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* With three very different storylines that diverge early on, the ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' anime and manga both had to Road Cone somebody. The default storyline (Fate) was the logical choice; fans of Archer and Sakura were inevitably going to be disappointed. Nonetheless, anime the producers gave those fans what they could, such as {{spoiler|a Matou Zouken cameo, a magical outfit meant to suggest Dark Sakura, and [[Bait and Switch Credits]] where Shirou fights Archer}}. The manga also features elements from "Unlimited Blade Works" (such as Caster taking an earlier front seat as antagonist and Archer's open attempts to kill Shirou). In the end, though, fans of the "Unlimited Blade Works" scenario get the movie, and fans of "Heaven's Feel" get extra material in ''Fate/hollow ataraxia'' and lots of [[Doujin]] works.

* The ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' series may be digging itself a hole of this sort. The first game has two possible player characters, Vent and Aile, whose stories are similar but irreconcilable. The second has two new player characters—one of whom coexists with Vent and the other with Aile. There is a manga based on Megaman ZX, and the main character they chose to follow is Vent.

* The manga based on the ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' video games not only Road Cones Forte, Vanilla and eventually Mint, it also throws out much of the Milfeulle, Ranpha, Chitose and Shiva stories, as well as the overarching story. New scenes were invented in their place, giving Shiva a bigger role, having a [[Love Triangle]] emerge between Milfeulle, Tact and one of the other girls (Ranpha in the first series, Chitose in the second) and turning Eonia into [[~~Schrodingers~~ Cat]] to facilitate a [[Gecko Ending]].

* The manga based on the ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' video games not only Road Cones Forte, Vanilla and eventually Mint, it also throws out much of the Milfeulle, Ranpha, Chitose and Shiva stories, as well as the overarching story. New scenes were invented in their place, giving Shiva a bigger role, having a [[Love Triangle]] emerge between Milfeulle, Tact and one of the other girls (Ranpha in the first series, Chitose in the second) and turning Eonia into [[Schrödinger's Cat]] to facilitate a [[Gecko Ending]].

** The romance events in the game were fairly 2ndary plot-wise and did not change the main story much. Galaxy Angel 2 is a straight example of this trope since it made Tact/Milfeulle [[Official Couple|canon]]. In fact, the main reason why Tact starts out on another voyage is because he wants to free his fiancee Milfie from her fate. Naturally, being a partly dating sim game, this means there is a new protagonist since Tact is already taken.

* Any fighting game series will fit this trope. Examples include ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' and ''[[Guilty Gear]]''.

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