15 Bizarre 'Game Over' Scenes You Weren't Expecting

11. Wing Commander IV - Back To Being The Farm Boy

Famed for its branching stories, and the high budgets which went into its FMV sequences, Wing Commander IV surprisingly took account of the player's failures in early missions. If a player crashed his fighter too many times during tutorials, early combat flights and the like, they would be treated to a cutscene where Col. Blair, the protagonist, is called before Admiral Tolwyn's desk. Declaring that Blair could not be trusted with the Confederation's expensive fighter craft, and that the brief peace between games had cost him his skills, Tolwyn promptly discharges him from the military. The last we see of Blair following this is in a bar back on some alien world, dejected and listening to the increasing carnage of the war reports behind him. A surprisingly dark and sad end for the hero, and one which caught many players off guard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pte2qHwsc2k