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* While both [[Star Wars|Yoda and Darth Vader]] were constantly advertised as playable characters in ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur IV]]'', having Vader's apprentice from ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' was not expected by many, particularly since [[Early-Bird Cameo|his game had yet to be released at the time]].
** And [[Keroro Gunso|Angol Moa]]- sorry, [[Expy|Angol Fear]] as a bonus character? Even more unexpected...
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' people assumed early on Seymour would be in as the villain of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', but instead Tidus' father Jecht, who was more an [[Anti-Hero]]/[[Anti-Villain]] than a real antagonist, got in over Seymour. [[Memetic Badass|Not]] [[Memetic Sex God|that]] [[Difficult but Awesome|people]] [[Rated "M" for Manly|mind]]... Square actually [[Word of God|decided to explain this one]]--Seymour had more of a rivalry/connection with Yuna, so having him in the game as the representative villain would have meant there was little going on between Tidus and Seymour story-wise, whereas Jecht provided a deeper father-son/rivalry dynamic.<ref>Though, in a strange case of an character playing the role of ''his own [[Expy]]'', [[Final Fantasy II
** Then in the prequel ''Dissidia 012'', who did we get new from ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''? Not [[The Rival|Seifer]], or [[The Chick|Rinoa]], or even [[Brainwashed and Crazy|Edea]]. No, we get [[Badass Normal|Lag]][[The Gunslinger|una]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Loire]].
* [[Nippon Ichi]] games often have a number of characters from other games appear as [[The Cameo|cameos]], which may fall under this trope. For example, the character Aramis from ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' appears for all of one chapter and isn't even playable in any version of the game. [[Ascended Extra|He becomes]] a [[Downloadable Content]] [[Optional Party Member]] in [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]. Another example is in ''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku|Zettai Hero Project]]'', whose strongest [[Bonus Boss]] is actually Valvoga from ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. His only other appearance outside those two games were as part of a ''spell animation'' in [[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]].
** ''[[Disgaea 4:
* Harold the ghoul in ''[[Fallout 3]]''. He's now the only character that appears in all 3 main Fallout games.
* The [[Mascot Fighter]] ''[[Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion]]'' includes the channel's usual stable of characters... and [[Captain Planet]], who actually ''predated'' the channel by a few years.
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* The appearance of Sonic's Classic self in the teaser trailer for ''[[Sonic Generations]]''.
* While ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]]'' promised to bring back every character that ever appeared in a ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' game as playable, it's doubtful that very many fans (assuming they even ''knew who he was'') would have expected Meat making it to the roster, given that in his appearance in ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'' he wasn't so much a character as an alternate costume available for any character through a cheat code to make them look like a bloody skeleton.
** In [[Mortal Kombat 9]], [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy]] [[Guest Fighter|Krueger]] as a [[Downloadable Content|DLC character]]. [[God of War (series)|Kratos]] as a [[
* Kuina and Zeff from ''[[One Piece]]'' appeared in ''One Piece: Grand Adventure'', the American made sequel to ''One Piece: Grand Battle''.
* Yugao Uzuki from the ''[[Naruto]]'' series, appearing in ''Clash of Ninja Revolution 2'', has to be one of the most unexpected characters on this list, appearing in the Manga for less then ''five panels'', showing none of her skills in these panels.
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