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20* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': There is a souvenir program out there that shows pictures from the movie and some behind-the-scenes stuff, including the names of the rest of the delegates seen in the movie (mostly Southerners to fill out the dance line in "Cool Considerate Men") For example, the man that yelled "''Will someone shut that man up?''" during "Sit Down, John", is Georgia delegate George Walton.
21** The screenplay was later published in paperback format with an extensive afterword.
22* In the collector's edition DVD for ''Film/TwoFastTwoFurious'', there is a special opening that details Brian's travel from California to Miami.
23* A classic example: If you're mystified by movie ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', try the Creator/ArthurCClarke novel of the same name. It even has a nifty ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}''.
24** The book and movie complement each other. The book explains the more confusing parts of the movie including the starchild and the final "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence which the movie conveyed through spectacular imagery. The reason for this was that the book was written as the same time at the film.
25* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': The credits reveal the reason the "I" segment was named [[spoiler:Ingrown]]: [[spoiler: "2015 women murdered in the last 10 years in Mexico. 200 women a month.]]
26* ''Film/AfterEarth'': In regards to the {{backstory}} of [[http://io9.com/the-alien-backstory-you-didnt-see-in-the-after-earth-t-509618063 AE's fictional universe]].
27* The company man at the end of ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' named Michael Bishop, the man who created the Bishop line of robots, is not named in any part of the film's dialogue, even in the Assembly Cut. The credits referred to him as "Bishop II", which only fueled the misconception brought on by shoddy editing that he's some sort of special robot with red blood.
28* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' has a tie-in Daily Bugle website, complete with fake articles that heavily {{Foreshadow}} future villains such as the Vulture and Comicbook/{{Venom}}.
29** Marvel also released a digital-exclusive {{prequel}} comic for the film, which shows why Peter is sporting a new costume in the film.
30* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' has an on-line guide explaining points that were left out of the film proper.
31** ''Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide'' was a book released for this purpose. Some editions of the [=DVD=] and Blu-Ray include the guide as an extra.
32** Why they even want the '{{Unobtanium}}' in the first place (a room temperature superconductor - restored to the actual film in the collector's edition).
33*** It also explains how humans even got to Pandora in the first place without the Unobtanium.
34* In ''Film/AlienVsPredator'', archaeologists Sebastian De Rosa and Thomas Parks easily translate a set of hieroglyphics based on three different cultures, which would make more sense if they had been studying such a language beforehand. In the novelization, they had already developed a theory, based on previous excavations, linking together older civilizations, making it more plausible that they were already familiar with such a language.
35* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' has the [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]] tie-in series "[[ComicBook/BackToTheFuture Biff to the Future]]," which explains how Alternate-1985 became so chaotic. The day after the dance, Grandma Tannen forced Biff to take her to Las Vegas to gamble, where he runs into a hustler who tried to rob and kill him, specially after the hustler finds "[[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin Grey's Sports Almanac]]" among Biff's luggage. After Biff wins his first million dollars, he goes to Hollywood to become a film producer, but after realizing he was being scammed out of his fortune by a shady business partner, and after a chance encounter with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, who decided he was going into politics, Biff has his business partner killed and uses his money to take over Hill Valley. After effectively buying the city council and the police, Biff has George murdered to stop the resistance movement against him, and has the police frame Red the Bum as the killer. Biff makes his connections with the UsefulNotes/RichardNixon administration by agreeing to use his fortune to help dispose of toxic waste, and after buying the Washington post, which owned the local Hill Valley newspaper, to stop bad publicity against him, Biff inadvertently stopped the Watergate scandal. After bribing state legislator to repeal the 22nd amendment as a way to help Nixon remain in office in-definitively, Nixon legalized gambling when no one wanted to accept a bet from Biff, thus allowing him open Biff's Pleasure Palace hotel and casino. The Doc gets committed when after trying to re-write history, his refrigerator time machine is accidentally discovered by Biff and his goons.
36* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'':
37** The name of the planet most of the movie is set in is Lythion, but you'd only know that by reading the original comics or a summary of the movie (in-movie it's only known as planet 16).
38** Some of the background characters do have proper names, but you'd need to read a character sheet to know them. Some of these characters (notably Captain Sun) had larger roles in the comics, but in the movie most of what they did of importance in the comics is distributed between Durand Durand and Dildano.
39* One of the manga adaptations of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' (''The Beast's Tale'') fills in a major PlotHole in the film's third act: [[spoiler: Belle cannot use the teleportation book to save Maurice because it only works when the Beast touches it (as it was a "gift" for him), and if they were to go to her village together matters would be worse]].
40* In ''Film/BigGame'', the function the woman who brought Herbert in on the case is left for the viewer to guess - unless you stay for ending credits and find out she's actually CIA director.
41* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' universe certainly applies to this. Not only are there tons of special features for the two main movies that are everything from trivia to mass info on the backstory of The Necromongers (who you would know almost nothing about just from watching), and other character's pursuit logs for the main character, there's also a [[WesternAnimation/DarkFury 30 minute anime film]] that shows what happened right after the end of the first movie and introduces a major character, two video games (''VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay'' and ''VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'') showing how Riddick got his eyeshine and escaped from prison, leading up to the first film, and on the website, there's a point and click adventure game, an animated comic book, and collection of background info on all the characters in the first film and who they are. There's also a novelization of the first film revealing more of Riddick's past and the character's internal thoughts, a novelization of the 2nd film that has an exclusive epilogue, an exclusive mock-documentary only available on the region 2 DVD of the first film, and it just goes on and on.
42* The movie ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' has an entire backstory played out through a prequel online manga and [[AlternateRealityGame a series of fake websites]] including Website/MySpace profiles, corporate sites and even a "love letter" collection of videos.
43* Deliberately invoked with ''The Cremaster Cycle'', a set of five art films by Matthew Barney. The cycle totals nearly 7 hours of viewing time, is not available on DVD, and is completely incomprehensible unless you've read either the creator's website or the published statement of purpose. Various books have been published to act as companion supplements.
44* The website for ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'' has a timeline that reveals more of the AlternateHistory.
45* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'':
46** Pretty much all the names of the Skeksis and Mystics are featured in the novelization and "Art of" book.
47** Even though the name of the planet this story takes place on is never mentioned, it's referred to in the novelization as 'Thra'.
48* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
49** The novel clears up a few details about the movie, such as making it possible to understand Dent's KnightTemplar tendencies. Bruce is skeptical that Dent could have a skeleton-free closet, and decides to do some digging. What he finds is that Dent's father was a police officer who abused his mother, and whenever the police were called, they'd look the other way. Eventually, Dent's father killed his mother while he was away at school. This explains Harvey's initial distrust with Gordon at the beginning due to Gordon having dirty cops in his special unit (like Wuertz and Ramirez, to be specific). Bruce eventually realizes he's been digging so hard because he's jealous. Etc.
50** The ARG also fills in a ton of details for what took place between ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
51* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' itself. One of the reasons it has become a cult polarizing film is that it is not self-contained at all. Nothing about the Manipulated Dead or Tangent Universe is ever explicitly (or implicitly!) stated, requiring you to read the script-book or check out the director's commentary at length to have any hope of getting the plot.
52* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': Caryle is a self-made man and is chosen for Delacourt's hijack of Elysium, as he's the one who coded the SABRE defense system in the first place, being a child prodigy hired by Armadyne for it. He also [[ComicallyMissingThePoint won a humanitarian award for coding said defense system, which fries the attacker's brain.]]
53* The most iconic object from ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}'', the pistol made out of bones and teeth, is not named in the film. Background material reveals it's actually called the "gristle gun".
54* ''Film/TheGerman'': All characters' names (those who have them) are given only in the credits.
55* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' gets most of the material from its source novel, ''Literature/TheKillerAngels'', into the film with only minor cuts, but one thing that didn't make it into the theatrical release or the ReCut is the story behind the ill and injured General Garnett's DeathSeeker behavior and Armistead's concern over it. The novel explains that Stonewall Jackson unjustly accused Garnett of cowardice for withdrawing from an untenable position and then got killed before the court-martial was over, leaving the charge hanging over Garnett's head. It was another example of the South's HonorBeforeReason, as the rest of the army would never doubt their dead hero and Garnett felt that the only way to cleanse his reputation was to die bravely in battle.
56* ''Film/TheGillymuck'': The characters' names aren't said in the short proper. They are only listed in the credits.
57* The Novelization for ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' gives the characters more development and provides insight into them, as well as additional backstories.
58* Each episode of ''Film/HaloNightfall'' comes with a few "Second Story" short videos which expand on the background plot.
59* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Some people's names are never mentioned, but you can tell who they are supposed to be. Simultaneously {{inverted}}, with some characters in this film being called by names that weren't revealed until the second book.
60* In ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', the U.S. military high command is panicking over the mass mobilization of the Soviet surface and submarine fleets, and they fear that [[VehicleTitle the Red October]], a nuclear missile submarine, piloted by Captain Marko Ramius, will either spearhead an attack on the United States, ''or'' maybe Raimus went rogue and he's trying to start a war by himself and the Soviet Navy's trying to stop him. Jack Ryan then figures out that the Soviet Navy is mobilizing to track down Cpt. Ramius because he's defecting and taking the Red October with him, stating that since his wife died a year before, he has no reason to go back to the Soviet Union. [[Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober The book]] goes into more detail, explaining that about a year before, Ramius' wife was checked in to a hospital to undergo an appendectomy, but died on the operating table when the doctor performed the surgery while drunk. Ramius filed charges against him, but since the doctor was related to a high ranking member of the Communist Party, he was acquitted. Ramius blamed his wife's death on the whole Soviet system, and decided that defecting and handing over a top secret Soviet weapon to the United States was apt revenge for his wife's death.
61* A few extra details can be found in the novelisations of the Franchise/IndianaJones films:
62** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''
63*** The rivalry between Indy and Belloq goes all the way back to graduate school where Belloq stole Indy's research while Indy was conducting his extracurricular activities with his academic advisor's daughter ... which also explains why Marion and Belloq are on a first name basis.
64*** Marion was only fifteen years old when she and Indy (who was in his twenties at the time) began their relationship. This explains her "I was a child! It was wrong and you knew it!" comment.
65*** The headpiece to the Staff of Ra is engraved with a warning not to look inside the Ark of the Covenant (it's also in the Bible), which is how Indy knew to close his eyes when the Nazis opened it.
66*** Indy managed to stow away on the submarine without drowning by using his whip to tie himself to the periscope.
67** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''
68*** The dinner scene is infamous as it portrays a very crude and inacurate stereotype of Indian cuisine. However, the novelization makes it clear that the point was to provide the first clue that something was amiss at Pankot, and that Chattar Lal wanted to horrify the trio and the British officer in an attempt to get rid of them.
69*** Short Round thinks that the smallest of the three elephants is the reincarnation of his dead brother.
70** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''
71*** Indy wasn't merely caught trying to steal the Cross of Coronado on that ship — it was the climax of an elaborate ruse by Panama Hat to trap and kill Indy, the Cross being the bait. Panama Hat did this because someone wanted to buy the Cross from him and had stipulated that, as part of the deal, Indy had to be killed. Indy later suspects that the mystery buyer was Donovan, who — in addition to being just the sort of person who would want to own such an artefact — would've wanted to eliminate him in order to stop him from trying to find his father.
72*** When Indy reads the Grail diary, he notes that there are six stages of the quest which are represented by animals. He encounters each animal (or a representation of that animal) in the correct order during his adventure. The last is an eagle, which is Indy's spirit animal — the result of a Navajo spirit quest that he undertook when he was 18.
73*** Indy's linguistical skill is the result of his father forcing him to learn several foreign languages before he was 18. In Berlin, he thanks him for this.
74*** What Elsa said in her sleep that made Henry realize she was a Nazi — "Mein Führer".
75*** After the airship has taken off, Indy knocks out a Gestapo agent (who he shoves into the same compartment as the steward) and cuts the radio wires. When the airship turns round, he checks the compartment, and realises that the agent has come round and repaired the wires. The steward, who has also recovered, recognises him as the man who knocked him out, forcing Indy and Henry to escape by way of the biplane. A drunk WWI fighter ace who happens to be a passenger on the airship tries to give chase in a second biplane, but he's so drunk ''he forgets to start it'', and crashes.
76*** After being revived by the Grail, Henry asks the Knight why he looks so old. The Knight says it's because for every day he did not drink from the Grail, he aged a year.
77* ''Film/KingKong2005'' has "The World Of Kong: A Natural History Of Skull Island", an art book done in the style of a nature journal, with the information in it apparently collected on expeditions that occurred after Kong was revealed to the world. It goes into great detail explaining the living habits of the various creatures (many not seen in the film itself) that lived on Skull Island, as well as explaining the island's geographical conditions (Skull Island was literally ripping itself apart).
78* Since ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' recaps the events of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' in less than a minute, a few of the plot points can be a bit confusing if you haven't read the latter novel. The reference to "[[NoodleIncident The incident with the dragon]]" will go right over your head, you may wonder how Bilbo and Gandalf already knew each other at the start of the film, and you may find yourself thinking, "Who the hell is Gollum, and why should I care?" when he's introduced. And the ending, where [[spoiler: an aging Bilbo leaving Middle Earth with the elves]] won't be nearly as emotional.
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82* The first ''Film/MadMax1'' film has the character of the Dark One. Originally, he was Max's partner and May Swaisey's husband, but for whatever reason he was removed from the final draft, appearing only as the man they take [[AnArmAndALeg Cundallini's severed hand]] to who reports it to MFP, Max's line "May, call the Dark One" when Jessie is chased through the forest, and the names "M. Rockatansky" and "The Dark One" on the Interceptor's fender (though this is best seen in promotional stills).
83* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the backstories of many of the characters and some of the worldbuilding details can only be found in the prequel comic books, such as [[http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Immortan_Joe Immortan Joe,]] being Colonel Joe Moore during the Oil Wars. Additionally, there are some important details that are only revealed in an [[http://vehicleshowcase.madmaxmovie.com/ official website]] discussing the main vehicles, and others discussed in the [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Mad-Max-Fury/dp/1783298162 art book.]]
84* ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'': the creators have a series of podcasts on [=YouTube=], one of which is just the writers answering the fans' questions about minor plot details, and the others have the actors talk about character development.
85* ''Film/ManOfSteel'':
86** The tie-in prequel comic (which is presumably completely canon, since its story is credited to Goyer) [[spoiler:reveals that [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Thanagar]] exists in this continuity -- as does [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]], whose ship lands in Canada thousands of years before the beginning of the film.]]
87** [[spoiler:How Clark goes from a full beard to clean-shaven is never explained, though in the comics he shaves with heat vision and a mirror (or other reflective surfaces). The omission is kind of a cop-out since a Gillette ad campaign to promote the film was "How Does He Shave?"]]
88* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
89** The comic book ''[[ComicBook/NickFury Fury's Big Week]]'' serves as a prequel to ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', and expands on the movie's connections to the previous Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films.
90** The comic book prequel to ''Film/IronMan3'' explains why Comicbook/WarMachine was absent during the events of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': he was dealing with a terrorist attack in Hong Kong at the time of the invasion and by the time he arrived in New York, the Avengers were eating shawarma together.
91** The prequel comic for ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' not only filled in the gap between ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' and ''The Dark World'', but also used {{Flashback}}s to fill in some details from ''The Avengers'' (such as how Thor learned Loki was still alive and working for [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} a mysterious villain]]).
92** The ''Film/MarvelOneShots'' also serve a similar function. For instance, ''Film/TheConsultant'' shows what happened to the Abomination after ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'', and reveals [[spoiler: that he was initially picked as a potential member of the Avengers before the Hulk joined up]]. ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' reveals there is a real Mandarin, something that isn't stated in ''Film/IronMan3''. However, that last one isn't exactly this trope, as said real Mandarin, Wenwu, shows up in ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''.
93** T'Challa is already the Black Panther by the time he first appears in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', with only vague details about his past given in some dialogue. The ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' prequel comic actually explores his origin in greater detail and shows how he took on the mantle.
94* A lot of the protagonist Leonard's unexplained, highly material history in ''Film/{{Memento}}'' is found on the [[http://www.otnemem.com Memento website.]]
95* A portion of the plot of ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', as well as certain sections of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', are explained only in the video game, ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix''. Also, there's a "bridge" episode between the ''Film/TheMatrix'' and ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' in ''Anime/TheAnimatrix''.
96** Cutscenes from the game appear as a special feature on the Blu-ray.
97* ''Film/MidnightMadness'': one would not know why the team captains would mutter Leon's name like they did when he revealed himself early in the movie; the novelization tells of various exploits of Leon's that gained him infamy on campus, including one that caused several students to have to retake a test.
98* In the bloopers of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the old lady collecting dirt with Dennis is named "Beatrice".
99* In the final cut of ''Film/TheNorthman'', a large section of the cast are not named onscreen. The closing credits provides not only names, but also nicknames for all of the berserkers, Fjölnir's men and the slaves.
100* ''Film/TheOne'' has a (now shutdown) website that provides tons of background information regarding the Multiverse Agency and how Yulaw came to be a villain. It reveals that he's not the first nor the last to try that. In fact, one of the "offenders" is a female assassin who is hired by a wealthy businessman in Universe Alpha (the one to actually invent interdimensional travel and the one we see twice very briefly) to track down and kill his doubles, although MVA analysts suspect she's also taking the opportunity to kill her own doubles. Yulaw has actually managed to cover up his own murders for quite awhile until another agent started suspecting him and tricked him into revealing his superhuman strength by carrying a box he stuffed with 300-pound weights (the agent paid for that by being made a paraplegic by Yulaw). Interestingly, the website doesn't provide much information on how wormhole travel works, only mentioning that it has something to do with quantum tunneling.
101** There are some inconsistencies with the website. For example, [[Creator/JasonStatham Funsch]], according to the website, was an LA cop in Universe Beta before being recruited by MVA. The film makes it appear as if he's from a warzone where everyone is considered a combatant. Of course, it's possible that LA is really that bad in Universe Beta (although the fact that his hobbies, from the website, include fishing and restoring classical cars makes that unlikely).
102* The Graphic Novel ''Film/PacificRim: Tales from Year Zero'' is a series of {{flashback}}s about some of the characters from the movie and how they came to be part of the Jaeger program.
103* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
104** Sparrow's history with Beckett, the Pearl, and Davy Jones is only hinted at in the movies. It was given in a series of books detailing his past.
105** Lt. Groves was not named in canon until ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'' and either was confirmed to have that name either in the credits or by his actor.
106** A lot of MagicAIsMagicA is explained AllThereInTheManual by the writers as well.
107* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' had a bizarre GainaxEnding in which [[spoiler: Leo returns to his time, only to find that the Earth had been conquered a 2nd time by General Thade before he got there.]] If you visited the (now defunct) official website, it would explain that [[spoiler: Thade accessed the Oberon's computer system while he was trapped in it and learned about the real history of the world. Afterwards, he managed to escape, fishing Leo's pod out of the swamp where it had crashed and fixing it to working order before riding off to the electromagnetic storm and arriving back on Earth before Leo did, where he staged a second rebellion.]]
108** Even worse, the VHS version of the movie claimed that everything you needed to know to understand the ending was already in the movie, showing a series of clips that apparently explained it for you. All the clips explained, though, was that the planet was actually Earth, a plot twist that had reached ItWasHisSled status ''long'' before the movie came out.
109* ''Film/{{Quintet}}'' centers around a fictional board game, but the film itself doesn't really describe the rules in detail. In its theatrical release, the audience received a pamphlet with a detailed explanation of the game.
110* ''Film/TheRizzle'': [[TheProtagonist The girl]] in the short is never referred to by her name (Elena), and neither is the Dancing Man on The Rizzle video. We only know those are what they're called because those are the names that they're given in the credits.
111* Creator/DarkHorseComics's comic adaptation of ''Film/RoboCop3'' reveals a few details including the new CEO's being Bob Morton's dad (though still not his first name; Johnson even calls the CEO "Mr. Morton"), that no one in Metro West [[spoiler:believed Murphy killed Lewis and realized that it was [=McDaggett=] and his men who killed her]], and that the Rehabs set up base there when Nikko went to Dr. Lazarus for help.
112* Much of the background of ''Series/RoseRed'' (the titular house featured in the miniseries) is covered in detail in ''The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer''. Without it, its just a bunch of people going to a haunted house that hates them.
113* Many of the more bizarre elements of Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/TheShining''--Danny's ImaginaryFriend Tony, the dead woman in the bathtub, the fellow in the dog costume administering a blow job--are explained in detail in the original Creator/StephenKing novel.
114* While it was one of the most faithful comic book adaptations, ''Film/SinCity'' had to leave out some dialogue and a couple scenes didn't make it to the theatrical cut (though are in the director's cut). In particular, how Hartigan found Nancy's apartment, Dwight's monologue about why he can't use his own Cadillac and how the Thunderbird used to be a CoolCar, but has been abused to its present condition.
115* The junior novelization of ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' expands on Longclaw's character and what the echidnas want, and includes an extended scene of Sonic and Longclaw before he finds his way to Earth.
116* ''Film/SouthlandTales'' (by the director of ''Film/DonnieDarko'') apparently makes more sense when you read the comic books connected to it. Of course, since this movie extended RuleThirtyFour to ''vehicles'', they have a lot of explaining to do. Keep in mind that it becomes readily apparent that the film's a pseudo-sequel to ''Donnie Darko''. It greatly expands on the character roles described in The Philosophy of Time Travel, so it's almost a manual about the manual...
117* Back before there were [=DVDs=] or the Internet to provide you with summaries of deleted scenes, you had to read the novelization of ''Film/SupermanII'' to find out how Superman got his powers back.
118* For ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', Paramount released a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YrWB3AQVk trailer]] and [[http://www.legendoftheyokai.com/ website]] about "The Legend of the Yokai", which told of four ''{{kappa}} {{yokai}}'' who once defended Japan against a horde of fellow monsters, were also trained as ninja, and passed into legend saying they would come again. Though the film itself doesn't elaborate on this further than Eric Sacks displaying a scroll illustrated with ''kappa''.
119* The ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' novelization includes a scene of the T-X being created in the future.
120* ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'':
121** The posters reveal that [[spoiler:the type of Terminator that John Connor was converted into was a T-3000]].
122** Creator/MattSmith’s mysterious character is credited as "Alex", [[spoiler:but according to auxiliary materials, he is a T-5000, an avatar of Skynet. Additionally, according to the writers, the T-5000 is actually the Skynet from the universe of ''[[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines Rise of the Machines]]'' and ''[[Film/TerminatorSalvation Salvation]]'', and developed interdimensional travel tech in addition to time travel tech and proceeded to go from universe to universe, only to see itself get defeated over and over again until it converted the John of ''Genisys'' into the T-3000]].
123* In ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'', a lot of the 'Who are these people and why should we care?' information for the Black Zodiac isn't actually in the movie, but rather in special footage on the DVD.
124* The ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' uses this fairly prominently. A good deal of backstory for Megatron, The Fallen, Optimus, Bumblebee, and the Cybertronian civil war in general is covered in the prequel and sequel comics marketed by IDW. The absence of the information covered in these comics makes some of the decisions and motives in the films confusing, Megatron's allegiance with The Fallen being one of the most-cited among fans.
125** The only issue is that these comics can be nonsensical, inaccurate, or even downright contradictory to the movies. The only ones considered canon are the prequel to the first movie, which was made into a bonus DVD feature. Otherwise, they're considered a different variation of the same continuity.
126* ''Film/TRONLegacy'' never explains where the Iso's come from, simply stating they just "appeared." It also mentions, but never explains the Sea of Simulation. The comic book ''TRON: Betrayal'' details that the Iso's came ''from'' the Sea of Simulation. It also makes C.L.U. a much more sympathetic character.
127** ''VideoGame/TRONEvolution'' explains most of this as well, but is much more vague and less sympathetic towards Clu. For now, it appears that the comic is canon. ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' adds a lot more detail to the time period between the coup and the second film. And even on the first film, the {{Novelization}} has a truckload of detail about the Program world that couldn't make it onto the screen. That ''isn't'' counting the [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited game and comic book]] that the fandom will also use as resources.
128* When ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' arrived in theaters, a companion book marketed as an in-universe supplement to the show was released which contained a copy of the screenplay as well as detailed background information about the setting and each of the various characters who appear both as "actors" and as audience members in the film.
129* ''Film/TheTurningPoint1977'': Screenwriter Arthur Laurents' novelization includes considerable WordOfGay, making it clear that Wayne is a gay man who married to save face, and that Michael, despite being Emma's former lover, is now partnered with the company's male ballet master.
130* ''Film/VanHelsing'':
131** The three actresses playing the Brides revealed some nifty extra information about their characters you don't get in the film at all such as Verona being the oldest and Dracula's favourite, Marishka is the middle bride and was a gypsy, and Aleera is the youngest and most jealous. Silvia Colloca said that Verona was "very confident and very wise, never loses her temper [...] she is very dangerous for that reason because she is not very predictable."
132** Van Helsing's buzzsaw weapons are actually called 'Tojo blades', but you will only know this if you've played the video game.
133* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' had a featurette titled ''Under the Hood'' included in home media releases, which provided information about the film's setting that one wouldn't know just from watching the film, particularly stuff concerning the history of the Minutemen. This is rather appropriate, as excerpts from Hollis Mason's book of the same name served a similar purpose as back-up material in [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the original comic]].
134* ''Film/WildWildWest''. The novelization provides some altered scenes, including introducing a subplot where West claims while surviving on his own he befriended a native shaman, who later appeared as Jim fell off the giant spider to revive him.
135* The character of Nightcrawler was a popular part of the ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', but was mysteriously absent from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. Apparently [[PutOnABus his disappearance]] is explained in ''VideoGame/XMenTheOfficialGame'' released between the two.
136* Angel from ''The Last Stand'' never appears in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' despite having joined the team at the end of the last movie of the original trilogy. The tie-in website released for ''Days of Future Past'' reveals that he was killed by Sentinels a few years prior to the events of the movie.
137** The website also contains a lot of information that greatly fleshes out the BadFuture portions of the film.
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