7 Tragedies You Couldn't Prevent Because They Happened Behind Glass, Dammit: The Return

[@alexthemarshmallow92]

I swear, if normal glass was made of whatever the hell it's made of in these games we'd probably have a pretty significant drop of window-related issues

[@ArkaneStephanie]

I dunno. In games it's either invincible adamantium glass or complete rice paper. Depends on if you are watching someone dying or throwing them through it

[@TinKnight]

Polycarbonate is remarkably resilient & nearly impossible to shatter, even when paper thin, & is relatively cheap (I did my floor-to-ceiling family room windows for around $300 inc shipping & custom framing). When 3/4" thick, it's bulletproof, but still has the light transmission of glass (granted, we're talking pistols & resistance to single rifle shots rather than full automatic rifle/machine gun fire, but still)...and the very high cost would be nothing for a high security area. Just because something looks like glass doesn't mean it's glass.

[@darrienjones8917]

It could be used to make those glass houses everyone keeps saying is a bad idea to have.

[@drunkrdm]

until you need to escape a gun man or fire and just bounce back into the danger trying to jump though a window.

[@bustinarant]

@@darrienjones8917 But then you invite a Jimmy Hopkins to your doorstep!

[@insecdroid]

The only thing worse than a preventable death happening because it’s behind glass is a preventable death happening because you’re stuck in a cutscene!

[@_Lullaby15]

Or when the when try to save someone from a preventable death the enemy end up taking no damage

[@bustinarant]

@@_Lullaby15 Why ya slinking off on me ynneL? :(

[@theoceanistblu9346]

..or metal gear rising. where it's both.

[@haravikk]

Even worse when you're carrying around 99 phoenix feathers or whatever that can literally bring people back to life after they were chewed up by a machine and then exploded, so it's literally impossible to not save someone; but the writers want them dead so they're just dead. 😡

[@immortalfrieza]

The "preventable death happening because it's behind glass" is pretty much just a slightly interactive cutscene.

[@matthewspringuel5370]

This trope has been used so many times, that now I want to see a game make the setup, but it is later in the game, when your character can break glass. Then there are two ways you can go: think that the glass cannot be broken because of the trope, don't try and watch the person die; or, realize your character is in fact strong enough to break the glass, do so, and save the person.

[@Caedus9001]

was just about to posit this

[@EGRJ]

It would be even better if they play it straight the first time, but by the second time you've explicitly gotten strong enough to break the "reinforced" glass. Then the smirking bad guy gets up close, to taunt you. Then the QTE button appears. You can ignore it, but that just means your character grabs the bad guy after they turn away, to make it even more brutal.

[@liamnehren1054]

I want one with a whole cut scene with in game graphics and perspective but that at the end of the cutscene before the death of the character you can shoot one more time to break the glass resulting in a 4th wall breaking cutscene.

[@benjamincollins4276]

The DOOM guy kinda does this in DOOM 2016 when he just starts breaking shit despite being told he can't

[@HovektheArtist]

I think mass effect did that at some point

[@tjryser1]

I humbly suggest "Times you were told exactly who the big bad evil is and didn't realize it"

[@Doomted90]

I kinda wanna see what randoms we can come up with here... I feel like I've never seen it... Wait, would Ratchet and Clank count with Captain Quark?

[@metarcee2483]

Mega Man six. Mr. X, my butt.

[@NisansaDdS]

5:34 Ellen saying "In Doom ... you play Doom guy" with a straight face is one of the best deliveries ever.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

I remember one quote from Jane, concerning hammers and "peening balls", I about fell off the couch laughing!!!

[@yt_Ajay_]

I mean, you do play as Doomguy though..

[@mx2000]

That is his canonical name though

[@johnwrath3612]

@@mx2000 I believe his official title is Sir Remington L. Doomguy III, esq.

[@no_genius]

Especially when you actually play Link

[@julienarmand1473]

I don't know if I would call Sophia Lamb's death a "tragedy", considering [SPOILER ALERT] she is the big baddie of Bioshock 2, mind-controlled you into shooting yourself in front of your daughter at the start of the game, tried to brainwash Eleanor for years, AND tried to smother her with a pillow when she refused to obey her ... oh, and the whole "trying to take over the world and end Human existence as we know it through some kind of assimiliation plot" thing, too. Sure, she IS some kind of mother figure to Eleanor, however twisted, but ... *suddenly remembers that her death is the prelude to Eleanor going full-throttle evil and being unleashed upon the surface world with superpowers and technology far ahead of the rest of the world* Oh, nevermind. I see it now.

[@docette2015]

Good point about that, but I think the ACTUAL moment the commenter in the first one was referring to was, in fact, Eleanor nearly being smothered because THAT happens behind glass too if I remember correctly, and I think the commenter just mixed up the names. It would make a LOT more sense because Eleanor is who Delta has been chasing this entire time, and you come SO CLOSE to reuniting -- and then Sophia pulls that, and the endgame starts with you learning you're inevitably going to die. Oof.

[@blazaybla22]

Shades of grey my man

[@2013Fangirl]

If you guys ever do another "Embarrassing Achievements" video, I found one in Prey when I accidentally recycled myself.

[@seand7042]

I think they did that one in one of their lists

[@2013Fangirl]

@@seand7042 Oh, maybe I missed it lol. I only saw when they got "No Show" for dying by the helicopter blades.

[@seand7042]

@@2013Fangirl you've turn into a bunch of packets of items right?

[@2013Fangirl]

@@seand7042 no. I'm playing a non mimic playthrough. I threw a recycler at a Phantom and didn't realize I was in the blast zone lmao.

[@rangerecho]

there's one in Deep Rock Galactic where you throw yourself at a flaming hoop while drunk. It's called "Darwin Award". Best achievement ever.

[@charlieabbott7924]

Surprised you didn't mention Arkham Knight, when Scarecrow captures Oracle while imaginary Joker mocks your inability to break glass

[@daltonwright6514]

Or Arkham origins when lobe is gassed

[@BillGoldingMusic]

7 game endings that made us google the ending for an explanation.

[@SapphireDragon357]

I like this idea, but it would be very subjective, opening themselves up to comments like "That ending was obvious. What are you, morons?" etc.

[@nashvontookus7451]

@@SapphireDragon357 Soulsborne lore nerds

[@dudescrawny5859]

Every Playdead game

[@michaelandreipalon359]

For casual Star Wars fans, probably Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - Mysteries of the Sith, where *SPOILERS* To finally beat the otherwise unstoppable and Dark Side-corrupted Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn in the endgame, you (as Mara Jade, future wife to Luke Skywalker in the Legends continuity) have to accept being one with the Force (in short, death) all while hoping that her corrupted Master snaps out of his Dark Side reverie and spare her... suffice to say, she succeeds. To lore veterans, such acceptance was already done by other characters such as Ulic Qel-Droma from the Tales of the Jedi comics, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Ep. IV, and even Cal Kestis during his final confrontation with the Jaro Tapal apparition in Dathomir from Jedi: Fallen Order, so it wasn't hard for them to figure it out.

[@BillGoldingMusic]

I got to the end of a few games and had this the bioshock games (especially infinite) do big info dumps at the end of their games which made me go “wait what?!” And do a google to get a full explanation.

[@joeschmo3844]

Ellen: “The opening of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron can be summed up in one word…” Me: “Loud? Because holy crap that was louder than the rest of the video.”

[@revolver265]

Yeah, that audio may have needed a rebalance there. I was playing something while listening so I couldn't turn it down, but it was like game audio went silent for that explosions and screaming montage XD

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Still a great game though, alongside War for Cybertron. Wish they get out of licensing issues hell nowadays.

[@BewareTheJadePhoenix]

yeah, she said something about "aaaahhh" and i was like "yup, 'AAAHHH' was def what i was saying as the volume stabbed me in the ears"

[@yeetuszilla1663]

I expected either chaos or explosion

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

I love how Metal Gear Rising subverts this trope twice over in one scene. That game has so much to say about games while still being *such* a game.

[@bonzupippinpaddleoxacoppil484]

Ok, but in Bioshock they establish that some “glass” in the makeup of rapture is actually Rydanium - a clear steel-hard alloy used to withstand deep sea pressures.

[@peachesplums]

but as they showed, big daddies can break it, and you play as one

[@nashvontookus7451]

@@peachesplums Maybe only the outside glass?

[@Drave_Jr.]

@@peachesplums There’s only two times Rydanium is broken. Once by a Bouncer in 1960 on a random pane and again by a Big Sister near the beginning of 2. Delta never breaks it. Also, Sofia would probably have the highest quality in front of Eleanor’s room.

[@Ooffoop]

Ok but heat me out DRILL ARM

[@shivamnarayan1450]

My man, whose side are you on? 😂

[@lizardguyNA]

Hey, remember in Control when you saw that guy with the Fridge? How he couldn't leave because if nobody looked at it the darn thing would do something horrible? If we were able to just break that pane of glass with our magic gun or psychic powers, we could've saved him from getting murdered by the thing inside the fridge.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Weird Al: 🎵🎶"......livin' in the fridge!!!....."🎶🎵

[@liamnehren1054]

the worst part being that you disable the effect of the fridge only a moment later....

[@grumble]

rip poor Philip. he never did like fridge duty

[@mckayleepugmire9947]

Actually that's a great point, why was it necessary to walk around the corner, the place was already in chaos and the guy in charge of watching/containing the fridge never mentioned that a sealed room was an essential part of it's containment

[@kingdomtrue7008]

you wanna release a fridge version of SCP-173...I though so

[@Eckister]

"On the one hand - the glass has to be super tough to deal with the high water pressure at the bottom of the sea. But on the other hand - IS A BIG DRILL..." It is this kind of writing that I adore you folks for!

[@Zoso14892]

"selling plastic crap to impressionable children" hits different just after my daughter opened all her paw patrol toys 😂😂

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

"Nate you have to marry this woman." I know Luke knows but that doesn't make it any less funny to me.

[@lisah-p8474]

When he said that I literally LOL'd. I also absolutely appreciated Elena completely invalidating that entire "impotently palm slapping the glass" scene with a single small toolbox.

[@coffeekat5066]

We all know Nate married her *because* he saw what she did to that glass.

[@ArkaneStephanie]

I think DoomGuy secretly kept letting her get away so he didn't run out of demons to killerize

[@ddjsoyenby]

"eh i'll need more of them to rip and tear later i'll let her go for now.........than later rip and tear!"

[@novaseer]

I would argue that Doomguy would rather try to save the lives of the humans, but in Eternal's DLC he literally resurrected Satan just so he could fight him, so I dunno.

[@SG_Dave]

Nothing wrong with dying in Grimsby, it's preferable to the alternative of living there.

[@samwill7259]

They should just make your final armor upgrade out of that glass, clearly it's indestructible!

[@Brasc]

Elder Scrolls comes close with their Light class Glass Armor.

[@ddjsoyenby]

YES!

[@pixelhotdish]

Dead Space: Hammond's Death. A sequence plays out where a man is brutally torn apart behind a pain of glass. The monster responsible for said murder then breaks the glass and comes after you. Fun stuff!

[@Jakespeed207]

And even later, Dr. Mercer kills Temple and Elizabeth (the logs of whom you've been finding throughout the ship like a second protagonist) right in front of you. And despite the fact you're carrying futuristic space tools that are either energy tools or could be as simple as saw blades with DIAMOND tips, you can't break the glass.

[@ianhruday9584]

Dead Space 2, where the exploding baby blows up its mother in the school.

[@pixelhotdish]

@@Jakespeed207 Yea, turns out Dead Space loves the "behind the glass" mechanic. lol

[@harmonixdraws5298]

The unnamed scientist that was killed by the baby necromorph in the first Dead Space but also the girl that committed unalive- the exploding baby scene from the 2nd Dead Space... I'm sure there's more lmao.

[@pixelhotdish]

@@harmonixdraws5298 Oh good call, I totally forgot that one. Could make an entire video on Dead Space deaths behind glass. :D

[@BouncingTribbles]

There aren't many channels I hit like video unseen, but you guys deserve it. These theme lists are always great, puns, fun game memories, and a visit with the 5 of you. Thank you for all the hard work (and John and anyone else)

[@fandomtrash4664]

I'm surpised no one has mentioned Julie Langford's death in Bioshock. You spend all that time helping her save Arcadia, only to watch her die on the other side of glass.

[@Leith_Crowther]

The number of tragedies behind glass in the Bioshock series could fill a list video.

[@fandomtrash4664]

@@Leith_Crowther oh absolutely. Bioshock and invincible glass go hand in hand.

[@Leith_Crowther]

When (Bioshock Infinite spoilers) the rebel leader held a child hostage behind glass, I went ahead and resigned myself to how this was gonna go. Glad it didn’t happen that way.

[@scottylewis8124]

​@@Leith_Crowther Daisy.

[@tunestring8994]

May we have a moment of silence for the people that died behind glass edit thanks for the 100 likes

[@oohdannyboy]

Yes, let us raise our glasses in their honour.

[@archonfett]

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[@megatronjenkins2473]

(F)

[@rrwholloway]

Press G to pay respects

[@michaelandreipalon359]

🖖

[@andrewcook8093]

I kinda want to see a scene where you look on helpless as something bad happens but then as the bad guys are leaving they lightly slam the door and the glass just falls out on it’s own. Or maybe the protagonist leans and bangs on the glass repeatedly and then as the baddie leaves the glass falls towards him revealing that him leaning on it was all that was holding it in place the whole time.

[@Vincent-2057]

I say this every time it comes up... "It was just one little sister... " Glad your finally saying it too;

[@frodobaggins7710]

I'm really curious to know how a bunch of scientists managed to create glass that's able to withstand a BFG 9000

[@Renge43]

I’m sorry I just read that as Big Fucking Guy 9000 and now I must share that cause if I have to look like a giggling idiot in front of my family you have to as well.

[@em5114]

@@Renge43 I did too! 😂

[@cae2212]

@@Renge43 to be fair to you, it works that way too. The person wielding the BFG is fucking big and so much of a guy that it is in the name. The glass withstands him as well

[@FlushGorgon]

By making it transparent.

[@novaseer]

To be fair, both parts in the video are before you get the BFG.

[@maxvel0city906]

"What if kicking?" Sounds like the perfect name for Mike Channel's autobiography.🤔 Actually Bulletstorm seems like a game Mike would really like. This reminds me of that time Ellen kicked a bear in AC Odyssey and Mike kept talking to everyone about it like a proud Dad.😂

[@Brasc]

"That's my Ellen. She kicked a bear. What? That bear was your boy? Well..."

[@CantankerousDave]

I assume Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gets its own chapter.

[@jasonours6957]

Remember in SpongeBob when Patrick and sandy were talking about kicking, that’s where my brain went when I heard this

[@hudsonball4702]

Star Wars Republic Commando. In the Prosecutor campaign you're stuck behind glass not once, not twice, BUT THREE TIMES has you watch some poor clones get killed and even watch one of your team mates get jumped. 1. Right after you enter the ship you come across a lone trooper who is hiding on a walk way on the other side of the walkway you're on. Both of which are covered in windows. The poor trooper then gets jumped by a scavenger droid and killed while you watch helplessly. 2. A little later, after being attacked by a scavenger droid, he comes across the windowed hole in the floor. There he watches two more clone troopers charge something that is attacking them and seconds later watches as one of their heads rolls back into view. 3. A little later after that you met your teammate Sev. You watch him, from behind glass, attempt to retrieve data from one of the ship's data cores, but then gets jumped by a Trandoshon. He gets taken to a prison cell.

[@johnoneil9188]

Now I want an alternate ending for a game where you in fact smash the glass, the bad guy looks in baffled astonishment and the game ends about 12 hours earlier.

[@maliciositygames]

Possible at all to have a reverse video, "times when a pane of glass saved your life?" To be honest, I mainly have in mind skipping that cutscene on the bridge of The Pillar of Autumn during "The Maw" level in Halo 1 leaving the indestructible window display up front so that the approaching sentinels are much easier to deal with (very helpful on legendary).

[@diegomoreno6752]

You've known her for 5 years Luke, of course she had to do the glass bit 😁

[@Overlord0011]

The Darkness when Jackie's girlfriend is executed right in front of him. Granted, he is being restrained as well, but he still couldn't, you know, kick through it or anything either.

[@soulhuntress]

Poor Jenny, I was thinking of this scene, too 😢 curse you, glass!

[@joshp8535]

Man, they have that scene right before where they have like a nice night in together. I was young and kinda fell for her a bit, then that happened. It truly affected me. I didn't go back to the game for months and I didn't restart I just played from after that scene.

[@gfaDiaspa]

Excuse me, but Ellen doing the bit behind the glass at the end was the best part!

[@seand7042]

I've an idea for a list that I don't think you've done: 7 protagonists who look identical to more famous video game protagonists.... the name needs workshopping but I can already think of like 3 or 4

[@jardex2275]

That list would be exclusively filled with Anime characters.

[@normative]

"Man, that's dark! I remember the innocent days..." Clearly Ellen has never seen the original animated Transformers: The Movie, which includes onscreen planetary genocide, swearing, horrifying tentacled creatures running a Kafkaesque court in which innocent and guilty alike are sentenced to death, and the murder of several of your favorite toys, including Optimus Prime.

[@scottkamps1270]

Additionally, to be perfectly honest, Starscream has always been portrayed as an asshole. Sometimes moreso than Megatron.

[@CantankerousDave]

“Megatron? Is that you?” “Here’s a hint.” (blam!)

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Kid's stuff becoming all too dark = masterpiece.

[@Lionfire42]

Not to mention the time the Decepticons tossed all of their wounded into the vaccum of space.

[@scottkamps1270]

@@Lionfire42 "Wa...it! I...still...function!" "Wanna bet?" *kicks into space*

[@fiascothe63rd]

“Oh no, I can’t possibly cut through glass” -Raiden, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance but Summarized Incorrectly

[@abydosianchulac2]

Whoever edited this one, amazing job with the foley at the end there!

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Yeah, they frelled up during a Doomguy part, too.

[@l0stndamned]

When Ellen talks about the innocent times of the transformers franchise I was expecting a cut the the Instruments of Destruction scene from the movie.

[@julienthijs1271]

Or the death of Optimus Prime

[@0PercentImagination]

Imagine if all games had realistic destruction for everything, forget just breaking the glass you'd probably take an entire building (or even space station) down by 'accident'.

[@jamaisj]

System Shock 2 has a number of scenes where you see NPCs die behind glass. There is even a scene where you watch two lovers run from a tumbler; while they do get away, they are in the sequel bait at the end that involves their death; if you could have saved them from the tumbler they would have lived.

[@warcard1104]

In Modern Warfare(2019), on the level titled “The Embassy”, a man named the butcher shoots a child and his dad in front of you behind glass.

[@devonmcdaniel1176]

Yay, the return of Ellen! She was gone for some episodes, I missed her

[@runningthemeta5570]

I Metal Gear Rising Revenganc, While Raiden is in Mexico he reaches a desperado lab that has kids behind a pane of glass. But has to watch helplessly as the room is filled with gas that presumably kills them. Despite Raiden being able to cut everything.

[@TrickyTalon23]

9:29 Nate and Elena are the best video game couple of all time

[@TarynBeeswax]

About the one where Pierce slowly walks into an elevator with a cell, I timed it, if Doomguy simply started running the instant he saw Olivia he would've caught up to her before she even got into the elevator, let alone before it closed, and with how frail she is, kill her in a single punch

[@JRizzle8921]

I don’t know why anyone would’ve expected Optimus to break through glass when the episode BOT shows Autobots can’t break down a wooden door

[@dilltaskermusic1407]

For Bioshock 2, I get the feeling the OP was actually referring to Sophia suffocating Eleanor with a pillow just before the last level but got the names switched. Also I think you meant to call the entry "Sophia's Death". That really confused me.

[@jamesphillips4009]

Damn right, I was thinking am I the only one here who actually played this game? And given that your choices do influence the outcome, as noted, you *can* prevent any tragedy. So it doesn't fit at all.

[@Efeye-s]

Yeah, I was referring to the part where you find Eleanor on a bed in Persephone and enter a very flimsy-looking quarantine chamber that closes a glass door in front of and behind you. You can then only helplessly watch as Sophia suffocates Eleanor with a pillow to break the bond between you. A lot of comments about how you were weakened by a bomb, but this was before that in a part of the game where you just solo'd two big sisters at the same time, is fully decked out with gatlings n' guns n' grenades, and likely wielding every plasmid the game has to offer in their fully upgraded form (not to mention said power drill that we've seen go pretty deep into solid metal and also used to smash through barriers of concrete rubble). But shattering a door that was never meant to stop anything other than air? That's just asking too much.

[@mr.sheeppeehs4204]

I want a game that gives you a glass gun that is almost useless outside of the fact that breaking random lanes of glass is fun. But then a scene like this comes, and your glass gun breaks right as you try to use it, just to make you feel pain. Or should I say, PANE

[@gamepassghost]

It is physically impossible not to smile watching you guys. Hopefully oxbox will let you guys out from behind the glass. At least Luke had the christmas survival training.

[@missmuscle]

Wow, surprised you didn't have the biggest one for me which is in The Darkness. I got so emotionally attached to Jenny and then... Noooooo....

[@azuredragoon2054]

They had that on one of their previous lists for this topic.

[@jamesskelton3488]

it wasnt so much the glass that stopped us from saving Jenny as the demon that possessed us

[@greenhat8978]

This is why empty bottles are so valuable in Zelda

[@asteriondeltoro124]

84, Luke. :) And for a switch-up, one time the glass DIDN'T stop you: In Second Sight, the final boss tries to do his dirty work behind a pane of glass that is not only bulletproof, but resistant to the PCs telekinetic powers. Pity he never thought to psychic-proof the wall the glass was attached to. :)

[@DreadWulfie]

The audio for the Transformers game after Ellen's first scene between timestamp 9:49-9:59 is extremely loud compared to the rest of the video. I had to scramble to lower the volume a lot because of how loud it is and because it hurt my ears (RIP anyone watching this with headphones on).

[@julienthijs1271]

I guess it´s for the bit cause it´s not THAT loud in the actual levels

[@Michael_Lindell]

2. In Bulletstorm you play a kick ass character not a kick glass one...

[@endgamer3000]

Will say I’m surprised that the dead space series ain’t on this, Issac in both 1 and 2 find survivors but seconds later a necromorph kills them, all because a single pane of glass stoping a plasma cutter

[@archonfett]

I think at least one was on one of the earlier chapters of this list

[@jardex2275]

For an inverse of this, the only thing keeping the deadly radiation from Project Purity from killing you in Fallout 3 is a pane of glass.

[@Jillbles]

BioShock went for the behind-glass murder so many times, but I think my favorite is when they showed Suchong's death in Burial at Sea to the first bonded Big Daddy, a thing they'd had play over an audiolog in the first game.

[@TheAzureKnight25]

So close to 1M! Been here since day one and they deserve it.

[@Mortified_Penguin]

"Nate, you have to marry this woman." He does! 😁

[@skyrimspectrobe8608]

Apparently, every single video game MC's Kryptonite is glass. Who knew?

[@JeedyJay]

Funny you should mention that - Seanbaby once noted, in one of his articles about Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends, that force fields were Superman's secret alternate weakness. Because if he ran into one, he'd spend the rest of the episode bonking against it and wondering aloud why it wasn't working. Supes was quite the forerunner, in a lot of ways.

[@aetherwise2159]

That whole outro may be one of my favorites you’ve ever done. Brilliance

[@codydees9681]

So the Bioshockone really confused me, as I knew Elanor doesn't die in the game. Then I thought "oh, the commenter is probably gonna talk about Sophia suffocating Elanor towards the end", and lo and behold I was right. Then Ellen starts talking about Sophia dying, and I ended up seriously confused, because 1. that wasn't what the commenter said, and 2. She's the last person we would want to save, so it's not really a tragedy? I dunno, I think there was some kind of miscommunication or misunderstanding on that section.

[@aodyssey6601]

Technically the Egg Room and all list videos happens behind a glass window (of a phone, monitor etc). It’s a thinker

[@leoncaples2947]

Curse you inconveniently placed glass windows!!

[@hondaaccord1399]

FNAF has the same behind glass scenario in two SEPARATE games! Said scenario is the death of a young girl with yellow pigtails who is left outside in the rain and killed by Purple Guy, the villain found throughout the series, while you watch on as either a robot serving food or as the robot who is supposed to keep the young girl safe. I'm not sure if it counts since it's in two minigames, but I think, personally, that it's a behind-glass tragedy that needs to be mentioned.

[@Esiaa]

In Mass Effect 2 while you're trying to get out of a space station (very beginning). It's not as gruesome as some other examples, but there are a few places where mechs kill people behind the glass.

[@jbz4788]

Yeah but they were Cerberus agents so…..

[@Feasco]

I can think of one example of the reverse to this situation - Arkham Knight, where you get into a room to rescue someone just as the main bad guy goons show up but can't attack you because you're protected by thick glass. they also can't stop you from remotely activating the cannon on the Batmobile conveniently located behind them.

[@Earthruler-qb2ne]

Dead space has a lot of death scene behind glass. The most frustrating part behind the glass scene was in the first game when the main antagonists revealed herself and explain all of her plan. I wanted to shot her but couldn't because of glass.

[@docette2015]

Echoing those who have said "we're pretty sure the commenter in the first one meant the moment where SOPHIA tries to smother ELEANOR and accidentally got mother and daughter confused." You completely threw me there! That being said, it at least guarantees you have to do another one of these videos? :p

[@josjawillems3708]

Today on Outside Xtra, we answer the age old question: how many pains does it take to get in a world of hurt? About 2 would do it, apparently.

[@ChristopherMB87]

Nobody tell Ellen about the first Transformers movie… we must protect her innocence

[@AdamusPrime24]

Ah yes, with Optimus 'Give Me Your Face' Prime XD

[@julienthijs1271]

@@AdamusPrime24 no the 1986 movie where pretty much every first year autobot die in a violent fashion (like melted from the inside for exemple XD)

[@AdamusPrime24]

@@julienthijs1271 Oh yes! Forgot about that one XD I remember first watching it and thinking 'yay there's RatchetOHNEVERMIND' XD

[@nikkivalle8480]

in Bendy and the Ink Machine you first see/encounter Alice when there's glass between the two of you. (thus keeping you safe.) Also I can't believe you did Bioshock 2 without going into Sofia suffocating Eleanor to break her bond with you. Also I think in Mass Effect Andromeda when you discover what happens to the Angara the Kett kidnap you're behind glass.

[@geraldballinger6428]

when i make a D&D campaign i'm gonna make glass not only unbreakable but as a rare material added to weapons to make them stronger. my party is gonna be wanting to destroy frames just so they can get their weapons stronger, its gonna be chaotic

[@SlamdalfTheGrey]

I'm surprised the Darkness isn't on here, it forces you to watch your character's girlfriend be murdered in front of him and you're powerless to stop it. Poor Jenny 😔

[@samloyd9287]

My favorite is the drawn out death scenes where characters in said death scenes have healing magic. I fucking hated having to sit and watch Jessie die in cloud’s arms in FF7 remake and watch the camera zoom in on the healing materia imbedded in cloud’s buster sword as he just sits there and lets her bleed out

[@Icam_here]

7x12... there is just no way of knowing what the answer is, and Ellen is trapped behind glass, this is truly the darkest timeline for Oxtra

[@dialaskisel5929]

Darn it! I tried to stop this video from being made! But unfortunately you were safe behind that infernal pane of glass! Now we have to suffer through another fantastic Outside Xtra video!

[@ArkaneStephanie]

Yes Fall of Cybertron is here. Such an underrated and hidden gem

[@julienthijs1271]

It´s a great game ^^ ! Hope people are curious enough to check it out

[@ArkaneStephanie]

@@julienthijs1271 Well you can't buy it anymore so I don't think they will be able to check it out that much

[@EduardoVidalSalgadoFajardo]

You guys forgot God of War 3, when Pandora gets stuck in a glass cube and Kratos who has killed titans and gods, has to solve a puzzle to break the glass.

[@calebcarlcrouch]

I think the Doom one is a little understandable, because Doomguy wanted to get back to Hell so he could kill more demons.

[@dagamer5t3w57]

Now we need tragedies that you couldn't prevent because you left your gear somewhere else

[@AgentMonochrome]

There was that one scene in Batman: Arkham Knight where Oracle shot herself. All Batman could do is watch helplessly behind glass. But then we find that it was the fear toxin manipulating his brain and she was alive.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

It's almost as if this trope is a subtle bit of recognition that all video game shots are basically just brighter spots of light moving about on a field of light that is constantly, inevitably, hitting you, the player in the face from behind a pane of glass. Shoot as many enemies as you like, the game will always have shot you more because of the one-way shooting gallery that is the screen.

[@HunterX05]

in the beginning of Batman Arkham Origins, you watch Commissioner Loeb get gassed from the other side of some glass... remember this is a game where you can break glass, and do break this instance of glass after the cutscene

[@HunterX05]

There's also an instance in Arkham Knight, but it wouldn't technically count due to the entire sequence being a Scarecrow induced hallucination

[@jacobfarley2332]

I could be wrong, but it looks like you're still underwater in Bioshock 2 when Eleanor kills Sophia. If you broke the glass, she'd still be drowning, which looks like you wouldn't have much time fight or hold off Eleanor judging by how quickly Sophia drowns

[@undeadgentalmen]

Me - Glass! My only weakness! Sabrina from 'Prototype 2' - *Throws a grenade on her side of the glass.* Me - Boy, I thought I was the dumb one. Sure prove me wrong.

[@sylphialon9969]

I don't think you guys or Oxbox have done an episode themed around this- But I was thinking an interesting list to make would be problematic favorite characters in games- Either NPCs, PCs or Protagonists that do countless horrible things as canon in the story, but are still beloved by the fan base regardless. My biggest example of this is the Raiden Shogun or Ei from Genshin Impact. She not only is a tyrant god who keeps her entire nation in a perpetual loop of eternity, but also left a soulless puppet to carry out that fate for her nation for her while she just lives inside her own consciousness in her dead twin sister's sword. Yes, she does eventually acknowledge her wrong doing, but that only comes after 500 years of ignoring her people and nation entirely- Overcome by grief and sadness so bad that I think she needs to see around 7 separate therapists for. People love her though because she pulls a sword from her bossom and has a real 'Step on me Mommy' air about her. (While I don't really buy into it one bit to be honest)

[@snowboundwanderer]

Back in 2015 I went to London from the States and bought a ticket to the Conference promotion final between Grimsby Town and Bristol Rovers. My neutral ticket ended up being right next to the Grimsby section and during half time I played volleyball with some kids on the Grimsby side who would hit the inflatable ball back to me with their giant inflatable fish. It left me with a fondness for the people of that town.

[@wingdingmasquerade]

I know you've covered the Arkham games before, but much like how The Joker keeps coming back to torment Batman so too does the dreaded impenetrable glass. In Akham Knight there's a segment where Batman is completely helpless to stop Barbara Gordon from being sprayed with Scarecrows newest fear gas and the scene that unfolds. Even "The World's Greatest Detective" must submit to the glass's power.

[@marybdrake1472]

Did, did Ellen ever see the 86' Transformers movie? Because that one was messy.

[@archonfett]

and was all about selling plastic

[@marybdrake1472]

@@archonfett Yes, yes it was.

[@matthewmedlyn9087]

HASBRO: We'll spend 2 years giving all these characters distinct personalities so you grow to love them ALSO HASBRO: And now we're going to brutally, horrifically, kill them all to make you buy new toys. (I'm still not over what they did to Prowl)

[@marybdrake1472]

@@matthewmedlyn9087 I can tell that you didn't get over what happened to Prowl. As I said, it was messy.

[@druinofodd1762]

Weird and sort of tenuous example from Fallout New Vegas. In Camp McCarran there's a captured Legion Officer being interrogated behind a pane of glass. Whilst you the player can get in and interrogate/murder the prisoner at your leisure, Boone - your legion-hating companion - can do nothing but stand and scowl beyond the glass as you potentially treat the prisoner of war with kindness, or even break him loose. Luckily for Boone, he has his chance to kill the legionaire if you break them out by smuggling a weapon to them.

[@khrisbreezy3628]

What about the opposite of this video theme: Awesome things you got to behold from behind panes of glass. Such as Jaro Topal in Jedi Fallen Order or Cayde-6's final spat of tech support in Destiny 2 Forsaken?

[@JuggernautJoey613]

Cayde-6: **Furious button pressing**

[@NeonKnightOA]

Quake IV has a two-for-one: the first is the unnamed marine being surprised and crushed by a Grunt against the glass when you're deactivating the forcefields between the Convoy levels, and the other is the death of Medic Anderson, who's trapped behind a glass door while a Medic performs gruesome acts on him and leaves with his corpse.

[@memesky1014]

In the doom 2016 is actually doom guy letting her do it because doom guy wants to kill more demons.

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

Can't believe you haven't covered Deus Ex: Human Revolution! Before you even finish the tutorial, you've been thwarted by glass not once, but twice! Not to mention having your squishy human body thrown through crazy thick glass is the reason you end up with a sleek, futuristic cyber body

[@AdamusPrime24]

Yay, finally a Transformers game in an OxBox list! \^^/ TBF the brand still does sell the plastic cr*p to impressionable children...And adults...*Glances at continually growing collection*

[@julienthijs1271]

XD it´s okay ! We are doing normal adult things ! (Plus pretty certain they love pokemon so ...)

[@coyoteartist]

I had Ironhide back in the day. I use to think it funny he was a Transformer because he looked like a conversion van in his vehicle form. Wish I still had him.

[@julienthijs1271]

@@coyoteartist there is a modern toy of his old design if you´re interested ( search studio series 86 ironhide ). The engineering on modern transformers is bonkers : they look like they jumped right out of the 80´ show !

[@coyoteartist]

@@julienthijs1271 Cool. I'll look that up.

[@coaltowking]

Luke's excitement at the end really made it sound like he was saying, "Hurray! tragedy!"

[@ASLTheatre]

We the viewer are stuck behind the glass of our computer/phone screens. ;) We cant tell you except typing on this keyboard, hoping our message will be seen.

[@LacroixboiMarx]

wE lIvE iN a SoCiEtY 😆

[@ASLTheatre]

@@LacroixboiMarx There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[@johannvongenerico9487]

Does it count if your character inexplicably doesn't act even without barriers? Like in Dragon's Dogma during the Seeking Salvation quest, where you just stand there while a cult leader summons some undead to kill his congregation and only kill the zombies once they've done eating people

[@bustinarant]

Dragon's Dogma is full of that stuff to be fair, you can even accidentally wind up in a relationship with the landlord dude or the tiny dutchess(?), if they're the only ones you talked to..

[@bi0ha2ard]

Suggestion: when you spend in game money on armor/weapons only to stumble on the same (or better!) item while exploring. Love from Kuwait, Saud.