I love how Half-Life and Portal took place in the same universe. One is a gritty dystopian future, whilst the other is Wall-E meets Venture Bros.
Like, in Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Eli was so outraged when Kleiner suggested they find Aperture Science technology to defeat the Combine, saying that it would be catastrophic, and I was like “Wow, what kind of terrifying stuff does Aperture Science make?” and then Portal 2 came out a few years later and the place is basically Acme Corporation with mantis men and homicidal robots and I was like “Oh, okay. Yeah Eli was right.”
The final raid boss of the previous Final Fantasy XIV expansion (Heavensward) was the angelic soul of a giant robot with time manipulation powers, that you fought in the core of the robot itself and also had the power to summon itself inside of itself. One of the mechanics consisted of being teleported to the past to stop yourself from being killed in a cutscene and if you fail the mechanic you die due to time paradox. One of its attacks is named Inception.
You’d expect a boss themed after holiness and time travel to have epic orchestral bombing music but it actually plays fast goblin rap rock that gets replaced by elevator music anytime the boss stops time.
WoL: Wait, I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble and valuing the bonds of companionship we make with party members over the loot we find.
Estinien: Adventurer, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it ate my brother.