History Main / LadyNotAppearingInThisGame

* The "recruitment posters" for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''[='s=] Grand Companies caused a small bit of confusion on some forums because that [[http://chrysaliswiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/news:raven-twin-adder-in-a-tangle/tr_serenitypurity.png one poster]] (presumably a parody of ''Art/LibertyLeadingThePeople'') kept being mistaken for a depiction of the Company's commander, Kan-E-Senna, and people were upset that "wasn't showing up in the game." Kan-E-Senna actually resembles a young teenager, and is a different person from the woman in the poster. Fun fact: the woman on the poster is actually one of the twelve gods of Eorzea, Nophica.

* The trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop8oF2q2Us seen here]] is for a game called ''War 1937'', which at first glance, seems like some thrilling video game with hot babes fighting tanks and using PoweredArmor, even giving what seems to be a tragic backstory for one of the heroines. Thing is, it's a card game designed for use with the Android, so pretty much everything in the trailer takes a lot of liberties.

* ''VideoGame/{{Forsaken}}'' was a ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' clone featuring more or less nothing but spaceships flying around and shooting each other. Neither the box cover nor the ads, however, had spaceships of any sort. Instead, it was a shot of a gray desert with an expressionless redhead with a heart-shaped tattoo on her cheek. If she was the pilot of any of these spaceships, she certainly didn't look it.
** Website/YouTube video game reviewer WebVideo/DarkLordJadow1 bought ''Forsaken'' specifically because he saw the cover art and thought that it was a horror game. He was not amused when he found out he was wrong.

* The ads for ''Machines at War 3'' have both female and male soldiers - but while the dudes are tough marine types wearing military camo gear and angry faces (and at least one decidedly unsexy officer-type person with suitably decorated uniform), the girls are in scuba gear and skintight "tactical" suits with implausible cleavages and sexy come-here-you faces (with lipstick, natch). Notably, this being a top-down RTS with 2D graphics, no soldier is actually visible in great detail during the game.

* The second trailer for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' featured a mysterious dark-skinned woman disrobing in a cave. Fan theories abounded as to who she might be (with popular theories being Princess Shuri, Hela and even Death), but the character ended up getting cut from the actual movie.

* The AttractMode video for ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' features an exotic BellyDancer, intercut with footage of the protagonist training. The dancer is not related to the characters or themes of the game in any way [[spoiler:(and her PowerTattoo would have significant plot implications if she did appear)]].

* Avalanche Press, who usually publish board wargames, also produced a run of UsefulNotes/D20System roleplaying game supplements in the early 2000s, mostly covering historical and historical-mythic subjects. These were sometimes competently written and researched, but the covers were almost all quite ludicrously cheesecakey, featuring voluptuous women barely dressed in {{stripperific}} parodies of something from the relevant period.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW-vr1-n7o This]] 1982 promo for ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' features an attractive woman saying how the show is "the brightest, freshest new comedy of the season" for Creator/{{NBC}}, but she's not a character on the show, and the ad [[NeverTrustATrailer doesn't even say what the show's about]].

* Game Recordings, who released music by artists featured on the soundtrack of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', were notorious for the "Game Girls" on the covers of their singles -- porn stars, because the label CFO also had a business making softcore pornography under the imprint "Hip Hop Honeys". A famous example of one of these is "Nuttin' To Do/Scary Movies" by Bad Meets Evil (a duo consisting of Music/{{Eminem}} and Royce da 5'9"), which features two porn stars on the cover despite the [[NerdyNasalness nasal]], incredibly unsexy {{Horrorcore}} within.

* Lampshaded InUniverse in ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays'', where Greg says ''[[ChromosomeCasting there aren't even any women]]'' in the book he's reading despite the cover begging to differ. He's sure that the guy who made the cover has never read the book.

** The cover of is dominated by the tattooed head of a female elf. None of the player portraits for elves or half-elves look like that, nor does any prominent elven npcs. There are also a spellslinging mage and dwarf with a flamethrower included, neither notable characters but far more awesome.

** Promo art for the second expansion ''Delta Rising'' played this straight again. [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/4/49/Delta_Rising_3_caps.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150118000517 This wallpaper]] features a hot female Romulan in a SpyCatsuit, a hot blonde Liberated Borg Starfleet officer in tactical greys, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a big, burly Klingon with a bat'leth]]. Though the Romulan at least bears some resemblance to Commander Mena, the Romulan mission giver for much of ''DR'''s storyline.

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* The front box art of ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic 7'': For Blood and Honor displays an adventuring party that includes a warrior woman in a miniskirt and plate mail halter top, a bare chested male barbarian type hero, and a female sorcerer in clingy robes. None of these outfits exist in the game -- only leather, chain and plate armor exists, and all of it covers the entire chest. Even unarmored characters by default wear a cloth jerkin.

* Being a ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' clone, late '90s 3D game ''Forsaken'' was more or less nothing but spaceships flying around and shooting each other. Neither the box cover nor the ads, however, had spaceships of any sort. Instead, it was a shot of a gray desert with an expressionless redhead with a heart-shaped tattoo on her cheek. If she was the pilot of any of these spaceships, she certainly didn't look it.

* The online ads for ''{{VideoGame/Evony}}'' featured women ranging from innocent-looking girls to porn stars, beckoning "my Lord" to play the game. It's worth noting that ''Evony'' is not an RPG but a strategy game, meaning you don't see ''anyone'' up close, let alone some bimbo in [[ChainmailBikini anachronistic lingerie]]. They even started the trend of stealing licensed characters from other games -- such as Queen Antonia, featured mascot of ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'' -- which soon spread. ''Evony'''s ad campaign's slow degeneration from actual relevant ads to "'''Boobies!''' [-(oh, and play our game)-]" has become [[http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-video-game-ads/ a running joke]] on game-related sites.

* There is an action MMORPG game called ''VideoGame/ScarletBlade'' that ''[[AvertedTrope actually does]]'' [[ImprobablyFemaleCast have a cast made almost entirely of sexy girls]], although the ads are reminiscent of this, with a slogan being "[[FunWithAcronyms NSFW: Not Safe For Wimps]]".

* The original US poster for ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'', features the stripped briefly seen in the film as the focus.

* ''Series/TheMagicians'': The first season's promo ads featured either Quentin (who was one of the main characters), or a random college girl floating on her back (who, needless to say, was not). This is averted in later seasons, where the ads would feature the entire main cast.

* Hilariously inverted with [[https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/1158 this]] ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' comic, which involves a company disguising an [[HGame eroge]] as a strategy game.

* The original US poster for ''Film/Ikiru'', features the stripped briefly seen in the film as the focus.

* Arcade cabinets have been doing this since at least ''VideoGame/PolePosition''.

** Arcade ''flyers'' have been doing this since ''VideoGame/ComputerSpace'', the ''first video arcade game to have a commercial release''.

* ''VideoGame/BloodySpell'' shows the scantily-clad HighPriestess in almost ''all'' marketing materials. In the game itself she appears in two cutscenes and as a boss in the last quarter, but is hardly a prominent character.