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** Moore served in Operation Sunburst a few years prior, which saw the NCR and Brotherhood in a state of open war and in which the NCR incurred massive casualties before wearing the Brotherhood down via sheer weight of numbers. Her unhappiness over an alliance with them is understandable, even if not exactly agreeable. Likewise, the Great Khans ''boast'' about their open antagonism towards the NCR and although they've fallen on hard times lately, even a cursory look at their recent past paints them as little more than opportunistic raiders who killed and stole whatever they pleased. A former Great Khan who was present at the Bitter Springs Massacre even says the tribe got what was coming to them.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'', {{spoiler|even after you weaken Murdaw by defeating him in the dream world and, you know, ''saving the monarchs of Somnia from certain doom'', the guards of Somnia will still treat you like a piece of shit due to the [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|events]] of your last visit. Thankfully, the recently awakened king sets them straight before things can get hairy.}}
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''
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** To Alliance players, the Nightborne - particularly Thalyssra - comes across this in ''Battle for Azeroth''. Here’s how it goes down during the ''Legion'' expansion (short version): The player first finds Thalyssra as a Nightfallen, starving for lack mana and assaulted by Withered. After finding her sanctuary and saving her from ''becoming'' a Withered - clearly a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] - the player finds her fellow outcasts Oculeth (which requires using malfunctioning teleporters and fighting his insane apprentice) and Valtrois (which requires solving a mirror puzzle) and keep ''them'' from starving. Next follows a long campaign where the player has fight through mobs of spider-demons to find a seed to plant a new Arcan’dor, then sneak into the Surumar vineyards gain mana wyrms (needed to keep vermin away from the young Arcan’dor). What follows then is a long string of quests where the player has to continually infiltrate Surumar in disguise (risking death if it falters) find mana to keep his three allies from starving ''and'' pay a pricey informant, all while saving citizens - including children - from slavers, interrupting a public execution, and even delving into the Emerald Nightmare itself. Eventually, the Arcan’dor blossoms and the Nightfallen are cured of the cursed state, but it’s not over yet. After raising an army, training soldiers, and fighting the Legion again and again, Surumar is finally freed. (Causing the player to gain the well-deserved [[Good Samaritan|Good Surmerian achievement]]. After all this, one would think you’d have a friend and ally for life, but that’s only the case if you’re Horde, because when Battle for Azeroth starts, Thalyssa sides with them, simply because Tyrande makes ''one'' rude comment. Clearly, members of the Alliance would see such an act as cruel betrayal, and the worst thing is, this is far from the only example of this that the new expansion has caused.
* At the end of ''[[Crash Bandicoot|Crash: Twinsanity]]'' Dr. Neo Cortex {{spoiler|learned from his mistake and goes back to being Crash's arch rival}}.
* Miles Edgeworth comes off as one to Phoenix Wright in the first [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] game. When things look hopeless for him while he's on trial for murder, Maya manages to coerce Lotta into making a contradiction with her testimony by shouting out at her, getting held in contempt of court in the process, but in response, after the first day of the trial, Edgeworth [[Does Not Know How to Say Thanks|tells Phoenix she should watch what she says in court]]. This is ultimately subverted when it is revealed that Edgeworth arranged to pay for Maya's bail. Gumshoe also notes that Edgeworth's lips were trembling during the outburst.
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