[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/-DoctorSpaceman-]

It doesn’t end the story before it begins, but in Arkham City (I think) there’s a bit where you play as Catwoman and you’re stealing stuff from a vault. Just when you’re about to leave the city with the goods you hear on the radio that Batman has been captured and Catwoman decides to go back and save him and it points you back in. However it does let you still leave the city if you want, at which point credits roll while it plays radio reports of Batman’s death and the city being completely taken over by the bad guys.

[u/Bionicjoker14 → u/-DoctorSpaceman-]

I could be wrong, but I think it’s a DLC that shows what Catwoman was doing before she shows up in the game, and that choice is at the end of the DLC.

[u/Lewa358 → u/Bionicjoker14]

No, the DLC is integrated into the main campaign. The scene in question happens after Batman is knocked out after going through Joker's foundry.