History PlayingWith / LadyNotAppearingInThisGame

* '''Exaggerated''': The game uses outright softcore porn featuring Alice and several other ladies and guys to advertise their game. The game is not an RPG and doesn't ''have'' characters.
* '''Downplayed''':

** Alice is a major character in the game, but she always dresses modestly and never provides {{Fanservice}} like she's shown doing on the poster.

** Alice was lost due to a bug in the 1.0 pressing of the game. [[note]]hope they'll put her back in the 1.1 pressing[[/note]]

* '''Gender Inverted''': A man in a suit is on the poster but all the game characters are women in bikinis.

* '''Double Subverted''': But then Alice gets replaced by someone else after someone manages to defeat her.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is on the poster in her bikini, but not in the game. Except she is, as an EasterEgg. But in-game!Alice looks and acts very little like poster!Alice.

* '''Invoked''': A group of gamers play a prank by altering a game's poster and content so Alice (who appears on the poster and is a character in the game) is sexualized on the poster and nonexistant in the game.
* '''Exploited''':

* '''Played For Drama''': A DamselInDistress is put on the poster to encourage gamers to buy it and save her, but she does not appear in the game.

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* '''Justified''': The characters [[MediumAwareness know they are in a game]] and Alice knows some gamers will find her attractive, so she jumps onto the posters and is too busy to play a role in the game.

** Alice is a minor character in the game, but a major character in the posters.

'''Basic Trope''': An attractive female character is on the advertising for a game, but she does not show up in the actual game.
* '''Straight''': A game uses Alice, a hot lady in a bikini, extensively in advertising. Alice is not a character in their game.
* '''Exaggerated''': The game uses outright softcore porn featuring Alice and several other hot ladies and guys to advertise their game. The game is not an RPG and doesn't ''have'' characters.

** SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is on the poster in her bikini, but not in the game. Except she is, as an EasterEgg. But in game!Alice looks and acts very little like poster!Alice.

* '''Enforced''': SexSells, and the advertisers want to attract straight [[MostGamersAreMale men]] and/or lesbians.

* '''Straight''': Alice, who is a lady in a bikini, appears on the video game poster, but not in the game.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice, several other ladies in bikinis and even a few dudes appear on the poster and are completely absent from the game.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is on the poster in a bikini and shows up as an extra in an optional mission in the game.

* '''Parodied''': Alice is on the poster in her bikini, but the game itself is set in the Middle Ages.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Alice turns out to be a BonusBoss of the game, which explains her absence in most of the time.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Inverted''': SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer

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%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Justified''': The characters [[BreakingTheFourthWall know they are in a game]] and Alice knows some gamers will find her attractive, so she jumps onto the posters and is too busy to play a role in the game.

* Basic Trope: A female character is on the advertising for a game, but she does not show up in the actual game. The reason for this is probably because SexSells, and generally the women are considered sexy by the advertisers.
* Straight: Alice, who is a lady in a bikini, appears on the video game poster, but not in the game.
* Exaggerated: Alice, several other ladies in bikinis and even a few dudes appear on the poster and are completely absent from the game.
* Downplayed: Alice is on the poster in a bikini and shows up as an extra in the game.
* Justified: The characters [[BreakingTheFourthWall know they are in a game]] and Alice knows some gamers will find her attractive, so she jumps onto the posters and is too busy to play a role in the game.
* Subverted: Alice shows up in her bikini on the poster but does not appear in the game, however at the beach scene she is.
* Double Subverted: ???
* Zig Zagged: ???
* GenderInverted: A man in a suit is on the poster but all the game characters are women in bikinis.
* Inverted: SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer.
* Averted: Nobody appears on the poster at all.
* Parodied: Alice is on the poster in her bikini, but the game itself is set in the Middle Ages.
* Enforced: SexSells, and the advertisers want to attract lesbians and/or straight [[MostGamersAreMale men]].
* Implied: ???
* Invoked: ???
* Defied: ???
* Exploited: ???
* PlayedForLaughs: Alice is wearing a bikini while telling a joke in a word bubble on the poster, but she does not appear in the game.
* PlayedForDrama: A DamselInDistress is put on the poster to encourage gamers to buy it and save her, but she does not appear in the game.
* TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste: Gamers want their money back when they realize Alice is not a proper character.
* Discussed: "Hey, Charlie, did you remember Alice? The hot lady in the bikini?" "What hot lady in a bikini?"
* Lampshaded: "Where is that lady I was next to just before?"
* Conversed: "Who was that lady in the bikini that was on the poster?"

Back to LadyNotAppearingInThisGame.

* Conversed: "Who was that lady in the bikini that was on the poster?"