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A spin-off game or story (or a side story or special episode) that focuses on a MascotMook whose only purpose was to die by the dozen in the original.
Usually will center around an exceptional member of the HenchmenRace. If the events of this story are canon this guy might become the AscendedExtra on par with the original heroes. Some of them will be [[HunterOfHisOwnKind hunting their own kind]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch on the heroes' side]], others will be trying to make it through MookPromotion and become a BigBad on their own right.
Usually played for comedy (it's funny to see things from the point of view of someone you didn't even consider important enough to be having any sort of private life or backstory).
Can overlap with MookHorrorShow, when a story focuses on the {{Mook}}s, but only for long enough for TheHero to dispatch them.
Compare LowerDeckEpisode, VillainEpisode, and ADayInTheLimelight, which involve actual characters being given the spotlight, instead of generic [=NPC=]s.
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!!Examples
* (above) Lime, the playable Slime character from ''{{Lunia}}''. Basically during the entire first chapter he is technically slaughtering his own kind.
* The ''{{Goblins}}'' webcomic.
* The Minions in ''{{Overlord}}'' got their own spin-off on DS.
* Many, many ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' [[GameMod ROM hacks]]. Rob-ombs Quest has a Bob-omb as the main character, The Ninji Safa has a Ninji as the main character, Pokey's Adventure has a Pokey as the main character, Super Blooper has a Blooper as the main character, and two upcoming hacks have a Buzzy Beetle and a Muncher as main characters respectively. Oh, and there are two Mario flash games with a Bullet Bill as the main character, and another with a Bandit as the main character.
** And two where you are a koopa: [[http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/akoopasrevenge.jsp]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'' stars a slime named Rocket who protects his band of expendable Slimes from other expendable minions.
* Similar to the Super Mario World ROM hacks, there was a ''"HardHat"'' trilogy of fan games for ''VideoGame/MegaMan'', where the player was a Mettaur.
** And also ''"Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight"'', where you could play as the robot masters from ''1''.
** Also there is ''Star Man'' and it`s remake ''Star Man Upgraded''.
* ''{{Prinny}}'', a GaidenGame to the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series starring an armada of the series' easily combustible penguin mooks. This being [[NintendoHard Prinny]], his role is still to die by the dozen: players thousand of lives are all separate Prinnies, who pass the [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Scarf Of Concentrated Awesome]] to the next in line. The sequal also makes Asagi (a recurring character who has a running gag of never being the main character of the game) playable as a Prinny (as she'd died and been reincarnated in the previous game).
* VideoGame/PaperMario 1 & 2 might count, since Goombario / Goombella and other party members are technically main characters that are members of mook races.
* Bogey (a minor Goomba-like plant Mook) got a few in ''WebComic/KidRadd.''
* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
* StarWars: ''TIEFighter'', ''RepublicCommando''.
** ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' has this as well, to an extent: Kyle Katarn started as a stormtrooper. Also, a non-videogame example, the Zahn novel ''Allegiance''.
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' has a three-game subseries, ''GargoylesQuest'', based on its iconic Red Arremers. Granted, they [[BossInMookClothing don't get picked off by the dozen]], so they might not qualify.
* ''Left4Dead'': Versus Mode (in all its incarnations) lets you control the [[SuperpoweredMooks Special]] [[ZombieApocalypse Infected]]. Which one you get is determined randomly, but Tanks only appear at predetermined points along the map (and are awarded to the Infected player who's done the most damage) and the Witch isn't on the list at all unless you're using a custom campaign mutation.
* Half of ''{{Halo}} 2'' consisted of playing as an Elite who had been [[KickedUpstairs promoted]] to Arbiter.
* Abobo from ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' becomes the protagonist of the Flash game ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'', where he gets to kick the asses of every other NES character ever.
* Lander/Randar which has made several cameo appearances in Compile games, got an MSX game ''Randar no Bouken''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' spin-offs ''Opposing Force'' and ''Blue Shift'' featured a mook enemy and an interchangeable ally NPC as characters. Neither ever meet Freeman, but they're no different from the folks he kills by the dozen or completely neglects to rescue.
** The same for mods like ''Azure Sheep'' switching between male and female security guards and ''Point of View'' featuring a variant "Alien Slave" (Vortigaunt) as the PlayerCharacter.
** And a Half Life 2 mod known as "Human Error" puts you in the boots of a Civil Protection officer.
* Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei regular [[MascotMook Jack Frost]] and his friends Pyro Jack and Jack Ripper all star in their own spinoff, ''Jack Bros.''.
* One of the characters in ''[[ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy Mana Khemia 2]]'' is a little girl who was raised by three [[MascotMook Punis]], slime creatures that are common enemies in the ''AtelierSeries''. She constantly rides one of them and uses all three of them in battle.
* There is a game actually called ''Mega Man Day in The Limelight'' where you play as the robot masters from the first game.
* The somewhat obscure Namco game ''Grobda'' puts the player in control of a tank enemy from ''{{Xevious}}''.
* ''BattleForWesnoth'' has a lot of these, including "Inky's Quest" -- The Cuttlefish Campaign. Inky recruits cuttlefish, tentacles, pearl-shooting giant clams...
* Variation: The "You Are A Creeper" Mod for ''{{Minecraft}}''. In which, yes, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you are a creeper.]]
* The sequel to the [[{{Commodore64}} C64]] classic ''Attack Of The Mutant Camels'' was called ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels''. Take a guess.
* In the DLC for VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor, The Realm Of The Diggle Gods, there is a skill that allows the PlayerCharacter to transform into a Diggle, the MascotMook of the game. Whether you pick this or not, you can still pray to the eponymous Diggle Gods when you get down to the lowest floors on the dungeon. Apparently the little targets can be pretty powerful when they're not under the control of the [[ArtificialStupidity AI]].
* QuestForYrolg has a little imp killing off the FighterMageThief heroes, in reversal of the QuestForGlory games.
* The sample game that came with the first Playstation RPGMaker tool has this as it's premise - Gobli was a goblin that dreamed of becoming a main character and not just XP fodder for the heroes (long before the [[Webcomic/{{Goblins}} webcomic with the same premise]], mind). Joining him on his quest were a literal hole in the wall that wanted to be a character, and an adorable kitten that wanted to become a FinalBoss.
* The {{Nitrome}} game ''Enemy 585'' is about helping a Koopa analogue work his way backward through an AffectionateParody of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* If you buy Episodes 1 and 2 of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4'', you will unlock Episode Metal, in which you play as [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Metal Sonic]] through Episode 1's settings.
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[[caption-width-right:318:Yes, he(?) is a PlayerCharacter.]]
A spin-off game or story (or a side story or special episode) that focuses on a MascotMook whose only purpose was to die by the dozen in the original.
Usually will center around an exceptional member of the HenchmenRace. If the events of this story are canon this guy might become the AscendedExtra on par with the original heroes. Some of them will be [[HunterOfHisOwnKind hunting their own kind]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch on the heroes' side]], others will be trying to make it through MookPromotion and become a BigBad on their own right.
Usually played for comedy (it's funny to see things from the point of view of someone you didn't even consider important enough to be having any sort of private life or backstory).
Can overlap with MookHorrorShow, when a story focuses on the {{Mook}}s, but only for long enough for TheHero to dispatch them.
Compare LowerDeckEpisode, VillainEpisode, and ADayInTheLimelight, which involve actual characters being given the spotlight, instead of generic [=NPC=]s.
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!!Examples
* (above) Lime, the playable Slime character from ''{{Lunia}}''. Basically during the entire first chapter he is technically slaughtering his own kind.
* The ''{{Goblins}}'' webcomic.
* The Minions in ''{{Overlord}}'' got their own spin-off on DS.
* Many, many ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' [[GameMod ROM hacks]]. Rob-ombs Quest has a Bob-omb as the main character, The Ninji Safa has a Ninji as the main character, Pokey's Adventure has a Pokey as the main character, Super Blooper has a Blooper as the main character, and two upcoming hacks have a Buzzy Beetle and a Muncher as main characters respectively. Oh, and there are two Mario flash games with a Bullet Bill as the main character, and another with a Bandit as the main character.
** And two where you are a koopa: [[http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/akoopasrevenge.jsp]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'' stars a slime named Rocket who protects his band of expendable Slimes from other expendable minions.
* Similar to the Super Mario World ROM hacks, there was a ''"HardHat"'' trilogy of fan games for ''VideoGame/MegaMan'', where the player was a Mettaur.
** And also ''"Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight"'', where you could play as the robot masters from ''1''.
** Also there is ''Star Man'' and it`s remake ''Star Man Upgraded''.
* ''{{Prinny}}'', a GaidenGame to the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series starring an armada of the series' easily combustible penguin mooks. This being [[NintendoHard Prinny]], his role is still to die by the dozen: players thousand of lives are all separate Prinnies, who pass the [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Scarf Of Concentrated Awesome]] to the next in line. The sequal also makes Asagi (a recurring character who has a running gag of never being the main character of the game) playable as a Prinny (as she'd died and been reincarnated in the previous game).
* VideoGame/PaperMario 1 & 2 might count, since Goombario / Goombella and other party members are technically main characters that are members of mook races.
* Bogey (a minor Goomba-like plant Mook) got a few in ''WebComic/KidRadd.''
* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
* StarWars: ''TIEFighter'', ''RepublicCommando''.
** ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' has this as well, to an extent: Kyle Katarn started as a stormtrooper. Also, a non-videogame example, the Zahn novel ''Allegiance''.
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' has a three-game subseries, ''GargoylesQuest'', based on its iconic Red Arremers. Granted, they [[BossInMookClothing don't get picked off by the dozen]], so they might not qualify.
* ''Left4Dead'': Versus Mode (in all its incarnations) lets you control the [[SuperpoweredMooks Special]] [[ZombieApocalypse Infected]]. Which one you get is determined randomly, but Tanks only appear at predetermined points along the map (and are awarded to the Infected player who's done the most damage) and the Witch isn't on the list at all unless you're using a custom campaign mutation.
* Half of ''{{Halo}} 2'' consisted of playing as an Elite who had been [[KickedUpstairs promoted]] to Arbiter.
* Abobo from ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' becomes the protagonist of the Flash game ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'', where he gets to kick the asses of every other NES character ever.
* Lander/Randar which has made several cameo appearances in Compile games, got an MSX game ''Randar no Bouken''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' spin-offs ''Opposing Force'' and ''Blue Shift'' featured a mook enemy and an interchangeable ally NPC as characters. Neither ever meet Freeman, but they're no different from the folks he kills by the dozen or completely neglects to rescue.
** The same for mods like ''Azure Sheep'' switching between male and female security guards and ''Point of View'' featuring a variant "Alien Slave" (Vortigaunt) as the PlayerCharacter.
** And a Half Life 2 mod known as "Human Error" puts you in the boots of a Civil Protection officer.
* Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei regular [[MascotMook Jack Frost]] and his friends Pyro Jack and Jack Ripper all star in their own spinoff, ''Jack Bros.''.
* One of the characters in ''[[ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy Mana Khemia 2]]'' is a little girl who was raised by three [[MascotMook Punis]], slime creatures that are common enemies in the ''AtelierSeries''. She constantly rides one of them and uses all three of them in battle.
* There is a game actually called ''Mega Man Day in The Limelight'' where you play as the robot masters from the first game.
* The somewhat obscure Namco game ''Grobda'' puts the player in control of a tank enemy from ''{{Xevious}}''.
* ''BattleForWesnoth'' has a lot of these, including "Inky's Quest" -- The Cuttlefish Campaign. Inky recruits cuttlefish, tentacles, pearl-shooting giant clams...
* Variation: The "You Are A Creeper" Mod for ''{{Minecraft}}''. In which, yes, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you are a creeper.]]
* The sequel to the [[{{Commodore64}} C64]] classic ''Attack Of The Mutant Camels'' was called ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels''. Take a guess.
* In the DLC for VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor, The Realm Of The Diggle Gods, there is a skill that allows the PlayerCharacter to transform into a Diggle, the MascotMook of the game. Whether you pick this or not, you can still pray to the eponymous Diggle Gods when you get down to the lowest floors on the dungeon. Apparently the little targets can be pretty powerful when they're not under the control of the [[ArtificialStupidity AI]].
* QuestForYrolg has a little imp killing off the FighterMageThief heroes, in reversal of the QuestForGlory games.
* The sample game that came with the first Playstation RPGMaker tool has this as it's premise - Gobli was a goblin that dreamed of becoming a main character and not just XP fodder for the heroes (long before the [[Webcomic/{{Goblins}} webcomic with the same premise]], mind). Joining him on his quest were a literal hole in the wall that wanted to be a character, and an adorable kitten that wanted to become a FinalBoss.
* The {{Nitrome}} game ''Enemy 585'' is about helping a Koopa analogue work his way backward through an AffectionateParody of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* If you buy Episodes 1 and 2 of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4'', you will unlock Episode Metal, in which you play as [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Metal Sonic]] through Episode 1's settings.
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[[caption-width-right:318:Yes, he(?) is a PlayerCharacter.]]
A spin-off game or story (or a side story or special episode) that focuses on a MascotMook whose only purpose was to die by the dozen in the original.
Usually will center around an exceptional member of the HenchmenRace. If the events of this story are canon this guy might become the AscendedExtra on par with the original heroes. Some of them will be [[HunterOfHisOwnKind hunting their own kind]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch on the heroes' side]], others will be trying to make it through MookPromotion and become a BigBad on their own right.
Usually played for comedy (it's funny to see things from the point of view of someone you didn't even consider important enough to be having any sort of private life or backstory).
Can overlap with MookHorrorShow, when a story focuses on the {{Mook}}s, but only for long enough for TheHero to dispatch them.
Compare LowerDeckEpisode, VillainEpisode, and ADayInTheLimelight, which involve actual characters being given the spotlight, instead of generic [=NPC=]s.
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!!Examples
* (above) Lime, the playable Slime character from ''{{Lunia}}''. Basically during the entire first chapter he is technically slaughtering his own kind.
* The ''{{Goblins}}'' webcomic.
* The Minions in ''{{Overlord}}'' got their own spin-off on DS.
* Many, many ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' [[GameMod ROM hacks]]. Rob-ombs Quest has a Bob-omb as the main character, The Ninji Safa has a Ninji as the main character, Pokey's Adventure has a Pokey as the main character, Super Blooper has a Blooper as the main character, and two upcoming hacks have a Buzzy Beetle and a Muncher as main characters respectively. Oh, and there are two Mario flash games with a Bullet Bill as the main character, and another with a Bandit as the main character.
** And two where you are a koopa: [[http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/akoopasrevenge.jsp]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'' stars a slime named Rocket who protects his band of expendable Slimes from other expendable minions.
* Similar to the Super Mario World ROM hacks, there was a ''"HardHat"'' trilogy of fan games for ''VideoGame/MegaMan'', where the player was a Mettaur.
** And also ''"Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight"'', where you could play as the robot masters from ''1''.
** Also there is ''Star Man'' and it`s remake ''Star Man Upgraded''.
* ''{{Prinny}}'', a GaidenGame to the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series starring an armada of the series' easily combustible penguin mooks. This being [[NintendoHard Prinny]], his role is still to die by the dozen: players thousand of lives are all separate Prinnies, who pass the [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Scarf Of Concentrated Awesome]] to the next in line. The sequal also makes Asagi (a recurring character who has a running gag of never being the main character of the game) playable as a Prinny (as she'd died and been reincarnated in the previous game).
* VideoGame/PaperMario 1 & 2 might count, since Goombario / Goombella and other party members are technically main characters that are members of mook races.
* Bogey (a minor Goomba-like plant Mook) got a few in ''WebComic/KidRadd.''
* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.
* StarWars: ''TIEFighter'', ''RepublicCommando''.
** ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' has this as well, to an extent: Kyle Katarn started as a stormtrooper. Also, a non-videogame example, the Zahn novel ''Allegiance''.
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' has a three-game subseries, ''GargoylesQuest'', based on its iconic Red Arremers. Granted, they [[BossInMookClothing don't get picked off by the dozen]], so they might not qualify.
* ''Left4Dead'': Versus Mode (in all its incarnations) lets you control the [[SuperpoweredMooks Special]] [[ZombieApocalypse Infected]]. Which one you get is determined randomly, but Tanks only appear at predetermined points along the map (and are awarded to the Infected player who's done the most damage) and the Witch isn't on the list at all unless you're using a custom campaign mutation.
* Half of ''{{Halo}} 2'' consisted of playing as an Elite who had been [[KickedUpstairs promoted]] to Arbiter.
* Abobo from ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' becomes the protagonist of the Flash game ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'', where he gets to kick the asses of every other NES character ever.
* Lander/Randar which has made several cameo appearances in Compile games, got an MSX game ''Randar no Bouken''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' spin-offs ''Opposing Force'' and ''Blue Shift'' featured a mook enemy and an interchangeable ally NPC as characters. Neither ever meet Freeman, but they're no different from the folks he kills by the dozen or completely neglects to rescue.
** The same for mods like ''Azure Sheep'' switching between male and female security guards and ''Point of View'' featuring a variant "Alien Slave" (Vortigaunt) as the PlayerCharacter.
** And a Half Life 2 mod known as "Human Error" puts you in the boots of a Civil Protection officer.
* Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei regular [[MascotMook Jack Frost]] and his friends Pyro Jack and Jack Ripper all star in their own spinoff, ''Jack Bros.''.
* One of the characters in ''[[ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy Mana Khemia 2]]'' is a little girl who was raised by three [[MascotMook Punis]], slime creatures that are common enemies in the ''AtelierSeries''. She constantly rides one of them and uses all three of them in battle.
* There is a game actually called ''Mega Man Day in The Limelight'' where you play as the robot masters from the first game.
* The somewhat obscure Namco game ''Grobda'' puts the player in control of a tank enemy from ''{{Xevious}}''.
* ''BattleForWesnoth'' has a lot of these, including "Inky's Quest" -- The Cuttlefish Campaign. Inky recruits cuttlefish, tentacles, pearl-shooting giant clams...
* Variation: The "You Are A Creeper" Mod for ''{{Minecraft}}''. In which, yes, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you are a creeper.]]
* The sequel to the [[{{Commodore64}} C64]] classic ''Attack Of The Mutant Camels'' was called ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels''. Take a guess.
* In the DLC for VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor, The Realm Of The Diggle Gods, there is a skill that allows the PlayerCharacter to transform into a Diggle, the MascotMook of the game. Whether you pick this or not, you can still pray to the eponymous Diggle Gods when you get down to the lowest floors on the dungeon. Apparently the little targets can be pretty powerful when they're not under the control of the [[ArtificialStupidity AI]].
* QuestForYrolg has a little imp killing off the FighterMageThief heroes, in reversal of the QuestForGlory games.
* The sample game that came with the first Playstation RPGMaker tool has this as it's premise - Gobli was a goblin that dreamed of becoming a main character and not just XP fodder for the heroes (long before the [[Webcomic/{{Goblins}} webcomic with the same premise]], mind). Joining him on his quest were a literal hole in the wall that wanted to be a character, and an adorable kitten that wanted to become a FinalBoss.
* The {{Nitrome}} game ''Enemy 585'' is about helping a Koopa analogue work his way backward through an AffectionateParody of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* If you buy Episodes 1 and 2 of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog4'', you will unlock Episode Metal, in which you play as [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Metal Sonic]] through Episode 1's settings.
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