Lang Bros. (back when they were with the Arbiters of Death) were enjoying drinks at a bar when something causes the drink to spill. One of the brothers ganked the guy responsible, and when others came to restrain them, they subsequently got slashed. Then the Arbiters of Death themselves got involved, and were shanked for their efforts. All of this gone over in detail to Clan Gully. There's [[Serious Business]] and then there's ''this''.

* In ''[[Jet Set Radio|Jet Set Radio Future]]'', the response for some errant graffiti is initially little more than police shakedown. Just a few levels later, though, the police {{spoiler|start sending tanks, mecha and later a private trenchcoat-wearing assassination force. When that doesn't work either, they decide they're going to burn an entire section of the city to the ground just to draw you out.}}

** In between chapters, DJ Professor K tells a story of how Captain Hayashi freaked out and trashed a patrol car. And why, you may ask? Because he sent another officer to get his favorite mint candy, and came back with coffee flavored instead.

** They also torture Leonard and then keep him tied up in their cupboard feeding him only spiders for ''two seasons'' for stealing a sandwich.

** From the comics:

'''Sam''': ''(To Max)'' "McGruff"? Did you hear what he just called me? I hate that! Let's sneak into his room at night and drain all the fluids out of his body. }}

* In ''[[Chu Lip]]'', if you get three crime stamps (for smoking, [[Naked People Are Funny|being seen naked]], and [[All Crimes Are Equal|theft]]), you get chained to a wall [[Crucified Hero Shot|crucifix-style]], in a locked cell buried beneath the Graveyard, with ''people treating it as if you've died''.