Spotting the Thread in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!, Luz, Amity and Camilla all realize that the Good Witch Azura books might be more than they seem when they realize that the books don't have any mention of any author or barcodes, nor do they have any memory of how they procure them outside of some vague memories of buying them at a bookstore. Doctor Strange confirms their suspicions when he looks at the context of the books and notices mention of Kamar-Taj, Vishanti and the Sorcerer Supreme in them, among other things.
- Braigen's DCU (Now With Owls): When Renee Montoya meets Luz Noceda in her superhero identity of Good Witch, she's immediately able to figure out her Secret Identity because she recognizes her voice (they're second cousins in this setting), notices that Good Witch's costume is basically Azura cosplay, and notes the Contrived Coincidence of Good Witch just happening to show up in Gotham days after Luz came to visit her.
- In The Broken Day, when Harry's scar starts bleeding after a nightmare, Ginny and Natasha swiftly realise that the horcrux in Harry has been restored in the new timeline created by the Time Crash of Harry's two realities being pulled together.
- Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: During Reunion Over The Pacific, Kallen's the only one to notice that Suzaku referred to the Lancelot by name, even though he logically has no reason to know that.
- In Cross Cases, Dean and Castiel pay a visit to the Carpenter house to try and find Sam, and Murphy answers the door. Dean uses his usual FBI agent impersonation schtick, and Murphy- who has met and worked with actual FBI agents several times -plays along for a bit before going, "A case? Wow, you do almost sound like a Fed." He denies it, and she replies that he looks an awful lot like a Winchester, having seen the photo of him that Sam keeps in his wallet.
- Friendship Is Aura: Lucario is able to deduce that "Celestia" is an impostor (actually Chrysalis) by pointing out that she doesn't know who he is when she should, doesn't know the names of her own Guards despite socializing with them, doesn't know about her own diary (which he found earlier), and most importantly, doesn't know the nickname she and Luna called her mother.
- God of Hate: Though Frieda manages a fairly convincing act, everyone notices one important flaw: She didn't seem remotely surprised to see "Trips". Given the only monsters people know of are the Titans, which look like giant mutated humans, a three-headed dragon not shocking her is immediately suspicious.
- J-WITCH Series: In "Seeds of Doubt", when Detectives Medina and McTiernan interrogate Will over the "evidence" (her calculator) found behind a false wall at the Browns' house, her mother points out that by their account, they found the false wall at 3:30, and came back to find it gone at 3:45. Even leaving out that Will was with her the whole time, she couldn't possibly have snuck away, gone to the house, torn down a false wall and gotten back undetected in fifteen minutes.
- My Hero School Adventure Is All Wrong As Expected: When Hachiman bumps into a student in the General education course during lunch at U.A. High School, he doesn't think anything of it until he notices that the student's posture seems to be a little off and that the guy seems a little familiar. When Totsuka tells him that the student's Quirk allows him to play music however, Hachiman remembers that he had bumped into the student before only last time he didn't have a disguise Quirk.
- Subverted in The Mountain and the Wolf, when Tyrion thinks he's found evidence of the Wolf working with Euron behind Daenerys' back (in fact the Wolf killed Euron and sent a man disguised as Euron to lead the Iron Fleet). When he brings this up, the Wolf is able to concoct a plausible-sounding story that lays Tyrion's fears to rest. When the Wolf's treachery is revealed to all, he congratulates Tyrion for having seen through the ruse.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Tynar figures out on his own that Jade was never a minion of Phobos due to piecing together clues like the fact that despite being accused of being a shapeshifter, she never took any other form, and how she was far kinder than any of the Knights of Vengeance, never being rude or threatening to him and Vathek when they were the Knights' prisoners (except when Vathek insulted her first).
- During the Shadowkhan attack on the castle, everyone quickly figures out that Jade is responsible due to their physical similarities. But Drake and Granik take it further by questioning why Phobos never used this power during his reign or even his recent escape attempt if he'd really created Jade as they'd been told by the "Mage".
- Sixes and Sevens: Michael and Emily are suspicious of Volker because he carries himself like a soldier, and Michael confirms he isn't who he says he is based on a subtle discrepancy with his accent.
- Emily figures out that "Brian Falsworth" is a cover identity because he has no personal affects in his office, despite allegedly being in the field for years. All it takes after that is some picked locks and very sloppy bookkeeping to find Michael's original file, or what's left of it after being redacted.
- Spider-Ninja: SHIELD manages to tie the girl who stopped the robot at Avengers Tower with the mysterious vigilantes who've been stopping criminals for the last few weeks because the substance found holding the robot's legs together was identical to a substance many of the stopped criminals were found tied up in.
- Where the Sunlight Ends: Though Max's memories of No Way Home were erased, he still decided to dismantle and study the device that cured him. He quickly discovered it was made out of material that wasn't even on his universe's periodic table, so when Peter Three recaps the events of No Way Home, Max is naturally inclined to believe his story.
- In Dirty Sympathy, Phoenix realizes that Shadi Enigmar's death by bludgeoning is too spontaneous and physical for Kristoph to have done it as Kristoph is a very patient poisoner.
- In The Vain Rose's Garden
, Keiichi quickly realizes the orgy he apparently walked in on is fake because whoever is behind it got Urd's and Peorth's pubic hair wrong. Furthermore, when he interrupts them, everyone present has identical looks of shock on their face, regardless of their personality.
- All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if they were all from different AUs á la Into the Spider-Verse?", Jake and Cassie realise that Marco is a Controller because he calls Ax "Andalite" like an insult.
- In Arrowverse: Leagues, Sara (offpage) points something out to Barry: during Black Siren's rampage across Central City, she could targeted apartment buildings full of sleeping families, but she chose to destroy a mostly empty lab. Why? Barry catches on, and asks more questions. The answer? She's a deep cover A.R.G.U.S. agent.
- The Cutting Edge sees various parties independently notice clues that Laurel's actions aren't a "conventional" turn to vigilantism;
- Ra's notes three things about Laurel that make him suspicious: her eyes are older than her face, her claim that she overheard Malcolm talking to Moira about the Undertaking is suspiciously careless of him, and her use of the word "crisis" makes him think of the Anti-Monitor.
- Later on, Bruce and Oliver each privately observe anomalies on Laurel's actions as the Black Canary; Bruce notes that it doesn't make sense for Laurel to go from lawyer to vigilante so suddenly without a suitable catalyst, and Oliver wonders why Laurel singled Roy in particular out to join her in the field over so many other street punks.
- In What It Takes, Susan Williams notes the obvious flaw with the idea of Roy Harper being the Arrow: he isn't tall enough. This is made apparent by the fact that Roy and Laurel have verifiable heights, and the images that exist of the Hood/Arrow with Laurel in her civilian or Black Canary identity (after Quentin makes Laurel's identity public) show the Arrow to be taller than Roy is.
- In His Shoes has Iroh realize that someone else has taken over Zuko's body when he isn't even tempted to join Azula and regain his honor. He's wrong about who it really is though- Iroh believes it's some kind of spirit that took over when Zuko died earlier in the story. Zuko and Sokka are actually in the middle of a "Freaky Friday" Flip.
- Shadow of the Dragon: In chapter 16, the ghost of Reiko Ichimai is turned into a corporeal duplicate of Sakura by the Big Bad, and promptly uses the opportunity to have sex with as many people as possible to destroy Sakura's reputation. One of said boys, Renji, who was one of Reiko's one-night stands in life, knew enough about Reiko to realize it was her: as he puts it, Sakura doesn't play with her hair, insult people, or speak crudely, and couldn't have known the room they did it in was private, all of which Reiko did.
- The titular character in Diethard Takes a Level in Badass quickly spots and points out to others the flaw in Ohgi's testimony about Zero's Mind Control powers: Ohgi got his information from Viletta. Viletta who works for the in-universe equivalent of the NSA and is a former member of the Purist faction while Ohgi, whom she claims to love, is the Second in Command of the Black Knights, the only military power that can oppose Britannia. In other words, she has every imaginable reason to be lying.
- Tohdoh points out another when Cornelia insists that Euphemia would never order a massacre if she hadn't been mind controlled. Tohdoh sarcastically demands if Zero mind controlled her into ordering the massacre at Saitama, or if he made Clovis purge Shinjuku, or if the Emperor conquered Japan on Zero's orders. The Britannian royal family never had a problem massacring innocent Japanese before, so why should they believe that Euphemia did.
- New Girl (mortimermcmirestinks): The entire story starts when Emily sees Jesse cleaning in the Research Sector. What makes this weird is that she has never seen any janitorial staff other than Ahti, Ahti himself a potential paranatural entity. The fact that he took on an assistant seems suspicious.
- In Ordinary Girl, Jesse wouldn't have noticed the anomalous properties of Unless You if she had trouble remembering an employee named "Penny" (who was one of the alleged members of the FBC's Book Club). When she gets to Emily, she questions her about the person who gave her the book, and all she can really remember is that her name was Penny and nothing else.
- In Danny Phantom: Fire And Ice, Jack and Maddie are about to launch a mission to rescue Danny after he was "kidnapped" by Ember, only to supposedly receive a call from Danny that everything is ok. They quickly figure out that it wasn't their son calling them due to calling Jack " Pops" (something Danny never does) and mentioning a "Taco Night" (something the family doesn't do) and proceed with the rescue.
- In "Wayne Manor", part of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series, Thomas Wayne hires a new butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who is actually a law-enforcement plant as part of an operation against Gotham City's organized crime families. Martha Wayne immediately spots him as not who he claims to be, because no self-respecting butler would tie his tie the way Alfred does. (She goes on to say that this wasn't the only thing that gave him away, but it's the one she chooses to lead with).
- In The Choices of Earth, Doctor Patanjali’s attempt to set a trap for Jack on Agent Johnson’s orders backfires when Jack returns to the hospital with the Doctor and Martha, as Martha examines the body first and can confirm that it isn’t a victim of the alien hitchhiker Jack was initially tracking.
- "The Wedding of Yasmin Kahn" features the Doctor claiming that Yaz is her wife after Yaz needs urgent medical treatment and the Doctor wanted to be able to supervise the treatment. Yaz initially assumes that she just forgot about the wedding after her attack, but realises the truth when one of the ward sisters mentions that their marriage certificate was in a black leather wallet, leading Yaz to realise that the "marriage certificate" was just the psychic paper.
- In The Fifth Act, Genesis realizes that Cloud's story of being the younger Cloud's paternal uncle has one flaw in it: the older Cloud and younger Cloud have the same surname, when Strife is Cloud's mother's surname.
- Frozen Wight:
- Hans tries to claim that he didn't go on an evil monologue and leave Anna to die—she was just delirious from the cold and he thought she was dead! One of the ambassadors dryly notes that if that's true, then how did he and Anna exchange their wedding vows in her last moments, which he was using as an excuse to assume full authority? Hans awkwardly says that didn't happen.
- Daniel has Elsa brainwashed, all her good memories removed and replaced with her nightmares. Except her nightmares aren't exactly consistent—most obviously, she remembers Anna dying twice, in two entirely different contexts. She also doesn't remember ever having dessert (because that's a happy memory) but she does remember having her dessert privileges taken away.
- A rejected student of Izumi's kidnaps Edward for revenge in Scare Tactics and threatens to slit his throat with a knife. Izumi scoffs, and lets him know that the real Edward has an automail right arm, not a left one (the villain specializes in creating humanoid dolls, and when trying to make a copy of Edward, made a reflection by mistake).
- In The Very Secret Diary, what finally gets Ginny to distrust Tom is when she realizes that one of his many fabricated stories about his past that he's been telling her couldn't have possibly happened when he said it did, due to the timeline of his story and the one of Myrtle's life not matching up. When she realizes this, Ginny also looks into some other details in his story, and the whole thing immediately begins to fall apart.
- Prodigal Son: The road Astrid takes to discovering the truth behind Hiccup's disappearance starts when one of her students notices the illustrations and notes Hiccup took on the Night Fury in the Book of Dragons.
- A Thing of Vikings:
- King Henry realizes that Hiccup so easily chasing Sir Henry off from attacking William conflicts with Sir Henry's version of the events regarding him and Dogsbreath, and he realizes Sir Henry took over Brittany using Engineered Heroics.
- Rikard Hofferson had long suspected Mildew of murdering his own family the whole time because of how odd it was for there to be a lone dragon raiding Berk, how odd it was Mildew just happened to be in the area to get revenge on their behalf on the blamed dragon, how odd it was his family just so happened to have died months after they banished Mildew from the clan, and the joyous expression he caught on Mildew's face which morphed to hate when he saw he and his wife survived the blaze.
- The Nightmare House: While naturally unsettled by his suddenly cheerful "sisters'" doting on him in his nightmare, Lincoln is almost convinced to let it go; almost being the key word, then "Lola" messes up. "Lola" suggests that Lincoln come play with her and Lola to relax, unaware that she is Lola. "Lola" tries to pass it off as mixing up the names, but Lincoln remains suspicious and, after asking questions only his real sisters would know, discovers that his "sisters" are all imposters.
- The Alternate Timeline;
- What finally makes Tony and Steve accept that the Steve look-alike that Steve fought was a time-traveler and not Loki is Thor revealing that Loki's illusions can't be physically touched, meaning that Steve couldn't have fought Loki while he was accounted for in the lobby.
- When Steve begins to freak out that Bucky could never regain his memories after seeing his situation, Tony points out that HYDRA had a chair specifically designed to remove his memories, something that they wouldn't keep anymore if they didn't think he'd need it. It can only mean that HYDRA thinks he might regain his memories, and thus Bucky can still be saved.
- In Because I Knew You, once Wanda leaves the Darkhold behind while travelling to New York to investigate the spell that almost made her forget Peter Parker, Wanda starts to consider how only her earlier visions of her lost sons showed them actually asking for help where her recent visions reveal they’re fine, suggesting that the Darkhold was influencing her earlier glimpses and now thinks she’s so far gone she wouldn’t care.
- A Colder War:
- Tony is the first person to find evidence that Howard was murdered by a sniper rather than just jumping off a balcony on his own.
- In "Arctic Front", Fyodorova points out to Steve that a Russian ship they’re on being so much colder than it should be is a sign that the Winter Soldier is on board, as only the need to keep him frozen would justify diverting that much power.
- If I Could Start Again;
- Thor is not very good at trying to hide that he's from the future. Natasha's able to pick up on many subtle hints in his behavior (having way more hatred for Thanos than he reasonably should and his reactions to Sakaar and Valkyrie) that he's hiding something from them and convinces him to confess the truth.
- The Winter Soldier ultimately begins to realize that something's wrong when he hears the Asgardians speaking in English; if his memories were correct, he'd be hearing them speak Russian, but the fact that he hears English implies that that's his mother tongue and that something isn't right about his memories.
- When Steve is looking at photographs of Camp Leigh with Coulson, he's quick to spot the addition of the bunker containing Zola's computer-brain.
- Spider-Man: Finding Home;
- Yelena identifies Peter as Spider-Man based on how he pins her down after their first night out with Kate, as she observes that only one person held her down like that (during their initial fight at the Rockefeller Centre).
- When helping Jessica investigate a break-in, Peter and Kate call on Shuri to examine claw marks and confirm that the marks weren’t made by T’Challa or Yelena (they affirm that they didn’t believe either party was committing such thefts, but it was worth making sure).
- In Welcome to the Club, Natasha Romanoff quickly understands Daredevil is a Handicapped Badass when he walks on her doing yoga almost nude and has no reaction whatsoever.
- Z To A:
- Once Tony regains his initial memories of the future (dating to just the moment when Thanos destroyed the Stones), he’s immediately suspicious of how Peter and Wanda can be familiar with each other when as far as he knows they only met at Leipzig; Peter improvises to claim that he and Wanda ‘met’ in the Soul Stone dimension.
- Basically how nearly all of Midtown deduces Peter is Spider-Man. First he is gone the same weekend the Avengers almost split up for which Spider-Man was present at and then shows up at school with Tony Stark. Then he has an after school rendezvous with Wanda. Then was he was gone the entire week the Avengers were deployed at Area 51. Combine all that with Spider-Man being obviously minor due to Tony signing the accords for Spider-Man, they knew Spider-Man had to be Peter.
- In The Big Reveal, Tony thinks there's something off about Colin Morgan when he starts constantly speaking with an English accent when his normal one is Irish. He eventually suspects Colin's a different person when he asks for meat and cheese for dinner when he's supposed to be vegetarian and lactose intolerant.
- During an escape in Of Slaves and Sorrow, Arthur realizes Merlin was replaced with an enemy's illusion when Merlin addresses him as "your highness" and "your majesty" with complete sincerity.
- In Bring Me Back Home, while questioning Marinette (actually her parallel universe double Bridgette) about her sudden and unexplained dislike of Chat Noir, Adrien notices that her pigtails are suddenly much longer than they were the day before. The combination of these two things eventually has him confront her and get her to reveal what's going on. Alya becomes suspicious later on for much the same reason.
- Hero Chat:
- Alya and Nino finally begin to see through Lila's lies when Chloé tells a story about Jagged Stone's pet crocodile, reminding them that he doesn't have a cat, as Lila had claimed to have saved it.
- When Chloé reveals to Alix that Marinette is Ladybug (because Chloé is a Secret Secret-Keeper and she needs to talk to someone about these idiots), Alix quickly realizes that Lila claiming to be Ladybug's best friend is a lie—after all, Marinette has been leading the charge against Lila from the start. Likewise, this is implied to be how Chloé realized Lila was a liar.
- When Lila tries her big move to get rid of Marinette, Chloé points out multiple flaws in her story. First, why would Marinette steal an answer sheet to cheat on a practice test? Why would she keep the evidence on her? Why does Lila's supposed stolen family heirloom look exactly like a recent piece of Agreste-brand jewelry? And why, despite supposedly having been shoved down the stairs by Marinette, is Lila suddenly not limping at all?
- After Lila gets out of any punishment by claiming to have a "lying disease," when Caline Bustier gets a doctor's note from her (just like all the other diseases and disorders that Lila has claimed), she realizes that her supposed symptoms don't quite match a compulsive liar. She plans ahead with far too much forethought to be just following a compulsion.
- Juleka sees her brother Luka transforming into the hero Viperion. Just as he's texting his friends to explain the situation, she's already deduced who everyone else is. After all, she knows that Luka is in a four-way relationship with Marinette, Adrien, and Kagami, while Viperion is publicly in a four-way relationship with Ladybug, Chat Noir, and Arashi. From there it's practically impossible not to figure out the rest.
- Decades ago, there was a necromancer supervillain who tried to start a genuine Zombie Apocalypse. Lila claims to be friends with the heroes who captured him, and that his daughter is plotting revenge for his imprisonment, but the heroes are prepared to stop her. Rose Lallivant, the villain's granddaughter, is well aware that her mother is not plotting anything, and finally realizes that Lila is more than just a compulsive liar.
- Alya and Nino finally begin to see through Lila's lies when Chloé tells a story about Jagged Stone's pet crocodile, reminding them that he doesn't have a cat, as Lila had claimed to have saved it.
- LadyBugOut:
- Max and Markov note how odd it was for Ladybug and Chat Noir to kiss given how she regularly rejects his advances, with Markov playing a clip of her yelling at him to "Stop calling us a couple!" This gets his classmates to realize that they might have been effected by Oblivio's memory-wiping powers, and Alya's attempts to dodge around admitting the truth just makes clear that she's deliberately misrepresenting the situation.
- When Lila claims that Marinette posted her interview with Ladybug in order to make her look bad, Ivan points out that Marinette was never actually around to hear any of the times that Lila claimed she helped the superheroine set up her blog. Caught in that lie, everything swiftly unravels for Lila.
- After dressing down his son for sneaking out of the manor, Gabriel notices that his ring is missing, and has a flash of realization.
- Leave for Mendeleiev has a Downplayed version when Jean notices that something is off about Marinette's body language. While he can't quite puzzle out what's pinging him, the fact that he picks up on it at all is enough to impress the disguised Trixx, who subsequently selects him to be the Fox Hero.
- The Miraculous World of Caline Bustier: Lila claims that she's Ladybug's best friend, while Marinette claims that Lila is lying about this and a bunch of other things; Lila counters that Marinette is just jealous of Lila's many successes and attention from Adrien. Whenever anyone finds out that Marinette is Ladybug, one of the first things they say is "oh, I guess Lila is a lying bitch then."
- #14 (MHA): Bakugo eventually remembers that Hisashi's Quirk is supposed to be fire breathing, not brainwashing.
- Personality Swap AU: In the first story, Assignment: Personality Swap, Izuku-as-Bakugou makes an offhanded comment about how he had beaten Bakugou-as-Izuku's foul mouth out of him years ago. Said comment ends up causing the events of the second story, Aftermath (of an Act Gone Too Far), where Aizawa has a talk with Izuku and ultimately finds out about his mistreatment at Aldera.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, former UN employee Edith realizes almost immediately that the so-called UN official she meets in the changeling hive isn't one. He has a rank that doesn't exist in the UN, has a surname that isn't a surname, can't pronounce the UN's full name correctly, doesn't know the full name of (Edith's home country) Bosnia and Herzegovina, and even is under the impression that the place is another kingdom. But what really seems to give it away for Edith is when he offers her a glass of vodka with a bread slice on top (a sort of thing done in Russia to honour the dead). Lastly, he tries to pass off a bottle cap as an order of merit.
- In Diaries of a Madman, readers themselves have to do this in order to realise Discord is lying to them and an Unreliable Narrator.
- A Diplomatic Visit: Cozy Glow's deception is exposed in chapter 10 of Diplomacy Through Schooling when Twilight examines her magical signature and realizes it's for a pony much older than she appears to be.
- The first hole Luz notices in Adegast's motives in Luz Belos: Princess of the Boiling Isles is that he is in the potions business, yet he is ordering potions from one of his competitors Eda.
- When Frazie tries to help her fellow campers in Basic Braining in Later, Traitor, Oleander scolds her for "babying" them and trying help "Slowey Joeys". This leads her to question his history in the military when he is encouraging an "every man for himself" mentality.
- Hope of the Shield Hero: Ren Amaki, unlike in canon, doesn't believe Myne's False Rape Accusation against Naofumi because he saw her get into bed with Motoyasu not long after the accusation, and on the very same night Naofumi fled. Ren had known a real victim of sexual assault in his old life, so he could tell right away that Myne is not even acting like someone who had almost been raped.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act I: In chapter 30, after their Divide and Conquer tactics work, Rarosun and Surason decide to give Rason and Dark the final push to kill each other by morphing into Mizore and Kurumu and egging them on to do so. Unfortunately for them, by that point, Mizore has been marked as Dark's soul mate, and Rason can sense his bond with Kurumu, thus easily allowing the boys to see through their disguises and realize they had been tricked.
- In Bequeathed from Pale Estates, Ned Stark, in an uncanny show of Genre Savvy, did everything he could to prevent this, by discouraging and then outright ending his daughter Lyarra's musical studies at the expense of her happiness. Ultimately, he failed — Monford Velaryon only has to hear Lyarra sing once to realize that she isn't Ned's daughter, but Rhaegar's, and Varys soon figures it out himself after seeing Monford's reaction. Lucky for both Ned and Lyarra, they're Targaryen loyalists who intend to place the latter on the Iron Throne, so the secret is kept for the time being.
- Bait and Switch (STO):
- Parodied in The Wrong Reflection. As part of an Enemy Mine with the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, Eleya brings her own Mirror Universe counterpart (the Number Two of a Cardassian ship) aboard to act as liaison. Referencing past incidents where Mirror Universe personnel impersonated Prime Universe personnnel, Tess demands Eleya prove she's the real one when she returns to the bridge, and Eleya gives the impromptu Trust Password and tells her to just ask her to pull up her shirt next time: Mirror Eleya doesn't have a huge scar from being stabbed in the stomach.
- Peace Forged in Fire has the Tal'Shiar try to screw up peace talks between the Romulan Republic and Romulan Star Empire with a pair of False Flag Operations. In the first case, they use Republic IFF beacons while attacking an Imperial warbird. The Republic personnel note that one of the ships reportedly involved in the attack was destroyed several months ago. In the second case, they use Republic IFF beacons while attacking the talks directly. They're spotted early because the Republic high command sent out an IFF update in response to the previous attempt.
- Doctor Ghemor, I Presume? has Bashir being abducted and gaslighted to believe his entire life was a fabrication. After being freed, not only does the doctor make no effort whatsoever to seek his human parents and reassure himself of their existence, he fully embraces his (unwitting but still) kidnapper as a father and is nothing but a perfectly devoted son towards him. Said events allow Garak to understand that something is very, very wrong in the Bashir family if Julian is so eager to jump ship.
- In The Chaotic Three, Finn confirms that Poe was in a certain bar by noting a bottle of Poe’s favourite drink on a table, which is apparently not to everyone’s tastes; Rey isn’t much of a drinker and Finn only shares it with Poe to be social.
- Shadows of the Future;
- Obi-Wan initially assumes that his appearance in the past is an elaborate psychological game being played by Vader, but abandons that idea when he realises that his old lightsaber (which he lost in his first duel with Maul) retains a slight imbalance in its design that he was never able to correct, as there's no record of that flaw and therefore no way anyone could have duplicated it.
- When Anakin learns about Obi-Wan's time-travel and hears reference to Obi-Wan taking an apprentice, Anakin recalls how Obi-Wan occasionally slipped and called him "Padawan" and realises that he was the future apprentice.
- In Sword Art Online Abridged, Kirito realizes that the game's lead developer is masquerading as a player on the clearing team when he angrily shouts "Oh, so NOW you've seen TRON?!". The "now" part of that connects him to an earlier statement by the developer in episode 1, who asked if anyone has seen TRON, and was disappointed that no one appeared to. Also...Kirito: You're the only one I've ever met in this game who makes as many movie references as I do.
Kayaba: Ah yes, I guess I should have known that would... Wait. You get my references?!
Kirito: Um, yes. I just remembered-
Kayaba: "There Can Be Only One."
Kirito: Oh, ah Highlander.
Kayaba: "Well who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
Kirito: Duck Soup Marx Brothers, 1933.
Kayaba: "DRY LAND IS NOT A MYTH! I HAVE SEEEEN IIITTTT!!"
Kirito: Ah, getting tricky are we? While that line is famously attributed to the 1995 film WaterWorld, it is never actually spoken in the movie.
Kayaba: ...Hot damn, you're the real deal.
- In Snow Blind a wounded and temporarily blinded Donatello is taken prisoner by the Nightwatcher after a fight with some Purple Dragons so the vigilante can help him heal. Afterwards, he spots several threads that help him work out the Nightwatcher's identity:
- The Nightwatcher uses Don's shellcell - a phone Don designed himself for the exclusive use of his family. A human would have trouble using it.
- If the Nightwatcher had given him medication meant for humans, Don would be suffering from severe side effects. There weren't any, meaning the vigilante had access to medication made for the turtles' mutated DNA.
- Raph and the Nightwatcher have similar mannerisms and speech patterns.
- The Nightwatcher saw a fight between Purple Dragons and a giant mutated turtle...and stepped in to help the turtle.
- Don looks at a picture of the Nightwatcher and sees that he looks like a giant metal turtle.
- In Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, Catherine Moore correctly deduces that Howard Mitchell is working for the PCA when she sees he is both wearing the silver ring that serves as Mei's talisman, and carrying a pistol which she's never seen him use before.
- Momentary Weakness: Nia's adventures with Ouroboros lead to them all inevitably realizing that she's Mio's mother due to their Shared Family Quirks. Lanz notices that they cook and burn their tongues on their tea in the exact same way, Sena notices that they borrow her burning hair for warmth in the exact same way, Taion notices that she seems overprotective whenever Noah gets too close to Mio, Eunie notices that Sena is attracted to both of them because they look practically identical, and Noah notices that she seems angry when he gets too close to any girl besides Mio. Mio herself, on the other hand, has to have it all but stated outright before she gets it.Eunie: I love her just like I love all of you, but I ain't callin' her a snuffin' princess.
