Line #1 EarlyBirdCameo/FanWorks


1	Characters making an EarlyBirdCameo in FanWorks.
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4	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Doctor Essex in chapter 40, who later shows up in the sequel ''Ghosts of the Past,'' established as [[spoiler: the [[{{Pun}} sinister]] presence who kept Harry at Privet Drive]].
5	* In ''Fanfic/TheGreatStarshipBattle'', the Twelfth Doctor has one line even though the story was written before the contributors knew who would be playing him.
6	* ''Fanfic/ImNobody'': The fic's events start from the beginning of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', but quite a few characters from later games show up.
7	** Kasumi (and the still living Kenji) cameo in chapter 1 while Tali is showing Roxas around the Citadel. They make a second brief cameo shortly after Saren is defeated.
8	** Miranda starts spying on the Normandy crew post Feros.
9	** [[spoiler:Legion]] is seen spying on Roxas and Tali while they're [[spoiler:visiting Rannoch]] after defeating Saren. Bizarrely, [[spoiler:they have their signature hole through their chest]] even though the event that caused it [[SeriesContinuityError won't happen for another two years.]]
10	** One of the researchers hired to study [[spoiler:the technology that makes Mars breathable]] is Alek Ryder. This happens shortly after Saren's defeat.
11	** Also after Saren's defeat, the Normandy Crew run into Nakmor Drack in Chora's Den and they all get caught up in a bar fight.
12	* In ''Fanfic/KingsOfRevolution'', Ginga (and Subaru and Teana later on) gets introduced earlier than the original Nanoha timeline.
13	* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'':
14	** Asuka travelled to Japan right after the death of [[EldritchAbomination Sachiel]].
15	** In both the original story and the redux, Kaworu shows up early on.
16	* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': Izuku finds [[spoiler:Akatani]] talking on the phone with Chisaki Kai over five years prior to when Chisaki normally appears in ''MHA''.
17	* ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossing'': Lechonk appears in the Hoenn region in chapter 36 before VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet released.
18	* ''Fanfic/StarTrekPhoenix'':
19	** Zhidar first appears in the story's first chapter as the antican security guard whose beard Sunset sets on fire during her initial panicked flight through San Francisco. He has a couple of non-speaking reappearances, but drops out of the story after the end of the chapter. He returns in the opening of Season 2 when he's recruited as the ''Phoenix''[='=]s Chief Security Officer, a role he retains afterwards as a recurring member of the supporting cast.
20	** Dr. Selar makes a brief appearance in the first chapter as the doctor who examines Sunset after she returns to consciousness. She returns late in Season 2, having been assigned to the ''Phoenix''[='=]s medical crew.
21	* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura, Kyoko and Mami]] appear months before ''Fanfic/HomuraReacts'' was written.
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23	[[AC:''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'']]
24	* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it mention of Talia al Ghul in the prologue.
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26	[[AC:''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'']]
27	* In ''Fanfic/DairantouSaintZearth'', The Tenda Cousins appear on the first episode to sign the contract.
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29	[[AC:''Franchise/TheDCU'']]
30	* ''Fanfic/NewBeginningsSmallville'': Thanks to his future knowledge, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] meets [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]], opens the antechamber storing Jor-El's hologram and gets his cousin [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] out of her buried ship seven years earlier than in canon.
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32	[[AC:''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'']]
33	* [[spoiler:Bethany Hawke]] is mentioned in passing five times in ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'' before finally [[{{Transplant}} showing up in person]] to join the Inquisition in chapter 38.
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35	[[AC:''Franchise/DragonBall'']]
36	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5189405/1/Dragonball-Divergence Dragonball Divergence]]'', a much younger Videl appears in Chapter 8, during the transition between the Saiyan and Namek Arcs. She's visiting the hospital to bring her father food.
37	* ''Fanfic/TheWarriorsDaughter'': In canon, Bulla is born at Age 780 and shows up in the epilogue of the original series. Here, she is born at Age 766 and shows up in the beginning of the Android Arc.
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39	[[AC:''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'']]
40	* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'': Kagetora makes a background appearance in the first GUDAGUDA event, when she'd made her first in-game appearance with the fourth GUDAGUDA event.
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42	[[AC:''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'']]
43	* In ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory\|LyricalNanoha}}'', several characters from later seasons, such as Zest, Quint, Megane, and Tiida take part the Jewel Seed incident. Teana also gets a brief cameo, and although the girl in a wheelchair [[TheTropeWithoutATitle is never actually named]], it's pretty clear that she's Hayate.
44	** Gil Graham is initially mentioned in passing and eventually appears himself along with the Liese twins. (In fact Lotte Liese [[spoiler: is an EleventhHourRanger]].) Quint also holds a conversation with her husband Genya (another example of this trope) where they talk about the two girls they're trying to adopt - clearly Subaru and Ginga. And finally [[spoiler: Lutecia appears as a baby]].
45	** The sequel, ''Power Games'' shocked everyone when [[spoiler: the Mariage]] popped up during the Book of Darkness incident. Amazingly the author had subtly foreshadowed it in advance. Shortly afterwards, [[spoiler: Jail and some of the Numbers enter the story]].
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47	[[AC:''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'']]
48	* In ''Fanfic/{{Juxtapose}}'', [[spoiler:the Wild Wild Pussycats show up much earlier to set up the Sky Garden for the Sports Festival]] with Kamui Woods. [[spoiler:Hawks]] appears at the same time as a spectator.
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50	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
51	* In ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfFriendship'', Shining Armor appears briefly in ''Bonds''. He isn't mentioned by name and has a brief, awkward conversation with Twilight, hinting that they're estranged.
52	* ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'': Towards the end of "Into the Forest" a mysterious female shirks the Scorpentine that stung Scootaloo and claims she has plans for it. The figure is revealed to be [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis, when the same Scorpentine appears in the caves beneath Canterlot guarding Princess Cadance, Twilight and Flash]].
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54	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'']]
55	* ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers''
56	** Lekona's wife Blythe makes two small cameos in "Kitsune Fox in Hat Trouble" and "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dead Sea" before making her official debut in "Blythe and the Risso's Dolphin".
57	** Sarabi was talked about in "The Undersea Twister" before being officially introduced in "New Squirrel in Town".
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59	[[AC:''Manga/OnePiece'']]
60	* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'':
61	** Bartolomeo was present for Luffy's would-be execution in Loguetown in canon. In this fic, Cross takes the opportunity to temper his passion to be a pirate like Luffy, and suggest that he actually do it right (in canon, while he and presumably his crew had the necessary power to survive in the New World, they had very poor seafaring skills, making it an outright miracle that they made it as far as they did).
62	** Characters that would only appear in future locations, like the Whitebeard Pirates, the Marine higher-ups, or the Revolutionaries appear to show [[ADayInTheLimelight current events]], or [[spoiler:as spectators to Cross's SBS Broadcast]], even though the Straw Hats have yet to meet them in person. As of Chapter 30, [[spoiler:Admiral Akainu makes an appearance, and he does not like the SBS.]]
63	** Chapter 31 has both Doflamingo and Scratchman Apoo calling in to [[spoiler:the SBS Broadcast]].
64	** By Chapter 36, due to the popularity of [[spoiler:the SBS]], it's almost easier to list the characters who ''haven't'' made an appearance yet. Kaido being one large, glaring exception.
65	*** Kinda justified since the manga only very recently showed anything about Wano, as [[spoiler: Wano is shown as being utterly isolated. While Kaido and his lackeys do have access to Transponder Snails, it is rather doubtful that ordinary citizens do as well. And even if they did, even speaking against Kaido gets you kidnapped by his Mooks. He probably has outlawed listening to the SBS.]]
66	** Chapter 52 shows Charlotte Pudding listening to Lola's guest appearance on SBS. Despite all the change that the Straw Hats have brought about and the respect they have earned, she does not think much of them.
67	** [[spoiler: Stussy]] makes an early appearance in the aftermath of Strong World, delivering Indigo to the World Government.
68	** During Omatsuri Island, we are shown Zou, and its rulers Lord Nekomamushi and Duke Inuarashi. More of them were seen in the Enies Lobby arc. They quite like Soundbite's Abbott and Costello, to the point decided to organize a baseball game as a substitute for their usual battles. Their aide Wanda swears revenge against Cross for that very reason.
69	** In Chapter 61, the Beast Pirates are finally seen for the first time pre-timeskip with their representatives Sheepshead and Ginrummy in Skelter Bite.[[note]] Even though Pekoms and Baron Tamago are also present, they were already mentioned in the story at the end of Enies Lobby.[[/note]]
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71	[[AC:''Franchise/{{Persona}}'']]
72	* ''Fanfic/HoursVerse'':
73	** In chapter 6 of ''Facing the Sun'', a young Akira pulls a prank on Minato and Ryoji. He's later properly introduced in ''Intermezzo''.
74	** The Other Side's Tatsuya appears in ''Butterfly Cascade'' [[spoiler: to give Minato his original sword Misericorde, reforged into a dagger to pass onto Akira]]. He shows up again to give support to Minato after [[spoiler: Philemon crashes his wedding and indicates that the Velvet siblings are getting too involved in human affairs]], although [[spoiler: that second appearance gets darkly subverted when it's revealed that it's actually Nyarlathotep in the guise of Tatsuya trying to manipulate him]]. Later, the series expands to include events from the Other Side timeline, featuring Tatsuya prominently in ''The Other 25th Hours'' and [[spoiler: ''My Kingdom for My Heart'']].
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76	[[AC:''Anime/PrettyCure'']]
77	* Kaori Furuya who has a major role in episode 47 of ''Pretty Cure Heavy Metal'', appears as a member of Oriyama High's dance club with Hanae in episode 50 of ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy''.
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79	[[AC:''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]
80	* ''Fanfic/ArcCorp'': Amber, Jaune's youngest sister, is first mentioned in Chapter 18, as the person who'll succeed Jaune as director of the Vale office in the event of his death. She later appears (albeit unnamed) in Chapter 28 as the young girl complaining about being left behind on the Mountain Glenn mission, before formally joining the cast in Chapter 71 as an intern at the Containments Office.
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82	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'']]
83	* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10607424/chapters/23796903 Tales of Beach City]]'' (the 5th "episode" of the ''Connieswap'' series), Holly Blue Agate and the Amethysts from the Human Zoo make a cameo appearance on the painting in ''Critical Connie''.
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85	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'']]
86	* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaAllStarsRewrite'':
87	** Jasmine from ''Pahkitew Island'' appears in the second aftermath episode [[spoiler:before the rest of the ''Pahkitew Island''’s cast is introduced in the four parter.]]
88	** Also, ''Ridonculous Race'' competitors Sanders, [=MacArthur=], and Brody appear in the four parter.

Context EarlyBirdCameo / FanWorks