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** On the other hand, the Overseer is a massive control freak and has a Vault-sized ego. The sheer act of opening the vault doors to leave must have insulted him so much he simply lost his shit.
** Vault 101 is officially listed as one of the "Experiment" Vaults, the experiment being "Control freak Overseer with much more outright power than the other vaults".
** Over in [[Fallout: New Vegas]] everyone sees what the NCR did to the Khans at Bitter-Springs. For those that don't know the Khans start harassing NCR caravans, the NCR then sends a massive army and kills most of them, many were unarmed and trying to run away.
** Both games have examples of horribly disproportionate retribution by the AI. If you so much as take a TIN CAN from their property, some NPCs are prone to react with lethal force. And should you turn off the King's radio...a crime punishable by death by an entire gang.
*** The Khans actually led a Raider worthy campaign of attacking caravans. They didn't harass them, they annihilated them if they resisted and butchered NCR troops that fought back. The resulting Bitter-Springs battle was wiping out an enemy encampment: the massacre of Khan civilians was either a tragic error or a cruel order, but a lot of NCR troops that participated in it regret it. But gunning down opportunistic raiders? Just life in the Mojave.
** Jeannie Mae Crawford really didn't like Boone's wife, because the girl thought Novac was a dump and wanted to take Boone to New Vegas instead. So she arranged to have both the girl and her unborn child ''sold into slavery'' to the Legion. Once you find out about it, it's immensely satisfying to arrange for her to be shot by Boone.
**** Letting people in Cavavans go if they don't fight counts as harassing in the Fallout world.
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'': A somewhat heroic version of this: {{spoiler|Remember how in the beginning, you were shot in the first attempt to enter Fort Mercer? Well, now, you go in with a ''gataling gun'' and proceed to blast Williamson's men into peices.}}
** Another example from this game comes at the very last mission ''Remember My Family''. {{spoiler|You don't have to kill just Ross. You can kill both his wife and brother in entertaining ways before finally going to deal with Ross himself.}}
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*** [[Shoplift and Die|If you steal from Trill's shop]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', he will peck you to death if you come back.
*** [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|"You DARE bring LIGHT into my LAIR?!]] [[Memetic Mutation|YOU MUST DIE!"]]
* Mao of ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' claims to ''kill'' people who eat their eggs with salt and pepper instead of hot sauce ( {{spoiler|At least until he unknowingly destroys the embodiment of his love of hot sauce}}), and also wants to kill his dad for accidentally breaking his Slaystation Portable, making him lose 40,000,000 hours of gameplay time. {{spoiler|Turns out his dad is already dead as a result of telling someone about his weaknesses shortly after the aforementioned event, that he's ''extremely'' upset by it, and that he's coping with the loss by denying it happened.}}
** There's also Laharl from ''[[Disgaea]]'', he appears in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' {{spoiler|to drag Etna back to the Overlord's Castle,}} and if you beat him in the first battle he BLOWS UP the world.
* ''[[Fable II]]'' has assassination missions where the reasons for the assassinations include "He thinks he's so funny", "very overdue library book", "selling chocolates half-eaten", and "random draw for the week."
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** Committing any act of thievery, no matter how small, makes you little more than [[Memetic Mutation|a criminal scum.]] Champion of Cyrodiil? Hero of Kvatch? [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|Meaningless]] compared to that clay pot you just ''stole.''
*** Probably by accident.
** And who could forget the Ordinators in Morrowind? Woe betide anyone who wears one of their helmets in their presence.
*** Though on the other hand, Vivec has been left an Ordinator mass-graveyard several times because one of them showed exceptionally poor judgement in calling the Nerevarine "scum". For that matter, the "Outlander" insults wore rather thin rather quickly too. A side-effect of being NPCs in a world where the player-character can effectively gain godlike powers with little effort.
** In Morrowind you can get kicked out of a few organisations by simply trying to rest in a wrong bed, sometimes permanently! Especially annoying with Tribunal Temple.
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{{quote|'''Luso''': You knifed nearly thirty guys over a spilled drink?! You're a threat to society!}}
* 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.
* [[Paper Mario (franchise)|There once was a man named Count Bleck]]. When he was young, his father had his fiancé assassinated. So he decided to use a forbidden book to destroy all of existence. The end.
* If you shoplift in a [[Sierra]] game, [[Shoplift and Die|the shopkeeper will kill you]].
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