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* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: The Frozen Throne'', Maiev and Kael'Thas start as the main characters of the Sentinels and Alliance campaigns, respectively. As the campaign progresses, both are overshadowed by Malfurion and Illidan.
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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].

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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', ''VisualNovel/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].
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* In ''VideoGame/ParanormasightTheSevenMysteriesOfHonjo'', players follow Shogo Okiie during the first story route, he is front and center of the box art and the advertising, and he even resembles the typical black-haired everyman protagonist common in Japanese media. However, [[spoiler:he mysteriously dies in the end of his route and the game moves on to the three actual protagonists, with Shogo being unrelated to the main story and only becoming relevant at the very end of the game]].
** That said, [[spoiler:Shogo does resume his role as a protagonist in the end of the story, with the player having to use the knowledge they acquired until that point to return to a point of the timeline before Shogo died and have him stop the BigBad (whose identity was unknown until then)]].
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* ''VideoGame/StarShiftRebellion'': The party leader is initially Mari, who leads the team in raiding a Molarian ruin. After the party defeats Chronus-13 and reprograms it to be loyal to the Outer Rim Coalition, Chronus-13 will be the party leader and viewpoint character.
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* ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' touts Jim Raynor as the tough space marshal but he just becomes an UnwittingPawn in his own campaign. He stays on for the rest of the game as a side character. The real hero turns out to be Tassadar, the Protoss Templar who was introduced as a minor adversary.
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* ''VideoGame/BrownDustII'': The story takes place through Lathel's perspective at first, slowly chronicling his descent into darkness as he continues fighting the Cocytus, though it becomes slowly evident that Justia is the real protagonist, especially once he [[spoiler: dies in Bloody Rhapsody and is replaced by a [[ArtificialHuman Homunculus]] version of himself]].

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