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* ''[[VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} Wizardry 8]]'' has no class/race restrictions, just stats discouraging certain combinations; sure, Lizardmen have lowered mana regeneration and stats focused on [[DumbMuscle physical fighting]], but that doesn't keep one from making one a spellcaster. There's even a unique item in-game that can only be wielded by a ''fairy ninja.''

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' , [[BigFun King]] [[SharkMan Shark]] wishes he could just be Harley's crew's [[PlayfulHacker IT]] [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection specialist.]] Unfortunately, the [[CastFullOfCrazy gang's]] [[SpannerInTheWorks usual]] [[IndyPloy style]] tends to get more use out of the fact that he's an eight-foot tall BeastMan whose teeth can shear through human bone.

** It's possible for the hulking [[FelineFolk Charr]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Norn]] to be stealthy thieves. Charr can also be spellcasters, despite that Elementalists led a PathOfInspiration that nearly damned Charr society in the backstory.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' , [[BigFun King]] [[SharkMan Shark]] wishes he could just be Harley's crew's [[PlayfulHacker IT]] [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection specialist.]] Unfortunately, the [[CastFullOfCrazy gang's]] [[SpannerInTheWorks usual]] [[IndyPloy style]] tends to get more use out of the fact that he's an eight-foot tall BeastMan whose teeth can shear through human bone.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' , [[BigFun King]] [[SharkMan Shark]] wishes he could just be Harley's gang's [[PlayfulHacker IT]] [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection specialist.]] Unfortunately, the [[CastFullOfCrazy gang's]] [[SpannerInTheWorks usual]] [[IndyPloy style]] tends to get more use out of the fact that he's an eight-foot tall BeastMan whose teeth can shear through human bone.

--->'''Tai Lung:''' He's a panda! You're a PANDA! What are you gonna do, big guy? [[TemptingFateSit on me?]] [[note]]Yup, [[AssKicksYou he sure will.]][[/note]]

--->'''Tai Lung:''' He's a panda! You're a PANDA! What are you gonna do, big guy? Sit on me?[[note]]Yup, [[AssKicksYou he sure will.]][[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Probably a bug, but very very rarely one of the other civilizations may send you a demon. As a ''diplomat''.[[note]]This is probably due to said civilizations being lead by a demon impersonating the civilization's god, and the civilization deciding to send their "divine" leader as a diplomat.[[/note]]

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Part of the comic's meta-humor is that Belkar Bitterleaf is a ChaoticEvil halfling who became a melee-focused ranger, even though halflings start with lower Strength scores than most other races. (Belkar also clearly has Wisdom as his DumpStat, so he can't cast any spells.) He later multi-classed to ''barbarian'', making him the [[MemeticMutation Sexy Shoeless God of War]].

This can also be a way to further explore the possibilities of a class. While the classic Ranger may be a nimble and stealthy Elf who ambushes and snipes with a bow, a Dwarf who relentlessly runs his quarry through the forest to the point of exhaustion before finishing them off with twin axes is every bit a defender of the wilds too.

** While ''Discworld'' plays with OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame a lot, they still tend to fall into a lot of the common stereotypes -- hard-working, greedy, serious-minded, dangerous when drunk, etc. Casanunda (a Casanova expy) is a dwarven con artist and dashing swordsman who channels his race's [[OneGenderRace single gender]] into a seducer with hints of AnythingThatMoves.

** Yog is the son of a genie enchantress and a barbarian chieftain, and his mother enrolled him at a WizardAcademy in the hopes his genie heritage would give him a natural talent for magic. Instead, he found he preferred reading texts about war and military strategy to spellbooks, and abandoned his studies in favor of becoming a BarbarianHero.

** Yog, who, despite having a natural talent for magic as a half-genie, abandoned his wizard training at the academies of Bracada in favor of becoming a BarbarianHero.

* In [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/classy-part1 one strip]] of ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'', Katie-as-[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] gets a kick out of reclassing every unit who could possibly be a [[ChurchMilitant War Cleric]] into one, including [[SquishyWizard Miriel]], who has no physical prowess and can't even lift the axe she's been given as her new weapon. Also featured: mage Virion, (no magic prowess), and Wyvern Rider Nowi (her ''also'' being a dragon makes her extra weak to wind attacks). The next comic also shows off knight Tharja (doesn't let her exploit her strong magic prowess) and fighter Gaius (lousy defense for a front-line combatant).

*** Some types have more physical attacks, while others lean more towards special attacks, which can cause problems to Pokémon of a given type with stats leaning towards a spectrum of attack that type doesn't cover very well. This problem is especially notable during the first three generations where whether a move is physical or special hinges purely on its type, which screwed up quite a few Pokémon such as Absol (It's pure-Dark type with high physical attack, except that until Gen III Dark moves are all special). This problem has been lessened as generations went on, with Gen IV overhauling physical/special category (meaning that whether a move is physical or special depends on the move itself instead of its type) and more and more attacks were introduced, but it never went away completely. Flareon, for instance, is a Fire-type with a monstrous 130 base physical attack, unfortunately for it, almost all Fire-type attacks are special, so for a long time it was left without any decent physical moves for its typing. Even to this day, Flareon is stuck with a grand total of '''two''' physical STAB moves, of which one is pathetically weak and the other is strong but damages the user.

** In 5e, there is, as of later revisions in ''Volo's Guide to Monsters'', no playable races with any negative modifiers to race stats. While some races suffer from Sunlight Sensitivity, and Small races suffer Disadvantage when they use Heavy weapons, there's nothing stopping an Orc from being a Wizard, or a Kobold from being a Barbarian, or a Hobgoblin from being a Paladin, or a Centaur from being a Rogue, or any other interesting race-class combinations that a player can come up with, providing that the GameMaster, once they, and the other players, are done laughing at the craziness of the idea, give the go-ahead. This is because, with the Standard Stat array, it's fairly easy to make a character with decent stats, even with a less-than perfect race-class combination. Also, thanks to ''Tasha's Cauldron of Everything'', there's an optional rule that lets players move their character's racial stats around, letting them to be optimized anyways, providing that the GameMaster is okay with it.

* Cyandog in the ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' anime has a robot body designed for shooting attacks, but his A.I. is derived from a Monkey medal that is intended to use melee attacks. As a result, he suffers from AmusinglyAwfulAim whenever he gets into a fight. Later he gets a melee weapon... and still retains his inaccuracy. He's just incompetent.

*** Some types have more physical attacks, while others lean more towards special attacks, which can cause problems to Pokémon of a given type with stats leaning towards a spectrum of attack that type doesn't cover very well. This problem has been lessened as generations went on and more and more attacks were introduced, but it never went away completely. Flareon, for instance, is a Fire-type with a monstrous 130 base physical attack, unfortunately for it, almost all Fire-type attacks are special, so for a long time it was left without any decent physical moves for its typing. Even to this day, Flareon is stuck with a grand total of '''two''' physical STAB moves, of which one is pathetically weak and the other is strong but damages the user.