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So a series doesn't quite manage to make the jump into other countries. It happens. Sometimes this work may cross over with another series, and characters from it may appear in something else, typically in a non-starring role. Official crossovers, extended company in-jokes, whatever, Product B has characters and whatnot from Product A... ...and then, for whatever reason, Product B manages to come out in a new market before Product A does. Meaning that the characters of Product A get their debut... in a product that isn't theirs at all. This causes people to assume that an Easter Egg character from Product B got their own spinoff in the form of Product A. That's how Marth debuted in Super Smash Bros. (in the West, anyway). A fairly peculiar subtrope of No Export for You that applies often to video games but can happen in any medium where a product is blocked or delayed at length from reaching other countries and then gets referenced in another work. Distinct from Sequel First in that this often involves characters debuting in crossover works that are often nothing like their "core" franchises or are at best tangentially connected (the trope namer is a character from a Strategy RPG series, with Smash Bros. being a Platform Fighter series). This happens to Japanese products fairly often as companies, especially fan-oriented ones, like to have cameos and such as a nod to their fans. But at the same could present a Late-Arrival Spoiler for events that occurred in past products, note that the "source" products for the characters may eventually come out in other countries, but the fact remains that they debuted in other markets in other, often decidedly odd ways. It's also worth noting that if this happens multiple times to a single franchise, it can agitate the fans, who may begin to (understandably) wonder why Product A doesn't just come out in the first place instead of appearing minorly in Products B, C, D, and so on. Of course, if Product A comes out because of its appearances in Products B, C, etc..., that's one explanation right there. Sometimes an example of Tropes Are Not Bad, since this can drum up interest in the game or series in question, causing it to be localized. The Trope Namer is one of these positive examples. In the cases where Marth actually does debut in Smash Bros. (which was the case for fellow Fire Emblem character, Roy) see Early-Bird Cameo. See also Sequel First, Adaptation First, and Sir Cameos-a-Lot. May lead to Remade for the Export. |
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In the games, Amy Rose and Charmy Bee first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog CD and Knuckles' Chaotix, respectively; however, they instead debuted in Shogakukan manga much earlier, with some notable differences.note Amy in particular was originally known as Eimy, was brown in earlier issues, and was actually a sweet, loving and totally normal girlfriend. | |
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The Mysterious Murasame Castle got many cameos before finally seeing international release on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2014, thirty years after its Japanese debut. The Famicom game disc for Nazo no Murasamejo appeared in Pikmin 2 as one of the many treasures you could collect. The main character Takamaru appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where one of the songs was remixed as well, and Word of God says that he was a planned fighter in the previous entry before getting scrapped due to lack of overseas familiarity. Samurai Warriors 3 features Takamaru as a Guest Fighter and even has a "Murasamame Castle Mode". Finally, the minigame "Takamaru's Ninja Castle" from Nintendo Land is based on this title. | |
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Before the translation of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) in some countries, Tangle the Lemur and Whisper the Wolf debuted in ''Sonic Forces: Speed Battle'. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II offers sort of a cross-media case; the first Summon the player has access to in the game is Chicken Little, whose film debuted in America on October 30th, 2005. almost two months before the game came out on December 22nd. As a result, Chicken Little's appearance in Kingdom Hearts II predates the Japanese release of the movie, December 23rd, by a single day. | |
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Since Mister Rogers' Neighborhood wasn't aired outside of the United States (though Canadians could watch the show via cable), this meant that Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood marked the debut of several characters from Mister Rogers in various overseas territories, including Europe, Asia, and Latin America. | |
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Alabama "Bama the Hammer" Kowalski, a.k.a. Sgt. Hammer, makes her StarCraft debut in StarCraft II Legacy of the Void, but originally appeared in Heroes of the Storm... though she was based off of a generic unit that was given a name (and more of a personality) that existed since the original, making this a case where it overlaps with Ascended Extra. The characters Lt. Rosa Morales and Cpl. Miles "Blaze" Lewis went through the same treatment. | |
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In Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, surprisingly, Ippatsuman (and his Humongous Mecha Gyakuten-Oh) is the only one who strictly fits in this trope. All the other Tatsunoko (and Capcom) characters had their licenses applied in many ways. However, while many of those series may have been licensed overseas, many of them were still obscure to Western audiences (the most notable exception probably being the cast of Gatchaman, as that seriously was previously adapted for American TV as Battle of the Planets). | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: The Japanese dub of the film features a translated version of the Plumbers' Rap from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which never got a Japanese release. The movie is one of the only pieces of Mario media to ever release in India, many years after the first game. It features established characters like the Yoshis, the penguins, and a Luma (specifically Lumalee) who, up to that point, had never officially been introduced to India. |
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The character of Smurfbegonia originally appeared in the French The Smurfs comic "Un Noveau Depart," before showing up in The Smurfs (2021). However, her animated appearance was translated into English before her comic book appearance, leading some English-speaking fans to mistakenly believe she originated from the show. | |
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While Yangus, the cockney thief from Dragon Quest VIII, is familiar to non-Japanese audiences, he also appeared in a Japan-only Mystery Dungeon Gaiden Game on the PS2, in which he is a young boy who is still in training. This version of him was reused when Fortune Street was released to Western audiences. Naturally, they were confused why he was suddenly a kid in that game. | |
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Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier is the North American debut of Reiji and Xiaomu, the protagonists of Namco × Capcom. | |
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XI added Gai Tendo and Silber to the KOF cast, but they originated in Buriki One, which was exclusive to Japanese arcades. | |
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Monster Hunter. Since some of the early installments remained exclusive to Japan, many of the monsters that debuted in them would have to wait until later installments to be available for hunt among overseas players: Monster Hunter Freedom 2: All monsters that kickstarted the second generation of the series appeared first in the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter 2 (dos). Thus, it wasn't until Freedom 2 (which was released in the West) when players outside Japan could have a chance to hunt them. The exception is Yama Tsukami, which had debuted Dos as well but didn't appear in the game; even then, the Updated Re-release Freedom Unite brought it back so international players can hunt it in G Rank. Hypnocatrice and Lavasioth make their international debuts in the Updated Re-release Freedom Unite, having first appeared in Monster Hunter Frontier which was exclusive to Japan, South Korea, and China. Monster Hunter 3 (Tri): While the original game isn't an example, the Updated Re-release 3 Ultimate incorporates into its bestiary Arzuros, Great Wroggi, Lagombi, Volvidon, Nibelsnarf, Duramboros, Zinogre and nearly all third-generation subspecies that debuted in the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (only Brute Tigrex and Amatsu were skipped over; even then, the former would later debut overseas in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, while the latter did in Monster Hunter Generations). |
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The North American airing (on the Japanese premium channel TV Japan) of Kamen Rider Wizard airs the special episode featuring Kamen Rider Decade, features the entire Heisei Riders, which marks the debut of the entire Heisei Riders who never made it or adapted into North America with the exception of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight which was adapted from Kamen Rider Ryuki for the first time. Also, Kamen Rider Gaim will made a debut in North America despite Kamen Rider Gaim was skipped in favor of Kamen Rider Drive. | |
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One of the characters featured in Solatorobo is Mamoru, a Kid-Appeal Character that aids in public safety, sometimes by giving safety tips, other times directly assisting Red in helping those in danger. Except this isn't his first appearance, as Mamoru originally debuted in a series of PSA stories and games simply titled Mamoru-Kun as a part of Fukuoka’s disaster preparation program. Likewise, for Europeans as a whole, this marks the first appearance of Waffle, Panta, Cyan, Therria, Alicia, Flare, and Stare, as Tail Concerto was never released throughout most of Europe outside of France (for some reason). | |
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Rent A Hero has never been released outside Japan (and its Fan Translation didn't appear until 2015), but its title character was unlockable in the internationally released Fighters Megamix. | |
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In 3D Dot Game Heroes, the loading screens are parodies of the artwork to various classic games in the "3D pixel" style of DGH. However, many of the games that were never released outside of Japan are currently being having their remade forms released. It's surprisingly hard to be nostalgic for something that isn't due out until later this year. Compounding the problem is that these are (with a few exceptions) parodies of the Japanese artwork which in many cases is completely different from the artwork in other territories. Sure, you got Tetris, but not with the box art being parodied. | |
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Misato Hayakawa of Countdown Vampires first appeared in the Japan-exclusive R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital, a D-like first-person Adventure Game from the same developer and publisher. | |
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Fire Emblem has plenty of examples even outside the Super Smash Bros. series: With many past characters appearing in Fire Emblem: Awakening as DLC, this trope was inevitable for the international releases. For every game not released overseas at the timenote Gaiden, Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Binding Blade, ten more characters made their international debuts this way.note Four from Mystery of the Emblem, counting Emperor Hardin, and three from the "Others" set, for a total of 53. This count includes the characters from FE6 appearing in the FE7 epilogue, as the epilogue was removed from European and Australian copies of FE7. Of those who debuted in Awakening as DLC, Alm, Celica, and the Fire Emblem Gaiden cast star in the 3DS remake entitled Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. This is 25 years after the original Famicom release, much longer than the 19 years it took Marth to appear as a main character, but only 4 years after appearing in Awakening. The mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes features characters throughout the entire history of the series, making it the debut for many of the characters who had been Japan-only prior to it. Faye from Echoes makes her debut in Heroes one week prior to Echoes' Japanese release and a month prior to its international release. Original characters Emma, Shade, Yuzu, and Lando, from the Japan-only Fire Emblem Cipher make their international debut outside their card game as DLC characters for Echoes. |
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The Dragon Quest Hero's Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the first international cameo of the Dragon Quest X main character, since it's the only game in the series that hasn't been localized yet. | |
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The Shoot 'em-up game Einhänder was never released in Europe and Australia. So for some players who have never heard of it, Kingdom Hearts III's Gummi-Ship sections (very much a Shoot-em-up) was their first introduction to the game via the secret boss of "Schwarzgeist", same with the ship "Endymion". | |
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In Japan, Gnomeo & Juliet was never released, but Sherlock Gnomes was, leading the appearance of the characters from the previous film to be the first time they showed up in Japan. What’s even more confusing is that the reference to the former movie in the opening scene was kept in the Japanese dub despite the film in question not being dubbed. | |
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In some countries, like Italy, Angela Anaconda appeared for the first time in the opening skit of Digimon: The Movie. | |
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The second game in the WarioWare series, WarioWare: Twisted!, was released in the US only after the third game, WarioWare: Touched!, was already out in stores, while in Europe it was never released. As a result, Wario-Man and 18-Volt appeared first in Touched! for Western players. | |
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When Secret of Evermore was released in Europe, years before Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI reached the region, several characters returning from the latter series in cameos appeared there first. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph appearing in the British-developed Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (released on November 18, 2012; around two weeks after the film's US premiere) qualifies as this in the developers' home country, where the film was released in February 2013. | |
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Since Teen Titans Go! didn't receive an official release there, the first official appearance in China of the characters from the series was the CCTV-6 premiere of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. It is also the first official Chinese appearance of Slade and the original Teen Titans (2003). | |
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Fire Emblem: The Trope Namer is Marth, the star of the first Fire Emblem game (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light), who made his and his' series Western debut in Melee. Well, gaming debut, if we want to be precise.note A two-episode Fire Emblem OVA, also starring Marth, was the series' true Western debut in April 1998. His presence and popularity motivated Nintendo to release all future games in the franchise internationally, but it wasn't until the Nintendo DS remake of his game in 2009 that Marth himself would finally appear outside the Super Smash Bros. series in the West, and Nintendo themselves lampshaded this trope when announcing the localization of the original NES game for the series' 30th anniversary. In comparison, Roy truly did debut in Melee, with no caveats. In fact, he doubles as an Early-Bird Cameo, as his own game hadn't come out yet in Japan; his inclusion was meant to promote the upcoming game. Ironically, his game never made it internationally; Westerners got the next game in the series instead, which is a prequel starring his father, Eliwood (though Roy makes a cameo in the epilogue as a child). When Corrin, the protagonist of Fire Emblem Fates, was announced as a DLC character for 3DS/Wii U, Fates had already been released in Japan a few months prior, but not internationally. Word of God says this was an Invoked Trope, similar to Roy's situation. The character became available to play as only weeks before the international release of Fates. |
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An interesting variation occurs in Cuphead. With the announcement of the Delicious Last Course DLC came the announcement that the NPC the Legendary Chalice would be Promoted to Playable in a new form called Ms. Chalice. The DLC was originally set to release in 2019, however the release would be pushed back to 2020 to avoid overworking the development team, and then again to 2022 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The DLC and playable Ms. Chalice are currently set for release in June 2022. However, Ms. Chalice made her first official appearance in The Cuphead Show! animated adaptation in February 2022, just four months ahead of the DLC. | |
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Super Robot Spirits barely sold 10,000 units in Japan and it never got exported, so a lot of Super Robot Wars fans never knew that Levi Torah and her unit Judecca came from this game, rather than debuting in Alpha. | |
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Guilty Gear XX Accent Core featured an alternate version of Sol Badguy called Order Sol. Except his first appearance in the series as a playable character (outside of cameos in gallery art) was Guilty Gear XX Slash, which was Japan-only. A.B.A, however, averts this as she first appeared in Isuka, which did get an overseas release. | |
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In a non-Wibble Wobble example, the localization of Yo-kai Watch 3 introduced six "Commander" Yo-kai that were originally featured in Yo-kai Sangokushi, a spin-off crossover with Koei-Tecmo's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Sangokushi never got localized. | |
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Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros." | |
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Darkwing Duck was never released in Hungary (except, oddly, as a picture book); therefore the character's animated debut in the country was in DuckTales (2017). | |
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Quiz Nanairo DREAMS, a trivia game/dating sim released only in Japan: Saki Omokane is much better known to Western players as "that girl with the big gun" from Marvel vs. Capcom, where she appeared as a helper character; and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, where she was Promoted to Playable. | |
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Capcom vs.: Saki Omokane debuted in Quiz Nanairo DREAMS, an obscure quiz game/dating sim hybrid that was only ever released in Japan. Global audiences are more likely to recognize her from her appearances in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Similarly, as Cyberbots remains largely obscure in the West, Western fans are far more likely to know Jin Saotome and Devilotte from their appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series than the game they actually originated in (Devilotte also showed up as a secret character in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo). In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, we have Nova's DLC costume◊. The preview of this costume took place on November 16, 2011. Both Marvel and Capcom executives weren't allowed to tell the public were it originated from, as it was from a new project that Marvel wanted to keep under wraps at the time. On February 21, 2012, the costume was finally made downloadable to the public, but there was still no word about its origin. Then, on March 2, 2012, Marvel gives us a preview of Sam Alexander, the new Nova as seen in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) (which later aired on April 1, 2012). Sam's costume is the DLC costume of Nova in UMvC3. Another example is Shuma-Gorath. Most people know him more from the Marvel vs. Capcom games than they do from the comics, though he only actually counts as an example in territories where the comics didn't get published. In Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, surprisingly, Ippatsuman (and his Humongous Mecha Gyakuten-Oh) is the only one who strictly fits in this trope. All the other Tatsunoko (and Capcom) characters had their licenses applied in many ways. However, while many of those series may have been licensed overseas, many of them were still obscure to Western audiences (the most notable exception probably being the cast of Gatchaman, as that seriously was previously adapted for American TV as Battle of the Planets). |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven feature characters from the first 8 parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, including some Walking Spoilers. These games were localized into English, even though the series has only been officially translated into English up to part 3 as of All-Star Battle's release, part 4 as of Eyes of Heaven's release, and part 6 as of All-Star Battle R's release. However, this isn't the case everywhere in the West, as the manga has been officially translated up to part 8 in French and Italian. | |
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Tales of Vesperia also had Barbatos appear as a cameo boss - and neither the Destiny remake nor the real ToD2 ever was released outside of Japan! | |
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Thomas and the Magic Railroad was the first appearance of characters from Shining Time Station in many countries, most notably the United Kingdom, since the show was only exported to a handful of countries. | |
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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F, a Rhythm Game, featured a music video for "The MMORPG Addict's Anthem" showing Miku playing the MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2. Project Diva F was the first game in its series to be released internationally in 2013, while the North American version of PSO2 languished in Development Hell until finally being put back on track for a 2020 release. | |
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The Fat Albert movie is the only piece of Fat Albert media to be released in countries like the UK and Japan. | |
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In Italy, the two main characters from Rick and Morty appeared first in the Couch Gag for the The Simpsons episode "Mathlete's Feat". | |
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Doshin the Giant's Doshin and Jashin were first seen by Westerners as trophies in Melee; in an inverse of the above Cubivore situation, Doshin The Giant would eventually release in Europe, but never hit American shores. | |
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Because Animaniacs was never dubbed into Norwegian, the characters' first appearances were in the dubs of Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid!. | |
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Power Rangers: Power Rangers Super Megaforce features the first appearances of the five core Gosei Sentai Dairanger suits, Hikari Sentai Maskman, Choushinsei Flashman, Dengeki Sentai Changeman, and Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman as "new powers". Uniquely, the presence of this trope was actually handwaved... poorly,note The mentor Gosei tells the Rangers that they have unlocked the Dairanger suits as "new modes that have never been seen before on this planet" without explaining where did the Dairanger suits originate from within the narrative of the Power Rangers universe, naming them or saying how and why did the Rangers suddenly unlock new modes. And that's just the Dairanger suits. The Maskman and Flashman suits were equally nameless, completely pulled out of thin air and given zero explanation as to their sudden existence and how the Rangers obtained the suits! single-handely leading the Power Rangers fandom into a meltdown and causing a new fandom meme to spawn. Power Rangers Ninja Steel featured the US debut of Metal Heroes character Jiraiya who was adapted as a character named "Space Sheriff Skyfire", who is recruited by Big Bad Madame Odius to fight the Power Rangers. Power Rangers Beast Morphers also featured the US debut of a Metal Heroes character. In this case, it was Gavan Type-G from Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie, who was adapted as Captain Chaku. The Italian dub of the franchise initially skipped Power Rangers RPM, which was dubbed only after Power Rangers Samurai. As a result, the RPM Red Ranger was first seen in the Samurai special episode "Clash of the Red Rangers". Monster of the Week examples appear all the time - some sentai monsters don't get adapted, or are used in a different order than the original series. This means a gathering of past monsters might contain monsters who have never appeared, or who haven't appeared yet, leaving fans to say "when did they ever fight that guy?" or "wait, didn't we see that one in monster hell? What's he doing alive to be this week's MOTW?" |
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Alpha from Cubivore first appeared as a trophy in Melee in the West; while their game would see a North American release thanks to Atlus, it never saw a European one. | |
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Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros." | |
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Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, DramaRama also marks the debut of MacArthur, Don, Carrie, Devin, Chet, Ella, Max, Laurie, Lightning, Sugar, Alejandro Burromuerto, and Jasmine, as only the first two seasons of Total Drama (Island and Action) were shown in Britain. While the British version had no more than two seasons of the original show, only the first season was reran on Pop! as of 2019. | |
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Final Fantasy III is especially prone to this as it wasn't released outside of Japan until the DS remake. This led to many elements first introduced here being assumed to have debuted in later games, such as Summon Magic, Moogles and the Job Change system. Moogles are particularly notable, as due to lack of releases of 3 or 5 at the time, the first game released in America to feature them was part of a spinoff series: Final Fantasy Adventure. | |
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Power Rangers Super Megaforce features the first appearances of the five core Gosei Sentai Dairanger suits, Hikari Sentai Maskman, Choushinsei Flashman, Dengeki Sentai Changeman, and Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman as "new powers". Uniquely, the presence of this trope was actually handwaved... poorly,note The mentor Gosei tells the Rangers that they have unlocked the Dairanger suits as "new modes that have never been seen before on this planet" without explaining where did the Dairanger suits originate from within the narrative of the Power Rangers universe, naming them or saying how and why did the Rangers suddenly unlock new modes. And that's just the Dairanger suits. The Maskman and Flashman suits were equally nameless, completely pulled out of thin air and given zero explanation as to their sudden existence and how the Rangers obtained the suits! single-handely leading the Power Rangers fandom into a meltdown and causing a new fandom meme to spawn. | |
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Yo-kai Watch: The mobile phone puzzle game spinoff of Yo-kai Watch, Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble, (Puni Puni) came out after the second game in Japan and thus featured many Yo-kai from the sequel. However, Wibble Wobble came out in English before the second Yo-kai Watch game was localized, meaning many of the sequel's Yo-kai debuted there first in English. Wibble Wobble has also included Yo-kai that appeared in the third game and the Busters spin-off before either came out in the West. In a non-Wibble Wobble example, the localization of Yo-kai Watch 3 introduced six "Commander" Yo-kai that were originally featured in Yo-kai Sangokushi, a spin-off crossover with Koei-Tecmo's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Sangokushi never got localized. |
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Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros." | |
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Cissnei's appearance in Crisis Core was the first time Western audiences met her, but she was actually featured in Before Crisis which came out three or four years prior and was never released outside Japan. | |
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Ness from EarthBound appeared in the first three Smash Bros. games before his own game eventually got released in Europe and Australia through the Virtual Console. Mr. Saturn made an even earlier cameo appearance in Kirby Super Star (as a treasure in The Great Cave Offensive), which released in Europe under the title Kirby's Fun Pak. | |
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Many gamers are far more likely to recognize Tessa from Super Gem Fighter or SVC Chaos than from her home game, Red Earth, which never got a console release. | |
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When Mario Kart 64 was released in China for the iQue Player, characters that weren't in Super Mario 64 (read: Mario, Peach, Bowser, Toad, and Yoshi) or Dr. Mario 64 (Wario) made their Chinese debut in Mario Kart. The remaining two characters were Donkey Kong and even Luigi. | |
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Makai Kingdom: Petta, Zetta's Kid from the Future, appeared in the PSP remake of Makai Kingdom, which was never released outside of Japan. She hasn't been able to appear outside of Japan until Disgaea 4 as a DLC character, and it would take 15 years until her game gets released in the west. | |
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In the Chinese Tencent release for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, any track that debuted in Mario Kart Tour that's featured in the Booster Course Pass doesn't feature a prefix at all, including the city courses (compared to every other region, where non-prefix tracks in the pass are Tour non-city courses), because Tour is unavailable on Chinese smartphones, thus having the Tour tracks make their official Chinese debut in the pass. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days uses “Cavern of Remembrance� as the Character Select/Preparations theme for Mission Mode. This song was introduced in Kingdom Hearts II’s Final Mixnote Which was also initially Japan-only, including at the time of Days’ release. as the BGM for the Bonus Dungeon of the same name. | |
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Peter Griffin is referenced in Ted, which was the first of Seth MacFarlane's works to be shown in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, since none of his shows were aired there. | |
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Cress Albane and Arche Klein, of Tales of Phantasia fame (released in 1995), made their Western debut in 1998... in a cameo in Tales of Destiny. And then they appeared in Tales of Eternia (known in the West as Tales of Destiny II) as an Optional Boss fight. Phantasia didn't cross the Pacific until 2006, over a decade after its debut in Japan and eight years after the characters showed up in ToD. | |
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Metal Gear: This could've easily been called "Meryl Silverburgh debuted in Metal Gear Solid". Originally a character from Hideo Kojima's previous Adventure Game Policenauts, the game was officially slated for a North American release at one point, but apparently cancelled when Konami couldn't properly lip-sync the English dialogue with the game's pre-rendered anime cutscenes. The bottom line of this is that the Shout-Out in the scene where Snake tells her his real name is lost (it's the same name as her best friend in Policenauts, who is otherwise the complete opposite of Snake). To a lesser extent, many of the tropes that Metal Gear Solid is credited for creating were actually featured in some form or another in the original MSX2 games, especially in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Remember the part where you have to look at the back of the game's packaging to obtain Meryl's frequency? Or where you had to follow her to the women's bathroom? Or where Snake's mysterious informant tells him to watch out for mines? Metal Gear 2 did all of that first. The iPod songs in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots include songs from games (or in some cases, a movie and a CD album/radio drama) that have never been released outside of Japan. The game includes pop songs from HIDECHAN! Radio. 2.5 - Two-Han Princess Singles + Music & Drama CD, which was a Greatest Hits album of Kojima Productions' soundtracks (alongside a handful of new compositions including two J-Pop songs by Two-Han Princess) that also includes a Defictionalization of the in-universe IdeaSpy 2.5 Radio Drama from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. There are also songs from the aforementioned Policenauts, Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack, the original PC-88 version of Snatcher (none of which have ever been released outside of Japan, though a Sega CD Video Game Remake would be made for Snatcher specifically for an international release), and songs from Metal Gear Solid 2: Digital Graphic Novel, which wouldn't be released outside of Japan until 2013 as part of The Legacy Collection, despite an English dub being made in 2008 shortly after the Japanese DVD release. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also includes references to IdeaSpy 2.5, an in-universe Radio Drama that was included as an Easter Egg in the Japanese and European releases of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. IdeaSpy 2.5 was not included in the North American release of the game. |
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Labrys was on a drama CD for Persona 3. These were not released outside of Japan, so many Western gamers thought she debuted in Persona 4: Arena. | |
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Kasumi Yoshizawa from Persona 5 Royal appeared in the Sword Art Online mobile game Memory Defrag more than a month before Royal was released in the North America. She was not even a gacha character, she was just given to anyone who logged in during the collaboration period. | |
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Sonic Adventure wasn't even the first game in English-speaking markets to use the name Eggman - it appears on the side of the Wing Fortress in Sonic 2, is used as Robotnik's racing moniker ("The Eggman") in Sonic Drift 2, and is again used in Sonic the Fighters. The Robotnik name was used in the Japanese release of Sonic Spinball ("Robotnik is getting away! Go get him!"), and Sonic & Tails 2, the Japanese release of Triple Trouble ("Robotnik Winter Zone"), both before it was used in Sonic Adventure 2. | |
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Super Robot Wars 30, being the first franchise-based entry to come to North America, is the debut for Brave Police J-Decker, Getter Robo Daikessen!! (via Shin Getter Dragon), GaoGaiGar FINAL. The game's platform also marks the global debut of King of Kings: GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman in animation, mecha specs design, and character design solidification. | |
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Disgaea 3 introduces a little known character in the West named Souichirou Kogure. The reason why he is little known is because the visual novel in which he originated from, Hayarigami, has not been released outside of Japan and, considering NISA's general aversion to visual novels outside of Disgaea Infinite, probably never will. | |
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Power Rangers Beast Morphers also featured the US debut of a Metal Heroes character. In this case, it was Gavan Type-G from Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie, who was adapted as Captain Chaku. | |
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The mobile phone puzzle game spinoff of Yo-kai Watch, Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble, (Puni Puni) came out after the second game in Japan and thus featured many Yo-kai from the sequel. However, Wibble Wobble came out in English before the second Yo-kai Watch game was localized, meaning many of the sequel's Yo-kai debuted there first in English. | |
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Mario Kart: When Mario Kart 64 was released in China for the iQue Player, characters that weren't in Super Mario 64 (read: Mario, Peach, Bowser, Toad, and Yoshi) or Dr. Mario 64 (Wario) made their Chinese debut in Mario Kart. The remaining two characters were Donkey Kong and even Luigi. Elimine of the Eight Legends is a very unusual one, as the bonus disc bundled with preordered copies of Double Dash!! outside of Japan was, at the time, the only piece of media where she actually made an appearance at all. Nearly 19 years later, she would finally appear in a Fire Emblem game via Heroes, though she has yet to appear in any game set on the continent of Elibe despite her church having a prominent role in The Binding Blade. In the Chinese Tencent release for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, any track that debuted in Mario Kart Tour that's featured in the Booster Course Pass doesn't feature a prefix at all, including the city courses (compared to every other region, where non-prefix tracks in the pass are Tour non-city courses), because Tour is unavailable on Chinese smartphones, thus having the Tour tracks make their official Chinese debut in the pass. |
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The release of Donkey Hodie in Australia, Spain and the United Arab Emirates marked the debuts of characters such as Donkey Hodie, Purple Panda, Bob Dog and Harriet Elizabeth Cow from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the country, but in different incarnations. | |
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The Pac-Land stage in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U has "Libble Rabble Medley" as one of its songs. The arcade game Libble Rabble did not see a release outside Japan until November 2021, when it was released as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives. | |
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Some countries like the United Kingdom and Portugal got localized versions of Blue's Clues with new hosts. This meant that Blue's Clues & You! was the first appearance of the hosts of the American version, Steve and Joe, in those countries. | |
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The movie is one of the only pieces of Mario media to ever release in India, many years after the first game. It features established characters like the Yoshis, the penguins, and a Luma (specifically Lumalee) who, up to that point, had never officially been introduced to India. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also includes references to IdeaSpy 2.5, an in-universe Radio Drama that was included as an Easter Egg in the Japanese and European releases of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. IdeaSpy 2.5 was not included in the North American release of the game. | |
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Total DramaRama As 6teen never aired in Hungary, Jude Lizowski made his first appearance in Total DramaRama. Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, DramaRama also marks the debut of MacArthur, Don, Carrie, Devin, Chet, Ella, Max, Laurie, Lightning, Sugar, Alejandro Burromuerto, and Jasmine, as only the first two seasons of Total Drama (Island and Action) were shown in Britain. While the British version had no more than two seasons of the original show, only the first season was reran on Pop! as of 2019. In the UK, The Ridonculous Race made its debut on The BBC iPlayer on April 4, 2022. Because only Island and Action aired in the UK, Leonard (from Pahkitew Island), Anne Maria (from Revenge of the Island), and Blaineley (from World Tour) make their UK debut. DramaRama also marks the franchise's debut in Germany as none of the original series (including The Ridonculous Race) was aired nor dubbed in German. However, a scene from the season 2 opening was featured on Stōked (which was the only Fresh TV cartoon—between Total Drama, 6teen, and Stoked—to have a German dub at the time of the show's initial release). |
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Ayumi Tachibana, a main character in the Japan-only Famicom Detective Club adventure games, first appeared as a trophy in Melee, and would later reappear as spirit in Ultimate (and a Mystery Mushroom costume in Super Mario Maker a few years prior). According to Sakurai, she was even considered as a potential fighter for Melee, but was turned down due to her lack of familiarity to overseas audiences. Remakes of said games would eventually release internationally two decades later for the Nintendo Switch. | |
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Tales of... Series: Cress Albane and Arche Klein, of Tales of Phantasia fame (released in 1995), made their Western debut in 1998... in a cameo in Tales of Destiny. And then they appeared in Tales of Eternia (known in the West as Tales of Destiny II) as an Optional Boss fight. Phantasia didn't cross the Pacific until 2006, over a decade after its debut in Japan and eight years after the characters showed up in ToD. Eugene and Annie from Tales of Rebirth. Their American debut was in 2007 in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, three years after ToR came out in Japan. Tales of the Abyss has Cameo fights too. Granted, all three of the cameos in Tales of Symphonia were from games that were released in America before (Garr was from Tales of Destiny, Farah and Meredy were from Tales of Eternia), but not in Europenote at least until the PSP version of Eternia was released in Europe (under its original name)... but not North America, thanks to a policy SCEA (but not SCEJ or SCEE) has on requiring a certain amount of new content in ports and remakes. However, in Tales of the Abyss, there's Mint (from Tales of Phantasia, which was finally released in the US the same year as Abyss), Philia (from Tales of Destiny, released years ago), and Reid from Tales of Eternia. However, who's this "Nanaly" girl in there? She is not Chelsea from Tales of Destiny. Ironically she's from the real Tales of Destiny 2 (note the Arabic numeral; Eternia used a Roman one) and is in no way related to Chelsea unless you WMG her to be a descendant of Chelsea (or Mary). Not to mention, two of Anise's Tokunaga accessories that reference Reala and Harold also first appeared in the west through Tales of the Abyss. Tales of Vesperia also had Barbatos appear as a cameo boss - and neither the Destiny remake nor the real ToD2 ever was released outside of Japan! Tales of Graces f had three of these upon its western release in the forms of Veigue Lungberg (Tales of Rebirth), Reala (Tales of Destiny 2), and Kohaku Hearts (Tales of Hearts). The PS Vita version of Tales of Hearts is the only one that's getting a western release. One of the save data unlockables in Tales of Symphonia Chronicles is an alternate costume for Kratos based on Ludger from Tales of Xillia 2. While Xillia 2 was released a year before the compilation in Japan, Symphonia Chronicles came out first in the US. One of the DLC costumes Ludger can get in Xillia 2 is on based on Luca Milda (localized as Ruca) from Tales of Innocence, which neither the original Nintendo DS version nor the PS Vita remake ever left Japan. |
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When Corrin, the protagonist of Fire Emblem Fates, was announced as a DLC character for 3DS/Wii U, Fates had already been released in Japan a few months prior, but not internationally. Word of God says this was an Invoked Trope, similar to Roy's situation. The character became available to play as only weeks before the international release of Fates. | |
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Getsu Fuuma, from Getsu Fuma Den, first appeared outside Japan in video game form in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. However, his first international appearance was actually as a Yu-Gi-Oh! card. | |
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Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has another one: the Superboss is Julius from Runaway Brain, making the first time in almost twenty years that Disney acknowledged the existence of this 1995 Mickey Mouse short of very limited availability, and possibly the first time many gamers had learned about it. | |
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Many Mortal Kombat characters, like Nitara and Reiko, first appeared in South Korea in the 2021 movie, since none of 3D-era games have been released there. | |
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Since the Wii U version of Super Mario Maker was never released in South Korea (due to the unavailability of the Wii U itself), and the 3DS version wasn't released until 2017, the game's first portrayal in any capacity for South Korean players was via the eponymous Super Mario Maker DLC stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. | |
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Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise has a tape that players can listen to while driving through the wastes containing the opening theme song for PSO2. It would be almost another year before word of a Western release was uttered. | |
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On the opposite side of things, several characters from Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) made their only (to date) Japanese appearance in Sonic Spinball. | |
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The 1987 western-produced series Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater marked the first time non-Japanese audiences were exposed to other Sanrio characters (notably My Melody, Tuxedo Sam note And further back Tuxeo Sam's non-speaking cameo in Unico in the Island of Magic , and Chip). While Hello Kitty was beginning to catch on in the western market, Sanrio characters were mainly known in Japan but didn't catch on with international audiences until the 1990s. | |
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For many Western gamers, Project Justice, the sequel to Rival Schools, is the debut game for Ran Hibiki and Nagare Namikawa. In actuality, both characters made their debut in the Japan-only Updated Re-release of the first Rival Schools. | |
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Ando Kensaku, the host character of the Japanese-only web search themed game And-Kensaku appeared as a Spirit fighter in Ultimate a full eight years after that game's Japanese release. | |
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Elimine of the Eight Legends is a very unusual one, as the bonus disc bundled with preordered copies of Double Dash!! outside of Japan was, at the time, the only piece of media where she actually made an appearance at all. Nearly 19 years later, she would finally appear in a Fire Emblem game via Heroes, though she has yet to appear in any game set on the continent of Elibe despite her church having a prominent role in The Binding Blade. | |
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Labrys, from Persona 4: Arena. Or rather, from a Japan-exclusive drama CD released for Persona 3, released 5-6 years previously. That said, she was little more than a passing mention. | |
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Since the first two seasons were dubbed in Hungarian, Miss Miller's first appearance in the franchise was The Chipmunk Adventure. | |
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The Japanese dub of the film features a translated version of the Plumbers' Rap from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which never got a Japanese release. | |
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Technically, Super Robot Wars: Original Generation did this to all the cast members who appeared in the "main" games of the Super Robot Wars series, to say nothing of Elzam, who DID debut in Original Generation before appearing in Alpha 2. | |
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Sukapon, the main character of Nintendo's Japanese-only NES fighting game Joy Mech Fight, was first seen in the West as a sticker in Brawl, before becoming an assist trophy in Ultimate. | |
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Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos is actually the third in a series of animated films and the only to be released outside Mexico and to have an English dub. Relatedly, Un Rescate De Huevitos was the first in the franchise to be released in parts of Europe, Asia, and Australia. | |
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And for many of the characters from QP Shooting and Xmas Shooting, their first appearance for Western audiences was 100% Orange Juice!. | |
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Kamen Rider: In South Korea, the dub of Kamen Rider Decade was the debut for Kamen Riders Kuuga, Agito and Hibiki, as their series were not imported over there. The same occurred in Singapore but with Kamen Rider Kiva in addition to that list. In the US, Reunion Show footage remains the only appearances of every Kamen Rider prior to Black RX (aside from Black). The past Riders were said to be previous users of the Masked Rider powers summoned through time. The North American airing (on the Japanese premium channel TV Japan) of Kamen Rider Wizard airs the special episode featuring Kamen Rider Decade, features the entire Heisei Riders, which marks the debut of the entire Heisei Riders who never made it or adapted into North America with the exception of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight which was adapted from Kamen Rider Ryuki for the first time. Also, Kamen Rider Gaim will made a debut in North America despite Kamen Rider Gaim was skipped in favor of Kamen Rider Drive. Shout! Factory licensed Kamen Rider Kuuga for streaming, then followed it up with Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER, jumping ahead 19 years and making every Heisei Rider other than Kuuga an example of this trope. |
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Another example is the recurring Job Class of Dragoons, which originally came out in Final Fantasy II with the character Ricard Highwind. It would also appear again in Final Fantasy III as a Class that the player could pick for the main characters. Since neither of those games were ported outside of Japan originally, the first time westerners would see that Class would be with Kain Highwind in Final Fantasy IV. References to the class as a whole are sometimes erroneously attributed to the popular Kain character in specific. The remakes of II and IV make a Mythology Gag out of it, naming Richard's son Kain in II, and Kain's father Richard in IV. | |
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There are some fans who believe that Sonic Adventure was the first Sonic game that takes place on Earth, and that the classic series instead took place on the planet Mobius. In reality, Mobius was a foreign concept in the cartoons and comics, although it was mentioned as the setting of Sonic Spinball (which is more based on the cartoons than game canon). Sonic the Animation is also blatantly on Earth and it was made in 1994. | |
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The King of Fighters: XI added Gai Tendo and Silber to the KOF cast, but they originated in Buriki One, which was exclusive to Japanese arcades. The King of Fighters XIV has added Alice, Love Heart, and Mui Mui, with all three of them previously being exclusive to pachislot games note Garou Densetsu (as well as Days of Memories for Japanese mobile devices), Sky Love, and Dragon Gal respectively which were only released in Japan. |
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One of the alternate character skins becomes this in the Japanese version of Prince of Persia (2008). After beating the game, you unlock an alternate skin for the Prince's sidekick, Elika, which makes her look like Jade from Beyond Good & Evil. But that game was never released in Japan. (The other cameo skins—Altair for the Prince, and characters from the previous Prince of Persia trilogy on the previous generation of systems—do feature games released in Japan.) | |
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 marked the Japanese debut of Manny/El Tigre and Frida from El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, as the series was never exported to Japan. | |
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel featured the US debut of Metal Heroes character Jiraiya who was adapted as a character named "Space Sheriff Skyfire", who is recruited by Big Bad Madame Odius to fight the Power Rangers. | |
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Terra from Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim originally debuted in Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand, which was never exported. | |
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Prince of the Sablé Kingdom from Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (For the Frog the Bell Tolls) appears as an assist trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U onwards. As you might tell from the title, it was not released outside of Japan. His fellow prince, Richard, cameoed in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening two decades prior. Dr. Arewo Shitain from that game also appeared in Wario Land 3, Dr. Mario 64, and Wario Land 4 (though given a Dub Name Change to "Mad Scientistein" in the first two). | |
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DramaRama also marks the franchise's debut in Germany as none of the original series (including The Ridonculous Race) was aired nor dubbed in German. However, a scene from the season 2 opening was featured on Stōked (which was the only Fresh TV cartoon—between Total Drama, 6teen, and Stoked—to have a German dub at the time of the show's initial release). | |
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Seven of the stickers in Super Smash Bros. Brawl are of the icons for the seven games in the bit Generations series, a series of seven Game Boy Advance games with very simplistic graphics and gameplay that only came out in Japan. A few of these games got remakes via WiiWare and DSiWare under the Art Style banner, but the original games have never seen a release outside Japan. | |
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Of those who debuted in Awakening as DLC, Alm, Celica, and the Fire Emblem Gaiden cast star in the 3DS remake entitled Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. This is 25 years after the original Famicom release, much longer than the 19 years it took Marth to appear as a main character, but only 4 years after appearing in Awakening. | |
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Spike in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is based on his appearance in Million Monkeys, which was released only in Japan. | |
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The Nintendo 64 game Doubutsu no Mori debuted in the West through some of its characters, specifically Tom Nook, Mr. Resetti and K.K. Slider/Totakeke, appearing as trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee. The characters would show up within their own series shortly after when the GameCube Updated Re-release of the game, Doubutsu no Mori+, was localized as Animal Crossing the following year. | |
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Dragon Quest Treasures features treasures based on the entire rest of the franchise including spin-offs, some of which were never released internationally. The big ones are characters and equipment from Dragon Quest X and trading cards from Dragon Quest Rivals, but there are also assorted references to Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3, Dragon Quest Walk, Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi, and the Mystery Dungeon version of Yangus. | |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Since the first two seasons were dubbed in Hungarian, Miss Miller's first appearance in the franchise was The Chipmunk Adventure. The Japanese dub, due to skipping a handful of episodes, had The Chipettes debut in May The Best Chipmunk Win (season 1, episode 13b) instead of their namesake episode (season 1, episode 1b). |
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The mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes features characters throughout the entire history of the series, making it the debut for many of the characters who had been Japan-only prior to it. | |
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Dragon Quest IX had character cameos from the entire series becoming slowly available over the course of a year (July 2010 - July 2011), including Ashlynn and Milly from Dragon Quest VI, which hadn't been released outside of Japan at the time. It wouldn't take long, though, as VI received an international release in February 2011 — soon enough that when another VI character, Carver, showed up in IX; the game was out and he no longer qualified for this trope. (It was also possible to hack the game to unlock characters' appearances, including Carver's, ahead of schedule.) The game also had previous villains as superbosses, including Murdaw, Mortamor, and Nokturnus from VI. And while Europe and Australia had received remakes of IV and V by that time and received VI alongside North America, characters from the original trilogy and VII were still new to them. | |
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Dragon Quest XI similarly had a series of sidequests making throwback references to the rest of the series. These included content from the Japan-only Dragon Quest X. | |
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Naruto: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2: The English Dub of the Naruto anime was still around the 2nd arc of Shippuden when this game came out (October 14th, 2010), meaning this was the English debut for some characters: Hidan, Kakuzu, Konan and Pain appear in this game outside of sillhouetes. Nagato appears in the cutscene after the final boss. Tobi's Madara persona debuts as part of his Awakening. Other characters first debuting in English are Sasuke's Hebi/Taka team (Suigetsu, Karin and Juugo), Sage Mode Naruto, Killer Bee and the Eight Tails. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations: Onoki and Mei Terumi debut in this game before the English dub reached the Five Kage Summit arc. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4: Kaguya Otsutsuki is this for people who have only followed the anime. In Latin America, besides Kaguya, half of the new cast from Shippuden plus Boruto and Saradanote This is especially relevant with those two characters, because Boruto: Naruto the Movie will probably never be dubbed in Spanish, since only one of the movies and one special were dubbed to Spanish, nor anything beyond the second half of Shippuden, as the Latin American dub stopped when the voice acting studio who dubbed the series went bankrupt. The same goes with Mecha-Naruto., as the series only recently debuted in Latin America in 2015, after a long hiatus when the rest of the series was cancelled from Cartoon Network's Latin American feed in 2006. |
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The Japanese version of Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee replaced the Heisei Mechagodzilla (simply known in the game as "Mechagodzilla") with its then-recent Millennium counterpart, Kiryu. Okay, no problem. But when the game was ported over to the Xbox in North America in 2003, Kiryu was included as a playable character (here named "Mechagodzilla 3") alongside its Heisei incarnation (now named "Mechagodzilla 2"). Kiryu's film debut wouldn't see a US release until the next year. | |
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With Trinity Universe, it happened again, with Violet Platane of Atelier Violet making her American debut in that game. | |
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Sonic the Comic has never been released outside of the UK and Ireland. Tekno and Ember appeared in a non-canon cameo in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). | |
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Lucas debuted overseas as a fighter in Brawl. His game, Mother 3, is one of the most noteworthy examples of No Export for You in Nintendo's library. In addition, some of his Subspace Emissary missions were spoilers for the final sections of his game, which remains a sore spot for a lot of Mother fans. | |
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Godzilla gets hit with this a lot. Many viewers nowadays don't realize that such famous Godzilla foes as Mothra and Rodan were actually the stars of their own successful films before making the jump. | |
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Because Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie did not get dubbed into some languages, some countries that dubbed VeggieTales such as Germany, Slovenia and Norway saw the debut of Khalil in "The Ballad of Little Joe". Meanwhile, in Israel, the character debuted in "Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't", which is noteworthy for having Khalil directly reference the events of Jonah. | |
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In a franchise sense, the newest Atelier games are now coming over, Rorona and Annie respectively... which means that this trope has happened again. Liese Randel in Atelier Annie shows up in the second year of gameplay to help out our heroine and seemingly has a bit of history... history which is covered in her own game, Atelier Liese, which didn't make it out of Japannote For reasons related to Game Breaking Bugs in the initial release meaning English gamers only know her from Annie. | |
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In the Sega Superstars game, Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing, the two protagonists of "HOTD EX" Zobio and Zobiko, appear as fully playable racers, despite their game not leaving Japan (and for a short while, China) and All-Stars Racing not leaving Western countries. | |
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Fate/Grand Order tried to avert this for the introduction of the character Altera, as her debut event was supposed to start on the same day the release of Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star where she's one of the headline characters as a bit of cross-promotion. Due to the latter game being delayed, she appeared in FGO several months early, bringing a bunch of not-completely-answered questions with her (as the FGO version is a different iteration of Altera, with the Extella version being the boss of the event with a very different Limit Break among other things). Interestingly, this was reversed when the games were released in English, as Extella dropped on its own long before FGO's event cycle caught up to the promo. | |
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Reimu Hakurei, protagonist of Touhou Project, appears as an Optional Boss in Magic Pengel and a playable character in its sequel Graffiti Kingdom (as "Flying Maiden"), despite her own games never being released in English. The Touhou situation became particularly strange in 2015, when some Doujin fangames received a commercial PS4 release under the Play, Doujin! programme. These were then localized into English and received a misleading advertising campaign which implied them to be an official release of the original Touhou games. | |
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Basically every Bemani crossovers in DanceDanceRevolution have been mistaken to be new content for the games by Western fans, instead of, well, crossovers from other entries in the BEMANI line of rhythm video games, which DDR is just one of many. This is because DDR is the only Bemani series that gained as much popularity inside Japan as it did outside, causing it to be the only one that Konami marketed overseas with any semblance of seriousness (They did try to release a Western port of beatmania IIDX once, but it flopped). In Japan, DDR is not actually the most popular of the bunch (beatmania IIDX is), though it is the oldest one still active. | |
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This could've easily been called "Meryl Silverburgh debuted in Metal Gear Solid". Originally a character from Hideo Kojima's previous Adventure Game Policenauts, the game was officially slated for a North American release at one point, but apparently cancelled when Konami couldn't properly lip-sync the English dialogue with the game's pre-rendered anime cutscenes. The bottom line of this is that the Shout-Out in the scene where Snake tells her his real name is lost (it's the same name as her best friend in Policenauts, who is otherwise the complete opposite of Snake). | |
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A peculiar intra-series instance of this involves the Final Fantasy series. The games tend to reuse themes, but Western audiences were denied several of the original games for quite a while. So, for example, while practically every game has "Gysahl Greens", the place it's named after wasn't seen until Final Fantasy III was finally released for the Nintendo DS in 2006, a full sixteen years after its 1990 release in Japan and nine years after Gysahl Greens first were seen in the West under that name.) Final Fantasy III is especially prone to this as it wasn't released outside of Japan until the DS remake. This led to many elements first introduced here being assumed to have debuted in later games, such as Summon Magic, Moogles and the Job Change system. Moogles are particularly notable, as due to lack of releases of 3 or 5 at the time, the first game released in America to feature them was part of a spinoff series: Final Fantasy Adventure. Gilgamesh first appeared in North America in Final Fantasy VIII. This was a few weeks before Final Fantasy Anthology containing Final Fantasy V came out. Lone Wolf and Gogo both first appeared in Japan and Europe in Final Fantasy V (the European appearance was in the remake), but the US in Final Fantasy VI. Unusually for this trope, both characters have larger roles in VI than V. Mid and the heroes of Final Fantasy V were introduced to the US in the OAV Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals. Cissnei's appearance in Crisis Core was the first time Western audiences met her, but she was actually featured in Before Crisis which came out three or four years prior and was never released outside Japan. Another example is the recurring Job Class of Dragoons, which originally came out in Final Fantasy II with the character Ricard Highwind. It would also appear again in Final Fantasy III as a Class that the player could pick for the main characters. Since neither of those games were ported outside of Japan originally, the first time westerners would see that Class would be with Kain Highwind in Final Fantasy IV. References to the class as a whole are sometimes erroneously attributed to the popular Kain character in specific. The remakes of II and IV make a Mythology Gag out of it, naming Richard's son Kain in II, and Kain's father Richard in IV. When Secret of Evermore was released in Europe, years before Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI reached the region, several characters returning from the latter series in cameos appeared there first. A few Final Fantasy characters such as Astos debuted in Europe, believe it or not, in Captain N: The Game Master. Really. |
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Due to its Christian themes, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie was the only piece of VeggieTales media to be released and dubbed in many countries. | |
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Until October 2023, Devil World was the only game by Shigeru Miyamoto that has been released in Europe but not in North America. Despite that fact, Tamagon has made cameos in four games available worldwide before - Tetris DS, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Art Style: PiCOPiCT (known as PiCTOBiTS in North America) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Brawl, 3DS/Wii U and Ultimate also have the Devil as an Assist Trophy; Tamagon was a trophy in Melee but was removed from the international release (along with a few others). | |
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Original characters Emma, Shade, Yuzu, and Lando, from the Japan-only Fire Emblem Cipher make their international debut outside their card game as DLC characters for Echoes. | |
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In the Clock Tower games, the original game released for the SNES was Japan-only. The sequel Clock Tower 2 on the PlayStation was received in North America, introducing Jennifer and the ScissorMan. | |
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The worldwide release of Sakura Wars (2019) marks the in-game debut of Sumire Kanzaki. | |
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Tales of Graces f had three of these upon its western release in the forms of Veigue Lungberg (Tales of Rebirth), Reala (Tales of Destiny 2), and Kohaku Hearts (Tales of Hearts). The PS Vita version of Tales of Hearts is the only one that's getting a western release. | |
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The Korean, Cantonese and Taiwanese dubs of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger present the first appearances of numerous Super Sentai teams who never made it over to those countries in the first place. | |
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Puyo Puyo is one of the most extreme examples of this trope, as between the sporadic releases outside of Japan and Puyo Puyo originally being a spin-off of Madou Monogatari, this means almost every single character is subject to this. To put things into perspective, the only characters that avert this are those introduced in Puyo Puyo Fever, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. | |
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Many fans of Sonic the Hedgehog widely believe that certain details about the characters, such as Tails' Gadgeteer Genius skills and Eggman's goofiness (and his nickname being Eggman) first appeared in Sonic Adventure. In reality, this was actually a case of All There in the Manual mixed with No Export for You, as the Japanese manuals and supplemental material revealed these facts from the start. There were hints in-game, however, such as Tails' mechanical know-how in Sonic Triple Trouble or Tails Adventure (he has a personal submarine, for one thing). Even more notably, in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Tails fixed Sonic's plane, the Tornado, by affixing a jet beneath it when it was shot down at the start of Wing Fortress Zone, and in such a short amount of time as to be ready to pick Sonic up at the end of the stage no more than ten minutes later. | |
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Super Sentai: "Lost and Found in Translation" of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder featured the Power Rangers watching episode 10 of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, which itself is a satire on cultural differences between Japan and the US. This resulted in an entire Super Sentai episode to be dubbed in countries who usually don't do Super Sentai, including America. And in France, while Super Sentai stopped being dubbed in French after Choujin Sentai Jetman in 1992 (while it was already heavily censored) in favor of the "less violent and confusing" Power Rangers on following years, Abaranger would eventually mark itself, through Dino Thunder, to be the last Super Sentai Series dubbed in French. While Samurai Sentai Shinkenger was skipped in South Korea, characters from that show appeared in the dub of Kamen Rider Decade when that show had a crossover with Shinkenger. The Korean, Cantonese and Taiwanese dubs of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger present the first appearances of numerous Super Sentai teams who never made it over to those countries in the first place. As South Korea skipped ahead to air Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger in the months following its Japanese premiere, Power Rangers Zenkaiger features the first appearance of its original counterpart's immediate predecessor, Mashin Sentai Kiramager. |
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Sakura Wars: Ichiro Ogami and Sakura Shinguji, the stars of the first four Sakura Wars games, made their North American and European debut in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. Erica Fontaine and Ciseaux from Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?, as well as Aya-Me from Sakura Wars (1996), made their international debut in the Project × Zone series. The worldwide release of Sakura Wars (2019) marks the in-game debut of Sumire Kanzaki. |
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When Panel de Pon was localized as Tetris Attack for American and European audiences, the original characters got switched out in favor of Yoshi and friends. The magic wand of the titular character Lip (i.e. Lip's Stick) has been an item in the Smash series since Melee, while her and the rest of her cast would appear as stickers in Brawl. Lip herself would become a Mii costume and a spirit in Ultimate. The original game wouldn't see a release outside of Japan for nearly 25 years, until it was added to the Nintendo Switch Online lineup in May 2020. | |
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Eugene and Annie from Tales of Rebirth. Their American debut was in 2007 in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, three years after ToR came out in Japan. | |
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Chitti from the famous Bollywood movie Robot had his first appearance in Germany with a cameo in the movie Ra.One. | |
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As South Korea skipped ahead to air Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger in the months following its Japanese premiere, Power Rangers Zenkaiger features the first appearance of its original counterpart's immediate predecessor, Mashin Sentai Kiramager. | |
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While Danny Phantom has never officially aired in Japan, various entries in the Nicktoons Unite! series (which features the titular protagonist as a playable character) have been released there; thus that series marks Danny's debut for Japanese audiences. | |
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JoJo Siwa's first appearance in Japan was her cameo in SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout!. | |
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In Latin America, besides Kaguya, half of the new cast from Shippuden plus Boruto and Saradanote This is especially relevant with those two characters, because Boruto: Naruto the Movie will probably never be dubbed in Spanish, since only one of the movies and one special were dubbed to Spanish, nor anything beyond the second half of Shippuden, as the Latin American dub stopped when the voice acting studio who dubbed the series went bankrupt. The same goes with Mecha-Naruto., as the series only recently debuted in Latin America in 2015, after a long hiatus when the rest of the series was cancelled from Cartoon Network's Latin American feed in 2006. | |
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"Lost and Found in Translation" of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder featured the Power Rangers watching episode 10 of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, which itself is a satire on cultural differences between Japan and the US. This resulted in an entire Super Sentai episode to be dubbed in countries who usually don't do Super Sentai, including America. And in France, while Super Sentai stopped being dubbed in French after Choujin Sentai Jetman in 1992 (while it was already heavily censored) in favor of the "less violent and confusing" Power Rangers on following years, Abaranger would eventually mark itself, through Dino Thunder, to be the last Super Sentai Series dubbed in French. | |
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Splatoon's Inklings underwent this in South Korea. The Wii U, and by extension the first Splatoon game, was never released in the country. The creatures would cameo as Mii costumes and a trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, and as guest characters in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, before making their proper Korean debut in Splatoon 2. | |
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Some of the cast of the first and second games finally appeared in the US... in the Gust game Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, in a bonus level of the dream states for the heroines. This happened nearly ten years after the debut of the first Atelier game. The characters finally made their solo debut in the Western market in manga form, but the Atelier games that Ar Tonelico referenced still aren't out in the States. | |
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As 6teen never aired in Hungary, Jude Lizowski made his first appearance in Total DramaRama. | |
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A few Final Fantasy characters such as Astos debuted in Europe, believe it or not, in Captain N: The Game Master. Really. | |
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Mid and the heroes of Final Fantasy V were introduced to the US in the OAV Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals. | |
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Arcaea, which is globally available, features collaboration content of the Performai series (maimai, CHUNITHM, and O.N.G.E.K.I.). Only maimai would get a release outside of the combined Asia Pacific / Australia region, in 2019 in the U.S., while the CHUNITHM and O.N.G.E.K.I. content fall squarely within this trope as neither of those games have yet to be released outside that area. | |
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The motive for Chapter 2 of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is the "Twilight Syndrome Murder Case" arcade game, which is a homage to the Twilight Syndrome mystery/horror series, none of which have been released outside of Japan (there aren't even any Fan Translations). | |
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A number of international markets had not yet aired the end of the third season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic before they ran the theatrical release, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which picks up on some plot points from the final episode of Season 3. As a result, in quite a few countries, the film opens with Twilight Sparkle complaining about the new wings and alicorn princess status that she hadn't yet been shown gaining. Similarly, locations and characters from Season 3 were showing up in some markets on the toys' box art before the episodes they debuted in were locally aired. Also, in some countries My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks was released before the end of season 4 of the show, spoiling Twilight's castle obtained at the end of that season. | |
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In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, we have Nova's DLC costume◊. The preview of this costume took place on November 16, 2011. Both Marvel and Capcom executives weren't allowed to tell the public were it originated from, as it was from a new project that Marvel wanted to keep under wraps at the time. On February 21, 2012, the costume was finally made downloadable to the public, but there was still no word about its origin. Then, on March 2, 2012, Marvel gives us a preview of Sam Alexander, the new Nova as seen in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) (which later aired on April 1, 2012). Sam's costume is the DLC costume of Nova in UMvC3. | |
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In Germany, Pro7 got the rights to only the first two seasons of the Doctor Who revival. Rival TV station RTL 2 had more luck with spin-off Torchwood which led to the Doctor's companion Martha Jones first appearing in Torchwood and not Series 3 of Doctor Who. | |
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Dragon Ball Xenoverse marks the first international appearance of Mira and Towa, the leaders of the villainous Time Breakers, and the Time Patrol version of Trunks, all of whom debuted in Dragon Ball Online, a now-defunct MMO that never saw release outside of Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The Supreme Kai of Time was also mentioned in Dragon Ball online, and Jaco the Galactic Patrolman debuted in the West in Xenoverse. | |
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Monster Hunter Freedom 2: All monsters that kickstarted the second generation of the series appeared first in the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter 2 (dos). Thus, it wasn't until Freedom 2 (which was released in the West) when players outside Japan could have a chance to hunt them. The exception is Yama Tsukami, which had debuted Dos as well but didn't appear in the game; even then, the Updated Re-release Freedom Unite brought it back so international players can hunt it in G Rank. Hypnocatrice and Lavasioth make their international debuts in the Updated Re-release Freedom Unite, having first appeared in Monster Hunter Frontier which was exclusive to Japan, South Korea, and China. |
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To a lesser extent, many of the tropes that Metal Gear Solid is credited for creating were actually featured in some form or another in the original MSX2 games, especially in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Remember the part where you have to look at the back of the game's packaging to obtain Meryl's frequency? Or where you had to follow her to the women's bathroom? Or where Snake's mysterious informant tells him to watch out for mines? Metal Gear 2 did all of that first. | |
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Ichiro Ogami and Sakura Shinguji, the stars of the first four Sakura Wars games, made their North American and European debut in Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. | |
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None of the Dead Space games were released in Japan, but Isaac Clarke is available as a DLC character in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, including the Japanese version. | |
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Gradius: Venom, one of the series' villains, made his North American debut in Gradius V in 2005, 18 years after he debuted in the Japan- and Europe-exclusive Nemesis 2 in 1987. Just to add insult to injury, his massive-brain form in this game looks nothing like how he does in the MSX games or in Gradius ReBirth (2009) where he's a comparatively normal green humanoid alien. James Burton, one of the series' few named heroes, also debuted in Nemesis 2 in Japan and Europe, yet he did not appear in any game released for the North American market until Gradius ReBirth in 2009, 22 years later. Gofer of Gradius II (1988) had to wait 10 years to appear in a game released in North America, namely Gradius IV. |
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Dragon Quest Monsters. The first game had enemies from Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VI plus Milly and Terry from VI, well before either game was released in North America. And Europe and Australia hadn't received any game in the series before this, meaning that every character that wasn't an Original Generation was an example. | |
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Starfy, the star of The Legendary Starfy series, received cameos in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (on a movie poster), Super Princess Peach (as a rare enemy), and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (as an Assist Trophy) before the series was first released outside of Japan. | |
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Live A Live has never had an export outside of Japan until the 2022 remake, and even in its native country, it is at best a Cult Classic and at worst a flop. This did not stop them from releasing Megalomania as a DLC song in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, or for the mobile game Final Fantasy Legends: The Space-time Crystal as an optional boss and a summon. | |
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All monsters that kickstarted the second generation of the series appeared first in the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter 2 (dos). Thus, it wasn't until Freedom 2 (which was released in the West) when players outside Japan could have a chance to hunt them. The exception is Yama Tsukami, which had debuted Dos as well but didn't appear in the game; even then, the Updated Re-release Freedom Unite brought it back so international players can hunt it in G Rank. | |
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Monster Hunter 3 (Tri): While the original game isn't an example, the Updated Re-release 3 Ultimate incorporates into its bestiary Arzuros, Great Wroggi, Lagombi, Volvidon, Nibelsnarf, Duramboros, Zinogre and nearly all third-generation subspecies that debuted in the Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (only Brute Tigrex and Amatsu were skipped over; even then, the former would later debut overseas in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, while the latter did in Monster Hunter Generations). | |
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Ketsui, a 2003 game, was first officially made known to the Western world in 2011 when the Xbox 360 version of DoDonPachi Resurrection was localized in Europe, which includes an Arrange Mode based on Ketsui and which features the Tiger Schwert, one of the two playable ships from that game, as well as HIVAC, a variation of Ketsui's True Final Boss Evaccaneer DOOM. The rest of the world would follow suit in 2012 with the global release of DoDonpachi Maximum, which again features the Tiger Schwert as well as a simulated version of Stage 4 of Ketsui. Ketsui itself would not be localized for non-Japan markets until 2020 with the release of Ketsui Deathtiny for PS4. | |
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Trials of Mana had to wait twenty-three years for an official English release. In the meantime, its prequel (which included many supporting characters and concepts from Trials) was released as Heroes of Mana, Legend of Mana made a number of references to Trials locations (mostly in item names, like "Dior Wood" and "Altena Alloy") while also including statues of the main characters of Trials in one location, a couple songs from the game appeared in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call, and Riesz appeared in Million Arthur: Arcana Blood. | |
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In a cross media example, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva introduced some new characters from the not-yet-released-outside-of-Japan prequel trilogy to the western world. (Mainly in Europe - in the US the movie was delayed just long enough for the first game to be released first.) | |
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The Italian dub of the franchise initially skipped Power Rangers RPM, which was dubbed only after Power Rangers Samurai. As a result, the RPM Red Ranger was first seen in the Samurai special episode "Clash of the Red Rangers". | |
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Wario ended up making his Chinese debut in Dr. Mario 64, which was the built-in launch title for the iQue Player. | |
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Both Swin Abel and Nadia Rayne who first show up in The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie, made their debut in the US in the mobile game called Brave Nine. | |
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Shaft was cut from the only port of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood that the US or Europe got prior to 2007. This led to him mind-controlling Richter in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with pretty much no introduction. | |
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Popular Argentinian comic character Mafalda makes a cameo appearance in the 2021 DC and Warner Bros. film The Suicide Squad as a keychain during a scene shot inside Milton's vehicle. While the series is well-known in Spanish speaking countries, the series is completely unknown to the non-Hispanophone market (such as Asia, America, and parts of Europe) with some of her comics never gaining official translations to some countries. | |
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La Pucelle didn't receive an English localization until the American success of Disgaea. This resulted in Prier first appearing as an Optional Boss cameo in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, before appearing in her own game. Worse, her appearance in Disgaea spoils a plot point of La Pucelle. | |
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Mother: Ness from EarthBound appeared in the first three Smash Bros. games before his own game eventually got released in Europe and Australia through the Virtual Console. Mr. Saturn made an even earlier cameo appearance in Kirby Super Star (as a treasure in The Great Cave Offensive), which released in Europe under the title Kirby's Fun Pak. Lucas debuted overseas as a fighter in Brawl. His game, Mother 3, is one of the most noteworthy examples of No Export for You in Nintendo's library. In addition, some of his Subspace Emissary missions were spoilers for the final sections of his game, which remains a sore spot for a lot of Mother fans. Elements from EarthBound Beginnings — from songs, to the Devil Car enemy in Smash Run, to the Magicant stage introduced in Smash for 3DS — are this, with that game first seeing international release through the Virtual Console in 2015, twenty-six years after its initial Japan-only release. |
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Finally, there's Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World, whose status as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover means that multiple secondary characters from previous generations, such as Enderk Jad and Bartholomaus Platane, at last make an appearance in an internationally-sold title. | |
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The Legend of Heroes - Trails: The second arc of the series, the Crossbell arc, wasn't localized outside of Japan and China until long after the Trails in the Sky trilogy - which contains a story arc that Trails from Zero completes - and the Trails of Cold Steel tetralogy - the first half of which occurs concurrently with the duology, the second half of which relies heavily on familiarity with the Crossbell arc due to Crossbell being annexed by the Erebonian Empire - came stateside. As in, Trails of Cold Steel IV, an Avengers: Endgame-esque Crisis Crossover featuring playable characters from all three arcs, was released in 2020... Trails from Zero will be released in 2022, Trails to Azure in 2023, and the only reason the duology's coming out as soon as that is because a Fan Translation group licensed their translations to NIS America. As a result, several characters from the Crossbell arc made their worldwide debut in Cold Steel II, III and IV, including primary characters such as Lloyd Bannings, Rixia Mao, Elie MacDowell and Mariabell Crois, as well as side characters like Cao Lee and Grace Lynn. | |
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Donbe and Hikari have a fairly long lineage in Japanese releases and cameos, but have only been seen outside Japan four times: a cameo in Kirby's Dream Land 3, a trophy in Melee, in Super Mario Maker as Mystery Mushroom costumes and ultimately in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a spirit (which can also be evolved into a spirit of their older designs from the Super Famicom sequel, Heisei Shin Onigashima). They originated in the Famicom Disk System adventure game Famicom Mukashibanashi: Shin Onigashima, a title most often recognized by Western audiences as "that awesome speed metal song in Super Smash Bros. Brawl". Goku and Chao, from the other Famicom Mukashibanashi game, Yuuyuuki, also make cameo appearances in Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Unfortunately, though, their original game's chances of ever being exported are considerably less than many of the other minor Nintendo franchises; the game's dialogue is written vertically, which isn't a problem in Japanese writing, but the Roman alphabet is another story. | |
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Atelier Series: Some of the cast of the first and second games finally appeared in the US... in the Gust game Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, in a bonus level of the dream states for the heroines. This happened nearly ten years after the debut of the first Atelier game. The characters finally made their solo debut in the Western market in manga form, but the Atelier games that Ar Tonelico referenced still aren't out in the States. X Edge (pronounced "Cross Edge") was released by NIS America in late May 2009. It's the full-on console debut for Marie, the first Atelier heroine, in a SSB-style crossover game that wasn't produced by, and isn't distributed by, her own home company. With Trinity Universe, it happened again, with Violet Platane of Atelier Violet making her American debut in that game. Also in X Edge, 4 characters from it, Lily, Whim, Raze, and Rewrich are from Mana Khemia 2, a game that was planned to be brought over by NISA months after X Edge in spite of MK2 far preceding it in Japan in both system and release dates. In a franchise sense, the newest Atelier games are now coming over, Rorona and Annie respectively... which means that this trope has happened again. Liese Randel in Atelier Annie shows up in the second year of gameplay to help out our heroine and seemingly has a bit of history... history which is covered in her own game, Atelier Liese, which didn't make it out of Japannote For reasons related to Game Breaking Bugs in the initial release meaning English gamers only know her from Annie. Finally, there's Nelke and the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World, whose status as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover means that multiple secondary characters from previous generations, such as Enderk Jad and Bartholomaus Platane, at last make an appearance in an internationally-sold title. |
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While Samurai Sentai Shinkenger was skipped in South Korea, characters from that show appeared in the dub of Kamen Rider Decade when that show had a crossover with Shinkenger. | |
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Acceleration of SUGURI has Sora, protagonist of her own game, who appears as a superboss and unlockable character. Her game was still in development when Acceleration Of SUGURI was released. However, a teaser of her game can be unlocked by fighting Sora and unlocking her extra story. | |
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Runbow has guest characters from indie games with several of those still having yet to be released in Japan, so Runbow's Japanese release was the debut of some of the guest characters in Japan unlike outside of Japan where all of the guest characters debuted in their own games first. | |
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Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest Monsters. The first game had enemies from Dragon Quest V and Dragon Quest VI plus Milly and Terry from VI, well before either game was released in North America. And Europe and Australia hadn't received any game in the series before this, meaning that every character that wasn't an Original Generation was an example. While Yangus, the cockney thief from Dragon Quest VIII, is familiar to non-Japanese audiences, he also appeared in a Japan-only Mystery Dungeon Gaiden Game on the PS2, in which he is a young boy who is still in training. This version of him was reused when Fortune Street was released to Western audiences. Naturally, they were confused why he was suddenly a kid in that game. Dragon Quest IX had character cameos from the entire series becoming slowly available over the course of a year (July 2010 - July 2011), including Ashlynn and Milly from Dragon Quest VI, which hadn't been released outside of Japan at the time. It wouldn't take long, though, as VI received an international release in February 2011 — soon enough that when another VI character, Carver, showed up in IX; the game was out and he no longer qualified for this trope. (It was also possible to hack the game to unlock characters' appearances, including Carver's, ahead of schedule.) The game also had previous villains as superbosses, including Murdaw, Mortamor, and Nokturnus from VI. And while Europe and Australia had received remakes of IV and V by that time and received VI alongside North America, characters from the original trilogy and VII were still new to them. Dragon Quest XI similarly had a series of sidequests making throwback references to the rest of the series. These included content from the Japan-only Dragon Quest X. Dragon Quest Treasures features treasures based on the entire rest of the franchise including spin-offs, some of which were never released internationally. The big ones are characters and equipment from Dragon Quest X and trading cards from Dragon Quest Rivals, but there are also assorted references to Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3, Dragon Quest Walk, Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi, and the Mystery Dungeon version of Yangus. |
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Mighty Gunvolt, as its name implies, features characters from Azure Striker Gunvolt and Mighty No. 9. What the title doesn't suggest, however, is that the game also features characters from a shooter called Gal*Gun,note Unless you're playing the PS4 version, in which case the title implies there aren't any Mighty No. 9 characters. which is about a boy who accidentally gets shot by too many love arrows and is forced to spend a day at school courting one of four girls while fending off an Unwanted Harem. Ekoro, an apprentice angel who debuted in Gal*Gun: Double Peace, is a playable character alongside Gunvolt and Beck. Since Bishoujo games are hard to come by outside of Japan, Mighty Gunvolt serves as the international debut of the Gal*Gun cast. Additionally, Shinobu and Maya, the heroines of Double Peace, have a cameo in the school stage, though Maya only appears in Ekoro's route. Most of the games were eventually released just in time for Mighty Gunvolt Burst to feature Kurona without any recognition problems, though those curious about Tenzou (protagonist of the very first game) would have to wait three years for Gal*Gun Returns. | |
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Though there were English localizationsnote so to speak, because these mangas have no speech of his mangas, Gon was incredibly obscure outside Japan, which meant that his appearance in Tekken 3 led people to believe he'd been invented for the game. Also, Tekken 3 was not Gon's video game debut. There was a SNES game released in 1994, Gon. | |
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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2: The English Dub of the Naruto anime was still around the 2nd arc of Shippuden when this game came out (October 14th, 2010), meaning this was the English debut for some characters: Hidan, Kakuzu, Konan and Pain appear in this game outside of sillhouetes. Nagato appears in the cutscene after the final boss. Tobi's Madara persona debuts as part of his Awakening. Other characters first debuting in English are Sasuke's Hebi/Taka team (Suigetsu, Karin and Juugo), Sage Mode Naruto, Killer Bee and the Eight Tails. |
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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4: Kaguya Otsutsuki is this for people who have only followed the anime. In Latin America, besides Kaguya, half of the new cast from Shippuden plus Boruto and Saradanote This is especially relevant with those two characters, because Boruto: Naruto the Movie will probably never be dubbed in Spanish, since only one of the movies and one special were dubbed to Spanish, nor anything beyond the second half of Shippuden, as the Latin American dub stopped when the voice acting studio who dubbed the series went bankrupt. The same goes with Mecha-Naruto., as the series only recently debuted in Latin America in 2015, after a long hiatus when the rest of the series was cancelled from Cartoon Network's Latin American feed in 2006. |
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Though THE iDOLM@STER will likely never be released outside Japan (with some exceptions such as South Korea, Taiwan and China) until years later, the Idolmaster-themed skins for Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation are available stateside, and The iDOLM@STER Gamertag icons also made it over. | |
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Due to The House on Pooh Corner not having a Spanish translation until the 80's, the first appearance of Tigger in Spain and Latin America was in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which came out in 1968. It's possible that this happened in other places as well. | |
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With many past characters appearing in Fire Emblem: Awakening as DLC, this trope was inevitable for the international releases. For every game not released overseas at the timenote Gaiden, Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Binding Blade, ten more characters made their international debuts this way.note Four from Mystery of the Emblem, counting Emperor Hardin, and three from the "Others" set, for a total of 53. This count includes the characters from FE6 appearing in the FE7 epilogue, as the epilogue was removed from European and Australian copies of FE7. | |
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The Monica and Friends franchise would make a debut outside Brazil with the film "An Adventure in Time" releasing in Latin America during 2008. This led to the first exposure of the franchise in Latin America. Almost 7 years later, the animated shorts would debut on the Latin American version of Boomerang when they started to air the 2012 series, then later moved to the 2009 series, then the 2000s series and much later the 1980s series. The show then later expanded to a handful of countries when they didn't get the comics nor the show such as Japan. | |
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Gilgamesh first appeared in North America in Final Fantasy VIII. This was a few weeks before Final Fantasy Anthology containing Final Fantasy V came out. | |
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Also in X Edge, 4 characters from it, Lily, Whim, Raze, and Rewrich are from Mana Khemia 2, a game that was planned to be brought over by NISA months after X Edge in spite of MK2 far preceding it in Japan in both system and release dates. | |
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Super Godzilla featured several monsters from movies that had yet to be released outside of Japan such as Battra and Mecha King Ghidorah. However, the American version did replace the 90's Mechagodzilla with the 70's one. | |
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The 1981 Japanese animated film The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (based on the Osamu Tezuka manga series Unico) by Sanrio Animation, featured Kiki and Lala (aka "The Little Twin Stars") making a non-speaking cameo apperance in the background during a musical number focused on Katy/Chloe's dreams on becoming a witch. In the western market alongside Spanish speaking countries, this was "The Little Twin Stars" first exposure to non-Japanese audiences and first exposure to Sanrio characters besides Hello Kitty. Sames goes for the 1983 sequel Unico in the Island of Magic where Tuxedo Sam makes a non-speaking cameo apperance where he's among the animals alongside Unico lessening to Toby's song performed on a flute. | |
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Villainous had become a staple of Cartoon Network's Latin American branches since its first miniseries aired in 2017, with its various shorts being available in both Spanish and English on the official CN Latin America YouTube page. However, the characters wouldn't be formally introduced to American audiences until its October 2020 crossover with Victor and Valentino, which was meant to coincide with the premiere of a full-length Villainous TV series, which got delayed into late 2021 and wouldn't get an official release outside Latin America itself. | |
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In the Metroid series, Samus' double-jump and ledge-gripping abilities didn't exist prior to her appearance in Super Smash Bros. for the N64, and her subsequent appearance in Melee. Both of these abilities would later make their full debut in the Metroid series shortly after Melee's release, with her double-jump being given to the Space Jump Boots in Metroid Prime and her ledge-grip being given to the Power Grip in Metroid: Zero Mission. Her stun gun in Zero Mission would remain nameless until Super Smash Bros. Brawl gave it the name "Paralyzer", as well as a whip ability that has yet to be implemented in other Metroid games. | |
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Tales of the Abyss has Cameo fights too. Granted, all three of the cameos in Tales of Symphonia were from games that were released in America before (Garr was from Tales of Destiny, Farah and Meredy were from Tales of Eternia), but not in Europenote at least until the PSP version of Eternia was released in Europe (under its original name)... but not North America, thanks to a policy SCEA (but not SCEJ or SCEE) has on requiring a certain amount of new content in ports and remakes. However, in Tales of the Abyss, there's Mint (from Tales of Phantasia, which was finally released in the US the same year as Abyss), Philia (from Tales of Destiny, released years ago), and Reid from Tales of Eternia. However, who's this "Nanaly" girl in there? She is not Chelsea from Tales of Destiny. Ironically she's from the real Tales of Destiny 2 (note the Arabic numeral; Eternia used a Roman one) and is in no way related to Chelsea unless you WMG her to be a descendant of Chelsea (or Mary). Not to mention, two of Anise's Tokunaga accessories that reference Reala and Harold also first appeared in the west through Tales of the Abyss. | |
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Celica A. Mercury and Naoto Kurogane from BlazBlue both debuted in a series of light novels that never got an overseas release, BlazBlue: Phase Shift for Celica and Bloodedge Experience for Naoto. As a result, most western fans were initially exposed to them through their playable appearances in the main series and scratching their heads at just who the hell they were. It's especially jarring because both seem to play very important roles in the plot and some have prior relationships with the already established cast, so it comes off as Remember the New Guy? if you didn't do your research beforehand. | |
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The Critic was never aired in countries like the UK, making most people over there think that Jay Sherman is just a one-shot character on The Simpsons. | |
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In Melee, there were several trophies that came from Custom Robo, a series of mecha games that were exclusive to Japan. The games would start releasing in North America with the fourth entry of the series, while Europe and Australia would have to wait for the fifth installment. | |
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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations: Onoki and Mei Terumi debut in this game before the English dub reached the Five Kage Summit arc. | |
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Kuru Kuru Kururin is a Nintendo series that focuses on a duck-like character who must pilot a spinning stick-shaped vehicle through mazes. Because the series never got a North American release until 2016 (with the Virtual Console release of the first game), Kururin's vehicle appearing as an assist trophy in Brawl led to a lot of confusion from American gamers. | |
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In Croatia, by the time My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) came out and was being shown locally in theaters, the country had just started airing season 2. This means that the country was treated to Twilight's status as being an alicorn princess before it was even hinted at in-series in the season 3 premiere, and various elements from later in the show such as the Tree of Harmony and Crystal Heart (both in stained glass) and the characters Cheese Sandwich, Starlight Glimmer and Maud Pie (called "Manda" in the Croatian version of the movie) have made their debut in the country as quick cameos. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories featured the Diamond Dust and One-Winged Angel Keyblades as attack cards. Those weapons were only added to the original Kingdom Hearts in its Final Mix, which did not see an English release until a near decade later. Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days uses “Cavern of Remembrance� as the Character Select/Preparations theme for Mission Mode. This song was introduced in Kingdom Hearts II’s Final Mixnote Which was also initially Japan-only, including at the time of Days’ release. as the BGM for the Bonus Dungeon of the same name. Kingdom Hearts II offers sort of a cross-media case; the first Summon the player has access to in the game is Chicken Little, whose film debuted in America on October 30th, 2005. almost two months before the game came out on December 22nd. As a result, Chicken Little's appearance in Kingdom Hearts II predates the Japanese release of the movie, December 23rd, by a single day. Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has another one: the Superboss is Julius from Runaway Brain, making the first time in almost twenty years that Disney acknowledged the existence of this 1995 Mickey Mouse short of very limited availability, and possibly the first time many gamers had learned about it. |
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Elements from EarthBound Beginnings — from songs, to the Devil Car enemy in Smash Run, to the Magicant stage introduced in Smash for 3DS — are this, with that game first seeing international release through the Virtual Console in 2015, twenty-six years after its initial Japan-only release. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories featured the Diamond Dust and One-Winged Angel Keyblades as attack cards. Those weapons were only added to the original Kingdom Hearts in its Final Mix, which did not see an English release until a near decade later. | |
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Mighty the Armadillo, a Sonic-like character in Knuckles' Chaotix, made his first actual appearance in SegaSonic the Hedgehog, whose Japan-only release predates even Sonic 3, let alone Chaotix. Mighty was allegedly based on one of the original designs for Sonic. The same applies for Ray the Flying Squirrel, who appeared in some of the Sonic Archie Comics in the US and the internationally-released Sonic Mania Plus, but also first appeared in the Japan-only SegaSonic game. | |
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Similarly, as Cyberbots remains largely obscure in the West, Western fans are far more likely to know Jin Saotome and Devilotte from their appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series than the game they actually originated in (Devilotte also showed up as a secret character in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo). | |
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Sayo, the main protagonist of Kiki Kai Kai (later known to Western gamers as Pocky when the series was released Sequel First), first appeared outside Japan as the World 6 boss in the NES version of Rainbow Islands. This was averted in Europe, which ended up getting a completely different port of that game. | |
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The Witcher is a case of this as well. The first game was released in the US in 2007, the same year that the first English edition of the first book was released in the UK and a year before it first hit US bookshelves. This continued on, with Season of Storms being adapted into comic form by Dark Horse three years before the English translation was released. | |
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In South Korea, the dub of Kamen Rider Decade was the debut for Kamen Riders Kuuga, Agito and Hibiki, as their series were not imported over there. The same occurred in Singapore but with Kamen Rider Kiva in addition to that list. | |
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When Hebereke was localized as U-four-ia: The Saga, the character design was changed. Because of this (and U-four-ia only getting a limited release in Scandinavia), they ended up debuting in the Mega Drive port of Lemmings. | |
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One of the save data unlockables in Tales of Symphonia Chronicles is an alternate costume for Kratos based on Ludger from Tales of Xillia 2. While Xillia 2 was released a year before the compilation in Japan, Symphonia Chronicles came out first in the US. | |
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