9: There are hints of a doomed human resistance going on in the background of the scenes set before the end of humanity. The newsreel about the last days of humanity show a civilian with a Molotov cocktail standing next to a poster advocating revolt against the dictatorship and its war machines. In the flashback of the older stitchpunks fleeing the laboratory, another civilian with a Molotov cocktail is shot after he tries to fight one of the robots.
Mater the tow truck, a minor character in Cars who is the star (and Unreliable Narrator) of Mater's Tall Tales in the Pixar Shorts collection.
At the start of The Incredibles, we see Frozone fighting a villain in a helicopter as the main character Mr. Incredible carries out his own string of heroic deeds.
Likewise in Auntie Edna, Edna is in the same situation, but is doing it so she can design a custom-made supersuit for Jack-Jack.
There are at least two instances in the movie where a number of dead superheroes are named - first, when Edna Mode lists the (truly concerning) number of superheroes who have died over the years because of a Cape Snag, second, when Mr. Incredible breaks into the villain's computer system and sees the list of superheroes he's already had killed. Presumably, each of these superheroes had their own adventure-filled life before their tragic end.
Lilo & Stitch has Cobra Bubbles, the social worker in charge of making sure Nani's fit to take care of Lilo, who is revealed at the end to be a former Men in Black-esque agent, who apparently saved the world at some point. By convincing a bunch of aliens that mosquitoes were an endangered species, no less!
Soul has Mr. Mittens, the fat, hapless therapy cat whose body Joe accidentally inhabits. Per Word of God, Mr. Mittens goes through his own adventure as he journeys from the Afterlife Antechamber back down to Earth. By the end of the movie, he has managed to reunite with his body as Joe returns to his own.
In Turning Red, the origin of the Lee family's red panda transformation comes from their ancestor Sun Yee. She was an animal lover who prayed for a miracle during times of war and was given the ability to turn into a giant red panda in response, a plot that would make a Feminist Fantasy Epic in its own right.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: In the 1984 film adaption, on his way to meet Julia, Winston is approached by a fellow outer party member who travels alone as well. Later on the train, they look at each other as they both loathe the anthem singing of children commuting alongside them; the outer party member seems like a thoughtcriminal on his way to a secret meeting - like Winston himself.
21 Jump Street: Fugazy and Jr. spend the movie working on other cases and occasionally show up at headquarters to discuss their progress. They close at least three cases (including a car stripping case and a drug bust) while posing as Cruel Cheerleaders in the time that it takes Schmidt and Jenko to bust one drug ring.
Themistocles from 300: Rise of an Empire could be considered a Hero of Another Story for the original film, as, historically speaking, he was defending the waters near Thermopylae while Leonidas led the ground defense. Likewise, Leonidas is mentioned in passing when Themistocles visits Sparta (the infamous "This! Is! Sparta!" scene having taken place just before he got there), and is away consulting the oracle when Themistocles shows up.
Harold Grey in Annie (2014), Stacks' rival in the election that drives his actions in the plot, is implied to be a philanthropist and all-around Nice Guy and undoubtedly has his own political campaign going on. Since Stacks dropped out of the election, it can even be assumed that he ultimately won it.
Ben-Hur: The title character is a contemporary of Jesus, and their stories periodically intersect.
The Big Lebowski, since The Dude's involvement in most of the ongoing plots is tangential, whether the struggle between Maude and the eponymous Big Lebowski over his embezzlement (and Maude's subsequent quest to find a "sperm donor" to get her pregnant), Jackie Treehorn's dispute with Bunny Lebowski (which kickstarts the plot due only to the incompetence of Treehorn's hired thugs), or the private detective's struggle to return "Bunny" to her family back east. Inverting this trope, The Dude is the hero of the story of the bowling league and his team's struggle against "Da Jesus", but we never get to see how that turned out.
The Cabin in the Woods takes this to the extreme. The eponymous cabin, the teenagers who visit it, and the zombies hunting them down? That's only one of dozens of other monster attacks happening all over the world on the same night. We only get to see the destructive aftermath for most of these, but we do see a couple of glimpses of some Japanese grade-schoolers being terrorized by a ghost and then turning the ghost into a frog with a magic spell.
Casablanca: Victor Lazlo married Ingrid Bergman, ran an underground newspaper, got busted by the Gestapo, was sent to a concentration camp, escaped, re-united with his wife, led the Gestapo on a wild goose chase through Europe, evading their dragnets on three separate occasions, and ended up in Casablanca looking for a way to get to America.
Cloverfield. The main characters end up lugging a camera about when the monsters attack and naturally start filming the weirdness. On the bridge they see another guy doing the same thing. Word of God says this is a Sequel Hook.
Throughout Cop Out, we see an old cop-young cop pairing who appear to be acting out a more routine cop movie off-screen, only bits of which we see.
The Crazies (1973): Several of Watts' colleagues are working on trying to cure the disease outside to town, offscreen. The final scene mentions they've found an immune monkey among their test subjects which gives them hope for immune humans (although the soldiers in town aren't good at finding any immune humans among the quarantined people).
The Crazies (2010): While the heroes are trying to figure out how to escape from quarantine, a seemingly uninfected group of men led by someone named Tom Ellis avoid the roundup of the townspeople, get some guns, and drive through the fence, allowing a lot of people to escape. They are only seen briefly, and from a distance, and most of the group is shot within seconds.
The local survivors recall how a National Guard Unit tried to provide support and cover for the civilians to evacuate, then holed up in a hotel and were overrun after two days.
Vlad was part of a Russian commando team that hijacked an airliner to flee from zombie-infested Russia and crash-landed in Miami. He then fought his way to Dallas, before Chief Hill's group found him wandering drunk and naked through the streets some time before the beginning of the movie. His new companions comment how his story feels like something straight out of a movie.
Wonder Woman also makes her debut in BvS, where it's revealed she fought in World War I (which is explored in her solo movie) and spent the 20th Century continuing to do small scale heroics before Superman's debut.
Before getting recruited for the JusticeLeague, Barry Allen performed small acts of superheroism in his home city with his Super-Speed, including stopping an armed robber at a convenience store and is shown to have apprehended Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad (2016).
The final scene of Zack Snyder's Justice League reveals that Martian Manhunter has been secretly hiding out on Earth disguised as a human named Calvin Swanwick and working as a General for the US Army, with the Apokolips invasion attempt pushing him to remain Neutral No Longer.
In Ed Wood, the eponymous character runs into Orson Welles near the end; he appears to be facing the exact same problems Edward has been facing throughout the actual film, but he appears in only one scene.
Bruce Lee may be The Hero of Enter the Dragon, but supporting characters Roper and Williams have their own backstories that are shown via flashbacks, and they all find themselves opposing Han.
The Firm: At the beginning of the story, two of Mitch's coworkers, Kozinski and Hodge, are trying to escape from the firm's grasp and are scheming to help the FBI bring down the Amoral Attorneys. This gets them killed before they can appear onscreen.
Famous astronauts appear throughout First Man in little cameos, including movie protagonists like Chuck Yeager and Gus Grissom (The Right Stuff), and Jim Lovell (Apollo 13). Deke Slayton, on the other hand, has prominent roles in all three of these films.
In Escape from the Planet of the Apes, the intelligent chimpanzee Cornelius tells the story of how, long ago, humans enslaved apes, until an ape named Aldo rose up and lead his people to freedom. However, Cornelius tells this story after having traveled back in time to the 1970s, long before it has actually happened. The next film in the series, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, shows the enslavement of apes and the ape uprising happening not quite the same as Cornelius had described it, with Aldo reduced to a minor participant (his name never actually spoken in the dialogue) and the revolt lead instead by Caesar, Cornelius and Zira's son (who wouldn't be there if they hadn't traveled back in time). Finally, in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Aldo appears as a Treacherous Advisor to Caesar, subconsciously resentful of his usurped destiny. So not only is the story where Aldo is the hero never really told in much detail, it's actively erased from the timeline, and the kicker is, none of the characters ever figure this out.
Trent Mauser, whose relationship with Barney Ross exists somewhere in the gray area between Friendly Rivalry and Vitriolic Best Buds. He's the leader of his own mercenary team, which sometimes competes with the Expendables for the same contracts. While we never see his team, he himself occasionally joins the Expendables in a fight.
Booker. A self-proclaimed "lone wolf" mercenary that the heroes encounter in the second movie, where he's already in the middle of his own crusade against the villains. It's never explained if he had a personal grudge against them, if he was hired to fight them, or if he simply stumbled into their territory and found them so repulsive he decided on the spot that they had to go. Regardless, the fact that he was willing to go to war with them all alone and was actually winning says a lot about his courage and skill.
Fearless (1993): The flashbacks to the crash focus on Max, but several lines also make it clear that the pilot (who is only briefly seen and whose fate is unclear) is working hard to land the plane intact during those scenes. Max himself thinks that there wouldn't have been anyone for him to save if the pilot had done a poorer job.
The Forgotten Battle, a war movie set during World War II and Based on a True Story, frequently hints that, in the vast chaos of the war, everyone is the hero, villain, anti-hero or anti-villain of some story somewhere; the three main protagonists simply provide our viewpoint of these particular events. Notably, the force of which one of them is initially a part is on its way to the Battle of Arnhem — so had he not been shot down, he would have been a background character in the classic war movie, A Bridge Too Far, and his comrades from the early scenes must have gone on to that fate.
The novelization for Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) shows that while Godzilla and Monarch were attempting to bring down King Ghidorah, on Skull Island, Kong was facing off against a mass awakening of Skullcrawlers released from underground by Ghidorah's call, trying to stop them joining the global devastation. In the film proper, Kong is only briefly mentioned and what he was doing during the events of the story are left unknown.
In The Grey Zone, the inmates who work at Crematorium II are also part of the revolt and plan to escape through the wire, but remain off-screen as the story follows the Death Seeker prisoners of crematorium IV.
In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold and Kumar's neighbors, Rosenberg and Goldstein, are on their own journey to Hot Dog Heaven. Their names are an homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who serve this function in Hamlet.
Harriet: In general the abolitionists that help Harriet are fighting against slavery in various ways.
William Still is revealed to be a member of the Underground Railroad. A few scenes are devoted to him getting the slaves that Harriet rescued settled with papers and jobs, as well as recording their stories. Those who read up on his life may find the man was amazing.
Meanwhile, we get a cameo of Frederick Douglass, another fervent abolitionist. He is carrying on the good fight by spreading awareness of the abuse that slaves suffer, while telling the Anti-Slavery Society that they need to prepare for war.
One of the members of the Anti-Slavery Society is a white man with a big bushy beard, who might be John Brown.
Thomas Garrett, who harbors Harriet as a conductor on the Underground Railroad when she escapes slavery, was personally responsible for helping 2,700 people escape aside from her ("only" that number, in his words).
The Hunt for Red October: Imagine, if you will, a film about the height of the Cold War. A young, ambitious submarine captain is given a horrifying set of orders. His mentor, the most respected man in the entire submarine navy, has gone rogue, along with a state-of-the-art submarine and a significant number of strategic nuclear warheads and launch mechanisms for them, and intends to either sell them to a hostile power or use them to kickstart a nuclear war. His orders are to hunt down his mentor, no matter the cost. This is the film we would be watching if the camera started following Viktor Tupolev around. While he is The Heavy in this film, he would have been The Hero if Red October had been an American sub.
Indy isn't the only Adventurer Archaeologist in his world. The Action Prologue of the very first movie shows him following in the footsteps of another one, Forrestal, whom Indy only describes as "a competitor" and "good, very very good." (Of course, not quite good enough, as a few minutes later they find his body impaled on a boobytrap).
Indy also has various friends in other parts of the world who show up throughout the series: Sallah ("the best digger in Egypt"), Renaldo ("Spain's greatest frogman"), and Wu Han (whom we get to know very little before he dies, but we're told joined Indy on many unspecified adventures). Given their eagerness to drop everything and follow Indy into whatever shady and dangerous business he's currently engaged in, safe to assume they all live very adventurous lives even when he's not around. There's also George MacHale: "hero" is pushing it in his case, as he betrays Indy within ten minutes of being introduced and spends the rest of the movie with a terrible case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. However, allusions are made to a long and action-packed career that crossed over with Indy's during World War II when they were both part of the war effort (Indy in the OSS, Mac as his partner from MI6).
In a slightly separate category are the younger generation, Short Round, Mutt Williams, and Helena Shaw. Short Round is essentially an Ascended Fanboy, a war orphan from the streets of Shanghai who starts out as Indy's local version of a Baker Street Regular but graduates to full-blown sidekick when he goes along with him on an adventure and, according to expanded materials, eventually grew to be an adventurer in his own right. Mutt is Indy's son, who like Indy has a difficult relationship with his parents, defies expectations about his future, and eventually enlists in the major war of his generation. Helena is Indy's goddaughter, an Unscrupulous Hero with long experience in the world of the antiquities black market (in her case, selling rather than rescuing them). In a different franchise, they could almost be Legacy Characters, as they all give off strong vibes as younger versions of Indy; there was a fair amount of fan backlash to the last two characters in particular, precisely because of the fear that the movies were setting them up to "replace" Indy.
The Hurt Locker: The Private Military Contractor team capturing some terrorists to claim the bounty on them could have been a film of its own, but they only appear briefly, after their adventure is nearly concluded.
James Bond films sometimes feature other double-O agents,
Goldfinger. 008 never appears, but if M ever tells Bond that if he can't do the mission, someone else will, chances are 008 is that "someone else".
Thunderball is the only film where we see all the double-O agents in one place, at M's briefing. When SPECTRE threatens the world with nuclear bombs, M sends all the agents to different parts of the world hoping to find and disarm the bombs. Bond just happens to be the one who finds them.
Octopussy and A View to a Kill start with the deaths of 009 and (off-screen) 003, respectively. Agents other than Bond, with 007 picking up the cases they were working with only the cryptic clues taken off their bodies.
In The Living Daylights, 008 is said to "obey orders, not instincts", in contrast with the more headstrong Bond. We see a number of other double-O agents being picked off in a training exercise, which teases the identity of the newly recast Bond.
Alec Trevelyn, 006, was apparently killed in the Cold Open of GoldenEye but actually turned against MI6 as part of an elaborate revenge scheme. In other words, it's a subversion: 006 is emphatically not the Hero of Another Story, but the Big Bad of this one.
Felix Leiter, Bond's ally in the CIA, is almost always in this role, sometimes hints are dropped that his adventures are even more exciting than Bond's. In Licence to Kill, we see that he was tracking down the South American drug lord Franz Sanchez for some time before Bond got involved.
In Lavalantula, the main character Colton West randomly runs into Fin Shepard, the hero of the Sharknado films. Fin leaves, saying, "I'd love to help you, but I got shark problems right now."
Lethal Weapon: Lorna Cole and her boss, Herman Walters. While Internal Affairs is arguably this in every single police movie or TV show ever made, Lethal Weapon may be the only such franchise that's ever actually treated them as heroes. When it shows up in the third movie, there's the expected amount of Jurisdiction Friction between them and the main characters, but it's made clear pretty quickly that IA is just another police unit, which happens to have an especially thankless beat. It also becomes clear that their involvement is fully justified, since the Big Bad of the movie is a Lawman Gone Bad (formerly a Dirty Cop) who's been using his knowledge of and connections in the LAPD to steal police supplies and confiscated weapons that he then resells to Los Angeles street gangs. The second half of the movie has Lorna working with Riggs and Murtaugh against the villains, with Riggs even beginning a relationship with her by the end of the movie (and eventually marrying her in the next one).
The Lord of the Rings alludes to Bilbo's adventures, as well as adventures made by unseen heroes. See the Literature section for more info.
The main plot of Machete Kills features Machete assigned by the President of the United States to stop a missile from being launched at Washington DC. Halfway through the movie, Luther Voz mentions that there are other missiles pointed at different worldwide targets, which Machete warns the President about. In the end, when Machete succeeds in disarming the Washington DC missile, the President says his other agents stopped the other missiles.
In Iron Man, Agent Phil Coulson mentions, "This isn't my first rodeo" and Nick Fury bluntly states that there are other heroes out there.
In The Incredible Hulk, Tony Stark briefly appears at the end, mentioning the same other heroes that Fury told him about.
Iron Man 2 has Nick Fury, Black Widow, and a hint of Thor, who are obviously having their own adventures.
Thor features Nick Fury, has a cameo by Hawkeye, the aforementioned Agent Coulson, and plenty of Asgardian warriors who have had plenty of adventures off-camera. Tony Stark even gets mentioned in a throwaway line.
In Thor: The Dark World, we learn that Asgard has been fighting marauders since the events of the last film, we get a good look at what Thor's grandfather was up to before he was born, the obligatory mentioning of the Avengers, and the Collector from Guardians of the Galaxy shows up in the mid-credits scene.
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Yondu says his old Ravager team consisting of Stakar Ogord, Aleta Ogord, Martinex, Charlie-27, Mainframe, and Krugarr had a lot of adventures like Rocket and the Guardians.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol alludes to the broad strokes of another story, in which "the Fog" (a Russian arms dealer in Dubai) is the villain, and Anatoly Sidorov (a Russian government agent) is the hero trying to bring him to justice. Sidorov, however, has temporarily been diverted to track down a more urgent threat (Ethan Hunt, whom he believes is a terrorist that just destroyed the Kremlin), while "the Fog" cooperates with Ethan and promptly passes on his location to Sidorov (which is what Ethan wanted, so he could have help exposing the real culprits). Sidorov nevertheless assures the Fog that he'll get back to tracking him soon enough.
Monty Python's Life of Brian has some other guy named Jesus whose story is taking place at the same time and place as the movie, which is occasionally referenced.
In The Muppet Movie, at one point during the "Moving Right Along" number, Kermit and Fozzie run into Big Bird hiking along the road, who cheerfully explains to them "I'm on my way to New York City, to try to break into public television."
Mystery Road: Despite his creepy demeanor throughout the film, his last scenes imply that Johnno might actually be one, investigating the case from another angle and being implied to have pieces of the puzzle that Jay never finds out for sure.
Bobby Rogers was also making progress into the case, before Jay ever showed up, until he turned up dead. The fact that the drug ring considered him a big enough threat to assassinate, while they never try to do the same to Jay and Johnno until the climax, despite how much sniffing around their doing, implies that Bobby was a serious threat to them indeed. The motel clerk even noted that he was there a year ago asking some of the same questions as Jay.
In The Natural, the young pitcher who faces off against Hobbs in the final game, and who nearly strikes Hobbs out, is described by the game's radio announcer in the same terms that Hobbs is described at the beginning of the movie. This pitcher is another "Natural", and its clear that, given time, he'll end up being one of the greatest players in the game, just like Hobbs.
From Necessary Roughness comes Charlie Bankshe, the only player on the original Armadillos football team not to be banned from playing football for life. The story of how he not only persisted in the sport despite his obvious athletic shortcomings but triumphed by making the winning touchdown at the end of the film's climactic football game, would have made a fine movie in and of itself.
Nobody: Hutch's brother is in hiding after some undisclosed escapades of his own, to the point where he only communicates with Hutch through a secure radio set and is reluctant to come out of the shadows to help fight the Russians.
Sheriff Hastings in No Name on the Bullet has been a lawman for a long time and notes early on that with all the outlaws and powerful men he's crossed, he could easily be Gant's target (which causes him far less trepidation than most of the people who consider that possibility).
An Officer and a Gentleman is the story of Zack Mayo (Richard Gere). Casey Seeger, the only female officer candidate, appears in a few scenes—just enough to declare her intention to be the Navy's first female fighter pilot, show her struggles on the obstacle course, reveal it's really an internal struggle with feeling like "a second-class citizen" and with "daddy's disappointment that she wasn't a boy", let Foley hold her up to the main character as an example of "heart! and character!" and overall give the impression that, if the camera started following her around, there'd be a damn good movie in there.
The film version of On the Town ends with the protagonists saying goodbye to the girls they met as they reboard their ship at the end of their one-day shore pass. Then, as the clock strikes 6:00 AM, another group of sailors swarms off the ship to have their own adventures in New York City.
Pacific Rim has the Wei Tang triplets and the Kaidanovskys, all of whom have impressive records with defeating Kaiju and defending their assigned Shatterdomes, but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this story. Several movies or books could be made about the other 30+ Humongous Mecha and the very colorful pilots who fought in the Golden Age of the Jaegers.
Planet of the Apes (1968): An Ape organization called the Anti-Vivisection League is mentioned a few times as a rare group that fights for human rights and tries to prevent people like Zaius from sterilizing human slaves. None of the lot members physically appear, though.
If the timeline presented in The Purge: Election Year is accurate, then the flashback to the death of Charlie Roan's family takes place on the same night as the first film.
The First Purge: After the pre-Purge scenes, the three Wise Men don’t show up until the last hour of the Purge. At that point, they have rallied several younger neighborhood residents and are holed up in a house, armed, and exchanging fire with NFFA mercenaries dressed up like The Klan. One of the Three Wise Men has a fresh cast on his arm, suggesting they have been busy fighting killers throughout the night.
The Rock: General Francis X. Hummel. While he's the villain (or at least antihero) in this movie, the backstory we're given for him shows that he lived an action-packed career that sent him to the forefront of every major conflict since The Vietnam War. Most of the armed forces revere him as a hero.
In Satans Playground, while Paula is freaking out in the Leeds house, there's a knock on the door. When she answers it, there's a teenage girl there who says her car broke down, and that she needs a telephone. She ends up being scared off by Paula's erratic behavior.
Saving Private Ryan casts recognizable actors in small roles to give the impression that they're each the heroes for their own respective stories, which our heroes visit only briefly before moving on.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Stephen Stills appears to be starring in his own movie, where Scott is just some weird guy who flakes out on the band and messes up their shows. Director Edgar Wright has stated that he instructed Stills' actor to pretend that the movie he's in is called Stephen Stills Is Almost Famous. This is something from the comics where Scott very much believes that he is the hero of the story and the Aesop, if there was one, was "Life does not work that way." This is further fleshed out in the comic, where Stephen has an entire background arc in which he comes out as gay but decides not to tell Scott about it until the end, because it looks like he has enough on his plate already.
In Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Colton West loans the heroes a car. When Fin Shepard asks why he's all beaten up and dirty, he says he had just dealt with a massive spider infestation, which is covered in 2 Lava 2 Lantula.
Jessica Stevenson's team in Shaun of the Dead appear to take part in a much more heroic adventure, ultimately joining up with the army and leading The Cavalry to defeat the zombies. However, we only see a brief glimpse of them as the plot follows Shaun's trip to the pub.
Solarbabies: Greentree has little to do with the main action but spent years prior to the movie fighting the sinister E-Protectorate, trying to break their control over the world, a struggle which saw his wife killed and his daughter abducted.
Stake Land: All over the place. The people in all the other lockdowns and compounds are the biggest examples, all resisting the vampires and the Brotherhood with a Reasonable Authority Figure who deal with Mister and Martin. They likely had to go through something akin to Jericho (2006) only with vampires instead of nuclear war aftermath. Party members Peggy, Willie, and Sister had their own adventures before joining up with the main cast.
Every other Federation starship captain and his crew are this. To name only those who play roles in the original movies: Captain Terrell and the U.S.S. Reliant in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Captains Esteban of the U.S.S. Grissom and Styles of the U.S.S. Excelsior in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. And, by the time of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Captain Sulu, who's now in command of Excelsior and whose assistance to Enterprise is vital to winning the day.
Similar to the Viktor Tupolev example above, Captain Kruge of the Klingon Defense Force, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Imagine you're a starship captain who discovers that your nation's greatest enemy has just invented a weapon capable of wiping clean the surface of an entire planet. Rather than rely on the squabbling politicians to protect you, you take your own ship into a restricted system in your enemy's space, determined to retrieve the plans of this doomsday weapon by any means necessary to ensure that your people have a chance to prepare for this threat while there's still time. ... Heck, this is effectively the plot of Rogue One, right down to Kruge's willingness to commit several murders and other decidedly unheroic actions because the stakes are just that important.
In the original trilogy, Wedge Antilles is an Ace Pilot and friend of Luke who nevertheless has very little to do with the main plot and is generally a pretty minor character. Naturally, he was given plenty of stories of his own in bothincarnations of the Expanded Universe.
Rogue One ends with all of its heroes dead, but with the Death Star plans - for which they fought and died - passed to Princess Leia, one of the main characters of the original trilogy.
In the prequel trilogy, there are 10,000 Jedi trying to keep the peace and uphold justice throughout the galaxy. The films largely follow just two - Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in the first, Obi-Wan and Anakin in the second and third. Leaving close to ten thousand Heroes Of Another Story. (Quite a few of these stories are told in the expanded universe, both old and new).
Taxi: The Action Prologue to the third movie shows us a secret agent (played by Sylvester Stallone, and dubbed by his usual French voice actor) on the run from unidentified villains, who stumbles onto Daniel's taxi and, not knowing what he's in for, asks him for a ride to the airport. Doubles as a Genre Refugee: the Taxi movies usually revolve around the cop and street racer protagonists facing bank robbers, gangsters, or other ordinary street criminals, whereas the secret agent is clearly in the middle of his own Tuxedo and MartiniSpy Fiction adventure.
The hitchhiker from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). An off-screen escapee of The Hewitts', she makes her escape at the start of the film. We don't get to hear much of her story, however, as she decides to blow her brains out when her rescuers accidentally lead her right back to them.
The Colonel mentions that several of his soldiers and their families deserted out of horror after he started executing the infected. Nova and her father are apparently some of those deserters and another joined the Northern Army and told them about the Colonel, but there are implicitly others out there, trying to eke out living away from either side of the war.
The Colonel says that some members or allies of the Northern Army are still working to find a scientific cure for the Simian Flu and bring humanity Back from the Brink.
Percy spends a lot of the first half of the film leading the bulk of the tribe in their evacuation while the main cast act as decoys.
In What's Your Number?Chris Pratt's character Donald seems to be starring in another movie where a guy keeps running into his crazy ex in the run-up to his wedding.
