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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.”

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.

"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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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)

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

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.

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.

"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.😂

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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'.

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

Curse you inconveniently placed glass windows!!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

14:24 what a horrible fate... they were deployed to Grimsby

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

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. :)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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....

🎵 "I'm looking at you through the glass, don't know how much time has passed. All I know is that it feels like forever, and no one ever tells you that forever feels like...OH GOD! OH GOD! AHHH SICK! NO, WHY?! THE BLOOD! THE BLOOD! OH GOD!" 🎵

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Seems like Bulletstorm should have been called “Feet of Fury”! 🤣🤣🤣

The “death” of Barbara Gordon in Batman: Arkham Knight

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

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

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!

"7 times you couldn't prevent tragedy because of glass 2 : Double Glazed" was right there

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.

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

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

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

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.

Imagine being able to pick up one of those "glass" panes and use it as a shield even as just a cheeky reference to this trope....

This is why empty bottles are so valuable in Zelda

“What if, kicking?” I’m at the gym and just lost it mid way through a set. What if kicking indeed.

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

I love the glass bit at the end 🤣

"What if... kicking?", LMAO! Reminds me of the episode of Family Guy where Peter gets into the movie Road House and starts kicking everything. :) (I just saw a rerun of a later episode where he brought it back, Brian goes to live with other people and Peter Road House's them to get Brian back). I'm remembering him driving home using a weird route because it has a lot of turns, hearing him kick every turn. (I honestly don't remember much kicking in Road House, and I even tried to watch for it next time I saw it), :)

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.

The Dead Space Franchise is basically the apex "you have to watch in horror behind glass" of powerless window watches

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.

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

Luke: The guy in the beanie hat leaping over buildings! Me: What, Delsin Rowe is in this game. He really is Infamous 😂

South Park The Fractured but Whole has an excellent example where you can't even see what is happening, but you can hear the poor sap describing everything and then he turns on the light with his dying breath.

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.

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.

I definitely want to see as many editions of this video as possible.

Extra twist of the knife with Olivia Pierce. On the elevator one, you could have actually gotten to her in the time the cutscence takes if you didn't stop. You simply go around an obstacle to get to where she was, like 3 seconds tops. The way you go after the scene anyways. No obstructions.

That broken door in Bulletstorm is a reference to “The Red Ring of Death”.

This is where I’m glad I’m the original Black Ops campaign Hudson and Weaver picked up a large canister to smash through the glass window on the Rebirth Island level

You could add the opening area in System Shock 2. Granted, it's over 20 years old, but still one of my favorites to this day.