* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Brian apparently developed [[Film/XMenFirstClass telepathic powers while working on his PhD genetics thesis at Oxford University]].
** And who knew that [[Creator/JamesMcAvoy Professor X]] used to be friends with [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Howard]] [[Creator/DominicCooper Stark]]?
** The team is captained by [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch Sherlock]]!
*** And he and Rebecca get married in ''Literature/ParadesEnd''.
*** [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness John Harrison and Dr. Carol Marcus]] were once on the same side before he decided to break her leg.
*** Patrick and Brian would meet again as an angel and a Scotsman in the radio version of ''{{Literature/Neverwhere}}''. Moreover, [[Film/{{Atonement}} Patrick's actions indirectly lead to Brian getting arrested for a crime he didn't commit]].
** Alice's dad is [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin bloody Lannister!]]
** [[Series/{{Rome}} Servilia of the Junii]] is Alice's mother.
** [[Series/GavinAndStacey Smithy]] is one of Brian's sneering friends back home.
** Bamber Gascoigne is secretly [[{{Series/Sherlock}} Mycroft Holmes]], Sherlock's smarter brother.
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