History Main / DiscontinuityNod

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-->--''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', "Stan's Best Friend"

->''"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot!"''
-->-- '''Spider-Man''', ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', "[[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga I Really, Really Hate Clones]]"

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', if you collect all 100 Stray Beads you get the game's InfinityPlusOneSword. In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', Stray Beads are the cheapest type of VendorTrash you can get.

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** The IDW comic book miniseries ''[[ComicBook/DoctorWho The Forgotten]]'' suggested the entire "half-human" thing was a ruse put on by the Doctor to mislead the Master (exactly how is never really explained) in case he attempted to escape his execution.

* ''Literature/NightWatch'': In ''Final Watch'', Anton meets Yegor, the boy from the first novel, who mentions a dream he had, which is, basically, the plot for the ''Night Watch'' film, which diverges from the novels. Specifically, the part about Yegor being Anton's son.

** In the 200th episode, Dean recaps to a Supernatural fangirl everything that happened since season 5 (in this universe the author stopped publishing books after "Swan Song"). The girl replies, "Wow... That is some of the [[SeasonalRot WORST fanfictions I have ever heard!]]".

* Similarly, Pre-Crisis, one of the 70s-era Comicbook/TeenTitans was Mal Duncan, a BadassNormal who [[LegacyCharacter eventually adopted the name and costume]] of the Golden Age hero the Guardian. Post-Crisis, this never happened, and Mal instead called himself the Herald, a change that carried over to the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}''. However, in the ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'' ''Titans'' series, Mal steals a suit of tactical body armor from Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} that looks suspiciously like a modernized version of his old Guardian costume, complete with a gold mask.

* Similarly, Pre-Crisis, one of the 70s-era Comicbook/TeenTitans was Mal Duncan, a BadassNormal who [[LegacyCharacter eventually adopted the name and costume]] of the Golden Age hero the Guardian. Post-Crisis, this never happened, and Mal instead called himself the Herald, a change that carried over into the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}''. However, in the ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'' ''Titans'' series, Mal steals a suit of tactical body armor from Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} that looks suspiciously like a modernized version of his old Guardian costume, complete with a gold mask.

* Similarly, Pre-Crisis, one of the 70s-era Comicbook/TeenTitans was Mal Duncan, a BadassNormal who [[LegacyCharacter eventually adopted the name and costume]] of the Golden Age hero the Guardian. Post-Crisis, this never happened, andMal instead called himself the Herald, a change that carried over into the ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}''. However, in the ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'' ''Titans'' series, Mal steals a suit of tactical body armor from Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} that looks suspiciously like a modernized version of his old Guardian costume, complete with a gold mask.

* As if the title of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' didn't make it clear that the post-Creator/NaughtyDog games aren't canon, one exchange at the end of the reveal trailer confirms it.
-->'''Mask''': How many times have you beaten [[BigBad this clown]], anyway?
-->'''Coco''': Three.
-->'''Mask''': Really? Only three?
-->''[Crash nods]''
-->'''Mask''': [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex Funny]]... [[VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity seemed]] [[VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans like]] [[VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant more]].

* As if the title of ''Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time'' didn't make it clear that the post-Creator/NaughtyDog games aren't canon, one exchange at the end of the reveal trailer confirms it.
-->'''Unnamed Quantum Mask:''' How many times have you beaten [Dr. Neo Cortex], anyways?
-->'''Coco:''' Three.
-->'''Quantum Mask:''' Really? Only three?
-->'''Crash:''' ''[nods]''
-->'''Quantum Mask:''' Funny... seemed like more.

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'''Comicbook/{{Thor|2014}}:''' I thought you said you never wanted to talk about that.\\

** In ''Bardock: The Father of Goku Abridged'', as per the original special, Bardock has a DyingDream of Goku confronting Freeza. However, he then has visions of Cell and Majin Buu, to his confusion. And then he sees Goku and friends dealing with the Parapara Brothers from ''GT'', at which point he says "And now I welcome the sweet embrace of death."
** Then there's the earlier episode, where Goku [[TakeThat takes a shot]] at ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'', which was being released around the same time.

** Vegeta slams ''Dragonball Evolution'' in the high-school level of ''Scribblenauts Unlimited''.

--->'''[[SmugStraightEdge Punk]]:''' [[http://youtu.be/UrWu-P6eRuQ?t=1m46s "Katie Vick.]] And if you don't get it, that's fine, just Website/YouTube it, it'll drive you to drink and then you can come see me...AND I WILL SAVE YOU!"

* On the 1000th Raw episode, we saw Wrestling/MaeYoung's all grown up child...that's right; the hand returned!

* A very meta BreatherEpisode of ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool had Deadpool refer to the Green Goblin as "the guy who knocked up your girlfriend then killed her" Peter [[CanonDiscontinuity thankfully]] responded with confusion.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/GravePeril'', Harry meets up with his double and opponents for a magical duel in the parking lot outside of Wrigley Field — [[ArtisticLicenseGeography the one that totally does not exist in real life]]. In the [[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles tabletop RPG]] for the series, the City Creation section mentions how you might intentionally create inaccuracies in order to speed the plot or add flavor — like, say, adding a huge parking lot to your city's baseball field (to which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Harry himself]] comments in the notes, "Oh, very funny. Twist the knife.").

* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' runs on NegativeContinuity, so it's fitting that in one episode of season 2 Meow references everyone in the universe being turned into zombies in episode 4 before everything went back to normal the following episode.

** When ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' got a full-color reprint of the manga, Akira Toriyama wrote a number of new articles [[WorldBuilding expanding on the setting]] or answering long-standing questions. One article discussing Dr. Gero's Androids mentions that #13, #14, and #15 are nearly complete but not yet ready to be activated; this is a nod to the NonSerialMovie ''Anime/SuperAndroid13'', where those three Androids (designed by Toriyama himself) were completed by Gero's supercomputer after his death at the hands of a rebellious #17.
** ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' is the subject of many new Discontinuity Nods, now that the franchise is in something of a revival and Creator/AkiraToriyama is supervising it more closely. The ''Xenoverse'' video games explicitly refer to it as a sort of splinter timeline caused by Trunks' time machine shenanigans, and the much-beloved Future Trunks has a lot to say about his less-beloved counterpart's methods, although he does come around.
** Notably, the opening of the ''Battle of Gods'' movie depicts early comedic villain Pilaf and his two minions, Shu and Mai, as having wished themselves back to elementary school-age. The main plot hook of ''GT'' was an aged Pilaf accidentally wishing ''Goku'' back to a child.

*** ''Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance'', [[UpdatedRerelease the expanded edition of the game]], introduced a set of bonus alternate universe missions known as the Snake Tales. Most of them are fairly serious in tone, but the fifth mission, "External Gazer", is a parody of the main ''Sons of Liberty'' campaign, particularly towards the climax. At the absolute apex of the plot, Solidus attempts to stop Snake by releasing "the seal" on a unit known as "Them": "Their presence alone has the ability to [[JumpingTheShark destroy a world]]", he warns. "They are [[CreatorBreakdown children of darkness]] on whom is focused the [[TheScrappy combined hate of the entire universe]]". "They", of course, are [[ReplacementScrappy Raiden]] and {{Ro|manticPlotTumor}}se. Snake then experiences an extended MindScrew sequence, leaving him in a bizarre dream world in which he is convinced he's Raiden. Every single element of the "dream", from Rose calling Jack up in the middle of a bloody war in order to [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper complain about her love handles]], to Rose's electrical equipment being [[GainaxEnding possessed by lines of the Japanese syllabary and telling the couple how to clean toilets]], make fun of the stranger plot elements in ''Sons of Liberty''.
*** ''Substance'' also has a series of bonus VR [[FirstPersonSnapshooter Photography Missions]], most of which are concerned with photographing posters of bikini models. Two of them are murder mysteries, and, in both, the victim is Raiden, who is found in a comically undignified position in his death. The first one has two solutions -- an in-character one (Fatman, who murdered Raiden to steal his [[SceneryCensor straw]]) and an out-of-character one. It's an [=MGS2=] promo poster in a nearby room with Snake on it.

** In the "Deja Vu" mission in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Ground Zeroes]]'', logos of almost every game in the ''Metal Gear'' series are scattered across the U.S. Naval prison facility. When the player views a logo from a mainline ''Metal Gear'' title (i.e. the Kojima-directed games), contacting Kaz will cause him proclaim the title out loud, mention the number of pixels/polygons that composed Snake's character sprite/model in said game, and quote a line or two. On the other hand, if the player finds a logo for a spinoff title (including ''Portable Ops'' or ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]]'') Kaz won't recognize the title and doesn't even try to pronounce it, instead noting "it mustn't be that important".
* Model A in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' turns out not to be a Biometal based on [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Axl]] but [[spoiler:on the BigBad, Albert]]. [[{{Hatedom}} Some fans]] consider the scene which reveals this to be a giant TakeThat at Axl and his creators (regardless, Model A ''is'' clearly based on Axl visually and gameplay-wise).

* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', there's a small scene where Zack finds a Shinra army helmet lying on the floor of the slums. It causes him to briefly consider the presence of a Shinra army living underneath Midgar, which he soon dismisses as a 'stupid idea'. ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' involved an underground Shinra army and is widely considered the worst thing to come out of the whole Compilation.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'', one of the unlockable items in Konquest Mode is earned by decking the ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'' hidden character [[MotionCapture Mokap]], who is walking around one area in a particularly dopey manner, for no reason. Didn't stop Mokap from reappearing in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', though he had a good reason to return: they [[DreamMatchGame had to bring back]] ''everyone'' for ''Armageddon'', scrappies included. Which was [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap actually did some good for characters like Stryker]].
** Another bit from the Konquest Mode in ''Deception'' -- playing the dialogue of certain people in the Netherrealm and Chaos Realm backwards will yield the comment, "Will Hsu Hao ever return? Probably not," in reference to another ''Deadly Alliance'' character widely disliked by the fandom and [[OldShame creators]] alike. As explained above, he did return for ''Armageddon'', but only because he had to - since then he's gone on to be something of a running joke, including a one-page appearance in the ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' comic solely for the purpose of having Scorpion kill him, and having Erron Black drop a burlap sack with Hsu Hao's mutilated corpse in one of his intro variations in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''.

** Trish goes on to insinuate that the "Dante" from ''[=DMC2=]'' was actually a friend of Dante's named Enzo, who had apparently [[MuggedForDisguise stolen Dante's clothes]] in order to impersonate him.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Setzer from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' made a cameo, in which he bribes Roxas to lose a tournament to him -- an act which is, at best, completely OutOfCharacter for a compulsive [[TheGambler gambler]] [[spoiler: which hints to TheReveal]]. In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', this conversation happens in a Tutorial (the ''Dissidia'' tutorials are delivered by previous ''Final Fantasy'' characters):

* Capcom loves to poke fun at the [[ContemptibleCover hideous American boxart]] for the original ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|1}}'', starting with a sidequest involving "posters of heroes" in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' where it was described as resembling a "colorful coal miner", continuing with the [[{{Retraux}} fake box art they commissioned]] for ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', drawn in a similar art style, and having Bad Box Art Mega Man as a playable character in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''. Bad Boxart Mega Man was also set to be a playable character in the cancelled game ''Mega Man Universe''.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', [[VideoGame/Persona3 Akihiko]] says that he wants to [[spoiler: quit the Shadow Operatives and become a police officer -- his profession in the no-longer-canon ''Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul'']]. In fact, according to an interview with Zen United (the European publisher of the game), the designers were originally going to give him a look similar to his ''Trinity Soul'' appearance before settling for the look he's given in-game instead.

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', ComicBook/WinterSoldier's intro dialog if he fights ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is "'Captain Hydra'? Gimme a break, Steve!", referring to the infamous 2016 comic storyline where Cap was revealed to be a lifelong HYDRA supporter (which was quickly {{retcon}}ned away due to the immense public backlash).

** The DS version of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' has a mission with Silver and Blaze working together. Beating the mission with an S-rank has them pointing out that they may have teamed up before, referencing their partnership in ''Sonic 2006''.

** If Sonic interacts with [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lumpy Space Princess]], he starts recalling another time he met a princess before immediately forgetting it. This was a reference to the infamous InterspeciesRomance he had with Princess Elise.

** A central idea of the proposed post-TV Movie storyline was a retooling of the Master into being the Doctor's long lost brother. This is referenced thus in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]:

'''The Doctor:''' ...You've been watching too much TV.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]], the Doctor pokes fun at the UNIT dating controversy (visible under that name at [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]) with a line about "when I worked with them back in the seventies... or was it the eighties?"

* The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TV movie ''WesternAnimation/JonnysGoldenQuest'' introduced Race Bannon's daughter Jessie, which he had with his on-and-off lover Jezebel Jade. In the second season of the follow-up series, ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the identity of Jessie's mother was {{re|tcon}}vised to Race's previously unseen ex-wife Estella Velasquez, since the head writer of the series felt that Jade was not the kind of woman to give up her life as an adventurer to raise a child. When Jessie meets Jezebel in one episode and finds out she was romantically involved with her father, she finds the idea that Jade could have been her mother absurd.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan's Best Friend", Stan says he has never had a dog since his mother forced him to kill his own dog Freddy as a child. When Francine mentions that the family have actually owned two dogs before (Thor in the pilot, and Fussy in "Not Particularly Desperate Housewives"), Stan says that those episodes were just dreams.

--> '''Bugs:''' Okay, now you're just messin' with me!

** Then there's this gem from "Heroes" where Dr. Fraiser is going through Jack's medical files.

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-->'''Peter:''' And, uh... I did this. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain We don't really talk about this]].