7 Bizarre First Appearances for Famous Game Characters 

Dumbest theory ever.

And the machine he's in is being piloted by a caveman portrayed by Brendan Fraser.

We need to contact Game theory RIGHT NOW!

And all of his “friends” are just animals the driver has run over

I don't normally like the whole dream theory, but this one's kinda cute and wholesome

You'd think after the first few times Luigi would do better

Or as the cowardly brother

To be fair if I won a house from a competition I didn't even participate in I'd at least check it out, which would make me a Mario. They both acted smarter later going as a group to a hotel, but, oh well

@@drake713 Yeah I can't really hold it against Luigi either, I just want the best for the poor guy

"The one with the massive dong" would work as well.

Outside Xtra is a supergroup

release lore video

Ellen and I both played Bioshock for the first time very recently! Woah.

No way!

It was dedicated to KoA

@@danielmiller3596 why am I not surprised by this in the slightest lmao

Also, technically her first appearance on the OX franchise wasn't on Outside Xtra, but in a Outside Xobox video (no not the channel intro, I'm talking about one Lara Croft multiplayer video)

That's like Lucas appearing as a trophy in Brawl before debuting in 4, as Mother 3 still haven't made it to the US.

I'm relatively new to the FE fanbase, but didn't the same thing happen with Corrin? He was added to Smash as a promotion for Fates?

@@drawingdragon I think Fates had been out in Japan already but there was nothing certain on a Western release. Then the same day they announced Corrin for Smash they announced the release in the West. I could be wrong though, maybe it wasn't out yet, but that is how they announced the game outside of Japan

​@@irrespondible Lucas was playable in Brawl

@@drawingdragon They did the same thing with Byleth for three houses... it wasn't out yet then oh last member of first dlc pack is... another fire emblem character

I wondered if a delay contributed to that being on the list.

Sonic looked like a Keychain that the driver hung from the mirror. It looked like he was hanging by a metal chain. Air fresheners hang from string.

i guess hypothesizing about what Sonic would smell like adds more writing material than just saying "Sonic was a rearview mirror decoration" or it could've just been an honest mistake, i dunno.

So the in game reason here is the exact same reason she was in MGS?? It works

​@@JachAnen actually, more of the inverse. As the real reason is policenauts came first while this has metal gear come first. Also, it can be argued to be cannon as there are policenauts memorabilia around otocans office.

@@jangelaclough5457 It's still the same reason for doing it though, liking the character.

Makes you wonder how many characters and situations have been prophetized by Otacon's media collection.

Maybe if Policenauts is a game in that world the developer (Hideo Kojima?!) met the 'real' Meryl and just put a version of her in the game

He also has a Zone of the Enders poster and a mech action figure iirc

THAT was the greatest joke you've ever heard?! Well, rest east now that you've experienced the height of your preferred comedy, I guess. I hope to experience similar joy 😊

And apppered in a Betty Boop cartoon

Hell Byleth was being developed alongside their debut game way before Smash released, makes me wonder if it would have been less controversial to release them at launch instead of waiting till the end of fighters pack 1.

Corrin was added to smash before Fates came out? Is that true?

@Floofy Dog I'm pretty sure that was what happened. Or it was only released in Japan at that point. I just remember a lot of confusion and annoyance because it was a character we'd never heard of.

@@Some__Guy No, Fire Emblem If was already released in Japan when Corrin was added to Smash.

​@@fivestarguy100 before the Western release, Fates was already out in Japan

This is such a gem of a comment, I really hope Luke gets to see this 😂

The call back to that old theory video is so golden haha, so glad I read this

@@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988 Which theory video?

The very first one that pops up when you do a search for "Doom Guy is Link"

But there are bible verses in Doom, so if DoomGuy is Link, it's the original original Link from the original game who is Christian :)

I have that game….was a freaking headache 🤣🤣🤣 game gear version of 3D Blast basically

"Cause I've been selling rope and bombs for so long Even Impa thinks that my mind is gone"

Technically false. She’s a key character in the first game as the person that sent Link to save Zelda in the first place according to the manual. Which would mean the opening narration would’ve came from her. Though she never appeared in person so it’s half true.

@@calebgoodman3028 like the original 4 F-Zero pilots. They were in a comic that was part of the manual but they didn't appear in a game until the follow-up F-Zero X and even then it's just on the character/vehicle select screen

Now this would make another good list topic, involving notable video game characters who are first introduced in non-video games.

@@michaelandreipalon359 With that concept they can make a whole episode exclusively with Dragon Age characters. Though that’d risk spoiling things like Alistair’s real mom.

Correct, however the distinction in the video is video games only. He made his video game debut in the first Halo game, thus he technically first appears in Halo CE.

Huh, I did not realize that. I love that novel but I had no idea that it pre-dated the original game. That's really cool.

Good decision

Of course it is.

It's good for the soul

It is, you've made the right choice; anything can be done the minute before if you procrastinate hard enough 😅

Like Han and his world famous dice.

It would only take 20 to get to a dollar.

Even more impressive is that he is just a normal guy the entire time(no nanomachines, no super soldier genes, no cybernetics). While he looks like a goof next to his enhanced teammates, we should never forget that he not only survives being on the front line against Liquid's crew but take down countless numbers of them... while having stomach problems.

and is also CRAZY HOT!... while having stomach problems.

He's very much the Hercule Satan of MGS. A normal dude who can hold his own against battlefield gods, so sure, he might look goofy and get his ass kicked sometimes, but the fact he is alive at all should scare you into respecting him.

Wasn't he also part of liquid's soldiers from mgs1/2?

@@jangelaclough5457 Yeah, he was a part of Liquid's unit and then somehow got into Solidus's squad. There are some questions as to how he ended up there, but if you find him in 2, he shows himself to be an actually decent guy, letting Emma go since she's a civilian...and then runs off to find a bathroom because of his nerves...yeah...

Lario

Your joke is what is unforgivable.

Sniper Luigi just sniped you from a hundred klicks.

She is a clone.

She is a clone.

They are, and that's why it never got officially released outside of Japan. Because Konami -didn't want to get sued by a raging anti-Semite with a mullet- are teh worstest ever to muh daddy Kojima!

They'll explain it in a comic that gets printed 15 years from now.

That's really neat! I feel like these are like "Legacy Easter Eggs"

Which is weird since Persona 3 takes place in Japan but Vincent lives and has his whole game take place in America.

Jonathan must have worked on Catherine because nobody else should care about that mess

@@aelechko The million plus sales and awards for best performance and writing in a drama say otherwise.

@@calebgoodman3028 a rich guy could buy a million WNBA jerseys. Doesn't mean it's worth watching the league.

@@aelechko I don’t watch sports. Still it doesn’t change the fact Catherine was a bestseller on it’s first week. Being the highest selling Atlus game at the time with the PC port that was released years later being one of Steams most sold games that month.

Trying to figure out of this is some epic level trolling, or if we have very different understanding of what the first Earthworm Jim game was, considering both 1 + 2 came out before Toshinden.

@@nigh_anxietyI will say this: there IS a Battle Arena Toshinden OG Gameboy game(which I even actually own),and Jim is definitely NOT a secret character,but also I don’t remember when the Battle Arena Toshiden the game itself came out versus Jim’s games

@@nigh_anxiety The only thing that MIGHT make sense is if they thought Earthworm Jim 3D was the first EJ game, which launched in 1999. Battle Arena Toshinden was released in 1995, but was a PlayStation exclusive on release before being ported to other platforms later in the year and in 1996. That fits the 3 year time frame they gave. Of course, EJ3D is the 3rd game in the series, so at best one could argue that EJ first appeared as a 3D character in a non-EJ game, which is not the theme of this list.

@@AdamAddictL The GB port of BAT came out a year after its original release as a PlayStation exclusive in 1995. The original EJ game was released in 1994. The second EJ game was released in 1995 like BAT, but much later in the year than BAT, so technically only 1 EJ game actually predated BAT. The GBA ports of EJ 1 and 2 didn't come out until 2001 and 2002 respectively, though...so there's that.

@@daltigoth3970 well then OP is wrong 😂

Who doesn't create themselves in games? I always found it a fun way to "put yourself into the game."

I create myself every time too, but I miss the full blown create-a-team bits in those games, particularly the NHL franchise. I was part of a street hockey group for 15 years. I used to pick up the new NHL every year and the first thing I always did was create a team with all created players based on the street hockey group. That team was always OP but then, I always needed the help against my younger brothers.

What's impressive is Unbreakable Patches and Laap is pretty much supposed to be Trusty Patches, or at least a reincarnation of him. I won't spoil what he says to you in DS3 in the Ringed City, but remember how he hates clerics in DS1? Yeah, that kinda gets explored.

@@darklord884 I've seen bits and pieces of Ellen's run, but I can't remember what he specifically says. To be fair, while I don't hate clerics specifically, I do hate fighting magic users of any sort on the whole whether clerics, sorcerers, pyros, etc. Lothric and Lorian weren't too bad to fight, but that magic was annoying. I'm so glad that the massive sword slam a la Ludwig was so obvious to avoid. Any time I lost lock-on after he teleported I knew I needed to find him asap to avoid that straight-line magic attack. I killed Aldrich on my first attempt (got lucky with the RNG being kind to me and him doing the arrow spam just twice the whole fight and never in phase 2 at all) and his homing projectiles were aggravating. So yeah, something else I can agree on with Patches. When I got teleported to the woods in Elden Ring after I opened that chest I couldn't help but laugh as I yelled "Patches" and called him names. I couldn't really be that mad, because it was my own fault. He was talking about the chest and I misunderstood and thought he was talking about the one with the clothes that I opened that kicked off the fight in the first place. I didn't realize he was talking about the new one, so I opened it, got called a thief and such as I got dumped in those bear infested woods. I fought a normal bear, wondered what all the fuss about the bears was, and then picked a fight with another bear. I then saw what the fuss about the bears was and I ended up hauling ass away on Torrent without even finding the site of grace that would have been relative near me, lol. As it was classic Patches and my own fault I wasn't all that pissed. I did get mad at Gostoc in the castle since he's just a cheap copy of Patches. Patches might try to trick me into fighting giants in DS3, but at least it's easy to avoid that if you kill them first. He didn't lock me in a room with an aggressively pissed off knight.

@@SolaScientia Uh...so yeah, he hates clerics on principle in DS1 and that gets explored in The Ringed City...yeah.

Cheat codes my friend 🤣🤣

I only knew about that one because of Game & Watch Collection...3, I think it was, on the Game Boy Color back in the day. I became kind of obsessed with the character when I unlocked him in the Melee back in the day and so bought that collection when I spotted it in a K-Mart one day. I played both the replica of the original version and the more visually updated version that they always included in those collections. The updated version turned those boxes with bottles in them into cakes with strawberries on top, so that's what I always thought they were in both versions until just now.

iirc when you complete all of the VR missions in Ghost Babel the generic soldier you were playing as is addressed as "Jack." It's even suggested that all of Ghost Babel may have just been part of Raiden's training

​@@Chernobog2 Yeah, that's what gamechamp3000's vid is about.

What makes you think we didn't notice?

We just couldn't be bothered to comment

That was one of few M rated games my mom wouldnt let me play.

@@jaredcrabb from what I've seen they may have made the right choice haha

@@kassandra7313 They most definitely did. Id personally rate it higher, and I generally wouldnt even give most games as high a rating as they have.

Not to mention Azimuth from Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time.

Who would have expected it 25 years ago?

SatAM or Adventures Of? Or Underground,even??

@@AdamAddictL I don't recall that well. It's been many years since I've watched a Sonic cartoon. That's pretty much the only one I remember, actually.

Also, there are characters (like fan favourite Big The Cat) who wear open-toe sandals. I'm afraid to inform you that Sonic's feet are just blobs.

@@stratospherica Yeah, they released a summer promotional picture one time and the chars were on the beach, they had those blob feet.