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** In ''Literature/AnotherNote'', Mello explains that he's gotten to meet L in person, and heard from him the stories of how L arrived at Wammy's House, and how he bested Eraldo Coil and Denevue...but chooses not to share those stories, or the story of how he got to meet L, with the readers.
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** In ''Literature/AnotherNote'', Mello explains that he's gotten to meet L in person, and heard from him the stories of how L arrived at Wammy's House, and how he bested Eraldo Coil and Denevue...but chooses not to share those stories, or the story of how he got to meet L, with the readers.
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** Apparently, there was something nasty in the woodshed.
*** Which Creator/CharlesStross explained in one of his ''Laundry'' stories.
** Not to mention "the wrong my man did your father, Robert Poste's child." Flora finds out some of it, but the reader doesn't, and even Flora never learns if the goat died.
*** Which Creator/CharlesStross explained in one of his ''Laundry'' stories.
** Not to mention "the wrong my man did your father, Robert Poste's child." Flora finds out some of it, but the reader doesn't, and even Flora never learns if the goat died.
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** Apparently, there was something nasty in the woodshed.
*** Whichwoodshed, which Creator/CharlesStross explained in one of his ''Laundry'' stories.
**Not There's a reference to mention "the wrong my man did your father, Robert Poste's child." Flora finds out some of it, but the reader doesn't, and even Flora never learns if the goat died.
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* A semi-example: in the ''DI Frost'' books, by RD Wingfield, there is a reference at least once a book to a joke told by Frost involving a man who drank a spittoon as a bet. The rest of the joke is never given, but anyone who has heard it reacts with alarm at any attempt by Frost to tell it again. When, in the final book, he does tell it to an unsuspecting individual, it happens off-screen.
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* A semi-example: in In the ''DI Frost'' books, by RD Wingfield, there is a reference at least once a book to a joke told by Frost involving a man who drank a spittoon as a bet. The rest of the joke is never given, but anyone who has heard it reacts with alarm at any attempt by Frost to tell it again. When, in the final book, he does tell it to an unsuspecting individual, it happens off-screen.
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** ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' has Vimes threatening a recalcitrant prisoner with the "Ginger Beer Trick", approximated by a finger popped from the mouth, a hissing noise and a blood curdling scream. [[note]] (This one's not really a mystery. You shake a glass bottle of soda or mineral water and spray it straight up the victim's nostrils, leveraging the pressure with the thumb. It hurts like hell and leaves no marks on the victims body. It is commonly done by drugdealers and corrupt cops in Latin America. For an on-screen example, you can watch it happen on an episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.) And it doesn't have to be a nostril, either -- ''any'' mucus membrane will do, but the nostrils are simply convenient. Ginger beer is, however, particularly effective for it, as the ginger adds a burning sensation -- even just incautiously drinking the stuff hurts.[[/note]]
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** ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' has Vimes threatening a recalcitrant prisoner with the "Ginger Beer Trick", approximated by a finger popped from the mouth, a hissing noise and a blood curdling scream. [[note]] (This one's not really a mystery. You shake a glass bottle of soda or mineral water and spray it straight up the victim's nostrils, leveraging the pressure with the thumb. It hurts like hell and leaves no marks on the victims victim's body. It is commonly done by drugdealers and corrupt cops in Latin America. For an on-screen example, you can watch it happen on an episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.) And it doesn't have to be a nostril, either -- ''any'' mucus membrane will do, but the nostrils are simply convenient. Ginger beer is, however, particularly effective for it, as the ginger adds a burning sensation -- even just incautiously drinking the stuff hurts.[[/note]]
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*** A more minor one beforehand involved Ridcully having a bad experience with a tap marked "Old Faithful" (the name of a famous geyser).
---->'''Ridcully:''' Ye Gods, I've never felt so ''clean''...
---->'''Ridcully:''' Ye Gods, I've never felt so ''clean''...
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** In ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'', Paarfi cites a Dragaeran folktale of the "For Want OfA Nail" variety, "The Tale of the Smudged Letter". It apparently involves a leaky roof, a river boatman, a seer and a wizard, but what actually ''happened'' isn't stated.
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** In ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'', Paarfi cites a Dragaeran folktale of the "For Want OfA Of A Nail" variety, "The Tale of the Smudged Letter". It apparently involves a leaky roof, a river boatman, a seer and a wizard, but what actually ''happened'' isn't stated.
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** The reason for Hagrid's expulsion from the school is treated like this in the first book and part of the second. It's only brought up about once or twice, but apparently his reaction generally involves [paraphrasing] "clearing his throat loudly and suddenly becoming deaf until the subject is changed." Subverted when we find out the story later in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]''.
*** He was raising an Acromantula (Giant Spider). To Hagrid's credit, the Spider (Aragog) is immensely grateful for Hagrid's help, and as such refuses to let himself or his children eat Hagrid. [[ExactWords Only Hagrid]].
** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' mentions two, both related to Quidditch. One is a claim that referees are sometimes known to vanish and turn up in the Sahara Desert months later, which later turned out to be an exaggeration -- it only happened once, and it was because his broom had been turned into a Portkey. The other one is the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, where all seven hundred fouls in the game were committed (and several were likely created). Among the things we know happen are that a Chaser was turned into a polecat, some players brought actual weapons onto the field, and that the Transylvanian team released a storm of vampire bats from under their cloaks. One has to wonder how many players survived the 1473 match, and what the hell kind of foul is worse than trying to kill someone with a broadsword.
*** Some of these fouls are Noodle Incidents ''in-universe'', as, according to ''Quidditch Through the Ages'', the full official list is not even publicly available, due to concerns that people "might get ideas." The book's author was able to get access to the list for his research, and would only say that he could confirm the soundness of this policy. (Though he does note that the overall ban on using a wand against the opposing team makes about ninety-percent of them impractical in any case.)
** Also, in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' Tom Riddle recalls Hagrid getting in trouble for "trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed." This might have been untrue, since werewolves have human babies, not cubs, but one wonders what Hagrid really ''did'' get up to.
*** On the Pottermore site, in a recent update for [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]], Rowling said that, once, a werewolf couple mated and produced offspring that were physically wolves, but of much higher intelligence; their cubs were in Hogwarts' custody and put into the Forbidden Forest. Could be what that was. Could also be Rowling covering up her mistake in calling children born from werewolves cubs.
*** He was raising an Acromantula (Giant Spider). To Hagrid's credit, the Spider (Aragog) is immensely grateful for Hagrid's help, and as such refuses to let himself or his children eat Hagrid. [[ExactWords Only Hagrid]].
** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' mentions two, both related to Quidditch. One is a claim that referees are sometimes known to vanish and turn up in the Sahara Desert months later, which later turned out to be an exaggeration -- it only happened once, and it was because his broom had been turned into a Portkey. The other one is the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, where all seven hundred fouls in the game were committed (and several were likely created). Among the things we know happen are that a Chaser was turned into a polecat, some players brought actual weapons onto the field, and that the Transylvanian team released a storm of vampire bats from under their cloaks. One has to wonder how many players survived the 1473 match, and what the hell kind of foul is worse than trying to kill someone with a broadsword.
*** Some of these fouls are Noodle Incidents ''in-universe'', as, according to ''Quidditch Through the Ages'', the full official list is not even publicly available, due to concerns that people "might get ideas." The book's author was able to get access to the list for his research, and would only say that he could confirm the soundness of this policy. (Though he does note that the overall ban on using a wand against the opposing team makes about ninety-percent of them impractical in any case.)
** Also, in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' Tom Riddle recalls Hagrid getting in trouble for "trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed." This might have been untrue, since werewolves have human babies, not cubs, but one wonders what Hagrid really ''did'' get up to.
*** On the Pottermore site, in a recent update for [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]], Rowling said that, once, a werewolf couple mated and produced offspring that were physically wolves, but of much higher intelligence; their cubs were in Hogwarts' custody and put into the Forbidden Forest. Could be what that was. Could also be Rowling covering up her mistake in calling children born from werewolves cubs.
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** The reason for Hagrid's expulsion from the school is treated like this in the first book and part of the second. It's only brought up about once or twice, but apparently his reaction generally involves [paraphrasing] "clearing his throat loudly and suddenly becoming deaf until the subject is changed." Subverted when we find out the story later in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]''. \n*** He was raising an Acromantula (Giant Spider). To Hagrid's credit, the Spider (Aragog) is immensely grateful for Hagrid's help, and as such refuses to let himself or his children eat Hagrid. [[ExactWords Only Hagrid]].
** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' mentions two, both related to Quidditch. One is a claim that referees are sometimes known to vanish and turn up in the Sahara Desert months later, which later turned out to be an exaggeration -- it only happened once, and it was because his broom had been turned into a Portkey. The other one is the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, where all seven hundred fouls in the game were committed (and several were likely created). Among the things we know happen are that a Chaser was turned into a polecat, some players brought actual weapons onto the field, and that the Transylvanian team released a storm of vampire bats from under their cloaks. One has to wonder how many players survived the 1473 match, and what the hell kind of foul is worse than trying to kill someone with abroadsword.
***broadsword. Some of these fouls are Noodle Incidents ''in-universe'', as, according to ''Quidditch Through the Ages'', the full official list is not even publicly available, due to concerns that people "might get ideas." The book's author was able to get access to the list for his research, and would only say that he could confirm the soundness of this policy. (Though he does note that the overall ban on using a wand against the opposing team makes about ninety-percent of them impractical in any case.)
** Also, in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' Tom Riddle recalls Hagrid getting in trouble for "trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed." This might have been untrue, since werewolves have human babies, not cubs, but one wonders what Hagrid really ''did'' get upto.
***to. On the Pottermore site, in a recent an update for [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]], Azkaban]]'', Rowling said that, once, a werewolf couple mated and produced offspring that were physically wolves, but of much higher intelligence; their cubs were in Hogwarts' custody and put into the Forbidden Forest. Could be what that was. Could also be Rowling covering up her mistake in calling children born from werewolves cubs.
** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' mentions two, both related to Quidditch. One is a claim that referees are sometimes known to vanish and turn up in the Sahara Desert months later, which later turned out to be an exaggeration -- it only happened once, and it was because his broom had been turned into a Portkey. The other one is the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, where all seven hundred fouls in the game were committed (and several were likely created). Among the things we know happen are that a Chaser was turned into a polecat, some players brought actual weapons onto the field, and that the Transylvanian team released a storm of vampire bats from under their cloaks. One has to wonder how many players survived the 1473 match, and what the hell kind of foul is worse than trying to kill someone with a
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** Also, in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' Tom Riddle recalls Hagrid getting in trouble for "trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed." This might have been untrue, since werewolves have human babies, not cubs, but one wonders what Hagrid really ''did'' get up
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** From the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' on, a big deal is made of how Voldemort supposedly made six Horcruxes [[spoiler:which later turns out to be untrue, as Voldemort accidentally made Harry one of them]] but the exact details of actually making one after you commit murder are never mentioned. [[WordOfGod Rowling has told her publisher, though]], [[YouDoNotWantToKnow and it almost made him throw up.]]
** And then from ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'', during Harry's infiltration into the Ministry of Magic. A young witch, among a group of employees present to witness the remains of decoys Harry set off, remarks: "I bet it sneaked up here from Experimental Charms, they're so careless, remember that poisonous duck?" The incident regarding the duck has not been mentioned, much less expanded upon, before or since.
*** May be a sidelong reference to [[spoiler:the duckbilled platypus]], a venomous animal so ridiculous it just ''has'' to be magical.
** And then from ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'', during Harry's infiltration into the Ministry of Magic. A young witch, among a group of employees present to witness the remains of decoys Harry set off, remarks: "I bet it sneaked up here from Experimental Charms, they're so careless, remember that poisonous duck?" The incident regarding the duck has not been mentioned, much less expanded upon, before or since.
*** May be a sidelong reference to [[spoiler:the duckbilled platypus]], a venomous animal so ridiculous it just ''has'' to be magical.
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** From the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' on, a big deal is made of how Voldemort supposedly made six Horcruxes [[spoiler:which [[spoiler:(which later turns out to be untrue, as Voldemort accidentally made Harry one of them]] them)]] but the exact details of actually making one after you commit murder are never mentioned. [[WordOfGod Rowling has told her publisher, though]], [[YouDoNotWantToKnow and it almost made him throw up.]]
** And then from ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'', during Harry's infiltration into the Ministry of Magic. A young witch, among a group of employees present to witness the remains of decoys Harry set off, remarks: "I bet it sneaked up here from Experimental Charms, they're so careless, remember that poisonous duck?" The incident regarding the duck has not been mentioned, much less expanded upon, before orsince.
***since. May be a sidelong reference to [[spoiler:the duckbilled platypus]], a venomous animal so ridiculous it just ''has'' to be magical.
** And then from ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'', during Harry's infiltration into the Ministry of Magic. A young witch, among a group of employees present to witness the remains of decoys Harry set off, remarks: "I bet it sneaked up here from Experimental Charms, they're so careless, remember that poisonous duck?" The incident regarding the duck has not been mentioned, much less expanded upon, before or
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** Dumbledore refers to the "thrilling tale" that hoped to tell Harry someday of how his hand was turned black. This one is later explained to the audience, however.
*** [[spoiler: It was a protective measure on the Gaunt Ring. Whoever wore it would die within the year they put it on.]]
** And speaking of Voldemort, it is mentioned that when he was a child, he took two other children from the orphanage into the cave that he later used for one of his Horcruxes and did something in their presence that traumatized them into silence, but the specific details are never divulged in-story.
*** [[spoiler: It was a protective measure on the Gaunt Ring. Whoever wore it would die within the year they put it on.]]
** And speaking of Voldemort, it is mentioned that when he was a child, he took two other children from the orphanage into the cave that he later used for one of his Horcruxes and did something in their presence that traumatized them into silence, but the specific details are never divulged in-story.
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** Dumbledore refers to the "thrilling tale" that hoped to tell Harry someday of how his hand was turned black. This one is later explained to the audience, however.
***however. [[spoiler: It was a protective measure on the Gaunt Ring. Whoever wore it would die within the year they put it on.]]
**And speaking of Voldemort, it It is mentioned that when he Voldemort was a child, he took two other children from the orphanage into the cave that he later used for one of his Horcruxes and did something in their presence that traumatized them into silence, but the specific details are never divulged in-story.
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* Similarly, Creator/AgathaChristie often inserted references in her ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' novels to other cases solved by the famed detective; occasionally, these are subtle references to other books in the series, but they are usually mere snippets of information. Example: Poirot makes reference, in one of the short stories, to a man he once arrested -- a soap manufacturer in Liège who was guilty of the poisoning of his wife. This is all the information we ever hear about that particular case.
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* Similarly, Creator/AgathaChristie often inserted references in her ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' novels to other cases solved by the famed detective; occasionally, these are subtle references to other books in the series, but they are usually mere snippets of information. Example: Poirot makes reference, in one of the short stories, to a man he once arrested -- a soap manufacturer in Liège who was guilty of the poisoning of his wife. This is all the information we ever hear about that particular case.
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* Another presumably serious example from the Peter F. Hamilton SpaceOpera ''Literature/JudasUnchained'': Whatever universally-infamous atrocity "the Cat" committed which got her sentenced to a thousand years in suspended animation. (She gets let out early because the government has a dire need for stone-cold killers.)
* Kipling does this in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' too -- in the story "Mowgli's Brothers" he says we can only imagine Mowgli's life among the wolves, because if written it would fill so many books ("Kaa's Hunting" and "How Fear Came" fill in some of the blanks); while in "Red Dog" there's mention of Mowgli's adventures up till then, among them encountering a mad elephant, fighting a crocodile, and being caught in a migrating herd of deer and nearly trampled.
* Kipling does this in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' too -- in the story "Mowgli's Brothers" he says we can only imagine Mowgli's life among the wolves, because if written it would fill so many books ("Kaa's Hunting" and "How Fear Came" fill in some of the blanks); while in "Red Dog" there's mention of Mowgli's adventures up till then, among them encountering a mad elephant, fighting a crocodile, and being caught in a migrating herd of deer and nearly trampled.
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* Another A presumably serious example from the Peter F. Hamilton SpaceOpera ''Literature/JudasUnchained'': Whatever universally-infamous atrocity "the Cat" committed which got her sentenced to a thousand years in suspended animation. (She gets let out early because the government has a dire need for stone-cold killers.)
* Kipling does this in ''Literature/TheJungleBook''too -- in the story "Mowgli's Brothers" he says we can only imagine Mowgli's life among the wolves, because if written it would fill so many books ("Kaa's Hunting" and "How Fear Came" fill in some of the blanks); while in "Red Dog" there's mention of Mowgli's adventures up till then, among them encountering a mad elephant, fighting a crocodile, and being caught in a migrating herd of deer and nearly trampled.
* Kipling does this in ''Literature/TheJungleBook''
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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'': Bob makes reference to several OPERATION CODE NAME scenarios which are never elaborated on.
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* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'': ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'':
** Bob makes reference to several OPERATION CODE NAME scenarios which are never elaborated on.
** Bob makes reference to several OPERATION CODE NAME scenarios which are never elaborated on.
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* In Creator/AlexeiPanshin's ''Masque World'', a character made his reputation in the Imperial Service thanks to his role in solving the Diced Strawberry Affair -- which is a code name for something far more sinister, but we do not find out what.
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* In Creator/AlexeiPanshin's ''Masque World'', ''Literature/MasqueWorld'', a character made his reputation in the Imperial Service thanks to his role in solving the Diced Strawberry Affair -- which is a code name for something far more sinister, but we do not find out what.
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* In ''Mishaps'', there is the 'school camp incident'. What exactly happened wasn't made clear, but Pen says that it involved her spending time in a decontamination chamber.
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* In ''Mishaps'', ''Literature/{{Mishaps}}'', there is the 'school camp incident'. What exactly happened wasn't made clear, but Pen says that it involved her spending time in a decontamination chamber.
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* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'': How exactly did Magnus get himself banned from Peru?
** In the ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' novella "What Really Happened In Peru," this is explained. Sort of. The story narrates several incidents that Magnus was involved in on separate occasions in Peru. However, by the end of the story it's revealed that even Magnus himself doesn't really know exactly why he was banned from Peru.
** In the ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' novella "What Really Happened In Peru," this is explained. Sort of. The story narrates several incidents that Magnus was involved in on separate occasions in Peru. However, by the end of the story it's revealed that even Magnus himself doesn't really know exactly why he was banned from Peru.
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* ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'': How exactly did Magnus get himself banned from Peru?
**Peru? In the ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles'' novella "What Really Happened In Peru," this is explained. Sort of. The story narrates several incidents that Magnus was involved in on separate occasions in Peru. However, by the end of the story it's revealed that even Magnus himself doesn't really know exactly why he was banned from Peru.
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* In the ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' novels by Rex Stout, Archie (the narrator) occasionally hints at previous cases that he'll "write about later", or that "can't be revealed for reasons of privacy/security".
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* In the ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' novels by Rex Stout, Stout:
** Archie (the narrator) occasionally hints at previous cases that he'll "write about later", or that "can't be revealed for reasons of privacy/security".
** Archie (the narrator) occasionally hints at previous cases that he'll "write about later", or that "can't be revealed for reasons of privacy/security".
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* In ''Oona Crate'' Series, Oona (a 13 years old girl) starts the series missing a significant part of her hair. We know that she was about to be beheaded by a guillotine, but managed to untie herself at the last second and pull the head away, so the blade only gave her a TraumaticHaircut and then was rescued with the help of her pet bird. We never find out who tried to kill her and why (only that it wasn't the series' main villain), or how exactly she was rescued.
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* In ''Oona Crate'' Series, Oona (a 13 years year old girl) starts the series missing a significant part of her hair. We know that she was about to be beheaded by a guillotine, but managed to untie herself at the last second and pull the head away, so the blade only gave her a TraumaticHaircut and then was rescued with the help of her pet bird. We never find out who tried to kill her and why (only that it wasn't the series' main villain), or how exactly she was rescued.
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* Mercer, the protagonist of Cordwainer Smith's ''A Planet Without a Name'', has committed a horrendous "crime without a name". We never learn more than that. Well... It's never spelled out explicitly, but if you put the clues given by a few lines together, it's clear that [[spoiler:he killed infants belonging to the Imperial family]].
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* Mercer, the protagonist of Cordwainer Smith's ''A Planet Without a Name'', ''Literature/APlanetWithoutAName'', has committed a horrendous "crime without a name". We never learn more than that. Well... It's never spelled out explicitly, but if you put the clues given by a few lines together, it's clear that [[spoiler:he killed infants belonging to the Imperial family]].
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* British author/screenwriter John Mortimer perpetrated what was probably the greatest inverted NoodleIncident in the history of the trope. In every script/story from the beginning of his ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'' series of TV screenplays and short story/novel adaptations, the protagonist, barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole, would invariably make at least one reference to his greatest professional triumph, the case of "The Penge Bungalow Murders" (which Rumpole tried and won as a junior barrister "alone and without a leader"). After nearly three decades of teasing viewers and readers with references to this case, Mortimer, nearing the end of his career, finally wrote a novel (titled, unsurprisingly, ''Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders''), which turned that epic NoodleIncident into an epic series of [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]].
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* British author/screenwriter John Mortimer perpetrated what was probably the greatest inverted NoodleIncident in the history of the trope. In every script/story from the beginning of his ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'' series of TV screenplays and short story/novel adaptations, the protagonist, barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole, would invariably make at least one reference to his greatest professional triumph, the case of "The Penge Bungalow Murders" (which Rumpole tried and won as a junior barrister "alone and without a leader"). After nearly three decades of teasing viewers and readers with references to this case, Mortimer, nearing the end of his career, finally wrote a novel (titled, unsurprisingly, ''Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders''), which turned that epic NoodleIncident into an epic series of [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]].{{Continuity Nod}}s.
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* In ''Space Hostages'' by Sophia [=McDougall=], [[spoiler: it's the attempted escape of Rasmus Trommler.]]
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* In ''Space Hostages'' ''Literature/SpaceHostages'' by Sophia [=McDougall=], [[spoiler: it's the attempted escape of Rasmus Trommler.]]
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''Estervy shoots him a DeathGlare''\\
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* In the ''Literature/StephaniePlum'' series, Stephanie blackmails her cousin Vinnie into giving her a job by threatening to tell his wife about an incident involving a duck. This is never fully explained, but it's implied that you *really* don't want to know what he did to the duck.
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* In the ''Literature/StephaniePlum'' series, Stephanie blackmails her cousin Vinnie into giving her a job by threatening to tell his wife about an incident involving a duck. This is never fully explained, but it's implied that you *really* ''really'' don't want to know what he did to the duck.
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* [[{{Note From Ed}} The editor of]] ''Literature/ThisBookIsFullOfSpidersSeriouslyDudeDontTouchIt'' advises the reader not to ask how Dave got the information for the chapter told from Molly's point of view, as "The explanation would only leave you more confused and dissatisfied than any theory you would come up with from your own imagination."
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* [[{{Note From Ed}} [[NoteFromEd The editor of]] ''Literature/ThisBookIsFullOfSpidersSeriouslyDudeDontTouchIt'' advises the reader not to ask how Dave got the information for the chapter told from Molly's point of view, as "The explanation would only leave you more confused and dissatisfied than any theory you would come up with from your own imagination."
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* In the ''Literature/TimeWarpTrio'', the three titular kids sometimes meet up with their granddaughters, who are both [[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]] and [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff Counterparts]] of themselves. Their granddaughters explain that they're wealthy because in their near future, the boys experience an accident involving a bowl of cereal that leads to them inadvertently discovering anti-gravity technology. They don't want to explain just how this happens, so as not to cause a paradox. But it causes them to wonder -- how the hell could cereal and antigravity possibly be related?!
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* In the ''Literature/TimeWarpTrio'', the three titular kids sometimes meet up with their granddaughters, who are both [[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]] and [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff Counterparts]] {{Distaff Counterpart}}s of themselves. Their granddaughters explain that they're wealthy because in their near future, the boys experience an accident involving a bowl of cereal that leads to them inadvertently discovering anti-gravity technology. They don't want to explain just how this happens, so as not to cause a paradox. But it causes them to wonder -- how the hell could cereal and antigravity possibly be related?!
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* The Marquis de Sade's work, ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'', shows this happening after all four of the characters involved have engaged in excessively disturbing acts with each other in various combinations throughout the book. [[note]]The Website/LiveJournal user who posted this on the community "[[http://community.livejournal.com/weepingcock/440120.html Weepingcock]]" (a celebration of bad pornography) says "We never learn exactly what Dolmance and Augustin do in that room by themselves. Let's just assume that they were engaging in that unspeakable vice of ''cuddling."''[[/note]]
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* The Marquis de Sade's work, ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'', shows this happening after all four of the characters involved have engaged in excessively disturbing acts with each other in various combinations throughout the book. [[note]]The Website/LiveJournal Platform/LiveJournal user who posted this on the community "[[http://community.livejournal.com/weepingcock/440120.html Weepingcock]]" (a celebration of bad pornography) says "We never learn exactly what Dolmance and Augustin do in that room by themselves. Let's just assume that they were engaging in that unspeakable vice of ''cuddling."''[[/note]]
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* In ''Pyramid Power'', people keep bringing up that a minor character managed to get arrested for pizza. Nobody who wasn't present when it happened has the slightest notion as to ''how''.
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* In ''Literature/RealMermaids Don't Need High Heels'', the mermaid Serena takes on human form and starts attending school with Jade. She suffers a number of mishaps due to her ignorance of human social norms, including an "episode with the slushie machine" that we never learn the details of.
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* In the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book, it's mentioned that Maybeck's Aunt Jelly got her nickname in an incident involving a box of jelly donuts. She seems too embarrassed to elaborate.
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* ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'': In the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book, it's mentioned that Maybeck's Aunt Jelly got her nickname in an incident involving a box of jelly donuts. She seems too embarrassed to elaborate.
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* The ''{{Literature/Flashman}}'' novel ''Royal Flash'' begins, "If I had been half the hero everyone thought I was, or even a half-decent soldier, Lee would have won the battle of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Gettysburg]] and probably captured Washington." He only says this to illustrate how [[ForWantOfANail history can turn on trifling events]], and as a story for another time, never mentions it again.
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* The ''{{Literature/Flashman}}'' novel ''Royal Flash'' begins, "If I had been half the hero everyone thought I was, or even a half-decent soldier, Lee would have won the battle of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Gettysburg]] and probably captured Washington." He only says this to illustrate how [[ForWantOfANail history can turn on trifling events]], events, and as a story for another time, never mentions it again.
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** In ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'', Paarfi cites a Dragaeran folktale of the ForWantOfANail variety, "The Tale of the Smudged Letter". It apparently involves a leaky roof, a river boatman, a seer and a wizard, but what actually ''happened'' isn't stated.
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** In ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'', Paarfi cites a Dragaeran folktale of the ForWantOfANail "For Want OfA Nail" variety, "The Tale of the Smudged Letter". It apparently involves a leaky roof, a river boatman, a seer and a wizard, but what actually ''happened'' isn't stated.
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** One incident was he ''Grissom'' incident that Calhoun refused to discuss until ''Literature/TheCaptainsTableNumberFiveOnceBurned.''
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* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheSiegeOfMechanicsburg'': Agatha set a record by taking more than two minutes to make her first kill after becoming the Heterodyne and ringing the Doom Bell. No explanation was given for why her heroic father Bill hadn't been able to manage that (though the fact that every Heterodyne before Bill was a villainous mad scientist certainly explains why none of them were able to do that).
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* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheSiegeOfMechanicsburg'': Agatha set a record by taking more than two minutes to make her first kill after becoming the Heterodyne and ringing the Doom Bell. No explanation was given for why her heroic father Bill hadn't been able to manage that (though the fact that every Heterodyne before Bill was a villainous mad scientist certainly explains why none of them ''them'' were able to do that).
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* In ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', Grandmere describes herself as very open to all faiths, "except yoga", for reasons she's explained to the viewpoint character offscreen. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Yoga's questionable status as a religion aside]], it's never explained why she hates it so much.
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* In ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', Grandmere describes herself as very open to all faiths, "except yoga", for reasons she's explained to the viewpoint character offscreen. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Yoga's questionable status as a religion aside]], aside, it's never explained why she hates it so much.
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* ''Literature/StarterVillain'': If you should be at a supervillain's island volcano base, do not go swimming with angry dolphins.
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*** At one point, Harry suggests getting "creative" with the potions he can brew. Bob brings up a few incidents that (unfortunately) we never saw anything of.
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* Although ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' is set in an AlternateUniverse very different from that of its [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight source material]], events like Rin and Sakura meeting Shirou and falling in love with him [[InSpiteOfANail still happen]], even though the war that caused them in the latter doesn't. What ''did'' cause them here is never elucidated.
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* ''Literature/TheDayJimmysBoaAteTheWash'': When Meggie explains that the boa ultimately caused everything, her mother essentially says "OhNoNotAgain", implying Jimmy's boa has caused unmentioned additional chaos before.
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* From ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'': During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scratching Reader: Who's Livia??) Also We never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.
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* From ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'': During their first meeting, Marian talks about Helena's past as if the reader was already familiar with the Section's MO (or existence) and of who Livia is. "You want to know why you're here? ... It's something you said to Livia..." (Head Scratching Reader: (Head-scratching reader: Who's Livia??) Also We Livia?) Also, we never get to see the first meeting between Livia and Helena and Helena, though Book 1 makes mention of it in this way.it.
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* In ''Oona Crate'' Series, Oona (a 13 years old girl) starts the series missing a significant part of her hair. We know that she was about to be beheaded by a guillotine, but managed to untie herself at the last second and pull the head away, so the blade only gave her a TraumaticHaircut and then was rescued with the help of her pet bird. We never find out who tried to kill her and why (only that it wasn't the series' main villain) and how exactly she was rescued.
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* In ''Oona Crate'' Series, Oona (a 13 years old girl) starts the series missing a significant part of her hair. We know that she was about to be beheaded by a guillotine, but managed to untie herself at the last second and pull the head away, so the blade only gave her a TraumaticHaircut and then was rescued with the help of her pet bird. We never find out who tried to kill her and why (only that it wasn't the series' main villain) and villain), or how exactly she was rescued.
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* In ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', Grandmere describes herself as very open to all faiths, "except yoga", for reasons she's explained to the viewpoint character offscreen. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Yoga's questionable status as a religion aside]], it's never explained why she hates it so much.
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** Kevin "The Survivor" Walker managed to get lost in the labyrinth, survive for six months (long enough he was [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated declared dead and his funeral held]]), and finally climb back out little worse for wear. Exactly how he managed to do this has never been explained. Ditto the time he reportedly tried to cook a meal while on the fourth layer and was nearly killed by [[TheGrimReaper the reapers]] that guard the GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.
** Teresa Carste was apparently ''born'' in the labyrinth and spent a significant chunk of her childhood living in it: at one point she recalls to Oliver the AmusingInjuries she suffered from eating various creatures and plants. How she came to be down there to begin with, or who her parents were, has yet to be addressed.
** That time resident MasterPoisoner Tim Linton gassed the dining hall. Never elaborated, but is cited as the reason he'd lose if he ran for StudentCouncilPresident.
** Kevin "The Survivor" Walker managed to get lost in the labyrinth, survive for six months (long enough he was [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated declared dead and his funeral held]]), and finally climb back out little worse for wear. Exactly how he managed to do this has never been explained. Ditto the time he reportedly tried to cook a meal while on the fourth layer and was nearly killed by [[TheGrimReaper the reapers]] that guard the GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.
** Teresa Carste was apparently ''born'' in the labyrinth and spent a significant chunk of her childhood living in it: at one point she recalls to Oliver the AmusingInjuries she suffered from eating various creatures and plants. How she came to be down there to begin with, or who her parents were, has yet to be addressed.
** That time resident MasterPoisoner Tim Linton gassed the dining hall. Never elaborated, but is cited as the reason he'd lose if he ran for StudentCouncilPresident.
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* In Creator/EricFlint's novel ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', when Jeff and Gretchen's impending marriage stirs up trouble, Frank threatens to tell how exactly he met his Vietnamese wife, Diane, something no-one else wants to know. Given that the trouble is mostly because Gretchen was once a camp follower, and Frank is a UsefulNotes/VietnamWar veteran, the obvious implication is that Diane used to be in a... similar line of work.
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* In Creator/EricFlint's novel ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', when Jeff and Gretchen's impending marriage stirs up trouble, Frank threatens to tell how exactly he met his Vietnamese wife, Diane, something no-one else wants to know. Given that the trouble is mostly because Gretchen was once a camp follower, and Frank is a UsefulNotes/VietnamWar veteran, the obvious implication is that Diane used to be in a... similar line of work.
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* The ''Literature/ConstanceVerity'' Trilogy is ''packed'' with vague references to countless past adventures Connie has been on that are just barely alluded to, from having to subsist on moldy bread and troll blood to survive, to an EvilTwin with a Yugoslavian accent sleeping with all of her boyfriends, spending a week dueling a sniper in Cambodia with no sleep, stomping on an evil hamster to save Australia and having to kill countless clones of UsefulNotes/AdolphHitler.
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* The ''Literature/ConstanceVerity'' Trilogy is ''packed'' with vague references to countless past adventures Connie has been on that are just barely alluded to, from having to subsist on moldy bread and troll blood to survive, to an EvilTwin with a Yugoslavian accent sleeping with all of her boyfriends, spending a week dueling a sniper in Cambodia with no sleep, stomping on an evil hamster to save Australia and having to kill countless clones of UsefulNotes/AdolphHitler.UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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* The ''Constance Verity'' Trilogy is ''packed'' with vague references to countless past adventures Connie has been on that are just barely alluded to, from having to subsist on moldy bread and troll blood to survive, to an EvilTwin with a Yugoslavian accent sleeping with all of her boyfriends, spending a week dueling a sniper in Cambodia with no sleep, stomping on an evil hamster to save Australia and having to kill countless clones of UsefulNotes/AdolphHitler.
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* The ''Constance Verity'' ''Literature/ConstanceVerity'' Trilogy is ''packed'' with vague references to countless past adventures Connie has been on that are just barely alluded to, from having to subsist on moldy bread and troll blood to survive, to an EvilTwin with a Yugoslavian accent sleeping with all of her boyfriends, spending a week dueling a sniper in Cambodia with no sleep, stomping on an evil hamster to save Australia and having to kill countless clones of UsefulNotes/AdolphHitler.
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* ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' is full of these, making casual references to the setting and its future history. Humanity's [[FirstContact first alien contacts]] included "the ''Kimson’s'' encounter with the T’sor-Konapites, the ''Ad Astra’s'' violent run-in with the Ploogs, the legendary lost ship ''Ograe Nyha."'' Earth has been through at least two big wars since the present, the Genomic War and the Android Uprising, of which we are told nothing more than tidbits. Indira and Tendai's tour of the Solar System has them visiting historical sites like Piratesnest, Webra's Snare, God's Rock, and [[ShoutOut "the rose greenhouse at]] [[Literature/TheLittlePrince Expury."]]
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* ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' is full of these, making casual references to the setting and its future history. Humanity's [[FirstContact first alien contacts]] included "the ''Kimson’s'' ''Kimson''[='=]s encounter with the T’sor-Konapites, T'sor-Konapites, the ''Ad Astra’s'' Astra'''s violent run-in with the Ploogs, the legendary lost ship ''Ograe Nyha."'' Nyha''." Earth has been through at least two big wars since the present, the Genomic War and the Android Uprising, of which we are told nothing more than tidbits. Indira and Tendai's tour of the Solar System has them visiting historical sites like Piratesnest, Webra's Snare, God's Rock, and [[ShoutOut "the "[[ShoutOut the rose greenhouse at]] greenhouse]] at [[Literature/TheLittlePrince Expury."]]Expury]]."
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”Check the back side.”\\
Snips flipped the document over. “Oh.”\\
”I hear Jake ‘The Beak’ Montgomery still shrieks like a little girl when he hears a quack.”
”Check the back side.”\\
Snips flipped the document over. “Oh.”\\
”I hear Jake ‘The Beak’ Montgomery still shrieks like a little girl when he hears a quack.”
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* ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' stories often refer back to some weird interdimensional war referred to as the Spaghetti Wars, in which some of the older members of the Crew were involved. Little about them was ever explained.
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* "Literature/WizardBait": We never find out exactly how Ogre Company managed to beat the Storm Mage. Nor do we know anything about the alchemist that was crushed under his iron golem, the "immortal war warden" pinned to the ground by over a dozen weapons, or the NakedNutter they managed to tie to a rock.
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* Even though the rest of ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook'' preaches the straight-and-narrow, it turns out that the author must have once engaged in ''some'' loopy acts that he didn't want the reader to emulate:
-->'''1465.''' Never fry bacon while naked.
-->'''1465.''' Never fry bacon while naked.
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* Even though the rest of ''Literature/LifesLittleInstructionBook'' preaches the straight-and-narrow, it turns out that the author must have once engaged in ''some'' loopy acts that he didn't want the reader to emulate:
-->'''1465.''' Never fry bacon while naked.
-->'''1465.''' Never fry bacon while naked.
