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** The main characters of ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', Terra, Ven(tus), and Aqua fall victim to this. 2 males, one female. {{spoiler|Then it turns out that due to their fates and how the endgame plays out, Terra and Ven become [[Decoy Protagonist|decoy protagonists]] to Aqua somewhat...}}
* Most ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' games allow the player to choose between an equal number of male or female original characters. While this doesn't quite help the ratio among the licensed games, it makes for a more or less even mix among characters in the ''Original Generation'' series.
* The ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series, as a whole, does this constantly. While there exact number of significant characters in the series depends on which of the many spinoffs are counted, even the most basic count totals over 100. Of these, the only females among them are Roll, who took until ''10'' to get a single plot-significant action to her name (getting sick so her brothers can save her) and was only playable a bonus character in a remake (as a semi-[[Joke Character]]), a post-completion bonus in an otherwise bad and now no-longer obtainable mobile port (not a joke character this time), and a board game where Mega Man himself isn't playable, ''[[Mega Man 4]]'s'' Kalinka, who existed entirely to be kidnapped and seems to never show up anymore because [[Comic Book Time|she would raise questions about the passage of time]], ''Batle and Chase'''s Plum, who exists purely to facilitate pre-credits dialog and is almost entirely removed in translated versions because the translators were lazy, and ''9''
** The [[Capcom vs. Whatever]] games have their own different [[Unfortunate Implications]] concerning Roll. In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]'', she was such an awful [[Joke Character]] that she got her own [[Character Tiers|tier]]. In ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'', thanks to the release of ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]'', her moverset has a [[Stay in the Kitchen]] theme.
** In [[Mega Man (animation)|the Ruby-Spears cartoon]], Roll was more of a [[Faux Action Girl]] than a generic housekeeper. There was still the "vacuum-for-an-arm" complex she seemed to have developed, though...
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