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* ''Fanfic/ToServeInHell'' loves doing this, as the story is told from the POV of characters either in the Everfree or in Canterlot, so whatever is going on with Equestria's geopolitical situation is rather vague;
** The fic makes it clear that pegasi are oppressed under Nightmare Moon's regime, but also mentions pegasi enclaves as a potential place where Rainbow can send Scootaloo to safety, but doesn't elaborate.
** Equestria is part of some kind of coalition implied to also include the Changeling Hive, which is keeping King Sombra and the Crystal Empire contained up north. Sombra is not the villain of this story, though, so the most elaboration we get on this is Kibitz being concerned that [[spoiler:Princess Dash needs to consolidate her rule lest their allies sees her as weak and the coalition falls apart]] in the epilogue.
** In a case where it's the ''main characters' backstory'', the survivors of Ponyville spent some time surviving in the Everfree with Zecora after Nightmare Moon's return, but were eventually snuffed out, Zecora imprisoned, and most of the survivors were forced to join Nightmare Moon. Details on this time is ''vague'', both how long it lasted and how their capture and conversion occured. The only thing that's clear is that Rainbow Dash was the first to swear fealty to Nightmare Moon.
** The fic makes it clear that pegasi are oppressed under Nightmare Moon's regime, but also mentions pegasi enclaves as a potential place where Rainbow can send Scootaloo to safety, but doesn't elaborate.
** Equestria is part of some kind of coalition implied to also include the Changeling Hive, which is keeping King Sombra and the Crystal Empire contained up north. Sombra is not the villain of this story, though, so the most elaboration we get on this is Kibitz being concerned that [[spoiler:Princess Dash needs to consolidate her rule lest their allies sees her as weak and the coalition falls apart]] in the epilogue.
** In a case where it's the ''main characters' backstory'', the survivors of Ponyville spent some time surviving in the Everfree with Zecora after Nightmare Moon's return, but were eventually snuffed out, Zecora imprisoned, and most of the survivors were forced to join Nightmare Moon. Details on this time is ''vague'', both how long it lasted and how their capture and conversion occured. The only thing that's clear is that Rainbow Dash was the first to swear fealty to Nightmare Moon.
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* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'': Rose Klein (AKA Mama Bear) gets one in ''Tomorrow's Starlight''. It’s never explained what the "Albuquerque Incident” was, but it was apparently enough to get her a maximum threat rating from The Shop.
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* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'': Rose Klein (AKA Mama Bear) gets one in ''Tomorrow's Starlight''. It’s It’s never explained what the "Albuquerque Incident” Incident” was, but it was apparently enough to get her a maximum threat rating from The Shop.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "My Fair Goalie" offhandedly mentions that in the 1950s in Britain, there was a highly-charged anti-palindrome atmosphere. The reasoning for this is never explained, but it forced people with palindrome names (like Professor Ross Eforp) to go into hiding, and there is apparently still prejudices today.
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* It's implied early on in ''Film/TheGoonies'' that Mikey's gotten his friends in trouble before the film; Sloth is heard saying "I don't want to go on another one of your crazy Goonie adventures!", but no further details are provided.
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* It's implied early on in ''Film/TheGoonies'' that Mikey's gotten his friends in trouble before the film; Sloth Chunk is heard saying "I don't want to go on another one of your crazy Goonie adventures!", but no further details are provided.
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** Active Bone Singers were more prevalent in the time when the Titans were last active before the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]] than they are today, and various Titans have had encounters with them in different parts of the prehistoric world. Thousands of years ago, a group of shamanistic-looking Bone Singers braved Antarctica's inhospitable landscape to approach the glacier where Ghidorah was trapped in suspended animation. Godzilla thinks upon smelling Monster X and learning [[TwoBeingsOneBody what they are]] that [[TranhumanAbomination Vivienne Graham]] is a more northern breed of Bone Singer than the ones that Godzilla previously encountered. Thor had quite a close relationship with Bone Singers in his time (heavily implied to be Old Norse or a precursor to those people), recalling several songs and rituals that they performed, including a galdr that they sung over their dead to keep them from rising again.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is in actually a heavily-eroded stone tomb housing the previous Manda's corpse]]. It's unknown how the previous Manda died or how Mu collapsed and vanished from history.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is in actually a heavily-eroded stone tomb housing the previous Manda's corpse]]. It's unknown how the previous Manda died or how Mu collapsed and vanished from history.
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** Active Bone Singers were more prevalent in the time when the Titans were last active before the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]] than they are today, and various Titans have had encounters with them in different parts of the prehistoric world. Thousands of years ago, a group of shamanistic-looking Bone Singers braved Antarctica's inhospitable landscape to approach the glacier where Ghidorah was trapped in suspended animation. Godzilla thinks upon smelling Monster X and learning [[TwoBeingsOneBody what they are]] that [[TranhumanAbomination [[TranshumanAbomination Vivienne Graham]] is a more northern breed of Bone Singer than the ones that Godzilla previously encountered. Thor had quite a close relationship with Bone Singers in his time (heavily implied to be Old Norse or a precursor to those people), recalling several songs and rituals that they performed, including a galdr that they sung over their dead to keep them from rising again.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is inactually actuality a heavily-eroded stone tomb housing the previous Manda's corpse]]. It's unknown how the previous Manda died or how Mu collapsed and vanished from history.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is in
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'':
** Active Bone Singers were more prevalent in the time when the Titans were last active before the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]] than they are today, and various Titans have had encounters with them in different parts of the prehistoric world. Thousands of years ago, a group of shamanistic-looking Bone Singers braved Antarctica's inhospitable landscape to approach the glacier where Ghidorah was trapped in suspended animation. Godzilla thinks upon smelling Monster X and learning [[TwoBeingsOneBody what they are]] that [[TranhumanAbomination Vivienne Graham]] is a more northern breed of Bone Singer than the ones that Godzilla previously encountered. Thor had quite a close relationship with Bone Singers in his time (heavily implied to be Old Norse or a precursor to those people), recalling several songs and rituals that they performed, including a galdr that they sung over their dead to keep them from rising again.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is in actually a heavily-eroded stone tomb housing the previous Manda's corpse]]. It's unknown how the previous Manda died or how Mu collapsed and vanished from history.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Gemini}}'': One of AxCrazy SerialKillerKiller Captain June Harper's [[ImprobableAimingSkills signature trick-shots]] is based on a "Taska Venkman" series of spy movies.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'': Because it's a series of vignettes in anachronic order, it has tons of these. Many get resolved in later chapters. However, there's a pretty big time skip with no chapters set between 2047 and 2080. In those last chapters, characters refer to a great many events that occurred during those decades without explaining much detail. For instance, Asuka and Shinji's daughter Ryuko refers to her children and grandchildren, but we don't know how many she has, whether she's happily married, or much else about her personal life. It also seems that some characters have died in the interim since they'd be expected to be present otherwise, but the characters don't spend time discussing things they'd all know already.
* ''Franhcise/TheHauntedMansion'' FanVerse Fanfic/TheMansionverse: No one precisely knows ''where'' the Haunted Mansion itself came from, nor what happened to TheOldGods.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has these aplenty. When it grew into an ExpandedUniverse, many of them were explored in sidestories:
** At the beginning, it's revealed that Professor Oak made the world a better place 40 years before Ash awakened in the Reset timeline. The details at first are mostly unknown, save for the fact that thanks to his efforts, Pokémon are for the most part less agressive and more tolerant of humans. The story also drops an early hint that he and Professor Hastings from the Ranger Nations are friends and often work together in secret, despite their nations being in a state of cold war with each other. [[spoiler: The Oak & Hastings Gaiden reveals that they worked together using technology behind Hastings's Capture Styler to develop a machine capable of pacifying aggressive Pokémon. However, they agreed to keep the bigger specifics a secret and have Oak take full credit for it.]]
** There's also the aforementioned GreatOffscreenWar between Trainer nations and Ranger nations. Not much has been explained beyond the following points:
*** They ended decades ago and both sides are currently in a cold war state.
*** They were [[WarIsHell horrible]].
*** The Draconids of Hoenn ended up allied with the Ranger nations as a result of territorial disputes with Sootopolitans, and this causes problems in the present day for Hoenn.
*** The incident that caused it to explode was the attack of a Gyarados school and the disagreement over catching or relocating them somewhere else so they wouldn't hurt anybody.
** Georgia goes through a mental list of gym leaders and Elite Four who had to be removed for committing crimes shortly after she was introduced. In order of increasing severity of their crimes, a Flying-type gym leader who was a [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]], a Bug-type gym leader who was a home invader and burglar, a Normal-type Elite Four who was involved in rigged matches, a Poison-type gym leader who committed sabotage, a Ghost-type gym leader who committed several murders and a Dark-type gym leader who was the leader of an Apocalypse Cult. [[spoiler: The Ghost-type gym leader was elaborated on, and it turns out he was responsible for murdering Georgia's parents as a SerialKiller, thus providing the motivation for Georgia to become a Buster.]]
** An infamous criminal known as Twenty Gyarados Bill is cited as the cause of the current limit for six active Pokémon per trainer. His story is explored [[VillainEpisode in his own gaiden.]]
** The Fisher Clan are stated to have the Victreebel family as their signature Pokemon, with the clan winning many battles with them in the past. The Jeanette Interlude sidestory elaborated on that and it turns out the reason Victreebel is their signature Pokemon is because the founder of the Fisher Clan was a Victreebel Bloodliner.
** In the Big P Pokemon Race Interlude, Lara Laramie says her family has lived in harmony with wild Pokemon since her grandfather's time. The Laramie Gaiden explores how Lara's grandfather decided to establish the Pokémon reserve.
** Active Bone Singers were more prevalent in the time when the Titans were last active before the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Mass Awakening]] than they are today, and various Titans have had encounters with them in different parts of the prehistoric world. Thousands of years ago, a group of shamanistic-looking Bone Singers braved Antarctica's inhospitable landscape to approach the glacier where Ghidorah was trapped in suspended animation. Godzilla thinks upon smelling Monster X and learning [[TwoBeingsOneBody what they are]] that [[TranhumanAbomination Vivienne Graham]] is a more northern breed of Bone Singer than the ones that Godzilla previously encountered. Thor had quite a close relationship with Bone Singers in his time (heavily implied to be Old Norse or a precursor to those people), recalling several songs and rituals that they performed, including a galdr that they sung over their dead to keep them from rising again.
** The island of Yonaguni is all that geologically remains of the seafaring City of Mu which Manda's ancestor guarded, [[spoiler:and the Yonaguni Monument is in actually a heavily-eroded stone tomb housing the previous Manda's corpse]]. It's unknown how the previous Manda died or how Mu collapsed and vanished from history.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Gemini}}'': One of AxCrazy SerialKillerKiller Captain June Harper's [[ImprobableAimingSkills signature trick-shots]] is based on a "Taska Venkman" series of spy movies.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'': Because it's a series of vignettes in anachronic order, it has tons of these. Many get resolved in later chapters. However, there's a pretty big time skip with no chapters set between 2047 and 2080. In those last chapters, characters refer to a great many events that occurred during those decades without explaining much detail. For instance, Asuka and Shinji's daughter Ryuko refers to her children and grandchildren, but we don't know how many she has, whether she's happily married, or much else about her personal life. It also seems that some characters have died in the interim since they'd be expected to be present otherwise, but the characters don't spend time discussing things they'd all know already.
* ''Franhcise/TheHauntedMansion'' FanVerse Fanfic/TheMansionverse: No one precisely knows ''where'' the Haunted Mansion itself came from, nor what happened to TheOldGods.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has these aplenty. When it grew into an ExpandedUniverse, many of them were explored in sidestories:
** At the beginning, it's revealed that Professor Oak made the world a better place 40 years before Ash awakened in the Reset timeline. The details at first are mostly unknown, save for the fact that thanks to his efforts, Pokémon are for the most part less agressive and more tolerant of humans. The story also drops an early hint that he and Professor Hastings from the Ranger Nations are friends and often work together in secret, despite their nations being in a state of cold war with each other. [[spoiler: The Oak & Hastings Gaiden reveals that they worked together using technology behind Hastings's Capture Styler to develop a machine capable of pacifying aggressive Pokémon. However, they agreed to keep the bigger specifics a secret and have Oak take full credit for it.]]
** There's also the aforementioned GreatOffscreenWar between Trainer nations and Ranger nations. Not much has been explained beyond the following points:
*** They ended decades ago and both sides are currently in a cold war state.
*** They were [[WarIsHell horrible]].
*** The Draconids of Hoenn ended up allied with the Ranger nations as a result of territorial disputes with Sootopolitans, and this causes problems in the present day for Hoenn.
*** The incident that caused it to explode was the attack of a Gyarados school and the disagreement over catching or relocating them somewhere else so they wouldn't hurt anybody.
** Georgia goes through a mental list of gym leaders and Elite Four who had to be removed for committing crimes shortly after she was introduced. In order of increasing severity of their crimes, a Flying-type gym leader who was a [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]], a Bug-type gym leader who was a home invader and burglar, a Normal-type Elite Four who was involved in rigged matches, a Poison-type gym leader who committed sabotage, a Ghost-type gym leader who committed several murders and a Dark-type gym leader who was the leader of an Apocalypse Cult. [[spoiler: The Ghost-type gym leader was elaborated on, and it turns out he was responsible for murdering Georgia's parents as a SerialKiller, thus providing the motivation for Georgia to become a Buster.]]
** An infamous criminal known as Twenty Gyarados Bill is cited as the cause of the current limit for six active Pokémon per trainer. His story is explored [[VillainEpisode in his own gaiden.]]
** The Fisher Clan are stated to have the Victreebel family as their signature Pokemon, with the clan winning many battles with them in the past. The Jeanette Interlude sidestory elaborated on that and it turns out the reason Victreebel is their signature Pokemon is because the founder of the Fisher Clan was a Victreebel Bloodliner.
** In the Big P Pokemon Race Interlude, Lara Laramie says her family has lived in harmony with wild Pokemon since her grandfather's time. The Laramie Gaiden explores how Lara's grandfather decided to establish the Pokémon reserve.
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Gemini}},'' one of AxCrazy SerialKillerKiller Captain June Harper's [[ImprobableAimingSkills signature trick-shots]] is based on a "Taska Venkman" series of spy movies.
* Because it's a series of vignettes in anachronic order, ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'' has tons of these. Many get resolved in later chapters. However, there's a pretty big time skip with no chapters set between 2047 and 2080. In those last chapters, characters refer to a great many events that occurred during those decades without explaining much detail. For instance, Asuka and Shinji's daughter Ryuko refers to her children and grandchildren, but we don't know how many she has, whether she's happily married, or much else about her personal life. It also seems that some characters have died in the interim since they'd be expected to be present otherwise, but the characters don't spend time discussing things they'd all know already.
* Because it's a series of vignettes in anachronic order, ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'' has tons of these. Many get resolved in later chapters. However, there's a pretty big time skip with no chapters set between 2047 and 2080. In those last chapters, characters refer to a great many events that occurred during those decades without explaining much detail. For instance, Asuka and Shinji's daughter Ryuko refers to her children and grandchildren, but we don't know how many she has, whether she's happily married, or much else about her personal life. It also seems that some characters have died in the interim since they'd be expected to be present otherwise, but the characters don't spend time discussing things they'd all know already.
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* In Fanfic/TheMansionverse, no one precisely knows ''where'' the Haunted Mansion itself came from, nor what happened to TheOldGods.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has these aplenty. When it grew into an ExpandedUniverse, many of them were explored in sidestories:
** At the beginning, it's revealed that Professor Oak made the world a better place 40 years before Ash awakened in the Reset timeline. The details at first are mostly unknown, save for the fact that thanks to his efforts, Pokémon are for the most part less agressive and more tolerant of humans. The story also drops an early hint that he and Professor Hastings from the Ranger Nations are friends and often work together in secret, despite their nations being in a state of cold war with each other. [[spoiler: The Oak & Hastings Gaiden reveals that they worked together using technology behind Hastings's Capture Styler to develop a machine capable of pacifying aggressive Pokémon. However, they agreed to keep the bigger specifics a secret and have Oak take full credit for it.]]
** There's also the aforementioned GreatOffscreenWar between Trainer nations and Ranger nations. Not much has been explained beyond the following points:
*** They ended decades ago and both sides are currently in a cold war state.
*** They were [[WarIsHell horrible]].
*** The Draconids of Hoenn ended up allied with the Ranger nations as a result of territorial disputes with Sootopolitans, and this causes problems in the present day for Hoenn.
*** The incident that caused it to explode was the attack of a Gyarados school and the disagreement over catching or relocating them somewhere else so they wouldn't hurt anybody.
** Georgia goes through a mental list of gym leaders and Elite Four who had to be removed for committing crimes shortly after she was introduced. In order of increasing severity of their crimes, a Flying-type gym leader who was a [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]], a Bug-type gym leader who was a home invader and burglar, a Normal-type Elite Four who was involved in rigged matches, a Poison-type gym leader who committed sabotage, a Ghost-type gym leader who committed several murders and a Dark-type gym leader who was the leader of an Apocalypse Cult. [[spoiler: The Ghost-type gym leader was elaborated on, and it turns out he was responsible for murdering Georgia's parents as a SerialKiller, thus providing the motivation for Georgia to become a Buster.]]
** An infamous criminal known as Twenty Gyarados Bill is cited as the cause of the current limit for six active Pokémon per trainer. His story is explored [[VillainEpisode in his own gaiden.]]
** The Fisher Clan are stated to have the Victreebel family as their signature Pokemon, with the clan winning many battles with them in the past. The Jeanette Interlude sidestory elaborated on that and it turns out the reason Victreebel is their signature Pokemon is because the founder of the Fisher Clan was a Victreebel Bloodliner.
** In the Big P Pokemon Race Interlude, Lara Laramie says her family has lived in harmony with wild Pokemon since her grandfather's time. The Laramie Gaiden explores how Lara's grandfather decided to establish the Pokémon reserve.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has these aplenty. When it grew into an ExpandedUniverse, many of them were explored in sidestories:
** At the beginning, it's revealed that Professor Oak made the world a better place 40 years before Ash awakened in the Reset timeline. The details at first are mostly unknown, save for the fact that thanks to his efforts, Pokémon are for the most part less agressive and more tolerant of humans. The story also drops an early hint that he and Professor Hastings from the Ranger Nations are friends and often work together in secret, despite their nations being in a state of cold war with each other. [[spoiler: The Oak & Hastings Gaiden reveals that they worked together using technology behind Hastings's Capture Styler to develop a machine capable of pacifying aggressive Pokémon. However, they agreed to keep the bigger specifics a secret and have Oak take full credit for it.]]
** There's also the aforementioned GreatOffscreenWar between Trainer nations and Ranger nations. Not much has been explained beyond the following points:
*** They ended decades ago and both sides are currently in a cold war state.
*** They were [[WarIsHell horrible]].
*** The Draconids of Hoenn ended up allied with the Ranger nations as a result of territorial disputes with Sootopolitans, and this causes problems in the present day for Hoenn.
*** The incident that caused it to explode was the attack of a Gyarados school and the disagreement over catching or relocating them somewhere else so they wouldn't hurt anybody.
** Georgia goes through a mental list of gym leaders and Elite Four who had to be removed for committing crimes shortly after she was introduced. In order of increasing severity of their crimes, a Flying-type gym leader who was a [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]], a Bug-type gym leader who was a home invader and burglar, a Normal-type Elite Four who was involved in rigged matches, a Poison-type gym leader who committed sabotage, a Ghost-type gym leader who committed several murders and a Dark-type gym leader who was the leader of an Apocalypse Cult. [[spoiler: The Ghost-type gym leader was elaborated on, and it turns out he was responsible for murdering Georgia's parents as a SerialKiller, thus providing the motivation for Georgia to become a Buster.]]
** An infamous criminal known as Twenty Gyarados Bill is cited as the cause of the current limit for six active Pokémon per trainer. His story is explored [[VillainEpisode in his own gaiden.]]
** The Fisher Clan are stated to have the Victreebel family as their signature Pokemon, with the clan winning many battles with them in the past. The Jeanette Interlude sidestory elaborated on that and it turns out the reason Victreebel is their signature Pokemon is because the founder of the Fisher Clan was a Victreebel Bloodliner.
** In the Big P Pokemon Race Interlude, Lara Laramie says her family has lived in harmony with wild Pokemon since her grandfather's time. The Laramie Gaiden explores how Lara's grandfather decided to establish the Pokémon reserve.
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* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
** Based on the elaborate stone ruins dotted about in Skull Island's greenery in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', there was once a much more advanced human civilization living on the island than the current tribal people.
** There are hints dotted throughout ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' that AdvancedAncientHumans cohabited the Earth with Titans in prehistoric times until a cataclysm wiped the human civilization out, and that their civilization fell because they tried to use the Titans as beasts of war and the Titans revolted.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', it's apparent that Godzilla and Kong's ancestors had a primeval GreatOffscreenWar, [[spoiler:and Kong's ancestors originally lived in the HollowEarth where they built a vast temple (which in the present day is abandoned, with the skeleton of a Godzilla-like Titan lying inside with an axe wedged in its bones)]]; yet despite the movie's trailer setting up some grand revelation about how the war occurred, there's no elaboration beyond the above hints, leaving it unknown how and when the war started and ended, or also why ''Titanus Kong'' moved from the Hollow Earth to Skull Island. The novelization provides more clarification via an Iwi legend that Jia tells Andrews: it indicates that Godzilla or one of his kind fired the first shot in the war (assuming that the tale isn't biased in the favor of the Iwi's ''Titanus Kong'' deities), and Godzilla ultimately drove both the Kong species ''and'' the Iwis out of their original shared home in the Hollow Earth, forcing them to Skull Island on the surface.
** Based on the elaborate stone ruins dotted about in Skull Island's greenery in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', there was once a much more advanced human civilization living on the island than the current tribal people.
** There are hints dotted throughout ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' that AdvancedAncientHumans cohabited the Earth with Titans in prehistoric times until a cataclysm wiped the human civilization out, and that their civilization fell because they tried to use the Titans as beasts of war and the Titans revolted.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', it's apparent that Godzilla and Kong's ancestors had a primeval GreatOffscreenWar, [[spoiler:and Kong's ancestors originally lived in the HollowEarth where they built a vast temple (which in the present day is abandoned, with the skeleton of a Godzilla-like Titan lying inside with an axe wedged in its bones)]]; yet despite the movie's trailer setting up some grand revelation about how the war occurred, there's no elaboration beyond the above hints, leaving it unknown how and when the war started and ended, or also why ''Titanus Kong'' moved from the Hollow Earth to Skull Island. The novelization provides more clarification via an Iwi legend that Jia tells Andrews: it indicates that Godzilla or one of his kind fired the first shot in the war (assuming that the tale isn't biased in the favor of the Iwi's ''Titanus Kong'' deities), and Godzilla ultimately drove both the Kong species ''and'' the Iwis out of their original shared home in the Hollow Earth, forcing them to Skull Island on the surface.
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* Scrooge [=McDuck=] made many such references in comics by Creator/CarlBarks, which were intended as pure throwaway references to give the impression that Scrooge has lived a long, exciting life as an adventurer and businessman. Many years later, Creator/DonRosa took many of Barks's offhand references and used them as the basis of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''.
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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=] made many such oblique references in comics by Creator/CarlBarks, which were intended as pure throwaway references to give the impression that Scrooge has lived a long, exciting life as an adventurer and businessman. Many years later, Creator/DonRosa took many of Barks's offhand references and used them as the basis of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''.
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* Considering ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' is a series that prides itself in its sheer vagueness, it isn't a big surprise that this trope shows up at least ''once a chapter''. Technology and factions are seen, mentioned and interacted with often, but in most cases, never fully explained. This adds to the already frighteningly vast feel of the '{{Verse}}, and leaves plenty of room for WildMassGuessing.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' does this all the time, sometimes without even directly saying anything. It oftentimes does this with the main plot and character traits -- e.g. [[TeamPet Ein]] is a "data dog", something apparently important and rare which is only vaguely explained, even in the episode where it's mentioned. This is subtly {{lampshaded}} -- Jet angrily asks Spike why he's running off to kill a man from his past. Spike pointedly (even cynically) asks him how he lost his arm, causing Jet to clam up. [[spoiler:The circumstances behind Spike's pursuit of the man and Jet's lost arm are eventually revealed.]]
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'':
** This anime features the characters spouting a lot of GratuitousEnglish phrases that won't mean anything until a good twenty episodes later. It gets pretty confusing when half of the spoken terms have no meaning to the viewer.
** Its sequel, ''Anime/EurekaSevenAO'' is slightly better. There are a lot of references to events in the past, and several hints that there is something off about the AlternateUniverse. They also managed to cut the introduction to meaning rate by about 50%, meaning that almost every truly cryptic and bizarre thing has been given some measure of explanation or meaning within 10 episodes, as opposed to the 20 mentioned above. Yes, if you just started watching, that means that the Alternate Universe thing will get explained very soon.
* This is a big part of what makes ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' such a MindScrew. Naota (and the viewer by extension) is essentially dropped into the middle of some huge, epic SpaceOpera story and almost ''never'' has any of the events or backstory references explained to him in a fully coherent way. In keeping with with the [[ComingOfAgeStory coming-of-age]] themes, the broad experience of the show is comparable to being a young kid growing up while some war is being fought in a foreign nation, with your only understanding of it coming from the adults in your life who barely know any more than you.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Shoto Todoroki's backstory reveals he has three siblings. The second oldest, his sister Fuyumi is introduced after the Sports Festival and their middle sibling, Natsuo, is introduced when the manga is about 180 chapters in, but their oldest brother is not even mentioned. In chapter 192 when Natsuo [[RejectedApology refuses to hear to the apology]] of their AbusiveParent Endeavor, hints finally start being dropped, including that the older brother is named Toya and "[[NoodleIncident something]]" that happened to him by which Endeavor is (rightfully or not) blamed for and that has fomented their mother's breakdown.
* The Hidden Cloud Village in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was introduced long after the other four major ninja villages. The only proof of their existence was that a small number of Cloud ninja applied for the Chunin Exams early into the series, and after that, they were completely absent for several important arcs. The Hidden Cloud Village was even nonexistent among the Akatsuki, an alliance of villains from various ninja villages who have disowned their home villages in protest. This becomes a plot point later on after [[spoiler:the Hidden Leaf Village is destroyed by Akatsuki leader Pain and the village leaders gather together to discuss how to stop them. As the Akatsuki has no Cloud ninja and they've never attacked the Hidden Cloud Village, the village leader makes it clear he has no reason to get involved.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** A visual one: in the splash page from the first chapter of the manga, look closely at the center. Zazie Rainyday [[http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j43/StarfireandSakura/zazieclaw.png has claws.]] 250+ chapters later, this is still unexplained, as is everything regarding Zazie. [[spoiler:It finally appears in the story proper in ''[[BrickJoke chapter 298]]''.]]
** The Magic World is filled to the brim with this type of stuff, with people referring to all sorts of races, animals, places, and phenomena that don't happen here.
* The first thing everyone knows about ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' is that most Trainers dream of becoming a Pokémon Master, however over the entire course of the series it's never once discussed ''how'' one actually obtains this title until the very end with The Pokémon Company [[ShrugOfGod outright refusing to elaborate]].
** Due to comments made by Lance in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' the initial assumption was that becoming the Champion of a region makes one a Master, however, Ash explicitly states later on that it's merely a prerequisite and considers himself to be a long way off even after becoming the Champion of Alola. Even MemeticBadass [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Red]] still has the Trainer Class "PKMN Trainer" in the games after everything he's been through.
** In ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'' Goh asks if being a Master means becoming the [[WorldsBestWarrior strongest Trainer]] with Mewtwo's comments in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' seemingly supporting this theory, but Ash states not even that is enough. In fact, Champions Wallace & Cynthia are recognized as the [[TheAce strongest Trainers in the world and undefeated Champions]] (until the former [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome lost to Steven]] and the latter Ash), but they're only "Champion Masters". However, once Ash himself earned the title of strongest Trainer he apparently became [[GrandFinale that much closer to his goal]]. In ''Anime/PokemonToBeAPokemonMaster'' he finally decides that being a Master means seeing the world and meeting all the Pokémon in it, with him deciding to continue WalkingTheEarth.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** A very subtle one. When Mami explains why Witches are bad, she mentioned them luring people to suicide and causing fights to break out in certain places. The second type of bad influence is never seen in the anime.
** It's also hinted that she knew [[spoiler: Kyoko, and Kyoko's past]] -- but this is actually confirmed in [[AllThereInTheManual a Drama CD]].
** Several are found in [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual(s)]]. The official website describes three witches who never appeared in the anime, because only their familiars did. We don't even know what they look like. Then we have the revelation that [[spoiler: Walpurgisnacht is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname only a nickname.]] It's real name is [[MyNameIsQuestionMarks only listed as "?????"]].]]
*** Of course, Mami also mentions that Witches cause "natural disasters" in addition to the suicides. And WordOfGod about Walpurgis is that it's actually a Witch that [[spoiler: grew stronger by [[FusionDance combining]] with other witches.]]
* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', there are very occasional references to the fact that some great catastrophe has happened and Japan, with the aid of the Sybil system, is one of the few relatively normal nations left.
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' has a hierarchy of gods and demons distributed over four universes. Only some of these deities are described, others are named or merely implied. Nothing is known about the demons Chaotic Blue and Death Fog, for instance, and less than that about their opponents. Fanfic authors have, naturally, expended much effort to fill the gaps.
* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' is rife with this trope. Most of the back story can be divided into two categories. There's the information that was lost forever during the GreatOffScreenWar, which isn't explained since none of the characters are aware of it. And then there are the things that all of them know about, which isn't explained since the characters have no reason to exposit out loud about it when speaking to each other.
* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' is the SliceOfLife story of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot named Alpha running a small cafe [[CosyCatastrophe during the twilight of humanity]]. Numerous mysteries are touched upon but ''absolutely none'' are explained fully, either because they have nothing to do with the story as previously outlined, or the characters are just as much in the dark as the readers.
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* Considering ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' is a series that prides itself in its sheer vagueness, it isn't a big surprise that this trope shows up at least ''once a chapter''. Technology and factions are seen, mentioned and interacted with often, but in most cases, never fully explained. This adds to the already frighteningly vast feel of the '{{Verse}}, and leaves plenty of room for WildMassGuessing.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' does this all the time, sometimes without even directly saying anything. It oftentimes does this with the main plot and character traits -- e.g. [[TeamPet Ein]] is a "data dog", something apparently important and rare which is only vaguely explained, even in the episode where it's mentioned. This is subtly {{lampshaded}} -- Jet angrily asks Spike why he's running off to kill a man from his past. Spike pointedly (even cynically) asks him how he lost his arm, causing Jet to clam up. [[spoiler:The circumstances behind Spike's pursuit of the man and Jet's lost arm are eventually revealed.]]
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'':
** This anime features the characters spouting a lot of GratuitousEnglish phrases that won't mean anything until a good twenty episodes later. It gets pretty confusing when half of the spoken terms have no meaning to the viewer.
** Its sequel, ''Anime/EurekaSevenAO'' is slightly better. There are a lot of references to events in the past, and several hints that there is something off about the AlternateUniverse. They also managed to cut the introduction to meaning rate by about 50%, meaning that almost every truly cryptic and bizarre thing has been given some measure of explanation or meaning within 10 episodes, as opposed to the 20 mentioned above. Yes, if you just started watching, that means that the Alternate Universe thing will get explained very soon.
* This is a big part of what makes ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' such a MindScrew. Naota (and the viewer by extension) is essentially dropped into the middle of some huge, epic SpaceOpera story and almost ''never'' has any of the events or backstory references explained to him in a fully coherent way. In keeping with with the [[ComingOfAgeStory coming-of-age]] themes, the broad experience of the show is comparable to being a young kid growing up while some war is being fought in a foreign nation, with your only understanding of it coming from the adults in your life who barely know any more than you.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Shoto Todoroki's backstory reveals he has three siblings. The second oldest, his sister Fuyumi is introduced after the Sports Festival and their middle sibling, Natsuo, is introduced when the manga is about 180 chapters in, but their oldest brother is not even mentioned. In chapter 192 when Natsuo [[RejectedApology refuses to hear to the apology]] of their AbusiveParent Endeavor, hints finally start being dropped, including that the older brother is named Toya and "[[NoodleIncident something]]" that happened to him by which Endeavor is (rightfully or not) blamed for and that has fomented their mother's breakdown.
* The Hidden Cloud Village in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was introduced long after the other four major ninja villages. The only proof of their existence was that a small number of Cloud ninja applied for the Chunin Exams early into the series, and after that, they were completely absent for several important arcs. The Hidden Cloud Village was even nonexistent among the Akatsuki, an alliance of villains from various ninja villages who have disowned their home villages in protest. This becomes a plot point later on after [[spoiler:the Hidden Leaf Village is destroyed by Akatsuki leader Pain and the village leaders gather together to discuss how to stop them. As the Akatsuki has no Cloud ninja and they've never attacked the Hidden Cloud Village, the village leader makes it clear he has no reason to get involved.]]
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** A visual one: in the splash page from the first chapter of the manga, look closely at the center. Zazie Rainyday [[http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j43/StarfireandSakura/zazieclaw.png has claws.]] 250+ chapters later, this is still unexplained, as is everything regarding Zazie. [[spoiler:It finally appears in the story proper in ''[[BrickJoke chapter 298]]''.]]
** The Magic World is filled to the brim with this type of stuff, with people referring to all sorts of races, animals, places, and phenomena that don't happen here.
* The first thing everyone knows about ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' is that most Trainers dream of becoming a Pokémon Master, however over the entire course of the series it's never once discussed ''how'' one actually obtains this title until the very end with The Pokémon Company [[ShrugOfGod outright refusing to elaborate]].
** Due to comments made by Lance in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' the initial assumption was that becoming the Champion of a region makes one a Master, however, Ash explicitly states later on that it's merely a prerequisite and considers himself to be a long way off even after becoming the Champion of Alola. Even MemeticBadass [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Red]] still has the Trainer Class "PKMN Trainer" in the games after everything he's been through.
** In ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'' Goh asks if being a Master means becoming the [[WorldsBestWarrior strongest Trainer]] with Mewtwo's comments in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' seemingly supporting this theory, but Ash states not even that is enough. In fact, Champions Wallace & Cynthia are recognized as the [[TheAce strongest Trainers in the world and undefeated Champions]] (until the former [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome lost to Steven]] and the latter Ash), but they're only "Champion Masters". However, once Ash himself earned the title of strongest Trainer he apparently became [[GrandFinale that much closer to his goal]]. In ''Anime/PokemonToBeAPokemonMaster'' he finally decides that being a Master means seeing the world and meeting all the Pokémon in it, with him deciding to continue WalkingTheEarth.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** A very subtle one. When Mami explains why Witches are bad, she mentioned them luring people to suicide and causing fights to break out in certain places. The second type of bad influence is never seen in the anime.
** It's also hinted that she knew [[spoiler: Kyoko, and Kyoko's past]] -- but this is actually confirmed in [[AllThereInTheManual a Drama CD]].
** Several are found in [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual(s)]]. The official website describes three witches who never appeared in the anime, because only their familiars did. We don't even know what they look like. Then we have the revelation that [[spoiler: Walpurgisnacht is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname only a nickname.]] It's real name is [[MyNameIsQuestionMarks only listed as "?????"]].]]
*** Of course, Mami also mentions that Witches cause "natural disasters" in addition to the suicides. And WordOfGod about Walpurgis is that it's actually a Witch that [[spoiler: grew stronger by [[FusionDance combining]] with other witches.]]
* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', there are very occasional references to the fact that some great catastrophe has happened and Japan, with the aid of the Sybil system, is one of the few relatively normal nations left.
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' has a hierarchy of gods and demons distributed over four universes. Only some of these deities are described, others are named or merely implied. Nothing is known about the demons Chaotic Blue and Death Fog, for instance, and less than that about their opponents. Fanfic authors have, naturally, expended much effort to fill the gaps.
* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' is rife with this trope. Most of the back story can be divided into two categories. There's the information that was lost forever during the GreatOffScreenWar, which isn't explained since none of the characters are aware of it. And then there are the things that all of them know about, which isn't explained since the characters have no reason to exposit out loud about it when speaking to each other.
* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' is the SliceOfLife story of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot named Alpha running a small cafe [[CosyCatastrophe during the twilight of humanity]]. Numerous mysteries are touched upon but ''absolutely none'' are explained fully, either because they have nothing to do with the story as previously outlined, or the characters are just as much in the dark as the readers.
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