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* From the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series:
** In ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]'', we have Ambassador Udina, a brown-nosing politician who later in the game {{spoiler|impounds the ''[[Cool Starship|Normandy]]'' when your [[Apocalypse How|dire warnings]] aren't heeded and you become [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|politically inconvenient]].}} Your good friend [[Big Good|Captain Anderson]] hatches a plan to {{spoiler|rectify that and send you on your way to save the galaxy and take the heat for it himself. One option involves Anderson storming into Udina's office, downing the ambassador in one punch, and then freeing the ''Normandy'' from her dock.}} You can later do one on him yourself by {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning|endorsing Anderson for the Council seat]] instead of Udina.}} [[Mass Effect 3|The third game]] takes this even further with a Renegade interrupt that lets you {{spoiler|kill him}}.
** There's also Khalisah al-Jilani, the reporter, who tries to make Shepard look bad in pursuit of ratings. In ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'', you can crack her jaw. In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' Shepard can crack her jaw again, or s/he can give her an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an equally awesome]] [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|verbal beatdown]]. [[DLCDownloadable Content|Lair of the Shadow Broker]] also includes videos of her getting punched out by a krogan... and kicked in the shin by a volus.<ref>Imagine a morbidly obese hobbit... inside a bulky environment suit... that has a reaction time approximately half as slow as a human being. Your average volus couldn't win a fistfight with a ten-year-old.</ref> If you try to punch her again in the third game, she's finally wised up enough to dodge...but then ''another'' interrupt appears that lets you ''headbutt her''.
** In a case of the scrappy being a vehicle / game mechanic rather than a person, James and Steve can be heard bickering over the flaws / merits of the Mako and Hammerhead. Steve thinks the Mako handles like a drunk rhino, James thinks the Hammerhead's made of tissue paper.
* ''[[Fable II]]'' mentions a rumor that Weaver the Guildmaster was found dead with the words [[Stop Helping Me!|"Your health is Low!"]] carved onto his forehead.