7 Quests That Ended Terribly for the Quest Giver

Sometimes it's sensible to ask for help but for these NPCs, it made their life much worse...
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[@inquisitormalleus6435]

To be fair to the Riddler, I'd feel pretty smart too if I managed to trick Batman into painstakingly tracking down several hundred meaningless trophies.

[@JokeCubed]

The first one I thought of was the final Dark Brotherhood Quest in Skyrim. You're tasked by Amaund Motierre to kill the Emperor. When you sneak onto the Emperor's ship and finally come face to face with him, he seems like a pretty chill guy who has come to terms with his death, he has only one last request: that you kill the person who ordered the hit on him. It's technically optional, but I always do it, honouring a dead man's last request seems like the least I can do.

[@killertruth186]

I had done the same thing.

[@nawfalhaddad4798]

I was thinking of the one quest where you get that one book ''Oghma Infinium'', if I remember right.

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

​@@nawfalhaddad4798poor old Septimus

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

Also Astrid sending you on the first attempt against the Emperor.... that ended well for her and the family.

[@NottherealLucifer]

That one doesn't really fit the list. The person who ordered the hit wasn't the person who gave you the quest.

[@AndrewsYoutube]

Kassandra: "Oh he screamed. But not in agony." 😏 Supideo: _backs away in horror_ *"AAUUGGGGHH!!"* That scene should be on a list of 'Most realistic reactions by an NPC'. 🤣

[@patrickp.8390]

I laughed at that scene so hard when I played Odyssey. I played as Alexios so Supideo was probably more terrified lol (Then again, They are Greek so probably wasn't matter.....much)

[@LadyMiir]

I sat here giggling over his horrified screaming lmao. I really shouldn't have laughed.

[@meh2510]

Never played the game, but it sounds like a bizarre twist on the Oedipus story.

[@supervegito2277]

@@meh2510 Well Supideo is Oedipus backwards...

[@bostonrailfan2427]

i misread that as Stupidio…one time it fits perfectly!

[@diywrites8703]

the pose Kassandra makes after "He screamed, but not in agony" is priceless.

[@spencergwin9454]

Certainly LOL'd IRL

[@gloweye]

Honorary mention for Delphine, who got caught up in a mountaintop Fus Ro Day accident after asking me to kill Paarthurnax. She might not have died, but falling that far definitely qualifies as having a terrible time.

[@Gatorade69]

And Esbern.

[@darossigamer2553]

You sure it was an accident and not an “accident”?

[@JT_Lich]

There's a quest in Bloodborne given to you by a little girl holed up in her house like many other NPCs in Yharnam who's looking for her parents, who haven't come home yet. Her dad just so happens to be Father Gascoigne, who you have to kill (she at least gives you the music box to stun him during the fight) and her mom is dead, killed by Gascoigne in his madness. If you return her broach to the girl, she falls into despair. Iirc, if you talk to her a little later, she mentions that she's gonna be brave and leave the house like her sister did - only to later end up as dinner for one of the massive pigs, implied by the red ribbon you get from killing it.

[@lahunica2726]

Then you give the ribbon to her sister who pretends to cry her loss, only to laugh seconds later because she's happy she has the ribbon. Then she fall to her death or is killed by the giant next to the ladder. And like that, the entire Gascoigne family is dead.

[@jacthing1]

​@@lahunica2726personally I don't think that "older sister" wasn't actually her older sister. Because she never mentions them at all when she talks about the rest of her family.

[@lahunica2726]

@@jacthing1 you may be right yes, never is she mentionned, strange...

[@midnights2631]

That quest makes me sad :(

[@glacevallite5103]

In the Elder Scrolls Oblivion, The Grey Prince gives you a quest where you help him find out his heritage, he gives you a key to a fort, which when you go through it, you find out he is the son of a vampire, when you tell him, he becomes all depressed and when you fight him at the end of the arena quest line, he won't fight back at all, while wanting you to kill him

[@killertruth186]

Did that quest as well.

[@jason4443]

Speaking of Elder Scrolls, I recall Arniel Gane from Skyrim, who wanted to conduct an experiment with the goal being to figure out what caused the disappearance of the Dwemers, which basically meant recreating the event that lead up to said disappearance. Or, well, a miniature, flawed version of the event, with a big modified soul gem in place of the literal heart of a dead god and only one of the 3 tools necessary, which might also be a counterfeit. Long story short Arniel himself ended up vanishing without a trace during the experiment, only to inexplicably show up in your skillset as a summonable shade, apparently having lost a lot of his mind and in pain.

[@brocksolomon8953]

Came here to mention this one

[@WraythSkitzofrenik]

That's what came to mind first.

[@shawnamiller191]

I always wished you could get revenge for Lucien Lachance.

[@emeraldaly7646]

If you decline giving Laurentius knowledge of Chaos Pyromancy or Quelaana, he actually apologizes for asking and remains perfectly content to stay in Firelink Shrine for the rest of the game as your friend and helper, selling his spells and upgrading your glove. Only you as the player can lead him to ruin :\

[@user-tl1fe4cc6y]

When I saw Odyssey, I was expecting the 'One really, really bad day' questline, where Kassandra encounters a village under attack from pirates. In trying to fend them off, she watches their stable groom ride a 'pegasus' off a cliff, immolates their folk hero at his behest, gathers all the equipment for their blind blacksmith just so he can inadvertently crush himself, before taking out the pirate ships herself. The town's ships which had been disguised to get past the real pirates, only no one bothered telling the misthios, so she ends up fighting the pirates off by herself. Laughed like a drain doing the whole thing, wondering just how *this* mission was going to end in disaster

[@rikusschulze6249]

The way Arthur just walks away, a casual "I see you later", and utter resignation oozing out of every pore.

[@mar_speedman]

The way he looked at the scientist after he asked him if he looked like a toymaker, too. You can tell he struggled with every fiber of his being not to say 'yes' lol

[@spacejesus6581]

The Skyrim quest in Markarth where the priest asks you to help him solve the mystery of missing corpses, there’s a decent chance he becomes the next meal to a cannibal cult

[@Mini_Squatch]

See, the way i like to play that one is to pretend to side with the cannibals until the last minute, at which point killing them counts as a betrayal that charges the ebony blade.

[@killertruth186]

That, and the Forsworn Conspiracy as well Molag Ball Quest.

[@kay_faraday]

There's also another Markarth quest, the one where the guards kill the questgiver and then throw you in jail. And the priest who asks for your help with the haunted house. Markarth loves this shit.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Is a priest kosher? I know it's not halal, the blood isn't drained. I know Judaism doesn't exist in Skyrim, but I'm just curious if he classifies as meat suitable for religious consumption. :p

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

​@@WolfyFancyLadsAs a Jew myself I can say No. No he would not be considered "Halal." In fact due to the example of Cain and Able I would argue that, since Cain was cursed to wander the Earth for eternity drinking the blood of and consuming the flesh of his fellow man as a punishment, cannibalism wouldn't be acceptable even by werewolf standards let alone just doing it because.

[@sparkslegends7482]

The Assassins Creed Odyssey quest is my favorite quest in the game. It’s hilarious. It always happens someone tries to stop some prophecy from coming true, but end up doing the thing that leads to the prophecy coming true.

[@TheCultureshock101]

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."

[@GhostBear3067]

Also a very on the nose Ordipus reference.

[@noname-xx5uj]

This is even better when you play as alexios

[@nickspencerfishingrodd2383]

Reasons of why prophecies are such bullshit imo Tho this was funny af 😂

[@nathancarter8239]

Forget ye not about Otto, the blind Templar from _Dragon Age: Origins!_ He just wants to clear out a haunted orphanage of its demons, and do some good in his infirm age. But he gets stabbed in the back by a pitchfork and dies. The worst part is, he needs to be alive to die at the end, so you keep him alive throughout the quest only to watch him get killed in a cutscene.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Every decent Templar who is actually trying to help people gets killed or fired but cunts like Cullen just go on to become more and more important and I can't kick him out of the Inquistion. Like. The bear from the DLC would make a better commander.

[@niofo7713]

@@akechijubeimitsuhide i love dragon age bcos is just like real life. you can't never get rid of the assholes.

[@koreantext5867]

Armor Core 6 would like to be acknowledged as fromsofts most recent game

[@marhawkman303]

YES!!!! Also it probably has some pretty tragic character deaths.

[@manderic5436]

Yep, and there are guaranteed to be heart wrenching deaths regardless of what path you take, therefore one-uping Elden Ring in the "good people died because of your decisions you monster"

[@gameboy3433]

8:23 Kassandra, master of social context, smiles at Screwing the guy's father as she explains how he screams in bed. She's so awful, I love it.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Hey, she had a good time. It's fine. He's overreacting.

[@aardbei54]

I mean, there's a good chance she blurted that out before thinking

[@ASpooneyBard]

I was thinking about Jefferson Peralez (who is the popular candidate for mayor) and his wife in Cyberpunk 2077. They hire you first to investigate the suspicious death of the previous mayor, which goes well and leads to a whole questline with the police detective that was investigating the case. Later on though, they call you because they are sure that someone broke into their apartment and that Jefferson shot the guy, but their security team says that it never happened. After some investigating you figure out that someone (we never find out who's in charge) has been using their security team to monitor and brainwash the Peralez's (with brainwave frequency technobabble) from within their own home. You have the option to tell Jefferson that his thoughts, feelings, and even memories are a lie implanted by someone else (the obvious right thing to do) but his wife begs you not to. If you tell him, he becomes dysfunctionally paranoid and starts to believe that even his wife is against him (which could even be true considering the brainwashing). If you don't tell him, he becomes a literal puppet controlled by someone else for purposes unknown.

[@Nanko203]

In fable 3 you have a side quest called hobnobbing with Hobbes. You guide a man, Dans Mourir, to a Hobbes cave so he can befriend them. After leaving him there you can return and explore deeper in the cave. The books he left behind reveal he was eaten.

[@Amayawolf_01]

To be fair his name roughly translates to "into death" in French ("dans" meaning "in" and "mourir" being "death/die") so he was kind of tempting fate there

[@tba113]

This could be composed entirely of Red Dead Redemption quests - including the _main plot,_ come to think of it, given what Jack ends up doing in the epilogue.

[@RTitleySage]

Almost every interaction in Dragon Age 2 results in someone wishing Hawke they'd never asked - including I guess the whole game - but Javaris Tintop stands out in my memory as someone who really didn't get the deal he thought he was going to

[@niofo7713]

javaris is really the epitome of the saying play stupid games, win stupid prizes, but the fact that he tried to play stupid games with qunari of all people is just mindblowing. not that javaris himself is sad over the whole poison situation, but he should certainly be sad over pissing hawke off (and their little murder knife).

[@RTitleySage]

@@niofo7713 He played such a stupid game, and he played it so badly.

[@namelessuser8595]

Same with orsino, really. He just wants to help his people out and no matter what you do or how you help him, he always winds up turning himself into a harvester. Why a harvester. Why.

[@RTitleySage]

@@namelessuser8595 Because Varric needed to make something up that would cover his escape? He gets very defensive about it if you point out it made no sense in Inquisition and we know he's an unreliable narrator

[@thepiedpiper3034]

In Star Wars the Old Republic as part of the Sith Inquisitor story branch. As part of a series of quests given to you by your mentor Zash you end up acquiring the companion Khem Val. Khem Val is compelled to serve you after you best him, it would be difficult for him to do otherwise. Later it turns out Zash has had you running around in order to prepare a ritual that will allow her to steal your body, which should have all worked out perfectly except that Khem Val gets in the way and she ends up stuck sharing his body. And now all her resources and people are yours because she set them up to serve you, thinking she would already be in your body.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

One people might not notice until it's too late: the violin player in Dark Woods. He can move into one of your bases if you're nice to him but eventually grows hungry. If you don't bring him food, he dies, but if you give him food he lives and can live till the end if you play things right. But give him the wrong food? Well, he mutates into a room sized tumour and will die if you choose the "good" ending. Must've been something he ate....

[@timidwolf]

KotOR 2, the signal tracking mission you get from a Bith Scientist on Nar Shaddaa, he just ends up dead while you're gone, even if you split the party and leave someone with him (because they didn't script that bit and he's gone with the scene change).

[@SebasTian58323]

The quest in Skyrim that you get the Ogmha infinum from. You help this eccentric old researcher open an ancient dwarven container and find one of the daedric artifacts. Unfortunately, he opens it before you and turns to ash as the daedric Prince it belongs to has no more need of him

[@user-ds3jr7kb1o]

lots of skyrim quests fall into this category. probably needs a separate video entry

[@carlsiouxfalls]

Or the guy who asks you to collect the pieces of Mehrunes' Razor.

[@joelrobinson5457]

Or the guy that gets frustrated when his experiment involving legendary artifacts dosen't work, then smaks them together and turns himself into a spell

[@spicybeantofu]

​@@carlsiouxfalls I don't kill that guy I protect him

[@jessicajones1995]

I loved the line “he screamed but not in agony” 😂

[@darrenk284]

Cawlin's love letter from Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. If you give it to Karane, she goes out with Pipit instead and breaks his heart. If you give it to the toilet ghost hand, the hand haunts him.

[@le0n1dk1m5]

I'm sorry, toilet WHAT?! Do I even want to know more about it)?

[@petersimpson4648]

​@@le0n1dk1m5It's a repeat gag character that appears in some Zelda games. A hand sticks out of a toilet and asks for paper. I believe it's based on a Japanese ghost story.

[@le0n1dk1m5]

@@petersimpson4648 Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying that). Just didn't expect the words 'Legend of Zelda' and 'toilet ghost hand' in the same comment)

[@petersimpson4648]

@le0n1dk1m5 Yeah, I was confused the first time I saw it, too, and I only found out about the ghost story thing recently.

[@Bluesit32]

@@petersimpson4648 I liked in Oracle of Ages when you could drop a pot, a bomb, or an ember seed down the hole instead. He doesn't care for it.

[@darkhorse989]

Some Admiral in Mass Effect 1. The guy who had you look into Cerberus. At the end of the quest chain the admiral is found dead.

[@thegaymingavenger]

Admiral Kohaku iirc. Tragic quest line tbh but seeing it through to the end makes ME2 so much better.

[@JHKthree]

The Skyrim quest I think that hits hardest for this is The Forsworn Conspiracy. Not only is this quest shoved down your throat upon entering Markarth, but following up on the quest not only screws up the quest giver's life but yours as well by putting a bounty on your head

[@gmailisaretard]

Don't you get to clear the bounty after the end?

[@user-ds3jr7kb1o]

ah yes.. I made sure nepo the nose got his just desserts

[@joelrobinson5457]

Or the abandoned house, no one benifits

[@sparklinggrimm532]

I was thinking of the Forsworn Conspiracy!

[@HilBethJay]

There are sooo many quest givers in Skyrim that end up dead or worse, but my favorite is part of the Dark Brotherhood storyline. A noble hires you to assassinate the Emperor, and the Emperor asks you politely to kill the noble that hired you.

[@tubensalat1453]

IIRC I let the noble live, felt more professional.

[@marhawkman303]

@@tubensalat1453 I dunno, how much did the Emperor pay?

[@tubensalat1453]

@@marhawkman303 He just asks politely; no ritual, no fee- that's not how the Brotherhood does business?

[@marhawkman303]

@@tubensalat1453 hmm true.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Heck, the Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion works, too, considering what happened to Lucien Lachance.

[@elihuebner1319]

The Heist in Cyberpunk 2077 works for this on so many levels. Contractually, the quest giver is Dex, who gets killed by Takemura. The idea and funding for the quest came from Evelyn, who got fried by the VDBs, abused by her employer, sold to a creeper ripperdoc, then ultimately given to scavs who specialize in XBDs. We could even read Jackie as a quest giver, since he tells V to meet Dex in the first place, setting the whole thing in motion. Jackie of course is killed during the heist. Even TBug could be considered a quest giver, since she introduced Jackie and Dex while Dex was looking for a crew. She is of course fried by Arasaka black ice (or possible daemons or netrunners) during the heist.

[@stevenn1940]

Kind of spoilers, but you could even consider the voodoo boys themselves the questgivers; and you can essentially erase the entire faction

[@elihuebner1319]

@stevenn1940 I almost included the VDBs, but since you can side with them I decided not to.

[@fabiourbano6404]

​@@elihuebner1319the guy that tries to take out the prisoner (that you later crucify) and is imediately shot up by police

[@Delmworks]

I mean, even the one survivor of the heist, V, could count as as they A) do not survive, technically and B) they get a terminal case of Johnny Silverhand

[@stevenn1940]

@@elihuebner1319 I mean, to be fair, it's the same logic as including the witcher one in the video. Entire option that doesn't screw him over, but it is a choice you can make.

[@nickedgeworth781]

Emil has not one but two pretty bad times in Nier Automata side quests. As you find the Lunar Tear flowers he gradually recalls his horrifying past, before you find his home and steal from him, at which point he justifiably flips out and you are forced to defeat him. Not satisfied with one horrific ending, upgrading every weapon causes Emil to flee to the desert, where he is once again faced with his existential nightmare of a past as you do battle with endless gigantic clones he created to fight a war as his humanity slipped away piece by piece.

[@fatstingray]

In God of War II, there's the argonaut that asks you to help Jason, only for Kratos to throw him in to a mechanism to break some gears blocking his path, and then stand by while Jason gets eaten by a cerberus.

[@darklord884]

Okay, tragic yes, but the sentence "You killed his mater and *[BEEP]* his pater." sounds darkly hilarious to me for some reason.

[@nanoglitch6693]

That AC Odyssey quest was the one that immediately sprang to mind lmao. Love that game 🥰

[@Duckiman]

This could just be a FromSoft NPC quest giver list tbh!

[@seand7042]

They actually already did something like that with 7 Elden Ring NPCs life you ruined by helping

[@psychronia]

There was that one Witcher quest where someone put up a bounty on themselves so they could rob any would-be bounty hunters. Geralt points out the flaw in their logic when he takes up the quest.

[@bilateralrope8643]

I also remember one quest from Witcher 1 where someone hires Geralt to kill some monster in his basement. There is no monster. Just the quest giver and some of his mates ambushing whoever takes up the job. Geralt points out that luring a witcher into this trap was a stupid plan. Then kills them because they don't give him any other option.

[@niofo7713]

in skellige most wanted there's also a trap set for geralt, but fortunately you can talk most of the creatures out of it, i think only the werewolf will attack you no matter what

[@currentlyeatingpies1274]

About the AC Odyssey entry. You don't need to romance the dad/Blacksmith but it's impossible to get the shield without killing the mum/Bandit.

[@andrewwalsh5616]

A rare Luke/Mike combo.

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

And no cars involved.

[@alexandersmit4256]

Honestly, if an NPC(that isn't Patches) is alive and not a gibbering wreck at the end of their quest in a Soulsborn, that's a big twist.

[@Chaotic42Kami]

Actually, in Sekiro, if you give Kotaro the White Pinwheel and use the fan ninja tool on him to "Send him away" you can actually find him in the real where you hunt the Folding Screen Monkeys and he seems pretty happy there.

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

14:46 no, don't worry, Luke, these aren't grapes! They're... miniature plums! Have a few! 😂

[@Rukalin]

Arguably, all of the scam artists in the Yakuza series are quest givers who end up getting beaten up by Kiryu.

[@joelrobinson5457]

Or the wanna be, influencer that tries to get you to essentially fight the yakuza for a video

[@Rukalin]

Yeah, that's a better example@@joelrobinson5457

[@Singeferno]

That's odd. I expected this to be another video about Johnny talking about how you all derail them every session.

[@jameshart2622]

As for the "Supideo" quest... Spoilers (not that it should surprise anybody) ... ... ... ... I see a few people mentioning Oedipus in the comments, but I think it bears mentioning that that entire quest was basically a whole-plot reference to Oedipus, not just a somewhat similar self-fulfilling prophecy, including the whole self-blinding bit at the end. They did a gender-swap on the parents though, but yeah. They were definitely having fun with that one. In a creepy, creepy way.

[@KING_PHILLIP]

i wish somewhere in the witcher 3 game geralt would have said something like "it was nice working with you, oh and by the way- if i ever catch you killing anyone, anywhere- ever again- I'll have to-- ya know-- do the witcher thing..."

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

I just read this in Geralt's voice even though he never spoke it. 😂

[@1957DLT]

I always kill Red and her crew because every.single.annual.replay they take two full days to show up, and one can only have fun throwing axii on the geese for so long.

[@joelrobinson5457]

Even just a quest that shows people genuinely benifiting and seeing Geralt as a friend afterwards. Guy's been through a lot

[@joenesvick7043]

More coin from Big Red you say, dang I should've sided with that wolf. In the first Witcher, there's a bandit that basically hires Geralt to kill him I think his intention was to lead the Witcher into a trap, but he and his boys are no match

[@philtrauferson]

There's got to be a good example in Ghost of Tsushima. One of my main memories of that game is not knowing if the questgiver would still be breathing by the time I return to them to wrap the quest up.

[@claratalbot7613]

Immediately thought of the priest in Skyrim. Starts off with u investigating who has been stealing corpses and ends with the poor priest on an alter about to be eaten by a group of cannibals. Not to mention that u can even take part in making him into a meal which gives u a ring from the Daedric Prince Namira who is not only know as the Mistress of Decay but she is also associated with spiders, insects, slugs, etc and is a patron to cannibals

[@bryangibbs7191]

It's not really that inevitable though, the natural conclusion in my playthroughs is the death of the cannibal and the priest going on with his life

[@mantis638]

We could talk about the quest line for Paladin Dance in Fallout 4. I’m surprised thus wasn’t mentioned since there is usually at least one Fallout 4 entry.

[@the_ecips9692]

Paladin Dance. I'm not here to diss your typo (if it even was one), I honestly find this name amazing. I'll call him that from now on 😀

[@Michael_Lindell]

3. Oedipus OX

[@danielsuarez3198]

Yep lol I hadn't played that game but that was hilarious.

[@sebastianwlodarczyk]

Interesting- I thought most of the jokes in the Witcher that were "lost in translation" were in the polish version, and now you show me a Werewolf version of Red Riding Hood. Oh, woe is me, now I'll have to play through them all again*! *at least through "Assassins of Kings and "Wild Hunt"- as far as W1 playthrough is concerned, I'll probably wait for the remaster:)

[@yourcollegedebt8384]

One quest that comes to mind is in Borderlands: The Pre-sequel, wherein you see a Hyperion scientist that wants to talk to you in person. He opens the window near him, forgetting that they're on the Helios space station, and gets sucked out into space as a result.

[@Gaaraloverr1]

When I saw Red Dead Redemption was going to be on this list, I was certain the “Deadalus and Son” quest from RDR1 would be featured. Charles had so much faith things would end well for him

[@Dutchtica]

Ocarina of Time had the chain of deals as Adult Link. Now the end goal is the biggoron sword but at one point you help the Cuccoo lady and you get a blue Cuccoo and you reunite him with the emo son of the csrpenters' boss And when you continue this quest past him, you'll find a Kokiri in his place saying that people in the lost woods... end up... you know

[@noob1n8or]

Octopath Traveler 2 has a side quest where a court bailiff asks you to find evidence that people standing trial are innocent of the crimes they're accused of. There's 2 of these and you can in fact prove the people on trial are innocent and have them set free. Come back after doing these and you'll find out that the bailiff himself has been accused of murdering the judge that presided over the 2 previous trials. One of the people in the galley doesn't buy it and asks you to investigate the murder, do so and you discover.... that the bailiff murdered the judge. Turns out that the judge himself was a thief that framed the bailiffs father years ago and sentenced him to death to cover his tracks. For what it's worth, your investigation also proves this fact as well and it's strongly implied that the bailiff wanted to be caught, and that the only reason he tried to get away with it was to force an investigation that would prove he had a motive, therby also proving that his father was framed. Either way, the bailiff that starts you on the questline ends up going down for murdering a judge.

[@Icam_here]

that was a unique twist to the one from assassin's creed entry on this list, would not of guessed that

[@taveonhurd8152]

Thank you for reminding me of that AC: Odyssey quest. It literally made me lol at the climax (pun intended)

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the game Elden Ring, one of the first characters you meet is Sellen the sorceress in the Limgrave region. Her questline includes defeating both Radahn and transplanting her glintstone crystal into a new body. Her goal is to return to the academy of Raya Lucaria and replace Rennala as the academy's headmaster. There are two endings for Sellen's quest and neither of them end well for her. She either turns into one of those stone balls with the faces on them or you kill her with the help of Jerren the witch hunter.

[@TheTriforceDragon]

There is actually a third ending..of sorts. You can trigger Sellen to make her move upon Raya Lucaria without telling her of Lusat's location. If you do this, Sellen (provided you help her kill Jerren) replaces Rennala, but does not pursue the Glintstone secrets that leads to her become one of the stone balls and simply remains at Renala's place for the rest of the game. You can still tell her of Lusat at any point after this and she becomes a stone ball by the next time you visit, but as long as you don't talk to her about Lusat's location she remains human even in Raya Lucaria.

[@amahashadow]

And you could also help a poor scholar to return home by giving him a key to raya lucaria's gate, I'm sure he will enjoy it tremendously..... Ooh dear

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

@@amahashadow there's also Millicent. You first meet her in Caelid and help her get a prosthetic arm to replace her missing one. Eventually you meet her at the Haligtree where you can help her fight her sisters after which she removes the gold needle keeping her alive or you invade her world and kill her there.

[@amahashadow]

@@Jonathon_Hennessey yeah, you can do an entIre 7 npc... vidéo just with elden ring. Returning the knife, going to mogh, the twins, ....

[@greenhydra10]

Let's be real here, this entire video could be on Soulsborne questlines.

[@Stratelier]

...or assorted Skyrim quests. I've seen 6 or 7 so far.

[@martinsriber7760]

If you talk to little girl in Bloodborne, things go terribly for her no matter what you do.

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

How about Red Dead Redemption 1 where John collects various materials for a man to make glue for his flying machine? Didn't end well for him. Bit of a theme for those games.

[@fakjbf3129]

When I saw the spoiler scrawl that’s what I assumed they were going to talk about, turns out they just forgot to add the “2”

[@PsychoMantisss]

I mean literally the entire Dark Brotherhood questline in Skyrim ends up badly for Astrid. Of course that can be said about a lot of questlines in Skyrim, like joining the vampires, siding with half of the Daedric princes, etc. Also pretty much anything involving the Dark Urge in Baldur's Gate 3.

[@Richforce1]

Actually it wasn't the time Batman took finding the trophies, it was the Riddler radioing in to taunt or throw a fit allowing Batman to use his own radio signal to locate him and then send that location to Gotham PD.

[@dahn57]

Always loved hearing the Riddler getting raided, a real reward for all that messing about! 😉

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I love that little nuance because it makes the Riddler look that much dumber.

[@Giga-lemesh]

The githyanki egg quest in baldur's gate 3. The people who wanted it abuse the kid born from it and then he kills them

[@hudsonball4702]

I really thought you'd have Devin Weston from GTA V in this list. After all the quests he gives you, assuming you follow the "all 3 survive" ending, he winds up in the trunk of his car and shoved over a cliff.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Plus the FBI agent. And Madrazo did end up missing an ear. (I still love the "Kidnapped his wife" cutscene. XD)

[@hudsonball4702]

@@WolfyFancyLads Could probably fill up en entire list of GTA V characters for this.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

@@hudsonball4702 Or any GTA, to be fair.

[@kingspilly4381]

How about Gascoigne's daughters in Bloodborne? The younger daughter will either get killed by the nearby enemies while trying to seek shelter or get turned into a monster. The older daughter will kill herself after her section of the quest is done.

[@SigrunAeterna]

I'm a bit surprised that Elden Ring's Irina wasn't picked. Hyetta does get burned alive at the end, but Irina asks you to find her father and after you help her father retake the castle, when you can go back and find her dead and her father mourning over her body. And then later in the game, her father, having gone nuttier than trail mix, invades you forcing you to kill him and taking an Shabriri Grape which ties back into Hyetta.

[@doge7877]

Yeah they should've done Irina especially considering hyetta is just her corpse somehow being used again.

[@ShadowJCreed]

A perfect thing that comes to mind is in Skyrim when you have to help the last descendant of one of the Mythic Dawn cultists reforge Mehrunes Razor the dagger of the deadric lord himself so the guy can put it in his museum. The quest goes well until the end for him when Mehrunes Dagon asks you to kill the guy and claim the dagger for yourself. Now you can always disobey the deadric prince but the guy only gives you 500 gold pieces and I'd rather have a cool unique dagger with a 1% instant kill perk then 500 pieces of gold especially for all the trouble it takes to get all the pieces

[@coltsfan354]

I would say that Face McShooty in Borderlands 2 had a pretty terrible ending, what with being shot in the face (at minimum) and all, but he seemed to have a great time about it, so I'm not really sure.

[@IvanTo88]

One of the first quests of Arcanum: Of Steamwork and Magick Obscura. In the starting area, there is a cave where it lies the spirit of a bandit who has been cursed by an elven priest because he and another rogue stole from him a holy manufact. He was killed by the greedy companion, who now has the manufact, and the spirit asks the hero to convince the monk to release the curse so his soul could pass through afterlife. Meeting the priest, he said that he cannot (and probably neither wants) remove the curse, but he can reward the hero if they recover the manufact. Completing that quest gives you a blessing improving the opinion with every other character in the world. You can later return to the cave and tell the spirit he is doomed forever.

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

And if you resurrect the bandit, he immediately attacks you, because he is both ungrateful and lacking in self-preservation.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I'm sure it's been pointed out but the AC:O one was a reference to Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. At least he didn't bang his dad himself like poor Oedipus did his mom. Either way, the moral's the same: DON'T. TRUST. ORACLES!!!

[@Vincent.E.M.Thorn.Author]

Another great Elden Ring example is Sellen. Help her out, and she tries to unlock the secrets of the Primeval Current, and promptly turns into a giant ball of faces.

[@lavengale]

There's a fair few of these in Wizard101. Normally, this happens because the quest giver betrayed the Young Wizard, who swiftly and violently retaliates.

[@hyrulianhero9004]

My first thought, went to Dead Rising 3. There’s a quest, where you help a guy get his RV going, by getting different kinds of fuel. After you get them for him, he pours them all into the tank of the RV, despite you warning him how dangerous it is, to mix them. As expected, the RV explodes, when he tries to start it.

[@typacsk]

That AC plot kind of rings a bell... (looks at the name "Supideo" for several minutes) HOLD THE HECKIN PHONE

[@gabbyn978]

Yes, they copied it - only that the original did the atrocious stuff himself, and blinded himself with a pair of brooch needles.

[@Awwscrewit]

Big Hat Logan had it worse in Dark Souls. Not only does his questline end in his death, but he tells you Sieths weakness along the way and killing him gives you the final sorcery.

[@Michael_Lindell]

This 7 Part Quest Given to you by... Outside Questra! (I hope they fare well.)

[@marshallrobinson1019]

"Missing wife" + "Wild at Heart" in The Witcher III. Also, "Coming of Age" or "The Pale Lady" in Skyrim.

[@anthonyeaves4145]

In KOTOR 2 you end up having to kill the very person who started you down the path of the main quest in the first place.

[@Bird_Dog00]

I could remember it wrong, but wasn't that - at least kinda - what the old hagg wanted anyway?

[@WearyWeaver]

@@Bird_Dog00 I think she hoped the Exile would join Revan, against the nebulous threat, the whole reason Revan left was to fight it, but if they didn't want to join, then at least have the courage and power to face and defeat her. I think, Kreia and Darth Treia, always felt more like sister characters, to me, rather than different sides of one.

[@newelljoseph5060]

Scanning the Keepers in Mass Effect if you decide to do the Renegade option

[@ognurd9858]

For some weird reason, the first quest I thought of was one in Skyward Sword where when Cawlin gives you a love letter to give to his crush, you have two options, both ending equally terribly for Cawlin. The first option is doing as told and giving the letter to his crush, and have her completely reject and scorn him, or you can give it to Phoeni, the ghost hand in the toilet who wants paper, where, after receiving the love letter, will think it was for her and from that day on, creepily caress Cawlin, thinking he meant it for her, giving Cawlin (from the sound of the whimpering) horrifying nightmares!

[@RG4327-]

Mass Effect has this salarian named Schells who asks for help with cheating in a nightclub called Flux. You get to test the device he had made, took him five years to make too. You can give this device to the nightclub's owner instead. Resulting in Schell to have wasted five years of his short salarian's life.

[@ReidRo1]

I mean depending on how you play it pretty much all of disco Elysium is one big mission that’s gone terribly for you

[@Flaris]

Here's a simple one from Wild Arms - Mother at a festival has lost track of her kid. So as good old heroes you head out to track him down. He's got a red balloon so shouldn't be too tricky. Just...once you find the kid he loses the balloon. Oh and a dimension rift opens up in the sky, death rains down on the city...and the kid dies.

[@anthonymitchell4257]

How about Gary the prophet in Cyberpunk? He spends his time next to Misty's Esoterica raving about various conspiracy theories. If you talk to him often enough he'll give you details of a meet up, which you dubiously follow up, not expecting anyone to show. When they do and you defeat them you return to Gary to find that he's been snatched away by shady Corpo types.

[@shadowcat1606]

I remember that quest in AC Odyssey. Hilarious. That's the kind of quests which are the reason why Odyssey was my favorite amongst the newer style of AC-games.

[@gsks1905]

Stomund from Lords of the Fallen got a pretty tragic one. It is a shame you can't tell him he can't cure madness with nostalgia.

[@tripplec6798]

Sozo from Cult of The Lamb. I'm sure completing this quest to give him mushrooms won't have any repercussions. Goes back to visit later...

[@frodobaggins7710]

A few questlines in Ghost of Tsushima can end badly for the quest giver, like A Wealthy Man Has All He Needs

[@Kurlija]

The Dockworker from Dredge would fit in nicely in that list.

[@Skapologist]

In Diablo 4 there’s a guy in a stockade who sends you to retrieve his eyes from some enemy in a dungeon. If you do so, he attempts to put them back in and his head combusts, seeing him run away screaming in pain. But, at least it broke him out of the stockade. Somehow.

[@gamepassghost]

Ohoho, ready for this one: Boone from New Vegas, even in the best case is stuck kicking it with the person who reminds him of his tragic past. The very first love triangle distraction after the intro in Skyrim. Solaaaaaaaaire and his dipteran delusions. And while we’re on Souls, Siegward’s sad, sad questline. Remnant 2, choose any of the endings in which the Red Doe doesn’t survive and you steal the last hope of the first Pan you encounter in Yaesha.

[@deathbykonami5487]

The Odyssey quest is funnier if you play as Alexios. There's something about his accent that sells it.

[@kassandra7313]

I see that Assassin's Creed went with the old Alucard/Dracula method of naming for Supideo

[@TrashPanda90914]

Yamarz in Skyrim. Hires you to help him clear out a cave full of giants with him and let you do all the work. Then, he tries to kill you so he can take the credit. Even though he just watched you demolish a cave full of literal giants 😂

[@motteh6948]

I feel like you can make a whole season of lists about this subject using only Fallout quests. 😆

[@Insomniaaron]

Whoever isn't the award winner between DJ Grooves and The Conductor in A Hat In Time.

[@kralik394]

The look Mike had on his face throughout the AC entry was exactly the look I expected a guy to have describing that scene. Like "I can't believe that this *is* my real job."

[@tinycandleman6020]

I cant think of a single Elden Ring sidequest where the quest giver doesnt die.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

You can make Zorayas not die or reset if you simply leave and come back later.

[@PokemonButcher]

Father Gascoigne’s daughters (both of them) in Bloodborne probably would have been better off without the player’s help.

[@JustinHoyt-px5oy]

The real hero is presumably ellen for going back to shadow of the tomb raider to get capture for this 😅

[@beoweasel]

There's a number of side quests in Diablo IV (which, story wise, was rather good, and I'll die on that hill, dammit) where the quest giver suffers horribly (even when they're not betraying you). For example, take Act 1 side quest, "Sight to Madness." In Kyovashad, there's a poor bastard held in the stocks by the name of Vilek. Vilek was tricked by a Theya, cultist in service to demons, who tore out his eyes and fashioned them into a necklace. To make matters worse for Vilek, Theya enchanted the eyes so, even though they're no longer in his head, he's forced to watch as she and her cult perform all kinds of horrific and bloody acts upon a village that they've taken. So, being the good hero that you are, you go to said village, head into the underground cellars where the cultists lurk, slaughter them all to a man, and retrieve Vilek's eyes. Upon returning to Vilek (who exclaims that he can see himself), he makes a truly bad decision in deciding to put the eyeballs BACK IN THEIR SOCKETS. As you can imagine, this ends poorly for Vilek as he screeches that it burns and runs screaming from the city while consumed by hellfire.