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* Since ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'' debuted before the original, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' on Toonami, American viewers met the [[Char Clone]] Zechs Marquise before the original villain. This got so bad that in the early 2000s, the single best way to identify a "new fan" was whether or not they mis-identified a Char cosplayer as Zechs. This happened a ''lot''.

* In a cross media example, ''[[Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva]]'' introduced some new characters from the not-yet-released-outside-of-Japan prequel trilogy to the western world. (Mainly in Europe - in America the movie was delayed just long enough for the first game to be released first.)

* ''[[Bleach]]'s'' fourth movie introduced a character named [[Bleach Movies|Kokuto]] who would later go on to appear in the videogame ''Bleach: Soul Ignition''. Nothing wrong here; the movie wouldn't be dubbed for a good few years and the game would probably never see the light of day outside of Japan ([[No Export for You|As is, sadly, the case with most Bleach videogames]]). ''Then, however'' comes the news that N.I.S America are releasing the game in the West under the slightly modified title; ''Bleach Soul Resurrección''. And apart from the name and the opening theme song which had to be changed due to [[Screwed by the Lawyers|licensing issues]], everything was left intact, ''including Kokuto'', even going as far as to giving him an [[Travis Willingham|English voice]]. Given that his backstory was not given in the game and at this point, there wasn't even a [[Fan Sub]] of the movie available yet, a standard reaction to unlocking him is "Who the [[Stealth Pun|Hell]] is Kokuto?"

* The entire cast of ''[[Wangan Midnight]] Maximum Tune'', an arcade game released worldwide, comes from the manga and anime series ''Wangan Midnight''. Despite the former first being serialized in 1992, [[No Export for You|neither the manga nor the anime have seen an official release outside of Japan]].

** Speaking of ''[[Cross Edge|X Edge]]'', 4 characters from it, Lily, Whim, Raze, and Rewrich are from ''Mana Khemia 2'', a game that was planned to be brought over by NISA..... months after ''[[Cross Edge|X Edge]]'' in spite of MK2 far preceding it in Japan in both system and release dates.

** Relatedly, the ''Atelier'' series first came to the US via the ''Iris'' subseries, which was an attempt to use some of the ''Atelier'' concepts in a more standard RPG—namely, one with a male lead and a Defeat The [[Big Bad]] main plot. The fact that ''these'' were the ones that finally managed to get companies interested in a US release is irksome to some fans, as well.

* Cless Albane and Arche Klein, of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' fame, made their Western debut in 1998... in a cameo in ''[[Tales of Destiny]]''. And then they appeared in ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'' (known in the West as ''Tales Of Destiny 2'') as a [[Bonus Boss]] fight. ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' didn't cross the Pacific until 2006, ''over a decade'' after its debut in Japan and ''eight years'' after the characters showed up in ToD.

** Don't forget Eugene and Annie from ''[[Tales of Rebirth]]''. Their American debut was in 2007 in [[Tales (series)|Tales of the World: Radient Mythology]], ''3 years'' after [[Tales of Rebirth|ToR]] came out in Japan. It has yet to arrive in the USA and I doubt it ever will...

** ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' has Cameo fights too. Granted; all three of the cameos in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' were from games that were released in America before (Garr was from ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', Farah and Meredy were from ''[[Tales of Eternia]]''), but not in Europe. However, in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', we have Mint, (From ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', only recently released in America) Philia (From ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', released years ago) and Reid from ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'' (Which we knew as ''[[Tales of Destiny]] 2'') However, who's this "Nanaly" girl in there? Only red-headed archer I know of is Chelsea from ''[[Tales of Destiny]]''. Ironically she's from the ''real [[Tales of Destiny]] 2'' and is in no way related to Chelsea unless you WMG her to be a descendant of Chelsea. (or Mary) Not to mention, two of Anise's Tokunaga accessories that reference Reala and Harold also first appeared in the west through ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''.

*** And another rather interesting thing; technically, Philia's trademark mystic arte/Blast Caliber, Sacred Penance (or Sacred Blame) actually debuted in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' - and even then; it was as part of a [[Regional Bonus]]! Mint's mystic arte (If you could call it that) also debuted in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', although granted she also used ''that'' in the Japanese version, too.

** ''Tales of Graces f'' will have three of these upon its western release in the forms of Veigue Lungberg (''Tales of Rebirth''), Reala (''Tales of Destiny 2'') and Kohak Hearts (''Tales of Hearts''). None of whom have had their games released outside of Japan.

*** However; Reala was referenced in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''.

 

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** Another example is Shuma-Gorath. Most people know him more from the Marvel vs Capcom games than they do from the comics, though he only actually counts as an example in territories where the comics didn't get published.

** In ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars'', surprisingly, Ippatsuman (and his [[Humongous Mecha]] Gyakuten-Oh) is the only one who fits in this trope. All the other Tatsunoko (and Capcom) characters had their licenses applied in many ways.

 

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