History Main / JoinedYourParty

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': When someone joins your party in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', a pop-up message appears telling you so. This was absent in the first two games of the series, when potential companions would just start following you after their recruiting conditions were met.

** Which happens in the [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim video game]] as well. "Robot-01 joined the party!"

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series has a RunningGag that Roger Bacon ''pretends'' to join your party (complete with 'Naming screen') but never actually does it. The naming screen shows up in the later two games, even though you ''can't'' rename characters in either of them.

* You get this with eggs and in game gifts in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games. "*player* received the Egg from the day care man!"."*Player* received *Pokemon!*". Played mostly straight in Ilex Forest in the Gen II remakes during the Pichu event and the Gen V Zorua event.

* You're told "(X monster) has joined you" when you successfully recruit demons in most ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games. However, sometimes you can say the right things to a demon and have them join without negotiations. In which case you're told "(X monster) forces itself into your party!"

* Parodied to hell and back in ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. After Susie joins your party, a fanfare plays along with the prompt message "Susie joined your party!" To which Susie responds by slowly backing away off-screen... which ''also'' got a fanfare and a message prompt. The same fanfare and prompt would reappear when Lancer joins the party... and then later when ''the team found a candy'', [[RunningGagged to which Susie had enough of and cuts the whole thing short]]. After Susie promised to be more cooperative, a short piano jingle plays with the message prompt "Susie joined your party for real."

--> If life was an RPG, this would be when the text “’Kamijou Touma’ has joined your party!” would appear on screen.

* Parodied to hell and back in ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. After Susie joins your party, a fanfare plays along with the prompt message "Susie joined your party!" To which Susie responds by slowly backing away off-screen... which ''also'' got a fanfare and a message prompt. The same fanfare and prompt would reappear when Lancer joins the party... and then later when ''the team found a candy'', to which Susie had enough of and cuts the whole thing short.
** Played straight later in the game; after Susie promised to be more cooperative, a short piano jingle plays with the message prompt "Susie joined your party for real."

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pmttyd_koops_joins_party.png]]]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'' has at least two people who join your party without your consent, and a few more who are actually enslaved by Laharl[[note]]Hoggmeiser and Maderas[[/note]].

--->[Rozalin] is bound to you by the terms of the ritual.
--->Deeply swayed by Adell's manliness and cologne, [Yukimaru] joined the group.
--->Beauty Queen [Etna] is stalking Adell.
--->Under the condition of three square meals a day, [Overlord Laharl] has joined the group.

--->[[ButtMonkey Tink]] was enrolled as a student while still unconscious.
--->Mao has received the most badass [[VideoGame/MakaiKingdom Notebook]] ever.

* As seen in the page quote above, ''Super FanFic/PaperMarioX'' does this every time a new character joins the team. [[JustifiedTrope Makes sense]], since this is a {{crossover}} with a RPG. Usually it's [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] who does these, but when the gang got split up starting with chapter 42, other characters have done these introductions instead. Link was quite upset that he didn't make those intros.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': When someone joins your party in ''VideoGame/{Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', a pop-up message appears telling you so. This was absent in the first two games of the series, when potential companions would just start following you after their recruiting conditions were met.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' if you return to a certain dungeon (that happens to be built entirely as a homage to 8 and 16 bit jRPGs) at one point and add Yosuke to your party he will comment [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "Yosuke joined your party! ... or something like that, right?"]]
* When someone joins your party in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', a pop-up message appears telling you so. This was absent in the first two games of the series, when potential companions would just start following you after their recruiting conditions were met.

* VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening: How does Marin "join" you as a temporary companion? Link (literally) picks her up and the ItemGet jingle plays!

[[caption-width-right:350:"Cool. Now get in my [[PartyInMyPocket pocket]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Cool. Now get in my [[PartyInMyPocket pocket."]]]]