Spoil Without Context

[NMLewis]

The hero travels home to the family he was stolen from and saves his sister from a dragon.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

You were made by the villain to serve as a replacement should he die.
It just occurred to me just how many things this could refer to.

 

[NMLewis]

The main villain attacks a garbage-collecting space craft as a mutant blob, but gets blown up with it.

 

[TouyaShiro]

The lord becomes a managing god of the entertainment industry.

 

[Chidamari Sketch]

The main characters scare the living shit out a high school girl by attacking her in order to make her learn her lesson and stop messing with a barrier, which ends up working too well, as said high school girl tries suicide bombing the entire place out of the fear that she's about to die.

 

[MassiveShock11]

Your childhood friend actually died 9 years ago and is still alive for some reason.

 

[Chidamari Sketch]

And in the next game, it turns out that the same high school girl was manipulated by a bunch of moon people who were chased out from their home by an army of impure fairies led by a Greek goddess and her friend, a divine spirit.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

The villain puts a space jellyfish on her head and goes batshit crazy and tries to murder both you and her daughter

 

[TouyaShiro]

You spend 45 seconds charging up the final attack and blow your craft's systems in the process of saving the friggin' universe.

 

[noworry]

The nasty flower is actually the son of your adoptive goatmother.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

You spend 45 seconds charging up the final attack and blow your craft's systems in the process of saving the friggin' universe.

Spoiler

Pretty sure that one's Ikaruga

You use the power of the seven plot coupons to power up and fight a planet busting god-thing in the centre of the planet, while helped by a giant mech-golem-thing made out of temples that is being piloted by the cute little counterpart god to the planet busting one you're fighting.

 

[TouyaShiro]

You use the power of the seven plot coupons to power up and fight a planet busting god-thing in the centre of the planet, while helped by a giant mech-golem-thing made out of temples that is being piloted by the cute little counterpart god to the planet busting one you're fighting.

Spoiler: I know this one!

Sonic Unleashed, also spoiling the true identity of Chip.

Spoiler

Pretty sure that one's Ikaruga

Spoiler: It's not, but...

it is of the same SHMUP genre.

You listen to a speech and then a brain explodes.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

You manage to break the falling space station into small enough chunks that they'll burn up on re-entry by blowing up the bad guy, but you're beyond the point that you can be warped back, so you die on re-entry.

 

[MassiveShock11]

You manage to break the falling space station into small enough chunks that they'll burn up on re-entry by blowing up the bad guy, but you're beyond the point that you can be warped back, so you die on re-entry.

Megaman Zero 4?

You managed to defeat a dragon in some dimension whose portal is hard to reach in the real world, and you finish the game and you get rewarded with poetry about the game's world.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

The world is turned back into the normal world

 

[Mister Muffin]

1. Your opponent in thought actually murdered someone 15 years ago and was only found out now
2. A close-to-heart friend is kidnapped and the kidnapper will only let her go if you help a certain murderer
3. See no.1, but without the "15 years ago" part
4. A friend's mentor ends up being both a murderer and a forger

 

[Vulpix037]

The police arrest the wrong person.

 

[Chidamari Sketch]

Some jester brainwashed your brother and turned him into a giant puppet by fusing him with a demonic object that he wants to use to reshape the universe.

 

[Gengarzilla]

That large shadow isn't a giant robot.

 

[TouyaShiro]

You pull a Chrono Trigger in a game that's not Chrono Trigger... and it's also not the true end of the story as a result.