For a fanfic that was started in 2012, Paranormalities shares a few things in common with official works (both Canon and Legends) that came out after certain chapters.
- In Chapter 8 of Episode I, Grein takes a bit of amusement from being reminded that humans don't tolerate cold temperatures as well as Chiss when she sees Zolph freezing in Polus's weather, and Zolph complains his species didn't adapt to it like hers did. Come Episode II, and it is revealed that Zolph is descended from Grein, meaning he is part Chiss himself, but apparently didn't inherit her low-temperature tolerance.
- Introduced during the summer of 2012, Gahmah Raan invited some comparisons to Deadpool. A few months later, Disney (who owns Marvel and by extension, Deadpool), bought Lucasfilm. It was taken even further in late 2017 when Disney also purchased 20th Century Fox, who not only originally had the distribution rights to Star Wars, but the X-Men film franchise, and Deadpool by extension.
- Episode II - Chapter 10 - published in December 2013 - revealed that Grein, a Chiss, is a distant ancestor to Zolph, a human. Little more than half a year later, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) featured a human protagonist that had a blue-skinned Rubber-Forehead Alien for a surrogate father.
- Episode II introduced R9-C4 - a homicidal astromech droid with Comedic Sociopathy tendencies - in early 2013 as a recurring character. A year and a half later, Star Wars Rebels introduced Chopper, another astromech droid that was later revealed to have some Heroic Comedic Sociopath tendencies and suspected to be a former assassin droid, and in 2015, Star Wars: Darth Vader introduced an assassin droid disguised as an astromech droid who was decommissioned for being too homicidal.
- Grein's cross-guard lightsaber with four quillions was originally designed as a Shout-Out to No More Heroes. Come the first teaser for The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren is shown to wield a cross-guard lightsaber with two quillions. Cross-guard lightsabers may have already existed in Legends before both Paranormalities and The Force Awakens, but Kylo's version is more similar to Grein's.
- Relatedly, Grein being a Chiss Jedi that wields a cross-guard lightsaber living her life outside the Order becomes this after the Light vs. Dark event in The Old Republic, with the Light Side reward character, Dazh Ranos, being a female Chiss Jedi that has decided to do good outside of the Order's jurisdiction and wields two cross-guard sabers (which are based on Kylo Ren's with two quillions, but blue and fully functional), which is as close as you can get to Grein's four-quillion design if they could be combined into one weapon.
- Emperor Valkor and the Valkoran Empire have become this after the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion "Knights of the Fallen Empire" at E3 2015. Said expansion features an Emperor named Valkorion, a so-called immortal emperor who leads a long-hidden empire operating in the Unknown Regions and supposedly using the Empire of Zakuul for a greater purpose, not unlike Valkor and his empire. However, one of the major differences - aside from their focus stories taking place in different eras - is that while Valkorion seems to be a human Abusive Parent, Valkor doesn't have any known children (unless you count other Forceless symbiotes spawned from him) and he's most certainly not human. In the end, it turned out Valkorion isn't quite human himself - he is another avatar of the Sith Emperor, who used to be a human or near so about a thousand years ago, but now is an Eldritch Abomination with Omnicidal Maniac goals. Even further, both characters use avatars to present themselves and operate in multiple places at once while keeping their true selves in the shadows. Two more differences come in that Valkor is a dead spot in the Force while Valkorion is a Dark Force user (although one sometimes called a hole in the Force), and then their goals differ: Valkorion is an Omnicidal Maniac whereas Valkor wants to assimilate people to maintain order. Similar to Valkorion for Vitiate, Episode III's prologue reveals that Valkor is also just an alias for Yalbdalaoth, albeit one stolen from the real Valkor Vangeli while - according Admon Onae - having his body used as a puppet leader for the Forceless Collective.
- Episode II - Chapter 12
- Zolph encounters Rakan the Devourer, a cannibalistic Karkarodon serial killer who claimed that if he ate Zolph and his midichlorians, he'd become a Force user. Zolph, knowing how stupid that sounds, responds "For the love of.... the Force does not work that way!" In The Force Awakens, when Finn comes up with an obviously half-assed plan to destroy Starkiller Base by "using the Force" to figure it out, a world-weary Han Solo replies "That's not how the Force works!" That line became a Memetic Mutation in regards to common misconceptions out-of-universe not long after the film came out.
- Rakan being a cannibalistic Karkarodon (and there being an In-Universe stereotype about the species eating other sentients) becomes this after Dooku: Jedi Lost. In the flashbacks of that story, after an encounter with a group of criminals that included a Karkarodon, Dooku assures Jenza that they don't normally find humans very appetizing.
- Episode II - Chapter 17 featured an older fleet admiral in command of the largest ship in his faction's fleet who then carried out a Heroic Sacrifice against an even larger enemy target by using an unorthodox ramming tactic with successful results. Are we talking about Admiral Marx Gravlek or Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo?
- The Running Gag of Gahmah Raan wearing his helmet almost all the time and his contempt towards Mandalorians becomes even more hilarious after the debut of The Mandalorian, where the titular character (who also happens to be a bounty hunter trying to make ends meet like Gahmah) refuses to take off his helmet in front of others. However, the comparison combined with Gahmah's reason for always wearing a helmet (frequently suffering head or face injuries when he doesn't) becomes Harsher in Hindsight when the Mandalorian himself suffers a head injury during the first season finale and would have died from it had it not been for a loophole in the Mandalorian code that allowed IG-11 to remove his helmet and treat the injury, because unlike Gahmah (whose injuries are usually Played for Laughs due to his Healing Factor), Din Djarin is human and cannot naturally regenerate rapidly.
- In Chapter 2 of Episode III, it's discussed that one of the things that makes the Forceless Collective a dangerous and unpredictable enemy is that they can ignore the established rules of hyperspace travel by not using hyperspace to travel, which allows them to do things such as jumping out of places outside hyperspace routes or warping their forces inside gravity wells. Three years later, Star Wars: The High Republic introduced the Nihil, whose threat comes from the fact that they can travel through hyperspace in ways that straight up break the established rules of hyperspace travel in similar applications to the Collective's wormhole traveling.
- Relatedly, The High Republic introduced the Nameless, eldritch creatures that seemingly have an insatiable hunger for the Force that drives them to attack Force-users and can cause psychological anguish with their presence alone. Before the Nameless's nature was further expanded upon in Phase I's last stories, Paranormalities established that Jedi feel an emptiness in the Force with Forceless (similar to Jedi being cut off from the Force by the Nameless) and that to Forceless, that emptiness can turn into a craving that drives them to possess living beings.
- Machinus's real name is Cid Geero, who was introduced in 2013, being a Shout-Out to the Final Fantasy games, which had at least one character named "Cid" per installment. Eight years later, Star Wars: The Bad Batch would introduce a character also named Cid, albeit without a surname at the time she was introduced (which is a hilarious inverse of the Valkor-Valkorion situation before, where Valkor was given a surname after the latter character was introduced to make them easier to distinguish). The next season would give Cid a surname in "Scaleback" and reveal that "Cid" is just a shortened version of her first name "Cidarrin".
- In Chapter 11 of Episode II, Gahmah Raan tries to one-up Boba Fett's claim-to-fame of escaping the Sarlacc's stomach by claiming he killed one. The Book of Boba Fett (which takes place in Canon whereas Paranormalities is a Legends-set fanfic) shows in flashbacks that Boba presumably killed the Sarlacc when he escaped from it by burning it from the inside and making a hole in its stomach. However, it's later revealed that the Sarlacc survived that, only for him and Fennec Shand to kill it for good years later.
- Just a few hours before the first episode of The Book of Boba Fett released on Disney+, the fourth chapter of Paranormalities: Episode III was posted online. On the DeviantArt version (and on social media), Author!Gahmah (who has long since become aware of how his work keeps getting subject to this trope) musefully wonders just how different his depiction of a Sarlacc's stomach would be from The Book of Boba Fett (which is a lot given the Sarlacc's size and genre difference), which would go on to show Boba's escape. Even more amusing, both stories would feature their respective Sarlaccs (both which had a previous basis in both Canon and Legends) being killed from the inside by their respective protagonists.
