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** Also, the numerous [[Image Song|Image Songs]] and [[The Power of Friendship]].
** The manga: Come for a better adaptation or just because you love the series, stay for everything you said took to eleven with sound novel stuff drizzled over it.
* ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'': Come for the [[Kiai|"Ora Ora"]] and [[Car Fu|steamrollers]], stay for the epic battles of wits.
* ''[[K-On!]]'': Come for the guitar play, stay for the [[Slice of Life|slice-of-life]] [[Moe]].
** Or the other way around.
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* ''[[Kanokon]]'': Come for the fanservice, stay to see if it'll accept it is softcore porn and show some nipple.
** Which it does, if only for a handful of frames.
* ''[[KaranoKara no Kyoukai:]]'': Come for the ''[[Tsukihime]]'' tie-in, stay for the eye bleeding visual quality, deep character relations, and [[Yuki Kajiura]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|soundtrack]].
* ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'': Come for the fanservice (and some hints of [[Ho Yay]]), stay for the philosophical thoughts and [[Heartwarming Moments]].
* ''[[Lucky Star]]''. Come for the Haruhi references, stay for the lovable characters.
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* ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Scordatura]]'': Come for the [[Love Triangle]], stay for the humor and well, the [[Love Triangle]].
* ''[[Gears of War|Snowblind]]'': Come for the concept, stay for the epicness.
* ''[[Nobody Dies (Fanfic)|Nobody Dies]]'': Come because it's freakin' hilarious, stay for the awesome fight scenes and well-thought-out universe expansion. Alternatively, come for Terrifying!Rei, stay for Woobie!Asuka.
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'': Come for the trope references and being advertised as a [[TV Tropes]] crossover, stay for the character interactions, the fighting scenes and the [[Reconstruction]] of the harem plot.
* ''[[My Immortal]]'': Come to [[Bile Fascination|see if it really is as terrible as you've heard]], stay because [[So Bad It's Good|you can't]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|stop laughing]].
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* ''[[Pac-Man]] Championship Edition DX'': Come because, well, it's ''Pac-Man'', stay until you S-rank all the stages.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'': Came for [[Mark Hamill]] as Joker, stay for the awesome gameplay and atmosphere.
* ''[[Summon Night]] Swordcraft Story'': Come for the [[Video Games/Ho Yay/Video Games|lesbian subtext]], stay for the likable characters and fast paced battle system.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'': Come because [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|of that blue-haired sword-dude in that fighting game]] and stay for the mentally stimulating strategy, lovable characters, and intricate stories.
* The [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] did this intentionally because [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]] made consoles very hard to sell on their own: Come for R.O.B., stay for ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]''.
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': Come because you're bored, stayed for the writing, the music, the entertaining cast, the subtext and the humor
** [[Layman's Terms|So... come because you're bored,]] [[Fridge Brilliance|stay for the entire show?]] <ref> "I for one am starting to get bored, and boredom is something up with which I will not put!"</ref>
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'': Come because you watched it as a child, stayed because [[Ho Yay/Western (animation)Animation|of the complex character relationships.]]
* ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'': Come for the [[Fetish Fuel|girls in spandex]], stay for the [[Gambit Pileup|awesome plot]].
** The same goes for ''[[Winx Club]]''.
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