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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' has [[Infamous (video game series)|Cole Macgrath]] as part of its roster (naturally, only on the [[
** And now we've got [[Final Fight|Poison]].
*** Toro and Kuro have now joined. As [[Sony]] Japan's mascots, they're also naturally exclusive to the Sony versions.
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** Also, in the original Smash Bros' 1P mode, you fight classic Nintendo characters, the [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Mario Bros.]], [[Giant Mook]] [[Donkey Kong]], [[Metroid|Samus]], then "[[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Fighting Poly]][[Multi Mook Melee|gon Team!]]" Wait, what?
*** Similarly, when playing Melee's adventure Mode, if you've played it a few times you'll know about the Metal Mario fight. Then when you've unlocked Luigi, you find yourself fighting both [[Oh Crap|Metal Mario AND Metal Luigi]]
* Capcom's 2D fighting game based on the third part of ''[[
* [[Dead Rising|Frank West]] in ''[[Tatsunokovs Capcom|Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]: [[Updated Rerelease|Ultimate All-Stars]]'' had this reaction (of course, for many American gamers, nearly the entire Tatsunoko side counts, too). In the other crossover games, we've got [[Doctor Strange|Shuma-Gorath]] and [[X-Men|Marrow]] in the ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' series, [[Art of Fighting|Ryuhaku Todoh]], [[Final Fight|Maki]], and [[Last Blade|Hibiki Takane]] (among others) in ''[[SNK vs. Capcom|Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', and four ''[[Red Earth]]'' characters in ''[[Capcom Fighting Evolution]]'', none of whom were Tessa.<ref>who appeared in ''Pocket Fighter''</ref>
** In the first ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes|Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' game, there's also Jin Saotome from ''[[Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness|Cyberbots]]'', which had Americans asking, "Who the hell is Jin?"
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* 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|Emperor Palamecia]], to whom Seymour bears a very strong resemblance, was placed in the role of Yuna's main opponent in ''Duodecim''.</ref>
** 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: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' has announced [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness|King]] [[Disappeared Dad|Krichevskoy]] as a [[DLC]] [[Optional Party Member]]. {{spoiler|However, it's technically Vyers/Mid-Boss, but with his power returned and the antennae grown back out. Still pretty awesome though.}}
* Harold the ghoul in ''[[Fallout 3]]''. He's now the only character that appears in all 3 main Fallout games.
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