WARNING: Unmarked spoilers abound.
For an anthology series, Halloween Unspectacular has a lot of these.Halloween Unspectacular 1
- From chapter 31, when Zim sees the previously undescribed ReGenesis:
Do the Gasmask Shuffle
- Chapter 27 reveals that someone wants the Fiddley Thing for nefarious purposes.Linkara: It's gone! The Fiddely Thing is gone![...]If he gets it...we're all doomed.
- From chapter 29:Linkara: I think he's deferring to someone. Someone who wants the Mk. II Thing as well. And...the Mk. III.
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To describe the multiverse would be like describing the night sky. Each universe was a vibrant light against unfathomable darkness. The lights stretched for eons in all directions. Then, all at once, every single light began to fade. Over about ten seconds, they grew dimmer and dimmer, until all ceased to exist. Even the darkness seemed to fade, until… There was nothing. - Chapter 31, which finally reveals who Richtofen was working for...Danny: (eyes wide) No...you can't be...
???: Can't I?
(the figure takes off his cloak)
Dan Phantom: You seem to have forgotten I'm inevitable.
Terror Australis Incognita
- Chapter 20: Dani is reading up on a group of supposedly destroyed witch hunters when she discovers a secret message in a picture...Dani: (reading) "Be warned – we cannot be stopped. We control the governments and the people – we will cleanse the earth of chaos and witchcraft. Signed in the year..."
(her eyes go wide)
Dani: This message was [written] two years ago.
Mess Effect
- The last line in the Gaol/Governor storyline ends up revealing it to be a part of the Myth Arc:"Sam? Do you know anything about 'El Dorado'?"
- Also related to the above, the reveal of the identity of the main villain of the El Dorado arc:
The Final Push
- Chapter 7: There's an entire letter composed of wham lines, specifically the reveal that Jack Fenton's father — Danny's grandfather — is both using the alias Fiddleford McGucket and the writer of the Journals. And then there's the name Maddie found on the top of the Fenton family tree...
- Chapter 10: Jazz finds a note...J FENTON
YOU ARE BEING GROOMED. ESCAPE ATHENA ASAP
ANON - Chapter 12: "They had killed the Fiddley Thing."
- Chapter 15: Grim's entire "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Madame Athena is this."I'm a liar, Madame?[...]And what about you, Madame? Have you been honest with your associates? I mean, you took Jasmine under your wing without much deliberation, didn't you? You've trained her, brought her into your trust and made her think you as a friend, a mentor...Does she know what waits at the end of the line? You've made cattle of her, Athena. You've fattened her up for slaughter and you're not even sorry about it. The difference between you and me is that I admit I'm a sociopathic liar. Do you?"
- Chapter 25:Athena: Jazz is the key. She will be the one who decides the fate of the world. Either she will allow ReGenesis to start a new dark age, or...or she'll die. Those are our only options.
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Mystery Figure: My name is Tammy Turner. I come from twenty-five years in the future. - Chapter 31:Dipper: King Arthur had a son, Galahad. A son with Morgan le Fay. His name was Mordred. Either Mabel and I are Mordred's descendants, or Wendy is. Which means we can close the vortex.
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Sandy: What happened? Where am I?
E350: In the place where it doesn't always rain.
Lair of the Hack Writer
- Chapter 17 sheds some new light on our Big Bad team, PURITY...Ford: Never! I'd never give this to you! You're just like the Nazis!
Jarvis: ...just like the Nazis? They're...they're not just like the Nazis. They are the Nazis. - Chapter 24 starts out as what looks like a standalone. Then...Trigger: Just a question. How'd you know about this Zim thing?
Agent: Oh, some other government agency grabbed him. Nothing to worry about.
Powers: What agency? There's nobody else operating in the area!
Agent: Um...PURITY. Why? - Chapter 29:Captain America: Where are the hostages, Wilkus?
Wilkus: They're long gone. Along with our best troops. What you've fought today was merely a sacrificial rear-guard. You were never intended to lose. - The last lines in chapter 31 set up the plot for next year:Admiral Massinger: My name is Admiral Eugene Massinger, and I am the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. We're interested in seeing PURITY revived.
General Rausseman: Does the President know?
Admiral Massinger: What the President doesn't know won't hurt him.
Watchmeh
- Chapter 5:"J. Edgar Hoover hung up the phone and sat back in his office chair. The infiltration of the United States was going just as planned."
- Chapter 23:
- Chapter 25:"There's three of them; they have no names, but are codenamed WILHELM, FREIDRICH, and BARBAROSSA. They each carry a battery of large missiles - very short ranged, but extremely destructive. The missile warheads are based on stolen blueprints for the Grand Slam - the so-called 'earthquake bomb'.
They are u-boats, and they are slipping quietly into New York Harbour. - Chapter 26:Ford: You inserted an order into a brain implant that would allow PURITY to take control of the military!
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Allsworthy: I did it thirty-five minutes ago. - Chapter 31:President Fulton: Secretary Wilder, your group drives a hard bargain. But I think we can do business.
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Rausseman: No, I think we both know how this ends. Kneel, if you please.
Stan: No. Never. Not to you.
Rausseman: (nods) Very well.
(He pulls the trigger.)
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Timmy: A...angel?
Lapis Lazuli: Trust me, I'm the farthest thing from that.
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Lapis: You might have died.
Stan: Yeah, I remember that. So why am I...what, undead?
Timmy: Don't thank us man. Thank her.
Stan: "Her"?
Lapis: We call her...Phoenix.
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"Galactus slowly awoke from his slumber. It was time to feed."
Blue Alert
- Chapter 5 is framed with an editorial criticizing PURITY's control of America, with the identity of the narrator of this editorial unclear until he says this:"Spider-Man, I am sorry."
- From "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame", as Bucky comes across the silver man (strongly implied to be the Silver Surfer) still sealed in the same tube he's been in since the Soviets found him in 1945:Bucky: You too, huh? Well, let's get you out...
- Fulton's line at the end of "House Call" raises the stakes considerably:"If the offensive fails, we're nuking them."
This is fine
- At first, "Reds" seems to be about the US military fighting off advanced Soviet tech. Then we get to this line at the end:"We've lost control of West Germany and they're heading towards France and the Low Countries; plus the Soviets are getting their asses kicked in Poland, which isn't something I ever expected to be upset about."
- "Oh No, Zombies!" looks like it's going to be a typical comedy story. Then..."He thinks this is funny. Walking corpses devouring people. Coming after children. He's watching over this, and instead of doing anything, he writes it down and packages it as a 'comedy.' He thinks this is funny. He thought what happened to me was funny. So. Very. Funny."
- "error-titlecorrupted" finally gives us the Stranger's true identity, which is coupled with a change in story titles:"...hail to the Bus Driver... Bus Driver man."
31/10/19: Hail to the Bus Driver- From the same chapter: we're initially led to believe that the blame for the Melbourne attack will fall on E350's shoulders. But then...The Commissioner: As I was saying, we have been told that the culprit is being taken into custody as we speak, and that she will face her day in court very soon...
- While hiding out from the Stranger, Sandy looks over the threat E3 had received in "Letters To The Author". Back in that chapter, we'd been led to believe that was yet another thing the Stranger/Bus Driver had done, but she soon figures out that this isn't the case...and that there may be more to E3 than what we generally see in the stories."Because you know what I notice? [The threat letter and the invite to E3's party have] the same handwriting. The Stranger didn't write that letter. You did."
- From the same chapter: we're initially led to believe that the blame for the Melbourne attack will fall on E350's shoulders. But then...
