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Common enough that only examples that are [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] should be listed.
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== [[Adventure Game]] ==▼
== Video game examples ==
▲=== [[Adventure Game]] ===
* ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]: 8-Bit Is Enough'' does this, being an [[Affectionate Parody]] of old videogames. ___ HAS JOINED YOUR PARTY!
=== [[Role Playing Game]] ===
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series has a [[Running Gag]] that Roger Bacon ''pretends'' to join your party (complete with 'Naming screen') but never actually does it.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'''s messages are personalized for each character's accent/verbal tic/gimmick. "[[Valley Girl|Marcy, like, joined your party!]]" "[[No Indoor Voice|ZOAH JOINED YOUR PARTY.]]" "[[Masked Luchador|Greco tagged into your party!]]" "[[Our Fairies Are Different|Razzly joined your party-hee!]]" "[[Surfer Dude|~Doc joined your party, dude!]]" "[[Machine Monotone|Grobyc-joined-your-party.]]"
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* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', one character who will later join your party has some rather awkward lines about how if you help him and allow him to "join with you" he'll help you out.
=== [[Turn-Based Strategy]] ===
* ''[[Disgaea]]'' has at least two people who join your party without your consent, and a few more who are actually enslaved by Laharl.<ref>Hoggmeiser and Maderas</ref>
** ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' plays with this for most of the main characters, to whit:
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{{quote|Warden Axel was forced to join your party, but he's so weak and useless that he won't fight in the battles.}}
=== Comics ===▼
▲== Comics ==
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', of course. On the first pages of the fifth volume, Scott and his friends are at Julie's new apartment's Day of the Dead party. Scott and Ramona encounter her fifth and sixth exes, the Katayanagi twins, experts on robots and technology. When they challenge Scott to a fight, a robot goes inside and, just... joins the party.
** Which happens in the video game as well. "Robot-01 joined the party!"
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Early in ''[[Errant Story]]'', Meji met Chris, a deeply stupid young man who is a parody of jRPG protagonists. He invites her to join his party, and she responds by casting an invisibility spell and slinking away from him.
* A [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment during ''[[Penny Arcade]]'''s "[[Dead Rising|Armadeaddon]]" arc: "[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/18 FRUIT FUCKER has joined the party!"]
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