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** It's worth noting that while they're fairly weak from ''SFII'' onwards, in the first game, the special moves were ''very'' powerful, with a successful hit knocking a third of an opponent's health off. Each hit was also rated from one to three stars, and this acted as a damage multiplier; it was entirely possible to one-shot someone with ridiculous lucky.
** Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu attack only seems to kill opponents in the story.
* Modern [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] games with career modes fall victim to this. Your status as a [[face]] or [[heel]] is solely dependent on the choices you make during storyline [[cutscene]]s, meaning your actual behavior in the ring is entirely irrelevant. For example, you may play your matches dirty, doing things such as using weapons, removing turnbuckle pads, delivering low bows, and taking advantage of the [[Easily-Distracted Referee]], but as long as you make the corresponding decisions during [[cutscene]]s, the game will act as if you're a straight-up [[face]]. Some games will penalize you by taking away momentum (the stuff that lets you perform special moves) for using tactics that don't match your alignment. However, you can still ''do'' them at any time, and the storyline will never acknowledge it.
** This may actually reflect a lot of developments from the Attitude Era and subsequent years, and the popularity of superstars such as Eddie Guerrero, who would "Lie, Cheat, and Steal" but still be a fan-favorite because he was amazing in the ring and could convince the crowd to eat out of the palm of his hand.
** Another, more pernicious thing WWE career modes like to do is every now and then have you beat an opponent, and then have them get back up and pin your wrestler in the following cutscene, or some such thing. It should be a normal part of kayfabe, except that you're then stuck with a ''real'' loss that goes on your wrestler's statistics record, even though you put in the effort of winning the friggin' match. Grr.
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** For those who don't play, when your character is 5 or more levels higher than an enemy, its name turns grey and you don't get any experience for kiling it.
*** There is another layer of humor to this statement - Rikti summoned during the invasion events always con even-level to whoever is fighting them, regardless of level. Positron's statement is that he's +5, minimum, to even-level enemies.
* In ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG!]]'', your appearance is purely cosmetic. No matter which race you choose to make your avatar (And there are ''a lot''), you'll still be treated as a normal human. The most blatant instance of this is if you choose to make yourself a vampire. Gaia Vampires [[Our Vampires Are Different|are weakened by sunlight]] (though not killed), do require blood (though mostly drink a soy based substitute), and are weak against most of the traditional vampire weaknesses.
** If you carry actual weapons on your avatar, none of them can be used. This is [[Justified|explained]] in the prologue "manga" to the game; regular weapons just plain ''don't work'' on the Animated. You have to use the rings and their powers to fight them. In the "manga" a powerful and popular knight tried to kill an Animated with "My '''''ANCIENT KATANA!'''''"... and got torn to pieces because it failed to harm it; and yet there's a Ring that creates a katana, which ''does'' work.
** Here's some [[Fridge Logic]]: It's called "Ancient" For a reason, you know...
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