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* A magazine posts fake news and it says it's real. Some days ago I found a magazine showing some fanmade {{Ben10}}-themed YuGiOh cards and saying they're the 5 most rare cards in the new Yu-Gi-Oh! expansion ''Bringer of the Omnitrix'' and talking about a whole Structure Deck about the "Omnitrix Alien" monster type.

* Do the Vashta Nerada count as a CosmicHorror? Is the Doctor a CosmicHorror ''to'' {{Cosmic Horror}}s?

* Not [[FanDumb]], but fans who are actually ignorant of what actually happens in a series. Not [[FanonDisContinuity]] either, where they know it exists but choose not to; something like an example I've found in Real Life:
[[spoiler:After the recent revelation of Tobi being Madara Uchiha in [[Naruto]],]] I mentioned this to a person who was going to cosplay the former for Halloween. His response? "No, Tobi is Obito Uchiha!", which led to the following.

* Not [[FanDumb]], but fans who are actually ignorant of what actually happens in a series. Not [[DisContinuity]] either, where they know it exists but choose not to; something like an example I've found in Real Life:

** This sounds like OrIsIt?

The last few panels of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0669.html this]] OrderOfTheStick strip have got to be a trope, but which one?

** RealityIsAChessboard? This can be seen in the ''{{Xanth}}'' books, too, where the various planet demons are engaged in a game, and use the characters as part of it. Also seen in some ''StarTrek'' eps, and ''StargateAtlantis'', when Shepherd and [=McKay=] find a "game" that turn out to be giving their orders to two countries as Word Of God. Maybe I'll launch that.

''DoctorWho''

* Several times in ''DoctorWho''--I'd say "The Lazarus Experiment", "Voyage of the Damned", and "The Unicorn and the Wasp". And in TheMovie, there was the scene where Grace had to perform surgery in the same clothes she'd been wearing to the opera.

** Another troper has noticed the same effect between [[DoctorWho the Fifth Doctor and The Master]]. Probably coincidental, since it never seems to occur with other incarnations, but it's a striking visual anyway.

''TheWizardOfOz''

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* I want to add the Vectors somewhere for how rigidly defined and limited they are, compared to how variable similar telekinetic powers often are -- they act ''just like'' an extra set of arms, albeit invisible, superhumanly strong and flexible, freakishly long arms. But the thing is, this is the ''exact opposite'' of a GreenLanternRing, and they don't fall under MinovskyParticle, since it's for particles and energies with rigidly defined properties, not powers.

I'm pretty sure it's [[IronicEcho an]] [[DialogueReversal echo]] [[MeaningfulEcho trope]], but I'm not sure which one.

* In ''TheSimpsons'' When Sideshow Bob was elected mayor, Bart was demoted to Kindergarten as revenge for getting him sent to prison in the first place.

* In LinkinPark remix album ''Reanimation'', the introduction track features a heartfelt tune. The last track, KRWLNG, is revealed to be based around that tune. Like Chekhov's Gun, but musically.
** Broadway musicals generally begin with an "overture" which is composed of themes from the various songs that are sung later on. I guess this is another example.
** SystemOfADown do a similar thing with a piece called Soldier Side, but the full song is included on an entirely different album. Granted, the two albums came out simultaneously, but it's the same concept.
** This is BookEnds, which I've added to the trope in question.

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*In the book ''Issola'', Lady Teldra makes a reference to Vlad engaging in "gray humor". It hit me recently that this is the equivalent of what we would call "black humor"- the difference is is that in the series, black is the color of magic and gray is the color of death- I guess the trope is something like modifying a traditional phrase with a fantasy concept.
** CallARabbitASmeerp?

Old School Donald Duck shorts: