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If the game's a [[Role Playing Game]], this character can be recruited to your [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], sometimes through [[Guide Dang It|extremely convoluted]] means, sometimes as [[New Game+]] reward.

In a [[Fighting Game]], uncovering the character may be as simple as holding down a button while you select a certain fighter, or you may have to beat the game on the hardest setting, [[No Continue Run|without using any continues]]. In many fighting games, there is also a secondary path to getting characters that usually entails a set number (usually in the hundreds) of versus matches completed or a set amount of gameplay time if you really don't want to play story mode.

Some Secret Characters can be [[Lost Forever]] depending on the means used to unlock or acquire them.

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== [[Action Adventure]] ==

* Since ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'', ''[[Castlevania]]'' has featured unlockable characters, usually the secondary characters. ''Dawn of Sorrow'' 's Julius Mode, besides being a tribute to ''[[Castlevania]] 3'', is also a rare example of a [[Bad End]] Plus: the reason you're playing as Julius is to {{spoiler|kill Soma, who's become Dracula.}}

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* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'': [[Final Fantasy XI|Shantotto]] and [[Final Fantasy XII|Gabranth]] join the heroes and villains (respectively) once their story lines are cleared, adding them to the PP catalog to be purchased.

** This is the case for Prishe and Gilgamesh, and {{spoiler|Feral Chaos}} in the sequel. Shantotto and Gabranth must still be purchased, but unlike the others the ability to purchase them is from the start.

* A tradition in the ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' series. Typically, you first unlock Jigglypuff by beating single-player mode once, and then the requirements get tougher. Each time you meet the requirements, you will fight that character with whichever one you were playing as at the time, and if you win you will unlock the character. Other typical requirements include beating the game without continues, with a specific character, or completing certain side events. Each game would also give you the characters if you logged a certain amount of multiplayer hours. In ''Brawl'', there are three ways to unlock each character: getting them to join you in Adventure Mode, playing a certain number of Vs. matches, or by doing other events. Also, that version mixed it up by making Jigglypuff one of the ''last'' characters you unlock.

* A tradition in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series. Typically, you first unlock Jigglypuff by beating single-player mode once, and then the requirements get tougher. Each time you meet the requirements, you will fight that character with whichever one you were playing as at the time, and if you win you will unlock the character. Other typical requirements include beating the game without continues, with a specific character, or completing certain side events. Each game would also give you the characters if you logged a certain amount of multiplayer hours. In ''Brawl'', there are three ways to unlock each character: getting them to join you in Adventure Mode, playing a certain number of Vs. matches, or by doing other events. Also, that version mixed it up by making Jigglypuff one of the ''last'' characters you unlock.

** Mewtwo in particular took the [[Guide Dang It]] to the extreme, you have to play over 20 player-hours (that is, 20 hours divided by the number of people playing) or fight around 700 matches.

** Sheik and Zero Suit Samus are technically "secret" in Melee and Brawl respectively because you cannot play as them right from the start without holding a button.

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* The Cheer Girls and the Divas in ''Ouendan'' and ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' aren't particularly secret; they have their own bios in the manuals and everything, they're just really, really hard to unlock.

** Not terribly. You get them by beating hard mode, which unlocks [[Harder Than Hard]] mode. in EBA< beating ''that'' allows you to {{spoiler|play as Commander Kahn.}}

* ''[[Space Channel 5]] Part 2'' somewhat does this. By completing Reports with 100% and by doing other things, you can play as other characters in the game, including the [[Big Bad]].

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== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ==

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star ~~Fox~~]] Assault'' 's Multiplayer mode lets you play as the core Star Fox team, but Wolf O' Donnell can be unlocked. He has the same total stats as Fox, but with three maxed out skills (a maxed out speed in particular that lets him run around all the other characters), he is considered by some to be a [[Game Breaker]].

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]] Assault'' 's Multiplayer mode lets you play as the core Star Fox team, but Wolf O' Donnell can be unlocked. He has the same total stats as Fox, but with three maxed out skills (a maxed out speed in particular that lets him run around all the other characters), he is considered by some to be a [[Game Breaker]].

* ''[[Raiden Fighters]] Jet'' has the Slave and Fairy planes, unlockable by holding the bomb button when pressing Start at the title screen. The Slave will replace whichever plane you select, inheriting its movement speed and bomb; the Miclus is replaced by the Fairy instead.

* In ''[[Touhou Project|Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' you can unlock Merlin and Lunasa Prismrivers if you complete the [[Nintendo Hard]] Extra Mode with Komachi and Shikieiki. Given that this game is from [[Bullet Hell]] genre, many casual players won't even try this (it's like the story mode, but with number of bullets on [[Harder Than Hard|Lunatic]] standards, both you and opponent having [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|one hit point]] while she has the invincibility time for the beginning of the fight, and without any spare lives or continues).

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** ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' : [[Twin Switch|Maho Shirayuki]], [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|Maeka Kudanshita]], and [[Circus Brat|Sumire Nozaki]] ;

** ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'' : [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|Kazumi Watarai]] and [[Ill Girl|Hotaru Izumi]]

** ''Tokimeki Memorial 4'' : [[Twin Switch|Rui Nanakawa]], [[Shrinking Violet|Haruna Mizuki]], and {{spoiler|[[Yandere|Miyako Okura]]}}

** ''Tokimeki Memorial 4'' : [[Twin Switch|Rui Nanakawa]], [[Shrinking Violet|Haruna Mizuki]], and {{spoiler|[[Yandere (disambiguation)|Miyako Okura]]}}

** ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side'' : Aoki Chiharu, Tendou Jin (for the DS Version ''1st Love'')

** ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2nd Kiss'' : Akagi Kazuyuki, [[Jerkass|Majima Tarou]] and [[Hikkikomori|Komori Taku]] (for the DS Version ''2nd Season'')

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* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'': Many secret mechs in the Super Robot Wars series. The methods for getting them vary from the simple (kill X number of enemies with character Y, especially easy when character Y is a walking engine of death) to the [[Guide Dang It]], (beating a certain enemy with a single character, not attacking a particular unit in a fight, or reassigning a character to an incredibly weak robot before a certain mission, or ''winning'' a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]).

** Due to the [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|nature of the games]], this may not be so much [[Guide Dang It]] as [[All There in the Manual]].

** And quite often, there will be two or more hidden mecha/weapons that cannot be gained in the same playthrough (ex: [[Gundam SEED Astray|Hyperion Gundam]] and [[Tekkaman Blade|Tekkaman Rapier]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars W|W]]'', which are achieved on different sides of the same route split), making [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] impossible.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'': Cloud. An incredibly long series of actions and optional maps before getting him, [[Guide Dang It]].

** The PSP port/upgrade of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions, included Cloud and all of FFT's unlockable characters, as well as ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'''s Balthier (as a secret character) and Final Fantasy Tactics A2's Luso (met in the story).