History Main / DiscontinuityNod

* ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' toes the line with this. Originally, it was envisioned as "a reboot ''and'' a sequel" to 2003's ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', which meant that ''Hulk'' would be canon, but subject to BroadStrokes in order to better tie to the feel of the original TV show. Ultimately, the final product had little to do with the previous film, so the one tie-in that remained is that at the end of ''Hulk'', Bruce Banner is in Brazil, and at the start of ''Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner is still in Brazil. Creator/EdwardNorton himself rewrote parts of the script, which included adding the flashback to the experiment which created Hulk with the express purpose of portraying it as different from the previous film.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', if you collect all 100 Stray Beads (this involves beating two infamously difficult minigames) you get the game's InfinityPlusOneSword. In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', Stray Beads are the cheapest type of VendorTrash you can get.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Very few seasons of the show actually hold to what can be considered canon.
** Season 3: When Season 2 ended with Lister getting pregnant the following season started with a Star Wars scrawl moving at lightning speed that explained what happened. It also went into detail about how Kryten got repaired and is now a member of the crew (albeit played by a different actor). And Holly is now a woman.
** Season 6: At the end of Season 5 the production team blew up the Red Dwarf model, causing them to scratch their heads when they needed it for the next season. As such Lister parked the spaceship next to a Blue Green Planetoid causing them to be stuck on a smaller vessel.
--> '''Lister:''' They're all the same these blue green planetoids. All [[ShapedLikeItself blue green and planetoidy]].
** Season 9: At the end of Season 8 the entire crew of Red Dwarf was resurrected and in danger of being eaten alive by a matter eating bacteria, Rimmer failed and kicked the Grim Reaper in the nuts. Cut to the three parter "Back to Earth" where Cat, Lister, Kryten, and a hologram Rimmer are the only people on Red Dwarf. The shout out comes in Season 10 when everyone casually mentions how they got out of that mess only for the crew to get distracted by the crisis of the week.

* The tie-in book ''The Jedi Path'' includes an essay on the Force, in which the author encourages the reader not to think too much about [[FanDislikedExplanation midi-]][[DoingInTheWizard chlorians]] and focus on the wider aspects of the Force. An annotation from Luke says he wants to return to the idea of "the Force as it flows through us – not from us."

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' tie-in book ''The Jedi Path'' includes an essay on the Force, in which the author encourages the reader not to think too much about [[FanDislikedExplanation midi-]][[DoingInTheWizard chlorians]] and focus on the wider aspects of the Force. An annotation from Luke says he wants to return to the idea of "the Force as it flows through us – not from us."

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'''[[Comicbook/JaneFoster Thor]]:''' I thought you said you never wanted to talk about that.\\

'''Lisa:''' Hmm, maybe you're right, Principal ''Tamzarian''.\\

** The two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" had two endings animated for it. The ending that was shown to the press had Smithers being revealed to be the culprit, which differs from the actually aired ending. This unaired alternate ending was referenced in a later episode.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''LiteratureDeathMasks'', 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 [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Harry himself]] comments in the notes, "Oh, very funny. Twist the knife.").

* ''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 [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Harry himself]] comments in the notes, "Oh, very funny. Twist the knife.").

* ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' was such a calamitous and controversial series that despite its huge [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] scale, DC chose to ignore most of it within weeks of its completion (including, [[{{Irony}} ironically enough]], ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' itself). Even while it was being published, Creator/GeoffJohns included a lateral TakeThat in ''Booster Gold Vol. #1''[[note]]It was released on October 2007 --''Countdown'' began in May of that same year and would end in April 2008[[/note]], where the time-travelling ComicBook/RipHunter wrote down [[TheBigBoard a chalkboard of notes]] to keep track of the current state of TheMultiverse, some of which being "DON'T WORRY ABOUT COUNTDOWN" followed by "focus elsewhere" in huge circles.

** And then there was the execrable supplement, ''Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand.'' It was so jarring, badly conceived, and generally unpopular that the company's subsequent edition made a habit of noting that everything in the book was an unreliable narrator claim by someone who was misinformed, insane, or just plain wrong. (Not to mention dropping a NUKE on the Black Hand's base.)

** Similarly, there was Samuel Haight, who ended up with the powers of a werewolf, a vampire, ''and'' a mage. When he died, his soul was instantly whisked away to be [[AndIMustScream turned into a Deathlord's ashtray]]. The rulebooks have since always carefully [[HybridOverkillAvoidance closed off the possibility of combining even two different character types]]. In a novel detailing the endgame for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', a mage manages to gaze into the Umbra, and sees a powerful ghost extinguishing his cigar on a screaming ashtray.

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

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' has been established as non-canon due to both its negative reception and its ending [[CosmicRetcon erasing the game's events from history]] anyway. However, there have been occasional references to the events in other games.
** 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 '06''.

* From his first [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] promo, CM Punk said ''"August 13th, 2005. I left ProfessionalWrestling. August 20th, 2021. I'm back."'' No guess for [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} what happened in the middle]].

* The GBA port of the original ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', titled ''Final Fight One'', features the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' renditions of Cody and Guy as playable characters. The storyline for both characters have them reliving the events of ''Final Fight'' in a dream (at least, they think it's just a dream). When Alpha!Cody confronts Rolento, he claims that he is unable to remember actually fighting him, since he TookAShortcut after defeating Edi E. and went straight to the Bayside stage. This is a reference to the earlier SNES port of the game, which removed the entire Industrial Area stage, and by proxy Rolento, due to limited cartridge space.

* At the end of the first hard-drawn phase of ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', George makes his debut in his superhero persona and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000610c introduces himself]] as "Spark", saying, "[[NoFourthWall It's the best the author could come up with.]]" When the hand-drawn comic was re-launched and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/001004c George's superhero introduction is revisited]], he now calls himself "Blitz". When Bob/Napalm points out that this was not the name he gave out originally, George/Blitz claims that they never did that joke.

* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'' masterfully combines this with a TakeThat, by having the [[OvershadowedByAwesome Jamming Birds]] fail because they used music from ''Anime/MacrossII''.
** ''Anime/MacrossDelta'' draws a major plot beat from ''Macross II''; namely, the idea of a song that can control peoples' minds and drive them berserk.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** When ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' got a full-color reprint of the manga, Creator/AkiraToriyama 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/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13 Super Android 13]]'', 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 Akira Toriyama is supervising it more closely. The ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse Xenoverse]]'' [[VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2 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 ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods 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.
* The ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise has ''Film/GSaviour'', which has never officially been de-canonized, but both Sunrise and fans alike tend to ignore it. Sunrise has acknowledged it exactly twice: the first time was in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', wherein Athrun's first mobile suit after rejoining ZAFT is called the Saviour, which got [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Kira (piloting the Freedom). The second was when when the eponymous G-Saviour showed up in ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters''... wherein it got blown up 5 seconds into its debut battle and was never seen again.
* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Madoka's Rebellion Story]]''. While it rendered Madoka [[spoiler:becoming a Goddess and disappearing forever]] non-canon, they made it a very in-universe discontinuity nod by having [[spoiler:the DarkMagicalGirl do the retconning by basically usurping God and becoming Satan in the process,]] with nobody, not even the BigBad [[spoiler:(mainly because of them [[EvilerThanThou getting upended by said Satan]]) or [[SelfInflictedHell said Satan]]]] enjoying a single moment of it.

* ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has nods towards "those three episodes" of the Mega Man cartoon; a producer offers to make a Mega Man cartoon and gives those episodes' plot synopses. Mega politely dissuades him.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', when Pikachu sees Scott for the first time, at first he has trouble recalling his name, calling him Shouta, Scottie and Sawyer, in reference to the XY rival... who Ash never got to meet because the timeline was reset before he could.

* In Telltale's episodic ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games, there are a few references to ''Sam And Max: Freelance Police!!'', the game that [[ScrewedByTheNetwork LucasArts cancelled]]:
** In Sam and Max's office, there is a case file labeled "3/3/04", the date on which the game was canceled, to which Sam quips:
--->'''Sam:''' Ah, I remember that case. Par''tic''ularly gruesome.
*** The remaster of the first season adds another label to the case file with "9/21/18", the date Telltale Games underwent closure and let go of most of its employees. Sam's comment is unchanged.
** In episode 105, while examining a ballet poster:
--->'''Sam:''' "[[{{Parody}} Ferret Lake]]".\\
'''Max:''' Ooh! Sequels to beloved classics are always better than the originals!\\
'''Sam:''' ''[[TakeThat (with emphasis)]]'' Yes Max. Yes they are.
** In episode 202, Sam finds on Easter Island among various missing items and people, "a fully playable beta of ''Sam and Max: Freelance Police!!''"
** In episode 205, [[spoiler:Whizzer]] fires Satan as the ruler of hell, claiming that his termination was due to "current market place realities and underlying economic considerations", the exact reasons Creator/LucasArts gave for canceling ''Freelance Police!!''
** Meanwhile, the trailer for the cancelled game included a clip where Sam exclaimed his astonishment for them being in 3D, while Max dismissed that with "Eh, it's been done." Max had previously appeared in 3D form as an easter egg in ''VideoGame/JediKnightDarkForcesII''.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'', the non-canon NES sequel to the original ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'', has been the subject of a few digs throughout the series. ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', the later developed MSX sequel, mocks Big Boss's transformation into a cyborg at the end of ''Snake's Revenge'' by having a character mention a rumor about Big Boss becoming a VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}, while ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' has Snake remark that he's "not a big fan of blades", a reference to Snake's weapon of choice in ''Snake's Revenge'' (which he proudly sheaths into his holster during the opening story sequence).
** Raiden, the surprise protagonist of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' who replaced Solid Snake for the main portion of the game, would be the subject of numerous digs throughout the next few games and promotional material after [[ReplacementScrappy fans gave him a rather cold reception.]]
*** ''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 a ''[=MGS2=]'' promo poster in a nearby room with Snake on it.
*** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' introduced a minor character named Ivan Raidenovich Raikov, who was put into the game specifically to make fun of Raiden. At one point, Naked Snake (Solid Snake's predecessor) must disguise himself as Raikov. With his uniform and mask on, his commander tells him he looks so much like Raikov that 'you're starting to irritate me already.' Upset, Snake responds, "But [[{{Bishonen}} this look]] should [[MrFanservice make me more popular]]!"
*** An early teaser trailer for ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', made using character models from ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', involves Snake sitting down in a Director's chair, standing in for Creator/HideoKojima as director. He then takes off his mask and reveals that underneath, he's Raiden. Canned booing accompanies this. Raiden later fights Snake over a 'Main Character' chair -- he [[FootPopping foot-pops]] as their buttocks touch and then is thrown off the edge of the stage -- Snake then sits down in the main character's chair, gets MickeyMousing to emphasize his sexiness, and the audience cheers ecstatically. At the end of the trailer, Raiden crawls back up, humiliated and bruised.
*** A sequel to the above teaser (featured as a bonus video in ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Susbsistence'') involved Raiden going back in time to try and kill Naked Snake so he can prevent Solid Snake from existing and become the series' protagonist. Somehow, he keeps transporting into ''precisely'' the wrong moments, and by the time he actually gets a shot at it, he's learned to respect Naked Snake too much to kill him. That doesn't stop his quest though. This time he goes back further into the future to kill Solid Snake himself, only to end up being killed by Big Boss (the future version of Naked Snake) during the final battle of ''Metal Gear 2'' instead.
** After ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' turned out to be a prequel starring Big Boss, ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' went back to the present day setting and had Solid Snake lamenting the fact that Big Boss is suddenly being revered by the public as a legendary hero after information on his early missions were [[ContinuityNod recently declassified]] (i.e. the previous game was made) despite the clearly antagonistic role he had in the original MSX games. It also has Snake pulling hitherto-unseen CQC skills from out of nowhere; the fact that CQC was a play mechanic introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' would've sufficed to justify its inclusion in ''4'', but an in-universe explanation was also added which established that Snake always knew, [[HitlerAteSugar but stopped using those skills due to their association with Big Boss]] and is now finding himself [[DamnYouMuscleMemory instinctively calling upon them]] due to so many current soldiers, in awe of Big Boss after his pre-Outer Heaven exploits were [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall declassified after the Big Shell incident]], copying his CQC moves.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' acts as a direct sequel to ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'', treating the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'', the previous PSP game in the series and another ''Snake Eater'' sequel itself which was made without Kojima's involvement, as if it never happened. The only real acknowledgment of ''Portable Ops'' is the following throwaway line said by Kazuhira Miller in the beginning of the prologue mission.
--->'''Kaz:''' Finally, we can leave all that crap in San Hieronymo behind, and bust into the mercenary business for real.
** 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]]. Some fans--particularly the ones who don't like Axl--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).
** A subtler one comes earlier in the game.
--->'''Model A:''' I don't even know why I was created.
* The infamous ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie is a great source of in-jokes over at Creator/{{Capcom}}:
** One of the most controversial changes made in the film was that Chun-Li was a journalist instead of a cop and Interpol agent. Accordingly, one of her win quotes in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII: 3rd Strike'' is "Leave me alone! I'm a fighter, not a news reporter!"
** Likewise, ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' includes a reporter who looks suspiciously like Chun-Li during the opening movie.
** If [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]] uses Midnight Bliss on Chun-Li in ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos'', she'll transform into her movie counterpart, right down to the red qipao.
** ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone 2'' has Pai from ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' quote M. Bison's iconic ButForMeItWasTuesday line, which Chun-Li notes sounds familiar.
** Likewise, when Juri fights [[spoiler:Twelve posing as]] Bison in the ''Comicbook/StreetFighter'' comic, she uses a variation of the "For me it was Tuesday" line.
** Bison also says the "For me it was Tuesday" line as part of his taunt in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''.

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XI'' Kyo has a special winquote if he's in a MirrorMatch: "Another clone? There's enough of me to start a baseball team!" This is a nod to the much-maligned NESTS storyline in ''The King of Fighters '99'', ''2000'', and ''2001'', which had clones of Kyo as a plot point.
** There's also this exchange between Angel and Kula in ''XIV'', in regards to Foxy's (now-retconned) death in ''2001'':
-->'''Angel:''' So you didn't bring Foxy this time, or perhaps... Did someone take her out already?\\
'''Kula:''' I hate you!

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** 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'', [[DreamMatchGame 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''.
** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', [[EvilSorceror Shang]] [[ShapeShifting Tsung's]] first fatality has him transform into a MonsterClown and [[BoomHeadshot blast the top of his opponent's head off with a gun]]. The fatality trainer mentions that Tsung "picked up a few tricks from previous opponents". Aside from the [[CaptainErsatz changed model]] (and the [[BloodierAndGorier lack of censorship]]), this fatality is the exact same as one of ComicBook/TheJoker's in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'', which takes place outside of series continuity.

* In ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' is a [[RuleOfFunny playable character]]. He is confronted by Alastor (the spirit of a demonic sword he used in the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1''), who chews Dante out for leaving him behind during the events of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''. Dante protests, "I don't remember that!"
** Early, Trish insinuates 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 [[IdentityImpersonator impersonate him]]. (This also serves as an in-universe explanation for why Dante's untransformed state is him in nothing but boxers.)

* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Gaiden'', [[BigBad Shu]] seems to be aware of the reboot that occurred between the Classic and Alpha series, though he feels the current timeline is the one that isn't supposed to exist [[OmnicidalManiac and seeks to rectify this]].
* In the 2011 version of ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'', one question poses the hypothetical scenario of Creator/PaulReubens hosting a game show based on the game. Cookie imagines [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge such a thing would be a surefire hit]].

* In the 1994 version of ''VideoGame/JumpStart Kindergarten'', there's a [[ShowWithinAShow video game within a computer game]] called "Pattern Blaster" which stars a mouse named Roquefort. In the 1998 version, however, Roquefort exists in the "real world" and there's a different mouse in Pattern Blaster named Brie. Sometimes, as Brie is eating a hunk of cheese, Roquefort comments, "Boy, I wish I was Brie right now."
* One of the taunts you can send to other players in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' is a guy asking "What happened to all the stone?" in bewilderment, a reference to how one of the resources from the [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII previous game]], Stone, was replaced by Favor in that game.
* In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', ComicBook/WinterSoldier's intro dialog if he fights ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is "'Captain Hydra'? Gimme a break, Steve!", referring to [[ComicBook/SecretEmpire 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).

* ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'':
** 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 in the aforementioned ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]''.
** The Level Pack for ''Film/TheGoonies'' works in a DeletedScene where a giant octopus shows up and a Walkman is used to send it away. The game has said octopus show up and a boombox is used to make it drop Andy and Brand. They both [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain agree to never tell anyone about it]] due to how ridiculous it sounds. Data, however, plans to still tell everyone. This detail actually makes a {{Blooper}} from the original film make sense as Data inexplicably mentions a giant octopus at the end.
* ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon DS'': The Goemon from the ill-fated ''New Age Shutsudo'' reboot makes a cameo in the Oedo prison, all beat up, for "having committed crimes against the series".

* A second season episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wabbit}}'' serves as a callback to the classic cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'', with Bugs suffering at the hands of the animator. One of the cruel punishments he's put through? He is redrawn as Ace Bunny from ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed''.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When asked about Kennedy in her first season 8 appearance Willow says she died ([[TakeThatScrappy in a nod to the fans that hated that ship]]), but quickly clarifies that it was a temporary magic death and she got better.

** One of the tidbits of advice that Peter gave ComicBook/MilesMorales during the ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'' crossover was to never ''ever'' allow anyone to clone him. Also never lend any money to Franchise/{{Wolverine}} or ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}.

** His winning the 2006 Royal Rumble was dubbed by the WWE as the first time that someone won the Royal Rumble as the #2 entry. This was a reference to the widely hated 1999 Royal Rumble where Wrestling/VinceMcMahon [[ShockingSwerve won the Royal Rumble as the #2 entry]].

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