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* ''Film/{{Taxi}}'': The ActionPrologue to the third movie shows us a secret agent (played by Creator/SylvesterStallone, and dubbed by his usual French voice actor) on the run from unidentified villains, who stumbles onto Daniel's taxi and, not knowing what he's in for, asks him for a ride to the airport. Doubles as a GenreRefugee: the Taxi movies usually revolve around the cop and street racer protagonists facing bank robbers, gangsters, or other ordinary street criminals, whereas the secret agent is clearly in the middle of his own TuxedoAndMartini SpyFiction adventure.
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** There are at least two instances in the movie where a number of dead superheroes are named - first, when Edna Mode lists the (truly concerning) number of superheroes who have died over the years because of a CapeSnag, second, when Mr. Incredible breaks into the villain's computer system and sees the list of superheroes he's already had killed. Presumably, each of these superheroes had their own adventure-filled life before their tragic end.
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** Trent Mauser, whose relationship with Barney Ross exists somewhere in the gray area between FriendlyRivalry and VitriolicBestBuds. He's the leader of his own mercenary team, which sometimes competes with the Expendables for the same contracts. While we never see his team, he himself occasionally joins the Expendables in a fight.
** Booker. A self-proclaimed "lone wolf" mercenary that the heroes encounter in the second movie, where he's already in the middle of his own crusade against the villains. It's never explained if he had a personal grudge against them, if he was hired to fight them, or if he simply stumbled into their territory and found them so repulsive he decided on the spot that they had to go. Regardless, the fact that he was willing to go to war with them all alone and was actually ''winning'' says a lot about his courage and skill.
** Trent Mauser, whose relationship with Barney Ross exists somewhere in the gray area between FriendlyRivalry and VitriolicBestBuds. He's the leader of his own mercenary team, which sometimes competes with the Expendables for the same contracts. While we never see his team, he himself occasionally joins the Expendables in a fight.
** Booker. A self-proclaimed "lone wolf" mercenary that the heroes encounter in the second movie, where he's already in the middle of his own crusade against the villains. It's never explained if he had a personal grudge against them, if he was hired to fight them, or if he simply stumbled into their territory and found them so repulsive he decided on the spot that they had to go. Regardless, the fact that he was willing to go to war with them all alone and was actually ''winning'' says a lot about his courage and skill.
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** Indy isn't the only AdventurerArchaeologist in his world. The ActionPrologue of the very first movie shows him following in the footsteps of another one, Forrestal, whom Indy only describes as "a competitor" and "good, very very good." (Of course, not quite good enough, as a few minutes later they find his body impaled on a boobytrap).
** Indy also has various friends in other parts of the world who show up throughout the series: Sallah ("the best digger in Egypt"), Renaldo ("Spain's greatest frogman"), and Wu Han (whom we get to know very little before he dies, but we're told joined Indy on many unspecified adventures). Given their eagerness to drop everything and follow Indy into whatever shady and dangerous business he's currently engaged in, safe to assume they all live very adventurous lives even when he's not around. There's also George [=MacHale=]: "hero" is pushing it in his case, as he betrays Indy within ten minutes of being introduced and spends the rest of the movie with a terrible case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. However, allusions are made to a long and action-packed career that crossed over with Indy's during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when they were both part of the war effort (Indy in the OSS, Mac as his partner from [=MI6=]).
** In a slightly separate category are the younger generation, Short Round, Mutt Williams, and Helena Shaw. Short Round is essentially an AscendedFanboy, a war orphan from the streets of Shanghai who starts out as Indy's local version of a BakerStreetRegular but graduates to full-blown sidekick when he goes along with him on an adventure and, according to expanded materials, eventually grew to be an adventurer in his own right. Mutt is Indy's son, who like Indy has a difficult relationship with his parents, defies expectations about his future, and eventually enlists in the major war of his generation. Helena is Indy's goddaughter, an UnscrupulousHero with long experience in the world of the antiquities black market (in her case, selling rather than rescuing them). In a different franchise, they could almost be [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Characters]], as they all give off strong vibes as younger versions of Indy; there was a fair amount of fan backlash to the last two characters in particular, precisely because of the fear that the movies were setting them up to "replace" Indy.
** Indy isn't the only AdventurerArchaeologist in his world. The ActionPrologue of the very first movie shows him following in the footsteps of another one, Forrestal, whom Indy only describes as "a competitor" and "good, very very good." (Of course, not quite good enough, as a few minutes later they find his body impaled on a boobytrap).
** Indy also has various friends in other parts of the world who show up throughout the series: Sallah ("the best digger in Egypt"), Renaldo ("Spain's greatest frogman"), and Wu Han (whom we get to know very little before he dies, but we're told joined Indy on many unspecified adventures). Given their eagerness to drop everything and follow Indy into whatever shady and dangerous business he's currently engaged in, safe to assume they all live very adventurous lives even when he's not around. There's also George [=MacHale=]: "hero" is pushing it in his case, as he betrays Indy within ten minutes of being introduced and spends the rest of the movie with a terrible case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. However, allusions are made to a long and action-packed career that crossed over with Indy's during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when they were both part of the war effort (Indy in the OSS, Mac as his partner from [=MI6=]).
** In a slightly separate category are the younger generation, Short Round, Mutt Williams, and Helena Shaw. Short Round is essentially an AscendedFanboy, a war orphan from the streets of Shanghai who starts out as Indy's local version of a BakerStreetRegular but graduates to full-blown sidekick when he goes along with him on an adventure and, according to expanded materials, eventually grew to be an adventurer in his own right. Mutt is Indy's son, who like Indy has a difficult relationship with his parents, defies expectations about his future, and eventually enlists in the major war of his generation. Helena is Indy's goddaughter, an UnscrupulousHero with long experience in the world of the antiquities black market (in her case, selling rather than rescuing them). In a different franchise, they could almost be [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Characters]], as they all give off strong vibes as younger versions of Indy; there was a fair amount of fan backlash to the last two characters in particular, precisely because of the fear that the movies were setting them up to "replace" Indy.
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* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' alludes to the broad strokes of another story, in which "the Fog" (a Russian arms dealer in Dubai) is [[VillainOfAnotherStory the villain]], and Anatoly Sidorov (a Russian government agent) is the hero trying to bring him to justice. Sidorov, however, has temporarily been diverted to track down a more urgent threat (Ethan Hunt, whom he believes is a terrorist that just destroyed the Kremlin), while "the Fog" cooperates with Ethan and promptly passes on his location to Sidorov (which is what Ethan wanted, so he could have help exposing the real culprits). Sidorov nevertheless assures the Fog that he'll get back to tracking him soon enough.
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* ''Film/TheRock'': General Francis X. Hummel. While he's the villain (or at least antihero) in this movie, the backstory we're given for him shows that he lived an action-packed career that sent him to the forefront of every major conflict since UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Most of the armed forces revere him as a hero.
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** Every other Federation starship captain and his crew are this. To name only those who play roles in the original movies: Captain Terrell and the U.S.S. ''Reliant'' in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Captains Esteban of the U.S.S. ''Grissom'' and Styles of the U.S.S. ''Excelsior'' in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. And, by the time of ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Captain Sulu, who's now in command of ''Excelsior'' and whose assistance to ''Enterprise'' is vital to winning the day.
** Similar to the Viktor Tupolev example above, Captain Kruge of the Klingon Defense Force, in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. Imagine you're a starship captain who discovers that your nation's greatest enemy has just invented a weapon capable of wiping clean the surface of an entire planet. Rather than rely on the squabbling politicians to protect you, you take your own ship into a restricted system in your enemy's space, determined to retrieve the plans of this doomsday weapon by any means necessary to ensure that your people have a chance to prepare for this threat while there's still time. ... Heck, this is effectively the plot of ''Film/RogueOne'', right down to Kruge's [[IDidWhatIHadToDo willingness to commit several murders and other decidedly unheroic actions because the stakes are just that important.]]
** Every other Federation starship captain and his crew are this. To name only those who play roles in the original movies: Captain Terrell and the U.S.S. ''Reliant'' in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Captains Esteban of the U.S.S. ''Grissom'' and Styles of the U.S.S. ''Excelsior'' in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. And, by the time of ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Captain Sulu, who's now in command of ''Excelsior'' and whose assistance to ''Enterprise'' is vital to winning the day.
** Similar to the Viktor Tupolev example above, Captain Kruge of the Klingon Defense Force, in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''. Imagine you're a starship captain who discovers that your nation's greatest enemy has just invented a weapon capable of wiping clean the surface of an entire planet. Rather than rely on the squabbling politicians to protect you, you take your own ship into a restricted system in your enemy's space, determined to retrieve the plans of this doomsday weapon by any means necessary to ensure that your people have a chance to prepare for this threat while there's still time. ... Heck, this is effectively the plot of ''Film/RogueOne'', right down to Kruge's [[IDidWhatIHadToDo willingness to commit several murders and other decidedly unheroic actions because the stakes are just that important.]]
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** In the prequel trilogy, there are 10,000 Jedi trying to keep the peace and uphold justice throughout the galaxy. The films largely follow just two - Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in the first, Obi-Wan and Anakin in the second and third. Leaving close to ten thousand Heroes Of Another Story. (Quite a few of these stories are told in the expanded universe, both [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends old]] and [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse new]]).
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* ''Film/InsideLlewynDavis'': At the end of the film, some unknown young singer called Music/BobDylan starts to play.
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* In ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'', the intelligent chimpanzee Cornelius tells the story of how, long ago, humans enslaved apes, until an ape named Aldo rose up and lead his people to freedom. However, Cornelius tells this story after having traveled back in time to the 1970s, long before it has actually happened. The next film in the series, ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', shows the enslavement of apes and the ape uprising happening not quite the same as Cornelius had described it, with Aldo reduced to a minor participant ([[AllThereInTheManual his name never actually spoken in the dialogue]]) and the revolt lead instead by Caesar, Cornelius and Zira's son [[ForWantOfANail (who wouldn't be there if they hadn't traveled back in time)]]. Finally, in ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'', Aldo appears as a TreacherousAdvisor to Caesar, subconsciously [[TheResenter resentful]] of his usurped destiny. So not only is the story where Aldo is the hero never really told in much detail, it's actively erased from the timeline, and the kicker is, none of the characters ever figure this out.
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* In the original ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Rockin' Ricky Rialto, [[TheVoice the DJ at the town radio station]], is heard being swarmed by Gremlins, but somehow survives and is back on the air the following morning.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has [[spoiler: Cobra Bubbles, the social worker in charge of making sure Nani's fit to take care of Lilo]], who is revealed at the end to be a former MenInBlack-esque agent, who apparently saved the world at some point. [[spoiler: By convincing a bunch of aliens that mosquitoes were an endangered species, no less!]]
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* Sheriff Hastings in ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'' has been a lawman for a long time and notes early on that with all the outlaws and powerful men he's crossed, ''he'' could easily be Gant's target (which causes him far less trepidation than most of the people who consider that possibility).
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* ''Film/Crazies1973'': Several of Watts' colleagues are working on trying to cure the disease outside to town, offscreen. The final scene mentions they've found an immune monkey among their test subjects which gives them hope for immune humans (although the soldiers in town aren't good at ''finding'' any immune humans among the quarantined people).
* ''Fil/TheCrazies2010'': While the heroes are trying to figure out how to escape from quarantine, a seemingly uninfected group of men led by someone named Tom Ellis avoid the roundup of the townspeople, get some guns, and drive through the fence, allowing a lot of people to escape. They are only seen briefly, and from a distance, and most of the group is shot within seconds.
* ''Fil/TheCrazies2010'': While the heroes are trying to figure out how to escape from quarantine, a seemingly uninfected group of men led by someone named Tom Ellis avoid the roundup of the townspeople, get some guns, and drive through the fence, allowing a lot of people to escape. They are only seen briefly, and from a distance, and most of the group is shot within seconds.
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* ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': Fugazy and Jr. spend the movie working on other cases and occasionally show up at headquarters to discuss their progress. They close at least three cases (including a car stripping case and a drug bust) while posing as {{Cruel Cheerleader}}s in the time that it takes Schmidt and Jenko to bust one drug ring.
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* ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'':
** The Colonel mentions that several of his soldiers and their families deserted out of horror after he started executing the infected. Nova and her father are apparently some of those deserters and another joined the Northern Army and told them about the Colonel, but there are implicitly others out there, trying to eke out living away from either side of the war.
** The Colonel says that some members or allies of the Northern Army are still working to find a scientific cure for the Simian Flu and bring humanity BackFromTheBrink.
** Percy spends a lot of the first half of the film leading the bulk of the tribe in their evacuation while the main cast act as decoys.
** The Colonel mentions that several of his soldiers and their families deserted out of horror after he started executing the infected. Nova and her father are apparently some of those deserters and another joined the Northern Army and told them about the Colonel, but there are implicitly others out there, trying to eke out living away from either side of the war.
** The Colonel says that some members or allies of the Northern Army are still working to find a scientific cure for the Simian Flu and bring humanity BackFromTheBrink.
** Percy spends a lot of the first half of the film leading the bulk of the tribe in their evacuation while the main cast act as decoys.
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* ''Film/TheFirstPurge'': After the pre-Purge scenes, the three Wise Men don’t show up until the last hour of the Purge. At that point, they have rallied several younger neighborhood residents and are holed up in a house, armed, and exchanging fire with [=NFFA=] mercenaries dressed up like TheKlan. One of the Three Wise Men has a fresh cast on his arm, suggesting they have been busy fighting killers throughout the night.
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* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'': An Ape organization called the Anti-Vivisection League is mentioned a few times as a rare group that fights for human rights and tries to prevent people like Zaius from sterilizing human slaves. None of the lot members physically appear, though.
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* ''Film/Fearless1993'': The flashbacks to the crash focus on Max, but several lines also make it clear that the pilot (who is only briefly seen and whose fate is unclear) is working hard to land the plane intact during those scenes. Max himself thinks that there wouldn't have been anyone for him to save if the pilot had done a poorer job.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'': There are hints of a doomed human resistance going on in the background of the scenes set before the end of humanity. The newsreel about the last days of humanity show a civilian with a Molotov cocktail standing next to a poster advocating revolt against the dictatorship and its war machines. In the flashback of the older stitchpunks fleeing the laboratory, another civilian with a Molotov cocktail is shot after he tries to fight one of the robots.
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* ''Film/{{Nobody}}'': Hutch's brother is in hiding after some undisclosed escapades of his own, to the point where he only communicates with Hutch through a secure radio set and is reluctant to come out of the shadows to help fight the Russians.
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* Mater the tow truck, a minor character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' who is the star (and UnreliableNarrator) of ''Mater's Tall Tales'' in the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' collection.
* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'':
** At the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', we see Frozone fighting a villain in a helicopter as the main character Mr. Incredible carries out his own string of heroic deeds.
** In ''WesternAnimation/JackJackAttack'', Kari [=McKeen=], Violet's friend, babysits Jack-Jack and has to deal with his ComboPlatterPowers manifesting.
** Likewise in ''WesternAnimation/AuntieEdna'', Edna is in the same situation, but is doing it so she can design a custom-made supersuit for Jack-Jack.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has [[spoiler: Cobra Bubbles, the social worker in charge of making sure Nani's fit to take care of Lilo]], who is revealed at the end to be a former MenInBlack-esque agent, who apparently saved the world at some point. [[spoiler: By convincing a bunch of aliens that mosquitoes were an endangered species, no less!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' has Mr. Mittens, the fat, hapless therapy cat whose body Joe accidentally inhabits. Per WordOfGod, Mr. Mittens goes through his own adventure as he journeys from the AfterlifeAntechamber back down to Earth. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, he has managed to reunite with his body as Joe returns to his own.]]
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* Themistocles from ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' could be considered a Hero of Another Story for the [[Film/ThreeHundred original film]], as, historically speaking, he was defending the waters near Thermopylae while Leonidas led the ground defense. Likewise, Leonidas is mentioned in passing when Themistocles visits Sparta (the infamous "[[MemeticMutation This! Is! Sparta!]]" scene having taken place just before he got there), and is away consulting the oracle when Themistocles shows up.
* Harold Grey in ''Film/Annie2014'', Stacks' rival in the election that drives his actions in the plot, is implied to be a philanthropist and all-around NiceGuy and undoubtedly has his own political campaign going on. [[spoiler:Since Stacks dropped out of the election, it can even be assumed that he ultimately won it.]]
* ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'': The title character is a contemporary of Jesus, and their stories periodically intersect.
* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', since The Dude's involvement in most of the ongoing plots is tangential, whether the struggle between [[spoiler: Maude and the eponymous Big Lebowski over his embezzlement (and Maude's subsequent quest to find a "sperm donor" to get her pregnant]]), Jackie Treehorn's dispute with Bunny Lebowski (which kickstarts the plot due only to the incompetence of Treehorn's hired thugs), or the private detective's struggle to return "Bunny" to her family back east. Inverting this trope, The Dude '''is''' the hero of the story of the bowling league and his team's struggle against "Da Jesus", but we never get to see how that turned out.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' takes this to the extreme. The eponymous cabin, the teenagers who visit it, and the zombies hunting them down? That's only one of ''dozens'' of other monster attacks happening all over the world ''on the same night''. We only get to see the destructive aftermath for most of these, but we do see a couple of glimpses of some Japanese grade-schoolers being terrorized by a ghost [[spoiler:and then [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding turning the ghost into a frog with a magic spell]]]].
* ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'': Victor Lazlo married Creator/IngridBergman, ran an underground newspaper, got busted by the Gestapo, was sent to a concentration camp, escaped, re-united with his wife, led the Gestapo on a wild goose chase through Europe, evading their dragnets on three separate occasions, and ended up in Casablanca looking for a way to get to America.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''. The main characters end up lugging a camera about when the monsters attack and naturally start filming the weirdness. On the bridge they see another guy doing the same thing. WordOfGod says this is a SequelHook.
* Throughout ''Film/CopOut'', we see an old cop-young cop pairing who appear to be acting out a more routine cop movie off-screen, only bits of which we see.
* ''Film/Crazies1973'': Several of Watts' colleagues are working on trying to cure the disease outside to town, offscreen. The final scene mentions they've found an immune monkey among their test subjects which gives them hope for immune humans (although the soldiers in town aren't good at ''finding'' any immune humans among the quarantined people).
* ''Film/DaylightsEnd'':
** The local survivors recall how a National Guard Unit tried to provide support and cover for the civilians to evacuate, then holed up in a hotel and were overrun after two days.
** Vlad was part of a Russian commando team that hijacked an airliner to flee from zombie-infested Russia and crash-landed in Miami. He then fought his way to Dallas, before Chief Hill's group found him wandering drunk and naked through the streets some time before the beginning of the movie. His new companions comment how his story feels like something straight out of a movie.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} also makes her debut in ''[=BvS=]'', where it's revealed she fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (which is explored in [[Film/WonderWoman2017 her solo movie]]) and spent the 20th Century continuing to do small scale heroics before Superman's debut.
** Before getting recruited for the [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]], [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]] performed small acts of superheroism in his home city with his {{super speed}}, including stopping an armed robber at a convenience store and is shown to have apprehended Captain Boomerang in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''.
** The final scene of ''Zack Snyder's Justice League'' reveals that [[spoiler:ComicBook/MartianManhunter]] has been secretly hiding out on Earth disguised as a human named [[spoiler:Calvin Swanwick]] and working as a General for the US Army, with the Apokolips invasion attempt pushing him to remain NeutralNoLonger.
* In ''Film/EdWood'', the [[Creator/EdWood eponymous character]] runs into Creator/OrsonWelles near the end; he appears to be facing the exact same problems Edward has been facing throughout the actual film, but he appears in only one scene.
* Creator/BruceLee may be TheHero of ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', but supporting characters Roper and Williams have their own backstories that are shown via flashbacks, and they all find themselves opposing [[BigBad Han]].
* ''Film/TheFirm'': At the beginning of the story, two of Mitch's coworkers, Kozinski and Hodge, are trying to escape from the firm's grasp and are scheming to help the FBI bring down the {{Amoral Attorney}}s. This gets them killed before they can appear onscreen.
* Famous astronauts appear throughout ''Film/FirstMan'' in little cameos, including movie protagonists like UsefulNotes/ChuckYeager and UsefulNotes/GusGrissom (''Film/TheRightStuff''), and Jim Lovell (''Film/Apollo13''). Deke Slayton, on the other hand, has prominent roles in all three of these films.
* In ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'', the intelligent chimpanzee Cornelius tells the story of how, long ago, humans enslaved apes, until an ape named Aldo rose up and lead his people to freedom. However, Cornelius tells this story after having traveled back in time to the 1970s, long before it has actually happened. The next film in the series, ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', shows the enslavement of apes and the ape uprising happening not quite the same as Cornelius had described it, with Aldo reduced to a minor participant ([[AllThereInTheManual his name never actually spoken in the dialogue]]) and the revolt lead instead by Caesar, Cornelius and Zira's son [[ForWantOfANail (who wouldn't be there if they hadn't traveled back in time)]]. Finally, in ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'', Aldo appears as a TreacherousAdvisor to Caesar, subconsciously [[TheResenter resentful]] of his usurped destiny. So not only is the story where Aldo is the hero never really told in much detail, it's actively erased from the timeline, and the kicker is, none of the characters ever figure this out.
* ''Film/TheForgottenBattle,'' a war movie set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and BasedOnATrueStory, frequently hints that, in the vast chaos of the war, everyone is the hero, villain, anti-hero or anti-villain of some story somewhere; the three main protagonists simply provide our viewpoint of these particular events. Notably, the force of which one of them is initially a part is on its way to the Battle of Arnhem — so had he not been shot down, he would have been a background character in the classic war movie, ''Film/ABridgeTooFar,'' and his comrades from the early scenes must have gone on to that fate.
* The novelization for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' shows that while Godzilla and Monarch were attempting to bring down King Ghidorah, on Skull Island, Kong was facing off against a mass awakening of Skullcrawlers released from underground by Ghidorah's call, trying to stop them joining the global devastation. In the film proper, Kong is only briefly mentioned and what he was doing during the events of the story are left unknown.
* In the original ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Rockin' Ricky Rialto, [[TheVoice the DJ at the town radio station]], is heard being swarmed by Gremlins, but somehow survives and is back on the air the following morning.
* In ''Film/TheGreyZone,'' the inmates who work at Crematorium II are also part of the revolt and plan to escape through the wire, but remain off-screen as the story follows the DeathSeeker prisoners of crematorium IV.
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', Harold and Kumar's neighbors, Rosenberg and Goldstein, are on their own journey to Hot Dog Heaven. Their names are an homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who serve this function in ''Hamlet''.
* ''Film/{{Harriet}}'': In general the abolitionists that help Harriet are fighting against slavery in various ways.
** William Still is revealed to be a member of the Underground Railroad. A few scenes are devoted to him getting the slaves that Harriet rescued settled with papers and jobs, as well as recording their stories. Those who read up on his life may find the man was ''amazing''.
** Meanwhile, we get a cameo of Frederick Douglass, another fervent abolitionist. He is carrying on the good fight by spreading awareness of the abuse that slaves suffer, while telling the Anti-Slavery Society that they need to prepare for war.
** One of the members of the Anti-Slavery Society is a white man with a big bushy beard, who might be John Brown.
** Thomas Garrett, who harbors Harriet as a conductor on the Underground Railroad when she escapes slavery, was personally responsible for helping ''2,700'' people escape aside from her ("[[HumbleHero only]]" that number, in his words).
* ''Film/TheHurtLocker'': The PrivateMilitaryContractor team capturing some terrorists to claim the bounty on them could have been a film of its own, but they only appear briefly, after their adventure is nearly concluded.
* Film/JamesBond films sometimes feature other double-O agents,
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. 008 never appears, but if M ever tells Bond that if he can't do the mission, someone else will, chances are 008 is that "someone else".
** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' is the only film where we see all the double-O agents in one place, at M's briefing. When SPECTRE threatens the world with nuclear bombs, M sends all the agents to different parts of the world hoping to find and disarm the bombs. Bond just happens to be the one who finds them.
** Bill Fairbanks, 002, was killed before the start of ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. The fragments of the bullet that killed him are a PlotCoupon.
** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' and ''Film/AViewToAKill'' start with the deaths of 009 and (off-screen) 003, respectively. Agents other than Bond, with 007 picking up the cases they were working with only the cryptic clues taken off their bodies.
** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', 008 is said to "obey orders, not instincts", in contrast with the more headstrong Bond. We see a number of other double-O agents being picked off in a training exercise, which teases the identity of the newly recast Bond.
** Alec Trevelyn, 006, was apparently killed in the [[TheTeaser Cold Open]] of ''Film/GoldenEye'' but actually turned against [=MI6=] as part of an elaborate revenge scheme. In other words, it's a subversion: 006 is emphatically not the Hero of Another Story, but the BigBad of this one.
** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' it is mentioned that 009 was the one who shot the BigBad prior to the events of the film.
** Felix Leiter, Bond's ally in the CIA, is almost always in this role, sometimes hints are dropped that his adventures are even more exciting than Bond's. In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', we see that he was tracking down the South American drug lord Franz Sanchez for some time before Bond got involved.
* In ''Film/{{Lavalantula}}'', the main character Colton West randomly runs into Fin Shepard, the hero of the ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' films. Fin leaves, saying, "I'd love to help you, but I got shark problems right now."
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' alludes to Bilbo's adventures, as well as adventures made by unseen heroes. See the Literature section for more info.
* The main plot of ''Film/MacheteKills'' features Machete assigned by the President of the United States to stop a missile from being launched at Washington DC. Halfway through the movie, [[BigBad Luther Voz]] mentions that there are other missiles pointed at different worldwide targets, which Machete warns the President about. In the end, when Machete succeeds in disarming the Washington DC missile, the President says his other agents stopped the other missiles.
* Discussed in ''Film/TheManFromEarth''; John thinks he ''might'' have encountered [[ThereIsAnother another immortal having his own adventures throughout history]]. He met and briefly connected with a man in the 16th century, then glimpsed someone who looked just like him passing through a train station 200 years later. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane He never found out if it was really the same guy or just a case of mistaken identity]], and [[TheUnreveal neither does the audience]].
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Agent Phil Coulson mentions, "This isn't my first rodeo" and [[Characters/ShieldDirectors Nick Fury]] bluntly states that there are other heroes out there.
** In ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'', Tony Stark briefly appears at the end, mentioning the same other heroes that Fury told him about.
** ''Film/IronMan2'' has Nick Fury, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and a hint of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who are obviously having their own adventures.
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' features Nick Fury, has a cameo by ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, the aforementioned Agent Coulson, and plenty of Asgardian warriors who have had plenty of adventures off-camera. Tony Stark even gets mentioned in a throwaway line.
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', we learn that Asgard has been fighting marauders since the events of the last film, we get a good look at what Thor's grandfather was up to before he was born, the obligatory mentioning of the Avengers, and [[spoiler:the Collector from ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'']] shows up in the mid-credits scene.
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' Yondu says his old Ravager team consisting of Stakar Ogord, Aleta Ogord, Martinex, Charlie-27, Mainframe, and Krugarr had a lot of adventures like Rocket and the Guardians.
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' has some other guy named UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} whose story is taking place at the same time and place as the movie, which is occasionally referenced.
* In ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', at one point during the "Moving Right Along" number, Kermit and Fozzie run into Big Bird hiking along the road, who cheerfully explains to them "I'm on my way to New York City, to try to break into [[Series/SesameStreet public television]]."
* ''Film/MysteryRoad'': Despite his creepy demeanor throughout the film, his last scenes imply that [[spoiler: Johnno]] might actually be one, investigating the case from another angle and being implied to have pieces of the puzzle that Jay never finds out for sure.
** Bobby Rogers was also making progress into the case, before Jay ever showed up, [[PosthumousCharacter until he turned up dead]]. The fact that the drug ring considered him a big enough threat to assassinate, while they never try to do the same to Jay and [[spoiler: Johnno]] until the climax, despite how much sniffing around their doing, implies that Bobby was a serious threat to them indeed. The motel clerk even noted that he was there a year ago asking some of the same questions as Jay.
* In ''Film/TheNatural'', the young pitcher who faces off against Hobbs in the final game, and who nearly strikes Hobbs out, is described by the game's radio announcer in the same terms that Hobbs is described at the beginning of the movie. This pitcher is another "Natural", and its clear that, given time, he'll end up being one of the greatest players in the game, just like Hobbs.
* From ''Film/NecessaryRoughness'' comes Charlie Bankshe, the only player on the original Armadillos football team not to be banned from playing football for life. The story of how he not only persisted in the sport despite his obvious athletic shortcomings but triumphed by making the winning touchdown at the end of the film's climactic football game, would have made a fine movie in and of itself.
* ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' is the story of Zack Mayo (Creator/RichardGere). Casey Seeger, the only female officer candidate, appears in a few scenes--just enough to declare her intention to be the Navy's first female fighter pilot, show her struggles on the obstacle course, reveal it's really an ''internal'' struggle with feeling like "a second-class citizen" and with "daddy's disappointment that she wasn't a boy", let Foley hold her up to the main character as an example of "''heart!'' and ''character!''" and overall give the impression that, if the camera started following ''her'' around, there'd be a damn good movie in there.
* The film version of ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' ends with the protagonists saying goodbye to the girls they met as they reboard their ship at the end of their one-day shore pass. Then, as the clock strikes 6:00 AM, another group of sailors swarms off the ship to have their own adventures in New York City.
* ''Film/PacificRim'' has the [[SameSexTriplets Wei Tang triplets]] and [[HuskyRusskie the Kaidanovskys]], all of whom have impressive records with defeating {{Kaiju}} and defending their assigned Shatterdomes, but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this story. Several movies or books could be made about the other 30+ HumongousMecha and the very colorful pilots who fought in the Golden Age of the Jaegers.
* If the timeline presented in ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' is accurate, then the flashback to the death of Charlie Roan's family takes place on the same night as the [[Film/ThePurge first film]].
* In ''Film/SatansPlayground'', while Paula is freaking out in the Leeds house, there's a knock on the door. When she answers it, there's a teenage girl there who says ''her'' car broke down, and that ''she'' needs a telephone. She ends up being scared off by Paula's erratic behavior.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' casts recognizable actors in small roles to give the impression that they're each the heroes for their own respective stories, which ''our'' heroes visit only briefly before moving on.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Stephen Stills appears to be starring in his own movie, where Scott is just some weird guy who flakes out on the band and messes up their shows. Director Edgar Wright has stated that he instructed Stills' actor to pretend that the movie he's in is called ''Stephen Stills Is Almost Famous''. This is something from the comics where Scott very much believes that he is the hero of the story and [[AnAesop the Aesop]], if there was one, was "Life does not work that way." This is further fleshed out in the comic, where Stephen has an entire background arc in which he [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory comes out as gay]]]] but decides not to tell Scott about it until the end, because it looks like he has enough on his plate already.
* ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' is an exploration of the ValuesDissonance in a lot of old monster movies, and therefore, its villain, Col. Richard Strickland, comes across as a dark parody of the heroes in those sorts of movies, with specific callbacks to Creator/JohnAgar in ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature''. Creator/GuillermoDelToro has said that if the movie were made in [[TheSixties the time period it's set in]], Strickland would very likely be the hero.
* In ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'', Colton West loans the heroes a car. When Fin Shepard asks why he's all beaten up and dirty, he says he had just dealt with a massive spider infestation, which is covered in ''2 Lava 2 Lantula''.
* Jessica Stevenson's team in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' appear to take part in a much more heroic adventure, ultimately joining up with the army and leading TheCavalry to defeat the zombies. However, we only see a brief glimpse of them as the plot follows Shaun's trip to the pub.
* Frankie and her group of mercenary pilots from ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''.
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}:'' Greentree has little to do with the main action but spent years prior to the movie fighting the sinister E-Protectorate, trying to break their control over the world, a struggle which saw his wife killed and his daughter abducted.
* ''Film/StakeLand'': All over the place. The people in all the other lockdowns and compounds are the biggest examples, all resisting the vampires and the Brotherhood with a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who deal with Mister and Martin. They likely had to go through something akin to ''Series/Jericho2006'' only with vampires instead of nuclear war aftermath. Party members Peggy, Willie, and Sister had their own adventures before joining up with the main cast.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the original trilogy, Wedge Antilles is an AcePilot and friend of Luke who nevertheless has very little to do with the main plot and is generally a pretty minor character. Naturally, he was given plenty of stories of his own in [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends both]] [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse incarnations]] of the ExpandedUniverse.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' ends with [[spoiler: all of its heroes dead, but with the Death Star plans - for which they fought and died - passed to Princess Leia, one of the main characters of the original trilogy]].
* The hitchhiker from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003''. An off-screen escapee of [[CannibalClan The Hewitts']], she makes her escape at the start of the film. We don't get to hear much of her story, however, as she decides to [[DrivenToSuicide blow her brains out]] when her rescuers accidentally lead her right back to them.
* In ''Film/WhatsYourNumber'' Creator/ChrisPratt's character Donald seems to be starring in another movie where a guy keeps running into his crazy ex in the run-up to his wedding.[[/folde
* Mater the tow truck, a minor character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' who is the star (and UnreliableNarrator) of ''Mater's Tall Tales'' in the ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'' collection.
* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'':
** At the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', we see Frozone fighting a villain in a helicopter as the main character Mr. Incredible carries out his own string of heroic deeds.
** In ''WesternAnimation/JackJackAttack'', Kari [=McKeen=], Violet's friend, babysits Jack-Jack and has to deal with his ComboPlatterPowers manifesting.
** Likewise in ''WesternAnimation/AuntieEdna'', Edna is in the same situation, but is doing it so she can design a custom-made supersuit for Jack-Jack.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has [[spoiler: Cobra Bubbles, the social worker in charge of making sure Nani's fit to take care of Lilo]], who is revealed at the end to be a former MenInBlack-esque agent, who apparently saved the world at some point. [[spoiler: By convincing a bunch of aliens that mosquitoes were an endangered species, no less!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' has Mr. Mittens, the fat, hapless therapy cat whose body Joe accidentally inhabits. Per WordOfGod, Mr. Mittens goes through his own adventure as he journeys from the AfterlifeAntechamber back down to Earth. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, he has managed to reunite with his body as Joe returns to his own.]]
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!!Live-Action
* Themistocles from ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'' could be considered a Hero of Another Story for the [[Film/ThreeHundred original film]], as, historically speaking, he was defending the waters near Thermopylae while Leonidas led the ground defense. Likewise, Leonidas is mentioned in passing when Themistocles visits Sparta (the infamous "[[MemeticMutation This! Is! Sparta!]]" scene having taken place just before he got there), and is away consulting the oracle when Themistocles shows up.
* Harold Grey in ''Film/Annie2014'', Stacks' rival in the election that drives his actions in the plot, is implied to be a philanthropist and all-around NiceGuy and undoubtedly has his own political campaign going on. [[spoiler:Since Stacks dropped out of the election, it can even be assumed that he ultimately won it.]]
* ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'': The title character is a contemporary of Jesus, and their stories periodically intersect.
* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', since The Dude's involvement in most of the ongoing plots is tangential, whether the struggle between [[spoiler: Maude and the eponymous Big Lebowski over his embezzlement (and Maude's subsequent quest to find a "sperm donor" to get her pregnant]]), Jackie Treehorn's dispute with Bunny Lebowski (which kickstarts the plot due only to the incompetence of Treehorn's hired thugs), or the private detective's struggle to return "Bunny" to her family back east. Inverting this trope, The Dude '''is''' the hero of the story of the bowling league and his team's struggle against "Da Jesus", but we never get to see how that turned out.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' takes this to the extreme. The eponymous cabin, the teenagers who visit it, and the zombies hunting them down? That's only one of ''dozens'' of other monster attacks happening all over the world ''on the same night''. We only get to see the destructive aftermath for most of these, but we do see a couple of glimpses of some Japanese grade-schoolers being terrorized by a ghost [[spoiler:and then [[SurprisinglyHappyEnding turning the ghost into a frog with a magic spell]]]].
* ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'': Victor Lazlo married Creator/IngridBergman, ran an underground newspaper, got busted by the Gestapo, was sent to a concentration camp, escaped, re-united with his wife, led the Gestapo on a wild goose chase through Europe, evading their dragnets on three separate occasions, and ended up in Casablanca looking for a way to get to America.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''. The main characters end up lugging a camera about when the monsters attack and naturally start filming the weirdness. On the bridge they see another guy doing the same thing. WordOfGod says this is a SequelHook.
* Throughout ''Film/CopOut'', we see an old cop-young cop pairing who appear to be acting out a more routine cop movie off-screen, only bits of which we see.
* ''Film/Crazies1973'': Several of Watts' colleagues are working on trying to cure the disease outside to town, offscreen. The final scene mentions they've found an immune monkey among their test subjects which gives them hope for immune humans (although the soldiers in town aren't good at ''finding'' any immune humans among the quarantined people).
* ''Film/DaylightsEnd'':
** The local survivors recall how a National Guard Unit tried to provide support and cover for the civilians to evacuate, then holed up in a hotel and were overrun after two days.
** Vlad was part of a Russian commando team that hijacked an airliner to flee from zombie-infested Russia and crash-landed in Miami. He then fought his way to Dallas, before Chief Hill's group found him wandering drunk and naked through the streets some time before the beginning of the movie. His new companions comment how his story feels like something straight out of a movie.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} also makes her debut in ''[=BvS=]'', where it's revealed she fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (which is explored in [[Film/WonderWoman2017 her solo movie]]) and spent the 20th Century continuing to do small scale heroics before Superman's debut.
** Before getting recruited for the [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]], [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]] performed small acts of superheroism in his home city with his {{super speed}}, including stopping an armed robber at a convenience store and is shown to have apprehended Captain Boomerang in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''.
** The final scene of ''Zack Snyder's Justice League'' reveals that [[spoiler:ComicBook/MartianManhunter]] has been secretly hiding out on Earth disguised as a human named [[spoiler:Calvin Swanwick]] and working as a General for the US Army, with the Apokolips invasion attempt pushing him to remain NeutralNoLonger.
* In ''Film/EdWood'', the [[Creator/EdWood eponymous character]] runs into Creator/OrsonWelles near the end; he appears to be facing the exact same problems Edward has been facing throughout the actual film, but he appears in only one scene.
* Creator/BruceLee may be TheHero of ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', but supporting characters Roper and Williams have their own backstories that are shown via flashbacks, and they all find themselves opposing [[BigBad Han]].
* ''Film/TheFirm'': At the beginning of the story, two of Mitch's coworkers, Kozinski and Hodge, are trying to escape from the firm's grasp and are scheming to help the FBI bring down the {{Amoral Attorney}}s. This gets them killed before they can appear onscreen.
* Famous astronauts appear throughout ''Film/FirstMan'' in little cameos, including movie protagonists like UsefulNotes/ChuckYeager and UsefulNotes/GusGrissom (''Film/TheRightStuff''), and Jim Lovell (''Film/Apollo13''). Deke Slayton, on the other hand, has prominent roles in all three of these films.
* In ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'', the intelligent chimpanzee Cornelius tells the story of how, long ago, humans enslaved apes, until an ape named Aldo rose up and lead his people to freedom. However, Cornelius tells this story after having traveled back in time to the 1970s, long before it has actually happened. The next film in the series, ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', shows the enslavement of apes and the ape uprising happening not quite the same as Cornelius had described it, with Aldo reduced to a minor participant ([[AllThereInTheManual his name never actually spoken in the dialogue]]) and the revolt lead instead by Caesar, Cornelius and Zira's son [[ForWantOfANail (who wouldn't be there if they hadn't traveled back in time)]]. Finally, in ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'', Aldo appears as a TreacherousAdvisor to Caesar, subconsciously [[TheResenter resentful]] of his usurped destiny. So not only is the story where Aldo is the hero never really told in much detail, it's actively erased from the timeline, and the kicker is, none of the characters ever figure this out.
* ''Film/TheForgottenBattle,'' a war movie set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and BasedOnATrueStory, frequently hints that, in the vast chaos of the war, everyone is the hero, villain, anti-hero or anti-villain of some story somewhere; the three main protagonists simply provide our viewpoint of these particular events. Notably, the force of which one of them is initially a part is on its way to the Battle of Arnhem — so had he not been shot down, he would have been a background character in the classic war movie, ''Film/ABridgeTooFar,'' and his comrades from the early scenes must have gone on to that fate.
* The novelization for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' shows that while Godzilla and Monarch were attempting to bring down King Ghidorah, on Skull Island, Kong was facing off against a mass awakening of Skullcrawlers released from underground by Ghidorah's call, trying to stop them joining the global devastation. In the film proper, Kong is only briefly mentioned and what he was doing during the events of the story are left unknown.
* In the original ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Rockin' Ricky Rialto, [[TheVoice the DJ at the town radio station]], is heard being swarmed by Gremlins, but somehow survives and is back on the air the following morning.
* In ''Film/TheGreyZone,'' the inmates who work at Crematorium II are also part of the revolt and plan to escape through the wire, but remain off-screen as the story follows the DeathSeeker prisoners of crematorium IV.
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', Harold and Kumar's neighbors, Rosenberg and Goldstein, are on their own journey to Hot Dog Heaven. Their names are an homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who serve this function in ''Hamlet''.
* ''Film/{{Harriet}}'': In general the abolitionists that help Harriet are fighting against slavery in various ways.
** William Still is revealed to be a member of the Underground Railroad. A few scenes are devoted to him getting the slaves that Harriet rescued settled with papers and jobs, as well as recording their stories. Those who read up on his life may find the man was ''amazing''.
** Meanwhile, we get a cameo of Frederick Douglass, another fervent abolitionist. He is carrying on the good fight by spreading awareness of the abuse that slaves suffer, while telling the Anti-Slavery Society that they need to prepare for war.
** One of the members of the Anti-Slavery Society is a white man with a big bushy beard, who might be John Brown.
** Thomas Garrett, who harbors Harriet as a conductor on the Underground Railroad when she escapes slavery, was personally responsible for helping ''2,700'' people escape aside from her ("[[HumbleHero only]]" that number, in his words).
* ''Film/TheHurtLocker'': The PrivateMilitaryContractor team capturing some terrorists to claim the bounty on them could have been a film of its own, but they only appear briefly, after their adventure is nearly concluded.
* Film/JamesBond films sometimes feature other double-O agents,
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. 008 never appears, but if M ever tells Bond that if he can't do the mission, someone else will, chances are 008 is that "someone else".
** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' is the only film where we see all the double-O agents in one place, at M's briefing. When SPECTRE threatens the world with nuclear bombs, M sends all the agents to different parts of the world hoping to find and disarm the bombs. Bond just happens to be the one who finds them.
** Bill Fairbanks, 002, was killed before the start of ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. The fragments of the bullet that killed him are a PlotCoupon.
** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' and ''Film/AViewToAKill'' start with the deaths of 009 and (off-screen) 003, respectively. Agents other than Bond, with 007 picking up the cases they were working with only the cryptic clues taken off their bodies.
** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', 008 is said to "obey orders, not instincts", in contrast with the more headstrong Bond. We see a number of other double-O agents being picked off in a training exercise, which teases the identity of the newly recast Bond.
** Alec Trevelyn, 006, was apparently killed in the [[TheTeaser Cold Open]] of ''Film/GoldenEye'' but actually turned against [=MI6=] as part of an elaborate revenge scheme. In other words, it's a subversion: 006 is emphatically not the Hero of Another Story, but the BigBad of this one.
** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' it is mentioned that 009 was the one who shot the BigBad prior to the events of the film.
** Felix Leiter, Bond's ally in the CIA, is almost always in this role, sometimes hints are dropped that his adventures are even more exciting than Bond's. In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', we see that he was tracking down the South American drug lord Franz Sanchez for some time before Bond got involved.
* In ''Film/{{Lavalantula}}'', the main character Colton West randomly runs into Fin Shepard, the hero of the ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' films. Fin leaves, saying, "I'd love to help you, but I got shark problems right now."
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' alludes to Bilbo's adventures, as well as adventures made by unseen heroes. See the Literature section for more info.
* The main plot of ''Film/MacheteKills'' features Machete assigned by the President of the United States to stop a missile from being launched at Washington DC. Halfway through the movie, [[BigBad Luther Voz]] mentions that there are other missiles pointed at different worldwide targets, which Machete warns the President about. In the end, when Machete succeeds in disarming the Washington DC missile, the President says his other agents stopped the other missiles.
* Discussed in ''Film/TheManFromEarth''; John thinks he ''might'' have encountered [[ThereIsAnother another immortal having his own adventures throughout history]]. He met and briefly connected with a man in the 16th century, then glimpsed someone who looked just like him passing through a train station 200 years later. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane He never found out if it was really the same guy or just a case of mistaken identity]], and [[TheUnreveal neither does the audience]].
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Agent Phil Coulson mentions, "This isn't my first rodeo" and [[Characters/ShieldDirectors Nick Fury]] bluntly states that there are other heroes out there.
** In ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'', Tony Stark briefly appears at the end, mentioning the same other heroes that Fury told him about.
** ''Film/IronMan2'' has Nick Fury, ComicBook/BlackWidow, and a hint of ''Film/{{Thor}}'', who are obviously having their own adventures.
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' features Nick Fury, has a cameo by ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, the aforementioned Agent Coulson, and plenty of Asgardian warriors who have had plenty of adventures off-camera. Tony Stark even gets mentioned in a throwaway line.
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', we learn that Asgard has been fighting marauders since the events of the last film, we get a good look at what Thor's grandfather was up to before he was born, the obligatory mentioning of the Avengers, and [[spoiler:the Collector from ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'']] shows up in the mid-credits scene.
** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' Yondu says his old Ravager team consisting of Stakar Ogord, Aleta Ogord, Martinex, Charlie-27, Mainframe, and Krugarr had a lot of adventures like Rocket and the Guardians.
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' has some other guy named UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} whose story is taking place at the same time and place as the movie, which is occasionally referenced.
* In ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', at one point during the "Moving Right Along" number, Kermit and Fozzie run into Big Bird hiking along the road, who cheerfully explains to them "I'm on my way to New York City, to try to break into [[Series/SesameStreet public television]]."
* ''Film/MysteryRoad'': Despite his creepy demeanor throughout the film, his last scenes imply that [[spoiler: Johnno]] might actually be one, investigating the case from another angle and being implied to have pieces of the puzzle that Jay never finds out for sure.
** Bobby Rogers was also making progress into the case, before Jay ever showed up, [[PosthumousCharacter until he turned up dead]]. The fact that the drug ring considered him a big enough threat to assassinate, while they never try to do the same to Jay and [[spoiler: Johnno]] until the climax, despite how much sniffing around their doing, implies that Bobby was a serious threat to them indeed. The motel clerk even noted that he was there a year ago asking some of the same questions as Jay.
* In ''Film/TheNatural'', the young pitcher who faces off against Hobbs in the final game, and who nearly strikes Hobbs out, is described by the game's radio announcer in the same terms that Hobbs is described at the beginning of the movie. This pitcher is another "Natural", and its clear that, given time, he'll end up being one of the greatest players in the game, just like Hobbs.
* From ''Film/NecessaryRoughness'' comes Charlie Bankshe, the only player on the original Armadillos football team not to be banned from playing football for life. The story of how he not only persisted in the sport despite his obvious athletic shortcomings but triumphed by making the winning touchdown at the end of the film's climactic football game, would have made a fine movie in and of itself.
* ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' is the story of Zack Mayo (Creator/RichardGere). Casey Seeger, the only female officer candidate, appears in a few scenes--just enough to declare her intention to be the Navy's first female fighter pilot, show her struggles on the obstacle course, reveal it's really an ''internal'' struggle with feeling like "a second-class citizen" and with "daddy's disappointment that she wasn't a boy", let Foley hold her up to the main character as an example of "''heart!'' and ''character!''" and overall give the impression that, if the camera started following ''her'' around, there'd be a damn good movie in there.
* The film version of ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' ends with the protagonists saying goodbye to the girls they met as they reboard their ship at the end of their one-day shore pass. Then, as the clock strikes 6:00 AM, another group of sailors swarms off the ship to have their own adventures in New York City.
* ''Film/PacificRim'' has the [[SameSexTriplets Wei Tang triplets]] and [[HuskyRusskie the Kaidanovskys]], all of whom have impressive records with defeating {{Kaiju}} and defending their assigned Shatterdomes, but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this story. Several movies or books could be made about the other 30+ HumongousMecha and the very colorful pilots who fought in the Golden Age of the Jaegers.
* If the timeline presented in ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' is accurate, then the flashback to the death of Charlie Roan's family takes place on the same night as the [[Film/ThePurge first film]].
* In ''Film/SatansPlayground'', while Paula is freaking out in the Leeds house, there's a knock on the door. When she answers it, there's a teenage girl there who says ''her'' car broke down, and that ''she'' needs a telephone. She ends up being scared off by Paula's erratic behavior.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' casts recognizable actors in small roles to give the impression that they're each the heroes for their own respective stories, which ''our'' heroes visit only briefly before moving on.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Stephen Stills appears to be starring in his own movie, where Scott is just some weird guy who flakes out on the band and messes up their shows. Director Edgar Wright has stated that he instructed Stills' actor to pretend that the movie he's in is called ''Stephen Stills Is Almost Famous''. This is something from the comics where Scott very much believes that he is the hero of the story and [[AnAesop the Aesop]], if there was one, was "Life does not work that way." This is further fleshed out in the comic, where Stephen has an entire background arc in which he [[spoiler: [[ComingOutStory comes out as gay]]]] but decides not to tell Scott about it until the end, because it looks like he has enough on his plate already.
* ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' is an exploration of the ValuesDissonance in a lot of old monster movies, and therefore, its villain, Col. Richard Strickland, comes across as a dark parody of the heroes in those sorts of movies, with specific callbacks to Creator/JohnAgar in ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature''. Creator/GuillermoDelToro has said that if the movie were made in [[TheSixties the time period it's set in]], Strickland would very likely be the hero.
* In ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'', Colton West loans the heroes a car. When Fin Shepard asks why he's all beaten up and dirty, he says he had just dealt with a massive spider infestation, which is covered in ''2 Lava 2 Lantula''.
* Jessica Stevenson's team in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' appear to take part in a much more heroic adventure, ultimately joining up with the army and leading TheCavalry to defeat the zombies. However, we only see a brief glimpse of them as the plot follows Shaun's trip to the pub.
* Frankie and her group of mercenary pilots from ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''.
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}:'' Greentree has little to do with the main action but spent years prior to the movie fighting the sinister E-Protectorate, trying to break their control over the world, a struggle which saw his wife killed and his daughter abducted.
* ''Film/StakeLand'': All over the place. The people in all the other lockdowns and compounds are the biggest examples, all resisting the vampires and the Brotherhood with a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who deal with Mister and Martin. They likely had to go through something akin to ''Series/Jericho2006'' only with vampires instead of nuclear war aftermath. Party members Peggy, Willie, and Sister had their own adventures before joining up with the main cast.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the original trilogy, Wedge Antilles is an AcePilot and friend of Luke who nevertheless has very little to do with the main plot and is generally a pretty minor character. Naturally, he was given plenty of stories of his own in [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends both]] [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse incarnations]] of the ExpandedUniverse.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' ends with [[spoiler: all of its heroes dead, but with the Death Star plans - for which they fought and died - passed to Princess Leia, one of the main characters of the original trilogy]].
* The hitchhiker from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003''. An off-screen escapee of [[CannibalClan The Hewitts']], she makes her escape at the start of the film. We don't get to hear much of her story, however, as she decides to [[DrivenToSuicide blow her brains out]] when her rescuers accidentally lead her right back to them.
* In ''Film/WhatsYourNumber'' Creator/ChrisPratt's character Donald seems to be starring in another movie where a guy keeps running into his crazy ex in the run-up to his wedding.[[/folde
