Basic Trope: A character is prominently featured in advertisements despite their actual role being minimal.
- Straight: Bob's friend Charles, who appears a lot in promotional material, only appears briefly at the end of the actual movie.
- Exaggerated:
- Almost every character shown in promotional material has less than a minute of screen time.
- Charles appears in every second of promotional material that exists, but he is nowhere to be found in the movie.
- Downplayed: A character featured in promotions doesn't appear as much as one might expect, but still has a decent role.
- Justified:
- The character was originally planned to have a bigger role but plans changed.
- The character is popular to the point fans borderline need to know if they'll show up.
- The promotional material is based on earlier drafts.
- Charles is the mascot for the whole franchise.
- The rerelease is banking on the extra's recent rise to fame.
- Subverted: The character's seemingly minimal role turns out to be more prominent later in the movie.
- Double Subverted: ...or so it seemed.
- Inverted: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
- Zig-Zagged: The character barely appears in the movie after being advertised a bunch, but they are one of the biggest influencers of the plot while they are there.
- Lampshaded: “For some reason it feels like they should have stuck around longer”
- Averted: A character's role in the movie is just as prominent as the advertising would suggest.
- Parodied:
- The intro hypes up a character while noting that their role is less than ten seconds.
- The advertisements outright falsely advertises the character as the main protagonist, but the actual media has them only be an extra.
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