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* While still set in the same universe (and [[UsefulNotes/The90s the same time]]) as the original ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'' does see elements introduced in the comics since the original show's end, such as the Hellfire Gala from ''ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge'' and the character Darwin from ''ComicBook/XMenDeadlyGenesis''.

* While still set in the same universe (and [[UsefulNotes/The90s the same time]]) as the original ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'' does see elements introduced in the comics since the original show's end, such as the Hellfire Gala from ''ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge'' and the character Darwin from ''ComicBook/XMernDeadlyGenesis''.

** There is an {{enforced|Trope}} example. Originally, the [[{{Hobbits}} race of diminutive villagers]] was called "the Tohunga" until [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Maori activists threatened to sue]] the Franchise/{{LEGO}} Group for trying to UsefulNotes/{{trademark}} culturally sensitive words from their language via the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance game ''Tales of the Tohunga''. The Story team wrote a scene to [[MeaningfulRename change around a few names]], with the Tohunga becoming "the Matoran" in celebration of their newfound unity. That was until the story expanded beyond the island of Mata Nui with a {{prequel}} arc. Since they certainly couldn't reuse the old names, the word "Tohunga" was {{retcon}}ned out, and later story pretended Matoran had always been their name. This also happened to other characters and terms that had to be renamed for legal reasons (Jala - Jaller, Huki - Hewkii, Koli - Kolhii, etc.), as prequel scenes had to stick to their altered names.

** Kryten's [[TheOtherDarrin changed appearance]] is handwaved by the explanation that Lister rebuilt him after a spacebike crash, yet a few episodes later we see a moving photograph of Kryten pre-crash and he looks ([[CanadaEh and speaks]]) the same as post-crash. Additionally, the other Series 4000 mechanoid we meet, Able, looks like the "rebuilt" Kryten as do his spare heads in "DNA" and "Beyond a Joke".

* Shinichi Kudo, the hero of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', began the series as a rather callous figure who only solved cases to pursue his own dream of becoming more like his idol Literature/SherlockHolmes, and [[AttentionWhore get famous]] along the way. He approached his investigations with little concern for other people's emotions, and even expressed his contempt for the criminals he caught no matter how [[SympatheticMurderer sympathetic]], even going so far as to tell a culprit who had previously attacked his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend and crush]] Ran that if he was going to commit suicide, [[SuicideDare he should just get it over with already]]. It wasn't until the day a particularly sympathetic and kindly culprit actually succeeded in committing suicide in front of him that he realized his mistakes and adopted his creed, "A detective who corners a culprit with logic but then allows them to commit suicide is no different than a murderer." Then in the WholeEpisodeFlashback ''Shinichi Kudo's New York Case'', set two years before the main series, Shinichi doesn't hesitate to [[SaveTheVillain save the life]] of a remorseless SerialKiller who had been attacking Ran only a few seconds before, even telling the killer "I don't need a logical reason to help someone, right?" with a smile on his face.

For example, when [[AliceAndBob Bob]] started on the show in 1991 he was characterized as a {{Jerkass}}, but became a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in 1993, and then just became a nice guy by 1995, but is shown in a recent flashback to 1991 to have been a NiceGuy in 1990, with no explanation/extenuating circumstances.

For example, when [[AliceAndBob Bob]] started on the show in 1991 he was characterized as a {{Jerkass}}, but became a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in 1993, and then just became a nice guy by 1995, but is shown in a recent flashback to 1990 to have been a NiceGuy in 1990, with no explanation/extenuating circumstances.

* In ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', the title character is shown in a 1971 flashback acting much like he does in in the first ''Avengers'' movie and onwards, being confident, snarky and enjoying himself as he's playing deadly pranks (in this case, [[StockUnsolvedMysteries pretending to be D.B Cooper). This is a sharp contrast to how his younger self in the first ''Thor'' movie was an insecure ShrinkingViolet who shows opposition to getting into trouble with Thor. Furtherrmore, the variant of Loki the audience is following appears to go through much of the character development that his Sacred Timeline self went through over the course of the movies in a matter of hours, simply through Mobius ''telling'' him what happened to his counterpart following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' (and watching it play out in the Time Theater).

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* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Early on, Lu was shown as slightly interested in the occult in general, then became completely obsessed with aliens specifically [[AlienFairFolk when she mistook an ayakashi for one]]. But in a later flashback, she's shown just as focused on aliens in middle school, immediately assuming an vanished Suzu was abducted by an UFO.

* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'' features a bunch of those due to the MerchandiseDriven nature of the anime.
** In the original anime series Booster Set names were often explicitly spelled out, implying that the in-universe card releases were the same as the ones from the real card game. This didn't stop the series to also show flashbacks to years before the start of the series showing cards that shouldn't be out yet.
** In ''Anime/CardfightVanguardG'', there's a flashback to at least 15 years before the start of the original series. A fight in this scene includes characters using Stride Units, a mechanic that wasn't actually developed until several years later.

* In ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', they show a picture of Jean-Luc Picard when he was young, and for some reason, he was bald, despite the fact that his balding had everything to do with his age, as previously shown in the show. This also makes the villain's baldness quite baffling. However, Creator/PatrickStewart himself really ''had'' lost his hair by this age, really muddling things. One handwave that swims dangerously close to being a VoodooShark is the fact that both the picture and Shinzon have stubble, indicating both the young Picard and his clone both shaved their heads on purpose. Other flashback Picards with hair had just let it grow back.
* Anything related to [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' treats Chekov as having been there from the beginning, and ignores details about the clothing and technology that were different in the first two pilots. Most notably, ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]'' has Khan explicitly remembering Chekov from the events of "Space Seed", an episode Chekov did not appear in.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:'' Initially, Thor is depicted with the sort of personality you'd expect the prince of a ProudWarriorRace like Asgard to have. ''Thor: Ragnarok'' changes him to be slightly more of a doofus, with a more casual way of speaking and acting. ''Avengers: Endgame'' depicts his ''Avengers'' self acting in much the same way.

* ''Series/{{Highlander the Series}}'': In the pilot, it is stated that Duncan has remained "out of the Game" for over a century. Later, throughout the series he is depicted in flashbacks defending himself from other Immortals and taking heads throughout said century. Of course, given [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne the nature of immortals]] in Highlander, it's impossible to survive if you aren't good at defending yourself and willing to end an opponent before he does the same to you, even if you're not after the ultimate power the last immortal standing is supposed to receive. Yes, they can't attack you on holy ground, but that means you'd have to hole up in a church somewhere and never set foot off its property for one moment ''ever.'' Nope, you'd better be good enough with the sword to at least survive a trip to the store for more toilet paper.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' had this twice, both with heavy lampshades. Two flashbacks saw Earl being the good guy despite the show's entire premise being he was an awful person until he "discovered" Karma. One featured Earl saving Joy from a killer bee while his [[TheAce cousin]] cowered in a tent, and the other was his [[{{Retcon}} reasoning]] for [[AuthorsSavingThrow raising two kids who were not his own]]. Both were described as the only good thing he did before he made the list.

* In ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld,'' Topanga is originally a HopelessSuitor for Cory and a CloudCuckooLander. The high school era made her a totally different character with none of the weirdness that had defined her in the first couple of seasons, and gave her and Cory a RelationshipUpgrade. All flashbacks and references to the past from then on pretended that Topanga had always been exactly as she is now, and that she and Cory had been in love since preschool. This was given a HandWave as Cory having been going through a GirlsHaveCooties phase in the first season.
* Every time the Doctor's days on Gallifrey are referenced in ''Series/DoctorWho'', it sounds like they're talking about a younger version of the ''current'' Doctor, not First. For instance in the Fourth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]", we're told that the young Doctor had a "propensity for vulgar facetiousness".
* In ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', the title character is shown in a 1971 flashback acting much like he does in in the first ''Avengers'' movie and onwards, being confident, snarky and enjoying himself as he's playing deadly pranks (in this case, [[StockUnsolvedMysteries pretending to be D.B Cooper). This is a sharp contrast to how his younger self in the first ''Thor'' movie was an insecure ShrinkingViolet who shows opposition to getting into trouble with Thor. Furtherrmore, the variant of Loki the audience is following appears to go through much of the character development that his Sacred Timeline self went through over the course of the movies in a matter of hours, simply through Mobius ''telling'' him what happened to his counterpart following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' (and watching it play out in the Time Theater).

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** In the first ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' game, Tails and Amy have flashbacks dating back to the times of the classic Mega Drive games. In them, Sonic, Tails and Amy are depicted in their modern designs. The devs apparently didn't feel like making alternate models for a few seconds worth of footage. This wasn't really a problem until ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' came out and established that the characters used to look like their classic designs in their younger years, though.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', there are numerous cutscenes which show Shadow fifty years ago. Throughout the game, he acquires numerous bits of equipment, and the items you've got are visible on his character model even in the flashback cutscenes.
* ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny]]''[='=]s version of Yoshimitsu strongly resembles his ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 6'' appearance, where he looks like an alien rather than a samurai which is what he's supposed to be in the ''Soul'' series (it takes place centuries earlier). In the first ''Tekken'', Yoshimitsu looks more like a knight, which is more consistent with how he would have looked when the ''Soul'' series is set. Justified by the fact that the Yoshimitsu in both series are [[LegacyCharacter separate individuals bearing the same name]]. As theorized for years and finally confirmed in ''Soulcalibur V'' (which included a "Yoshimitsu the Second," the successor to the Yoshimitsu in the preceding four games), the leader of the Manji clan is whomever has ownership of a particular sword, also named Yoshimitsu, which is earned by [[KlingonPromotion defeating the previous Yoshimitsu in a]] DuelToTheDeath and assuming their name, allowing the cursed katana to accept them as their rightful wielder. The new Yoshimitsu then adopts the mannerisms, fighting style, and identity of their predecessor, [[LegacyImmortality thus continuing on the folk legend of Yoshimitsu]]. Beyond this, Yoshimitsu's design almost always changes between games (''[[DreamMatchGame Tekken Tag Tournament]]'' is the only exception to date, reusing his ''T3'' attire), and quite drastically. Even in his ''Soulcalibur'' appearances, where he conforms to a samurai-influenced aesthetic, does Yoshimitsu look wildly different between games.

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'' changes the design on many items such as the elevators and the Material Emancipation Grills, yet when you return to destroyed areas from the first game they are fitted with the new design. Visiting "Old Aperture" later on reveals that these new designs were apparently in use in test chambers from decades before the first game took place. The devs specifically avoided this with the [[spoiler:original, burn-marked but intact CompanionCube]], though.

* Solid Snake in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' was extremely buff, but relatively compact, suiting someone who did have to crawl through air vents as part of his job description (his body was modelled on Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme). In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' he has a thicker physique, which was intended to indicate him ageing from early 30s to middle-age and putting on weight. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', his father Big Boss is buffer still, compared in the casting sheet to an Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger type. Several later appearances of the character outside of the core series buff up Solid to his father's level, such as his appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', and his frighteningly muscular render for ''The Legacy Collection'' where his biceps are significantly thicker than his entire head.

* ''ComicBook/ChaosWar: Ares'' shows [[GodOfChaos Amatsu-Mikaboshi]] wearing his present-day duds in a flashback to the original Ares miniseries.
* Judge Anderson, a psychic Judge in the Dreddverse, was a very flippant and easy-going character when she first appeared in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', though would get serious when the situation mandated it. As time went on, [[CharacterDevelopment she became]] a rather serious character most of the time, and her dominant mood was vague despair at the [[CrapsackWorld shape of the world]]. In late 2010, possibly as part of the buildup to the new ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' movie, Alan Grant started writing a {{prequel}} series, ''Cadet Anderson'', set [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin during Anderson's days as a cadet]]. In the prequel series, she is a very serious character who wishes the world could be better, in seeming contrast to the fun and light-hearted lady who first fought Judge Death.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': General Sam Lane, originally Lois's gruff father who didn't like Clark much and wasn't entirely impressed with Superman, but had a good heart beneath it all, died during the alien invasion of ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar''. When he came BackFromTheDead, his experiences in that war had left him with a new anti-alien attitude that turned him into a GeneralRipper declaring war on ComicBook/NewKrypton. In the ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'' miniseries, Sam was gunning for Superman from the first moment he learned Metropolis's new hero was an alien, and is responsible for creating Metallo as his anti-Kryptonian weapon.
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s personality has remained pretty consistent throughtout his decades of publication, but his speaking style hasn't. Modern incarnations of Wolvie have him speak in a very coarse, almost Texan drawl-like FunetikAksent, and in his worse days, he'll refer to ''everyone'' as '[[VerbalTic bub]]', no matter the situation. It can be very jarring to go back to early issues and find he had a pretty normal way of speaking during the seventies. Being over 200 years old, he occasionally guest-stars in flashback issues, such as his appearance in ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'', in which he inevitably talks in the familiarly rough dialect he uses in the present day.
* Similarly, ComicBook/TheThing from ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' used to speak fairly eloquently (while simultaneously being far more irascible), and his skin was muddy rather than rocky. However, this was quickly changed, and by the time of Doctor Doom's first appearance, his crustier look (and speaking style) had already asserted themselves. In many flashbacks, he's portrayed as being like this from the start, save for in ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne'' #50, in which the Thing travels back in time and meets himself.

* A very brief example happened in the ''Origins of Marvel Comics'' compilation -- ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk was recolored to be green, as he is in the present, seemingly making it so he was green from the very beginning, when in the original publication, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness he was grey]] (or meant to be, but coloring errors often messed that up). Once the Grey Hulk was made into an important part of the canon, this sort of thing stopped happening. [[AvertedTrope Now, the Hulk is always shown as being grey in his earliest days]].
* The 1998 story "Amy's Secret Past" from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' depicts a tomboyish ActionGirl Amy even prior to her becoming a Freedom Fighter. In early comics, Amy had a more chipper and girly personality. It also depicts Robotnik with his "evolved" design despite that not appearing until several issues into the series.

* In ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'', the title character appears to go through much of the character development Original Loki went through over the course of the movies in a matter of hours, simply through Mobius ''telling'' him what happened to his counterpart following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

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* In ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', they show a picture of Jean-Luc Picard when he was young, and for some reason, he was bald, despite the fact that his balding had everything to do with his age, as previously shown in the show. This also makes the villain's baldness quite baffling. However, Creator/PatrickStewart himself really ''had'' lost his hair by this age, really muddling things. One handwave that swims dangerously close to being a VoodooShark is the fact that both the picture and Shinzon have stubble, indicating both the young Picard and his clone both shaved their heads on purpose. Other flashback Picards with hair had just let it grow back.
* Anything related to [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' treats Chekov as having been there from the beginning, and ignores details about the clothing and technology that were different in the first two pilots. Most notably, ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]'' has Khan explicitly remembering Chekov from the events of "Space Seed", an episode Chekov did not appear in.
* As the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films went along, [[GeographicFlexibility the architecture of Hogwarts kept getting altered]]. Despite being prequels, the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' films use the ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' version of the castle.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:'' Initially, Thor is depicted with the sort of personality you'd expect the prince of a ProudWarriorRace like Asgard to have. ''Thor: Ragnarok'' changes him to be slightly more of a doofus, with a more casual way of speaking and acting. ''Avengers: Endgame'' depicts his ''Avengers'' self acting in much the same way.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}:'' This explains the controversy about Damian Wayne's conception. His mother, Talia al Ghul, spent her early years [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter conflicted between loyalty to her villainous father and her love for Batman]]; ultimately, she chooses villainy. When Damian was introduced, he was explained as a result of [[ChildByRape Talia drugging Bruce]], essentially {{retcon}}ning away her moral ambiguity and any actual romance between the two. It's since been retconned back to a consensual relationship.

* ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}:'' This explains the controversy about Damian Wayne's conception. His mother, Talia al-Ghul, spent her early years [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter conflicted between loyalty to her villainous father and her love for Batman]]; ultimately, she chooses villainy. When Damian was introduced, he was explained as a result of [[ChildByRape Talia drugging Bruce]], essentially retconning away her moral ambiguity and any actual romance between the two. It's since been retconned back to a consensual relationship.
* ''ComicBook/ChaosWar: ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}'' shows [[GodOfChaos Amatsu-Mikaboshi]] wearing his present-day duds in a flashback to the original Ares miniseries.

* General Sam Lane, originally Lois's gruff father who didn't like Clark much and wasn't entirely impressed with Superman, but had a good heart beneath it all, died during the alien invasion of ''Comicbook/OurWorldsAtWar''. When he came BackFromTheDead, his experiences in that war had left him with a new anti-alien attitude that turned him into a GeneralRipper declaring war on Comicbook/NewKrypton. In the ''Comicbook/SupermanSecretOrigin'' miniseries, Sam was gunning for Superman from the first moment he learned Metropolis's new hero was an alien, and is responsible for creating Metallo as his anti-Kryptonian weapon.
* Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'s personality has remained pretty consistent throughtout his decades of publication, but his speaking style hasn't. Modern incarnations of Wolvie have him speak in a very coarse, almost Texan drawl-like FunetikAksent, and in his worse days, he'll refer to EVERYONE as '[[CharacterTic bub]]', no matter the situation. It can be very jarring to go back to early issues and find he had a pretty normal way of speaking during the seventies. Being over 200 years old, he occasionally guest-stars in flashback issues, such as his appearance in ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas, where he inevitably talks in the familiarly rough dialect he uses in the present day.
* Similary, The Thing of the ComicBook/FantasticFour used to speak fairly eloquently (while simultaneously being far more irascible), and his skin was muddy rather than rocky. However, this was quickly changed, and by the time of ComicBook/DoctorDoom's first appearance, his crustier look (and speaking style) had already asserted themselves. In many flashbacks, he's portrayed as being like this from the start, save for in ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne #50, where The Thing travels back in time and meets himself.

* A very brief example happened in the ''Origins of Marvel Comics'' compilation - ComicBook/TheHulk was recolored to be green, as he is in the present, seemingly making it so he was green from the very beginning, when in the original publication, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness he was grey]][[note]]or meant to be, but coloring errors often messed that up[[/note]]. Once the Grey Hulk was made into an important part of the canon, this sort of thing stopped happening. [[AvertedTrope Now, the Hulk is always shown as being grey in his earliest days.]].

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The story of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' picks up right after [[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon the previous game]], but none of the characters look as they did in ''Armageddon'' when we rewind and go back to [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the first tournament]] (Johnny has short brown hair rather than the longer blondish hair he had at the time, Sonya wears her black leather outfit and has her hair in a long ponytail instead of wearing a bomber jacket and having her hair shorter, etc). And ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' flashes back to the ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'' part of ''[=MK9=]'', and the characters look as they do in ''MKX'' rather than ''[=MK9=]''!

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* General Sam Lane, originally Lois's gruff father who didn't like Clark much and wasn't entirely impressed with Superman, but had a good heart beneath it all, died during the alien invasion of ''Comicbook/OurWorldsAtWar''. When he came BackFromTheDead, his experiences in that war had left him with a new anti-alien attitude that turned him into a GeneralRipper declaring war on Comicbook/NewKrypton. In the ''Comicbook/SupermanSecretOrigins'' miniseries, Sam was gunning for Superman from the first moment he learned Metropolis's new hero was an alien, and is responsible for creating Metallo as his anti-Kryptonian weapon.

* General Sam Lane, originally Lois's gruff father who didn't like Clark much and wasn't entirely impressed with Superman, but had a good heart beneath it all, died during the alien invasion of ''Comicbook/OurWorldsAtWar''. When he came BackFromTheDead, his experiences in that war had left him with a new anti-alien attitude that turned him into a GeneralRipper declaring war on Comicbook/NewKrypton. In the ''Superman: Secret Origins'' miniseries, Sam was gunning for Superman from the first moment he learned Metropolis's new hero was an alien, and is responsible for creating Metallo as his anti-Kryptonian weapon.

** Likewise, every flashback with Pikachu will depict him as a kind-natured and naive NiceGuy, despite the fact that Pikachu started off a disobedient and lazy {{Jerkass}} when Ash received him in the first episode. Even throughout Kanto, Pikachu had some mean elements, which were watered away as time went on. The origin episode in Pokémon Journeys does show him being a jerk to Ash during their first meeting, though.
** In the credits of ''Anime/MewtwoStrikesBackEvolution'' (A CGI remake of the first film), the mother-daughter duo who first appeared in Movie 8, can be seen in the background, most likely because they'd been in most ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' movies since then (only missing out on movies 9 and 17)

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' changes the design on many items such as the elevators and the Material Emancipation Grills, yet when you return to destroyed areas from the first game they are fitted with the new design. Visiting "Old Aperture" later on reveals that these new designs were apparently in use in test chambers from decades before the first game took place. The devs specifically avoided this with the [[: :original, burn-marked but intact CompanionCube]], though.

* Anything related to [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' treats Chekov as having been there from the beginning, and ignores details about the clothing and technology that were different in the first two pilots.

* Applied across the board in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016''. The characterization of Ratchet, Clank and Qwark are much more similar to that of the [=PS3=] titles, with Clank being more street-smart, Qwark being bumbling but not outright evil, and Ratchet having dreams of becoming a hero, a desire not introduced until ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One All 4 One]]'' where he already became a hero. This also applies to the overall lore and worldbuilding that incorporates many developments that occurred since the original game: races like Fongoids and Tharpods from the later games appear, and companies like [=GrummelNet=] and Megacorp also have a presence far earlier than in the video games. Even the Protopet from the second game gets a tease far earlier than before.

** A reversed example from the same series, involving the same character. In ''The Night Baron Murder Case'', Ran, feeling down because her martial arts idol is emerging as the prime suspect in the case, remembers Shinichi once told her that if someone he cared about were ever a suspect, he would investigate them thoroughly. However, when Shinichi's soccer idol Ray Curtis is a suspect in ''The Three Ks of Osaka Case'', Shinichi intentionally underperforms for fear that he might prove Curtis's guilt. This is a more ambiguous example, though, because while it might be out of character for pre-character development Shinichi to suspect someone he cares about, it would be ''entirely'' in character for him to ''say'' he would, just because [[RuleOfCool it sounds like a cool line a Great Detective might say.]]

** A reversed example from the same series, involving the same character. In ''The Night Baron Murder Case'', Ran, feeling down because her martial arts idol is emerging as the prime suspect in the case, remembers Shinichi once told her that if someone he cared about were ever a suspect, he would investigate them thoroughly. However, when Shinichi's soccer idol Ray Curtis is a suspect in ''The Three Ks of Osaka Case'', Shinichi intentionally underperforms for fear that he might prove Curtis's guilt. This is a more ambiguous example, though, because while it might be out of character for pre-character development Shinichi to suspect someone he cares about, it would be ''entirely'' in character for him to ''say'' he would, just because [[it RuleOfCool sounds like a cool line a Great Detective might say.]]