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[[Hostage Spirit Link]] may be a subtrope, depending on how you look at it. Frequently a result of [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]. If taken to extremes, results in [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]. Closely related to [[What the Hell, Hero?]], and is (usually) a subtrope of [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]. See also [[Addressing the Player]].
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* ''[[Deja Vu]]'' peppers you with many snarky remarks if you try to do several unusual actions.
** if you have Ace consume a key, you'll get a message that reads, "OK man, but it's pretty stupid if you ask me," seeing that eating the key results in making that game [[Unwinnable|impossible to win]]. Similarly, you'll get many snarky remarks if you try to do other unusual actions.▼
{{quote|"As you chew long and hard on the road map, you wonder what it would be like to eat something strange, like food, after awhile you give up in disgust."}}
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{{quote|''BLAM! Great shot! You hit yourself right between the eyes!''}}
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** If you do something that a character disagrees with (such as attacking an innocent, good-aligned wild pig
** If you fumble a pickpocket attempt, the target will go hostile,
** Once upon ,a time good-aligned Living One and his good-aligned friends met a good-aligned person, possessed by demon, who actually want to be killed and therefore didn't fight back. [[Hilarity Ensues|Massive desertion ensues]].
▲** After you have married, you can still do other bachelorettes' requests, and even go on dates with them. Your character doesn't seem to mind, but every once in a while your wife will comment that you've been "spending a lot of time with someone else." You say that it's just the requests, and you ask if it bothers her, and she responds with a very unconvincing "No."
* Lampshaded in ''[[Pilotwings]]'', with your first skydiving instructor. If you, for any reason, refuse to open your parachute, your instructor's resulting comment will be: "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Or if you parachute into water, "That's a parachute, not scuba gear". Or "Be careful, the equipment is expensive", if you crash the Rocketbelt.
* In ''[[Mechwarrior
* The tutorial levels of ''[[Dark Reign]]'' would give you an abrupt
* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', where messing with your UNATCO buddies' stuff would get a "What are you doing?" and going into the women's bathroom while it was occupied would get you chewed out in a later cutscene.
** In a later scene, lobbing a grenade into an interrogation room leads to one dead body and one frustrated interrogator. "Jesus Christ, Denton!" ''[[Deus Ex]]'' is interesting in that it doesn't apply only to the player character: NPC groups will turn on each other with enough stray fire, and as the fight spills out around the map, other NPCs who see their allies fighting will join in. This can be used to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZE8ozyg-k entertainingly unhinge the game] and [http://it-he.org/deus3.htm lock plot-critical NPCs in cupboards]. Or just stand in front of a neutral security bot and let someone you've annoyed shoot at you. It won't be neutral to ''them'' for long.
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