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| 11 | ->'''Francine:''' Stan, we had a dog already.\ |
| 12 | '''Stan:''' I don't think so.\ |
| 13 | '''Francine:''' We did! Five years ago you got Steve an old dog that peed dust and you killed it. We also had another dog named Fussy that you...didn't like or something.\ |
| 14 | '''Stan:''' Francine, those were obviously dreams. I refuse to discuss your dreams in the daytime. |
| 15 | -->--''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E14StansBestFriend Stan's Best Friend]]" |
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| 17 | A Discontinuity Nod is a ContinuityNod that is made towards something that has been written out of canon, something fans [[FanonDiscontinuity want to be written out]] of canon, something creators [[CreatorBacklash wish they had never made canon]], or even [[ContinuityReboot an entire old Continuity]] that is no longer canon. May be a sign of CanonDiscontinuity, a callback to something a lot of people miss, or just making a joke at the fanbase's widespread hatred. WhoWritesThisCrap |
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| 19 | ''This trope does not refer to a positive or neutral MythologyGag to material that has been excised from canon or was created for a non-canonical work. This trope is about unpopular material being jabbed at in the form of an allusion in another work, effectively making it to the MythologyGag trope what TakeThat is for the ShoutOut trope.'' |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Compare TakeThatScrappy Contrast ContinuityNod. |
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| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | !!Examples: |
| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 28 | * ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': The second of the movies, ''[[Recap/DigimonTamersM2RunawayLocomon Runaway Digimon Express]]'', was made without the input of the head writers. A Drama CD (''Message in a Packet'') released later depicts the Tamers a year after the events of the anime, ''without'' their partners, effectively {{retcon}}ning the movie out of existence. However, in a remarkably respectful nod, [[BrokenBird Ruki]] is heard humming ''Promise of the Setting Sun'', the song she sings at the movie's climax. One of the aforementioned head writers, Chiaki Konaka, noted on his website that he enjoyed the movie and the psychological way it explored Ruki's relationship with her absent father -- something Konaka deliberately chose not to emphasize, since he didn't want to give the impression that his absence was the reason Ruki was a standoffish tomboy at the beginning of the series. |
| 29 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 30 | ** When ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' got a full-color reprint of the manga, Creator/AkiraToriyama wrote a number of new articles [[WorldBuilding expanding on the setting]] or answered long-standing questions. One article discussing Dr. Gero's Androids mentions that #13, #14, and #15 are nearly complete but not yet ready to be activated; this is a nod to the NonSerialMovie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13 Super Android 13]]'', where those three Androids (designed by Toriyama himself) were completed by Gero's supercomputer after his death at the hands of a rebellious #17. |
| 31 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' is the subject of many new Discontinuity Nods, now that the franchise is in something of a revival and Akira Toriyama is supervising it more closely. The ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse Xenoverse]]'' [[VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2 video games]] explicitly refer to it as a sort of splinter timeline caused by Trunks' time machine shenanigans, and the much-beloved Future Trunks has a lot to say about his less-beloved counterpart's methods, although he does come around. |
| 32 | ** Notably, the opening of the ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'' movie depicts early comedic villain Pilaf and his two minions, Shu and Mai, as having wished themselves back to elementary school-age. The main plot hook of ''GT'' was an aged Pilaf accidentally wishing ''Goku'' back to a child. |
| 33 | * The ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise has ''Film/GSaviour'', which has never officially been de-canonized, but both Sunrise and fans alike tend to ignore it. Sunrise has acknowledged it exactly twice: the first time was in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', wherein Athrun's first mobile suit after rejoining ZAFT is called the Saviour, which got [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by Kira (piloting the Freedom). The second was when when the eponymous G-Saviour showed up in ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters''... wherein it got blown up 5 seconds into its debut battle and was never seen again. |
| 34 | * ''Anime/{{Macross}}'': |
| 35 | ** ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}'' masterfully combines this with a TakeThat, by having the [[OvershadowedByAwesome Jamming Birds]] fail because they used music from ''Anime/MacrossII''. |
| 36 | ** ''Anime/MacrossDelta'' draws a major plot beat from ''Macross II''; namely, the idea of a song that can control peoples' minds and drive them berserk. |
| 37 | * Inadvertently invoked in regards to 4kids in the first episode of the Funimation dub of ''Manga/OnePiece'' where Luffy remarks "That was fun, but we shouldn't go back there." |
| 38 | ** In the same arc, Usopp panics that "We've got zero, and I mean Zoro...no I mean ''Zolo'' chances...no I mean zero chances...wonder how Zoro's doing." |
| 39 | ** Eiichiro Oda, the author of ''One Piece'', also seems fond of introducing plot points relating back to events 4Kids Animation dropped or censored out of its version of the series. Most notoriously, an entire StoryArc was removed. One main character's ultimate goal is a reunion with a character from this arc, while another main character keeps referring back to it. Both of these traits were introduced well after 4Kids had removed this arc. |
| 40 | ** Speaking of 4Kids, they are also guilty of this. Having infamously cut out the entirety of the Little Garden arc, including several major characters (like Mr. 3 and Miss Goldenweek/Ms. April Fool's Day), the episode immediately following this deleted arc has the characters giving a rundown of the Baroque Works agents. They mention characters they had apparently never met as if they had recently dealt with them. |
| 41 | * {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion''. While it rendered Madoka [[spoiler:becoming a Goddess and disappearing forever]] non-canon, they made it a very in-universe discontinuity nod by having [[spoiler:the DarkMagicalGirl do the retconning by basically usurping God and becoming Satan in the process,]] with nobody, not even the BigBad [[spoiler:(mainly because of them [[EvilerThanThou getting upended by said Satan]]) or [[SelfInflictedHell said Satan]]]] enjoying a single moment of it. |
| 42 | * A subtle blend of this and MythologyGag can be seen in the fourth anime season of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''; when a chart displaying the various {{Big Bad}}s of the setting is shown, while the two slain in ''Next'' (Hellmaster Phibrizzo and Demon Dragon King Gaav) have their images dented, the image of Dark Star Dugradigdu, the ultimate Big Bad of ''Try'', is left intact. This reflects the fact that Kanzaka [[CreatorBacklash has famously proclaimed his disapproval of the Try season]], due to it being all-original material even if he was involved in creating it. |
| 43 | ** Of course, taking this seriously leads to a continuity tangle, because if ''Try'' is cut out, then it leaves one wondering why Gourry was searching for a replacement to the Sword of Light -- he gave it up to the Overworlder Sirius to be taken back to the Overworld in ''Try'', but in the original novels, Phibrizzo stole it and sent it back to the Overworld before dying -- which didn't happen in the anime rendition of that arc. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' runs on NegativeContinuity, so it's fitting that in one episode of Season 2 Meow references everyone in the universe being turned into zombies in Episode 4 before everything went back to normal the following episode. |
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| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 48 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' gives a nod or two to the more controversial elements of [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the Eighth Doctor's TV movie]] (see below): |
| 49 | ** In "An Earthly Child", the Eighth Doctor (who in his debut claimed to be half-human) shows surprise at the idea of his granddaughter Susan having a child with the very human David Campbell. |
| 50 | ** In "The Apocalypse Element", the Eye of Harmony opening to human eyes is apparently revealed to be due to the Sixth Doctor changing the Gallifreyan retinal systems to that of his companion to slow down a Dalek invasion. At the end he says this might linger on... and it's still there in the film. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 55 | ** Fans hate ComicBook/TheCloneSaga, and [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man really,]] ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries really]]'' [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries hates clones]]. |
| 56 | ** An issue of ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' revealed J. Jonah Jameson also really hates clones. |
| 57 | ** When you defeat Spider-Man while playing ''[[MirrorMatch as]]'' Spider-Man in the Creator/{{Capcom}} game ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'', he quips "Just what I need... another clone!" |
| 58 | ** Becomes part of an extended gag in a scene from ''Spider-Man/Human Torch'' where both heroes find themselves reminiscing about old times: |
| 59 | --->'''Torch:''' Or the time when Occulus stole Doc Ock's adamantium arms and became Doctor Occulus and then the two of us had to...\ |
| 60 | '''Spider-Man:''' That wasn't me.\ |
| 61 | '''Torch:''' What do you mean that wasn't...\ |
| 62 | '''Spider-Man:''' That was my clone.\ |
| 63 | '''Torch:''' Well what about the time when the power Skrull and the multi-colored symbiotes...\ |
| 64 | '''Spider-Man:''' Clone.\ |
| 65 | '''Torch:''' When Quasimodo rebuilt your Spider-armor...\ |
| 66 | '''Spider-Man:''' Clone.\ |
| 67 | '''Torch:''' When Demogoblin and Diablo...\ |
| 68 | '''Spider-Man:''' Clone.\ |
| 69 | '''Torch:''' Hmm. I guess it's probably for the best if we...\ |
| 70 | '''Spider-Man:''' Skip over that whole period? Couldn't agree with you more. |
| 71 | *** This is technically a bit of a ContinuitySnarl, however, since Ben explained everything to Johnny during his time as Spider-Man and he was aware he was talking to another guy. |
| 72 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] has been known to remark that he'd "be crucified if there was a clone in [[MediumAwareness this book]]". |
| 73 | ** Spidey is, however, willing to acknowledge [[http://www.the-isb.com/images/MegaMorphs08.jpg the New Fantastic Four]] - but he's the only one. |
| 74 | ** Another nod was made to the New Fantastic Four in the Venom arc, Circle of Four, with spin off characters of those that made the New FF (Spidey, Wolverine, Hulk and Ghost Rider) forming the circle of four to stop Earth from being swallowed by Hell; namely, Comicbook/{{Venom}}, [[Characters/IncredibleHulkCentralRoguesGallery Red Hulk]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney X-23]] and the third ComicBook/GhostRider. A partial nod was made in ''ComicBook/FearItself: The Home Front'', formed by Amadeus Cho and featuring Spider-Girl (Anya Corazón), X-23 again and with Thor spinoff Thunderstrike and the new Power Man filling in for Ghost Rider and the Hulk. Finally, an ''ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider'' miniseries' plot involved a teamup between the eponymous Ghost Rider, X-23 [[RunningGag again]] (this time in her identity as the All-New Wolverine), Spider-Woman and the Totally Awesome Hulk. So maybe the characters don't want to remember it, but the writers definitely do. Admittedly, none of the aforementioned stories ever came out and called these teams "The NEW New Fantastic Four", but still. |
| 75 | ** In ''[[ComicBook/EarthX Paradise X]]'', Officer Parker briefly considers the notion that the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy have come to the past to clone something, but immediately backtracks with a "No, don't even say the word 'clone'". |
| 76 | ** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'' story arc, MJ gets the line "If we're doing the clone thing again I'm [[PutOnABus moving back]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to LA]]." |
| 77 | ** One of the tidbits of advice that Peter gave [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] during the ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'' crossover was to never ''ever'' allow anyone to clone him. Also never lend any money to [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] or Characters/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}}. |
| 78 | * A very meta BreatherEpisode of ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool had Deadpool refer to the [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Green Goblin]] as "the guy who [[ComicBook/SinsPast knocked up your girlfriend]] [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied then killed her]]." Peter [[CanonDiscontinuity responded with confusion]]. |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelWesterns: Outlaw Files'' has a nod to the derided 2003 ComicBook/RawhideKid MAX series, where a page describing [[ShowWithinAShow movies based on the Rawhide Kid's life]] describes one as an infamous gay cult classic that uses the Kid's wandering lifestyle as a closet metaphor. |
| 80 | * In the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' series ''ComicBook/DCRetroactiveSuperman'', it is lampshaded by [[spoiler:the fake]] Destiny when he states that there will be a future ''ComicBook/{{Identity Crisis|2004}}'', and it will be so terrible that everyone "will agree to forget it ever happened". The Identity Crisis story does involve a Retcon about the heroes mindwiping villains (and Batman) to forget their secret identities/the fact that they mindwiped anyone at all, but that's hardly "agreeing" and it doesn't quite mean forgetting every aspect of the story either, so Destiny's line sounds more like meta-commentary. |
| 81 | * ''ComicBook/IronMan'': There've been similar (but far fewer) jokes about the "Teen Tony" era, such as this bit from ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff'': |
| 82 | -->'''Iron Man:''' You know, I got de-aged once, too.\ |
| 83 | '''Thor:''' I thought you said you never wanted to talk about that.\ |
| 84 | '''The Vision:''' You ''did'' say that, Tony. |
| 85 | * The usual TakeThat approach is inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' comic book. A scene between Hudson and Jeffrey from the CanonDiscontinuity ReTool was incorporated into the comic because it was one of the few things the retool got right. |
| 86 | * In Franchise/TheDCU, the ''original'' Bat-Girl, Betty Kane, was retconned Comicbook/PostCrisis into always being called "Flamebird" aka Bette Kane, because writer Marv Wolfman hated that version of the character. But years later, in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', Flamebird meets another Characters/{{Batgirl}} and immediately says, "Batgirl? Been there, done that." |
| 87 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': |
| 88 | ** ComicBook/HawkAndDove, characters who debuted as teenagers in UsefulNotes/TheSixties, suddenly aged up into adulthood when they guest-starred in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold''. The [[Creator/AlanBrennert writer of that issue]] wanted to explore the characters' roots in sixties politics and [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece how the world had passed them by since then]]. It was, admittedly, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a pretty good story and deconstruction of the characters]] - but forgot to account for their presence in the larger DC universe, [[SlidingTimescale where their fellow Teen Titans HADN'T aged]]. So, they were back to being teens when they cameoed in Donna Troy's wedding issue. Her husband remarks that he thought they'd be older and Don remarks "[[LampshadeHanging Lately, everyone's been saying that!]]" |
| 89 | ** One of the 70's era Titans was Mal Duncan, a BadassNormal who [[LegacyCharacter eventually adopted the name and costume]] of the Golden Age hero the ComicBook/{{Guardian}}. Post-Crisis, this never happened, and Mal instead called himself the Herald, a change that carried over to the ''ComicBook/New52''. However, in the ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'' ''Titans'' series, Mal steals a suit of tactical body armor from Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}} that looks suspiciously like a modernized version of his old Guardian costume, complete with a gold mask. |
| 90 | * Speaking of Nightwing, the ''New 52'' removed his original 80s "disco" costume from continuity. Despite this, the outfit showed up in flashbacks as the costume worn by his parents for their trapeze act. |
| 91 | * When Gordon Rennie started writing a new series of ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper'', set in the same time period as Gerry Finley-Day's initial run, one panel showed a graffito reading "Thank God it's not [[{{Expy}} Friday]]!" |
| 92 | * ''Franchise/{{Doctor Who|ExpandedUniverse}}'' comics: |
| 93 | ** The ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip had an Eighth Doctor strip that declared the early ''TV Comics Doctor Who'' strips to be daydreams the Doctor had about what things would be like if the universe were [[LighterAndSofter nicer]]. |
| 94 | ** The IDW comic book miniseries ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten'' suggested the entire "half-human" thing was a ruse put on by the Doctor to mislead the Master (exactly how is never really explained) in case he attempted to escape his execution. |
| 95 | * ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} et ses Amis'' contains a scene where a fan of Asterix insists to him that she owns books of all of his adventures, "even the one where [[BizarroEpisode you fight aliens]]". |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]] was involved in a better-off-forgotten miniseries called ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory Purgatory]]'', where Frank was killed and turned into an avenging angel who went after demons. It was quietly dropped when Creator/GarthEnnis took over writing for Frank. Years later, in ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', Frank is at death's door when [[ItMakesSenseInContext an angel feather acquired by Deadpool]] is instantly drawn to him, healing all his wounds. When everyone wonders why the feather was drawn to Frank, he just says, "Don't want to talk about it." Olivier, the BigBad of ''Purgatory'', also went on to cameo in ''Nightcrawler'' and ''ComicBook/FearItself''. |
| 97 | ** Ennis does his own Discontinuity Nod (and kind of has to, to [[HandWave explain]] why Frank isn't an avenging angel anymore) in the last pages of his first issue on the title. Frank does a badass monologue about having once seen heaven, that the angels showed it to him as a punishment after he decided to stop killing for them, to show what was going to be forever denied to him now. It's so vague, an unattentive reader can ''very'' easily think that Frank is just being poetic about quitting the army and the brief time he had to appreciate his wife and family again before losing them. |
| 98 | * ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': |
| 99 | ** Dr. X, an Utrom scientist in the Image ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comics, was written out of canon along with everything else in Vol. 3. An Utrom scientist with the same name has since appeared in the current ''Tales of the TMNT'' book. |
| 100 | ** ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' had a 3-issue miniseries tie in called "The May East Saga," which was reviled by fans due to its ridiculous story about a super-powered witch who was an ancestor of April's and its particularly bad artwork. One of the later issues that consisted of a WholeEpisodeFlashback saw the 3-parter floating in a bunch of sewage among other trash, while a special had April tell Turtles [[AllJustADream about the 3-parter's plot as some ridiculous dream she had]], while the Turtles comment it sounds more like a nightmare. |
| 101 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'': |
| 102 | ** When ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' began, it inexplicably shifted Prowl's characterisation from "manipulative jerk" to "willing to thoughtlessly risk his life for a Decepticon". By the beginning of the next series, ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' Prowl had turned back to his previous characterisation, and never looked back (outside of a brief {{Handwave}} explaining the change)... except in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersSinsOfTheWreckers'' the BigBad accuses Prowl of having tried being a better person before, only to go back to form sooner or later. |
| 103 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': ''ComicBook/TheBeastWithin'', a comic infamous for its GrimDark story involving a Dinobot combiner, is mentioned in the page quote for CanonDiscontinuity. However, this didn't stop Hasbro from introducing actual Dinobot combiners in its toylines (one of them, Mega-Dinobot, was equally bad, but for different reasons, namely that it had several defects in its construction), eventually making the well-received Volcanicus, [[ContrastingReplacementCharacter essentially the titular Beast with a less freakish design]]. In the online game ''VideoGame/TransformersEarthWars'', in a scene written by Creator/SimonFurman (who was consulted for ideas by the writer of this comic and therefore knew about it even before it gained its current status in the fandom), Swoop expresses concern that merging (to form Volcanicus) might cause them to "[[DeathOfPersonality lose all sense of individuality]] and become [[AxCrazy some monosyllabic, blundering oaf with less sense than a lug nut]]", [[TakeThat like what happened to the Beast]], who doesn't exist in the game thanks to Volcanicus (AndThereWasMuchRejoicing from the fandom, at least among those who remembered [[NightmareFuel what the consequences of canonizing it would be]]). |
| 104 | * A [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a2/Star_Wars_Marvel_2015_Jaxxon_Variant.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200822001757 variant cover]] of the first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Star Wars|Marvel2015}}'' features the much-maligned [[FunnyAnimal Jaxxon]] trying to force himself into the comic while the rest of the cast resists. |
| 105 | * In the Creator/GailSimone run of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'', the titular barbarian heroine encounters a swordsman named Osric the Untouched, who claims to have divinely-granted fighting skills, at the cost that he will lose them if [[BestHerToBedHer he ever allows someone to have sex with him without having first beaten him in battle]]. Fans will recognize that ''Sonja'' traditionally had the exact same blessing/curse, which Simone dropped for her run, something confirmed when an incredulous Sonja proclaims that to be "the StupidestThingIveEverHeard". |
| 106 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': When asked about Kennedy in her first season 8 comics appearance Willow says she died ([[TakeThatScrappy in a nod to the fans that hated that ship]]), but quickly clarifies that it was a temporary magic death and she got better. |
| 107 | * ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' was such a controversial series that DC chose to ignore most of it within weeks of its completion (including ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' itself). Even while it was being published, Creator/GeoffJohns included a stealth lambasting in ''Booster Gold Vol. 2 #1'', (it was released on October 2007 -- ''Countdown'' began in May earlier that year and would end in April 2008) where the time-travelling ComicBook/RipHunter wrote down a chalkboard of notes to keep track of the current state of TheMultiverse, some of which being "DON'T WORRY ABOUT COUNTDOWN" followed by "focus elsewhere" in huge circles. |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 111 | * ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': |
| 112 | ** It does this from time to time in regard to ''Anime/DragonBallGT''. The series' original pre-episode disclaimer,[[note]]Before ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' was officially licensed[[/note]] which is read by a different character every time, read: "The following is a non-profit fan-based parody. ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Dragon Ball GT'' are all owned by Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/ToeiAnimation, Fuji TV and Creator/AkiraToriyama. [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Please support the official release]]." When Guru reads the disclaimer he sounds audibly shocked and/or disturbed by ''GT'''s presence, and when Mecha-Freeza reads it he [[VillainousBSoD glitches out]] over ''GT'', forcing his father King Cold to read the rest. |
| 113 | ** In ''Anime/BardockTheFatherOfGoku Abridged'', as per the original special, Bardock has a DyingDream of Goku confronting Freeza. However, he then has visions of Cell and Majin Buu, to his confusion. And then he sees Goku and friends dealing with the Para Para Brothers from ''GT'', at which point he says "And now I welcome the sweet embrace of death." |
| 114 | ** Then there's the earlier episode, where Goku [[TakeThat takes a shot]] at ''Film/DragonballEvolution'', which was being released around the same time. |
| 115 | --->'''Goku:''' Man, this is worse than that time I was in high school, and all the guys called me "Geeko", and I was Piccolo's slave, I couldn't get Chi Chi to like me, and... Oh wow, I hit that rock harder than I thought. |
| 116 | ** Creator/TeamFourStar very much dislikes ''Anime/DragonBallEpisodeOfBardock'' for its nonsensical story and alterations to Bardock's character. Their abridged version of it has Bardock going Super Saiyan because he's enraged by how stupid it is that Freeza's death ball sent him back in time. The whole thing turns out to be a story Goku tells Gohan, who asks his father about things that don't make sense before it's revealed it's AllJustADream of Gohan's. |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'': |
| 118 | ** Rather than Adrien guilt-tripping Marinette into throwing a party for [[SpoiledBrat Chloé]], Chloé winds up throwing ''him'' a party to cheer him up when he's sulking over [[spoiler:losing the Black Cat Ring]]. He proves to be [[UngratefulBastard just as ungrateful for her efforts]] as she was towards Marinette in canon, demanding that she invite the whole school before walking out without so much as a goodbye after Kim announces he's throwing a pool party. |
| 119 | ** Despite never receiving the Bee Comb, Chloé still decides that [[EntitledBastard she's entitled to it]] because she assumes it matches her favored yellow-heavy aesthetic and because [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections she's the Mayor's daughter]]. |
| 120 | ** Gabriel briefly contemplates the power that combining Miraculi could hold, and considers using the Peafowl Pin alongside the Butterfly Brooch. However, unlike {{Canon}}, he ultimately doesn't do so, as [[spoiler:Master Fu liberated the Pin from his office safe before the idea ever occured to him]]. |
| 121 | * ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has nods towards "those three episodes" of the Mega Man cartoon; a producer offers to make a Mega Man cartoon and gives those episodes' plot synopses. Mega politely dissuades him. |
| 122 | * ''FanFic/OfPatienceAndPettiness'' has Marinette [[LiarRevealed expose Lila's true nature]] to the rest of her class after a week. However, she's deeply disappointed by how the majority of her classmates try to [[NeverMyFault pass the blame onto others]] rather than admit their mistakes, and confides to Tikki about how she's glad this happened before she considered handing out any more Miraculi: |
| 123 | -->'''Marinette:''' "Imagine if I had given one to, I don't know, [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E13Startrain Max]]? Or [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E20PartyCrasher Kim]]? God, what if I had given one to [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E11Desperada Adrien]]? What keeps them bound to Ladybug in a way that they wouldn't betray her as easily as they did me?" |
| 124 | * In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', when Pikachu sees Scott for the first time, at first he has trouble recalling his name, calling him Shouta, Scottie and Sawyer, in reference to the XY rival... who Ash never got to meet because the timeline was reset before he could. |
| 125 | * ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'': The author's notes in Chapter 34 of ''The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk'' addresses how the big reveal in that chapter connects to a couple of the author's earlier discontinued stories: [[spoiler:specifically, they are actually previous "iterations" of the Kryptonverse that Doom and original Reed tried with their {{Retconjuration}} alterations before reaching the one with Kara, and they show her glimpses of them when trying to convince her to join them.]] |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Film — Animation]] |
| 129 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter Parker rather ashamedly refers to the infamous street dance from ''Film/SpiderMan3''. |
| 130 | -->'''Peter:''' And I did, uh... I did this. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain We don't really talk about this.]] |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 134 | * ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}} '' has the titular protagonist mention at one point that things went sideways in the worst way possible. Then he decides he spoke too soon when the camera cuts to an action figure of his InNameOnly incarnation from the now non-canon ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. In fact, Deadpool makes fun of ''Origins'' a number of times; this is justified by his FourthWallObserver nature being a key part of his character. ''Film/Deadpool2'' does, however, establish that ''Origins'' is canon in ''some'' version of the X-Men film universe, as [[spoiler:during TheStinger, Deadpool goes back in time to kill that version of the character. And then empties a clip into the corpse]]. |
| 135 | * ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', has a dig at the widely hated movie ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998). Near the beginning of the movie, the Japanese Defense Force is being briefed on the history of Godzilla. One cadet whispers to another "Didn't Godzilla attack America a couple years ago?" The other's response: "No, that wasn't really him." Interestingly this had the effect of doubling as a ContinuityNod; it established 'Zilla as his own separate canon creature, allowing fans to warm up to the monster as a concept, whatever their feelings about the film. ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' followed up on this by having both versions fight each other, with the original Big G winning against his FragileSpeedster American version. |
| 136 | * In ''Film/Halloween2018'', Laurie Strode's granddaughter says, upon being asked if the murderer Michael Myers was in fact [[LongLostRelative Laurie's brother]], that that's just an {{urban legend|s}}. Many fans of the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series, including [[Film/Halloween1978 the first film's]] writer/director Creator/JohnCarpenter, regard that PlotTwist from [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the second film]] as a FranchiseOriginalSin; the inclusion of that line in the trailer indicates that the filmmakers do as well. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' toes the line with this. Originally, it was envisioned as "a reboot ''and'' a sequel" to 2003's ''Film/{{Hulk}}'', which meant that ''Hulk'' would be canon, but subject to BroadStrokes in order to better tie to the feel of the original TV show. Ultimately, the final product had little to do with the previous film, so the one tie-in that remained is that at the end of ''Hulk'', Bruce Banner is in Brazil, and at the start of ''Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner is still in Brazil. Creator/EdwardNorton himself rewrote parts of the script, which included adding the flashback to the experiment which created Hulk with the express purpose of portraying it as different from the previous film. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 141 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: |
| 142 | ** ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'': |
| 143 | *** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresFirstFrontier First Frontier]]'' referenced the charity special "[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]"... as being AllJustADream. |
| 144 | *** ''Head Games'' establishes Dr Who of the ''TV Action'' comic strip as a creation of the Land of Fiction. In the same book the Doctor, making his way through a MentalWorld with elements of the Land of Fiction, has a thoroughly cathartic time blasting Daleks to bits in a way he'd never do in the real world, just like the video game ''Dalek Attack''. |
| 145 | ** The ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Business Unusual'' likewise had the Sixth Doctor dream the events of "A Fix With Sontarans". |
| 146 | ** The Creator/BigFinish short story collection ''Repercussions'' was set on a mysterious airship where the Doctor took people who had to be removed from time for one reason or another. These included a red-haired young man in a FunTShirt that read "I went to Agora and all I got was this lousy shirt" (Grant Markham, Sixth Doctor companion in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures'') and a blonde young woman in a similar shirt that read "I went to Hyspero..." (Sam Jones, companion in the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures''). |
| 147 | ** The Literature/NewSeriesAdventures novel ''At Childhood's End'' depicts yet another version of how Ace stopped travelling with the Doctor. This one involves her interacting with an alien artifact that gives her visions of potential futures -- which include Ace becoming a Time Lord (the way the TV series writers had considered writing her out before the show was cancelled), dying during an adventure (as in the [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine DWM comic]]), going to live in the past with Count Nikolai Sorin (as depicted in the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation of "The Curse of Fenric"]]), several scenes from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'', and one of her hanging out with a young man who might be Hex Schofield from ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' -- with the implication that none of these potential futures came to be because she chose to go home shortly afterward. |
| 148 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/DeathMasks'', Harry meets up with his double and opponents for a magical duel in the parking lot outside of Wrigley Field — [[ArtisticLicenseGeography the one that totally does not exist in real life]]. In the [[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles tabletop RPG]] for the series, the City Creation section mentions how you might intentionally create inaccuracies in order to speed the plot or add flavor — like, say, adding a huge parking lot to your city's baseball field (to which [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Harry himself]] comments in the notes, "Oh, very funny. Twist the knife."). |
| 149 | * ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'': In ''Final Watch'', Anton meets Yegor, the boy from the first novel, who mentions a dream he had, which is, basically, the plot for the ''Night Watch'' film, which diverges from the novels. Specifically, the part about Yegor being Anton's son. |
| 150 | * In the third issue of the ''Franchise/StarCraft'' comic, a ghost slaughters the inhabitants of Bhekar Ro. This was the planet that was featured in ''Shadow of the Xel'Naga'', a book by the oft-reviled Kevin J. Anderson that featured many aspects of things never seen before or since and full-blown continuity errors. While dark and depressing, fans were pleased. |
| 151 | * A ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ExpandedUniverse novel has an admiral opining to Picard that Kirk obviously had so much contempt for Starfleet Command that he would just invent stuff for his reports, "including that one ridiculous incident in which he claimed someone stole his first officer's brain." This is of course, a reference to the infamous [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]", universally considered one of the worst episodes of the original series, if not ''the'' worst. |
| 152 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 153 | ** The tie-in book ''The Jedi Path'' includes an essay on the Force, in which the author encourages the reader not to think too much about [[FanDislikedExplanation midi-]][[DoingInTheWizard chlorians]] and focus on the wider aspects of the Force. An annotation from Luke says he wants to return to the idea of "the Force as it flows through us – not from us." |
| 154 | ** [[NoEndorHolocaust The alleged "Endor disaster"]] was explained to be Imperial propaganda, as several novels and comic books elaborate that the majority of the second Death Star's mass was obliterated in the explosion with the larger debris being caught by Rebel tractor beams. |
| 155 | ** The Disney-canon book ''The Princess and the Scoundrel,'' about Han and Leia's wedding, includes a scene where Han realizes that the battle with the Empire's remnant will be going on for years and Leia will be right in the middle of it and her life will continue to be in danger. He momentarily thinks about grabbing her and flying off with her to some remote planet for them to spend the rest of their lives away from the war, but quickly decides against it on the grounds that Leia "would never forgive him" and "would probably shoot him" before he'd be able to carry out such a plan. This is possibly a shot at the much-maligned book about Han and Leia's wedding in the now-defunct Legends timeline, ''The Courtship of Princess Leia,'' in which Han ''does'' kidnap Leia and fly her off to a remote planet in an attempt to get her to marry him. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'': |
| 157 | ** In the first book, there was a [=ThunderClan=] cat named Rosetail who was killed defending the nursery; she was not [[DramatisPersonae listed in the Allegiances]] or otherwise mentioned in the book. It became a well-known error, and in a book that came out five years later, a character comments, "There was an elder named Rosetail who died back when I was nursing Swiftkit..." |
| 158 | ** Similarly, in the first series, apprentices would always travel to the Moonstone before becoming a warrior. Fans pointed out that the characters haven't been doing it in recent books, even though the Clans had found a replacement for the Moonstone in their new home. Leafpool comments in a scene, "We seem to have left that tradition behind when we came to our new home." |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 162 | * In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', it was stated that Frasier's father was a scientist who had been dead for years, which obviously had to be {{Retcon}}ned when they [[Series/{{Frasier}} gave Frasier his own show]], since it featured his ex-cop (and still very much alive) father as a major character. They eventually {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this when Sam from ''Cheers'' guest-starred on ''Frasier'', and pointed out this inconsistency. [[AuthorsSavingThrow It turned out Frasier had lied about his father being a dead scientist because he was angry at him]]. |
| 163 | * In the first episode of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' filmed after the spin-off ''Series/MrsColumbo'' ended, the writers considered having Columbo offhandedly mention some nut pretending to be his wife; of course, the most this would disavow is her relationship to him (Creator/LevinsonAndLink maintained that the star of ''Mrs. Columbo'' is actually the wife of some ''other'' detective named Columbo): her ''existence'', and therefore any events of the show that don't depend on their relationship, is avowed. |
| 164 | * Season 4 of ''Series/{{Community}}'' is hated by fans due to suffering from OutOfCharacterMoment[=s=], ContinuitySnarl, and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse hanging plot-lines]], thanks to the firing of series creator Creator/DanHarmon and several head writers. When Dan Harmon returned for seasons 5 and 6, the season was referred as the "gas-leak year". |
| 165 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 166 | ** The controversial moment in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]] where the Doctor claims to be half-human has gotten this treatment multiple times in the new series: |
| 167 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]]: After it's revealed that the Daleks our heroes are facing were created by the Dalek Emperor from HumanResources, Rose points out that that makes them half-human. The Emperor immediately responds that "THOSE WORDS ARE BLASPHEMY!", followed by Daleks chanting "DO NOT BLASPHEME!" |
| 168 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]: The Doctor's hand regenerates into a "Human" Doctor, who mentions that the particular combination (Human & Time Lord) has never happened before. The new human Doctor is visibly disgusted by the whole thing. |
| 169 | *** Although some have used the above (and other examples) as evidence to support the claim the 1996 TV movie never happened, additional Expanded Universe entries have provided ways the events can be rationalized. (See the examples in Audio Plays and Comic Books, above.) Several novels have also had a go at it. One by Kate Orman says the Doctor isn't sure of his own origins because his memories are vague and seem to contradict each other. |
| 170 | *** In his book ''The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter'' in which he charted the progress of writing the 2008/2009 Doctor Who episodes, Russell T Davies revealed that he was considering putting in a line of dialogue in David Tennant's final episode explaining the half-human remark ("Oh, that was like picking up a bug, I got over that.") but decided that it would be too confusing for the mainstream audience. If included it would have been an example of AuthorsSavingThrow. |
| 171 | *** Note that the Eighth Doctor ''has'' been referenced repeatedly, and showed up in person in the online mini-episode [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]], but BroadStrokes presumably applies. |
| 172 | *** Just to make things ambiguous, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] treats the half-human theory as a legitimate possibility for the first time in years, although the Doctor (characteristically) confirms nothing, and the plot point which leads to it being brought up is resolved in a different way[[note]]to elaborate, there's a prophecy about a hybrid of two warrior races who will stand over the ruins of Gallifrey and break a billion billion hearts to heal its own. It's stated to be conventionally interpreted as a Time Lord/Dalek hybrid, but the options of Human/Mire (like Ashildr) and Time Lord/Human are also raised. Ultimately, The Hybrid turns out to be [[spoiler:the Doctor and Clara, with the Doctor nearly destroying Gallifrey for her]][[/note]]. |
| 173 | ** A central idea of the proposed post-TV Movie storyline was a retooling of the Master into being the Doctor's long lost brother. This is referenced thusly in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: |
| 174 | --->'''Martha:''' I thought you were gonna say he was your secret brother or something.\ |
| 175 | '''The Doctor:''' [[YouWatchTooMuchX ...You've been watching too much TV.]] |
| 176 | *** This idea dates back to the 70s when Jon Pertwee played the Doctor. The season finale was to reveal that the Master was the Doctor's brother, and his character was to die saving the Doctor's life. Unfortunately, Roger Delgado, the actor who played the Master, was killed in an automobile accident, and so the story was never filmed. |
| 177 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]], the Doctor pokes fun at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIT_dating_controversy UNIT dating controversy]], an infamous ContinuitySnarl, with a line about "when I worked with them back in the seventies... or was it the eighties?" |
| 178 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]] makes a similar joke, with Kate Stewart stating that the Doctor's UNIT files either refer to the '70s or '80s depending on the dating protocol used. |
| 179 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]] has devices called "progenation machines" which can make someone a TrulySingleParent which are suspiciously reminiscent of the infamous "looms" from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'', devices which in that continuity were the only method by which the Time Lords could reproduce and an idea that the new series has ignored. |
| 180 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar "The Witch's Familiar"]] makes a point of using every Dalek type from the Classic series, New series and a few more besides, but the [[SpecialEffectFailure reviled]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "New Paradigm" Dalek design]] pointedly makes no appearance. In fact, blogger [=Dalek6388=] wryly observed that the story's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]]-style corridors are deliberately designed such that the "fat" New Paradigm Daleks wouldn't be able to get through them. |
| 181 | * ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'': In "[[Recap/DontHugMeImScaredTransport Transport]]", when trying to decide where to travel, Red Guy points to a location on the GPS labeled "Clay Hill", which is the name of the town that was in [[Recap/DontHugMeImScaredPilot the unaired pilot]]. The GPS apologizes, saying that place doesn't exist anymore. |
| 182 | * ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'''s CousinOliver Seven makes an appearance [[FaceOnAMilkCarton on a milk carton]]. |
| 183 | * ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'''s Season 4 two-part episode "Inside Probe" had pre-series Earl talk about having a dream about being sent to jail, getting out, getting hit by a car and winding up in a coma. Earl comments that how no one would want to watch it. [[TakeThat Season 3, which many agree to be the worst season, had Earl in jail, then in a coma, for several episodes.]] |
| 184 | * In the season 3 premiere of ''Series/Revenge2011'', season 2's overarching plotline is casually resolved with a couple lines of dialogue including a DeusExMachina. Emily and Nolan then speak for the people who didn't care for said plotline: |
| 185 | -->'''Emily:''' Let's never say the words "Carrion" or "Initiative" ever again.\ |
| 186 | '''Nolan:''' Amen to that. |
| 187 | * The 2018 revival of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' does away with the original series' infamous ending by having Dan alive and well, though on a CPAP machine. One scene has Roseanne shout Dan awake from his sleep and when she states "I thought you were dead!", he annoyingly pulls up the mask and groans "Why does everybody always think I was dead?" |
| 188 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' has several of these. |
| 189 | ** A couple of episodes parodied Carter's infamous "reproductive organs" speech from the pilot. ('''Carter:''' "God that's horrible! Who'd ''ever say that?"'') |
| 190 | ** "200" and "Wormhole X-Treme" are mainly based off this trope. For example, in ''Wormhole X-Treme'', the cast and crew of the titular ShowWithinAShow mock plot elements of ''SG-1'', including three shots of a zat gun vaporizing people and the fact that characters who are out of phase (thus insubstantial) can sit and walk without falling through the chair, desk, floor, etc. The former was actually written out of the show, while the latter was shamelessly reused years later. |
| 191 | ** There's also O'Neill's quip about his name. "O'Neill, with two 'Ls'. There's another Colonel O'Neil with one 'L' and he has NoSenseOfHumor," referencing the movie O'Neil who was much more angsty. |
| 192 | ** The events of the Season 1 episode "Hathor", considered by both writers and fans alike to be one of the worst episodes in the show, are never brought up except in meta-jokes about how much that episode sucked and also never happened. For example, there's this gem from "Heroes" where Dr. Fraiser is going through Jack's medical files. |
| 193 | --->'''Dr. Fraiser:''' ...nanite technology, artificially aged him ... he had a shoulder punctured by an alien time capsule device. Erm ... three knee operations ... oh ... that's '''the whole Hathor incident which he's asked me never to discuss'''... |
| 194 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': |
| 195 | ** In the episode "The Void": "Deuterium? You can get that anywhere!" in direct contradiction to several ''Voyager'' episodes where they try to find that isotope of hydrogen (roughly 1% of all matter in the universe is deuterium); they even scan planets to find ''deuterium ore'' and when they do, it's intelligent. In other words--it's intelligent '''gas'''! |
| 196 | ** In the episode "Day of Honor" Tom Paris states that he's never "navigated a transwarp conduit." This is possibly a Discontinuity Nod to the earlier episode "Threshold", widely considered to be one of the show's worst (and up there with "Spock's Brain" as a contender for worst in the entire franchise), which is based around Paris entering a distinct phenomenon also referred to as "transwarp" and wackiness ensuing. |
| 197 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': "Trials and Tribble-ations" acknowledges the different Klingon appearances between TOS and TNG. At the time of the episode, there was no canon explanation. The writers feared an attempt to create one would be anti-climactic or narmy because fans knew it was due to budgetary issues, so they made a joke out of the characters debating all the existing fandom theories (especially genetic engineering mishaps or viral mutations) and Worf refusing to take the bait. Years later, the ''Enterprise'' series decided to use these very suggestions in an attempt to create a canon explanation, although the writers ended up feeling their earlier fears were justified (a Klingon subjected to experimental genetic engineering picked up a common virus which mutated and spread the altered genes to a segment of the Klingon population). |
| 198 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 199 | ** When Sam and Dean meet the prophet Chuck, he initially thinks he's a god, and that he caused it all, rather than just writing it down. He apologizes for all the pain and suffering, "the bugs", as well as "that ghost ship." Turns out [[spoiler:Chuck IS God]]. |
| 200 | ** In the 200th episode, Dean recaps to a ''Supernatural'' fangirl everything that happened since season 5 (in this universe the author stopped publishing books after "Swan Song"). The girl replies, "Wow... That is some of the [[SeasonalRot WORST fanfictions I have ever heard!]]" |
| 201 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': In "Max's Secret Girlfriend", when asked about what he told to Nancy, Max says that he told her about everything except the dragon dog. In "Curb Your Dragon", the Russos adopt a dragon dog, but it never appears again. |
| 202 | -->'''Max:''' I still have no idea what happened to that. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 206 | * Music/{{Eminem}} constantly bashes his album ''Relapse'', a SlasherMovie ConceptAlbum full of Eminem [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent doing accents]], which was met with negative fan reaction when it came out. On his followup album ''Recovery'', he announces that ''Relapse'' doesn't count, proclaims "fuck my last CD, that shit's in my trash", and "in fact, let's be honest, that last ''Relapse'' CD was [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion ehh]], perhaps I [[AccentRelapse ran dem accents into da gro-uund]] -- relax, I ain't goin' back to that". On ''Hell: The Sequel'', he bullies a girl by forcing her to listen to ''Relapse'' in the car until she pops out the CD and snaps it in two. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 210 | * The Wrestling/{{WWE}} made fun of the Katie Vick storyline at least twice (by Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, no less!), and the character actually played a part in Kane's StartOfDarkness origin story, ''Journey Into Darkness''. |
| 211 | ** Wrestling/CMPunk also took a shot at Katie Vick angle: |
| 212 | --->'''[[SmugStraightEdge Punk]]:''' [[http://youtu.be/UrWu-P6eRuQ?t=1m46s "Katie Vick.]] And if you don't get it, that's fine, just Website/YouTube it, it'll drive you to drink and then you can come see me... AND I WILL SAVE YOU!" |
| 213 | ** Wrestling/{{Kane}}, himself has referenced it a couple times; first when he found himself on a team with Triple H[[note]]This also featured a few other team members listing off the terrible things Triple H had done to them in the past, while the Game became more and more nervous[[/note]], and later during his anger management therapy class. |
| 214 | --->'''Kane:''' Years ago, I had a girlfriend named Katie, but uh... [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain let's just say that didn't turn out so well]]. |
| 215 | ** Before his induction into the Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame, Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, the Head of Creative at the time, tweeted an apology to Kane for the Katie Vick storyline. |
| 216 | * Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr: |
| 217 | ** His winning the 2006 Royal Rumble was dubbed by the WWE as the first time that someone won the Royal Rumble as the #2 entry. This was a reference to the widely hated 1999 Royal Rumble where Wrestling/VinceMcMahon [[AssPull won the Royal Rumble as the #2 entry]]. |
| 218 | ** WWE's discontinuity of Mysterio unmasking in Wrestling/{{WCW}} is subverted with the cover of Rey Mysterio's DVD "The Life Of A Masked Man". On the cover, he holds the mask in front of his face, so the top half of his head is visible, but his face is not completely visible. Thus he can be seen as both being masked and unmasked -- satisfying both the older fans who criticise WWE for denying his unmasking, and the younger fans who have never seen him unmasked before and may not want to. And those who simply despise how WCW handled it; unmasking is '''SeriousBusiness''' in [[MaskedLuchador lucha libre]] and it's considered tremendously disrespectful that he was forced to unmask pretty much just because. This along with some LoopholeAbuse is why Rey is still allowed to wear his mask these days. |
| 219 | * The Insane Clown Posse were not very well received by Wrestling/RingOfHonor's fans, to the point ICP vs The Outcast Killaz was left off of the home release of ''Glory By Honor'' in 2002, only being found on the otherwise unrelated ''ROH Uncensored'' and not even being listed on the official results on the website. However, at ''Supercard Of Honor II'' in 2007 Dave Prazak and Lenny Leonard insisted Wrestling/LarrySweeney had brought in something worse than ICP in the form of Johnny Fairplay. |
| 220 | * On the 1000th Raw episode, we saw Wrestling/MaeYoung's all grown up child... that's right; the hand returned! |
| 221 | * Wrestling/KofiKingston first joined the WWE with heavy Jamaican theming [[FakeNationality despite being from Ghana]] (it was Kofi's idea; he came up with the gimmick while wrestling in the indies), and was pushed as being from Jamaica for the better part of a year before it was suddenly phased out in 2009, with Kofi dropping the fake accent and [[{{Retcon}} retroactively establishing himself to be from Ghana]]. The change went with surprisingly little fanfare or concern for how big it was, but it's been referenced and joked about here and there: |
| 222 | ** A few weeks after the change, during a promo with Wrestling/DGenerationX, Wrestling/TripleH asked Kofi to his face [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "Hey, aren't you supposed to be Jamaican? What happened to your accent?"]] Wrestling/ShawnMichaels changed the subject before Kofi could provide a proper response. |
| 223 | ** Almost a decade and a half later, shortly following Wrestling/CMPunk's return to WWE, he would happily reunite with his former tag partner backstage with [[{{Pun}} "Jamaican me crazy!"]], only for Kofi to politely correct him by saying he doesn't do that anymore (the retcon happened years before Punk previously left WWE, [[RuleOfFunny but hey, who's keeping track?]]). |
| 224 | * From his first [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] promo, CM Punk said ''"August 13th, 2005. I left ProfessionalWrestling. August 20th, 2021, I'm back."'' No guess for [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} what happened in the middle]]. |
| 225 | * One of the strangest {{Aborted Arc}}s in 2017 was the reveal of Jason Jordan as Wrestling/KurtAngle's illegitimate son. Despite supposedly building to something, it was abruptly cut short in 2018 when Jordan suffered a CareerEndingInjury and thus the story was dropped as if nothing happened. Four years later in 2022, the two would reunite where Jordan would give the Olympic Hero a #1 Dad Card for his birthday. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 229 | * White Wolf came out with a book on [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]] for their ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' line that portrayed Roma as embodiments of all the old Universal Studios horror movie stereotypes. Several years down the line, one of their books featured a sidebar that mentioned how inaccurate portrayals of Roma could be found in literature, movies, and "second-rate roleplaying game supplements." |
| 230 | ** And then there was the execrable supplement, ''Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand,'' wherein a secret society of vampires called the True Black Hand recruited players to fight alien parasites that were infesting other vampires. It was so jarring, badly conceived, and generally unpopular that the company's subsequent edition made a habit of noting that everything in the book was a claim by someone who was [[UnreliableNarrator misinformed, insane, or just plain wrong]] (not to mention dropping a nuke on the Black Hand's base). |
| 231 | *** Popular rumour at the time was that [=DSotBH=] was created as a (not so) subtle TakeThat against certain White Wolf execs by a disgruntled writer. |
| 232 | ** Similarly, there was Samuel Haight, who ended up with the powers of a werewolf, a vampire, ''and'' a mage, becoming the main villain of every gameline all at once and, as such, becoming stupidly overpowered. When he finally died, his soul was instantly whisked away to be [[AndIMustScream turned into a Deathlord's ashtray]]. The rulebooks have since always carefully [[HybridOverkillAvoidance closed off the possibility of combining even two different character types]]. In a novel detailing the endgame for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', a mage manages to gaze into the Umbra, and sees a powerful ghost extinguishing his cigar on a screaming ashtray. |
| 233 | ** ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' occasionally had groan-worthy bits amongst the horror, such as "Braney," a fallen Mokole (werelizard with dinosaur traits) who hosted a children's show meant to snare children into service to the Wyrm. With the 20th anniversary edition, it's revealed that, as the Mokole are meant to serve as Gaia's memory, fallen Mokole have the ability to twist and pervert memories -- and Braney was just one long troll by a fallen Mokole to see what acts the Garou ''really'' thought the forces of the Wyrm could get away with. |
| 234 | ** White Wolf is pretty notorious for this; they practically breed long-simmering writer resentments. Later ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' books have grown less and less subtle about the contempt the current crop of writers holds for the earlier writers in the line. |
| 235 | * The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 edition book ''Heroes of Battle'', which deals with warfare and army life, allows use of the Bluff skill to inspire one's soldiers with false confidence. An example of a "hard to believe" bluff is "That dragon can only breathe fire once per day! Quick, let's get him while he's vulnerable!" This may be a reference to previous editions where dragons were limited to using their breath 3 times a day. 3.5 allows them to do so once every fifteen seconds. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 239 | * ''Theatre/MyFairLady'': "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" includes a long TakeThat to the idea of Eliza marrying Freddy as Shaw confirmed in his own continuation of ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'', with Higgins explaining how their marriage would be bound to fail. His fantasy of their future - Eliza failing in her ambition to become a phonetics teacher, going back to selling flowers instead, struggling financially, and eventually having to turn back to Higgins for help - is very close to what Shaw wrote in his “prose sequel,” but without the eventual HappilyEverAfter resolution and with the addition of Freddy leaving Eliza for another woman. |
| 240 | -->"Marry Freddy! Ha!" |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
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| 243 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 244 | * One of the taunts you can send to other players in ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' is a guy asking "What happened to all the stone?" in bewilderment, a reference to how one of the resources from the [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII previous game]], Stone, was replaced by Favor in that game. |
| 245 | * In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', the opening cutscene in Snow Way Out jokes about how the game takes place before the many ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games developed after the Platform/PlayStation trilogy. |
| 246 | -->'''Lani-Loli:''' How many times have you beaten this clown, anyway?\ |
| 247 | '''Coco:''' Three.\ |
| 248 | '''Lani-Loli:''' Really? Only three?\ |
| 249 | (Crash nods with a "Mm-hmm")\ |
| 250 | '''Lani-Loli:''' Funny. Seemed like more. |
| 251 | * In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', there's a small scene where Zack finds a Shinra army helmet lying on the floor of the slums. It causes him to briefly consider the presence of a Shinra army living underneath Midgar, which he soon dismisses as a "stupid idea." ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' involved an underground Shinra army and is widely considered the worst thing to come out of the whole [[ExpandedUniverse Compilation]]. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII'' has several veterans of the campaigns from the original game and its expansions. The campaigns on Tartarus (original game) and Kronus (''Dark Crusade'') are remembered as great victories for the Blood Ravens SpaceMarine chapter. Kaurava was "a mistake, and it shouldn't be mentioned ever again" in the words of Cyrus, the Scout Marine Sergeant [[spoiler:and one of the few survivors of that campaign]]. Guess which one of the three was in the outsourced, disliked addon [[note]]A: ''Soulstorm''[[/note]]. |
| 253 | ** Also, Kaurava is mentioned as having seriously depleted the chapter's manpower, which is why they're so desperate to hold on to the Aurelia subsector, which is one of their few recruitment pools. [[spoiler:And that campaign ends up being Cyrus' reason to turn to Chaos if he ends up as the traitor in ''Chaos Rising''.]] |
| 254 | ** And while the Blood Ravens' defeat was confirmed in 2, in ''3'' we find out that they were beaten by the ''orks'' of all people. |
| 255 | * The GBA port of the original ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', titled ''Final Fight One'', features the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' renditions of Cody and Guy as playable characters. The storyline for both characters have them reliving the events of ''Final Fight'' in a dream (at least, they think it's just a dream). When Alpha!Cody confronts Rolento, he claims that he is unable to remember actually fighting him, since he TookAShortcut after defeating Edi E. and went straight to the Bayside stage. This is a reference to the earlier SNES port of the game, which removed the entire Industrial Area stage, and by proxy Rolento, due to ROM size constraint. |
| 256 | * ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon DS'': The Goemon from the ill-fated ''New Age Shutsudo'' reboot makes a cameo in the Oedo prison, all beat up, for "having committed crimes against the series". |
| 257 | * In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', if you look closely enough at a computer's screen in the Ghostbusters' headquarters, you can see the end screen from the maligned ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' NES game. |
| 258 | * In the 1994 version of ''VideoGame/JumpStartKindergarten'', there's a [[GameWithinAGame video game within a computer game]] called "Pattern Blaster" which stars a mouse named Roquefort. In the 1997 version, however, Roquefort exists in the "real world" and there's a different mouse in Pattern Blaster named Brie. Sometimes, as Brie is eating a hunk of cheese, Roquefort comments, "Boy, I wish I was Brie right now." |
| 259 | * In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XI'' Kyo has a special winquote if he's in a MirrorMatch: "Another clone? There's enough of me to start a baseball team!" This is a nod to the much-maligned NESTS storyline in ''The King of Fighters '99'', ''2000'', and ''2001'', which had clones of Kyo as a plot point. |
| 260 | ** There's also this exchange between Angel and Kula in ''XIV'', in regards to Foxy's (now-retconned) death in ''2001'': |
| 261 | --->'''Angel:''' So you didn't bring Foxy this time, or perhaps... Did someone take her out already?\ |
| 262 | '''Kula:''' I hate you! |
| 263 | * In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Setzer from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' made a cameo, in which he bribes Roxas to lose a tournament to him -- an act which is, at best, completely OutOfCharacter for a compulsive [[TheGambler gambler]] [[spoiler:which hints to TheReveal that Roxas has been placed inside a simulation of Twilight Town]]. In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', this conversation happens in a Tutorial (the ''Dissidia'' tutorials are delivered by previous ''Final Fantasy'' characters): |
| 264 | -->'''Shadow:''' Don't even try dirty tactics like bribing opponents to lose...\ |
| 265 | '''Setzer:''' What's this all about? I would never stoop to that! Well, Shadow may have spoiled the mood, but... |
| 266 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends:'' |
| 267 | ** One of Pulsefire Ezreal's lines post-rework has him see the Tribunal from the old League lore and react with horror. |
| 268 | ** Sejuani's story ''Dead of Winter'' has Olaf refuse to speak of where he was or what he'd been doing during the much-maligned ''Rise of the Sentinels'' event to Sejuani, saying [[OldShame the whole thing was best kept in the past.]] |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'': |
| 270 | ** If Sonic interacts with [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Lumpy Space Princess]], he starts recalling another time he met a princess before immediately forgetting it. This was a reference to the infamous InterspeciesRomance he had with Princess Elise in the aforementioned ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]''. |
| 271 | ** The Level Pack for ''Film/TheGoonies'' works in a DeletedScene where a giant octopus shows up and a Walkman is used to send it away. The game has said octopus show up and a boombox is used to make it drop Andy and Brand. They both [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain agree to never tell anyone about it]] due to how ridiculous it sounds. Data, however, plans to still tell everyone. This detail actually makes a {{Blooper}} from the original film make sense as Data inexplicably mentions a giant octopus at the end. |
| 272 | * In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]]'s intro dialog if he fights [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] is "'Captain Hydra'? Gimme a break, Steve!", referring to [[ComicBook/SecretEmpire the infamous 2016 comic storyline]] where Cap was revealed to be a lifelong HYDRA supporter (which was quickly {{retcon}}ned away due to the immense public backlash). |
| 273 | * Creator/{{Capcom}} loves to poke fun at the hideous American boxart for the original ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|1}}'', starting with a sidequest involving "posters of heroes" in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' where it was described as resembling a "colorful coal miner", continuing with the [[{{Retraux}} fake box art they commissioned]] for ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', drawn in a similar art style, and having Bad Box Art Mega Man as a playable character in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''. Bad Box Art Mega Man was also set to be a playable character in the cancelled game ''Mega Man Universe''. A toy store in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'' features a bin full of unsold action figures of Bad Box Art Mega Man. |
| 274 | * Model A in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' turns out not to be a Biometal based on [[VideoGame/MegaManX7 Axl]] but [[spoiler:on the BigBad, Albert]]. Some fans--particularly the ones who don't like Axl--consider the scene which reveals this to be a giant TakeThat at Axl and his creators (regardless, Model A ''is'' clearly based on Axl visually and gameplay-wise). |
| 275 | ** A subtler one comes earlier in the game. |
| 276 | --->'''Model A:''' I don't even know why I was created. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 278 | ** ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'', the non-canon NES sequel to the original ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'', has been the subject of a few digs throughout the series. ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', the later developed MSX sequel, mocks Big Boss's transformation into a cyborg at the end of ''Snake's Revenge'' by having a character mention a rumor about Big Boss becoming a VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}, while ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' has Snake remark that he's "not a big fan of blades", a reference to Snake's weapon of choice in ''Snake's Revenge'' (which he proudly sheaths into his holster during the opening story sequence). |
| 279 | ** Raiden, the surprise protagonist of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' who replaced Solid Snake for the main portion of the game, would be the subject of numerous digs throughout the next few games and promotional material after [[ReplacementScrappy fans gave him a rather cold reception.]] |
| 280 | *** ''Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance'', [[UpdatedRerelease the expanded edition of the game]], introduced a set of bonus alternate universe missions known as the Snake Tales. Most of them are fairly serious in tone, but the fifth mission, "External Gazer", is a parody of the main ''Sons of Liberty'' campaign, particularly towards the climax. At the absolute apex of the plot, Solidus attempts to stop Snake by releasing "the seal" on a unit known as "Them": "Their presence alone has the ability to [[JumpingTheShark destroy a world]]", he warns. "They are [[CreatorBreakdown children of darkness]] on whom is focused the [[TheScrappy combined hate of the entire universe]]." "They", of course, are [[ReplacementScrappy Raiden]] and {{Ro|manticPlotTumor}}se. Snake then experiences an extended MindScrew sequence, leaving him in a bizarre dream world in which he is convinced he's Raiden. Every single element of the "dream", from Rose calling Jack up in the middle of a bloody war in order to [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper complain about her love handles]], to Rose's electrical equipment being [[GainaxEnding possessed by lines of the Japanese syllabary and telling the couple how to clean toilets]], make fun of the stranger plot elements in ''Sons of Liberty''. |
| 281 | *** ''Substance'' also has a series of bonus VR [[FirstPersonSnapshooter Photography Missions]], most of which are concerned with photographing posters of bikini models. Two of them are murder mysteries, and, in both, the victim is Raiden, who is found in a comically undignified position in his death. The first one has two solutions -- an in-character one (Fatman, who murdered Raiden to steal his [[SceneryCensor straw]]) and an out-of-character one. It's a ''[=MGS2=]'' promo poster in a nearby room with Snake on it. |
| 282 | *** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' introduced a minor character named Ivan Raidenovich Raikov, who was put into the game specifically to make fun of Raiden. At one point, Naked Snake (Solid Snake's predecessor) must disguise himself as Raikov. With his uniform and mask on, his commander tells him he looks so much like Raikov that 'you're starting to irritate me already.' Upset, Snake responds, "But [[{{Bishonen}} this look]] should [[MrFanservice make me more popular]]!" |
| 283 | *** An early teaser trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', made using character models from ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', involves Snake sitting down in a Director's chair, standing in for Creator/HideoKojima as director. He then takes off his mask and reveals that underneath, he's Raiden. Canned booing accompanies this. Raiden later fights Snake over a 'Main Character' chair -- he [[FootPopping foot-pops]] as their buttocks touch and then is thrown off the edge of the stage -- Snake then sits down in the main character's chair, gets MickeyMousing to emphasize his sexiness, and the audience cheers ecstatically. At the end of the trailer, Raiden crawls back up, humiliated and bruised. |
| 284 | *** A sequel to the above teaser (featured as a bonus video in ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Susbsistence'') involved Raiden going back in time to try and kill Naked Snake so he can prevent Solid Snake from existing and become the series' protagonist. Somehow, he keeps transporting into ''precisely'' the wrong moments, and by the time he actually gets a shot at it, he's learned to respect Naked Snake too much to kill him. That doesn't stop his quest though. This time he goes back further into the future to kill Solid Snake himself, only to end up being killed by Big Boss (the future version of Naked Snake) during the final battle of ''Metal Gear 2'' instead. |
| 285 | ** After ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' turned out to be a prequel starring Big Boss, ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' went back to the present day setting and had Solid Snake lamenting the fact that Big Boss is suddenly being revered by the public as a legendary hero after information on his early missions were [[ContinuityNod recently declassified]] (i.e. the previous game was made) despite the clearly antagonistic role he had in the original MSX games. It also has Snake pulling hitherto-unseen CQC skills from out of nowhere; the fact that CQC was a play mechanic introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' would've sufficed to justify its inclusion in ''4'', but an in-universe explanation was also added which established that Snake always knew, [[HitlerAteSugar but stopped using those skills due to their association with Big Boss]] and is now finding himself [[DamnYouMuscleMemory instinctively calling upon them]] due to so many current soldiers, in awe of Big Boss after his pre-Outer Heaven exploits were [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall declassified after the Big Shell incident]], copying his CQC moves. |
| 286 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' acts as a direct sequel to ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'', treating the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'', the previous PSP game in the series and another ''Snake Eater'' sequel itself which was made without Kojima's involvement, as if it never happened. The only real acknowledgment of ''Portable Ops'' is the following throwaway line said by Kazuhira Miller in the beginning of the prologue mission. |
| 287 | --->'''Kaz:''' Finally, we can leave all that crap in San Hieronymo behind, and bust into the mercenary business for real. |
| 288 | ** In the "Deja Vu" mission in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Ground Zeroes]]'', logos of almost every game in the ''Metal Gear'' series are scattered across the U.S. Naval prison facility. When the player views a logo from a mainline ''Metal Gear'' title (i.e. the Kojima-directed games), contacting Kaz will cause him proclaim the title out loud, mention the number of pixels/polygons that composed Snake's character sprite/model in said game, and quote a line or two. On the other hand, if the player finds a logo for a spinoff title (including ''Portable Ops'' or ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]]'') Kaz won't recognize the title and doesn't even try to pronounce it. |
| 289 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 290 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'', one of the unlockable items in Konquest Mode is earned by decking the ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'' hidden character [[MotionCapture Mokap]], who is walking around one area in a particularly dopey manner, for no reason. Didn't stop Mokap from reappearing in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', though he had a good reason to return: they [[DreamMatchGame had to bring back]] ''everyone'' for ''Armageddon'', scrappies included. Which was [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap actually did some good for characters like Stryker]]. |
| 291 | ** Another bit from the Konquest Mode in ''Deception'' -- playing the dialogue of certain people in the Netherrealm and Chaos Realm backwards will yield the comment, "Will Hsu Hao ever return? Probably not," in reference to another ''Deadly Alliance'' character widely disliked by the fandom and [[OldShame creators]] alike. As explained above, he did return for ''Armageddon'', [[DreamMatchGame but only because he had to]] -- since then he's gone on to be something of a running joke, including a one-page appearance in the ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' comic solely for the purpose of having Scorpion kill him, and having Erron Black drop a burlap sack with Hsu Hao's mutilated corpse in one of his intro variations in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''. |
| 292 | ** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', [[EvilSorceror Shang]] [[ShapeShifting Tsung's]] first fatality has him transform into a MonsterClown and [[BoomHeadshot blast the top of his opponent's head off with a gun]]. The fatality trainer mentions that Tsung "picked up a few tricks from previous opponents". Aside from the [[CaptainErsatz changed model]] (and the [[BloodierAndGorier lack of censorship]]), this fatality is the exact same as one of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]]'s in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'', which takes place outside of series continuity. |
| 293 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', if you collect all 100 Stray Beads (this involves beating two infamously difficult minigames) you get the game's InfinityPlusOneSword. In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', Stray Beads are the cheapest type of ShopFodder you can get. |
| 294 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', [[VideoGame/Persona3 Akihiko]] says that he wants to [[spoiler:quit the Shadow Operatives and become a police officer -- his profession in the no-longer-canon ''Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul'']]. In fact, according to an interview with Zen United (the European publisher of the game), the designers were originally going to give him a look similar to [[spoiler:his ''-trinity soul-'' appearance]] before settling for the look he's given in-game instead. |
| 295 | * In Telltale's episodic ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games, there are a few references to ''Sam And Max: Freelance Police!!'', the game that [[ScrewedByTheNetwork LucasArts cancelled]]: |
| 296 | ** In Sam and Max's office, there is a case file labeled "3/3/04", the date on which the game was canceled, to which Sam quips: |
| 297 | --->'''Sam:''' Ah, I remember that case. Par''tic''ularly gruesome. |
| 298 | *** The remaster of the first season adds another label to the case file with "9/21/18", the date Telltale Games underwent closure and let go of most of its employees. Sam's comment is unchanged. |
| 299 | ** In episode 105, while examining a ballet poster: |
| 300 | --->'''Sam:''' "[[{{Parody}} Ferret Lake]]".\ |
| 301 | '''Max:''' Ooh! Sequels to beloved classics are always better than the originals!\ |
| 302 | '''Sam:''' ''[[TakeThat (with emphasis)]]'' Yes Max. Yes they are. |
| 303 | ** In episode 202, Sam finds on Easter Island among various missing items and people, "a fully playable beta of ''Sam and Max: Freelance Police!!''" |
| 304 | ** In episode 205, [[spoiler:Whizzer]] fires Satan as the ruler of hell, claiming that his termination was due to "current market place realities and underlying economic considerations", the exact reasons Creator/LucasArts gave for canceling ''Freelance Police!!'' |
| 305 | ** Meanwhile, the trailer for the cancelled game included a clip where Sam exclaimed his astonishment for them being in 3D, while Max dismissed that with "Eh, it's been done." Max had previously appeared in 3D form as an easter egg in ''VideoGame/JediKnightDarkForcesII''. |
| 306 | * ''VideoGame/Shipwrecked64'': In one of the [[ApocalypticLog audio logs]], the in-universe developer Connor mentions that he adjusted the proportions on "the wolf guy" so he could share other characters' animations if needed. This is a nod to the old freeware build now retroactively known as "Legacy Edition", where Chief Wulf had a very top-heavy, macho appearance instead of the cartoony roundness all the other characters had. |
| 307 | * The infamous ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie is a great source of in-jokes over at Creator/{{Capcom}}: |
| 308 | ** One of the most controversial changes made in the film was that Chun-Li was a journalist instead of a cop and Interpol agent. Accordingly, one of her win quotes in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII: 3rd Strike'' is "Leave me alone! I'm a fighter, not a news reporter!" |
| 309 | ** Likewise, ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' includes a reporter who looks suspiciously like Chun-Li during the opening movie. |
| 310 | ** If [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]] uses Midnight Bliss on Chun-Li in ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos'', she'll transform into her movie counterpart, right down to the red qipao. |
| 311 | ** ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone 2'' has Pai from ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' quote M. Bison's iconic ButForMeItWasTuesday line, which Chun-Li notes sounds familiar. |
| 312 | ** Likewise, when Juri fights [[spoiler:Twelve posing as]] Bison in the ''Comicbook/StreetFighter'' comic, she uses a variation of the "For me it was Tuesday" line. |
| 313 | ** Bison also says the "For me it was Tuesday" line as part of his taunt in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''. |
| 314 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': Birdo has a piece of dialogue where she states that this is "the 11th party", referring to the previous home console ''Mario Party'' games, while seemingly disregarding the portable and arcade installments. |
| 315 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Gaiden'', [[BigBad Shu]] seems to be aware of the reboot that occurred between the Classic and Alpha series, though he feels the current timeline is the one that isn't supposed to exist [[OmnicidalManiac and seeks to rectify this]]. |
| 316 | * Doubles a ContinuityNod, but in the the japanese version of ''VideoGame/TeamSonicRacing'', Sonic brings up his first encounter with Silver during ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''. Silver has no idea what he’s talking about [[spoiler:because the game’s ResetButtonEnding means those events technically never happened and Sonic is one of the only two people who remember it]]. |
| 317 | * In ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' is a [[RuleOfFunny playable character]]. He is confronted by Alastor (the spirit of a demonic sword he used in the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1''), who chews Dante out for leaving him behind during the events of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''. Dante protests, "I don't remember that!" |
| 318 | ** Early, Trish insinuates that the "Dante" from ''[=DMC2=]'' was actually a friend of Dante's named Enzo, who had apparently [[MuggedForDisguise stolen Dante's clothes]] in order to [[IdentityImpersonator impersonate him]]. (This also serves as an in-universe explanation for why Dante's untransformed state is him in nothing but boxers.) |
| 319 | * In the 2011 version of ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'', one question poses the hypothetical scenario of Creator/PaulReubens hosting a game show based on the game. Cookie imagines [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge such a thing would be a surefire hit]]. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 323 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 324 | ** The site has made a few jokes over the years about [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Rejected_Characters rejected characters]] like Homeschool Winner (a tall, skinny Homestar Runner look-alike). In the 2010 holiday cartoon "A Decemberween Mackerel", a bunch of these rejected characters show up in silhouette form in a line at Bubs' Concession Stand. |
| 325 | ** The original version of the character profile page claimed that the King of Town was Marzipan's father, which was later {{retcon}}ned to be "a horrible rumor". In the 2016 AprilFoolsDay cartoon "Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2", the King of Town calls up Marzipan to ask her if there's any truth to that rumor. |
| 326 | * In one episode of ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', Malal/Malice, a character whom Games Workshop {{retcon}}ned out of existence as to not to get sued, appears briefly on "Spessbook" chat, threatening to return from the "retconnian" where he is trapped at the moment. At a later point, we actually get to see the Retconnian for ourselves, which holds some of the other retconned things within the [=WH40K=] universe like the Squats (and [[InsistentTerminology Fucking]] Horus, who wasn't quite retconned but got killed [[DeaderThanDead so hard]] he could go nowhere else). |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 330 | * At the end of the first hand-drawn phase of ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', George makes his debut in his superhero persona and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000610c introduces himself]] as "Spark", saying, "[[NoFourthWall It's the best the author could come up with.]]" When the hand-drawn comic was re-launched and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/001004c George's superhero introduction is revisited,]] he now calls himself "Blitz". When Bob/Napalm points out that this was not the name he gave out originally, George/Blitz claims that they never did that joke. |
| 331 | * Jacob's necromantic golem in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' was unnamed early on, but received the fan name "Patches"... a name he ultimately rejected on his HeelFaceTurn on the grounds that it sounded like a name for a dog. (He's now called "Quilt".) |
| 332 | * ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' has been radically remade twice, so a few of these have come in to the new chapters. In chapter 1 Ariel has [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6136 a plushie of Syphile wearing her original all-red and black costume,]] and in chapter 13 Ariel wonders aloud if she should try to shape change into a drider, causing Kyo'nne to comment on all the [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5284 "icky legs"]] at which point Ariel dismisses the idea. In the very early version of the story she turned into a drider a few times, but now it's explicitly stated that she doesn't have enough mass to pull that off. |
| 333 | * The "Second Eaton" story arc in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' was utterly loathed by the readers for a multitude of reasons, and was not referenced for years... until [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/citizen-dinobot 2010.]] |
| 334 | -->'''Robin:''' Hey, everyone agreed to ''never'' mention that ''"Second Eaton"'' crap ''ever again''. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:WebOriginal]] |
| 338 | * Website/TVTropes: For a long time, the page image for AffablyEvil was a photo of the (Human) Mayor of Sunnydale from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. After it was changed to a different picture of him, the caption was updated accordingly, continuing directly from the previous one. |
| 339 | -->'''Old Caption:''' The Mayor of Sunnydale. Jovial. Fatherly. Wants to be a giant snake demon. |
| 340 | -->'''New Caption:''' The former mayor of Sunnydale. Jovial. Fatherly. Got his wish to be a giant snake demon, and is feeling peachy-keen! |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 344 | * In November 2010, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick released a video in which her supporting cast was giving each other lessons on the various recurring themes of the show. When Brian (the recurring character whose shtick involves dark humor about sexual predators) mentions the much-hated "rap about rape" (a video skit that received a DudeNotFunny reaction from many people, and was taken down shortly afterward), Nella punches him and shouts "Rule Number One of Team Nchick! We do not talk about the rape rap!" Interestingly enough, before this, Brian was practically apologizing for it. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 348 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan's Best Friend", Stan says he has never had a dog since his mother forced him to kill his own dog Freddy as a child. When Francine mentions that the family have actually owned two dogs before (Thor in the pilot, and Fussy in "Not Particularly Desperate Housewives"), Stan says that those episodes were just dreams. |
| 349 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', specifically the ShowWithinAShow in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]]", in a reference to the unpopular episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheGreatDivide The Great Divide]]": |
| 350 | -->'''Actor Aang:''' Look! It's the Great Divide! The biggest canyon in the Earth Kingdom!\ |
| 351 | ''[pause]''\ |
| 352 | '''Actor Sokka:''' Ehh... Let's keep flying. |
| 353 | ** What makes it even more of a Discontinuity Nod is that we don't even see the real Team Avatar's reaction to this scene. Perhaps they decided to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of the actual incident again]].[[note]]Since Aang was forced to lie in order for the two groups to stop fighting.[[/note]] |
| 354 | * The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TV movie ''WesternAnimation/JonnysGoldenQuest'' introduced Race Bannon's daughter Jessie, which he had with his on-and-off lover Jezebel Jade. In the second season of the follow-up series, ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the identity of Jessie's mother was {{re|tcon}}vised to Race's previously unseen ex-wife Estella Velasquez, since the head writer of the series felt that Jade was not the kind of woman to give up her life as an adventurer to raise a child. When Jessie meets Jezebel in one episode and finds out she was romantically involved with her father, she finds the idea that Jade could have been her mother absurd. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' had a SophomoreSlump, with the season's BigBad, Unalaq, being seen as a large part of the problem. The ClipShow "Remembances" has Varrick recap the show like an AbridgedSeries, during which he calls Unalaq "boring and unpopular" and has the other villains exclude him from their LegionOfDoom. This is in-character, given that Unalaq conquered Varrick's homeland, but also summarizes how most fans feel about him. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In [[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E34PuppyPalooza Puppy Paloozal]]," Molly gets to name the puppies. She considers naming one after the famous Siberian husky Togo, which is a sharp contrast to "Welcome Home, Balto," which recognized Balto rather than Togo as the hero of the 1925 Serum Run. |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In Episode 20, Daphne notices a statue of the [[TheScrappy infamous]] Scrappy-Doo, and has this to say: |
| 358 | -->'''Daphne:''' Wow! I haven't seen--\ |
| 359 | '''Fred:''' Look away, Daphne! We all promised each other that we would never speak of it. Not ever! |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 361 | ** The two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" had two endings animated for it. The ending that was shown to the press (and later included in the clip show "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular") had Smithers being revealed to be the culprit, which differs from the actually aired ending. This unaired alternate ending was referenced in a later episode. |
| 362 | --->'''Marge:''' Homer, I don't want guns in my house! Don't you remember when Maggie shot Mr. Burns?\ |
| 363 | '''Homer:''' I thought Smithers did it?\ |
| 364 | '''Lisa:''' ''[quietly, with disdain]'' That would have made a lot more sense... |
| 365 | ** The much reviled episode, "The Principal and the Pauper", involved Skinner being revealed as taking the name of an army lieutenant he thought was killed during Vietnam with his real name being Armin Tamzarian. Ultimately the show goes back to the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] by putting the real Skinner on a train and "Armin" resuming the name with there even being a law that no one will speak of the incident again. In a later ep, "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", Lisa sees two cats she has being killed before her eyes before finally getting another and deciding to dub it Snowball II to avoid having to get a new dish. Skinner, walking by, notes this. |
| 366 | --->'''Skinner:''' That's really a cheat, isn't it?\ |
| 367 | '''Lisa:''' I guess you're right, Principal ''Tamzarian''.\ |
| 368 | '''Skinner:''' ...I'll just be moving along, Lisa. Snowball II. |
| 369 | * The ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' episode "One Carroter in Search of an Artist" serves as a callback to the classic cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'', with Bugs suffering at the hands of the animator. One of the cruel punishments he's put through? He is redrawn as Ace Bunny from ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed''. |
| 370 | -->'''Bugs:''' Okay, now you're just messin' with me! |
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