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== [[Fighting Game]] ==
* Most famous [[Fighting Game]] example: Akuma/Gouki in ''Super [[
** ''[[Street Fighter]] Alpha'' also had Akuma, but [[Joke Character]] Dan Hibiki made his debut as a secret character in the first ''Alpha'' game. ''Alpha 2'' featured Shin Akuma and Evil Ryu.
* ''[[
* ''[[Battle Arena Toshinden]]'': In order to play as Gaia and Sho, the two bosses, you had to enter two codes on the title screen before the options showed up, then select either [[Ryu and Ken|Eiji or Kayin]] while holding certain down certain buttons on the D-pad
* Most of the modern [[WWE]] games have former WWE talent as hidden "legends".
** Recent WWE games can be hacked to unlock WWE management like Vince Mcmahon, Jim Ross, Michael Cole, Lillian Garcia, Mike Chioda and Nick Patrick.
* ''[[
** 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.
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** 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.
* ''[[Tekken]]'s'' "Devil Kazuya" was unlocked by ''leaving the game on for '''30 hours'''''. Alternatively, one could get a perfect score in the game of ''Galaga'' that replaced a standard [[Loading Screen]] at the very beginning of the game.
* In the ''[[
* In the [[Fighting Game]] ''[[One Must Fall]]'', it was possible, through a series of button sequences, to play as both the end boss, and use his towering robot (not normally available in the story mode). There were also a lot of secret characters you couldn't play as, but could access for special fights, both in story mode and tournament play--"unranked challengers". In tournament mode, some of these unranked challengers would appear in other tournaments, some were the only appearance of a story mode character in the tournaments, some were references to other [[Epic Games]] franchises, and some were just unique characters who only popped out surprise you.
* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' is outright vicious about unlocking characters. In ''XX'', to unlock Robo-Ky, Kliff, and Justice, you must do one of the following: complete forty of the game's fifty (insanely hard) missions; complete all the story paths (some of which are [[Guide Dang It]], some of which are outright painful, and some of which are ''both'') for all characters; or complete over 200 levels of Survival Mode (which amounts to seventy or so battles - including twenty much harder "Daredevils"). Or just leave the game running for several days. Then, there are the laternate movesets for most of the characters, which are practically characters unto themselves...
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== [[Platform Game]] ==
* There are a few secret characters in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series. The [[Super Mode]] versions might count, but there's also Metal Sonic in ''Sonic Adventure DX'' who is available after getting all 130 emblems (though he's only available in trial mode and can't do Sky Chase), as well as Amy in ''Sonic Advance 2'' after beating the game with all the Chaos Emeralds with the previous 4 characters.
* The first ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' game lets you play as {{spoiler|Sylvia, Alastor, Captain Blue}} and even {{spoiler|Dante}} ( who is unfortunately, only unlockable in the [[
* ''[[Meat Boy
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Luigi]] has become this in many of the recent platform games, usually because his abilities tend to [[Lightning Bruiser|overshadow]] [[Jack of All Stats|Mario's]] gameplay-wise.
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== [[Real Time Strategy]] ==
* In ''[[
** Likewise, in the expansion pack it was possible to receive an extra hero unit for one mission providing you first triggered a secret mission in the preceding mission and then completed said secret mission.
== [[Racing Game]] ==
* In racing games, you often have [[Unlockable Content|secret vehicles]] rather than secret [[Characterization Tropes|''characters'']]. Though some games like the [[
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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Wild Arms]]'': In the second game, you recruit Marivel in a completely optional dungeon. Alter Code, the remake of the first game lets you recruit Zed after a [[Bonus Boss]] fight and after you give him an item acquired in the last dungeon.
* ''[[Suikoden]] II'' lets you recruit the overpowered main character of the first game as a non-Star. It required a last dungeon save file from the first Suikoden and a Side Quest.
** ''[[Suikoden Tactics]]'' did something similar for the main character of ''[[Suikoden IV]]''. Also, considering the ''[[Suikoden]]'' games always have around 100 [[Optional Party Member|Optional Party Members]], (There's always [[108]] characters, but some are automatic, permanent members) there's often a boatload of difficult to get ones.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'': You can get a [[Optional Party Member|special character]], the Rogue Modron Nordom, only by exploring a bizarre pocket dimension where the inhabitants are trying to understand the concepts of dungeon-delving. The result is a randomly generated maze, creating by opening and shutting various doors between the myriad chambers, and Nordom can only be found in a specific chamber. To even get to the pocket plane, you buy a specific item (the "Metallic Cube" - a poseable Modron figurine) from Vrichika's Curiosity Shoppe. Then, after talking to the Modrons in the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts to discover that it ''is'' a portal, you have to figure out on your own the specific pattern you need to alter the figure's limbs into to activate it (extend left wing, extend right wing, rotate right arm). Once there, you first have to fight your way through a randomly generated maze (fortunately set on "Easy" difficulty) to find the control room. Then, from there, you have to set the maze to "Hard" and then try and find the room where Nordom is waiting. Did we mention that, on this difficulty, the maze is filled with powerful enemy constructs, which can make this a [[Bonus Level of Hell]] if the party doesn't time [[Level Grinding]] on either the Easy or Medium settings? And that, as this maze is randomly generated, you may need to reset it over and over before Nordom's chamber becomes accessible?
** However, all ''Torment'' PC's are unique and don't even stand out very much from the crowd given that unique characters are all over the place. As with many other such characters, Nordom is hinted at but not explicitly identified. Morte and Annah are the only characters you will definitely encounter. Second, Nordom is also always found in his dungeon on Hard if you look around. Third, let's not forget Vhailor, who is even more secretive: you have to walk ''past'' a certain portal into a room you couldn't get into before, and which doesn't obviously show up.
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] II:'' Bleu/Deis. You must walk over a specific panel in a random desert with nothing else in it after reading a certain book. The book both unlocks the panel and tells you, if obtusely, which one it is.
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series has a few:
** ''[[
*** Also from ''[[
** ''[[
*** [[Guide Dang It|Not only did you need a strategy guide to find these two,]] but they were in the ding dong ''instruction manual!'' That's right, the two secret characters you could miss very easily? They're mentioned in the instrusions! And then there was [[Dirge of Cerberus]]...
* ''[[
* ''Time Stalkers'' has Marion. Although not a ''secret'' by any stretch (she's listed in the manual with all the other characters), the method for getting her is convoluted and relies entirely on luck--you have to ''find'' her as a randomly generated item.
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, there are a few secret characters in every game. First generation had Mew, second generation had Celebi, third generation had Jirachi and Deoxys and fourth generation had Darkrai, Shaymin and Arceus. {{spoiler|Then again, Arceus being the equivalent of God in the Pokemon games makes it so he better be a secret character, or else the game would probably break.}}
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* {{spoiler|Futomimi and Sakahagi}} in [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]. In Hell's Maze, you can encounter two souls; one that's red ({{spoiler|Sakahagi}}) and another that's green ({{spoiler|Futomimi}}). Talking to both of them causes a corpse to show up in Zoshigaya Cemetery, which is holding the Afterlife Bell. Bring the Bell to the two souls and ring it to bring them [[Back From the Dead]] as their former selves. That alone won't unlock them, however; you still need to fuse a pair of demons to get them. Dante and Black Frost also count, but they join you instantly regardless of your level.
** Speaking of Megaten, from ''[[Persona]]'' we have Reiji, who is infamous for this. From [[Persona 2]], we have the Custom Personae, which can be unlocked by certain dialogue choices, and Durga, which needs a certain choice as well. Also, from ''Eternal Punishment'', the Ancestral Personae and Lugh.
* On the [[Dragon Age]] wiki, "Secret Character" is the spoiler-shielding codeword for... the [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Phantasy Star Universe|Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity]] lets you at random find a KFC in dungeons... and recruit Colonel Sanders as a party member.
* Many of the Legendaries in ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]''. They don't appear at all unless you have either the Secret Slab or the Enigma Part, and from there, you'd need a [[Guide Dang It|strategy guide]] to figure out where exactly they appear.
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== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ==
* ''[[Star Fox (
* ''[[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 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'')
* In ''[[
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== [[Turn
* ''[[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
* ''[[
** The PSP port/upgrade of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Nippon Ichi]] games, such as ''[[Disgaea]]'' or ''[[La Pucelle]]'', often allow you to unlock characters from their other games.
* ''[[Shining Force]]'' was horrible with these, and it extended to the sequels.
* The game ''[[Vantage Master]]'' by Falcom allowed you to play as characters from their other games, by answering the questions to get a specific class, then naming the character appropriately. For instance, becoming a knight and naming him "Adol" lets you play the knight from the Ys games, while naming the swordsman "Mail" gives you the title heroine from the game ''[[Popful Mail]]''.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius
** ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
*** If you're willing to give up Micaiah or {{spoiler|Pelleas}} [[Optional Party Member|(if you got him)]] for magical attackers and give {{spoiler|Lehran}} [[Holy Hand Grenade|Rexaura]] or [[Casting a Shadow|Balberith]], turns out, he's actually fast enough to '''double attack''' the [[Final Boss]]. For added [[Your Mileage May Vary|fun,]] and possible symbolism, have him team up with Micaiah and perhaps Sanaki to bring {{spoiler|Asherah}} down. Nothing quite like happy {{spoiler|god-slaying family bonding time, right?}}
* Advance Wars had Nell, and the sequel added Hachi. Both are gamebreakers.
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