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(Created page with "{{trope}} Examples of [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] in Video Games include: * Luigi of ''Super Mario Bros.'' was originally a just a palette swap of his older brother, Mario...")
 
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** Minor note, but this can be fairly inconsistent. It's interesting to listen to the openings to battles in the ''Mario and Luigi'' games-- it's always "Here we go" and "Okie-dokie", but the tone of the latter (Luigi's line) changes over the three games, and goes from fairly-reluctant to... well, pretty confident. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bighor6Lclo The scene where Luigi joins the party] in ''Super Paper Mario'' is also worth mentioning.
 
* Yoshi gained a host of abilities in ''[[YoshisYoshi's Island]]'' (swallowing enemies to make and shoot eggs, the [[Ground Pound]], shooting his tongue up, the variation on the [[Double Jump]]), that became an inherent part of his character in his later appearances. As such, it's a bit of a shock when one plays the severely limited Yoshi in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', especially since said game was set chronologically after ''Yoshi's Island''.
** Maybe he's just too old to do those things anymore?
*** Or maybe it's too difficult to do this stuff with a fully grown Mario on his back.
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* Captain Falcon of the ''[[F-Zero]]'' games never had much development character-wise that differed from his lawful bounty hunter racing driver look. Then ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' gave him the [[Memetic Mutation|FALCOOOON PAUUUUNCH]] and other such moves, to the point that he [[Ascended Meme|even uses it]] in the official anime of the series.
 
* Aran Ryan (don't think too hard about his name) was just a generic opponent, more or less, in the SNES incarnation of ''Super [[Punch -Out!!]]''. Then Next Level Games decided to play up the "hot-tempered Irishman" stereotype for the Wii game and made him a ''[[Ax Crazy|complete lunatic]]''.
** In the Wii game, Kid Quick was probably ''going'' to be this... but his [[Camp Gay|new characterization]] got so out of hand that the developers just called him a new character, Disco Kid.
 
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