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Crossovers
- Beyond the Outer Gate Lies...: One of the two incarnations of the story; during the gender-bender incident/omake, Harry sarcastically tells Lash he will be sure to have a larger t-shirt on hand for the next time Azazel turns him into a girl. In the Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? chapter "A Terrible Thing to Waste?", he has a t-shirt on hand for Oakley (who had been stripped by Ise's Dress Break), and when he gives it to Tsubasa to put on the unconscious girl, the Rook notes that the t-shirt is much larger than what he normally wears.
- Child of the Storm has a few. In chapter 77 of the first book, Doctor Strange hands out advice to the assembled kids, and tells Carol that her courage and willpower are without equal, as well as slipping her a Magic Ring of unknown provenance. She snarks back that unless being really stubborn will make her Immune to Bullets, she doesn't see how it'll help. As it turns out, said ring is, in fact, the Green Lantern Ring, which essentially uses the wielder's willpower to, amongst many other things, stop bullets.
- The finale of the first book has Peter Wisdom ask Tony Stark to update MI13's Helicarrier, with the full expectation that he'll install backdoors into the system. He doesn't mind this on the basis that it's good to have someone who can potentially stop him if need be - and that if he did ever have a problem with Tony, he wouldn't be stupid enough to go after him with a helicarrier. Almost fifty chapters later, in the middle of Book 2, Tony shows that he did insert a backdoor into the Helicarrier. By hacking the sound systems and making it play AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" at a highly appropriate moment. Wisdom is not amused.
- Crazy Irken and ? (Invader Zim-based crossover fic anthology by D_rissing and nightmaster000. note ): When Zita first comes to Zim’s base in the fourth chapter, GIR runs out to go roll around in the dirt like a pig. At the chapter’s climax (a week later in-universe), they both realize that he never came back; a cutaway then shows he’s ended up in Mexico, still rolling around on the ground.
- In the Duke Forever blog-serial, at the beginning of Chapter One
, a London Metropolitan policeman wanders into an elevator that is actually the main character's TARDIS, and disappears. Then, at the very end of Chapter Two, that policeman returns and does not look pleased. That Policeman, Inspector Chester Edison, becomes one of the main characters, and we actually find out what happened to him in Chapter Three. - Lampshaded by the author of Fairy Without Wings in the author's notes at the start of a chapter. He begins by flinging a literal brick into orbit before the start of chapter 48 and says it'll make sense in about 100 chapters.
- It does when said brick hits him on the head in the author's notes exactly 100 chapters later, where Lelouch and Erza wind up saving the exact same waitress from chapter 48, albeit at a different restaurant. Bonus points for it being for the exact same reasons.
- Early in Frozen Roses & Butterflies, Anna says that if she ever meets Alma Madrigal, she's going to punch her. Come chapter 7 and Anna makes good on that threat, even reminding Elsa about it.
- Early in Act 2 of I Against I, Me Against You, Pinkie Pie fills Sugarcube Corner with cakes which Twilight has to move to her pocket dimension just to get through. Near the end of Act 2, Twilight opens her pocket dimension to get something else and accidentally dumps all of the cakes on Reynard Vaez, doubling as a Shout-Out to Slice of Hell.
- I'm Nobody: In chapter 2, Roxas and Talk had an argument over whether or not her emergency induction port is a straw. Come chapter 39, when he tells the Quarian Space Control to tell Tali that her emergency induction port is a straw tries as a means of verrifying his identity to enter the Flotilla.Quarian space control: You honestly can't expect me to use that as your means of identifying who you are.
- It's Always Spooky Month: In the beginning of chapter 7, Skid and Pump put two bags of marshmallows into their shopping cart, to which Monster questions why they would need them. At the end of the chapter, Monster pulls the bags out, and the three roast marshmallows over the burning remains of the Happy Fella.
- In the prologue of Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Kyon compares being hit by Asakura Ryouko to being hit by a speeding minivan. Guess what happened over twenty-five chapters later.
- Manehattan's Lone Guardian:
- When the enemy team comes together, Statuette guesses that the reason why the conference room is completely dark is because their leader likes hearing others hit their legs on the furniture. Sixteen chapters later, their leader sheepishly admits it when asked about the possibility of installing some new lights.
- When Leviathan first learns about her enemies in the "Prismatic" chapter, she hears the name "Bushwhacker" and muses that he probably didn't earn his name because of his candy-making skills. Much later in "Buggin'", it's revealed that the character took up candy making as an extra source of income.
- In the Halloween episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season two, Xander calls Buffy "Lady Buffy, Duchess of Buffonia" after seeing her dressed as a noblewoman. After becoming Emperor of the Drakon Empire in Maximus, Xander names Buffy Duchess of Buffonia, a moon in his empire that's also a popular vacation spot.
- My Hero School Adventure Is All Wrong As Expected: After examining Kirishima's Quirk during the first Heroes vs Villains exercise in Chapter 6, Hachiman informs the Hot-Blooded teen that the latter's Quirk leaves behind deposits in his skin to help with the hardening process and that undergoing body hardening exercises may help his Quirk grow. In Chapter 10.1, Hikigiya is having a conversation with a pair of robots when one gleefully informs him that another student has just requested it to go vigorously beat his epidermis for training purposes.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku gets frustrated with Bakugou bullying him and kicks a can he finds on the street, sending it flying high into the air. Later on, when All Might comes to subdue the Sludge Villain, he mentions getting hit in the face with a falling can while trying to apprehend him in an earlier incident.
- Oni Ga Shiku Series: Early on in the fic when Izuku is four years old, when he's about to leave the Morning Glory orphanage to go back home, one of the gifts he receives from Kiryu is the shrink wrapped magazine. Ten years and many chapters later, and Izuku is having a blast imagining the ladies in Purgatory in the same poses as that magazine...
- In Opening Dangerous Gates, during a battle, Levy uses Solid Script: Jail to form a cage around some demons and take them out of the fight. A later chapter shows they are still in the cage.
- Super RWBY Sisters:
- Viridi thought Pit and Ruby hooking up would never happen so she said she'd eat a Poison Ivy Sandwich if they did. She goes through with it after Pit and Ruby are officially a couple, much to Hades' amusement.
- In Thousand Year Door, Peach tricked the X-Nauts into dousing the fortress in perfume on Grodus' orders. Bowser brings up that Peach could stink up an entire moon fortress with her perfume if she wanted to in Partners in Time.
- In Super RWBY Sunshine, Crazy Hand is seen spamming Rosalina's inbox. In Galaxy, Rosalina mentions she had to block Crazy Hand's address just to get some peace and quiet.
- In Thousand Year Door, Luigi throws away a Book of Logic after being unable to find a reason how they were breathing in space. In Super Paper RWBY, after being unable to breathe in space all of a sudden, Weiss brings it up and Bowser wonders who would be crazy enough to read it. We then cut to The Moon where we see Rosalina grabbing it out of curiosity.
- Thousand Shinji:
- In chapter 7, Shinji and Asuka have the next conversation:Asuka: Where’s Misato-san?
Shinji: She called while you were in the bathroom to say that she would be at work all night, and, to quote ‘I had better not find out about any hanky-panky when I get home’.
Asuka: (rolling her eyes) Please.
Shinji: (cheekily) Yeah, I mean, it’s like she doesn’t trust me to be smart enough to properly dispose of the evidence. - Four chapters later:Misato: Now while I’m gone I don’t want to find out about any hanky-panky between you two.
Shinji and Asuka (in unison) We’ll remember to destroy the evidence.
- In chapter 7, Shinji and Asuka have the next conversation:
- In Titania Falls, Mabel says in Chapter 6 that if she meet Jellal (who the last time her mother Erza saw was trying to sacrifice her to resurrect Zeref) she'd hit him with a grappling hook. 6 chapters later, when the Fairy Tail wizards that were on Tenrou Island arrived on Gravity Fall, Jellal is among them (having joined Fairy Tail in secret following the events of Nirvana and took up Mystogan's identity when his counterpart returned to Edolas). Mabel, of course, makes good on her threat.
- In Toonatopia: The Animation Initiation, Plankton manipulates SpongeBob by pretending to be "Flankton", the long-lost nicer twin cousin of Plankton. The end of the comic has Plankton running into Flankton, who turns out to be Real After All.
- With This Ring:
- OL covers up his Male Gaze moment on Wonder Woman by performing an impromptu Sherlock Scan and saying he was staring at her armor. Weeks later, after discussing the nature of OL's relationship with Superboy, Donna snarks she understands why he was staring at her armor... and later still when visiting Themyscira OL realises his genuine inspection of a guard's orichalcum armor is being mistaken.
- In his Power High, Paulphidian mentions after saving his friends and the planet Earth, that he will repaint the signs in Happy Harbor to be spelled correctly! After getting freed from the Ophidian, Paul and the locals notice that all the signs in Happy Harbor are now spelled Happy Harbour.
- Much later, in a crossover with the Gate universe, Paul instructs a new Lantern in basic power ring functions, and cautions him to take the ring off before excreting (because the ring disintegrates bodily wastes just before they can leave); "It's uncomfortable. Though extremely hygienic." An episode after that, the novice Lantern pushes through his fear and uses the ring to control a dragon and fly into a bullet storm to parlay with the Japanese army.Diabo: You were right.
Paul: Oh?
Diabo: Yes. It is very hygienic.
- In Wizard Runemaster, after his first meeting with a Tauren, Harry decides on a whim to say, "May the Force be with you" as a farewell. Fast forward a few months, and Cairne Bloodhoof bids Harry farewell with the same line.
- You Got HaruhiRolled!:
- In Chapter 15, Gilgamesh mentions that he wound up in the Haruhi Suzumiya universe after Ultros ripped him off, so he wandered the multiverse, vowing revenge. Sixty-seven chapters later, he finally gets the chance.
- The blood on the wall re-appears in chapter 81 after showing up in the Silent Hill parody.
- Early on, The Stinger at the end of each chapter was, "Review, Haruhi-worshippers! Your yellow ribbon-wearing goddess demands it!" One reviewer pointed out that this was incorrect, and that Haruhi wore a headband with yellow ribbons on it, so about 50 or so chapters after this was pointed out, the writer corrected it to "Review, Haruhi-worshippers! Your yellow-ribboned, headband-wearing goddess demands it!" This was lampshaded.
- Two-fold in The Stalking Zuko Series. First, we have Iroh scarring Jet, who's spying on him, with Naked Iroh Time. Two chapters later has Zuko and Iroh's Ba Sing Se neighbors begging him to make the "nasty old man" stop. At the story's climax, Jet realizes that Iroh has to be the firebender, since it's too cold for someone to be going constantly naked.
- Examples from The Calvinverse:
- Rupert Chill's postcards in Which Way is Where? — he sends several to Calvin, which his parents promptly discard. Later, when Chill confronts Calvin, he mentions the cards, and Calvin has no idea what he's talking about.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: When Brainstorm seems to be in a trance, Jack fails to garner a reaction from his Berserk Button. Later, when conversing with Calvin, a similar pause ends with "IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!"
- In "Lightning Man", Socrates mentions seeing a fat woman hog the shrimp buffet. Later, when the Brainstorms have shown up, Mother Brainstorm mentions being at a shrimp buffet.
- In one episode, a scrambled MTM says 'Kayla can't play games anymore'. Fast forward a couple of episodes — Socrates mentions that he had a message from some crazy girl named Kayla.
- Similarly, in Wagoner's ED, Socrates asks if anyone can play an instrument called the 'doudouk'. Later that season, Jack mentions that playing a doudouk is one of his talents.
- The Dragon Age: Inquisition fanfic Walking in Circles has a kitchen cat named Fennel appears once in one of the first chapters. More than a dozen chapters later, Solas, upon escaping the Otswick Circle with Evelyn and running into said cat, decides to give him to Evelyn in hope that it would do something to her Tranquil state.
- Solas’s pickpocketing talent was used once to get the key to the Knight Commander’s study. A few updates later, he uses it again to out-mug a thief.
- Dragon Ball Z: Dynasty: At the end of the Cell saga, Goku, like in canon, brought Cell to King Kai's planet to keep Cell from blowing up the Earth and promises to wish the Kai's destroyed planet back with the dragon balls. In chapter 142, it turns out that Goku, and by extension the others, forgot during the seven-year time skip, leading King Kai to pull out his students' souls so they can win the Grand Kai Festival and he can wish his home back.
- Fate of the Clans: During the first fight, Cú Chulainn loses his cool a little and throws a storage container from the cargo pier at Iskandar. It misses and lands somewhere several dozen kilometers away. Three days later, Izumo talks to Eric about how the store where he gets scented candles didn't have any in stock. The container with the ordered candles was found destroyed in a field several dozen kilometers away from the cargo pier.
- Fragments of Chaldea has one. In Fragment 15, Gudao plays Mario Party with Tyler and Waver and is winning, leading Tyler to complain that Mario Party is one of the games that destroy friendships, alongside Mario Kart, Monopoly and Dokapon Kingdom. In Fragment 22, Mordred loses all her money to Arturia in Monopoly, causing Gabby and EMIYA to make similar comments.
- In a Shout-Out to Crisis Core, in The Fifth Act, Yuffie discovers Cloud's number and sends him spam mail about finding treasure in various improbably dangerous places. Except for a mention by Tseng, Yuffie's messages are generally ignored. Then at the very end, Cloud reads Yuffie's messages and has to go rescue her from the Northern Crater.
- Forward: Jayne sets himself on fire and charges with a knife to terrify his enemies in "Mosaic." The brick comes back with a dark echo in "Last Man" when in a flashback, it is shown that the Brit charging Jayne with a knife while on fire is one of the most terrifying things he ever experienced.
- In At Gate's Edge:
- Edward learned how to become a good cook and do housework from his dying mother, who hoped that Edward would take care of Alphonse and teach him after she died. Which turned out to be pointless]] since Edward died early on. When Roy and Ed finally meet Alphonse, Alphonse is revealed to be a terrible cook and his house is a mess.
- When Roy is first showing Ed his pet Hazel's toys, he jokes about showing Ed his toys. Ed tells him to keep his toys to himself. Several chapters later, Roy and Ed are cleaning up the house after Hazel wrecks it. Ed picks up what he thought was a new toy for Hazel in the mess...only for the embarrassed Roy to explain to that's not Hazel's toy.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry first goes to Gringotts, and learns about the wizarding monetary system, and quickly comes to the realization that one competent hedge fundie could probably own the entire wizarding world in a week, and files the notion away, in case he ever runs out of money, or has a week free. Several chapters later, Quirrell suggests to Dumbledore that Harry take Occlumency lessons, with the as-of-yet undetermined teacher to have his memory wiped after every training session and an unbreakable vow to not reveal anything.Dumbledore: Such services are extremely expensive, as you well know, and I cannot help but wonder why you deem them necessary.
Harry: If it's money that's the problem, I have some ideas for making large amounts of money quickly–
Dumbledore: (without missing a beat) Thank you Quirinus, your wisdom is now quite evident and I am sorry for disputing it. - In Letters from the Asylum, Voldemort orders two of his minions to fetch him a Lay-z-boy chair (on Harry's suggestion, no less). A later chapter has one of the Order members complain about someone breaking into her house and stealing her armchair.
- Percy Weasley and The Prefect Job That Isn't A Vanity Role: In the second chapter, Hypatia suggests that Crabbe and Goyle be encouraged to befriend Luna Lovegood, as none of them have much of a social life. Two years later, it's mentioned in passing that the three of them attended the Yule Ball together.
- Trolling the Toad: In Chapter 5, Harry learns French and submits an assignment for DADA in the language to mess with Umbridge as an instance of Loophole Abuse. After the Christmas holidays in Chapter 24, Harry makes his plans for the next D.A. meeting in French "just in case" Umbridge decides to snoop in on him doing so in her class.
- Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: After his fight with the Irkens that destroys his VR gaming facility in Chapter 7, Aldrich threatens to bill them all for the damages. When they meet again at NASAPlace in Chapter 9, he states that he actually ran the numbers and determined how much they all owe him.
- Ruby Pair: When showing Tenn around the base early in "Welcome to Urth", Zim mentions the time (from Issue #27 of the comic series) he was stuck in Xooxi the Dooxisi's own base beneath it, being bored to death by him. At the end of the chapter, Dib is subjected to the same fate.
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug):
- At the start of the first story, it's mentioned that all non-Invaders have to pay extra for parking at the SIR Unit Tournament. At the end of the story, Tak realizes that having lost the tournament (and thus her chance to finally become an Invader) means that now she'll have to pay the extra fee.
- Early in Trading Dismay, when Zim is forcing Tenn into his Role Swap Plot, he tries to also do a Clothing Switch so that they'll have each other's musk in order to really sell the illusion, but she refuses. When they switch back at the end of the story, Skoodge tries to claim he wasn't fooled by it by saying he could tell by the musk.
- I Ain't a Doll, This Ain't a Dollhouse: In chapter 7 after the heroes arrive at the Joestar manor, Polnareff declares he will take a dump in Dio's old bedroom as revenge for his various crimes. In the next chapter, while Johanna and Jotaro are walking past her ex-fiance's room she picks up a foul oder, though Jotaro stops her from opening the door and tells her she shouldn't go in there.
- In Iron Touch, Giorno totes Coco Jumbo around in a messenger bag which, according to him, is often labeled as a purse by Mista and Fugo. Come Chapter 4, and Michelle notes that she saw Giorno carrying a purse with him.
- Passione speedrun any percent (world record): Shortly after meeting Giorno, Narancia asks him if he could use Gold Experience to recreate extinct animals, to which Giorno says that he could probably make a dodo. The last Gold Experience-created animal to exit the church on Capri Island in the climax is a dodo, which waddles out right as Fugo and Narancia get to the entrance.
- In Chapter 11 of Kid Icarus Uprising: The Novelization, Pit jokingly asks Viridi if she wears foliage panties, which she accidentally admits to. In Chapter 18, it's revealed that Viridi does wear foliage panties and threatens to slit Pit's throat if he told anyone about it.
- The series Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness has a few of these:
- Adjustments has a scene where Roxas, after getting singing lessons from Kairi, serenades Xion with "It is You (I Have Loved)", mentioning that it's from the soundtrack of one of Sora's favourite movies. Almost two years later, the girls have a movie night at Kairi and Naminé's house, and Xion finally finds out what that movie was.
Xion: ARE YOU SHITTING ME?! THIS IS WHAT THAT SONG IS FROM?!- Also in Adjustments, Naminé is stuck in an awkward conversation with Xion about the sexual preferences of the people in the Mysterious Tower (Xion having only just learned that not everyone is bisexual) and tells her to go and talk to Lea about it. The chapter ends with Lea planning to get back at her for it. Sometime later, in Re:Adjustments, Lea compliments Vanitas on his new outfit, saying "I’m sure you’re the envy of butch lesbians everywhere." When Vanitas is confused, Lea tells him to go and ask Naminé about it.
- Adjustments
- Early in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link gets helped through Dodongo's Cavern by a pair of Gorons, one of them being female. This is odd to people who have played the game, since there are no openly female Gorons; when an adult Link speaks to a Goron that was named after him, the topic of female Gorons comes up and confuses the namesake. It turns out that while Link was asleep, the Gorons found out that there were, in fact, no female Gorons at all. The supposed "female Gorons" were just male Gorons who looked female.
- The Mandela Magazine: The beginning of the video has a safety warning to put on your seat belt because "the sound might annoy your friends". This message is referenced twice later on:
- During the riff on Mark and Cesar's phone call, Cesar begins making an "EEE" sound, annoying Mark, and the two get into an argument over where the noise is coming from.
- At the end of the video, the Alternates sit in a car as a soft beeping sound plays and Mark repeatedly shoots his mom. The beeping is implied to be part of the car's seat belt reminder system, as the Alternates start glaring at Cesar because he's the only one who hasn't put his seat belt on yet and the beeping stops once he buckles up.
- Crimson and Noire:
- In chapter 18, Tikki instructs Adrien to take her to a massage parlor where the Guardians Fu and Marianne work when she gets sick, knowing that they will heal her. Since Adrien doesn't know the old couple knew about the kwamis and didn't think Tikki's excuse of a cat would work, he introduced her as his pet naked mole rat, much to Tikki's frustration when she gets better. 11 chapters later when Crimson Beetle and Lady Noir properly meet the Guardians, Fu describes Crimson's Miraculous as the Miraculous of the Naked Mole Rat. Tikki tells him not to bring that up again.
- In chapter 41, Plagg remarks that Kagami would be at the top of a list of most tolerable people he knows, and he decides to make such a list so he won't be bored without his cheese while Marinette is at the dance. In the next chapter, he shows the list to Marinette.
- Hero Chat: Chapter 20 sees Alya deliver a rant inspired by Real-Time Fandub's "Eggman pissing on the Moon" speech after Hawkmoth's latest Akuma interrupts her latest Zany Scheme for Marinette to confess her love to Adrien. In Chapter 26, after dreaming of the events of "Chat Blanc", Adrien tells Marinette that he blames Alya's rant for the Moon's condition within the dream because some "super lazer piss" damaged it.
- In the first chapter of World as Myth, Zenkichi snaps his head around "at a speed that promised severe neck pain later on." At the start of Chapter 2, he is complaining of neck pain. At the chapter's climax, he loses his fight with Jounan due to whipping his head around too quickly.
- Juxtapose: When Hitoshi finds out about Katsuki's nickname for Izuku, in his narration he gets the urge to punch Katsuki for it. Guess what happens when they meet again a few chapters later...
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- "The Birds and the Bees has a gut-busting one involving Spike accidentally sending a bag of live birds to Celestia's palace. This happens early in the story, when the Cutie Mark Crusaders take "the birds and the bees" literally and bring Twilight a bag of live birds and bees for elucidation of the process. The fate of the vanished birds is left unresolved until The Stinger, where it has a hilarious payoff.
- A Diplomatic Visit: In the first chapter of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, Twilight thinks to herself that she misses having late-night chats over cheesecake with Moondancer and Trixie, who've gone traveling together. When they finally go back home with her and have time to relax together in chapter 9, the first thing the trio do is... have a late-night chat over cheesecake.
- Earth and Sky: Pipsqueak initially completely misses the point of Big Macintosh's little heart-to-heart about his and Soarin's relationships with Big Mac's sisters, but does eventually figure it out... twenty-eight chapters later.
- The First Of Many: Princess Cadance tells Celestia how her date with Shining Armor went by making out with him in front of her, so after saying goodbye to her niece's date, she sneaks him a condom. When Shining Armor returns to his own house and his parents ask how his date went, the condom falls out of his jacket, resulting in Shining's mother flipping out and grounding her son for the rest of the summer.
- The Flight of the Alicorn: Shortly after they meet, Zinzi describes her tendency to rhyme as a holdover of the zebra language's grammar that she keeps up as a nervous habit, and while she tries to drop it to make her speech easier to follow she is too stressed out to do so. This is left at that until much later, after the story's resolution, where she casually stops rhyming and explains to a gobsmacked Rarity that, with the crisis over and done with, she's not really stressed anymore."Maybe I will," Zinzi said. "I could use a vacation."
Rarity nodded, then quickly turned to stare at the zebra mare.
"What?" Zinzi asked innocently. "I told you I would stop when I was not stressed out any longer." Rarity continued to gawk, and Zinzi and Zips both visibly suppressed a laugh at her expense. - The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Back in chapter 35 of the original story, Wind Breaker mentions a story about a minotaur with a massive bow. In chapter 23 of the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, set a few months later, he asks Vix-Lei's mother if she knows about it, and she identifies it as The Odyssey, one of her people's legends.
- Pink Personal Hell And Altering Fate has a mild version, where it's explained that Pinkie Pie is off chasing a "Prank Bit" that bounces away every time she tries to catch it. Then at the end of the scene, it bounces right back into the magic shop... followed by Pinkie herself.
- Story Shuffle: As part of the Author's Note for "Take-Home Assignment". Twilight is approximately a young adult or older at her coronation, and grows at approximately human rates:You chose to commute my sentence to this written report and what you described as "a surprise." You went on to state that when the time comes, I'll know.
I suspect that the anticipation is intended to be as much a part of the punishment as whatever action you take. I admit, it's working.
Twilght Sparkle
Age 7
Author's Note:
At some point during Twilight's coronation party, Celestia reminded her of this incident, then smiled. - In Vinyl and Octavia Engage in Roleplay, Octavia says that Vinyl sometimes has a slow reaction time, to which Vinyl replies that Octavia has nice hooves. Two chapters later, Vinyl suddenly bursts out "Hey, I don’t have a slow reaction time!"
- In The Witch of the Everfree, when Sunset and Twilight first meet face-to-face, Sunset notes that Twilight is excessively prone to listening to monologues, and resolves to train it out of her. Four chapters and some number of years later, when Nightmare Moon returns, as soon as she gets distracted monologuing, Twilight throws a forcebolt at her.
- Chiaroscuro: In chapter 5, Shikamaru finds a bag of sunflower seeds in their tent bag and tosses it. In chapter 51, the team notices an out-of-place patch of sunflowers growing among the trees. While Shikamaru wonders where it came from, Kakashi suggests that it might have fallen out of someone's tent bag.Shikamaru: Normal people don't store sunflower seeds in tent bags.
[Kakashi-sensei honest-to-goodness giggled.] - your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue): Itachi introduces himself by stiffly and awkwardly asking Team 14 to share their names, likes, dislikes and so on. Much, much later on, Sakura bursts out laughing when Kakashi makes the same request of Team 7.
- Shards To a Whole has a moment in chapter 45, where Tony and Ziva hook up. Ziva had admitted to Tony that she occasionally enjoyed "ropes and things" and Tony asks Tim (who enjoys a happy and active, if not wholly orthodox, sex life with Abby in this story) for advice. Tim's first word of advice is "Don't go read Fifty Shades of Grey; it's not an instruction manual," adding that he and Abby found the book unintentionally funny but not even remotely sexy. Roughly three years later, in Chapter 507, when Tim is painting his and Abby's bedroom in deep red, Tony quips that Tim's painting a "Red Room".Tim: Didn't I tell you not to read that book?
Tony: I didn't. Watched the movie. Waste of eleven dollars.
- Advice and Trust:
- In an early chapter Asuka told Rei: "If and when you ever show them off to someone who is not the Third Child, wear something better than those panties, because that is the most boring underwear you have ever seen". Several chapters later she shows her new panties to Kensuke to determine if her new underwear is or is not boring. When Asuka asks Rei why Kensuke was passed out in the hall and what she did, Rei replies "What you told me."
- In one of the first chapters Rei said Asuka "I am not fucking with you. That is Ikari-kun's job". In chapter 8 Asuka mutters "Fuck... Shinji" and Rei quips fucking Shinji is Asuka's job.
- After Misato and Kaji having sex keeps them up at night, Asuka mentioned that she and Shinji would have to get Misato back once her birthday hit (Misato had forbid them from having sex until then). Right before they go to bed on the night of her birthday, she says "Now… let’s cost Misato some sleep."
- A Crown of Stars: In the first chapter, Asuka is told by her older counterpart that Daniel is a god. Asuka replies sarcastically, "So he's going to heal the sick, raise the dead, and feed us all with a few loaves and fishes?" Her older self responds: "As a matter of fact, yes. Though that 'loaves and fishes' part may have been just for you saying that". Flash-forward to chapter 15, and they are having lunch. Asuka has been served a plate of loaves of bread and cuts of sushi. She gave Daniel a sardonic look. "Really?" And then Daniel says: "Eat all you like; the basket has as many as you want." She snorted.
- In Nobody Dies:
- Chapter 3. Yui and Gendo are pondering something that involves saran wrap in bulk. Chapter 10. Kozo Fuyutsuki has his office completely covered in saran wrap. Note - may actually be unrelated incidents.
- Rei defeats a remnant of Sachiel in one of the earlier chapters. In Chapter 30, she clarifies where she put it: "Well, then I had him stuffed. And mounted. And I installed hydraulics in his arms so he'd sort of jump anyone who looked in my closet. And stuff." Then in Chapter 40, someone who really doesn't need any more trauma opens the closet... And in Chapter 88 Rei has to move and "for some reason no one wants to empty out her closet."
- Spooky: At the beginning of the 2014 Halloween arc, Echo tells Claw to not bother the witches he's having over for tea because he's concerned they'll turn the Draik into a Scamander. At the end of the arc, Claw criticizes the Halloween decorations the witches put up for them and is turned into a Meowclops as retribution.
- In the episode "Manhattan", when Emma, Henry and Rumplestiltskin finds Baelfire/Neal's apartment, Emma rings up under the pretense of being a UPS delivery person. When there's no reply, Henry wonders aloud if she should've told him she was from FedEx instead. In chapter 4 of Shepherd23's There But for the Grace of God, it's clear that she took Henry's words to heart... even if she doesn't remember why:Emma: (into the intercom) FedEx package for 407.
(no response)
Neal: (jokingly) Maybe you should’ve said UPS.
- This Bites!:
- In Chapter 6, Cross does some Tempting Fate that turns into Retroactive Wishing, ending with him wishing that a billion berries would fall from the sky. Nothing happens, and Cross loudly objects to the divine being not following the Rule of Three. But in the Christmas Episode, it turns out that a billion berries DID fall from the sky…onto Johnny and Yosaku.
- In Chapter 15, after Mr. 2 leaves and Vivi berates herself for not recognizing him based on the description she heard, Cross sarcastically asks Vivi if she wants him to suggest memory exercises then or wait for her to forget some touchy nation's customs. In Chapter 25, she rushes through a translation manual... and accidentally insults some touchy nation's customs.
- In Chapter 21 of Luz Belos: Princess of the Boiling Isles, Luz proposes wearing her otter onesie to Grom, she and Amity cuddling while she wears it regularly. In Chapter 23, Boscha walks in on the two doing just that.Boscha: Did I... interrupt something?
Amity: I-I-I can explain!
Boscha: I'm listening.
Amity: I... I can't explain.
Persona Franchise
- Hours 'Verse: In The Other 25th Hours, Ren complains that "every moron trying to pick up a girl claims he's a 'Leo, just like Apollo'" at Club Zodiac. Later, in Stars Shine Brighter Without Sunlight, a boy from Kasugayama tries that very pickup line on Mai and gets tripped by Ren and Morgana for his efforts.
- In chapter 22 of The Glaceon and the Shadow, Sofia mentions she often finds things in her pockets she doesn't remember ever putting into them. In chapter 24, she isn't worried about the lights being off because she knows the place like the inside of her own pockets. She immediately trips over something.
- Legendarily Popular:
- Ash tells Lieutenant Surge that Pikachu can learn moves that Raichu can't, and Pikachu proceeds to send Raichu through the ceiling with Sky Uppercut. Later, as Ash and his friends are on the road to Celadon City, Butterfree wanders off on her own — and catches a falling Raichu.Raichu: Did someone get the number of that tram?
- Whitney starts off Ash's gym challenge by sending out her new Regigigas and telling it to use Mega Punch, but its Slow Start ability means it doesn't immediately react, so she just uses her regular team instead. After Ash defeats them in an epic dance battle and is about to receive the Plain Badge, Regigigas suddenly punches his current Pokémon through the ceiling.Whitney: Oh, what do you know. Twelve and a half minutes. Good to know!
- Ash tells Lieutenant Surge that Pikachu can learn moves that Raichu can't, and Pikachu proceeds to send Raichu through the ceiling with Sky Uppercut. Later, as Ash and his friends are on the road to Celadon City, Butterfree wanders off on her own — and catches a falling Raichu.
- In Chapter 12 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance, the main characters try asking a group of Spinarak for directions upon arriving in Nectar Woods, but the Spinarak are too busy working on a spider web to answer their questions, mentioning that they are competing with a group of Joltik to see who can make the best looking spider-webs in the forest. The characters leave them to continue with their work, and eventually figure out where they need to go. Later in the chapter, one of the outlaws they were trying to capture is trying to get away, but ends up getting stuck in a spider web made by a group of Joltik.
- Seen a few times throughout Pokémon Reset Bloodlines and its sidestories:
- When the Sensational Sisters see Ash walking into their Water-type Gym with a Pikachu and a Bulbasaur in tow, and worried about losing the gym over just one more defeat in an official fight, one of them wonders aloud if they should sleep with him to make him go away or lose on purpose, to the other two's disgust. Then, after a six-on-six battle where Ash and his starter team won without losing a round, one of the sisters laments that they should just have slept with him to his utter surprise and embarrassment.
- The Koga & Janine oneshot features a kid named Profuenster who uses jetpack ninjutsu. Fast forward a few years in the main story, turns out the Profuenster family has a shop in Fuchsia that sells them.
- On the first Holiday Special, Flint tries to snap Volkner out of his funk with the "Christmas Ghosts" act, and fails because he sees right through his disguise. The next year, he tries it and fails again, but this time because Volkner is not depressed to begin with.
- At the beginning of the Steven Interlude, the title character dumps the paperwork he doesn't want to do on his father's secretary to attend Roxanne and her students. When he returns at the end, said secretary is not happy, and Steven quickly reminds Roxanne that they promised her students a battle to get away from the paperwork, again.
- A couple of girls begin fighting over Ash to dance with him during his 15th birthday. Later in the main story, when Ash returns from Cinnabar, they do the same during his welcome party.
- In the opening of the Twinkling in the Dark chapter "Dazed and Confused", a loopy Joker randomly shouts that he wants to fight a unicorn. At the end of the fic, Wolfrun whispers the same statement to Akaoni and Majorina, causing them to burst into laughter, much to the now-lucid Joker's embarrassment.
Protectors of the Plot Continuum
- Fledglings, or: Everything's Better With Penguins: Anis and Mal's console disappeared prior to the start of the fic, and they want to have as long of a break from getting assigned missions as possible. The two attempt to delay getting a replacement console by titling the tech support ticket reporting its absence "where did my emails go????" so it gets marked as low priority. In the epilogue, they come back from the Macrovirus Epidemic memorial to find a new console getting installed; mistitling the support ticket didn't work for very long.
- In this post from Ask the Ryans, Aran Ryan rejects Rory's suggestion of loading his gloves with firecrackers. However, later someone suggests he load his flail with firecrackers instead, which he gleefully accepts. It does not end well.
- In the "Swimming Lessons" chapter from Ma Fille, Stephanie mentions that she's been trying to get the Mommy and Me class renamed to Baby and Me. Later, when Joe and Katrina arrive for the first lesson, the class has indeed been renamed to Baby and Me.
- In the first act of Puyo Puyo 8, Lemres ask Original Character Moon Snail if he wants ice cream, as he interprets Moon's Love at First Sight feeling for something else. It's only at the very end of the story that he remembers his promise, and the two go out for ice cream.
- Two in Warriors of the World: Soldiers of Fortune:
- In one chapter, the Big Bad (as yet unseen) goes on at length telepathically to Valkron of the Normans over-exploiting natural resources for their own benefit, resulting in the knight asking him if he was "quite done with spouting green aesops" at him. Two chapters later, they meet and Valkron's first statement is "...I visualised you as more of a treehugger."
- In another chapter, a rocker (a large grasshopper that plays a violin) is heard making music in the distance. The music slowly gets nearer to where the party is, until, right at a tense moment, the rocker finally reaches them and stops playing music in shock. After a Beat, the grasshopper hastily makes an exit. It's mentioned later on that the rocker's music can be heard again, just a lot further away than it was before.
- Hope of the Shield Hero has a three-step one regarding Raphtalia not having had The Talk. Naofumi resolves to find somebody who can give her the talk to get it sorted out early on. Come Chapter 39, which is aptly named "He Forgot The Talk", he comes to the grim realization that he forgot (after having a long kissing session with Raphtalia, Raphtalia worries that she'll get pregnant, due to not having had The Talk). After these events, Raphtalia nearly convinces Eclair to give her the Talk, making Naofumi think she's had The Talk, but in reality, she hasn't, causing the joke to return again in Chapter 76, when Raphtalia asks Therese what sex is. Therese then gives Raphtalia The Talk, and resolves to slap Naofumi for forgetting to make sure she got The Talk.
- Ruby and Nora: Ginger, a prostitute mentioned in last chapter of “Field Trip” makes a sudden appearance in the very next story.
- SCP: Overlord: When Reyes is trying to guess the code to the basement door, Besson suggests he try 1234. Later, that turns out to be the actual code.
- In Robb Returns, when Roose Bolton makes a mental list of superstitions he was always told to follow, one of them was to never curse a raven. Ramsay's first (and last) scene has him curse a raven he has seen. The raven proceeds to peck at his eye - while he is still alive.
- Mortal Man: Barnacle Boy is surprised when Spongebob expresses worry about Patrick potentially not knowing about Mermaid Man's death, noting that it was all over TV, to which Spongebob admits that Patrick "mostly watches the Eating Channel". When Spongebob is finally about to tell him, Patrick responds by revealing he already knows... because apparently they were talking about it on the Eating Channel.
- In Bad Ficniverse, a tumblur blog dedicated to intentionally bad or at least silly fan fiction snips, the submission, Aquamarine gets arrested by a mall cop is about Topaz getting a microphone when Aquamarine goes missing so she can say, "Goodbye you little shit." The very next submission, Aquamarine's revenge, is about Aquamarine doing the same thing to yell, "FUCK YOU TOPAZ! FUCK YOU TOO!! The author deliberately wrote it just after reading the first one, making this an Invoked Trope.
- Faded Blue: In chapter 3, Steven gets a fish from a bird in the Lunar Sea Spire, and Blue Pearl stores it in her gem. In chapter 9, it shows up again – as a melee weapon against Garnet.
- At the end of the first arc of Hellsister Trilogy, Desaad makes a bad pun and Darkseid kills him, expecting his minion to not make more jokes using his name when he brings him back. Thirty-six chapters later, Darkseid has reassembled Desaad's atoms, and his minion is choosing his words very carefully so he doesn't get killed again.
- Adventures of a Super Family: In the third chapter, Clark Kent thinks: "[His mom] could hear fleas sneeze. Did fleas sneeze? He would have to ask Lana about that." At the end of the chapter, Lana Lang thinks: "Right, his mom was Superwoman! Which meant she could probably hear a flea sneeze on the other side of the town. Did fleas sneeze?"
- In Ten Random Characters, there are quite a few examples:
- In Chapter 7, Ike and Marth decide to watch Doctor Who after the rather odd circumstances leading to their love confession. In Chapter 18, they do so.
- Marth implies Soren is a bit of a Yandere towards Ike. When he is later summoned by Viridi, this is shown to be the case.
- Roy threatens to freeze Toon Link in one of the hypothetical situations in which Toon Link murdered Marth. Come Chapter 21, where Roy does this to Nana and Popo after insulting games which didn't get exported from Japan.
- Peach glares at Pit when complaining about people interrupting her in Chapter 12, which occured ten chapters earlier.
- In Chapter 15 of Total Drama Legacy, Jo gives Katherine a letter written by her wife Anne Maria, and tells her to deliver it to her father Ezekiel. When she finally delivers it to him, it's revealed to be a very Strongly Worded Letter filled with foul language, which also claims that Ezekiel "buys his kids Mega Bloks instead of Legos".
- Bad Press: The first questionable element in the fanfiction that Starscream comments on are "...lubricated ...rubber ...balls ...?" At the end, Megatron asks him if he'd ever consider using lubricated rubber balls in a situation implied to be sexual in nature.
- Unity (pink_shoes): Partway through the second chapter, Perceptor consumes two cubes of high-grade energon in rapid succession in order to deal with his colleagues arguing. At the end of the chapter, Optimus Prime notes that Perceptor is passed-out drunk.
- In Shatterheart, Kurogane always threatens to punch Fai, Sakura, or Syaoran in the face for doing something reckless and life-threatening. When Kurogane recovers from blood loss caused by cutting off his own arm in Nihon, the first thing Fai does is punch him across the face.
- In Tales of the Emperasque, when the Emperor meets with the Lords of Terra for the first time, he accidentally crashes Charter Captain's legs and Fabricator General promises to give the man rocket knees. Twenty or so chapters later, the Captain nearly crashes into a crowd of waiting officials, as he still can't control his new rocket knees.
- Discussed in part 1 of Hard Being Pure. When Dr. Evans goes through his list of healers to save Noa, he calls Padzahr, who invokes this trope as the reason he put his name on the list in the first place."I only ever put my name on this list as a brick joke. And here we are today, and I can cash in on that joke. Hilarious."
- X-Men: The Early Years provides several examples:
- In "Anger Management, Geeks, and Other Scarey Things", Scott admonishes Jean for punishing a pervert in front of witnesses instead of ambushing him in the dark. In "Can't Fight This Feeling," she's reminded of the need to dispose of the evidence in the events that she kills someone.
- In the beginning of "Boy Scouts, Sex, and Other Mysterious Things":Hank: How does being an agent of Satan pay these days?
Bobby: Pretty good. But [Scott]'s made my duties largely ceremonial, so I just don't get as much field work as I'd like. - And at the end of the episode:Bruno: (backing away from Bobby) Please, anyone but him! He's an agent of Satan!
Scott: Incarnation of Evil please. I'd like to think I have the major religions covered (thoughtfully) I've really got to put him back in the field. As a minion, it's a waste keeping him for ceremonial use only.
- A Mother's Touch: Yoko makes a joke to Yuto that there should be a sushi Xyz archetype because stacking fish over rice is like the Overlay Units of an Xyz monster. Two chapters later when she meets Reiji, she notices that there are notes for designing a sushi Xyz archetype.
