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* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', the Daily Prophet mentions a break-in at Gringotts that turns out to be an attempt at stealing the eponymous stone.

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The protagonists turns on the TV, listen to the radio, or skim the newspaper as part of a morning routine and we get some brief look at the big news, then some background noise small articles and local goings-on. Of course, by the LawOfConservationOfDetail, it's ''never'' really very small; even the most mundane or seemingly faraway events crash into the here and now with dramatic results.

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* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. [[spoiler:After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards BigFancyHouse everyone's living in.]]

->''Okay, I apologize. That is a terrible scene. It's like, "Why was that in the movie? Gee, you think maybe it'll come back later, maybe?" I hate that. A TV's on, talking about the new power plant. Wonder where the climax will happen. Or that shot of the cook in ''[[TheHuntForRedOctober Red October]]''. Sorry.''

* She's also seen reading the newspaper early in the episode, [[http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Paratia/ThisGuyRightHere.png and on the back is a picture of Tahno,]] [[ChekhovsGunman who will later become her rival.]]

* HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle has a news telecast mention an escaped cheetah from the zoo which the pair later come across and get high with

* She's also seen reading the newspaper early in the episode, [[http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Paratia/ThisGuyRightHere.png and on the back is a picture of Tahno,]] [[ChekhovsGunamn who will later become her rival.]]

* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, [[spoiler:the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards BigFancyHouse everyone's living in.]]

* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards BigFancyHouse everyone's living in.

* In ''SummerWars'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards BigFancyHouse everyone's living in.
* In Kiki's Delivery Service, there's a running news item involving a dirigible. At the climax, [[spoiler:it runs into trouble and Kiki must rescue her friend Tombo, who's desperately hanging from a rope on it]].

* In ''Watchmen'', news items mention the disappearance of prominent scientists and artists. It turns out that this is related, not only to the mask-killer cases, but to something much, much bigger.

* ''DateNight'' has an early mention of a local senate, an iconic broom and clean-up act who turns out to play a big part in why the heroes are getting chased down.
* Early in the first ''BackToTheFuture'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the [=DeLorean=] and go back home]].

* Subverted in ''ShaunOfTheDead'', where the news broadcasts follow this trope, but the characters never notice them.

* In HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone, the Daily Prophet mentions a break-in at Gringotts that turns out to be an attempt at stealing the eponymous stone.

* ''{{Sherlock}}'' episode ''The Great Game'', a bypass mention of an art display opening on the morning news later becomes a plot point.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Wedding of River Song" starts with a radio broadcast about solar flares blocking out the signal. [[spoiler: Turns out, it was a response to a cry for help for the Doctor, and the answer of ''millions'' of return call.]]

* Inverted in ''TachyonTheFringe''. The JustifiedTutorial has [[PlayerCharacter Jake]] [[TheAce Logan]] evaluating a novice flight instructor, and the tutorial's combat section has a group of drones go haywire and attack you. Later in the game, a news item reports that the instructor you evaluated saved her students when this happened again.

* WhateleyUniverse: throughout the first half of "Ayla and the Grinch", Ayla keeps making fun of the sleazy attempts of the various news channels to get ratings based on a series of deaths in the area, assumed to be the work of a serial killer nicknamed The Headhunter. Then Ayla ends up facing off against the killer to protect a theater full of beauty pageant contestants. It's something much, much worse than the newspeople thought.

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* In ''TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.

* ''DoctorWho'' episode ''The Wedding of River Song'' starts with a radio broadcast about solar flares blocking out the signal. [[spoiler: Turns out, it was a response to a cry for help for the Doctor, and the answer of ''millions'' of return call.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' episode "A Leaf in the Wind," Korra hears of up-and-coming [[FictionalSport pro-bending]] team the Fire Ferrets and star player Mako via a live radio broadcast, and later meets the team, [[spoiler: making her debut as a pro-bender soon after]].

* Early in the first ''BackToTheFuture'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the DeLorean and go back home]].

* In ''The Incredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' "A Leaf in the Wind," Korra hears of up-and-coming [[FictionalSport pro-bending]] team the Fire Ferrets and star player Mako via a live radio broadcast, and later meets the team, [[spoiler: making her debut as a pro-bender soon after]].

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* In ''The Incredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.

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* In ''Watchmen'', news items mention the disappearance of prominent scientists and artists. It turns out that this is related, not only to the mask-killer cases, but to something much, much bigger.

* In Kiki's Delivery Service, there's a running news item involving a dirigible. At the climax, [[spoiler:it runs into trouble and Kiki must rescue her friend Tombo, who's deprately hanging from a rope on it]].

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* ''DoctorWho'' episode ''The Wedding of Rover Song'' starts with a radio broadcast about solar flares blocking out the signal. [[spoiler: Turns out, it was a response to a cry for help for the Doctor, and the answer of ''millions'' of return call.]]