Some things fans write down can get downright weird, shipping and kink preferences aside.
Calvin and Hobbes
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has the titular duo doing a brief (as in two seconds) hat and cane dance at the end of the second episode.
- The Akko Kagari Universe series has several scenes that have nothing to do with the main plot, and weren't mentioned again afterwards. In fact, most of the BLAM in this series are because of the author attacking the Harry Potter series just because he wants to. For the specific examples:
- Seven Stars:
- Wangari's Early-Bird Cameo has her being pestered by some girls to show them the contents of her trunk. It was not mentioned again ever since (whether the author intent for it to be a Chekhov's Gun much later into the series remains to be seen).
- Akko taking note of a boy with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead getting picked on by a group of kids. Akko herself had no idea why she felt like pointing it out.
- Contest of Champions:
- In the middle of the Third Challenge in the titular Contest, the story suddenly cuts away from the Contest itself to tell us that elsewhere in the world, a boy drowned because a magical seaweed that should've helped him breathe underwater didn't work. This passage exist with the sole purpose of taking jabs at the Harry Potter series, and it has absolutely no relevance to the plot.
- At one point, Akko distracts Garie and Sabi by throwing a jar containing a Las Plagas parasite out of a window. Both the parasite and the scene it appears in are never mentioned again.
- Seven Stars:
- "Watch for moving Nintendo 64 logos."
- The amply named Joke Chapter in The Great and Powerful Ace Attorney
. Everypony but the judge is Trixie. That means the defense, of course, but also the prosecution, the witness and even the victim. This would have been an April Fools' Day chapter, if not for the fact that the author doesn't like doing those. - The Madness Mantra in chapter 1 of The Grim EDventures of Ed, Edd, n Eddy. Sure, it's taken from one of the works involved, but it's still a BLAM.
- Many stories have Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII randomly complain about people interrupting The Dukes of Hazzard... and then the show is never mentioned again and most of the time the plot continues as usual.
- During Harry Potter's 14th birthday in Harry and the Shipgirls, there is a scene where coffee addict Akatsuki drinks some of Ooyodo's experimental coffee and transforms into Dark Lady Red Moon. She attempts to Vamp on Harry, only for Regina and Shinano to summon a pair of cinnamon roll Stands that give the Destroyer a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, turning her back to normal while the Re and carrier pose. This has had zero plot relevance.
- This is an Enforced Trope during the Cowboy Guys' introduction in Paper Mario: The Land of Harmony where they spoil events that happen later in the game/story shattering the fourth wall whilst doing so.
- At the end of Chapter 15 in Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers: The Liveblog, Rika dances to DrunkenMunky's "E", with several Grinam soldiers also dancing in the background and the former holding glowing rave sticks. The story itself references the trope name as it occurs, and it's never brought up in any of the other chapters again.
- Turnabout Storm has a reference to the infamous Dark Fic Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles) involving a creepy zoom, eerie music, and the background turning red; only for then to have everything turn back to normal and the investigation continuing like nothing happened. What triggered this reference you may be asking? A discussion about freaking ladders ...or was it about step ladders?
- Chapter 4 of The Western Sky - Series 3 is a fictional story about CLOWN agents and evil MIMES which Tara tells to Luna.
- Queen of All Oni has a very strange Dream Sequence in the third interlude chapter, it has to be read to be believed!
- In the original Sorting Hat scene in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Fred and George enchant Harry to sing a magic-themed version of the Ghostbusters theme song in front of the entire school. This is never brought up again. Later this scene was removed in an Orwellian Retcon when the author realized how silly it was.
- Marty McFly makes a cameo in My Immortal. Yes, that Marty McFly. It's best not to try to think about that.
- My Immortal is full of them. Dobby is one.
- The hacker's chapter and Draco's suicide are two of the most egregious examples.
Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat
- The Boredom of Yoto Yokodera opens with secret agents in 1912 fighting an evil satanic cult. This is never mentioned again. But then again, not many things in this fanfic make sense anyway.
- Subverted at one point in Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000, where Andrew Ryan and Zachary Comstock suddenly appear in front of rose and company to belt out an expository rap duet. It's actually a brick joke from season 3, where sollux joked that this would happen in season 4. Given that he's the Seer of Doom in Homestuck, they probably should have taken this more seriously.
- Also subverted when Valerie shows up in a throwaway gag. This turns out to have been the Start of Darkness that led to her becoming Monarch.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Chapter 25 of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest Rewrite begins with Mr. Turner blaming the apocalypse on Dinkleberg, who invites him to watch the televised wedding of a vampire couple that has been massacred by zombies. It's bizarre, extreme, features no other characters from the story, contributes nothing to the plot, and only seems to be included for cheap laughs.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Chaos Is Very Good is composed of these, not surpringly. And yet, the Mayor's ghost talking makes the whole thing seem sane and sound in comparation.
- In chapter 1 of Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts, Princess Luna knocks a bowl of soup into Prince Blueblood's face. There is then a brief, inexplicable cutaway to the bowl of soup's dying thoughts, as it hopes to have earned a place alongside Sir Lint-a-Lot and Rocky in Inanimate Object Heaven. To say this is out of place in a story that takes itself so seriously it's painful is to make a gross understatement, and this is never mentioned again.
- Nyx's Family has Chapter 11, wherein Market Forces, an economist in the employ of the Royal Sisters lectures the audience on the virtues of free market capitalism, labels prerevolutionary France's Ancien Regime as an example of the evil and oppressive nature of socialism before we are treated to a flashback of Celestia and Luna using a magic mirror to consult HUMAN economists in order to create Equestria's economic system. All of the consulted economists are libertarian free market Austrian school economists like Hayek or Von Mises. Not one mainstream economist like Keynes, Galbraith, or even Milton Friedman is consulted. After backlash exploded in the comments, the author made a point of never ever referring to the events of this chapter in the rest of the story or any of its sequels.
- In the fanfic When a Pony Calls, the protagonist wakes up years into the future, as the ambassador to earth. This is actually an alternate timeline, Luna showed him, in an attempt to snap him out of his delusion.
- While Naruto Veangance Revelaitons is not very coherent, the dream sequence Ronan has in Chapter 47 in which he, among other things, comes face to face with the author's stepbrother, is one by the author's own admission.
- In the Evangelion Gag Dub Evangelion: ReDeath, Pikachu attacks NERV. However, the following scene acts like an AMV for Pokémon set to the AC/DC song "Big Balls", and there's not much of a focus on Pikachu, but rather James, another character from Pokémon. After the "AMV" is done, ANOTHER random anime is introduced — Tenchi Muyo!! The cast of Tenchi Muyo! is quickly killed off by Pikachu, and the plot returns. ...yeaaah...
- In This Bites!, a Self-Insert fic, two of these happen in Chapter 9, occurring during the crew's three week voyage to Little Garden. One has Luffy being trapped by some kind of monster with tentacles and everyone watching with amusement, and the other features the majority of the Straw Hats falling prey to various booby traps that the other two Baby Transponder Snails on the ship set up. The latter of the two is somewhat relevant to the story only because it explains how the snails got their names: Pinky and the Brain.
- The "Fanfic Mode" version of episode 5 of None Piece. And that is SAYING something.
- Subverted in Latias' Journey with the Berry Stoo fight, the RPG arc, and the battle between the Pokérangers, Team Rocket and the Tyrantron. Not only does Ash get a rematch with Stoo later on, but Mewgle becomes
The DragonThe Man Behind the Man, and the origin of the Pokerangers becomes an important plot point.- Played straight when Giovanni's body (working for Deoxys) is trying to interrupt Rayquaza's resurrection and stumbles onto the set of a game show for no good reason.
- Not exactly, Copernicus(the ghost) is mentioned in the following scene, by characters who had NOT been there. He is one of the guard ghosts, and a character from another fanfic author.
- Played straight when Giovanni's body (working for Deoxys) is trying to interrupt Rayquaza's resurrection and stumbles onto the set of a game show for no good reason.
- The Spanish Inquistion scene in Chapter 17 of the fanfic A Sci-Fi Fan's Adventure. Also, the random appearance of Great Expectations expy Pip kind of counts. All he does is give the protagonist a bottle of water to drink she sneaks off a Spaceship she stowed away on.
- One So Bad, It's Good fanfic has a random cutaway to Sakaki, Chiyo and Osaka right in the middle of a battle scene. Should also be noted that the fic is otherwise not a crossover.
- Bart the General, despite making little sense to begin with, has a few scenes like this, such as one when House climbs a water tower and gets his cane broken by an icicle, and a scene where Barton wakes up in an underwater vault with a strange gauge.
- The beginning of Sonic X: Dark Chaos Episode 67 features Tails having an... ahem, erotic dream about Cosmo. It's never brought up again but the resulting nocturnal emission subtly foreshadows the effects of his Shroud transformation later in the episode.
- One of Stephen Ratliff's later Marissa Picard stories, 'Winning Love By Daylight', has this bizarre (even by Ratliff standards) scene where Jay Gordon and the resident psychiatrist Martin are talking about Marrissa's problems in a restaurant when the narration casually mentions a monster walking in to the place. Just as suddenly, two of the 24th Century's version of the Sailor Scouts show up (please note that outside this scene, Ratliff's stories are Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic and don't usually cross over with Sailor Moon or anything else) — one of them being a half-Klingon girl. The two vanquish the monster and leave. Jay and Martin comment on the weirdness, and then it's never mentioned again.
- Beast Boy and Raven Join PETA: Beast Boy and Raven's sex scene in Chapter 3. It comes out of nowhere, is never mentioned again, and can best be described as "bestial eldritch bondage". (Since the author admitted to writing this story like a classic South Park episode, this could be a reference to that show's (mostly) pointless, exagerrated sex scenes.)
- Chapter 4 of the fanfic To-Love-Death randomly sets its characters in a Red Dead Redemption fanfic and has them talking in cartoony western slang. The only reason that this occurs is explained by the author in his Opening Chapter Notes is that he "really likes Red Dead Redemption". However, this was made by the same author who wrote The Boredom of Yoto Yokodera so some randomness is to be expected.
- Falling in the same spin as its predecessor (To-Love-Death), To-Love-Carnage has main duo Rito and Yui starting a somewhat normal conversation about Fan Fiction, but suddenly digresses into a fourth-wall breaking dialogue where the characters hope 'God' (the writer) doesn't have them Put on a Bus or killed. They also explicitly name several tropes in the conversation. To make it more meta, Rito asked Yui if she's a fictional adaptation of the real character like him, or the real deal. She replies with a simple, 'Yes'.
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: At one point in Chapter 20, Gwen heads to the cafeteria and runs into Rick Sanchez, Morty Smith, Star Butterfly, and Marco Diaz sitting at the tables. They don't say anything or do anything, their presence is completely unexplained, and they vanish without a trace the moment Gwen turns her back on them. Gwen is confused by their presence, but then immediately decides she doesn't care.
- The Fan Film William Country has several, such as Cody smoking or a completely random cut away to a Guitar Hero-esque game.
