History Main / MarthDebutedInSmashBros

** The TropeNamer is Marth, the star of the first ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' game (''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight''), who made his and his' series Western debut in ''Melee''. Well, ''gaming'' debut, if we want to be precise.[[note]]A two-episode ''Fire Emblem'' OVA, also starring Marth, was the series' true Western debut in April 1998.[[/note]] His presence and popularity motivated Nintendo to release all future games in the franchise internationally, but it wasn't until the Nintendo DS remake of his game in 2009 that Marth himself would finally appear outside the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series in the West, and [[https://youtu.be/8xNUYS-tJZQ Nintendo themselves]] lampshaded this trope when announcing the localization of the original NES game for the series' 30th anniversary.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' was never released in Hungary (except, oddly, as a picture book); therefore the character's animated debut in the country was in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''.

* In Italy, the two main characters from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' appeared first in the CouchGag for the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E22MathletesFeat "Mathlete's Feat"]].

** One of the DLC costumes Ludger can get in ''Xillia 2'' is on based on Luca Milda ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS localized as Ruca]]) from ''VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence'', which neither the original Nintendo DS version nor the PS Vita remake ever left Japan.

** ''Videogame/KingdomHeartsII'' offers sort of a cross-media case; the first Summon the player has access to in the game is WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle, whose film debuted in America on October 30th, 2005. almost ''two months'' before the game came out on December 22nd. As a result, Chicken Little's appearance in ''Kingdom Hearts II" predates the Japanese release of the movie, December 23rd, '''by a single day'''.

** ''Videogame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' offers sort of a cross-media case: the {{Superboss}} is Julius from ''Westernanimation/RunawayBrain'', making the first time in almost twenty years that Disney acknowledged the existence of this 1995 Mickey Mouse short [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes of very limited availability]], and possibly the first time many gamers had learned about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/UnGalloConMuchosHuevos'' is actually the third in a series of animated films and the only to be released outside Mexico and to have an English dub.
** Even more with ''WeaternAnimation/UnRescateDeHuevitos'', as it was the first in the franchise to be released in parts of Europe, Asia, and Australia.

** Due to its lack of Christian messages, ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie'' was the only piece of ''[=VeggieTales=]'' media to be released and dubbed in many countries.

* The Nintendo 64 game ''Doubutsu no Mori'' debuted in the West through some of its characters, specifically Tom Nook, Mr. Resetti and K.K. Slider/Totakeke, appearing as trophies in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''. The characters would show up within their own series shortly after when the [=GameCube=] {{updated rerelease}} of the game, ''Doubutsu no Mori [=e+=]'', was localized as ''VideoGame/{{Animal Crossing|2001}}'' the following year.