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* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', almost all chapters prominently feature [[Girl with Psycho Weapon|Rena]] in the cover, even those that have nothing to do with her.
** She is missing only in Meakashi-hen and Minagoroshi-hen (And Rei, if that counts). That's 2 out of 8, people!
*** But she's hardly ever a main character. She's less important than Keichii, Rika or Mion, yet she's absolutely everywhere on merchandise, while Rika and especially Keichii get really little space.
** Rena is also on the [[PlayStation 2]] remakes covers, except for ''[[Updated Rerelease|Kakera Asobi]]'', where Rika and Hanyuu are there instead.
*** Actually, Rena was the main focus of Kakera Asobi's Append Version cover. So, yeah.
** That's because she's so cute [[I'm Taking Him Home With Me|everyone wants to take her home]] :3
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* ''[[Silent Hill]]'': Pyramid Head, after his popularity in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', was put in [[Silent Hill (film)|the movie]]. He appears in two scenes. He serves no real purpose other than fanservice and to be scary as hell.
* Thrall and the Horde (or at the very least the Orcish race) in modern [[Warcraft]] media. A giant statue of a Orc riding his wolf into battle was even erected right at the headquarters of [[Blizzard Entertainment]] because of how popular they are.
* If your knowledge of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' is small to barely
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'': The adult incarnations of Link have only appeared in 4 out of the 15 titles of the series, but you'd never know it from all the times he's showed up. He's been in on the default roster of all 3 [[Super Smash Bros.]] games labeled as just "Link", with his Young incarnation(who has in comparison appeared in 6 games in the series) as a secret character in Melee who was replaced with his Toon incarnation(who has appeared in 6 titles of the series) in Brawl. Adult Link even appeared as a [[Guest Fighter]] in [[Soul Calibur|Soul Calibur II]] and was the star of Link's Crossbow Training one of the few spin-offs in the series. At this point, Adult Link is probably the most recognized incarnation of the character.
** This may be because the games featuring adult Link happen to be the more popular games in the series, or vice-versa (games such as ''Twilight Princess'' and ''Skyward Sword'' may tend to be more popular ''because'' they feature adult Link).
** Technically, adult and child Link are the same character, just from different timelines and time periods. Toon Link is a different character, but he was included as his own character in the first ''Super Smash Bros'' game released after his debut.
** Toon Link as well, in the sixth generation at least, where apparently every appearance of Link that wasn't in a Fighting game required him to have huge chestnut eyes or something. He even got in ''Brawl''! It's only calming down now with ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' and ''[[Skyward Sword]]'', but ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'' proves Toon Link isn't going anywhere any time soon.
* [[Series Mascot|Pikachu]] is the best-known Pokémon example, appearing in almost every single piece of merchandising available (you wouldn't even know that it's actually a fairly rare Pokémon, and unobtainable via normal gameplay in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''). Furthermore, the Pokémon Company will usually let a brand-new Pokémon not named Pikachu star in a movie or video game, and if it's popular enough, it'll appear in all sorts of merchandise and other games/[[Pokémon (film)|movies]]/[[Pokémon (anime)|anime episodes]]/[[Pokémon (game)|TCG expansions]] until the next generation. Although the cute "Pikaclones" in early generations (Pichu and Plusle/Minun) have shades of this, this was first played straight with [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Lucario]], who not only starred in his own movie, but also appeared prominently in every single aspect of the franchise (including a playable appearance in the ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' franchise, beginning in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''). Then after trying again and [[Base Breaker|failing]] with [[Pokémon Black and White|Zoroark]] (an [[Expy]] of Lucario), the Pokémon Company noticed how popular Zekrom was, and proceeded to give it a prominent appearance in damn near ''everything'' (including as the main Pokémon in ''[[Pokémon Re BURST]]'' and the ''[[Nobunaga's Ambition|
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