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Usually played for comedy (it's funny to see things from the point of view of someone you didn't even consider important enough to be having any sort of private life or backstory).
 
Can overlap with [[Mook Horror Show]], when a story focuses on the [[Mook|Mooks]]s, but only for long enough for [[The Hero]] to dispatch them. Also can overlap with [[Monster Adventurers]].
 
Compare [[Lower Deck Episode]], [[Villain Episode]], and [[A Day in the Limelight]], which involve actual characters being given the spotlight, instead of generic NPCs.
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** Two upcoming hacks have a Buzzy Beetle and a Muncher as main characters respectively.
** There are two Mario flash games with a Bullet Bill as the main character, and another with a Bandit as the main character.
** And two where you are a koopa: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20180531182909/http://addictinggames.com/action-games/akoopasrevenge.jsp\]
* ''[[Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime]]'' stars a slime named Rocket who protects his band of expendable Slimes from other expendable minions.
* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'':
** Similar to the Super Mario World ROM hacks, there was a ''"[[Hard Hat]]"'' trilogy of fan games where the player was a Mettaur.
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** And a ''Half Life 2'' mod known as "Human Error" puts you in the boots of a Civil Protection officer.
* [[Shin Megami Tensei]] regular [[Mascot Mook|Jack Frost]] and his friends Pyro Jack and Jack Ripper all star in their own spinoff, ''Jack Bros.''.
* One of the characters in ''[[Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy|Mana Khemia 2]]'' is a little girl who was raised by three [[Mascot Mook|Punis]], slime creatures that are common enemies in the ''[[Atelier Series(franchise)|Atelier]]''. She constantly rides one of them and uses all three of them in battle.
* There is a game actually called ''Mega Man Day in The Limelight'' where you play as the robot masters from the first game.
* The somewhat obscure Namco game ''Grobda'' puts the player in control of a tank enemy from ''[[Xevious]]''.
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' has a lot of these, including "Inky's Quest" -- The—The Cuttlefish Campaign. Inky recruits cuttlefish, tentacles, pearl-shooting giant clams...
* Variation: The "You Are A Creeper" Mod for ''[[Minecraft]]''. In which, yes, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|you are a creeper.]]
* The sequel to the [[Commodore 64|C64]] classic ''Attack Of The Mutant Camels'' was called ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels''. Take a guess.
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== Web Comics ==
* The ''[[Goblins]]'' webcomic has three main groups, two of which are entirely or mostly made up of goblins, very nearly the lowest of the low when it comes to ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' XP fodder.
* Bogey (a minor Goomba-like plant Mook) got a few in ''[[Kid Radd]].''
 
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