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* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Nie R]]''. As part of a story event, a smith gives you a broken sword and promises to fix it. He does this again on a New Game Plus, which carries your inventory over. Nier asks if he doesn't have it already. Weiss just tells him this is how things happen the second time through.

* In the ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur]]'' series, one can unlock the [[Artifact of Doom|Soul Edge]] as a weapon for any character. It may have a negative effect like random stats or depletes your HP, but it does not drive you crazy unless your character actually uses it in a cutscene. In some endgame cutscenes, it's possible to watch your character use their Soul Edge that you unlocked to destroy the Soul Edge dropped by the final enemy; or throw their Soul Edge away and pick up the other; and get corrupted.

** [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' and ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', where certain characters' ''shadows'' join your party as phantoms; while they themselves do not. ([[Lampshaded]] by Ash in ''[[Phantom Brave|The Hermuda Triangle]]''; in gaining the future astrally projected soul of Castille who is stuck in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. "Um...won't this affect the future?")

*** Similarily in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', where defeating secret characters such as Asagi and Lujei adds them to your roster but never includes them in cutscenes... because technically you only have their manikin, and they only appear when you forcibly summon them for battles. Outside of battles, they're likely somewhere else, doing their own thing, just like every other recruitable character.

** Another example is the DLC characters, Zaeed and Kasumi. Occasionally they will throw in a comment about something, but they never make any major plot difference, unless you have them do something notable during the Suicide Mission.

** Like the first game, any newly created Shepard can have one of a set of skills from characters he gained the achievements of their loyalty in previous games. This can include oddities like [[Mind Control|Dominate]] which only vampire mutant Asari can do.

*** [[Justified Trope|Justified,]] since a lot of people don't even think the Collectors actually exist, much less know what one looks like.

* In ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'', two late-game bosses are directly responsible for two of your einherjar's deaths much earlier in the game. If you bring either of these characters into the battle with their killer, neither will say anything.

** More than just hinted - one cutscene reveals that she routinely hides her presence from your other partymembers, either for practice of for the evulz.

* If you use a character enough in ''[[Recettear]]'', you get their "True Card" which lets you have them in your party immediately in [[New Game+]]. This includes having them fight themselves in battles where they are originally antagonistic.

** And of course, bringing [[Deadpool]] into the boss fight with Deadpool results in an argument between the two of them.

* The dialogue rich game ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours]]'' has Tony Montana talk about how he wants the Big Bad dead. He does this even after the Big Bad is dead.