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** ''VideoGame/NormalSuperMarioBros'', a series of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' fan games that are [[MushroomSamba anything but normal]]. The misnaming is indeed part of the joke.



* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars30'' is a MilestoneCelebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. It's not the 30th ''Super Robot Wars'' game. There's actually a ''lot'' more than 30 ''SRW'' games.
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*** Additionally, the 3D World setting, is inspired by 3D World, but the game itself is in 2D.
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* In the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, the mascot of the police department, the Blue Badger, does not look like a badger at all. It instead looks more like a cartoonish blue jester wearing a belt and sash.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Psychopomp}}'': The "Machine that Lets Me Read People's Thoughts When I Want To"'s shorthand name, Psychopomp. Not only does "psychopomp" have nothing to do with telepathy, but it doesn't even work as an acronym since the helmet's full name doesn't contain all the letters required to spell "psychopomp"!
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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}: The [[{{mon}} Pal]] Hangyu was historically used in {{Public Execution}}s in the Palpagos Islands. Criminals sentenced to death by Hangyu were not hanged as the name of the Pal implies, but were instead FlayedAlive by it.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}: ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': The [[{{mon}} Pal]] Hangyu was historically used in {{Public Execution}}s in the Palpagos Islands. Criminals sentenced to death by Hangyu were not hanged as the name of the Pal implies, but were instead FlayedAlive by it.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}: The [[{{mon}} Pal]] Hangyu was historically used in {{Public Execution}}s in the Palpagos Islands. Criminals sentenced to death by Hangyu were not hanged as the name of the Pal implies, but were instead FlayedAlive by it.
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* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' has the Null Sleep passive skill. The name implies that it gives immunity to the Sleep StatusEffect, but what it actually does is make it so that a character with this skill dodges all attacks while asleep.
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** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', the orphanage owner Grelod the Kind is anything but, overlapping with IronicNickname.

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** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', the orphanage owner of Honorhall Orphanage goes by the IronicNickname of Grelod the Kind is anything but, overlapping with IronicNickname.Kind. As Aventus Aretino, a survivor of Honorhall, can tell you, "she's not kind. She's terrible! To all of us!"
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Expanding on Monster Hunter's entry. However, the Leshen is not an example, since it is NOT classed as an Elder Dragon


** The term "[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Elder Dragon]]" is used to refer to monsters that defy traditional classification, stand outside of the ecosystem, and possess incredible powers. While many Elder Dragons do resemble dragons, such as Fatalis and Nergigante, others do not and are labeled as Elder Dragons for want of a more fitting description, such as the {{Unicorn}}-like Kirin, the [[OurManticoresAreSpinier Manticore]]-like Teostra and Lunastra, the [[TentacledTerror cephalopod-like]] Yama Tsukami and Nakarkos, the whale-like Ceadeus, and the [[{{Crossover}} completely alien]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Behemoth]] and [[VideoGame/TheWitcherIIIWildHunt Leshen]].

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** The term "[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Elder Dragon]]" is used to refer to monsters that defy traditional classification, stand outside of the ecosystem, and possess incredible powers. While many Elder Dragons do resemble dragons, such as Fatalis and Nergigante, others do not and are labeled as Elder Dragons for want of a more fitting description, such as the {{Unicorn}}-like Kirin, the [[OurManticoresAreSpinier Manticore]]-like Teostra and Lunastra, the [[TentacledTerror cephalopod-like]] Yama Tsukami and Nakarkos, the whale-like Ceadeus, and the [[{{Crossover}} completely alien]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Behemoth]] and [[VideoGame/TheWitcherIIIWildHunt Leshen]].Behemoth]]. {{Lampshaded}} in ''World'', where an ecologist wryly notes that whenever they can't find a good classification for a new monster, they just wind up calling it an Elder Dragon.
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* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', the Kill Master's job does indeed have to do with death; namely, ''preventing'' it. He uses ThePowerOfRock to heal anything up to but not ''quite'' including death. However, this is because he deliberately chose a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scary name]] in order to frighten away intruders and protect his flock (of giant spiders). The meta reason for the name is because he's an {{Expy}} of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy Lemmy Kilmister]], legendary bassist and singer who also voices him.

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* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', the Kill Master's job does indeed have to do with death; namely, ''preventing'' it. He uses ThePowerOfRock to heal anything up to but not ''quite'' including death. However, this is because he deliberately chose a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scary name]] in order to frighten away intruders and protect his flock (of giant spiders). The meta reason for the name is because he's an {{Expy}} of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy Lemmy Kilmister]], legendary bassist and singer who also voices him. Bassists in the game fill the role of healer units, a reference to [[NobodyLovesTheBassist the tendency for bassists to fill a supportive role in rock music]].
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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The eponymous Elden Ring is, in fact, not really [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/eldenring/images/2/27/ER_golden_order.png ring-shaped at all]]. There are four overlapping rings in its design, but the rest is made up of partial crescents and arcs, with the whole thing being bisected by a straight vertical line.
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Missed a few.


* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'':
** ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'', despite what the name and box art may suggest, has absolutely nothing to do with ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' whatsoever; it's actually a VideoGameRemake of ''VideoGame/AceCombat2''. This isn't an issue in Japan, where the game [[MarketBasedTitle was instead titled]] ''Ace Combat 3D: Cross Rumble''.
** The [[RemixedLevel Hard Mode variation]] of the ''VideoGame/AceCombatInfinity'' level "Dubai Night Assault" is actually set during the daytime.
* The critically panned ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark: Illumination'' is a co-op shooter where you have to lure the monsters into light to kill them. In other words, while the "Illumination" part of the title makes sense, it's otherwise a game where you are usually neither alone nor in the dark.



* None of the rinks in ''VideoGame/BackyardHockey'' are in a backyard.

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