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{{quote|''"Hey! You! Yeah you! I'm down here busting my ass while you sit on yours, watching me jump around? How is that fair?"''|'''[[Deadpool]]''', [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|doing what he does best]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''}}
A combination of [[Easter Egg]] and [[You Bastard]], this occurs when a player does something strange or unusual. They may [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|attack a friendly NPC]], try to go [[Off the Rails]], or do something [[Out of Character]]
Very common in [[Interactive Fiction]], where attempting to [[Guess the Verb|Get Ye Flask]] will frequently elicit such a remark.
[[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]].
* 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?"
▲** 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."
* In ''[[Mechwarrior
* The tutorial levels of ''[[Dark Reign]]'' would give you an abrupt
▲* 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?"<br />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]] 3'', your teammates, in addition to calling you out if you accidentally shoot them, will be commanded by your CO to take you out if you engage in too much friendly fire.
▲* The tutorial levels of ''[[Dark Reign]]'' would give you an abrupt game over if you didn't respond to the voice-over's instructions or did your own thing, even if you went ahead and did the exact thing he was gonna tell you to do next. "You are either insubordinate or incompetent. I will not tolerate either. We are finished here!"
* 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!"
** There's one instance where breaking into someone's hotel room to loot it causes Icarus to contact you and give a brief [[Hannibal Lecture]].
* In ''[[The Journeyman Project]] III: Legacy of Time'', if you have Arthur (your helper AI)'s responses set to the most verbose level:
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*** About Ogla, after knocking her out, if you shoot her, Otacon will interrupt you and say "Snake!! She's defenseless! Are you some kind of monster?!" Shooting her more will cause Otacon to berate Snake more.
*** What, need to save? (I WON'T MAKE YOU SAVE/DO NOT SAVE) This is from Rose, who will ''break up with you'' if you blast helpless pigeons in the face and abuse hostages.
** One of the best
{{quote|'''The Boss''': Of all the- Are you out of your mind?!
'''Naked Snake''': I'd thought you'd like it! }}
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*** This can actually be a good speed tactic in the second mission of the first game. You're ''supposed'' to [[Hold the Line]] with groups of marines, but if you kill them all, you can just move on to the next group.
** In ''Halo 3'', during "The Ark," 343 Guilty Spark will even shoot you with a one-shot kill death beam if you start killing Marines.
** Also In ''Halo 3'' if you somehow succeed in flipping the Elephant (a giant vehicle that moves at about 2 miles an hour and is too big to reach any high areas) then you get the usual message : Press RB to flip {Insert Vehicle Name Here} except that it instead says: [http://au.gamespot.com/users/BraindeadRacr/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25178371 Press RB to flip... wait, what? How did you do that?]{{Dead link}}
** Standing and staring at NPCs long enough will cause them to question you doing this, on occasion to the point of actually getting creeped out by it.
{{quote|'''Marine''': Chief... don't point that thing at me.
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* In one of the ''[[Zork]]'' games that used [[RPG Elements]], Beyond Zork, swearing caused your Intelligence stat to go down a point. (Opening an umbrella indoors [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|reduced Luck by a point]].)
** ''Zork'' is full of these. Just try swearing at one of the old text games, or do anything obviously suicidal. Even funnier, purchase the hint guide and try out all of the 'just for fun' commands listed at the end of each game section.
** The similar ''Sorcerer'' included a [[Stable Time Loop]]. If you act bizarre the first time through the loop, you will see it again the second time
* Jumping on or squirting at friendly townsfolk in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' nets you several annoyed grunts and a particularly vexed animation.
** Players got perverse glee out of antagonizing Toadsworth, whose reactions to water can only be written as "[[Big No|OHH NOO]]" and "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|YABBLA DABBLA BLAHBLAH]]"
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** During the Cabin segment in which you fight off Ganados with Luis, he will question you if you shoot him. Do so too many times and he'll kill you, resulting in a game over.
* Likewise, your [[Action Girl]] sidekick in ''Sin Episodes'' will call you out for staring at her butt, which shouldn't be too hard to find on one's own considering [[Stripperiffic|her outfit seems designed to call attention to it]].
* The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series' [[
** The best two are from the otherwise not-very-good ''[[Escape from Monkey Island|Escape]]'' (Thanks to the excellent VA): "As useful as a two-prong cactus would be, I am not putting it into my pants" and "Pick up the moon? Are you nuts?"
** In ''[[Sam and Max Hit The Road]]'', repeatedly trying to pick up something you can't pick up will have Sam scold you differently the more you try, until he eventually gives up and whimpers, with Max going "Now you've done it. You've broken Sam's spirit with your stupid attempts to pick up that silly object." - "In fact, if I didn't find his pitiful sobbing so amusing, I'd come out there and rip your limbs off."
*** If you have subtitles on, instead of "that silly object" you get the number of that object in the text e.g. "..pick up #54364".
* ''[[
* Stealing from the store in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]'' causes everyone to call you THIEF. (You also get a hilarious message from the game: "Guess what? You got it for free. ...Are you proud of yourself?") Oh, and the [[Shoplift and Die|shopkeeper kills you when you enter the store again.]]
** More from ''Link's Awakening'': when Marin is following you around, she'll comment on certain actions. She calls you a bad boy for breaking pots and feels sorry for chickens when you slash them. On the other hand, she ''loves'' it when you dig with the shovel. (And try slashing a chicken over and
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' has a store owner who will fine you for breaking his pots. And if you attack your sensei, he gets annoyed, and eventually knocks you across the room.
*** And then there's the woman on Outset Island, who's constantly carrying around a pot on her head. If you smash it with your hookshot, or arrows (light arrows are especially fun to use when doing this), and then go and speak to her, she'll fine you.
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** Not to mention resetting, which makes Mr. Resetti come and rant at you. The more you reset, the longer the rants get.
*** This can get so ugly that at one point {{spoiler|Resetti threatens to erase your saved data. The game stops cold turkey- the screen turns black for about two seconds- and then you're back with Resetti who tells you he was just pulling a fast one on you.}}
* The similar game ''[[Magicians Quest Mysterious Times|Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times]]'' steps up that last
* ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]''. If you attacked your allies, they'll tell you to cut that crap out. Keep doing it, and eventually they'll start fighting you, with the rest of your group cheering as if you're fighting a regular enemy. Eventually they'll stop, regardless of how much you fight back. However, if you try doing this is the hangout between missions, the whole group will gang up on you, and won't stop until they knock you out.
* ''[[Nethack]]''. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|There is nothing you can do that has not been anticipated.]]
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* Early in ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]: Blue Shift'', it's possible to jump over a railing to the floor below. Do this and the scientist in the room will exclaim "My God, what are you doing?!"
** The original ''Half-Life'' and that microwave casserole. S'ok, you're forgiven for it in ''Episode Two''.
** ''Half-Life: Opposing Force'' also lets you pull something like
*** Given what happens to the protagonist in ''Blue Shift'' at the end, it's a toss-up between whether getting annihilated during the Seven-Hours War while stuck in Ft. Leavenworth is a better or worse fate.
** Likewise, at the start of ''Blue Shift'', you can [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|jump on top of a scientist]] sitting on a sofa and fire your gun through the newspaper he's reading without repercussions. Try this on the ''donut'' the fat guard near the shooting range is holding, however, and the donut will bleed - and you get [[Nonstandard Game Over|thrown in jail]] for killing a civilian!
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** Powder Gangers will comment "You eyeballin' me?" as if you're about to start a fight.
** If you aim a gun at your allies, they'll immediately scold you.
{{quote|'''Lily''': "Don't point that at [[Cloudcuckoolander|grandma]]!"
'''Cass''': "There better be rock salt in that, or you're in for a world of hurt."
'''Boone''': "How about I aim my gun at you for a while - see how you like it." }}
** If you aim a gun at the crier kid for Mick & Ralph's in Freeside, he'll sometimes say: Wow, I can see down the barrel!
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* In ''[[Golden Sun|Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]'', the game will, for the entirety of the game, bombard you with Yes/No questions that have the same turn out, including seemingly important questions. However, there is one question halfway through the game which has slight dialogue changes if you answered antagonistically to all those questions before - Kraden will either make a snide comment on your attitude before if you decide to answer like a good boy, or totally flip out and yell your head off if you decide to say "No" again.
** The first game had an NPC in Xian, carrying water from a river to a house. Try talking to her mid-route, and she spills her water and scolds you for bothering her. The kicker? This is important for [[Gotta Catch Em All|getting one of the Djinn]]. {{spoiler|You need the puddle of spilled water in a specific place, so you can freeze it into an ice pillar you can jump on to reach the ledge where the Djinni is.}}
* You can do this in ''[[
** This is [[Stop Poking Me|a beloved standard]] in [[Blizzard Entertainment|Blizzard]] games, present in ''[[Warcraft]]'' as well. Sometimes the comments are fourth-wall breaking, [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]], or just plain hilarious.
*** for example; the acolytes (builder units for the undead) will say "All I see is darkness; wait, my hood is over my eyes" while the peons (builder units for orcs) "Me not that kind of orc!" As a side note, the standard click responses for Tyrande sound an awful lot like she needs to hit the little night elf's room ("Now is the hour! I can wait no longer!")
*** Don't forget that if you click the critters enough, they ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|explode]]''.
**** And then in response to ''that'', ''[[Diablo]]'' has the Secret Cow Level, where all the cows you exploded come back for revenge.
** In ''[[
{{quote|'''Tychus''': This is crazy, man! We can't take the zerg in a stand-up fight and you know it!
'''Raynor''': Leave the tactics to ''me'', Tychus. }}
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{{quote|'''SCV''': "Oh great." "This is your plan!?" "This is crazy!" "[[Deadpan Snarker|What's the matter, run out of marines?]]"}}
* ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' gives you a few opportunities to be mean. In one village, a villager compliments you on your horse (which, as you know, is actually the transformed princess), and asks if you'll sell it to them. You're given the option to say yes or no, though of course, if you choose 'yes', the (also transformed and along for the ride) king gets utterly enraged. Doesn't affect the rest of the game, though.
* Appears ''a lot'' in ''[[Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime]]''. Your slime can Elasto-Blast literally everyone who eventually shows up in town - which can be over a hundred distinct characters - and ''every single one has a different line when you hit them''. Some are mad at you, some commend how hard you hit, some wonder what the hell you're doing...
* If you tried to use a weapon on yourself in one of the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' games, you'd get the response "You always hurt the ones you love." Sometimes the game would give you a dissuading response if you tried to use the hand or sword on an NPC, and sometimes you would have no warning and the NPC would just [[The Many Deaths of You|kill you]].
** In the second game in the series, you get to nurture a magical tree back to flowering. If you throw a dagger or fireball at her, it rebounds and cracks your monitor.
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{{quote|"Airborne, time to shitkick Player 1"
"Bren Carrier here, here, HERE!"
"Clickety click, clickety click, clickety FUCKING CLICK...[[Foreign Cuss Word|Sheisse...]]"
"I have this gun, you know..." }}
* The old RTS with robots ''[[Z (video game)|Z]]'' will have the individual robots in your units call in when they're under attack. If you ignore them long enough, the last one will call in with a staticky, panicked "For god sake, ''do something!''".
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** Zeke will tell you off if you destroy a certain gas station in the Neon District. Cole shoots back with "I'm sure you would do it if you had powers", which doesn't really make sense.
* In the third ''[[Myst]]'' game, ''Exile'', you can choose to leave [[Anti-Villain|Saavedro]] stuck on Narayan without a single linking book; {{spoiler|''in sight'' of the home he's thought for twenty-odd years has been destroyed, where his ''wife and daughters'' may still be alive, but never able to get there}}. While he won't call you out on it directly, Atrus' ending monologue is subtly accusatory.
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', you can have fellow gang members ride around in your car. Driving recklessly (excessive speed, driving off a cliff, etc) will result in them calling you out on it. The best is "''Cars can't fly,'' you '''bitch!'''"
** The "dates" respond, as well. Police office Barbara is prone to scream "''This is not responsible driving!''"
*** Katie, however, ''[[Fetish Fuel|loves]]'' it.
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** A joke turned [[Face Heel Turn|inside]]-[[Nightmare Fuel|out]] when {{spoiler|1=you return to DeFoe Manor}} in ''6 Days a Sacrifice''. *click* {{spoiler|It's a door.}} *click* {{spoiler|It's still a door.}} *click* {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap|it hurts.]]}} *click* {{spoiler|[[Madness Mantra|it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts]]}}
* [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."]]
* [[Interstate '76|"This ain't right. This really ain't right."]] Or "Watch that shit, cowboy."
* In ''[[Call of Duty]] 2'', when you begin the game as Vasilli in the Russian Campaign. In the tutorial level, you can do two hilarious things: One is when the commander orders you to strike the mannequin with the end of your rifle. Shoot it and you'll hear him complain. Repeat for fun. Another is when he orders you to go get a weapon. Wait a while and he'll shout, "Kill the traitor!" and everyone kills you.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed|Assassin's Creed 2]]'' looting corpses in the presence of other people will elicit "What the hell?" lines from the onlookers like: "May God have mercy of your soul!", "Stealing from the dead! There is no salvation from this!", "Leave the dead alone!", "You rob the dead, you shit?"
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* In the Windows version of ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'', the audio cue for entering a cheat code correctly is Jim [[No Fair Cheating|calling you a cheater]].
* One of the effects in ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' is the [[Knife Nut|knife]], which [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|lets you do what you think a murderer would do with it]]. Its use tends to cause [[Goddamned Bats|toriningen]] in the immediate vicinity to get mad at you, but one particular harmless NPC, Seccom-Masada, will ''try to get away from you, with a "[[Oh Crap]]" look on his face.''
* ''[[Ultima III|Ultima Exodus]]'' has where you can fight
* At one point in ''[[Persona 3]]'', SEES infiltrates the school overnight, and [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|splits up to investigate]], with the hero getting paired with Yukari. If you try to go into one of the bathrooms while she's with you, she reacts with complete disbelief and disgust.
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', if you have someone to rescue, decide to go to the entrance of another dungeon, and talk to one of your teammates, they'll chastise you for going the wrong way. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|Geez, sorry that I'm trying to grind Personas for this one fusion!]]
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* ''[[Soldier of Fortune]] II'': "Mullins, get back here! Mullins, you are jeopardizing the mission! Execute him!" :[[Died Standing Up|dies standing up]]:
* In ''[[Escape Velocity]]: Nova'', refusing one of the early plot hooks (giving a lift to a rover down on his luck) will cause him to look at you "as if he is going to cry, or hit you, or both." After the character wordlessly walks away, the player is informed that "you feel heartily ashamed."
** Eamon Flannigan is portrayed as a ace pilot, superhuman martial artist and all-around badass. He's the leader of the mercenary group "Wild Geese" and plays a key role in assisting the player in numerous storylines. A particularly psychotic player may attempt to disable and board his ship- no easy task, considering he flies a heavily modified Mod Starbridge which is armed to the teeth- but doing so will result in Eamon giving a
* ''[[Colony Wars]]'' will berate you for friendly fire a few times, but if you persist (or destroy an ally), the game labels you a traitor and destroys your craft. Of course, you can still play after failing, most of the time, and [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|nobody seems bothered by having the "traitor" along]], probably because you are the [[Artificial Stupidity|most competent pilot around.]]
* In ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'', if the player stops inputting controls for a few seconds, Sonic will look at the player and tap his foot impatiently.
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* In ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' for PC, if you kill too many people walking around Mos Espa, Anakin will eventually say "I won't help a murderer like you!" making the game [[Unwinnable]]. All the townspeople turn against you as well.
** That's actually ironic considering what Anakin will later end up helping...and ''doing''!
* In ''[[
** Particularly amusing is that, after enough comments from your partner, Cole will give a very annoyed "Just shut up and let me drive."
** Additionally, driving away and leaving your partner behind will earn you a rebuke when they finally catch up.
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{{quote|"No, no, no, no, no, no, no! How about saving the prince before you leave? Like, is this game titled "Jill leaves Level 14 without saving the prince," or what??!?"}}
* In ''[[Task Maker]]'', attacking an NPC whose orientation is Good or Neutral will anger all other NPCs around you (even monsters) and cause them to attack you, often making "What the hell, player?"-esque comments. If you do this in Castle Hall, it will also anger the Guards, no matter how far from them you are. This goes a step further with the "Mom" character in Enitsirhc — if you attack her to the point of frightening her (which happens when an NPC's HP is low), she will tell you "You're making a big mistake!" And if you kill her, your player will permanently be rendered blind, deaf and drunk (i.e., completely unable to finish the game).
* If during a quest in ''[[
* [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Go ahead and kill Paarthurnax]]. Never mind that the dragon once led a revolt against [[Big Bad|Alduin]], acts as a [[The Obi-Wan|mentor]] throughout the game, and is the de-facto leader of the Greybeards. Talking to Arngeir after doing so will earn you a
** On the other hand, the Blades will refuse to assist you towards the end of the game if you decide not to do the deed.
** The [[City Guards]] will whine at you for randomly Shouting in town.
* In the game for ''[[Harry Potter (video game)|Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'' when the player drops something on one of the other characters, you get a response along the lines of "Hey! Watch where you throw that!"
* In [[STALKER]]: Shadow of Chernobyl, the first mission you're given has you assisted by a fireteam of rookie stalkers to raid a Bandit base (depending on the difficulty level, you WILL need their help). If you tell them to back off, the leader will call you out on being a Rambo wannabe. If you wipe out the bandits all by yourself, he'll be amazed. If you run back to him without killing them all, he'll make fun of you and tell you to piss off.
* The [[Bad Ending
* In the 2005 game [[The Bard's Tale]], repeatedly running into people in the starting town will lead to one vehemently demanding an apology. He doesn't stop until you give him one.
* [[Emily Enough]] has a strange non-optional version. The game requires the player to do something very shocking and disturbing in order to win the game. The player character then [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to chastise the player. {{spoiler|The action in question is flaying a sweet old lady alive and giving her skin to a serial killer.}} According to the creator:
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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]''-based [[MUD]] ''Legends of the Jedi'', [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|The Dev Team Thought of Everything]]. You get feedback on virtually every command you give. This includes commands that make zero sense, like "approach self".
{{quote|'''Game:''' You get real close to yourself. You freaking moron.}}
* Yui calls out the player in ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'' if they select the "Date Him" option when challenging Dibot to a rematch. She says that she will not become that perv's girlfriend.
* Get too many Game Overs in ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'' and Ilias will butt in to scold the player for losing on purpose simply to see all the sex scenes. Something that almost all players do, of course.
* In ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'', the heroine’s encounter with the Executioner is a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] and [[Puzzle Boss]], meaning normal attacks will not hurt him in the least. Should the player ignore the White King's warning and attempt to fight him, there is this dialogue from Alice and the Cheshire Cat to give an unsubtle hint that they’re using the wrong approach. Should the player ignore ''this'' and persist, they’ll have nobody else to blame for Alice’s bloody demise.
{{quote|'''Alice:''' I’m an idiot. Don Quixote had a better chance with his windmills, and without the risk of decapitation.
'''Cheshire Cat:''' A prudent exit is no less so for being hasty!}}
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