When a video game dialogue option is way more aggressive than you anticipated

A player faces a handmade RPG dialogue menu and chooses the greeting. His sunglasses-wearing avatar responds with an insult and a wildly disproportionate threat, leaving the player stunned by the gap between the button label and the spoken response.

Stephanie Rennick and Seán Roberts cite this short in their 2025 Game Studies paper as an example of the mismatch between a dialogue option and a player character’s actual response.