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* Happens in the final misson of ''[[Call of Duty
** A similar scenario occurs in ''[[Red Alert]] 1'': Stalin has a nuclear facility, and it is unknown whether any atomic bomb has been armed yet.
*** Naturally, some of them are, in time for them to be launched ''during'' the mission. Next mission: infiltrate the command centre, deactivate the bombs in flight.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'': Act 3. Ocelot can now disable the world's conventional armed forces, but cannot yet launch a nuclear strike or assume total control over their information warfare machine, but see type 5 below.
* Just about all the endings of the original ''[[Drakengard]]''. The canonical one plays it straightest: You're too late to stop Furiae's death and the breaking of the last seal, and have to stop Manah's [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|final form]] single-handedly. The other endings are ''some'' variant of this as well (usually involving being too late to stop Furiae from kicking the bucket somehow), but with copious amounts of [[It Got Worse]] and [[Mind Screw]] thrown into the mix.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the
* In the second ''[[Onimusha]]'' game, when [[Yagyu Jubei|Jubei]] finally confronts demonic [[Evil Overlord]] [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]], Nobunaga immediately tells Jubei that he is too late and that Nobunaga has completed the final step of his plan, animating a giant golden statue. (Considering that you could only learn of this plan through a couple of notes left laying around, players who either didn't find or pay attention to these notes could conceivably have no idea what Nobunaga is talking about). Fortunately Jubei gets an [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]] from the [[MacGuffin]]s he has been collecting, enabling him to take Nobunaga down in a not terribly difficult boss fight.
* The finale of the main campaign of ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]''. The original plan to relight the Dragonfires to keep the forces of Mehrunes Dagon at bay is rendered moot when Mehrunes Dagon and his army finally break through and appear in the capital. In the end, Martin Septim shatters the Amulet of Kings and sacrifices himself to become an avatar of the dragon god Akatosh and banishes Mehrunes Dagon back to Oblivion. Sadly, Martin does not survive the ordeal.
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