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See [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]] for a similar phenomenon specific to gender.

 

# That member of the [[Player Party]] who should at least have knowledge of the plot or a very strong reaction with the plot; and yet nothing happens, either from them personally or from people who [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|see them.]] (This does not count if they're intentionally being unhelpful.)

# That [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] gotten early through Shenanigans but doesn't advance the plot until you go through the motions of getting it in a cutscene.

* Special codes in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles II]]'' can let characters like Maximilian, Selvaria, and Isara join your party; despite being {{spoiler|on the other side and/or dead from the first ''Valkyria Chronicles''.}} There isn't even a [[Hand Wave]] justifying this. Naturally nobody reacts to the previous Imperial Prince and his champion fighting for Gallia.

** There's also other characters from the first game; who are explicitly stated by the plot to be staying out of the Gallian Civil War to prevent a diplomatic issue; but that's a smaller wonk than the above.

** It gets more ludicrous in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles III]]''. You can get [[Valkyria Chronicles II|Aliasse]] via password, and she can {{spoiler|turn into a Valkyria as soon as you have her, like Riela does halfway in the game}}. One of the plot points is {{spoiler|Cardinal Borgia}} seeking to eliminate Riela because she's an impure {{spoiler|Valkyria}}, you would think that having Aliasse in your squad will give you HUGE leverage.

* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' has a feature where in [[New Game+]], you can pull all of the characters you had in your party whenever you had previously beaten the game; even the ones who are in contradictory path. While some might have a special attack or two; they do not interact. (Especially huge is being able to being [[The Dragon|Harle]] back.)

* The dialogue rich game ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours]]'' has Tony Montana talk about how he wants the Big Bad dead. He does this even after the Big Bad is dead.

* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: [[Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks|Shaolin Monks]]'', Scorpion and Sub-Zero are unlockable as player characters in the Story Mode. Unfortunately, neither of them actually has a storyline and the game jsut acts as if you're playing as default protagonists Liu Kang and Kung Lao, even when you're fighting Boss Battles against [[Mirror Boss|Sub-Zero and Scorpion]].

* A minor example occurs in ''[[Persona 3]] [[Updated Rerelease|Portable]]''. The female protagonist's route includes an opportunity to prevent the [[Plotline Death]] of {{spoiler|Shinjiro Aragaki}}, instead putting him into a coma to justify his absence from the rest of the game up until the ending. While the direct references to the character being dead are edited out, the dialogue isn't altered enough to change the fact that everyone is still ''acting'' like he died, particularly when his best friend asserts that "he was a hell of a guy."

** Of course, as the [[Convenient Coma]] page will tell you, it's never asserted that he ''will'' wake up from his coma, so for all intents and purposes he might as well be dead {{spoiler|(at least until the end of the game, but the characters don't know that)}}.