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This can also be done if it's an adaptation of a ''non''-interactive work, by refusing to pick any one of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] to have more spotlight or importance than the others if the audience is divided on which is best and there's no main character.

* The ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series always has mutually exclusive characters, particularly in the second game. The [[The Anime of the Game|anime adaptation]] of ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story|The Second Story]]'', which covers the events of the first disc, cuts a few corners and has all the disc 1 characters join Claude and Rena. This caused a small-scale [[Urban Legend of Zelda]], where people started to believe that it's possible to recruit both Ashton and Opera in the same game as well as recruit Dias on Claude's route. Neither situation is possible in the game.

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'': None of its endings are possible for ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World|Dawn of the New World]]'' (as it isn't possible on a single playthrough to obtain the title "Item Collector"- because you normally can only obtain one of the three ending items), rather, its manga adaptation's ending (where all three ending items are given to Lloyd) is canon.

*** Although a bonus scene in the game [[Schrodinger's Gun|allows you to choose even that.]]

** There are other differences in the manga's ending, too, like the party taken to the final battle. In the game, because of the limit on the number of party members, you had to take either {{spoiler|Zelos or Kratos}}. In the manga, not only do both of them go along for the final trip to Derris-Kharlan, but {{spoiler|so does ''Yuan''}}.

* In ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' expanded media such as the OVAs, musicals, drama CDs and movie, it never clearly states which girl(s) Oogami has a romantic relationship with or Taiga in the New York stuff. There is usually slight hints toward Sakura (as the poster girl) but since games have a serial progressing plot and the OVAs and Drama CDS fill in the gaps it wouldn't jive to take the controller away from the player, and thus in the OVAs [[Status Quo Is God]]

* ''Advance [[Guardian Heroes]]'' combines this with [[Cutting Off the Branches]]: it is based on one ending of the original game... but then takes it off into a direction that doesn't actually exist in the original game.

* The ending of the ''[[Makai Senki Disgaea]]'' anime featured an amalgamation of [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness|the game]]'s good and bad ending, with {{spoiler|Laharl sparing Lamington's life, but still sacrificing his own in order to resurrect Flonne}}.

** Oddly, future games set in the same universe suggest this might be the canon ending.