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*** To rub salt in the wounds, Ameteratsu's alternate DLC costume in Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 [http://shoryuken.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/img0852r.jpg has her looking like Talbain.]

* English speakers can't get enough of Kefka from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' because he's pretty much the poster boy for [[Woolseyism]], being turned into an [[Expy]] of [[The Joker]], if The Joker had god-like magical powers and was secretly a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]. It's not so much that he isn't [[Bishounen|pretty]], but that his original lines were [[The Scrappy|obnoxious and moronic]] that he gets little love in Japan (though he has gotten a little more popularity thanks to ''Dissidia''.)

* The same could be said of Sazh in [[Final Fantasy XIII]]. Case in point: in the sequel, while the rest of the original main cast either make physical appearences or are very significant to the game's backstory, Sazh only appears for a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment during the final battle. (He did end up getting [[A Day in The Limelight|his own DLC episode.]])

* This trope is the reason why Choi Bounge from ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' who is rather unpopular and reviled (not as much as Bao, but still reviled) everywhere, managed to get into ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|SNK vs. Capcom: Chaos]]''. Why? Because Koreans consider him top-tier, and love him. More than in-universe Korean hero Kim Kaphwan (who's also featured). So they added Choi to cater to the Korean fans.

** The game is also very popular in Russia, Poland, and the former Czechoslovakia.

* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' is much more popular in Japan than its home country of the US. On [[YouTube]], the most viewed video of that game has less than a million views, and the second most viewed has less than 500,000. On the Japanese site [[Nico Video]], however, there's tons of videos of it with 100,000s of views, including several that have over a million. What's more, multiple Japanese-developed fangames exist.

** It's possible that Japanese gamers, who have a higher tolerance for [[Nintendo Hard]] games that require lots of [[Trial and Error Gameplay|trial and error]], don't quite get that ''I Wanna Be The Guy'' is a parody.

* [[Roguelike|Roguelikes]] are a niche genre in their home in America, and receive reviews ranging from "poor" to "scathing" when sites or magazines deign to review them. They're pretty big in Japan, with multiple long-running commercial series such as ''[[Torneko No Daibouken]]'', ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'', ''[[Chocobos Dungeon]]'' and ''[[Shiren the Wanderer]]''. ''[[Elona]]'' -- one of the most expansive, elaborate, and ambitious roguelikes ever created -- also originates from Japan.

* Russia seems to be very fond of classic turn-based strategies, further reinforcing the stereotype of Russians being good at chess. Among the favorites are [[Civilization (Video Game)|Civilization]], ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'', [[Jagged Alliance]], but most importantly, ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'', specifically the third part (Widely believed to be the best in the series by many, Russian or not). Wanna find a gamer that won't play a multiplayer match or two with you? ''Try''.

** Also, that's a reason Nival Interactive's been trusted with making HoMM V. Russian fans wouldn't have forgiven them for doing badly.

** And in ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' we have Zekrom. He's quite popular in Japan (not as popular as his counterpart Reshiram though), but ''insanely'' popular in America, overshadowing Reshiram and countless others (and selling more copies of ''White'' in North America than ''Black'').

** This phenomenon even extends to the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|competitive metagame]]. Cresselia is a notable example, in Japan, [[One-Gender Race|she]] made the list of [[Game Breaker|banned]] Pokemon. In the Smogon (American-based) metagame, ''she's not even [[Character Tiers|OU!]]''