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Line 1: {{trope}} Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] games include: * Quite a lot of games allow you to beat up harmless animals and [[NPC\|NPCs]]. For example, in ''[[Rayman\|Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc]]'', you can beat up tortoises (who yell or make cranky reproaches) and rats (who giggle and say things like [[Too Kinky to Torture\|"Ooh, harder!" and "Don't hold back!"]]). Line 12 ⟶ 14: * ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' features a variety of unique death animations for Lara Croft depending on how she dies. This can lead players to intentionally kill her to watch her writhe in agony or crash into rocks. In the commentary for ''Tomb Raider Anniversary'', the creator comments that during the development time, it just wasn't a good day unless they impaled Lara on some spikes. ** [[Ragdoll Physics]] took brutality to a new level in the otherwise sham-game ''Angel Of Darkness''; videos exist on YouTube of players gleefully tossing the protagonist off a ledge to hear the scream and see the resulting death pose. While rag doll physics do exist in the later games, they are usually accompanied by a quick fadeout before the player reaches the bottom of the cliff, or the exact instant that contact is made, whereas the early games let you [[Have a Nice Death\|get a good look at post-mortem Lara for about eight seconds]]. * The second ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game gives you free roam. Because for most of the game you're a [[Phlebotinum Rebel]] with [[More Dakka\|a thing]] [[~~BFG~~Big Freaking Gun\|for guns]] and a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] that isn't actually much worse than your normal side, you can do whatever you want as long as it isn't actually outside the game physics. Knocking civilians into the water to drown? Check. Reducing vast numbers of cars to burning shrapnel with the Peace Maker? Check. Beating everyone within a significant area to death with your bare hands? Big ol' check. An especially entertaining one is to steal one of the sturdier vehicles and piss off the [[Xtreme Kool Letterz\|Krimzon Guard]]...then brake at the exact right time so that the Guard on a bike who's following you careens into the back of your car and dies. It's fun when your enemies are [[Too Dumb to Live]]. ** Perhaps even crueler is the fact that if you're in a large ship, you can fly around the city at high speeds ramming into citizens on small ships causing an ''instant explosion of the craft and the driver.'' You can do this multiple times with one large ship. It's delightful! * In some of the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games, you can achieve rewards for shooting down enough cars. Not that bad? Try the stage in [[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando\|the second game]] where you have to take on a Thugs 4 Less boss as [[Humongous Mecha\|Giant Clank]] on a small, heavily urbanized moon. You can knock down every single friggin' building if you take your time, and ''even be rewarded for it with health and ammo''. And you're supposed to be the ''good guy''. Line 25 ⟶ 27: Likewise, in ''Hit and Run'', you can kick [[NPC\|NPCs]] until they fall over. You can then kick them into the road, and run them over in a car... repeatedly. Unfortunately, all this ''does'' fill up your [[Karma Meter\|Hit and Run meter]], and can fill it up quite quickly... * In other words, Homer Simpson beating the ever-loving hell out of Ralph Wiggum. * In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', you can really screw over your fellow players. The down side is that [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment\|they can dick you over just as much]]. Really, combining the tighter jumps in the game along with the physics in multiplayer is more like Video Game Cruelty ''Provocation''. Also, there are those Toad rescue missions. You can throw them into an enemy, lava, or poison water. Or, [[Video Game Caring Potential\|you can bring them to the end]], which gives you some 1-ups and a Mushroom House. Line 44 ⟶ 46: * In the third ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' game you can kill chickens with the wumpa bazooka. ** And, in the second game, bouncing off of [[Ridiculously Cute Critter\|Polar's]] head in the warp room enough times [[One Up Sampo\|will net you some extra lives.]] * In ''[[A Hat in Time]]'', Hat Kid’s spaceship has a cute little robot vacuum cleaner that continually cleans the carpets. It’s almost too much of a temptation to have her hop on top of it and ride it, an action that causes the poor little robot to strain and sputter under her weight. Do it long enough, and you are given the achievement [[Medal of Dishonor\| “Vacuum Vandal”]]. {{tropesub-subpagefooter}} [[Category:~~{{BASEPAGENAME}}~~Video Games]]