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This is different than the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]], since you generally don't fight them along the way. Also different is [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]], where it's not the same traveller but a set of distant relatives with an uncanny family resemblance. The [[Recurring Extra]] is a '''Recurring Traveller''' who doesn't do anything. They might also be a [[Honest John's Dealership|merchant constantly trying to extort money from you]], [[No Hero Discount|even if the failure of your main character means the end of the world]].

Sometimes in an [[Role Playing Game|RPG]], The '''Recurring Traveller''' is a character who always happens to be staying in a bedroom of the same inn that your party is staying at. He may comment about being a tourist or sight-seer. He may give tips about the local environment, monsters, hazards and landmarks.

Sometimes in an [[Role-Playing Game|RPG]], The '''Recurring Traveller''' is a character who always happens to be staying in a bedroom of the same inn that your party is staying at. He may comment about being a tourist or sight-seer. He may give tips about the local environment, monsters, hazards and landmarks.

The '''Recurring Traveller''' is frequently used as a device to help the player when they're in a difficult area. If you run short of supplies after fighting your way through an especially dangerous area, the '''Recurring Traveller''' just happens to be someone who can either heal your party or let you replenish your inventory.

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** They're actually [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]], as they're actually different people. Some of them are actually infected with Las Plagas, and in different stages of the infection too, if you look at their eyes.

** How identical they actually are is debatable, since we never get to see their actual faces, they DO sound exactly the same tough.

* The infamous portrait photographer in ''[[~~Earthbound~~]]'' literally falls out of the sky to snap a picture of your party. Say fuzzy pickles!

* The infamous portrait photographer in ''[[EarthBound]]'' literally falls out of the sky to snap a picture of your party. Say fuzzy pickles!

** Mother 3 has the Item Guy, who appears in locations that are so obviously inaccessible ( {{spoiler|including the final area, which is thousands of feet underground with the only way to get to it being a one-way elevator controlled by the [[Big Bad]]}})it could practically be considered a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in its own right, even though it's played more or less straight.

* The Wonder Chef in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' disguised himself as a random object in every town (even though they were in two different worlds almost no one knows about or can travel to). He even had a dark counterpart.

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** Old Man HoHo from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]''

* Similarly, an unnamed Travelling Salesman always shows up at each new city you need to go to in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]] 2'', including destroyed castles only accessible through deadly caverns full of monsters... even going so far as to show up in Asgard ahead of you. Though, admittedly, this turns out to be the dead spirit of the merchant's ancestor, he still carries the exact same inventory as the living version.

* Bob the Jagex Cat and Postie Pete in ''[[~~Runescape~~]]''. The first is the mascot of the game owners, who wanders endlessly across the land and if you are lucky you can spot it sometimes, though it doesn't serve any purpose. He was originally added to test NPC pathfinding but latter [[Ensemble Darkhorse|became a character in several quests]]. The second is a walking (hopping...) skull with a hat and a mailman's bag, who goes around Gielinor delivering letters to every character the player writes to (outside of the game). He's actually in the game as a joke from the developers.

* Bob the Jagex Cat and Postie Pete in ''[[RuneScape]]''. The first is the mascot of the game owners, who wanders endlessly across the land and if you are lucky you can spot it sometimes, though it doesn't serve any purpose. He was originally added to test NPC pathfinding but latter [[Ensemble Darkhorse|became a character in several quests]]. The second is a walking (hopping...) skull with a hat and a mailman's bag, who goes around Gielinor delivering letters to every character the player writes to (outside of the game). He's actually in the game as a joke from the developers.

* The weird stalker who appears at the front of every Gym in the [[Pokémon]] series to give you advice, later, Scott in Emerald as well.

** In the anime, a character known only as "Magikarp Salesman" who pops up every now and again.

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** There is also the Smuggler, Slim Cognito, and, to a lesser degree, the Shady Salesman.

* Many kids who give you challenges in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Skateboarding]]''.

* ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ 3]]'' has both a traveling Merchant and a young girl that is part of a lengthy sidequest.

* ''[[Wild ARMs 3]]'' has both a traveling Merchant and a young girl that is part of a lengthy sidequest.

* Wentos the Travelling Salesman from ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''. Every once and a while you'll see him in a town (the places he visits are random) where he will sell you goods at randomly-generated prices. Sometimes you can buy a product from him at [[Game Breaker|less than the selling price]]. So basically, you can buy something from him and then [[Good Bad Bugs|sell it back immediately for a profit]].

* Not one, but ''three'' characters in ''[[Professor Layton]]''. We have Granny Riddle, who picks up lost puzzles for you, Pavel the guy who keeps getting lost, and Stachenscarfen. {{spoiler|Out of the three though, the first game revealed everyone as robots, and the second game revealed everyone as a ''hallucination'', so it's debatable about Granny Riddle and Stachenscarfen. Pavel has absolutely no excuse though.}}

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