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8	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Jake's decision to "ram the Blade Ship" in the series' ending mirrors Elfangor's decision to ram an enemy ship in ''The Andalite Chronicles''. While Elfangor won his battle involving that tactic, the result of Jake's decision is unclear.
9	* The ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' books contain examples aplenty, due to their generally tight continuity and because certain characters, objects and plots had a tendency to go missing for many novels before suddenly resurfacing. One of the more famous ones is the fear displayed by Air-type characters to go left.
10	* Creator/DaleBrown does this from time to time. For example, in ''Warrior Class'', [[spoiler:Dave Luger]] is angered and emotionally crippled when he meets one of the former personnel at the Soviet base he was rescued from in ''Night of the Hawk''. In ''A Time for Patriots'' there are a few, such as the nanotransponders from ''Edge of Battle'' being used on [[spoiler: the FBI agents]] and Pat being reminded of [[spoiler: Hal Briggs's]] death.
11	* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': After the disappearance of Iris Cobb's cookbook in book #10 (''The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts''), it's finally recovered in book #18 (''The Cat Who Said Cheese''), with the thief's son turning it over to Celia Robinson to return to Qwill, its rightful owner (as he was left the cookbook in Iris's will).
12	* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' first book ''The Book of Three'' Taran helps a gwythaint, one of the dark lord's creatures, against the advice of his more experienced companions. The gwythaint appears at the end of the final book ''The High King'' and buys Taran some time at the expense of its own life.
13	* ''Literature/ConstanceVeritySavesTheWorld'':
14	** Connie uses the Sleeping Grace to [[InstantSedation knock out]] an ornery alligator woman she had managed to tie up before her date with Byron, a move that was established to be in Connie's arsenal in ''Literature/{{The Last Adventure\|OfConstanceVerity}}''.
15	** When Larry's private jet takes Connie to an undisclosed location with rolling hills, she sardonically asks if they're in Kansas, her disdain for the state having been established.
16	* ''Literature/ConstanceVerityDestroysTheUniverse'':
17	** When Connie comes to Tia's pre-wedding party, all of Tia's other friends are noticeably wary of Connie considering she had to beat them all up when they were possessed by the evil roquefort in ''Literature/ConstanceVeritySavesTheWorld''.
18	** Tia's first wedding -- the one where mobsters crashed it -- was mentioned in ''Literature/TheLastAdventureOfConstanceVerity'' and is brought up again here. While Tia is fine with it, Zoey still blames Connie by association.
19	** It's mentioned more than once that Tia and Byron had inherited a fraction of Connie's caretaker destiny in the climax of ''Literature/ConstanceVeritySavesTheWorld''.
20	** Connie's honorable epitaph to Yars mentions "The Hungry Earth", the name of the EldritchAbomination present at the beginning of the first book.
21	** Connie's intense hatred of Kansas is brought up again, though she admits she has no love for Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri either because they're the states that surround Kansas.
22	* ''Literature/DeltanEscape'': In a story from ''Earth 2788'', Fian's father used blackmail to try and get Fian thrown off his University course in an attempt to force him to study science. That story ended with Playdon pretending to agree to expel Fian on some pretext, while privately noting that Eklund Sr will ''not'' enjoy attempting to follow through on his threat. Presumably he's since realised the plan won't work, because he's now trying other means of controlling his son's life.
23	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'':
24	** The Cheese Touch from the first book is referenced in ''Double Down''. Greg says that people are trying to start it again with different foods, but the teachers always catch them.
25	** In ''The Meltdown'', Greg talks about his Christmas vacation from ''The Getaway''.
26	* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'':
27	** In ''Purgatorio'' Canto 27, Virgil mentions the time he and Dante flew the beast Geryon in ''Inferno'' to convince Dante that Virgil can guide through terrifying circumstances.
28	** In ''Paradiso'' Canto 17, Dante references the many, many times he's heard people in Hell and Purgatory vaguely predict doom in his future when he asks his the soul of his great-great grandfather what that doom is.
29	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
30	** In ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresTheClockwiseMan The Clockwise Man]]'', the TARDIS landing in a junkyard invokes the first story, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]], suitable for the first in a [[Literature/NewSeriesAdventures New Series]]. The Doctor also sees a painting of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution The French Revolution]] and says "That's not right", which Susan also said in the first episode when reading a book on the subject.
31	** ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresEnginesofWar Engines of War]]'':
32	*** The Doctor recalls the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]] and says if he had been the man he is now, he could have prevented the course of events of the Time War.
33	*** Rassilon points out the Doctor had seen [[RetGone Demat]] guns before [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime even though he doesn't prompt him where they came from]].
34	*** The Doctor and Cinder at one point help Karlax into a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Zero room]].
35	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
36	** In ''Literature/WhiteNight'', a minor character from ''Literature/{{Storm Front\|DresdenFiles}}'' comes back and plays a significant role in the plot. Additionally, an aspect of one character's {{Backstory}} which was mentioned only twice in the entire series (Once each in ''Storm Front'' and ''Literature/DeathMasks'') is expanded on, and becomes a major PlotPoint.
37	** A certain line from ''Literature/{{Storm Front\|DresdenFiles}}'' gets a Call Back twelve books later in ''Literature/GhostStory.''
38	--->'''Harry:''' Paranoid? Maybe. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.\
39	'''Harry:''' Paranoid? Maybe. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't [[spoiler:a wizard's ghost standing next to you with tears in his]] eyes.
40	** What must be the all timer occurs in ''Literature/BattleGround'' in the graveyard scene [[spoiler: Harry weaponizes his Conjuritis to drop an anvil on a Black Court Vampire fulfilling his promise of Anvils from ''Literature/BloodRites'']]
41	** And there's the bit in ''Literature/BattleGround'' that brings up a line first mentioned in ''Literature/GravePeril''
42	--->'''Harry:''' Murphy was in another place. The lights were on, but no one was home.\
43	'''Harry:''' [[spoiler:It was nothing but an empty house.]]
44	* ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' (a novella of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''):
45	** Wyndle grumbles that he was supposed to be assigned to a cobbler; a book earlier, the readers were briefly introduced to a Knight Radiant initiate who's a shoemaker. [[spoiler: And it's probably a good thing Wyndle didn't get assigned to him, he was killed by the main antagonist in ''Edgedancer''.]]
46	** In one of the earlier books, Hoid mentions having once spent a better part of the year in the stomach of a greatshell; here, it's mentioned again, as it turns out Lift has witnessed the moment Hoid hopped into the creature's maw.
47	* ''Literature/FelseInvestigates'' series by Creator/EllisPeters: In ''Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart'', there's a clue whose significance Dominic Felse recognises because of something he learned during the foreign holiday depicted in the previous novel, ''The Piper on the Mountain''.
48	* ''Literature/{{Genrenauts}}'': From ''The Absconded Ambassador'': "Chapter Six: Rescue Op": "“At least we’re not making you wear heels,” Shirin said." is a reference to Leah's need to wear heels for her previous job before becoming a Genrenaut, as said in the previous story, ''The Shootout Solution''.
49	* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' is particularly fond of these. One ''footnote'' joke near the beginning becomes a major plot element near the end.
50	* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'':
51	** Mrs. Weasley says witches and wizards can't join the order of the Phoenix until they're of age. Fred and George, who turned seventeen the previous April, protest in outrage, and Molly amends her statement to refer to witches and wizards who have left school. The twins end up leaving Hogwarts a few weeks early to start their own joke shop.
52	** When forming their Defense Against the Dark Arts group in the face of Umbridge's insistence against practical knowledge, Hermione mentions that she put a spell on the paper they all signed so that they would know if anyone in the group ratted them out and, when asked, says that it would make Eloise Midgen's acne look like cute freckles. Eloise was mentioned a few times in the previous book as a student who was so desperate to get rid of her pimples that she tried to curse them off with magic. [[spoiler: Hermione's payback for when Marietta Edgecombe betrays them is for boils spelling out "SNEAK" to appear on her face.]]
53	** When the group travels to St Mungo's Hospital, they meet Gilderoy Lockhart, who had accidentally removed his own memory in the second book. Although he still remembers very little, he proudly claims he can do joined-up writing now.
54	* ''[[Literature/HaloHuntersInTheDark Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]'' sees the return of N'tho 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham, two Sangheili that serve under Thel 'Vadam (the Arbiter) and were last seen accompanying the player in ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' (being the third and fourth players in co-op mode, respectively).
55	* The Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Cat Amongst the Pigeons'' has a callback to ''Mrs [=McGinty's=] Dead'', when Julia explains to Poirot that she thought of coming to him because her mother is a friend of Mrs Summerhayes, whom Poirot stayed with when he was in Broadhinny.
56	* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' series by Creator/RickRiordan:
57	** Ma Gasket shows up in ''Son of Neptune'' wanting revenge on Jason, Leo, and Piper. Percy also shows up to reclaim his place as a main character after being absent for the first book.
58	** "We've got a dam hole." And this one is from the ''original series''.
59	** When Percy shows up again after falling off a giant cliff and Hazel and Frank are surprised, he mentions that he's fallen from higher, which was another reference to the first series.
60	** A lot of references to the past series show up in House of Hades, the curses from past enemies that Percy and Annabeth encounter in Tartarus and Percy's brief time on Ogygia being just a few.
61	** Some of the centurions in ''Son of Neptune'' are caught playing Mythomagic, the same card game Nico was obsessed with in his first appearance. Later, when asked how he knows what a ''katobleps'' is, Nico admits it's because he remembers them from the game.
62	* This gem from ''Literature/TheHollows'' Series by Kim Harrison:
63	-->''"Hey, Rache," Jenks said, dropping down from who knew where. "Your back is clear. And what is Plan B?"\
64	My eyebrows rose and I looked askance at him as he flew alongside, matching my pace exactly. "Grab the fish and run like hell"''
65	** Then, two books later, this exchange takes place...
66	-->''"Plan B?" Ivy said. "What is plan B?"\
67	Jenks reddened. "Grab the fish and run like hell," he muttered, and I almost giggled.''
68	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
69	** In ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Catching Fire]]'', during the Quarter Quell, an amused Peeta finds a pearl and shows it to Katniss, saying "If you put enough pressure on coal, it turns to pearls!", said by Effie Trinket in the previous book, to Finnick's confusion.
70	** Finnick offers Katniss a sugar cube again in ''Mockingjay'', to add to her coffee, referencing when he offers her one previously at the 75th Hunger Games tribute parade.
71	** Katniss notices Prim's untucked shirt just after her name is called at the Reaping, and again in ''Mockingjay'' just before her death.
72	* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Savage Run'', Joe finds the legendry secret path the Native Americans used to cross the supposedly impassable Savage Run canyon more than a century ago to escape the cavalry. Near the top of the path, he finds a doll dropped by one the Indian children and untouched since. Eleven books later in ''Breaking Point'', Joe is desperately searching for the path so he can escape an oncoming wildfire. He manages to locate the path when he spots the doll.
73	* In the third book of the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'' Burke, while boasting about his pack of magic hounds, mentions they're immune to the drug Aquilas. Though it got no mention in the second book, it was discussed several times in the first before the characters actually drug somebody with it.
74	* From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Tom Bombadil gives Merry, Pippin, and Sam a long knife (a sword to a {{Hobbit\|s}}) taken from the Barrow-wights. The enchantments on these knives, or at least Merry's, play a MAJOR role in saving Minas Tirith.
75	* In the second book of ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'', Mikodez mentions that he has learned all languages Jedao knew in life, including Tlen Gwa. That's in reference to short story ''Extracurricular Activities'', where Jedao's attempts at speaking Tlen Gwa lead to quite a few more-or-less [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels comical misunderstandings]].
76	* ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknightsTheTowerOfTime'': At the beginning of the book, Mary tells her friend Perrin what she saw [[Literature/MaxAndTheMidknightsBattleOfTheBodkins Max doing during the climax of the previous book]].
77	* ''Literature/MilesTaylorAndTheGoldenCape'': In "Rise Of The Robot Army", Miles, as Gilded, carries a fire truck and uses it to put out a fire near the Hollywood sign. While doing so, he begins to tell the driver about hydrostatic pressure, referencing his first time out as Gilded, and the consequences that resulted from his actions.
78	* The opening sentence of ''Literature/TheNightOfTheTriffids'' is the protagonist waking up and realizing something must be very wrong because it's a summer morning but he can't see anything -- in almost exactly the same words as his father, in the opening sentence of ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'', woke up and realized that something must be very wrong because it was a weekday morning but he couldn't hear any human activity.
79	* In the ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' books:
80	** As the situation gets worse in ''Unto the Breach'', various heads of state call the US President about some ''highly'' sensitive material the Keldara are holding onto from ''Choosers of the Slain''.
81	** The intel expert seconded to the Keldara in ''A Deeper Blue'' is [[spoiler: "Bambi" from ''Ghost''.]]
82	* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' was fond of these.
83	** In ''The Eight Famous Engines'', Thomas references [[RecycledPremise an earlier, similar story]] where he ignored a "Danger" sign and fell into a mine. Percy [[HereWeGoAgain doesn't see how that's relevant]], [[ExactWords because they're at the harbor, not a mine]].
84	** In ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'', the big engines think Duck is making fun of them. While making their plan, they say "He did it to us, we'll do it to him, and see how ''he'' likes it" -- and in the next scene they're blocking Duck line to the sheds, just as he and Percy did in ''Percy the Small Engine''.
85	* In the first ''Literature/TheSpiritThief'' book, Miranda is enraged upon finding a very HollywoodHistory book on wizards by one Mortimer Kant in a royal library. In the fourth book, Lelbon mentions offhandedly that "Mortimer Kant" is Illir's pen name, and the wind spirit publishes HollywoodHistory books to see if they can change the way people act.
86	* In ''Literature/SpocksWorld'', numerous references are made to the episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime}} Amok Time]]" [[spoiler: including the BigBad of the current story.]]
87	* Volume II of ''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'' opens with Roberta up on a scaffold trying to sabotage a rocket launch, just like Gary Seven in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth Assignment: Earth]]".
88	* A number of authors in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends dabble in this and CallForward.
89	** Timothy Zahn is particularly adept at this -- in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology, unless you're paying attention it's hard to tell what's a Call Back, a ContinuityNod, a CrypticBackgroundReference, or a NoodleIncident.
90	** ''Survivor's Quest'' and ''Literature/OutboundFlight'', very different novels set 50 years apart, were written together, so there are calls between them. ''Survivor's Quest'' also has at least two Call Backs to the Original Trilogy. "I want to go with you", a young untrained Force-Sensitive who wants to help an older Jedi, and Dean Jinzler, brother of a Jedi, who'd been passing as an ambassador.
91	--->'''Jinzler:''' I'm not an ambassador, Guardian. I'm an electronics technician. Like my father before me.
92	** ''Literature/JediApprentice'' has Qui-Gon Jinn commenting to Yoda about not-yet-a-Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. He tells Yoda that the boy fought ferociously, which isn't a trait he likes to see. Yoda mildly says that this is like a boy he knew long ago. Qui-Gon assumes Yoda means his fallen apprentice Xanatos, but is told "Not speaking of that one. Of ''you'' I spoke."
93	*** ''Rebel Force'', set many years ahead, has Obi-Wan as a Force Appartition describing Luke to Yoda, who says he's reminded of a boy he knew long ago. Obi-Wan immediately assumes he means Anakin and jumps to Luke's defense, saying he's nothing like that, but Yoda tells him he means Obi-Wan.
94	** In ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'', Anakin and Obi-Wan use the LinkedListClueMethodology to try and track down Darth Sidious. Many of the clues pointing toward Sidious were seen back in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Nute Gunray's mechno-chair, which provides the first break, is the same one he used on Naboo; Anakin and Obi-Wan find a pilot who delivered Darth Maul's ship to him from its manufacturer; and Sidious apparently uses a U-shaped speeder bike of the same design as Maul's to get around Coruscant quickly.
95	** ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'':
96	*** Two to Ben's previous visit to Tatooine during ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'': he has a healthy fear of sandstorms, and knows something of the Tusken Raiders after an (offscreen) encounter with them during that film.
97	*** Most people call Annileen Calwell "Annie." Ben refuses to, both to maintain some distance and because it reminds him uncomfortably of Anakin.
98	*** Jabba's people are leaning on [[spoiler:Orrin]] for payment because the new Galactic Empire is making business uncertain, so he wants cash on hand.
99	*** While never directly spelled out in the narrative, it's obvious that the event a few years earlier that spooked the Tusken Raiders and led to a decline in their fortunes, [[spoiler:as well as those of Orrin when demand for the Settlers' Call dried up in turn]], was Anakin's massacre of the Tusken tribe that killed his mother in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
100	** ''Literature/StarWarsScoundrels'':
101	*** This is the second time Lando agrees to work with Han after a previous falling out leads them to swear never to see each other again (in Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy and the comic book ''Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika''). Lando is now willing to admit that the previous incidents may not have been wholly Han's fault, but given how badly Han has misplaced his trust in the past, Lando is leery and demands the blackmail files upfront in lieu of credits if they pull the job off, so that he can leave and not get screwed over again. It doesn't help him all that much. It's up in the air which of the three incidents Han "I'm sure he's forgotten about that" Solo and Lando "You double-crossing no-good swindler" Calrissian are referring to in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
102	*** [[Film/ANewHope Once again,]] Han is cornered in a cantina by a bounty hunter looking to capture him for Jabba. This time, the bounty hunter is smart enough to tell him to keep his hands on the table. But this time, Han has Chewbacca with him, so he's able to distract and disarm the man, who gets one shot off. It's only when the bounty hunter draws ''another'' blaster that Han shoots him. Eanjer is impressed by this display of quick thinking, and approaches him about TheCaper.
103	** ''Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves'': Hunter Maas hides his important information, not in the high-tech safe in his room, but in the R3 astromech droid sitting unassumingly in the corner. Leia is one of the first characters to figure it out, and is the one to extract the information, because of her [[Film/ANewHope previous experience hiding info in astromechs]].
104	** ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': The books have references to a lot of earlier details from other ''Star Wars'' works, even ones [[FanonDiscontinuity most fans preferred ignored]], like [[Literature/TheGloveOfDarthVader Jabba's father being Zorba]], who had been put into prison on a planet called "Kyp".
105	* ''Literature/StickDog'': The series often likes to remind readers of foods the dogs have eaten before, or of the park, or of Karen's favourite garbage bin.
106	* ''Literature/TortallUniverse''
107	** Some of the training practices in ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'' are a direct result of Alanna's tenure as a page and squire in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness''. Lord Wyldon's selection as training master was a concession to conservatives who were outraged that Alanna was permitted to retain her shield after being exposed as a woman. Similarly, public exams were instituted for pages so that anyone could see that they were being trained properly and nobody else was being snuck through the system under false pretenses (even though girls were legally permitted to seek knighthood after Alanna, rendering any more SweetPollyOliver situations unlikely). Keladry's exam ends up being sabotaged when someone kidnaps her maid, forcing her to miss it in order to rescue her; fortunately she is allowed to take it once the situation is resolved due to the obvious coercion involved.
108	** The beings from ''Literature/TheImmortals'' become an established part of life in Tortall after the events of that quartet. This means that dangerous monsters are now roaming the landscape, but also new sentient allies and adversaries in the form of centaurs, basilisks, Stormwings, etcetera. In the ''Literature/TricksterDuet'', Aly is gifted the offspring of darkings, who were created in the last ''Immortals'' book, to use as spies.
109	* ''Literature/TwilightSparkleAndTheCrystalHeartSpell'':
110	** The reveal that she was originally a [[spoiler:pegasus makes sense, considering many of her more memorable moments have been in flight.]]
111	** Her transformation into a Princess took her to the same hall of mirrors as Twilight it seems.
112	* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', in ''The Last Hope'', Firestar points out that he is once again the cat chosen by a prophecy to save his Clan, and quotes the original one.
113	-->'''Firestar:''' I guess fire will save the Clans once more.
114	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9-original-canon/989-the-evil-that-men-do The Evil That Men Do]]'', it is said by a math teacher, that:
115	--> Hallowell's Proof. For those of you intending to continue your studies with me in game theory later in your careers here at Whateley, you will want to take note of this particular theorem as it is considered one of the more important statistical bases of Game Theory and Probability Mathematics.”\
116	Then, in ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/9-original-canon/1066-the-last-ride The Last Ride]]'', where James Hallowell makes an appearance, it is said:
117	--> [he] became a mathematics professor at the nascent University of California, Berkeley where he penned Hallowell's Proof, considered one of the founding theorems of Game Theory.
118	* Done frequently among the numerous narratives in ''Literature/WorldWarZ''. A diver who specializes in underwater zombie combat mentions the Chinese sub that was sunk in an earlier story told by a Chinese submariner. Todd Wainio and his squadron come across the church that Sharon the feral child had been trapped in during the Great Panic. Wainio also serves with the girl who sang "Avalon" at the Battle of the Five Colleges. Arthur Sinclair still hopes to arrest Breckinridge Scott. Jurgen Warmbrunn mentions having come across both the psychological evaluation of Stanley [=MacDonald=] and the blog of Fernando Oliveira's nurse in his research. Collins mentions [=MacDonald=] trying to find his peace among the monasteries in Meteora when discussing war veterans trying to deal with their trauma from the war. It's also strongly hinted that the old man Kondo Tatsumi gets his katana from is the older brother of his master Sensei Ijiro. A photograph of the old man as a young officer shows he had a little brother that would have been about Ijiro's age.
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