7 NPCs Who Are So Done With Your Bulls***

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[@Silvarin33]

I always thought it was hilarious when if you repeatedly clicked on the same orc over and over in Warcraft II, the orc would eventually cycle to the responses "Me not that kind of orc!" and "STOP TOUCHING ME!"

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

Wasn't just orcs - any unit would devolve into annoyed reponses if you kept selecting them over and over again. Even the wildlife.

[@ryproar11]

Skaven had some good ones too. Why is man thing still poking us us? Hope you get get fleas annoying man things!

[@yushuv]

@@AmeenaWordweaver the wildlife would explode if you over do it.

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

Warcraft 1 too, although there were fewer unique clips.

[@johnwrath3612]

Units still do that in Starcraft 2 and heroes of the storm

[@shadowcelebi3595]

the pikachu one is even more extreme since he literally electrocutes you if you annoy him.

[@rautamiekka]

Yeah, don't play with literal electricity.

[@nicholasnguyen5181]

Yeah that’s gotta hurt XD

[@DiegoG2004]

Another reason why Eevee is better, you only get bonked on the head instead of fried

[@rautamiekka]

@@DiegoG2004 Heh, yeah.

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

@@DiegoG2004 yeah true, but I don’t regret getting let’s go pikachu instead of let’s go eevee. At least eevee is soft and cuddly instead of zappy.

[@cassandraspoelhof3752]

I love how in Let’s Go Eevee once you max your friendship with Eevee and go into the partner play and tap it’s cheeks repeatedly it plays a game of peek-a-boo with you. SO PRECIOUS!

[@DarkEclipse23]

The let’s go pkmn buddy system is adorable. It kills me with how sweet and adorable they are. 🥰

[@Starfloofle]

Please I beg of you nintendo, just give us pokemon amie as a full game, I will pay seventy fucking dollars to virtually snuggle the heck out of my favorite mons

[@ts25679]

I thoroughly expected Luke to be poking Ellen's cheek at the end to exhaust her dialogue options/annoy her with Ellen countering with evermore horrendous puns.

[@Vinemaple]

That's the Oxtra we all hope exists in some perfect reality somewhere.

[@samthompson1804]

I will never forget the sheer rewarding joy of figuring out how to smash all of Wheatley's giant wall screens in Portal 2, as he tries everything he can think of to make you give up your vengeful mischief.

[@PerfectKirby]

“If I came ‘round to your house, smashing your telly to bits, you’d be furious and rightly so! Unbelievable!”

[@samthompson1804]

@@PerfectKirby on the other hand, if I kidnapped you and locked you in my house and came home to find my telly smashed, I might kinda get it.

[@cristaltophat]

"Y'know there are test subjects in Africa who dont even have monitors in there testing chambers"

[@Mini_Squatch]

I feel like the one where you pet eevee or pikachu enough to annoy them is actually a really good feature - it reminds kids that pets have limits and personal space boundaries.

[@zakberliner7926]

When Luke said, “Cut her mic,” I thought he said, “Cut her, Mike!!” I expected Mike to come out with a rubber dagger or something!! 😂

[@nyperold7530]

If disembodied voices count, there are several endings in The Stanley Parable in which the Narrator is pretty done with you, and the Ultra Deluxe version adds even more scenarios. Villagers in the Animal Crossing series can get annoyed with you if you talk to them too much, and that's to say nothing of hitting them too much with a net. And, of course, in the older games, there's Mr. Resetti, who would pop up to scold or yell at you whenever you come back from the unit having been powered down without you having saved first... even if it's by accident or by outside forces like the power going out.

[@jrm967]

Wait you mean people would trigger Mr resetti on accident I did that on purpose :)

[@cericat]

@@jrm967 In at least one case yes, my younger son turned off the power at the wall. He'd mess with anything he could get his hands on at 3. *sighs* It wasn't quite out of his reach behind the TV unit.

[@monke7919]

Stanley parable is a game literally built entirely around that concept

[@insertcreativehandlehere]

I hit a villager with a net once, then ran off. In another area on the map, suddenly that villager started running up to me, mad as hell, and ran into my back. He then turned back to normal

[@maxvel0city906]

Ellen: I had to make Eevee sad and now I'm sad.😭 Luke: oh let's annoy this scientist and then let's annoy this computer hologram thing and then, erm is there anyone else I can annoy.😂

[@LunaP1]

I feel her pain😭

[@glengreer9614]

Boop!

[@0ceanicify]

What could go wrong with annoying an AI in Black Mesa? Oh wait...

[@bustinarant]

Nerd aliens go zap *Headbutts Krogan lads*

[@Kurgosh1]

The Eevee segment made me sad too. Poor Ellen.

[@Stargazeer]

Very surprised not to see Banjo-Kazooie on this list. Bug Bottles enough and he threatens to "delete" your save file.

[@ijustslamonthekeyboardandm6476]

Was on another list.

[@adfinder5791]

@@ijustslamonthekeyboardandm6476 a-nother? more like 10 other lists

[@nathanielbass771]

not "threaten" he actually does XD

[@outsidextra]

@@adfinder5791 No, just the one. I double checked our scripts ^-^ - E

[@Fireheartl]

I don't know how you got through this list without mentioning the Save Moogle from Final Fantasy 9. If you call him on the world map over and over without actually saving ever, he starts screaming at you and even threatens to pull a knife on you if you keep it up. It's hilarious.

[@OriginalUnjustifier]

*I'm sharpening my knife, kupo!*

[@TheAuron32]

i love one that one mainly because i can not stand the annoying little furballs... 'cept Mog in FF6, he's cool because he actually pulls his weight in a fight and can be insanely good.

[@hollyhartwick3832]

There’s an even funnier one in Mass Effect 3. In the Citadel DLC, if you keep messing with the casino water fountain, a voice will tell you repeatedly not to. Enough times and it will tell you to mess with it all you like because it’s a Hanar urinal.

[@AznOmega]

Yep, that is hilarious as well.

[@TennoWolf]

As if Blasto's arrogance wasnt enough to hate the hanar, now your telling me their urinals are just out in public?

[@hollyhartwick3832]

@@TennoWolf - Haha! No. It’s another gross out to make Shepard stop, just like the terminal panel. It’s just a fountain. You’re right about the Hanar, though. The zealot in 1 who won’t buy a license to preach. The one trying to upload a virus in 3. Blasto. The creepy bastard that practically drools himself dry upon meeting Javik. The Hanar black market mod seller. I can’t think of a single example of a likable Hanar in the series.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

@@hollyhartwick3832 Yeah, the Bioware writers did the Hanar dirty. The only race I think gets shafted as badly as them from a writing standpoint are the Batarians.

[@hollyhartwick3832]

@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince - Maybe we just got some bad examples. Shepard has a knack for running into weirdos and assholes. I have to assume they can’t all be that bad if the Council races are at peace with them. The Batarians, though, that’s another story. We know they aren’t all terrible people, but the long-standing hostility makes finding genuinely likable ones extremely unlikely just due to lore and context. The best you get would be a couple of sympathetic characters depending on your choices.

[@whatsinaname7289]

The fact that someone at Mass Effect recorded all these lines for that one interaction tells a lot about their dedication.

[@druinofodd1762]

They were the very model of a scientist salarian

[@beastmode-ht8ou]

It actually sounds a bit like Garrus' VA

[@cork3507]

@@beastmode-ht8ou That, my friend, is because it is Brandon Keener, Mr. Vakarian, himself.

[@Lowlightt]

Not really its a common trope gag in games. The fact is the joke was probably pitched and got a budget to make it.

[@littlemouse7066]

Lol. Have you tried to interact with the Blasto movie marquee on the Citadel in ME3? It's absolutely hilarious and mental they did that. Bioware people are incredible lol.

[@jeremygilbert7989]

I just wanna add my favorite bit from The Stanley Parable. I know there's a LOT of ways to annoy the narrator in that game but the best, in my opinion, has to be the closet. If you go in there, stay in there, go in there again after he reboots you, stay in there some more, and keep rinse/repeating eventually he's just had enough of your shenanigans and from that point and ever after the closet is just straight up nailed shut. I laughed my ass off for twenty minutes after finding that out.

[@DIAGOLDBEAST_YT]

The whole game is annoying the narrator though but any of those moments are funny though, for example going up and down the elevator

[@adamschultz1392]

In the Ultra Deluxe Edition, there's something similar with a particular bottomless pit. I'll just leave it at that for others to experience.

[@Envy_the_Darksider]

"OH, DID U GET THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING? THEB ROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE!1 XD" (Fun fact, the subtitles were typed exactly that way with the typos XD)

[@halodragonmaster]

Broom closet best closet in all of gaming, ever.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Toad repeatedly saying how peaceful the day is while you violently smack him with your hat had me dying 😂

[@coffeeaddict9605]

In my mind I can hear Ellen repeatedly apologizing to Eevee as she annoys them. Also I love bothering Shaun in AC2 until he goes into his rant about the meaning of "I am busy!"

[@seraphonica]

Re: Ellen's opening: we are the gamers that Capcom made us when they had us search the same drawer a hundred times

[@IceKyuubi]

lolol i grew up with the first Devil May Cry, Kirby games, and Mario 3D games, those games MADE you look for secrets and ways to get to new areas constantly and all the secret missions!

[@seraphonica]

Meanwhile, Hades is in the other room, lonely, thinking "running out of dialogue? is that even a thing?"

[@gamepassghost]

21,020 lines of dialogue. Beautiful.

[@jmgriffee]

Hades: the game that took its dialogue and VO so seriously that they got Logan Cunningham to do dramatic readings of their patch notes. I'm not even kidding. They're still up on KZbin.

[@SquirrelOfTheNight]

It is... I got owned so many times by Theseus that he's completely run out of new dialogue...

[@FerreTrip]

@@SquirrelOfTheNight Fuck Theseus. With a cactus.

[@Ahrpigi]

​@@jmgriffee thank you for showing me something new about that game!

[@avwholesomegamer]

I can’t stop laughing at Ellen *banging the screen* when her “mic is cut”???? There’s just no reason for it, and it’s perfect XD

[@THEEND4444]

Odin: “The halls of our dead are sacred to only the most valiant and virtuous warriors.” But it would be funny. “Funny, you say?”

[@maverickofkain]

A good one is in Final Fantasy IX, if you call the save Moogle, Moguo, over and over without doing everything he starts to get upset, eventually threatening you with harm by saying "I'm sharpening my knife, kupo." And eventually freaking out by telling you "STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!" And will do so until you actually save or use a tent. Its a hilarious mechanic for a game over 20 years old now.

[@cleverendeavor3553]

Also in FFIX, in the opening explanation of the plan to capture Dagger, if you answer "kidnap Queen Brahne" 64 times, Ruby yells at you.

[@PMux79]

They made it worse in the HD remaster, there was a trophy for triggering Moguo’s tantrum

[@rondroske3623]

@@PMux79 my 8 yo daughter discovered this on her own and thought that it was so funny and creepy and was super pleased with herself. Now, even years later, she still exhausts all conversation options with all npcs ever hoping to find another similar gem.

[@hardupactor]

@@rondroske3623 Isn't it great passing on the gaming genes to our offspring.

[@CrozsBadTemper]

This. So much anger from such a seemingly sweet little puffball xD

[@beverlyhooton6453]

Maiq the Liar always makes me laugh doing this 😂 "Maiq is done talking now" and then just vanishes into the mountains

[@BogeyTheBear]

In Oblivion he runs off in search of calipers to steal. In Skyrim he just stands there.

[@sureindubitably3771]

@@BogeyTheBear menacingly tho?

[@moot8104]

Golden Sun: The Lost Age has a rather memorable one with Kraden, a scholar NPC that tags along throughout the quest, where if you answer no for most questions until you reach Lemuria will finally have him snap at you.

[@woteveruk1]

really? i love those games but never tried that, i didnt know he would snap at you, thats cool

[@LadyOnikara]

I remember using save and continue on Animal Crossing for GameCube, then using the reset button on the console to annoy the heck out of Mr. Resetti. Good times! And I agree with you on Eevee, Ellen. If I accidentally attack one of the Chao I'm raising on Sonic Adventure 2, I'm apologizing to the little guy for at least a year.

[@Kaiser8513]

That Eevee hit Ellen so hard she ended up being Luke in another game

[@princesspixel3151]

Eevee hit the fourth wall so hard I ended up seeing an unnecessary advertisement

[@tbazz95]

Eevee hit my screen so hard, he broke it.

[@ddjsoyenby]

the worst fate a person can face :(

[@PainMakesYouFeelBetter]

To get clapped by Eevee bruh ngl I wouldn't even be mad it's Eevee, so damned cute it's obnoxious.

[@johannvongenerico9487]

There's a weird circular logic here. Most of these require repeated interaction from the player, so someone programmed it based the expectation that players would irritate the NPCs repeatedly, but if they didn't program repeated interactions with the NPC then players wouldn't irritate the NPCs to test the range of reactions. Which came first, the irritation or the reaction?

[@leoparathesweekgeeky7244]

It probably started from someone trying to make the game more "realistic" and have the character had unique dialogue. Undoubtedly, gamers who enjoy lore hunting in games started clicking npc repeatedly to make sure they had all the dialogue and this behavior was noticed leading a developer to put these type of responses in their game.

[@KozKalanndok]

It might have been started by Blizzard in Warcraft (2 I think). Most prominent there the orcisch peons. "Grunt?" - "Zug-zug" - "sumthin need doin?" - "STOP POKING ME!". Ymiron is showing just the dialoge he has been programmed to give when getting "annoyed". However basicly every single NPC in any Blizzard game does have such "annoyed" lines written for. Usually it starts at the sixth click in succession and usually there are several "annoyed" lines for each NPC.

[@theldrakis]

my theory, they saw us i interact with their game in a way that they didn't like and made these interactions to troll us. yet it backfired and now its just a feature we expect in the games.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

In RPGs it is common to speak to NPCs a lot and in earlier RPGs with bad translations this would result in players talking to the wrong NPC 10+ times. The NPC obviously makes no sense but the translation was botched... but because you don't know it is botched you do it. It likely stems from that or something similar being played for laughs.

[@nixyndixy9431]

The first game I ever made had a system where if a player interacted with the tutorial AI exactly 288 times, then the game would "turn off" (not really turns off it just goes black) and then being a jokester, I programed my game to "reboot" but the music is reversed and the game is now tinted red and squishing noises persist as the character progresses. when the player reaches the final boss, Ren (who was a goldfish, designed to be pathetically easy) Ren appears frightened and immediately retreats and the game continues as though Ren were killed. The player enters the reward room and the music completely stops. the event functions that normally end the game cease function and if the player remains in the room for a countdown of 8 minutes and 48 seconds, then Ren would return, covered in black sludge and begging the player to leave. if player didn't react by retreating to the door, ren would laugh maniacally and charge the player. the screen was programed to go black and power the game off, but I was too dumb to program that as I had no clue how to change the event close from functioning when the close tab button is pressed into being an event that occurs if entity a is overlapping entity b. so instead, I made the character freeze in place and set an event where the screen would flash meaningless jumbles of letters for single frames every 20 frames. after the fourth loop, the event was programed to end (I say was because It never ended at the same time. I think its because I used a global variable rather than a local one) at which point a white figure would occupy the center of the screen. it starts a crying sound and then the game resets fully. Sadly, I got a failing grade on the project as my teacher thought the code was excessive and she never figured out that if she passes 288 interactions that the event will not occur. I was sad and opted to never take Coding again!

[@Illusn]

There's an NPC in Doom 3 , early in the game, who gets annoyed if you read his report over his shoulder, typing "I would also like to add that this new transfer is exceedingly rude. He has hovered over me reading everything I type. STOP IT" on the screen you're incessantly staring at. It's one of my favourite jabs at the player.

[@KaylaJoyGunn]

That's brilliant

[@oweri1419]

This has inspired me to make an npc who, rather than get annoyed, starts explaining their entire backstory because you keep listening

[@ShardtheWolf]

While not quite the same, reminds me of the NPC "Noobert" in Baldurs Gate 1. He's an NPC that follows the player around the town of Naskel. He initiates dialog and asks you inane and stupid question. If you let him ask like 50 questions, he thanks you for not killing him out of annoyance. You get a fairly large chunk of experience from it.

[@Patrioticpawn]

That guy is infuriating

[@Marcus21H]

Also in both BG games as well as the Icewind Dale games if you repeatedly select the same party member over and over they will snap at you and a few of them are really funny

[@Patrioticpawn]

@@Marcus21H a personal favorite is jaheira 'yes? Oh omnipresent authority figure?'

[@Marcus21H]

@@Patrioticpawn oh yea

[@joltrail3588]

Oh yes. He really tested my patience :D And of course I annoyed my team :D but I don't remember that much. But as Jaheira got quoted it rung a memory :D also when trying to take Boo away from Minsk :D

[@OceanbornAngel]

I was enthralled by everything The Shopkeeper was saying. My attention span is not the size a gnat and I was really digging his story.

[@ZankaZe1]

It's pretty wise, honestly.

[@Mekora]

Everyone loves The Shopkeeper

[@madalice5134]

My attention span is the size of a gnat and I still enjoyed the story.

[@Alakaizer]

He has two more like that.

[@TheJakeJackson]

His following rant in the game is about how the LibErAls are trying to police his free speech to control him, and his first rant takes "live in the moment" to mean "don't have goals". If he gets another rant in the sequel it's going to be about trying to sell you on NFTs, you mark my words.

[@JonathonSwinney2814]

The cat from In Sound Mind. After you pet it so many times she says: "Ok....that's good now let's get to work" Also: Ellen's puns always brighten things for me.

[@FarbrorBaku]

I am not even exaggerating when i say Let's go Eevee cured my depression, i had been dumped by my partner that had been cheating on me for six months, somehow playing around and taking care of a digital pet turned out to be weirdly therapeutic for me so i can very much relate to Eevee making you cry. Eevee is and forever will be the best pokémon.

[@krisbd6262]

Okay. Two things: One: I'm very sorry for that horrible relationship. Hope you feel better. And two: Pokemon will always cure our depression.

[@sureindubitably3771]

@@krisbd6262 There is something weirdly calming in commiting mass genocide in Pokemon Unite

[@NeguraGhost]

Depression ≠ sadness. And I'm pretty sure mental illnesses can't be cured by playing videogames, so please do people with real illnesses a favor and stop this self-diagnosis bs. You were just sad ffs.

[@ameladaptivedaydreamer949]

@@NeguraGhost Whilst you have a point and people really should stop calling every single grief they had depression... You don't need to degrade their suffering to "you were just sad ffs".... Kinda heartless of you

[@mizukittyakinyama]

It's not best Pokémon until you evolve it in the daytime with high friendship and no fairy moves. Still up there though.

[@azuredragoon2054]

Pet the Dog from Star Renegades. There is a LOT of dialogue he will spout out, some of which has a hint of meta awareness. He might only be available at the end of a failed run in the turn-based roguelite game, but going through a full cycle of his dialogue is hilarious.

[@pwrofgreysku11]

i was about to reply this exact thing

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@pwrofgreysku11 It's like when Deadpool kept slapping Wolverine in the Deadpool game. You wonder just how far it goes and it's too funny to stop halfway through.

[@pwrofgreysku11]

@@azuredragoon2054 i went through it 3 times just incase there was even more dialogue lol

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@pwrofgreysku11 I think the best part is that it baits you into this by making the prompt "Pet the Dog" as if your interaction is to merely pet him. What's better, a few lines suggest that you ARE petting him, and he didn't agree to it. EDIT: After going through his cycle of dialogue again... it turns out each time you ARE petting him.

[@treedude4246]

I LOVE star renegades

[@ThePhantomStinker]

In Chrono Cross, when you infiltrate Viper Manor, Karsh lets you have what's in his chest after telling you no 20 times. There's also a headstone in Baldur's Gate in Nashkel where, if you click on it, a wizard comes out and tells you not to do that again. Do it repeatedly and he'll summon hostile enemies that explode when they are killed.

[@tinyrogue1320]

+1 for the BG one! That was hilarious :D

[@Fox_Olive]

Sounds similar to a Divinity 1 (*and?* 2) event

[@isaacwurmbrand]

The BG guy is also really REALLY easy to kill, by finding his grave, pissing him off, and proceeding to flee at high speeds towards the nearest town guard. The guards are basically endless, and with the right gear you can pick off his minions and him while they can't reach you because there are too many Flaming Fist in the way.

[@KalinaHitanaVTuber]

Given the amount of puns Ellen got with Splatoon 2, she's probably gonna love Splatoon 3's new bands, C-Side and Front Roe

[@Sparksterchan]

The Eevee example reminds me of my Pokemon Pikachu waaaaaay back in the day: I used to bring it to high school with me and set the time so it was asleep during class, and one day I decided to keep messing with it for my friends. Each time it would wake up kind of annoyed and go back to sleep. Pikachu got mad about me waking it over and over and woke up for good, this time with its back turned. 🤣

[@DanteneNyx]

“That’s it, cut her mic” *Mike walks into frame…*

[@kalythai]

Sam and Max Hit the Road. If you attempt an interaction where Sam tells you "I can't do that". Repeatedly do this and Sam will first be annoyed and eventually will start uncontrollably sob while Max scolds you, the user.

[@FelisImpurrator]

It's actually "I can't pick that up!"

[@Raziel1984]

at the end sam just sobing

[@Tomec86]

Watching this video makes me realize something... It's basically an unwritten rule of video games: You talk to everyone and interact with everything at least 2x to see if the dialogue changes... and if it does you wind up with this video

[@maccaebus]

Of the many "annoy" quotes for units in Blizzard RTS's and in HotS, my favorite easily goes to Li-Ming in Heroes of the Storm. Go look it up for yourself if you haven't heard it (though Tychus dropping his cigar down his suit is one of my favorite annoy quotes as well).

[@Cirkusleader]

I'm surprised we didn't see Haskill from Oblivion's "Shivering Isles" DLC. Early on, Sheogorath gives you the ability to summon him, then asks you to demonstrate your skill. Do this more than twice and Haskill gets increasingly annoyed with you.

[@abithefallenhuman921]

Forget twice, twelve is the point you don't get anymore unique dialogue, anytime after five and he gets more and more fed up

[@joelowes7893]

Sheogorath in the shivering iles dlc you’ve gotten away with hitting people once and only having to pay a bit of gold but not the mad god hit him and he will straight up freeze you in place telling you that “you really shouldn’t of done that” before warping you to the sheogorath judgement shrine where you fall to your death

[@AndrewsYoutube]

"Enjoy the view." - Sheogorath

[@Janoha17]

You don't fall to your death, Sheogorath slams the entire Isles into your chin.

[@Ashley80005]

Wow, I didn’t know you could annoy him to the point of doing something like that! It’s funny and scary, at the same time.

[@ShadowJCreed]

If someone has the boots of springhell jack equipped you can actually survive that, though most people don’t since during the quest they’re needed for, it takes a lot of effort not to have them instantly destroyed after their purpose is fulfilled and the boots would also be destroyed to survive this fall as well so it would be wasted effort

[@daviddaugherty2816]

@@ShadowJCreed I thought that death was scripted. I literally tried it in god mode and still died.

[@pyrosnineActual]

The shopkeeper from The messenger is hilarious, because of how important AND petty they are, and one major plot point for the game's storyline is that they intentionally didn't tell you things not out of necessity, but rather because they were annoyed you made a slight comment when you first entered their shop.

[@bradleyadams5252]

Plus, you messed with her cabinet. (The shopkeeper is a girl apparently, I read it on the wiki so it must be true.

[@pyrosnineActual]

@@bradleyadams5252 it's true. They literally reveal everything including her gender right before the final boss fight in the most anticlimactic way possible. When you realize she's basically just a sassy librarian the plot makes much more sense.

[@Jupiter-T]

As a customer service worker, it checks out.

[@K4RN4GE911]

Man, the Messenger is SUCH A GOOD GAME. The gameplay, the soundtrack, the characters, OH! Love it!

[@maddrumsticks]

100% agreed!

[@adeptusmedicus]

My favourite was annoying the Moogle in FF9 you call with the flute on the world map to save, if you keep calling and sending him away he gets increasingly angry and threatening.

[@hardupactor]

This would be my choice...that poor bloody moogle!!! KUUUUPPOOOO!!!

[@CrozsBadTemper]

This is exactly what came to mind when I saw the title of this vid. Moogle gets very "done" with us :')

[@brentwerner6103]

"I'm sharpening my knife kupo.

[@Bigd2k]

And now I have to try this. I was just replaying through this.

[@woteveruk1]

this is the one i thought of too, as soon as i got the flute the first thing i always did was annoy him lol

[@miketaylor110]

"If I had $50 I'd buy beanie babies up to my waist". Me: But beanie babies are so expensive she'd only be able to buy one or tw..... *remembers how tall Ellen is*.... oh yeah. Never mind. This checks out.

[@sapphirestar3978]

owch lol

[@thetardyowlvg9155]

🤣

[@archerestarcher]

She'd be able to get about 4-5. So yeah for Ellen definitely up to her waist.

[@aydinanuar8807]

Hearing Luke say ‘boop!’ over and over again has made my day.

[@mandoschMUh]

When calling Mei Ling in Metal Gear Solid 10 times without saving, she will start to poke her tongue out at you without saving another word until you finally save your progress.

[@humanoid3067]

Just the eevee was enough. That’s an eevee that’s seen some stupid character choices

[@madison3408]

Eevee knows our sins, it will judge us and decide our fate - or at least attempt to but it’s more likely it’ll watch us do some more dumb shit and watch judgmentally.

[@Marc_Araujo]

I've been playing Half-Life for almost 25 years and I never knew you could annoy the security AI into killing you (other than by attacking staff)...truly one of the greatest games ever made.

[@RicoHillshire]

Calamari is literally the reason why NOA renamed Aori and Hotaru to Callie and Marie. Marie even comments on it if you replay the final boss battle in the single player campaign.

[@SimuLord]

Na na na na na na na na, Calamari Damacy....

[@SG_Dave]

Mei Ling from MGS1 goes from quoting Sun Tzu, to calling you out, to sticking her tongue out, to straight up not picking up the call if you repeatedly call her and don't save your game. Para-medic from MGS3 has a similar interaction if you you crank call her a lot as well.

[@Eramiserasmus]

I'm so glad this opened with Mass Effect 3's Salarian. Couldn't imagine this list without it.

[@Tydorstus]

Ikr was checking just to make sure it was on the list

[@carlsiouxfalls]

There's a waterfall in the casino in the Citadel DLC that has someone telling you not to touch it, but it's a lot, lot quicker before the joke pops up.

[@LJay_1985]

Daniel Carrington from the original Perfect Dark always had me in stitches when he sighed "Don't do that, Joanna -- it worries me". What? All I did was run around him in circles & crouch repeatedly. Bonus points for shooting every single bottle of his extensive (& likely expensive) wine collection, to which he retorts "Act your age, Joanna", despite not being in the same room.

[@MultiverseAsheville]

The Shopkeeper’s speech made me seriously re-evaluate how much I’m deferring joy.

[@thyrussendria8198]

You know, if I was an NPC with a closet, I would place a portal to a bunch of deadly skeletons in there just to make the joke of "We all have skeletons in our closet, turns out the ones in mine are exceptionally murderous and ill tempered, perhaps open it after you are done saving the world."

[@jaredcrabb]

There needs to be a game like that.

[@JameyMcQueen]

@@jaredcrabb U N D E R T A L E I jest.

[@SharmClucas]

This immediately reminded me of the Easter egg in Curse of Monkey Island. In the bay area where you can eventually get a ferryman to help you out, you can use the "grab" action on the water. Guybrush will say "But I don't wanna go into the ocean" over and over until eventually he says "Well, if you insist." and Easter egg ensues.

[@FelisImpurrator]

You can try to take the moon in one of them. I think it's Curse or Escape. "Pick up the moon? Are you nuts?"

[@Ceece20]

My high strength, high stealth monk in my DND group: “Look all I’m saying is these NPC probably had it coming to them.” My DM: “You literally went to every painting, every candle, and every sign in town and tilted them all. That’s not including all the bovine livestock that you tilted the day before.” Me: “Look if you found 150 cattle the day before laying on their sides, having 150 candles, signs, and paintings tilted isn’t as big of a concern.”

[@marlupus801]

I'm surprised Moguo from Final Fantasy IX is not on this list. He gets so angry if you call him a lot without doing anything that he screams at you, threatens you, then just runs out of steam.

[@SJupiter526]

Moguo, the Moogle who lets you save on the World Map of Final Fantasy IX, has some choice words for you if you keep calling him and then cancelling without saving.

[@pitecusH]

Honorable mentions would be Staracraft I and II, in which every single unit has a "pissed off" line, most of them have 2-3 each! Just select/click them a few times and they'll throw them at you.

[@pyrotempestwing]

Even the Protoss Probe sounds done with you eventually, and it just beeps.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

The Warcraft series does it too, so does the first Baldur's Gate. I really should've expected that Edwin was plotting to overthrow me.

[@thomaslane1547]

My God, he's whacked!

[@Marcus21H]

@@daviddaugherty2816 not just the first BG. Icewind Dale and IWD2 also have it. I believe BG2 does as well.

[@joltrail3588]

Yes, BG2 did have those as well

[@kalythai]

In Chrono Cross, during the infiltration mission, you can encounter Karsh in his room. Also in this room is a treasure chest. Karsh will scold you for trying to take his possessions. Attempt to open this chest twenty times, he will give up and you get to loot his treasure, the Dragoon Gauntlets, a very strong accessory at this point of the game.

[@cwtyger3308]

I love how, in Final Fantasy IX, you can summon a moogle on the world map to save your game, but you can always choose not to save and just send him away again. Well, he starts getting annoyed by this and tells you "Don't call me if you don't need me, kupo!" But if you continue to call him, he'll threaten you. "I'm sharpening my knife, kupo." He eventually flips out and throws a tantrum.

[@eburel506]

What about the Stanley Parable. It was so funny winding up the narrator. Then he puts you in a dark office for a trillion years to think about what you have done.

[@UltimateMaster50]

Kagami from AI: The Somnium Files belongs on this list as well. There's a running joke throughout the whole game where you can repeatedly ask him what his name is, as he gets angrier and angrier. He goes from 'honored that you're talking to him' to 'screaming at you for being rude' to 'acknowledging he's in on the joke' when your adopted daughter calls you out on your harassment.

[@SillyEnglishKaniget]

The barrel in the restaurant in Arni in Chrono Cross. If you keep examining it the dialogue will insist it is nothing more than an ordinary barrel until the barrel finally gives you an item to go away.

[@Cohult]

All the units/characters in Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo had extra dialogue if you poked them too much. Sheep exploded! In WoW's Undercity, there's an apothecary using polymorph potions on captured humans and poking them to see what happens. One turns into a sheep. He pokes it too many times....

[@umbraestragis]

Do people who engage in nightly endeavours that involve poking just die in the World of Warcraft then? Is that canon?

[@yuvi3000]

In Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, when you start the game, Doctor Neo Cortex asks for your help to collect power crystals, even though we know he was the villain of the first game. However, if you enter your first level and leave it without collecting a crystal, Cortex has additional responses. He starts losing his patience if you do it a couple more times.

[@kreecebarton]

The save moogle in Final Fantasy IX doesn't appreciate being called and turned away without being tasked with something. He'll begin to threaten to murder you and eventually scream at you to STOP as his psyche breaks. You also get a trophy in the remasters.

[@TheFrostyCrane]

The Armory Sergeant at the beginning of Halo 2 has no time for you trying out the controls or running or jumping around the room when he needs to test your shields. Nor does he have time if you don’t look at him when he’s talking or refuse to push the button to start it.

[@sleepyostrichthing3599]

I always randomly come across a video every year or so and its like the format is in a lovely little time bubble, its always familiar. Gotta appreciate that.

[@RanMouri82]

Dear Ellen, never stop piling on the puns. Thanks, a Fan.

[@KirbyatYT]

Game from “There Is No Game : Wrong Dimension” is literally the perfect example of this

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Does the Narrator in The Stanley Parable count as an NPC?

[@d34dR0d3n7]

Ellen's puns and how they annoy the rest of the crew is the best thing. ^_^ Glad you're healthy and back!

[@Gaiacrusher9fan2]

Eevee also turns away like that if you try to use an evolution stone on it. Kind of in a "You can't love me the way I am, huh?" sort of way.

[@banshee46]

It is impossible to fathom how everyone on this channel is so freaking *adorable*.

[@petrarcheleven8816]

How about every Animal Crossing (GCN) villager who gets actively tired of talking to you if you just keep on pestering them?

[@ruthejbooth8661]

Thank you SO MUCH for including The Messenger in here. Through this, I've found 'The Arcane Shoppe' by Rainbowdragoneyes and it's been on heavy rotation ever since.

[@skynet0912]

During the cabin shootout with Luis in Resident Evil 4, if you like me wanted to see what would happen if you shot him too much (since he doesn't have a health gauge), he will eventually get tired of you putting bullets in your face, and trigger a cutscene where he just instantly kills you himself!

[@jaredcrabb]

I never did that, but still found out the hard way. Unless you count the fact that the first time I hit him and he didnt die I figured he was icorporeal and didnt bother trying to aim around him.

[@Substitute102]

I'm sure someone else has already said this, but in the original Animal Crossing, (and possibly in Wild World, I'm not sure), basically all the villagers would become irate if you talked to them too much, or "pushed" them around enough. I say "pushed" like that because I often wasn't trying to bother them or get in their personal space, just trying to get around their hit box through a tight space, and they wouldn't move. Talking to them too much, though. That's a little more intentional.

[@LunaP1]

If I wanted a villager to leave, shoving them to the point of irritation or hitting them with my net was the way to do it.

[@anonr.4862]

exactly.

[@ALexpWTFISTHAT]

They still do that in New Horizons. Also, contrary to popular belief, villagers actually leave faster if you're nice to them and unlock their top friendship level as they would then seek to "broaden their horizons" after reaching peak level on your island.

[@yufi305]

They actually get upset in New Horizons too if you talk to them too much. They become sad or angry. Same thing with hitting them with a net three times or pushing them.

[@Mulbert]

Zipper the bunny gets very annoyed when you try to get behind him to look at his zip, what eldrich horrors lie beneath

[@Ashley80005]

Aww poor Ellen, having to annoy Eevee, to get that reaction! I grabbed my Eevee plushy, and was hugging it the whole time. Yep, even Eevee has limits!

[@eurybiaball847]

I have a $100 Pikachu plushie, i felt the same reaction

[@insertcreativehandlehere]

@@eurybiaball847 In Let's Go Pikachu, you get electrocuted when you do the same thing.

[@eurybiaball847]

@@insertcreativehandlehere yes I’ve seen that in another comment

[@Amaritudine]

I've got a soft spot for the guy who supervises the driving range in _Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 1999_ on the original PlayStation. He's got nothing to say until you "accidentally" hit the range cart with a stray ball, then he admonishes you over the tannoy in a bored, passive-aggressive drawl. He gets more exasperated each time you do it, until eventually the range cart explodes. "I *toooold* you not to do that!"

[@dr.rodabthicc]

I feel like the NPC's in psychonaughts belong here given that they have pretty much no patience for your antics if you mess with them.

[@YourDeath1994]

Warcraft 3 comes to mind. Every unit has multiple dialogue options, but the one i remember getting the most annoyed is the ork grunt.

[@cearnicus]

And Starcraft. Which is _not_ just "Warcraft in Space. It's much more sophisticated"; right, Artanis?

[@tba113]

That's been a Blizzard RTS thing since Warcraft: Orcs and Humans back in the mid-90's.

[@MrBrewskiDrewski]

You should definitely add your respective partner in LA Noire. You can just drive off and leave them behind, and they have to get a lift from the patrolmen. And Roy from the Vice Desk, because you drive his own car and he gets livid when you crash it.

[@joenesvick7043]

I always touch that in Mass Effect 3, even did something similar in Mass Effect Andromeda. That waterfall in the casino also gets a response if you keep touching it

[@xotano3734]

"duties" is said a lot, great video.

[@errorcrj110]

Luke being the NPC annoyed with Ellen's squid puns :p

[@nichtsowichtig3065]

Sheep and other critters in Warcraft or Starcraft they go boom

[@LordHammer33]

We all appreciate the sacrifice Ellen made to make Eevee sad so we don't have to, We'll even enjoy all the octopus puns in gratitude

[@torgranael]

"Got some rare things on sale stranger!" Am I the only person that rewound the video for another hit of that line?

[@gabi4901]

I remember trying to talk to Marie, me seeing her annoyed with me talking to her broke my heart. 😅

[@Keychan64]

I'm mad I can't talk to marina

[@TopherLuther]

MDK2. While playing as Dr. Hawkins in the beginning, you have to use the restroom. If you try to leave the restroom without washing your hands, the ship's AI will scold you and tell you wash your hands. If you refuse and try to leave, the AI will warn you a few more times before launching you out of the ship.

[@ndremas1660]

In Final Fantasy IX, if you call the save Moogle too many times, he threatens to kill you several times.

[@omotodraco]

hahaha! King Ymiron's censored swearing fit was what made the warrior order hall so enjoyable

[@mazman117]

Does the Armory master at the very beginning of Halo 2 count? If you jump and run around the room as soon as you are able, he will eventually tell you that he’ll be fine if your leg pops out of its socket.

[@chrisjags]

Love the Messenger one. Nothing an impatient gamer fears more than an unskippable scene

[@kartorrentlive7539]

10:09 is cute! A close-up-shot of Eevee smiling at you as it turns your skull into jelly! :D

[@pokegirl1799]

it is currently 12:30 AM, and I am struggling to hold laughter in and not wake up the rest of the house after that last entry 😂