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*** Even better examples, within ''A Link to the Past'', two of the official manga released for the game have Link turn into a wolf or werewolf instead of the pink bunny.
* In [[Mass Effect 3]] {{spoiler|turns out the Asari are so great because a Prothean came to them and helped them out a lot}}. This alone wouldn't qualify but the revelation is treated ingame as if it was some deep dark secret.
* In ''[[Amateur Surgeon]]'', there's the initial scene of the game, in which [[Idiot Hero|Alan]] accidentally runs over his mentor [[The Mentor|Dr. Bleed]], with his pizza van. It was treated as a [[Running Gag]] during the game. Then comes the climax, in which is revealed {{spoiler|Bleed ''deliberately'' stood in the van's way, basically [[Driven to Suicide|trying to commit suicide]].}} Once known this fact, [[Harsher in Hindsight|it stops being funny]].
* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
** In the original game, ''[[Metal Gear 1987]]'', Snake looked to be in his twenties - but he looked to be late-middle-aged in ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]''. For the sequel ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', the character designer decided to go with a Solid Snake [[Retcon|who appeared to be in his early-thirties]], younger-looking than his previous incarnation. As a joke referencing this, the characters who knew Snake in ''Metal Gear 2'' joke about his 'age'; the sign that Gray Fox is back to normal is when he teases Snake with the throwaway line ''"You haven't aged well"''. However, in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|Metal Gear Solid 2]]'', which started the Patriots plot arc, Snake is explicitly mentioned in the script as looking almost unrecognisably older than his self in ''Metal Gear Solid'', even though ''MGS2'' starts only two years later. Liquid spells it out:
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** In ''Portal'', the [[Big Bad]] [[G La DOS]] has a hysterical black comedy streak a mile wide. In the finale, you disassemble her cores (who are also individually hilarious) and destroy her. In the sequel, not only do you learn that [[G La DOS]] has been reliving that "death" ''millions'' of times since you killed her ([[Unreliable Narrator|though you only have her word on this]]), but also that Aperture Science was killing people for decades before you came along, Chell has been trapped in the facility since she was a pre-teen, [[G La DOS]] was made by uploading Cave Johnson's secretary (in the deleted content it's clear this was against her will), and that the facility has ''thousands'' of other test subjects to be tormented and murdered.
** This trope becomes strangely meta when [[Team Fortress 2]]'s Heavy Weapons Guy is a character in [[Poker Night At the Inventory]]. Apparently, the Heavy experiences [[Team Fortress 2]]'s respawn system as a series of semi-recurring nightmares.
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
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