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** Hilariously, some mods can dress up Coach in said armor.
** Hilariously, some mods can dress up Coach in said armor.
* Blizzard games are loaded with these. One of the most memorable is a bit of audio attached to a character in ''[[Starcraft]]''; when Starcraft's alpha was first shown to the public people accused it of just being "''[[Warcraft]]'' [[Recycled in Space|in space]]". Clicking on the character Artanis [[Stop Poking Me|repeatedly]] will eventually produce a series of exasperated [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|defences of the game's design]]:
* Blizzard games are loaded with these. One of the most memorable is a bit of audio attached to a character in ''[[Starcraft]]''; when Starcraft's alpha was first shown to the public people accused it of just being "''[[Warcraft]]'' [[Recycled in Space|in space]]". Clicking on the character Artanis [[Stop Poking Me|repeatedly]] will eventually produce a series of exasperated [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|defences of the game's design]]:
{{quote| "This is not ''Warcraft'' In Space!" "It's much more sophisticated." "I know it's not 3-D!"}}
{{quote|"This is not ''Warcraft'' In Space!" "It's much more sophisticated." "I know it's not 3-D!"}}
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the [http://www.wowwiki.com/Nova_Shrine Nova Shrine]: A memorial to the [[Development Hell|not-yet-officially-canceled]] Starcraft: Ghost spinoff game.
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the [http://www.wowwiki.com/Nova_Shrine Nova Shrine]: A memorial to the [[Development Hell|not-yet-officially-canceled]] Starcraft: Ghost spinoff game.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' has a few in every game that involves a Konquest mode (more examples to be added upon redoing the story), and all appearances of characters like Rain who owe their existence to jokes between developers are essentially Development Gags.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' has a few in every game that involves a Konquest mode (more examples to be added upon redoing the story), and all appearances of characters like Rain who owe their existence to jokes between developers are essentially Development Gags.