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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem to outnumber townspeople and wastelanders. Enclave Soldiers can also be encountered before they officially enter the plot, and after their bases are wiped out in ''Broken Steel''. Aliens sometimes respawn on Mothership Zeta if you return, even though you cleared out the ship.

* ''SailorMoonAnotherStory'' uses as {{Random Encounter}}s monsters that were originally monsters of the week in the show. The monsters in the show were either transformed people or transformed objects, so like in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' example it doesn't make sense that there would be armies of them.

* The infamous Metools from the ''MegaMan'' games. In the original Mega Man game the little hard hat guys appeared only on Guts Man's stage, which had the look of a quarry/construction site. (Guts Man himself appears to wear a hard hat) however they have since appeared in every Mega Man game on multiple levels and in massive numbers to the point that they are the most common enemy encountered.

** Apparently you can even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VbC1YRw71c fight the final boss on the Veldt]] if he's in your Bestiary.

** There's also the enemies on the way ''to'' the Rainbow Shell. The area is filled with enemies you fought in the prehistoric era. Like above, this is justified by the area, Giant's Claw, actually being the millions years old ruins of the prehistoric Tyrano Lair.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem to outnumber townspeople and wastelanders. Enclave Soldiers can also be encountered before they officially enter the plot, and after their bases are wiped out in ''Broken Steel''.

* In most strategy games, upgrading a unit will cause all units of that type to instantly improve. In ''AgeOfEmpires'', outposts not visited in thousands of in-game years can suddenly replace their clubs with swords and their loincloths for suits of plate armour.
* ''Videogame/{{Warcraft}} III'': In one mission, Malfurion and Tyrande discover spiders that have grown to [[GiantSpider gigantic size]] when they came into contact with demonic corruption. However, there are many more giant spiders in the world, both in this game and in ''[=WoW=]'', spiders that have never met any demons.

* Some ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'' maps evoke this, notably Suburbia, which takes place in a small American town thousands of miles from the Horzine labs.
** Since the specimens in the game have no way of infecting others, this means that hundreds of them somehow crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
** This becomes even more confusing when the Patriarch appears, since it essentially means that ''all'' of the specimens somehow crossed the ocean.

* ''SuperRobotWars'' does this for some MonsterOfTheWeek series: Formerly one-off enemies suddenly appear in droves. Can be jarring in cases where ''GaoGaiGar'' where the monsters were transformed humans and their looks based on their personality and the environment.
* ''SailorMoonAnotherStory'' uses as {{Random Encounter}}s monsters that were originally monsters of the week in the show. The monsters in the show were either transformed people or transformed objects, so like in the SuperRobotWars example it doesn't make sense that there would be armies of them.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Fiends and Powder Gangers continue to randomly spawn after you have killed their leaders and exterminated their strongholds. And even if you've killed Caesar and the rest of his fort and driven the Legion from their strongholds on the west side of the Colorado(leaving only the Legate's camp on the opposite end of Hoover Dam), Legionary Assassins keep appearing throughout the Wasteland every few days.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem t outnumber townspeople and wastelanders. Enclave Soldiers can also be encountered before they officially enter the plot, and after their bases are wiped out in ''Broken Steel''.
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Fiends and Powder Gangers continue to randomly spawn after you have killed their leaders and exterminated their strongholds.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem t outnumber townspeople and wastelanders. Enclave Soldiers can also be encountered before they officially enter the plot, and after their bases are wiped out in ''Broken Steel''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem t outnumber townspeople and wastelanders. Enclave Soldiers also occasionally appear before they officially enter the plot.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' has Super Mutants, which appear far more numerous than their origins would suggest. Likewise, Raiders often seem t outnumber townspeople and wastelanders.

* When you add up all the bodies, the extensve bloodstains, the skeletons, the zombies and the Lost Souls you fight in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3'', there seem to outnumber the human population in an area quite a bit.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', there's the Veldt, which contains every enemy you previously encountered (to allow obtaining their skills in a specific form of MegaManning done by the characer Gau). This includes soldiers, elite soldiers, and enemies said by the story to be already extinct. Some bosses also appear in the Veldt, such as the Senior Behemoth and the White/Holy Dragon.

Compare GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, that's when they come from nowhere with no context from the get-go. This is the enemy equivalent of a VoodooShark, where the explanation doesn't serve to explain how there are so many of there things all over the place. Contrast UndergroundMonkey for when enemies are recycled, but come in a slight variation for a given environment.

Compare GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, that's when they come from nowhere with no context. This is the enemy equivalent of a VoodooShark, where the explanation doesn't serve to explain how there are so many of there things all over the place. Contrast UndergroundMonkey for when enemies are recycled, but come in a slight variation for a given environment.

** There's also the enemies on the way ''to'' the Rainbow Shell. The area is filled with enemies you fought in the prehistoric era. Like above, this is justified by the are actually being the millions years old ruins of the prehistoric Tyrano Lair.

* ''LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has a few in the same game as well. Like the 'super'/'strong' ghosts, which are initially encountered as experiments in the Secret Mine, but then just show up all over the place in the last mansion for no real reason. As well as on every possible floor of the Thrill Tower/Scare Scraper. There's also one that just happens to appear in the mansion before the one you find these experimental ghosts in 'for the first time'.
** Or the Carnivorous Plants that initially show up in the gardening themed Haunted Towers with other plant enemies, and then somehow show up in the final mansion's kitchen in a cupboard (along with the more reasonable Jungle Exhibit).

* A lesser-known example is the electricity-shooting skeletons in Niel Manke's ''HalfLife'' mod "They Hunger". The first one is encountered in a laboratory where it is brought to life by being electrocuted, which does much to explain why it attacks by zapping you with bolts of lightning. But then you continue to encounter electric skeletons for the rest of the game, all over the place, even though it's impossible to think that every instance of this enemy could have been created in the same way.

* Husks in ''MassEffect2'' can fall into this, especially when you start wondering how many people there had to be on this single scientific expedition in order for there to be so many husks.

* ''LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has a few in the same game as well. Like the 'super'/'strong' ghosts, which are initially encountered as experiments in the Secret Mine, but then just show up all over the place in the last mansion for no real reason. As well as on every possible floor of the Thrill Tower/ScareScraper. There's also one that just happens to appear in the mansion before the one you find these experimental ghosts in 'for the first time'.