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** [[Black Dude Dies First]]. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', it was the DARPA Chief and in ''MGS2'' it was Scott Dolph. The former's death is even more egregious when one considers that the DARPA Chief who dies on-screen is an impersonator and that the real dies ''before'' the events of the game.
*** ''MGS2'' pulls this ''twice'' - {{spoiler|the first [[Plotline Death]] of the second chapter is Peter Stillman}}.
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' also removed all of Vamp's sympathetic traits (like his noble goals and loyalty to Dolph's family) in favour of playing him for plain old gay panic with his [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] fighting with Raiden.
*** Although Dolph and Fortune ''are'' both dead by the fourth game.
*** Not to mention Vamp's being Romanian and having some [[Magical Native American|bizarre magical traits]] (you can explain the healing with {{spoiler|nanomachines}}, but what about walking and dancing on water?)
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* In ''[[Myst]]'''s Stoneship Age, the Black Ship flag symbol resembles the Islamic star-and-crescent symbol.
* The enemies to be introduced in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' were initially believed to be named the "Unbirths" [[Spell My Name with an "S"|due to a quirk of the Japanese language]]<ref>More specifically, a similar problem to [[Japanese Ranguage]], but using B and V instead of R and L.</ref> and were given the official description of being "the opposite of human life". Abortion [[Epileptic Trees|theories]] abounded. (They're actually called the Unversed, by the way.)
* In ''[[Time Crisis]]'', every character that deducts 1,000 points when shot (the other player character, Captain Rush from ''Time Crisis 4'') has been male. Every character that deducts 5,000 (Christy Ryan from ''II'', Alicia Winston from ''3'') has been female. Possibly justified with [[
* Long time popular franchise ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has followed the same typical formular with each game, [[Big Bad|Bowser]] kidnaps [[Damsel in Distress|Princess Peach]] and it's up to [[The Hero|Mario]] and friends to save her. In 2005, Nintendo decided to shake up the formula [[Day in The Limelight|by making Princess Peach the hero]] in ''[[Super Princess Peach]]''. But, unfortunately, the first Mario game to focus on a female character, and her powers are controlled by her emotions, which led to fans referring to her as [http://hail-nekoyasha.deviantart.com/art/Super-PMS-Peach-30235959 Super PMS].
** Though the reason Peach is the hero is because she can ''control'' her emotions, while every other character can't. Subverts it rather well.
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