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Murder Simulators

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Murder Simulators	comment	Not only is it there the perception that New Media Are Evil, but some works attract criticism because of loose association with some contemporary murder or suicide. The title comes from since-disbarred attorney Jack Thompson'snote Not to be confused with the Australian actor of the same name accusation that games like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt turn players evil. Moral Guardians' attempts to blame the New Media often neglect to note that it's only our misty watercolor memories that make it seem like murder sprees and school shootings only started happening after the release of Doom. In fact, prior to the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre, the deadliest school shooting in US history was the University of Texas at Austin massacre in 1966 (and a school bombing in 1927 was deadlier than either). Also, the rate of violent crime has gone down since the widespread adoption of video games in the '90s, for reasons that are complex and poorly understood but most likely have more to do with social conditions than with video games. While correlation does not prove causation, lack of correlation certainly disproves causation. Sometimes, the works are blamed before any evidence whatsoever of any connection has emerged, and then activists try to sweep the exculpatory evidence under the rug when defenders demonstrate that the criminals didn't even actually use a copy of the work in question. Also, various politicians, media, and clergy will sometimes blame any (currently) popular game for violent events, or blame any game that has any connection (however slight and tenuous) to the crime in question (e.g. blaming a JRPG like Final Fantasy VII for a shooting). There is some basis for this claim in reality, to be sure: people who play violent video games for a long period of time can be desensitized to violence, which theoretically could make them more likely to commit violent crimes. However, firstly, this effect is only likely to happen with those who are already contemplating acts of violence, and second, any violent media, including coverage of real life violence, has this potential. To blame only one kind of media is a cheap way to escape responsibility for spotting early warning signs of a young person's mental state that might lead to violence, and their moral education in the consequences of acts of violence against others. On the other hand, it's easy. Some real-life criminals, naturally, have exploited this trope to blame their crime on a fictional work in the hope to get a "free of charge" claim in court or at the very least a lesser punishment than they would normally receive for the crime they committed. However, the more widespread acceptance of video games as a medium thanks to those who grew up as video games were becoming a major industry now having children of their own, combined with some games like Hatred embracing the idea of senseless violence and bombing, as well as video games being protected as free speech in the United States (as confirmed in a 2011 ruling by the Supreme Court), has all but rendered this trope discredited. Nowadays, mentioning that someone played violent games in courtroom proceedings is guaranteed to get smacked down by a judge for being prejudicial. See also: Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000; Video Game Cruelty Potential; Hitler Ate Sugar; The Comics Code. Often overlaps with Cowboy BeBop at His Computer. Moral Guardians are normally the invoker of this trope. And Some Other Stuff is a way of attempting to avoid this.
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Murder Simulators / int_1363b6e1	comment	Mid-way through the third Noob novel, Stanislas (ArthÃ©on's player) ends up missing his first class so he can take part in an extremly important battleground in the MMORPG in which most of the story is set. His boarding school principal walks in on him and is understandably furious at him. She immediately assumes he's playing a war game, which is understandable given he was in the middle of a battle, but doesn't listen to him when he tries telling her that battles aren't the only aspect of the game. In the middle of chewing him out, she mentions the school shootings in which the perpetrators were (allegedly) video game players. She also makes clear that she considers Geek culture in general to be responsible for all sort of evils related to the younger generation, all while not giving Stanislas a chance to explain any of it (which he's clearly more than willing to do).
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Murder Simulators / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In the third episode, the manga Rapeman was used as evidence justifying the arrest of a man as an accessory to a rape committed by his 13 year old son. It's particularly idiotic in that it was the only evidence for the charge and that the arresting detective didn't even know what the manga was actually about (she incorrectly guessed the premisenote she thought it was a serious manga about a high school student who gets revenge on the girls that reject him by raping them instead of an erotic black comedy/satire manga about a high school teacher who uses rape to dispense justice for those that hire him due to her admittedly not knowing how to read Japanese). In another episode, three people in their 20s recreated a hooker killing from a Captain Ersatz of Grand Theft Auto and blamed their actions on the game. Their claim was that the game had warped their fragile minds so badly that they couldn't tell they weren't playing the game anymore when they hunted her down and hit her with a car and stomped her to death. The prosecution proves it for the bullshit it is. In another episode, a mother who was head of a Moral Guardians group blamed a shock jock for the rape her son committed. She shot him in what was proven to be a publicity stunt. Another episode involving a murdered girl led the detectives to investigate her developmentally challenged foster brother. He was an avid player of a fantasy game that had similar imagery to the crime scene. Later, Cragan (of all people) manages to play the game and discovers the crime scene was similar to a scene from the game where the hero saves another character using a magic ritual. They then realize the boy was trying to save his foster sister.
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Murder Simulators / int_24e41891	comment	In an episode of Dexter, the forensic intern (who is also a video game developer) excitedly shows Dexter a game he is working on, a literal murder simulator where you can play as Jack The Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, or the Bay Harbor Butcher (actually Dexter himself, unbeknowst to the intern). Dexter is offended someone would design such a game. It's left ambiguous as to whether Dexter claims offense to deny that he himself is a serial killer, because his wife Rita was killed by another serial killer, or because he's genuinely sickened that somebody would want to imagine to be a killer like him. Maybe all or none of the above reasons.
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Murder Simulators / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond games also get flown under the radar too, but at least he's fictitiously killing for Queen & Country.
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Murder Simulators / int_25fff573	comment	The thoroughly loathsome white supremacist manifesto The Turner Diaries by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce is a rare example of a work of fiction that was intentionally created with the intention of inspiring mass murders, to the point of including step-by-step instructions on making bombs. Indeed, the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995 was suspected to have been partially inspired by the book.
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Murder Simulators / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied in "Treehouse of Horror XI", in a story where the family are peasants in a fairy tale universe. Bart's watching a fire and laughs when it crackles; Parodied in "Dangerous Curves". After playing a Fictional Video Game involving shooting breakfast cereal mascots, Bart expresses a love for killing stuff. Homer says that video games are why Americans are so violent.
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Murder Simulators / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty plays this completely straight by involving the Player Character in the "S3 Plan", or "Solid Snake Simulator." Raiden is being made unwittingly by the Ancient Society known as the Patriots to shoot and kill actual soldiers in the hopes that he will evolve into some sort of One-Man Army. (At least, if you believe the character who tells you this. Maybe you should not; he's the Trope Namer for Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, he can't seem to decide if Raiden was in the simulation or the player was, and this is a game where Mind Screws happen every five minutes.) Bonus points for Ocelot's reasoning behind the "Five Billion Dollar Murder Simulator" theory: He's already seen a completely regular soldier who was crippled and mind-raped turned into an indistinguishable replica of the legendary Big Boss via narrative, context, and hands-on visceral experience. Also known as the "NGO Military Leader / War-Crime Sociopath Simulator".
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Murder Simulators / int_2a893b9b	comment	In January 2011, German news sites used screenshots of Counter-Strike as illustrations for articles related to video games and violence. It became the archetypal murder simulator to German media and apparently is keeping that position for good.
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Murder Simulators / int_2c082d05	comment	British spree killer Daniel Gonzales idolized Jason Voorhees (to the extent that he donned a hockey mask before attacking one of his victims) and Freddy Krueger, who he frequently compared himself to and hoped to become as memorable as.
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Murder Simulators / int_3063264a	comment	Ozzy Osbourne was the defendant in a lawsuit. Though the song in question ("Suicide Solution") having a title that seemingly encouraged suicide, the lyrics were rather blatantly about the dangers of alcohol abuse, which helped him beat the charges.
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Murder Simulators / int_32788d4a	comment	Death Road to Canada, playing arcade games, "Like all games ever made" in the game's own words, will increase the shooting skill.
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Murder Simulators / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2 one of the dropped ideas was an In-Universe game called "Manhack Arcade". It would have involved controlling a Manhack and killing lawbreaking citizens for points... with a heavy implication that it controlled actual manhacks.
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Murder Simulators / int_3b34143f	comment	There also needs to be some mention of the belief of some Christian moralists that Harry Potter and Dungeons & Dragons can teach people magic, even though neither source gives instructions and being capable of using these spells would require the ability to rewrite the laws of physics. As tested here.
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Murder Simulators / int_3c1f955d	comment	Yandere Simulator is a murder simulator starting a female Yandere Villain Protagonist, who must kill anyone who is against her and her romance with her crush (and hide her victims' bodies, without being caught by people) such as other (mostly innocent) girls who interact with her crush and anyone who attempts to report her murders to social media.
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Murder Simulators / int_3c33a32c	comment	While not necessarily blame, the reason the terrorist Ilych Ramirez Sanchez is known as "Carlos the Jackal" is because a copy of The Day of the Jackal was found in the apartment of one of his girlfriends, leading to the press creating a story that he was a fan of the book. More directly, it's claimed that Yigal Amir read the novel obsessively before assassinating Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
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Murder Simulators / int_3d513f8	comment	Jim Sterling has discussed this a few times in the Jimquisition: In "Desensitized to Violence", Jim criticizes the idea that people are foolish enough to believe there is any correlation in the violence depicted in media (video games in particular) and real-world violence. To prove their point, they showed a video of Budd Dwyer's on-camera suicide during a live television broadcast in 1987, demonstrating that while real-world violence is often more understated, it is more viscerally disturbing than the over-the-top cartoonish violence of pop culture. A much later episode, Blood, Guts, and Videogames revisits the issue, in response to reports that game developers are pressuring staff to watch graphic footage of real life violence and gore as artistic reference without any system to protect them from mental trauma, and trying to make the violence so lifelike as to disturb the player. For all their talk about trying to show the real horror and consequences of violence, Jim notes how creepy it is that these companies want a player to feel like theyâ€™re actually murdering someone, and how ironic it is that game devs denied during past controversies that they were making "Murder Simulators", yet now feel it fashionable to advertise that yes, they kind of are.
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Murder Simulators / int_3d9a3af2	comment	Serial killer Nathaniel White alleged that his first murder was inspired by Robocop 2:
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Murder Simulators / int_3e374b30	comment	The 2012 shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Some patrons even thought the masked/armed man was a prank or a publicity stunt before he opened fire. To make it even more unfortunate, the shooter identified himself to the police as "The Joker".note It should be noted that The Joker's not even being mentioned in the movie itself and the murderer's choice to dye his hair red (rather than green, like The Joker) suggests that he may not be much of a fan at all.
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Murder Simulators / int_455e3038	comment	Parodied in an episode of King of the Hill when two game developers introduce the Grand Theft Auto clone Pro-Pain as a Take That! to Hank Hill. Hank and Buck Strickland soon take up the role of indignant Moral Guardians and Hank is soon tasked with finding copyright infringement in the game in order to take them to court; the whole Moral Guardian plot is then thoroughly subverted and then turns into An Aesop about game addiction. Interestingly, Hank begins to enjoy the game when he tries to avoid killing anyone or causing damage, just like Real Life pacifist runs and the Deus Ex example above. Strangely, Hank voiced a very different opinion in an earlier episode, during his usual complaints about Bobby's unmanly tendencies.
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Murder Simulators / int_47f99838	comment	An episode of Engrenages had a troubled teen go on a gun rampage (with no fatalities) in what initially appeared to be an example of this trope. However, it finally turned out that he was trying to commit Suicide by Cop after killing his girlfriend (who he met in an online multiplayer mode of the game and who rejected him when they finally met in offline life).
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Murder Simulators / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Germany, there was a case when two young boys ran amok and killed a woman. Guess what they blamed for this? Final Fantasy VII, out of all things! Just because these two boys had been watching Advent Children the day before... Still, many people believed it and insisted that FFVII was a "killer game" and should be forbidden.
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Murder Simulators / int_4ce31d5f	comment	Mentioned in Trouble in Terrorist Town in the after-round achievements. If someone got more than six headshot kills, they get mentioned as having "applied their murder simulation training and got X headshots".
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Murder Simulators / int_526815a8	comment	Terminal Lance inverts this in strip #185: "Experience" when Abe plays Call of Duty with a civilian friend. Abe says he's good at COD because of the Marine Corps, which his friend takes to mean that he uses his real-life military experience to play the game better.
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Murder Simulators / int_5307b01d	comment	Obligatory Penny Arcade example, when they mocked this trope back in the "play violent games and you're a criminal" days. Tycho and Gabe are waiting at a line, when Tycho, sick of waiting, shouts "I play violent video games! I could snap any minute!"... only to make fun of the clerk hiding behind the counter immediately afterwards.
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Murder Simulators / int_5425ce75	comment	In Britain, the gutter press, in their quest to prove that you can blame absolutely anything on violent video games, blamed riots on Grand Theft Auto. Not the shooting of a man who pulled a gun on police being morphed into claims of Police Brutality. Not the simmering class and ethnic tensions in the UK. Not the poor economy. Not that police funding had been cut in the name of austerity. Not mob mentality, where if one person acts out the rest landslides. No, they blamed GTA. For people rioting. Years after any entries in the series were released. The only GTA game to feature rioting as anything beyond an easter egg code is San Andreas, which was based on the Rodney King riots... which were caused by claims of Police Brutality, racial tensions, and high unemployment.
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Murder Simulators / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun:
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Murder Simulators / int_58808436	comment	At the time Higurashi: When They Cry Kai and School Days were airing there was an incident involving a daughter murdering her father with an axe. The two anime were accused of influencing the murder for a period since the girl said she wanted to be a mangaka. The final episode of School Days was canceled from many stations and the twelfth episode of Kai was delayed. Eventually the intro to Kai was censored and one of the channels that decided to air School Days created a meme when they replaced the gore with a "nice boat", among other censors.
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Murder Simulators / int_5a3dae52	comment	The fourth episode of the second season of Misfits has a villain whose "superpower" is the delusional belief that he's a player character in a Grand Theft Auto clone (he even see things as if he's in a videogame, with CGI characters and a pumping techno soundtrack). He kills several people on-screen and kidnaps Kelly in the belief that she's his in-game treacherous girlfriend. He escapes at the end, but we then hear that he tried to break someone out of jail as the next mission in the "game" and got arrested. He reappears in the series's final season, when he's apparently cured but in reality still having to resist the hallucinations and delusions. In the end he snaps and has to be killed to prevent him from committing another murder.
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Murder Simulators / int_5b95bc94	comment	There was an unfortunate case in Cleveland where the victim's father kept insisting on blaming Grand Theft Auto III for his daughter's murder (the murderer was living with them at the time), trying to get it pulled from area stores. The murderer went out of his way to insist that the game had nothing to do with the crime.
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Murder Simulators / int_5feb5688	comment	In John Dies at the End, Arnie claims video games were recent additions to our world, possibly introduced by the shadowmen. Given their plot in This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, it seems very plausible.
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Murder Simulators / int_63fe06a0	comment	Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has Dr. Darling point out how games actually improve hand-eye coordination and there is no actual evidence that confirms that games are linked to Murder Simulators.
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Murder Simulators / int_67d6ff2e	comment	The British papers blamed the shocking murder of Jamie Bulger on Child's Play 3. It was later established that neither of the boys responsible had ever watched it. The film was also blamed for at least two other Kids Are Cruel murders, while its sequel Bride of Chucky was cited by Elena Lobacheva, a Russian serial killer, as being one of the inspirations for her killing spree.
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Murder Simulators / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons and other Tabletop RPGs have been blamed for a variety of things, including suicide, murder, and devil worship. This belief had become so widespread that at a certain point, Wizards of the Coast had one of their employees go around explaining patiently to people that getting your customers to kill themselves is not a good business model — this appeal to greed being the easiest way to convince people that they were not in fact evil.
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Murder Simulators / int_6b85085e	comment	As of American Amusement Machine Association v. Kendrick in 2001, the American judiciary does not consider there to be enough evidence to argue that video game violence leads to real violence. A work that deliberately incited violence would be subject to ban under the 1942 case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, and the Kendrick case noted that a photorealistic, plot-free, grotesquely violent game might be ban-worthy, but neither applies to, say, Mortal Kombat, the game that was to be banned in the Kendrick case. (The judge also noted that Mortal Kombat has positive themes as well as negative ones—for instance, the female fighters are just as powerful as the male ones.)
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Murder Simulators / int_705bb59a	comment	A murder that once happened in Sweden was touted in headlines to have been a ritual sacrifice, the "vampire murder", because the victim played Vampire: The Masquerade. It later turned out it had nothing to do with that... although they didn't exactly put their correction on the headlines, no.
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Murder Simulators / int_73d7930f	comment	In the fourth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Rules of Engagement," Worf is on trial for firing on a Klingon civilian transport which decloaked in front of Defiant in the middle of a battle. The Klingon prosecutor calls Dax to the witness stand to testify on Worf's character. During the questioning, the prosecutor questions her about a holodeck program Worf played shortly before the escort mission in question. The program puts Worf in the role of one of Klingon culture's greatest heroes, during a battle in which he ordered the slaughter of every inhabitant of a city when he conquered it. Dax is forced to acknowledge Worf gave the order, and is overruled when she attempts to note that it's the only way to complete the program. The prosecutor then uses this to argue Worf was perfectly able and willing to fire on civilians, and the program is presented by his argument as this trope.
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Murder Simulators / int_755b343f	comment	Halo was blamed for the Beltway Sniper attacks because an Xbox and the game were found in the possession of the guilty parties. In fact, this happens to any game with guns in it if it's found in the possession of a murderer. Don't count on the media getting the name right if it's not Halo, Counter-Strike, or Grand Theft Auto, though. Not to mention that millions of people own such games without feeling the need to kill people.
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Murder Simulators / int_764175c4	comment	Parodied in a panel of The Cartoon History of the Universe set in ancient times, in which a child playing chess triumphantly captures a rook. His mother laments, "These action games are ruining our youth!"
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Murder Simulators / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect was called a rape simulator by Fox News commentator Cooper Lawrence. The sex scene in question, which was shown almost in its entirety during the segment, was not only fully consensual and took place within a relationship (like all but one of the game's sex scenes), but was also more tame than what you would see on The Other Fox's prime time line up. Lawrence also screeched that she had never played the game while condemning it: her whole basis over the game was based on one comment from a woman in the studio that it was "like porn". The research on this one was so poorly done that Jack Thompson called Fox out on it, and it sparked an Internet Counterattack from irritated Mass Effect fans in the form of bombing Lawrence's latest book's Amazon review score into the basement, on the grounds that having briefly heard about her book and never reading it was information enough to condemn it.
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Murder Simulators / int_7988cb68	comment	After the December 2012 Connecticut shooting, it was that found the killer's Facebook page mentioned he liked Mass Effect. Cue Fox and tons of people claiming the game was behind the whole thing, and a massive video game burning in the town. And cue even more people dogpiling the haters on Facebook. It later came out that the haters had, once again, gotten their facts wrong: it wasn't even the shooter's page, it was his brother's.
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Murder Simulators / int_7e1563ba	comment	The plot of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut hinges largely on this mindset. While the main issue with the Canadian movie Asses of Fire is the massive amounts of swearing and toilet humor, the real conflict starts when Kenny self-immolates while imitating a stunt from the movie. The irony of this mindset is deconstructed when America attacks Canada as a means of diverting blame away from neglectful parents, starting a war that causes far more deaths. There's also massive Reality Subtext given how South Park was scapegoated for influencing children to act out.
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Murder Simulators / int_7e1c6569	comment	In the second, a discussion in a film class early on has several characters debating whether or not violent slasher flicks turn people violent. In addition, the killer (at least, one of them) plans on blaming his killing spree on said slasher movies (such as the newly-released Stab), invoking this trope in order to create a sensational trial and get the Moral Guardians on his side.
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Murder Simulators / int_7e1c656a	comment	The third film also has a discussion of this. One of the producers of Stab 3 notes how violence in cinema has become a touchy subject recently; the unstated-yet-obvious cause of this is that, a year before, the Columbine massacre took place. (In real life, Scream 3 is probably the least violent out of all the movies.) They also speculate that Cotton's murder may have been by a Loony Fan.
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Murder Simulators / int_7e1c656b	comment	The fourth film, however, does indulge in this, but instead of violent movies, it blames Reality TV and its culture instead. The killer's motivation is to become famous as a result of "surviving" the massacre, much as her cousin Sidney had done.
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Murder Simulators / int_84782a62	comment	A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Parodied when Stephen Fry explained that people had been encouraged to copy him when he punched Hugh Laurie on screen... by specifically punching Hugh Laurie in public. Many incidents then followed when Stephen found excuses to give Hugh money instead. Another parody mimicked the Judas Priest example, with Stephen as a singer accused of singing the words Set Yourself On Fire, by the lawyer of a woman who did just that. Mid trial he then bursts into a song called Woman Drop Your Case, resolving the issue.
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Murder Simulators / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: The new game Close Range consists solely of shooting people in the face at close range. Video report on YouTube. Parodied again in The Onion News Network with a "preview" of Modern Warfare 3, which shows a "realistic" portrayal of war: asinine conversations with fellow soldiers, guard duty over empty warehouses, following inaccurate and contradictory orders, and repairing Hummvees for 12 hours a day.
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Murder Simulators / int_8b68455c	comment	A pre-video game version in the 1960 caper film The League of Gentlemen. Lieutenant-Colonel Hyde is inspired to commit The Caper due to a novel he reads where the crime is carried out with military precision, and mails the novel to the other ex-military men he's chosen as potential recruits. In a subversion, none of them feel inspired in the same way (some don't even bother to read it), though they do come on board once Hyde has spelled out his plan.
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Murder Simulators / int_8ba4613a	comment	On 30 July 2013, the murder of a young man in Belgium was dubbed a "manga-murder" by the press, because notes were left by the body that directly referenced Death Note. The culprits were eventually identified as Sidi Mohammed Atir, Abdessamad Anzi and Zacharia Benaissa, who had murdered their friend (Sidi Larbi Ezzoubairi). Though the case had limited coverage, it became notable due to the anime references used.
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Murder Simulators / int_8df51723	comment	Harvester is an actual in-game murder simulator, the events of the game turning out to be a virtual reality simulation designed to turn the protagonist into a Serial Killer. The game itself was also created as a Deconstruction of this entire concept.
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Murder Simulators / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Andrea Yates was said to have been inspired to drown her children in the bathtub by an episode of Law & Order (where a woman did just that) that aired shortly before she did the deed. No such episode existed.
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Murder Simulators / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Comes up in the episode "Crisis Point" of Star Trek: Lower Decks, where Mariner hijacks Boimler's super-accurate recreation of the ship to write a movie where she is the Big Bad and uses it as Percussive Therapy to act out her frustrations on the simulated crew. Boimler is simply annoyed because all the violence interferes with his interview prep, but Tendi is genuinely disturbed by the sight of her colleague shooting, stabbing, and exploding her own crewmates even though they are holographic recreations. She ends up walking out of the program, leaving Mariner to have an illuminating fight with the holographic Mariner (who forces her to admit that she is using the uber-violent "therapy" to avoid addressing her own problems).
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Murder Simulators / int_98b697e9	comment	Ironically given the film series it's based on, Scream: Resurrection fully indulges in this trope during the killer's Motive Rant. Beth, the series' resident Meta Gal, claims that she loves violent horror movies because she's a sociopath, and watching them helped satisfy her own bloodlust until, eventually, it just wasn't enough. This led her to put on a Ghostface mask herself and become a Serial Killer in imitation of her screen idols, bringing Deion's jealous half-brother Jamal into her plan in order to have a Fall Guy. Trace Thurman, writing for the horror website Bloody Disgusting, was not pleased, and raked the series over the coals for what he saw as indulging in This Loser Is You towards horror fans.
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Murder Simulators / int_996e7a23	comment	In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian accuses Lord Henry of being responsible for his corruption through giving him the "Yellow Book". Lord Henry (and through him Oscar Wilde himself) scoffs at this idea, saying that books don't make anyone behave a certain way — they inspire inaction if anything — and can't be blamed for conduct.
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Murder Simulators / int_9a152d5d	comment	In Cow and Chicken cousin Black Sheep stops two kids writing grafitti on a wall, which makes one of the mutter that they are bad because of too many cartoons. The Mexican Gag Dub went a step forward and had the kid claim it was because they watch too much Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seiya.
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Murder Simulators / int_9b891ef2	comment	As a Scream spoof, this is echoed and further parodied in the first Scary Movie. When Cindy accuses the killers of becoming homicidal lunatics by watching too much TV, one of them corrects her: it's cancelling TV shows that actually made them killers, and he goes on to lament the end of The Wayans Bros., an earlier show the creators were involved in.
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Murder Simulators / int_a8a40154	comment	Postal 2 parodies this by featuring protesters picketing Running With Scissors (the game's creators) in protest of violence in video games. Ironically, upon the player picking up his paycheck and getting fired from RWS, said protesters storm in with guns to kill everyone inside, the player included.
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Murder Simulators / int_aa7d9eae	comment	In the first film, there's this exchange:
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Murder Simulators / int_aa7ee99e	comment	The perpetrators of the Hi-Fi murders got the idea to use drain cleaner to try and kill their victims from Magnum Force. It turned out to not be as efficient a murder weapon as the film led had them to believe.
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Murder Simulators / int_aad197d5	comment	In Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, the Screaming Castle case involves a serial killer that was apparently inspired by the events of the horror game Night Prowler. When the game's developers are approached about the manner, they're quick to refute the idea that a violent video game leads to violence in real life. In the end, it's revealed that the killer had heard of people mistaking fiction for reality and wanted to experience for himself what it was like. Arisugawa is none too pleased at such a weak motive for killing three women.
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Murder Simulators / int_aca7b22d	comment	An episode of The Amazing World of Gumball titled "The Blame" features video games being banned for being too violent. Gumball and the other kids then show the adults that classic literature can be just as violent as video games, so they start burning books.
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Murder Simulators / int_ae0145a9	comment	Serial killer Leonard Lake named his plan to abduct and enslave women after the protagonist (Miranda) of the John Fowles novel The Collector, a copy of which was also found in the possession of fellow serial killer Christopher Wilder. Robert Berdella, yet another serial killer, also credited the book's 1965 film adaptation as being an inspiration.
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Murder Simulators / int_ae369c06	comment	A Clockwork Orange. A gang sang "Singin' in the Rain" during a rape, arguably as a result of the film's influence. Apparently, it also inspired a murder known as "The Clockwork Orange Murder", where a boy killed his best friend in his backyard. Indignant over the allegations, Stanley Kubrick had Warner Brothers withdraw the film from distribution in Britain until after his death.
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Murder Simulators / int_aefebdec	comment	Untraceable, among many others, portrays The Internet as this trope. See also murder.com and Snuff Film.
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Murder Simulators / int_b370f94f	comment	Toys: the evil plot is to make arcade games with an identical control system to military drones, so that new recruits will be able to pick it up immediately (and encourage sales of both products). The creator, an insane retired general, deliberately set them up to reward civilian deaths after being annoyed that another company's games penalized him for it.
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Murder Simulators / int_b611aafc	comment	Serial killer Richard Ramirez was a fan of AC/DC, particularly the song "Night Prowler" (his nickname was "Night Stalker"). This brought some bad publicity for the band (the title of that song's album, Highway to Hell, didn't help matters).
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Murder Simulators / int_bf24deb1	comment	In New Police Story the bank robbers plan their heists and traps using computer games.
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Murder Simulators / int_bfcfaed0	comment	Natural Born Killers, so much that Wikipedia has a whole list of crimes allegedly inspired by the film, including the Columbine massacre (the killers having been huge fans). The irony, of course, is that the main theme of the film itself concerns how media sensationalism can lead Attention Whores to commit violent acts in the name of 15 Minutes of Fame, with its Villain Protagonists being an Outlaw Couple whose spree of murder and robbery turns them into celebrities.
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Murder Simulators / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex. Warren Spector was asked by a mainstream media member at E3 about Deus Ex being a "murder simulator". Spector took the question seriously, telling the reporter in strict technical terms that while some puzzles in the game could be solved by neutralizing the threat, other pathways could be utilized by selecting alternate routes such as verbal deception, evasion, and so forth.
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Murder Simulators / int_c720f71e	comment	The new game Close Range consists solely of shooting people in the face at close range. Video report on YouTube.
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Murder Simulators / int_c7b1bbfb	comment	The low-grade thriller Hunting Humans, in which two serial killers play a cat and mouse game with each other, gained a lot of notoriety after a copy of the film was found in the possession of convicted murderer Adam Leroy Lane.
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Murder Simulators / int_cdbab1e9	comment	The game Hatred has you playing a violent sociopath and active shooter out to murder as many people as he can before he dies. It's either a parody of a Murder Simulator, or an actual one. As one can probably guess, the Moral Guardians are all over it.
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Murder Simulators / int_ce15336	comment	Both John Hinckley, Jr. and Mark David Chapman were fans of The Catcher in the Rye, and it probably doesn't help that Holden Caulfield refers to having a "people shooting hat". Though in Salinger's defense, the people shooting hat was a one time joke.
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Murder Simulators / int_ce2b5aba	comment	The Hitman games are in fact murder simulators, moreso than any other game on this list, in that your character you play as is an assassin for hire planning and carrying out murders as stealthily as possible. To date, the games has received almost zero coverage on being implicated with real life murder sprees or killings, in large part because it's not a hugely well known game series outside of the gaming scene, therefore many of the Moral Guardians that would complain about the game being a "murder simulator" barely know enough about it to comment on anything they'd find offensive. In fact, the games have been controversial for completely unrelated reasons; Hitman 2: Silent Assassin was controversial as one of its levels' architecture was based on a holy Sikh site (which prompted IO Interactive to edit this accordingly at the time) while Hitman: Absolution was controversial because of its use of leather-clad-assassin-nuns with fetishes for violence. It's a little ironic that the game most would consider an actual murder simulator is the one with the least blame put on it for real life killings. As for the developers, they've repeatedly stated that the Hitman games are stealth-puzzle games, moreso than anything, as it's just as important to learn guard routines and weapons as it is how to kill someone in a given level, meaning loading a level and killing the target is not the idea; it's how you approach them that matters. James Bond games also get flown under the radar too, but at least he's fictitiously killing for Queen & Country.
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Murder Simulators / int_d5bb454a	comment	The German pop science TV show Galileo once produced a feature on the alleged correlation between violent video games and school shootings. To illustrate its point about video game violence, Galileo curiously showed gameplay footage from Swat 4, which - while technically a First-Person Shooter - is more to the point a police procedural simulator that both actively penalises players for shooting and killing their 'enemies' and incentivises them obeying professional police protocol (that is, taking suspects into custody with minimal violence) at all times. In other words, Galileo used arguably the worst possible example for video game violence in the then-contemporary FPS landscape.
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Murder Simulators / int_d5ea1c25	comment	Several incidences of Russian Roulette games gone wrong have been connected to The Deer Hunter.
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Murder Simulators / int_e10d3c14	comment	In 1982, a man murdered an elderly couple with the media claiming the film Halloween II (1981) inspired the killing. The guy did watch the movie, but the reason he committed the murder probably had more to do with his being blitzed with a combination of booze, weed, and PCP at the time of the killings.
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Murder Simulators / int_e1575a9d	comment	Interesting variant in MegaTokyo, when Piro's conscience is trying to get him to stop lusting after high-schoolers.
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Murder Simulators / int_e1ec0e62	comment	A couple of teens threw a bunch of Molotov cocktails and went on record saying Grand Theft Auto IV taught them how to make them. While there are Molotov cocktails in the game, such in-game instructions are only found in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, not GTA IV.
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Murder Simulators / int_e25c0528	comment	In Grand Theft Auto Online, the "Diamond Casino Heist" update has the player buying and setting up an arcade as a staging area for the heist. While the player is delivering games for the arcade, Lester calls and reminisces about one game, talking about how the game turned him from a mild-mannered young man into a delinquent. He then says he's only kidding and that he was always a punk.
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Murder Simulators / int_e49abee7	comment	Parodied in Code Monkeys, when Dave programs an Atari game where the main character has to impress Jodie Foster. One of the objectives is to assassinate President "Ray-gun." Three guesses as to what happens next.
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Murder Simulators / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Some of Grossman's claims have been refuted by the U.S. Military itself, such as his claim that Doom is used to desensitize Marines to the act of killing (the marines use a special software program to teach hand-eye coordination, but that's it). Another red flag is that many of the studies Lt. Col. Grossman cites to back up his arguments in turn cite Grossman himself as their primary source.
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Murder Simulators / int_e6318baf	comment	In Midsomer Murders, while investigating murders, Barnaby observes that a child is addicted to violent computer games. It turns out that he was using the games to literally simulate a murder as a sort of dry run.
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Murder Simulators / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Radioman in Spec Ops: The Line invokes this trope when he jokingly blames Walker's violent rampage on video games. Then again, the entire game is a deconstruction of Call of Duty-style power fantasy military shooters.
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Murder Simulators / int_eb6719f6	comment	In 2000, a Spanish sixteen-year-old killed his parents and his younger sister with a katana. The entirety of the Spanish press decided he had done so under the influence of Final Fantasy VIII, commenting on how he even "looked like Squall", "had the same haircut", used to dress in a black tracksuit "just like him", and referring to the gunblade as a katana while playing an endless loop of the few seconds of the intro video where some blood splatters on the ground (playing the prom sequence just wouldn't have given a properly macabre vibe). This TV program ominously describing Squall as having the sole mission to overturn the corrupted governments in the world as if that was a bad thing is particularly absurd. The "video game scare" that followed this incident was most likely the main killer of the previous "[tabletop] role playing game scare" that had been a staple of the same press during the 90s.
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Murder Simulators / int_eedac02b	comment	Lampshaded and subverted in Durarara!!. Two torture technicians are about to torture someone using methods inspired by manga. They reference the idea that partaking too much of a medium can make you violent/detached from reality, but then say essentially that the manga isn't to blame- they're just sadistic and would use techniques from television and books if they were given the chance.
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Murder Simulators / int_f15f622e	comment	Similarly, a pair of teenage boys once built a bomb in their garage and it went off, killing one of them. The survivor claimed they got the idea from an episode of MacGyver. The show was exonerated when it was discovered that no such episode existed.
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Murder Simulators / int_f1c1d87a	comment	In 2004, a 14-year-old boy was murdered by his 18-year-old friend (apparently over some drug-related debts); the blame was placed on Manhunt by the tabloids because it was allegedly found in the possession of the killer. Cue the police pointing out that it was actually found to be in the possession of the victim.
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Murder Simulators / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	Penn & Teller: Bullshit! deconstructed this in the Video Games episode. To counter the claim that violent games desensitize children to violence and that realistic games teach children how to use weapons, they test it by giving a nine year old boy who plays violent games very frequently an AR-15 at a shooting range. He holds the gun incorrectly, misses the (oversized) target, isn't prepared for the recoil, doesn't want to shoot more afterward when asked, and cries from the experience. They also debunked an interviewee who claims that massacres occur because of a combination of a troubled kid, guns, and violent video games, using evidence of school massacres that involved none of those. They then point out that while he's against violent video games, he's actually a gun lover.
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Murder Simulators / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Also in Brazil, a teenager who killed his family and then committed suicide had an avatar based on Assassin's Creed (which even has a name that doesn't help) on social networks. After some blaming, Ubisoft even released a statement declaring that "murder simulators" are a Logical Fallacy. There's also the fact the teenager's mother was a cop; the police's declaration on how the boy killed his family, went to school next morning and then killed himself after getting home makes no sense; and how it's heavily suspected that corrupt cops killed the boy and his family and used the boy as a scapegoat. And since Brazil's media is even more corrupt than its police and government, and the people have no other sources of information than said media...
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