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* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' {{spoiler|Episode 12. The little girl and the village Asura was protecting is completely destroyed by Olga of the deities and all the inhabitants are dead. Asura goes even more apeshit then usual and completely annilhates Olga's fleet.}}

* At the very end of the normal ending of ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]],'' the protagonist, Naija, says a short sentence about how you need to search the game more closely. The sentence ends with two little words that turn the world upside down.

* ''Arc the Lad 2'''s first scene shows the slaughter of Elc's (the game's hero) people. Then the game's makers apparently decided to beat the record of Wham Moments done in a single video game, by repeatedly [[Player Punch|punching the player]].

* Before [[It Was His Sled]], [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Aeris/Aerith]] getting [[Killed Off for Real]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' was pretty much WHAM all over.

** Mordin's loyalty mission, full stop. At first, Mordin is shown to be a morally gray but genuinely affable person and has moments and one-liners where he comes off as the game's designated comic relief. When you approach {{spoiler|a tarp containing a dead female krogan who willingly gave her life in experiments to cure the genophage}} in said mission, the wham moment hits and the normally talkative Mordin has a [[Heroic BSOD]]. He moves on and is back to his old self after the mission's conclusion, though.

** Not to mention [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|Joker's mini-level]] just after the Reaper IFF is installed: Collectors invade the ''Normandy'' and abduct your ''entire crew''. Joker also has a disease that makes his bones brittle, so you can only move at a painful walk, in addition to having no weapons and being forced to watch helplessly as the crew gets dragged away. He pretty much said it best...

** Aaaand then comes [[The Stinger]] at the end of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', showing the Reapers [[Oh Crap|ALL activating and heading for the Milky Way.]] THEN comes Arrival, in which you find out that [[It Got Worse|the Reapers are hours away from the Alpha Relay (and thus hours away from Earth)...and your SadisticChoice of sacrificing 300,000 lives to buy two months-to-a-year of time.]] Cue [[Mass Effect 3]] teaser trailer (and [[Word of God]] about the beginning of the game), showing that the Reapers ''are already attacking Earth en masse''.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', every time the storyline swings back to the Citadel, things go awry. The first time, you learn of the galaxy-wide scope of the Reaper invasion and how no other species is capable of sending help to Earth. The second time, Councilor Udina {{spoiler|is a mole for Cerberus and has helped them launch a coup against the Council}}. The [[Rule of Three|third time]], you're sent to {{spoiler|Thessia where Shepard suffers his/her first real [[The Bad Guy Wins|defeat]] complete with an extra serving of [[Gut Punch]]}}. [[Four Is Death|The fourth time]] the Citadel is once again {{spoiler|the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], the Catalyst, and you discover who created the Reapers -- and [[Turned Against Their Masters|why]]}}.

** Post-Cataclysm - the fate of ''[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=24573 Honoring the Dead]''. For ''anyone'' that had leveled up in the Barrens, it was possibly the most depressing quest that Blizzard has put in the game, due to the [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic Sacrifices]] that those you're giving the rites to had performed.

** In Stonetalon Mountains Post-Cataclysm, the ''neutral'' druid school (with both Night Elves and Tauren) is bombed by a Horde commander until absolutely nothing but a crater is left. While for the Horde you see it coming, Alliance has no idea that the bomb they've been chasing throughout the zone is going to be used on ''schoolchildren.''

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