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Weak reasoning - it even admits she's not set to look like the protagonist, and the rest is weak too. (You might equally well say she does play that role anyway.)


** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': While the protagonist is clearly Cloud, the initial hero is set to be Aerith, with her being the first character to appear in the game, as she is the AllLovingHero, who [[ChosenOne alone]] has the capability to stop Meteor, due to being the last Ancient in existence. But after Disc One, it is clear that she is not the universe main hero of the story.

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* ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' touts Jim Raynor as the tough space marshal but he just becomes an UnwittingPawn in his own campaign. He stays on for the rest of the game as a side character. The real hero turns out to be Tassadar, the Protoss Templar who was introduced as a minor adversary.

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** In the demo, the main character is a magistrate who is being bossed around by a covert Confederate agent. In the full game, the focus shifts to Jim Raynor.
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Jim Raynor is touted as the tough space marshal but he just becomes an UnwittingPawn in his own campaign. He stays on for the rest of the game as a side character. The real hero turns out to be Tassadar, the Protoss Templar who was introduced as a minor adversary.
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* ''VideoGame/BombRushCyberfunk'': The tutorial has you play as Faux, one of New Amsterdams "big three" as he's broken out of prison...and then his head gets cut off when you get into the game for real. From that point on, you take control of Red, an AmnesiacHero born from a cybernetic head grafted onto the rest of Faux's body, hoping to get back the latters head for awnsers about the formers past. [[spoiler:Although that doesn't mean Faux is entirely out of the picture other than a MacGuffin...]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: The Frozen Throne'', Maiev and Kael'Thas start as the main characters of the Sentinels and Alliance campaigns, respectively. As the campaign progresses, both are overshadowed by Malfurion and Illidan.
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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].

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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', ''VisualNovel/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].
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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].
** That said, [[spoiler:Shogo does resume his role as a protagonist in the end of the story, with the player having to use the knowledge they acquired until that point to return to a point of the timeline before Shogo died and have him stop the BigBad (whose identity was unknown until then)]].
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* ''VideoGame/StarShiftRebellion'': The party leader is initially Mari, who leads the team in raiding a Molarian ruin. After the party defeats Chronus-13 and reprograms it to be loyal to the Outer Rim Coalition, Chronus-13 will be the party leader and viewpoint character.
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* ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' touts Jim Raynor as the tough space marshal but he just becomes an UnwittingPawn in his own campaign. He stays on for the rest of the game as a side character. The real hero turns out to be Tassadar, the Protoss Templar who was introduced as a minor adversary.
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* ''VideoGame/BrownDustII'': The story takes place through Lathel's perspective at first, slowly chronicling his descent into darkness as he continues fighting the Cocytus, though it becomes slowly evident that Justia is the real protagonist, especially once he [[spoiler: dies in Bloody Rhapsody and is replaced by a [[ArtificialHuman Homunculus]] version of himself]].

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