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** Another compelling reason not to make real-world version of some of those cards arises when they have card texts with conditions like "The soul of whoever loses this Duel is forfeit to the winner".
* ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' posits a strange example: the series was always quite clearly [[Merchandise-Driven]], with the main character's [[Combining Mecha]] forms clearly designed for the purposes of easily combining toys, and such toys accordingly ensued. Midway through the series came [[Chrome Champion|OmegaShoutmon and ZekeGreymon]], two Digimon who combined into Shoutmon DX. All three [[Mons]] were obviously designed in such a way that hypothetical toys of the former two could be easily combined into a Shoutmon DX figure, yet no such toys of the characters ever materialised despite all three characters being very important.
* Despite the infamously [[Merchandise-Driven]] nature of ''[[Gundam]]'' that will produce kits for even the most obscure variants, ''[[After War Gundam X]]'' suffers from several gaps in Gunpla production, including Jenice the series main [[Mook]] suit.
== Comic Books ==
* Several characters from the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, most notably Kwinn the Eskimo and Dr. Venom.
** Kwinn the Eskimo eventually did gain a figure but it was many years after the character's debut and last scenes in the comic. Ditto for Dr. Venom. But we are still waiting on Billy and on Bongo the Balloon Bear.
** The Baroness was introduced to the franchise long before getting her action figure in 1985; this may not have been simply due to the "female character taboo", as Cover Girl, Scarlet, and Lady Jay had action figures much earlier.
* The ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' comics had a few more, such as Scrounge, Blaster's [[The Woobie|unfortunate little buddy]] from issue #17 and Jhiaxus, a major villain from the ''[[Transformers Generation 2]]'' comics. Emirate Xaaron, from the UK comics and the latter parts of the US Marvel issues, wasn't based on a toy, but is pretty easy to make as he is mostly a gold and orange Megatron. That said, he'd make a lousy toy - he hasn't transformed in so long he theorizes the shock from merely attempting it could kill him!
** One such character, [[The Caligula|Straxus]], recently got a toy well over 20 years after his debut (though it's called Darkmount due to a case of [[Writing Around Trademarks]].)
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** And there were some obviously not introduced to promote new figures, and did not get any, such as Queen Marlena. Count Marzo didn't receive a toy until the ''Masters of the Universe Classic'' line despite appearing in both the original series and the 2002 reboot. Evilseed has it even worse, having shown up in the original and the 2002 reboot but still not having a toy. 2002 ''was'' pretty bad at this, though; Clawful, one of Skeletor's main henchmen, never got a toy in that line, either.
* The original ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' cartoon had a bunch of characters who'd fit the bill:
** "The Search For Alpha Trion" was a second season episode that introduced Optimus Prime's mentor, Alpha Trion, and girlfriend, Elita One, both recurring characters without toys. Also worth mention from this episode are Firestar, Moonracer and Chromia, all three ''named'' fembots that take the spotlight for at least part of the episode. A possible reason Alpha Trion was ommitted is that didn't seem to have an alterate form, meaning he wouldn't fit in with the toyline.
*** Alpha Trion, Elita-One, Chromia and Moonracer actually ended up getting exclusive botcon toys eventually (though Moonracer and Chromia have to share).
** Fan favorite Nightbird, a female ninja robot introduced in "Enter the Nightbird." Though she's never seen again after this episode [[Ensemble Darkhorse|she's not likely to be forgotten any time soon]].
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* In the ''[[Littlest Pet Shop (animation)|Littlest Pet Shop]]'' TV series, Chet was the only one of the major characters who wasn't made as a toy.
* In its last two seasons, the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Ninja Turtles]] faced fiction-only [[Big Bad]] Lord Dregg. Carter, the Turtles' equally toyless [[Sixth Ranger]] human ally, was introduced around the same time.
** Also, while two of the Punk Frogs (Genghis and Napoleon) had action figures, Rasputin and Attila did not.
* Many characters and vehicles from ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'', such as the Ecto-Ichi.
* Mira Nova, Commander Nebula, and over ''3 quarters'' of the villains in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]].''
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