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* Many a fan have jumped aboard the ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'' bandwagon for no other reason other than the PrettyBoy-fied [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] or the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''-inspirred aesthetics.

** Starting with their 3d games, the Sonic franchise begn experimenting with incorporating more human characters into the series, starting with scene-filling background [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and then progressing to major [=NPCs=] in games like ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''. The fanbase reception has generally been mixed at best, with most preferring the games to focus on the anthromorph characters. This attitude is especially prominent (and often hostile) amongst those fans gatewayed in by ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' and ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', as both those series used an all-anthromorphic cast to build their extensive worlds.

* Playing ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2''? There's a good chance you're playing it just for Purge.

* Many a fan have jumped aboard the ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'' bandwagon for no other reason other than the PrettyBoy-fied
[[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] or the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''-inspirred aesthetics.

{{Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio}} or the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''-inspirred aesthetics.

{{Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio}} or the ''VideoGame/''{{Bloodborne}}''-inspirred aesthetics.

* Many people play Creator/ArcSystemWorks games due to their soundtracks [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic their soundtracks]], particularly Creator/DaisukeIshiwatari's hard rock compositions in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. Though not taken 100% seriously, fandom exposure to the new character themes in ''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-'' birthed the joke in English-speaking circles that "Daisuke's latest album came with a free game."

* Not unlike Creator/{{Falcom}} below, Creator/ArcSystemWorks releases sometimes get the same reaction for [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic their soundtracks]], particularly Creator/DaisukeIshiwatari's hard rock compositions in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. Though not taken 100% seriously, fandom exposure to the new character themes in ''Guilty Gear -STRIVE-'' birthed the joke in English-speaking circles that "Daisuke's latest album came with a free game."

** Plenty of people only bother to play any of these spin-offs (''VideoGame/MarioKart'', the multitude the ''Mario'' sports titles and ''VideoGame/MarioParty'') Because they can play as Waluigi, Princess Daisy and Toadette ([[BaseBreakingCharacter these 3 characters have both fanatical fandoms and fanatical hatedoms]] and their fans really want to see them in games other than spin-off ''Mario'' titles), luckily Toadette manage to [[Main/BreakoutCharacter breakout]] into main games since ''[[VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker]]'' which also could lead her fans to play them for her.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Fans all over the Internet are having {{Nerdgasm}}s from seeing their favourite video game characters make cameos. Subverted for many when the cameos stop coming about halfway through the movie and the audience is hooked on the film's own characters and plot. Even then, you'll still hear complaints that Bowser got no lines ([[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine though it was probably]] [[{{Narm}} for the better]]). The film's sequel, ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', got a similar reaction, as while fans who were just there for the video game cameos and references dropped out upon learning that they'd be a severe lack of them, new fans came in that were excited to see their favorite Disney and Disney-owned characters having cameo appearances, including all the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es.

* ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'''s protagonist looks like a bird. This attracts people, who would pass it off as an ordinary SliceOfLife if he was a normal boy. The series [[CerebusSyndrome goes off the deep end]] quickly and people now know it as a dark WidgetSeries manga with a bird-thing for a main character.

* Several countries - most notably the USA, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia - have invoked this in an effort to spur interest in their domestic leagues, by signing legions of high-profile players in the hope that people will start watching the league just to see those players in action. In 2023, for example, Lionel Messi moved to Inter Miami, and when he was substituted off during his second game, ''half the stadium'' got up and left because they'd been there just to see him.

* Some people read [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk comics]] for the same reason they watch the [[Franchise/TheIncredibleHulk television shows and movie adaptations]]: To see Bruce Banner HulkingOut.

* Many readers of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' are happy to see their favorite characters again in their pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' versions, if only to see them get a proper closure to their stories.
* ''ComicBook/BodyBags'' is about a father-daughter bounty hunter duo, Mack and Panda. Despite both characters getting equal amounts of focus in the story a lot of readers really only care about Panda, mainly because of her attractive design and she provides a lot of the humour for the series. Mack is more of a typical brooding anti-hero, just a bit more violent. It's extremely telling that the vast majority of fan content of the series is of Panda.

* With the rise of Website/{{Kickstarter}} and a trend of big-name developers leaving their companies to go independent, many of these developers have attempted to leverage their repuation or their association with popular franchises such as ''Franchise/MegaMan'' or ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' in order to secure anticipation for their new games.

* ''Fanfic/GodSlayingBladeWorks'': Many toxic reviews say Godou Kusanagi is boring and they don't care about him, wishing he would just go away and let the fic focus on Shirou Emiya, whom the reviews say is badass and the epitome of cool.

Depending on what you came for, however, it can feel like the creators are deliberately putting obstacles in your way to that destination. If you came to a movie for the action sequences, you could find yourself waiting well over an hour for the first big one, for example. Or maybe your favorite character in a video game is unplayable unless you accomplish some arbitrary task like playing the same mode a few dozen times. In fact, this is precisely where the term "cut to the chase" originated, as plenty of movies made during the early days were thoroughly uninteresting to their audience, but included an exciting chase at the end that people would come for. [[TropeNamer Named for]] the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} franchise, well known for its long and sometimes ''awful'' [[ExcusePlot human plotlines]]- that we'll all sit through just to see the [[BehemothBattle awesome giant-monster fighting]] at the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': While the film was very successful throughout the 1970s even gaining two spin-off comics in the early 1970s. The film is mostly viewed as SoOkayItsAverage from the general public. Starting in the early to mid 1990s (or early to mid 1980s), [[CuteKitten Marie]] suddenly caught the attention from the general public and immediately [[BreakoutCharacter become the most popular character of the film]]. As a result, people ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff especially from Japan, Asia, and Brazil]]) mainly watched the movie for any scene featuring Marie (and her brothers to a lesser extent). Disney took notice of the character's popularity and made tons of Marie merchandise, Aristocats books starring Marie, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen attempted on making two animated projects starring her in the early 2000s]]. Due to Marie's populairty, The Aristocats is the only [[AudienceAlienatingEra 70s era Disney movie]] from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon that gets tons of representation alongside films from the Classic Era, the Disney Renissance Era, and The Modern Renissance of the 2010s.

* OlderThanRadio: When ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' was released, it was the illustrator, John Tenniel, who was the big draw to the book — he was very popular and well-regarded, and who had heard of "Lewis Carroll" anyway? But it turned out, [[SleeperHit children were delighted by Alice's nonsense world]], and especially the gift of a story without a moral in it!
* ''Literature/{{Carnosaur}}'': The escaped dinosaurs attacking people and eventually battling the military takes up less 40% of the book, but is the main draw for many readers.

* Music/{{Miserable}}: There are a lot fans of the video who aren't actually fans of the song but tune in to the video just to see a [[GiantWoman giant]] Creator/PamelaAnderson reclining in a bikini and high heels while a band [[ColossusClimb explores her body,]] and/or the TwistEnding where [[spoiler:the guys get eaten by said giant Pamela.]] Even the song's lead singer has acknowledged this, encouraging people to "watch it on mute if you must" if it means checking out the video.

* In the '80s, [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] used to put Wrestling/HulkHogan's matches on last regardless of whether they were the actual main event or not, as they noted that, when Hogan went on in the middle of the card, a shocking number of people would simply get up and leave after his match instead of sticking around for the rest of the show.
* The Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob at ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1997''. "Ring the fucking bell!" There were six other matches that night; does ''anybody'' ever talk about them?

* ''Wrestlemania III'' has its share of moments but the biggest reason for many to watch is the main event of Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan, to see Hogan bodyslam Andre, and to see Andre lose cleanly because it is a HUGE moment in wrestling and WWE history.
* ''King of the Ring 1998''- The event that had the infamous Hell in a Cell match between Undertaker and Mankind. Does anyone remember that Steve Austin (at the height of his popularity) actually lost the World title in the main event?
* WCW's ''Bash at the Beach 1996'' is an event you can fastfoward through. What you're looking for is the main event. Hulk Hogan legdrops Randy Savage, thus turning heel and creating the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]].

* Some of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s PeripheryDemographic played the ''VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite'' series just for [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy]], WesternAnimation/{{Rocko|sModernLife}},[[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim, Dib and GIR]]. Well, pretty nice of THQ to acknowledge what Nick would rather forget, even to the point of getting the characters' original actors to reprise their roles.

* It's not uncommon for a lot of people on the Internet to follow certain artists only for their fanarts of a specific media or character within that media, or conversely, their original works or artworks of one of their own characters.
** This is the main reason why several artists have two accounts on social media like Twitter or Tumblr: one to post their art, the other for everything else.

* Most visitors of Channel Awesome will only watch the videos of a handful of reviewers and, if it weren't for the yearly anniversary specials, may not even know that certain reviewers exist.
* Someone once commented that he only watched a 20-minute-long Cinema Snob review for a 1-minute-long Linkara cameo. The Snob was not amused.

* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' accuses ''Film/{{Joker}}'' of this in the end, suggesting the movie would have been dismissed and ignored by a mainstream audience had it not had [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] in it to draw in Franchise/{{Batman}} fans:

* ''WebVideo/UpFromTheDepths'': {{Discussed}} as part of the reviews. The reviews will note if a film balances the human and monster stories well, and if the human characters are interesting enough to hold their end up, or if a film is just one where you fast-forward through the human plot to get to the monster fights. Rarely, he'll note some films where the monster action is particularly lackluster. Called out almost explicitly in the preface for the "10 Greatest Godzilla Characters" video, where he states that the ''Gozilla'' franchise, and {{Kaiju}} genre as a whole, are not known for deep or compelling human characters, and a common sentiment is that they just get in the way of the monster action people want to see. Of course, said video is dedicated to the ten characters who most [[DefiedTrope defy]] this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'' contained two stories: ''Hulk vs. Wolverine'' and ''Hulk vs. Thor''. A lot of people just watched it for Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}, who was only actually in ''one'' of the stories.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The New Terrance and Philip Movie Trailer", Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Butters are watching a channel airing an episode of "Russell Crowe Fightin' Round the World", just so they could see the World Premiere teaser trailer for "Terrance & Phillip: Asses of Fire 2" during the commercials.

** Some came solely for the inclusion of characters like Cranky Kong and [[VideoGame/WreckingCrew Froeman Spike]] who, for one reason or another, were {{unexpected|Character}}.

* Any big soccer event, be it the UEFA Champions League, Usefulnotes/TheWorldCup or any other hyped matchup is bound to draw "fans" who will ask what offside is or who was playing again. One can't help but wonder what they are actually doing there. The fact that many games are now shown on big screens in public has only made this worse.

* Miserable: There are a lot fans of the video who aren't actually fans of the song but tune in to the video just to see a [[GiantWoman giant]] Creator/PamelaAnderson reclining in a bikini and high heels while a band [[ColossusClimb explores her body,]] and/or the TwistEnding where [[spoiler:the guys get eaten by said giant Pamela.]] Even the song's lead singer has acknowledged this, encouraging people to "watch it on mute if you must" if it means checking out the video.