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** Missingno., its [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_Pokemon glitchy kin], and the effects they have on the game make up an impressive amount of [[Pokémon/Nightmare Fuel|Pokémon's Nightmare Fuel page]]. In fanfiction, they're often portrayed as a form of [[Eldritch Abomination]].

** [[Good Bad Bugs|Missingno. also has the benefit of multiplying the sixth item in your bag to 128 or 255 in quantity]]. For competitive battling, this is quite the [[Game Breaker]]. Cloned Rare Candies + Cloned Technical Machines + Cloned Master Balls + Cloned Medicine = A team of six in the timeframe it would take to create one Pokémon without glitching.

** ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqi5H0Myo8c&feature=related Blue Knuckles], who plays like a mixture of Sonic (his palettes and level routes), Knuckles (abilities), and Tails (uses his name at the end of act tally). The only ways to play as him are through hacking, Game Genie, or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1atT6qrRLY a massive glitch in Lava Reef].

** Also, if you turn on [[Debug Mode]], use Stage Select in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, go to the Doomsday Zone Act 1 as Knuckles and beat the level, the ending sequence will feature a palette swap of Sonic, Knuckles, and the Tornado.

*** Since the game dynamically loads enemy sprites and tiles as you go through a level, if Sonic goes too fast while in [[Super Mode]], he can outrun the sprite loading and cause enemies or backgrounds to be garbled.

* The original ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', while it did ''not'' have a character named Ermac ([[Urban Legend of Zelda|it was an April Fool's Joke]]), ''did'' give us Glitch Reptile and Silver Goro, two glitch characters that trigger during the game's three Endurance Matches in one-player mode. Glitch Reptile occurs when you do the trick to get to Reptile during one of the Endurance Matches; you'll fight two Reptiles as a result, but the second Reptile will be a graphically glitched version of random characters in the game. You get Silver Goro when you perform a fatality on the second opponent of the last Endurance Match with Raiden or Sub-Zero, then throw your projectile at Goro as he falls from the top of the screen. Do it right, and his colors will be glitched to a weird silver for the remainder of the round. Good memories, good memories...

* Some enemies from the infamously glitchy ''[[Action 52]]'' games seem to fall into this category. For example, the sprites in Level 5 of ''Ninja Assault'' are all scrambled, but appear to be birds and a rhino-type boss. Also, most of the enemies in ''Spread Fire''. In ''Thrusters'', your ship turns into one of these when you crash in the second level, which is [[Unwinnable]] anyways unless you have the right ROM and emulator.

* There was a custom physics model for ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' that turned the players weapons and the BOBs into stuff like this.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' parodies this with the Bugged Bugbear monster, and later the Baby Bugged Bugbear familiar based on it. Neither is actually glitched, but both have chunks of their images replaced with ones and zeroes, and both spit out [[MySQL]] error messages with almost everything they do.

* The ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' [[Game Shark|Game Genie]] code VYUOKITE allows you to select from ''244'' of these at the beginning of the game. A large number of those are automatically killed when used, but a surprising number are actually usable.

* The dungeon crawler game ''Mordor'' has one of these called the GOBLIE. This is a very weak companion monster that would be completely useless even if they didn't always turn up dead. It arises from a flaw in the acid spit attack that some monsters have. Occasionally an acid spitter will attempt to spit on your companions, but if your character has never had a companion then it generates a GOBLIE and immediately kills it.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|The Entity]]}} was revealed to be the trope namer itself on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]''.

 

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