Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer: Difference between revisions

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Well, it may be because he was effectively [[Unperson|unpersoned]] by the marketing campaign. He wasn't in the trailer, he doesn't have his own action figure and he's not on the poster. But everyone else from the movie is. For some reason, the marketing department has apparently decided that he's [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]].

* Anthony Mackie in ''[[The Adjustment Bureau]]'' has third billing, but you wouldn't know he's in the film from its advertising.

* Nathaniel in ''[[Enchanted]]''. The trailer shows Giselle, Prince Edward and Queen Narissa come out of the manhole and then goes on to show several [[Fish Out of Water]] scenes with ''only'' them. This despite the fact that Nathaniel is pursuing Giselle through New York for most of the movie and Narissa herself comes through only at the end.

* [[Charlize Theron]]'s character in ''[[Hancock]]'' was completely absent from the original trailers, as was any indication that Hancock was not a {{spoiler|one of a kind superhero.}} Thus, when the ads for the DVD came out showing her and her role, many people who hadn't seen the movie thought it looked like a completely different movie.

* Mr. Blue from ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' is conspicuously absent from most posters, some of which even say 'Five men...' instead of six. Also, Joe and Nice Guy Eddie (because they don't fit the naming convention) often aren't in posters that contain much more minor characters, Mr. Brown and sometimes Blue, who do fit.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** {{spoiler|Rory}} was omitted from the trailer and cast list for the 2010 season finale {{spoiler|to keep his resurrection a secret.}}

* The trailer for season 4 of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' curiously leaves out any scenes of {{spoiler|Mohinder}}, despite being rather long and featuring every other main character prominently (plus several new ones) and the actor confirming that he's returning. This gives the overall impression he's ''not'' part of the season.

* For the longest time, Garrus Vakarian was this for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. He wasn't shown in any videos or screenshots outside of when you meet him on Omega for the first time. {{spoiler|This to preserve the surprise that he gets half his face blown off shortly after you recruit him}}. While he's since been shown in screenshots for subsequent DLC... he still doesn't have an official biography on the official website, ''despite the game being out for nearly 10 months''.

** Many players of both games did not even know female Shepard existed. She is not featured in any of the trailers, promotional material, documentation or game box. Fortunately for FemShep fans, this is changing. Recent news indicates that [[Bio Ware]] intends to include the lesser-known version of the protagonist into promotional materials.

** Speaking of ''Dark Dawn'', Rief didn't make any appearance in the early promo art. Probably justified: two characters in said image were redesigned before the game's release, proving that Camelot hadn't finished the characters yet when they released that art.

* Advertising for ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' focuses almost exclusively on Atlas and P-body, and Chell only gets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg the final released trailer] in the spotlight. Atlas and P-body star in the co-op campaign that chonologically takes place after the main single-player game, and Chell doesn't even meet them until the end of her story.

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