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*** [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Koizumi eventually ends up as the lead in the school play. The production? ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''.

* Sword Knight and Blade Knight in ''[[Kirby of the Stars|Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'', complete with a [[Lower Deck Episode]].

* ''[[Ranma ~~One Half~~]]'' has two sets of these: Ranma's friends Hiroshi and Daisuke, and Akane's friends Yuka and Sayuri. They're also basically the only people without overly complicated [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]], just very common ones, indicating how normal they're supposed to be. In the original manga, they didn't even ''have'' names.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has two sets of these: Ranma's friends Hiroshi and Daisuke, and Akane's friends Yuka and Sayuri. They're also basically the only people without overly complicated [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]], just very common ones, indicating how normal they're supposed to be. In the original manga, they didn't even ''have'' names.

** Technically, Akane has four female friends gravitating around her, both in the anime and the manga. Yuka and Sayuri are just the most prominent -- [[Fanon|semi-fanonical]] names for the other two: Asami and Hiroko. They tends to often comes in pair, though, fitting the trope most of the time. Nabiki also has her two cronies, seen mostly in the anime.

* Komatsu and Hatta from ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' are a standard indistinguishable perverted pair of best friends of the main character Ky?suke.

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* An especially weird example occurs in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' where Donald and Goofy objectively fill this role as "normal" characters, despite technically being much more well-known than the Squeenix-born characters.

** Selphie fills the role to a T in the second game (Tidus and Wakka are only mentioned). She shows up to talk to Kairi and then... obscurity. Yeah.

** Lea and Isa play this role in ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'', showing up once in Ven's story and then vanishing soon after. Amusing, considering the expanded roles both of them play in [[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|the]] [[Video Game/Kingdom Hearts 358 Over 2 Days|later]] [[Kingdom Hearts II|games.]] [[Word of God]] says that this was due to [[Pandering to the Base|fan demand.]]

** Lea and Isa play this role in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', showing up once in Ven's story and then vanishing soon after. Amusing, considering the expanded roles both of them play in [[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|the]] [[Video Game/Kingdom Hearts 358 Over 2 Days|later]] [[Kingdom Hearts II|games.]] [[Word of God]] says that this was due to [[Pandering to the Base|fan demand.]]

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' will have two ordinary Social Knights/Cavaliers travel with the main lord of the game. They generally are not in charge, important, or in any way special. (The exceptions being Oscar from Fire Emblem 9, and Kent and Sain for Fire Emblem 7.) The pair were just chosen to protect the Prince/Princess when plot happened. They are always sharply contrasting, they have no late game dialog or importance, you could let them die at any point. They are a recurring theme for the series, one of the knights wears red, the other wears green. Generally, any dialog with one has the other in it as well (except for certain one-on-one dialogs that happen later on).

** ''Fire Emblem 9'' has Oscar and Kieran, who do not appear together when you first meet them. However Kieran has a not short dialog with Oscar showing them to be another example of this trope. Since Kieran is a self-obsessed duty bound [[Unknown Rival|ignored self-proclaimed rival]], and Oscar is a laid back lazy relaxed friendly guy who wonders what crawled up Kieran's backside.