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** A non-WWE example. "Don't Be Afraid" by Stereomud, "Thick Skin" by Systematic, "Stick 'em Up" by Quarashi, "The Key to Gramercy Park" by Deadsy, and "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" by Lostprophets all appeared in ''ATV Offroad Fury 2'', a game series creator Guy Cohen played when he was younger. "So Far Away" by Crossfade would appear in the third ''ATV'' game, but Cohen never played that installment.

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** A non-WWE example. "Don't Be Afraid" by Stereomud, "Thick Skin" by Systematic, "Stick 'em Up" by Quarashi, "The Key to Gramercy Park" by Deadsy, Music/{{Deadsy}}, and "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" by Lostprophets all appeared in ''ATV Offroad Fury 2'', a game series creator Guy Cohen played when he was younger. "So Far Away" by Crossfade would appear in the third ''ATV'' game, but Cohen never played that installment.
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* NamesTheSame: Far too many examples to list...
** James Cook, the cooking prodigy, should not be confused with the legendary British explorer.
** Lee Montgomery, when not one of David Moran's closest buddies, accompanies Music/MichaelJackson {{Breakaway Pop Hit}}s or is a [[Film/DeathProof Tarantino girl]].
** "Pete Collins" was a fictional person people sent new acquaintances to do "errands" for in the early 1900s. A joke was made about this in ''Fighting Freaks '14''.
** Luther Barnes: either a creepy, pale, Irish guy or a black gospel singer.
** Alton Baker shares his name with a newspaper publisher from Eugene, Oregon, who later got a park in the city named after him. This didn't go unnoticed as Alton was sent off to the University of Oregon in 2013.
** Taylor Hawkins, no relation to the Foo Fighters drummer.
** An intentional example is Ben Tillman, a character who was named after a 19th-century white supremacist politician from South Carolina. In fact, several characters were created bearing names of historical white supremacists to be his goons, such as Hugo Black and James Vardaman.
** Jonathan Banks, one of three triplets, should not be confused with [[Creator/JonathanBanks the actor]].
** Zachary Taylor, who was never a [[UsefulNotes/ZacharyTaylor U,S, President]]. Hiram Grant, on the other hand, ''was'' named after [[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant Ulysses]] (not Zach, though, as he's a real person).
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*** TheHero: Raphael
*** TheLancer: Yugo
*** TheSmartGuy: Jason
*** TheBigGuy: Gary
*** TheHeart: Juan
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Ooh boy.'' The series is infamous for having ridiculously large roster sizes that no video game console was expected to handle. Even the first game had roughly 700 characters in it.

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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Poor, poor, D.C. Brenner. He's largely seen as ultra-forgettable and boring compared to his other Class of '17 peers, and his brother Mike, who was the show-stealer of the Class of 2015. D.C. is not hated, and indeed, Jackson Pace's acting and [[Music/PearlJam his theme music]] both get heavy praise, but he's widely considered to be a dumbed down version of his brother.
** Rene [=LaFleur=] is this, although not to the same extent as D.C. Unlike his friend, Rene is a far more popular and prominent character than his older brother Andre, and he certainly gets the spotlight better than D.C. does, but he's still a far cry from the superstardom that Jordan, Dash, Danny, and Niko have reached. This may be perhaps because his actor, Benjamin Lasnier, is neither a professional actor nor a native English-speaker (he's French-Danish) like Peyton, Dakota, Gavin, and Dylan are, so his skills aren't quite up there. He improves as the series goes on, though.

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* OvershadowedByAwesome: Poor, poor, D.C. Brenner. He's largely seen as ultra-forgettable and boring compared to his other Class of '17 peers, and his brother Mike, who was the show-stealer of the Class of 2015. D.C. is not hated, and indeed, Jackson Pace's acting and [[Music/PearlJam his theme music]] both get heavy praise, but he's widely considered to be a dumbed down version of his brother.
brother. And that’s not even getting into the first Brenner introduced in the games: Andrew Brenner of the Class of ‘12, who’s been virtually invisible in the series.
** Rene [=LaFleur=] is this, although not to the same extent as D.C. Unlike his friend, Rene is a far more popular and prominent character than his older brother cousin Andre, and he certainly gets the spotlight better than D.C. does, but he's still a far cry from the superstardom that Jordan, Dash, Danny, and Niko have reached. This may be perhaps because his actor, Benjamin Lasnier, is neither a professional actor nor a native English-speaker (he's French-Danish) like Peyton, Dakota, Gavin, and Dylan are, so his skills aren't quite up there. He improves as the series goes on, though.



** Several names of the Class of 2015 were based on very obscure wrestlers who worked for Ohio Valley Wrestling, long past its heyday as a WWE developmental territory. This means that not many people have heard of Randy Terrez, Jimbo Onno, or Rudy Switchblade; compared to those who know of Randy Torre, Jimmy Ono, and Rudy Manna.

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** Several names of the Class of 2015 were based on very obscure wrestlers who worked for Ohio Valley Wrestling, long past its heyday as a WWE developmental territory. This means that not many people have heard of Randy Terrez, Jimbo Onno, or Rudy Switchblade; compared to those who know of Randy Torre, Jimmy Ono, and Rudy Manna. The OVW inspiration become the Class of 2015’s exclusive gimmick so it was not carried on to future classes outside of siblings.



** Alex Durand appeared with the Class of 2014 in ''2011'' and '''12'', before being suddenly axed for the class's last two games. This is especially egregious because his older brother Mike, who was a senior during '''13'', was still there. WordOfGod says that Alex transferred to a private school afterwards.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: At this point, West Orange is more known as the setting of these video games than even as the longtime hometown of Thomas Edison.

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** Alex Durand appeared with the Class of 2014 in ''2011'' and '''12'', ''[='12=]'', before being suddenly axed for the class's last two games. This is especially egregious because his older brother Mike, who was a senior during '''13'', ''[='13=]'', was still there. WordOfGod says that Alex transferred to a private school afterwards.
** Jimmy Giordano was introduced in ''2010'' as the new main nemesis of Guy Cohen. He was absent from ''2011'' before making his comeback and full HeelFaceTurn in ''[='12=]'' only to disappear once again for ''[='13=]'' and has not been seen since.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: At this point, West Orange Orange, New Jersey is more known as the setting of these video games than even as the longtime hometown of Thomas Edison.



** Danny and Niko were just supposed to be another bromance a la Jake & Ari or [=McNally=] & Redding. The developers wanted to go deeper so they decided to make them half-brothers. This is revealed in '''14'' although their background was explored more deeply over time via supplementary media. Speaking of which, Danny was crafted long before Niko and was originally a stand-alone Pauly D knockoff.
** When Tyler took over the franchise upon Guy’s departure, he was rumored to have planned on removing Pete Collins, who was supposed to be entering his senior year at the high school, from the franchise, as he, unlike Guy, hates the character. Guy’s sudden return to the series was rumored to be in reaction to this. Tyler, while still not a fan of Pete, has regretted ever considering this. In fact, he is actually thankful that Guy rushed back to save Pete from the chopping block, and has admitted continuing the story without him would have been disastrous.

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** Danny and Niko were just supposed to be another bromance a la Jake & Ari or [=McNally=] & Redding. The developers wanted to go deeper so they decided to make them half-brothers. This is revealed in '''14'' although their background was explored more deeply over time via supplementary media. Speaking of which, Danny was crafted long before Niko and was originally a stand-alone Pauly D knockoff.
knockoff who was tied to the already existing minor character of [=Joey DelVecchio=.
** When Tyler took over the franchise upon Guy’s departure, he was rumored to have planned on removing Pete Collins, who was supposed to be entering his senior year at the high school, from the franchise, as he, unlike Guy, hates the character. Guy’s sudden return to the series was rumored to be in reaction to this. Tyler, while still not a fan of Pete, has regretted ever considering this. In fact, he is actually thankful that Guy rushed back to save Pete from the chopping block, and has admitted continuing the story without him would have been disastrous. It was later revealed that in anticipation from this, Guy made sure that Gig Morton, Pete's actor, was contractually obliged to appear in any Fighting Freaks games up to 2014.

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