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** The manga mentions that [[Memetic Mutation|they were barbequed potato chips.]] It's actually a relevant plot point because it ensures [[Crazy Prepared|no one will discover that little set up]], as no one else in his family will touch that flavor.
* The ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' [[OAV|OAVs]] and movie are based on (and mostly continuations of) the games. Somehow America got the former without the latter.
* Random splash pages in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' will be entirely dedicated to a character. When it's a main character (or a minor one with a decent amount of attention) like Erza or Elfman, it will tell you random things like how Erza terrorizes fashion designers into making her armor of Elfman once lost a bird and never realized the one he found was not the same. If it's a background character who get's roughly one line per arc (at best) It will give detail into their past and personality.
* Overall, the original [[Light Novel]] series of ''[[Slayers]]'' goes into detail of how the magic system and the like works better than the anime does, but not in clarity, as both forms of media tend to contradict themselves. The only true "manual" for the series is a long series of interviews by creator [[Word of God|Hajime Kanzaka]], and he [[Flip-Flop of God|flops around]] and [[Shrug of God|whimsily comes up with answers to questions]] to the point that he's making every potential canon fact up on the fly. The only truly solid facts are extended backstories of the main characters (especially important in regards to [[Idiot Hero]] Gourry because he is the only major character whose background gets no spotlight in any media). Even then, some incidents, such as Gourry and [[Shrinking Violet|Sylphiel's]] first meeting and Lina's great fear of her [[Aloof Big Brother|older sister]] are never explained.
** Also, there are two radio dramas that act as extensions of the ''Slayers Premium'' [[Non-Serial Movie]]; a prologue and an epilogue that both set the stage and tie up loose ends (including how {{spoiler|Naga sided with the [[Big Bad]] of the movie and how Amelia was saved after being blown off to an abandoned island}}); naturally, they're only availible in Japan. The manga adaptation as a whole does a better job at telling the story.
* Some information in ''[[Naruto]]'' can only be found in databooks. The different Bijuu were revealed in the databooks weeks before they were in the actual manga, and the names of the other Jinchuuriki and Kage's can only be found in the supplementary materials.
* At the end of every ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' volume, there is an [[Omake]] that may explain certain things that were not very obvious, such as how and why the 3rd, 4th and 9th were targeting each other, and how they began to focus on Yukki. It also gives a little background info on some of the other future diary holders.
** There is also ''Mosiac'' and ''Paradox'', which focus on the Ninth and Akise, giving more info on the Sixth as well.
* A few of [[Chibisan Date]]'s characters only appear in the author's blog.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'''s website gives extra information on the witches and their minions and familiars. To some extent, anything in [[Cypher Language|runes]] counts, as few viewers take the time to decode it.
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* In the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fanfic ''[[Deva Series|Academy Blues]]'' (As [[Lyrical Nanoha/Fanfic Recs|recommended here.]]) If you want to fully understand how some characters' powers work, and the personality of many of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], you need to read the review replies the author gives, as well as read the [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3510860/1/Academy_Blues_Side_Stories side stories for the series.] Which is ironic, given that the author [[Word of God|has declared his]] [[Pet Peeve Trope|dislike for this]].
* The same can be said of ''[[The Open Door]]'', at least in so far as knowing more things, though to Academia Nut's credit the main story is fully comprehensible without needing the [[Word of God]].
* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' and ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' has quite a considerable amount of extra info on their respective spacebattles.com threads
* A large amount of [[Company 0051]]'s background is detailed in supplementary artwork, including the history and locations of [[Halo|the Chief's]] scars and the names and designs of everyone in the encampment. It's well worth checking out.
* ''[[Renegade (fanfic)|Renegade]]'' features a number of Codex entries similar to the Codex in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' that details additional notes about the setting.
** This is actually a recurring trend in Mass Effect fanfiction. Particularly with Halo crossovers.
* In the [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]] fanfic Blood and Spirit, a chapter after the main story discusses how Arisa is able to maintain her existence as a ghost and how her powers work.
* Most of the world building in "[[Miracle Child]]" takes place on the work's tumblr rather than in the story itself. This is understandable, since bogging down the work with tidbits on how the [[Homestuck|Alternian Empire]] works and what the various canon characters are doing would quickly leave no room for the plot.
* The bonus chapter for Season Two of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' reveals [[Only Sane Man|Andy]] is homeschooled, and both him and Klein are named for their ([[Script Fic|proposed]]) voice actors (Andrew Lawrence and Robert Klein, respectively).
* In ''[[Stars Above]]'', a [[Intercontinuity Crossover|crossover]] between [[Lucky Star]] and [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]], {{spoiler|the true names, natures, and backstories of the Demons called the Nine are revealed almost exclusively through [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7920813/1/ the Demon Profiles], written in the style of the Witch Cards from the official Madoka website.}}
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* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' has an on-line guide explaining points that were left out of the film proper.
** ''Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide'' was a book released for this purpose. Some editions of the DVD and Blu-Ray include the guide as an extra.
** Why they even want the '[[Unobtanium]]' in the first place (a room temperature superconductor - restored to the actual film in the collector's edition).
* When ''[[The Truman Show]]'' arrived in theaters, a companion book marketed as an in-universe supplement to the show was released which contained a copy of the screenplay as well as detailed background information about the setting and each of the various characters who appear both as "actors" and as audience members in the film.
* ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]''. The novelization provides some altered scenes, including introducing a subplot where West claims while surviving on his own he befriended a native shaman, who later appeared as Jim fell off the giant spider to revive him.
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** Not to mention the huge glossaries at the end of each book.
* Canon arguments are raging over the ''[[Dune]]'' universe, with the recent revelation that Frank Herbert's notes used by other authors to complete the ''Dune'' novels and write prequels were nowhere near as extensive as first claimed. As a result, some fans now refuse to consider any of the prequel or sequel novels by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert as canon, due to the extensive level of personal invention they brought to the setting.
* A lot of the incidental information regarding characters both major and minor (including blood status, full names, birthdates, and so on) in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' has been revealed either on [[J. K. Rowling]]'s website or in her many interviews. [[Broken Base|Some fans]] don't like Rowling's [[Word of God|pronouncements]] regarding some of this information, to the point of actually claiming that [[Fan Dumb|Rowling doesn't have the right to decide such things,]] [[Death of the Author|since Harry Potter is bigger than any mere writer]]. The statement that [[Word of Gay|Dumbledore was gay]] was more covered by press than any plot element included in the books.
** Two supplemental books were also published, ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]'' and ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'', both of which are [[Defictionalization|also books in-universe]].
* Some of the canon background notes and secret information regarding [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' universe has only ever been published in the long-out-of-print and now nearly-unacquirable ''Ringworld'' roleplaying game.
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** The exact layout of the systems that make up Alliance territory was eventually revealed when the "Official Map of the Verse" was released. It shows that Alliance territory is divided into a complex, multi-starsystem cluster with five star systems and a number of smaller protostars, with four smaller systems orbiting one massive supergiant, around which the Central Planets orbit.
* ''[[Degrassi]]'': Whether the original or Next Generation, you always learn more about the characters from the website, DVD extras, and tie-in novels than you EVER would just watching the show. Melanie wanting to be a professional writer, or Liberty being a year younger than anyone else, for example...
* The full rules of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' are never fully disclosed during the show, and many rules are only brought up when a team breaks them.
** A rather heartbreaking elimination by lost passport (rendered all the more heartbreaking by the fact that the team in question had finished the leg first before they discovered it was missing) was properly explained in an online video, where the team admits that they took a wrong turn and must have lost the passport in the dark (which also justified not showing it in the actual episode).
* The motivations of the players of ''[[Survivor]]'' are often utterly inexplicable to those who have not watched the supplementary videos on CBS's website (and sometimes remain inexplicable even then until interviews with the players after the game has ended make things more clear). This is often the case for 24/7 [[Reality TV]] shows which only use a tiny percentage of their filmed footage to form the narrative of the show.
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** [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]'s ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]''.
** The booklet for Savatage's ''[[Streets: A Rock Opera]]'' provides both the story and a number of details concerning DT Jesus not found in the lyrics.
* The albums of [[The Protomen]] are packaged with liner notes containing pages of narration and stage direction which are not included in the music proper.
** It is not too hard to grasp the story, although details will be lost without the notes. The first track of the first album begins with a narrator telling of Dr. Light building Protoman to fight an oppressive robot empire led by Wily. Proto Man dying is clearly told. Then comes an instrumental, followed by Light arguing with Mega Man about fighting and why he believes it is useless. The next two songs are of Mega Man deciding to fight and his lust for vengeance. Finally [[Face Heel Turn]] Protoman's speech and their battle. The second album can clearly be conveyed to be of first "Tom" being betrayed by his friend while building a mechanical work force, then being framed for murder, then a youth fleeing the oppressed city, then the two teaming up and trying to start a revolution. As said, things like why Light built Mega Man and how the "revolution" occurred can only be understood from the notes.
* [[The Monkees|Michael Nesmith's]] 1974 album ''The Prison'' was famously marketed as "a book with a soundtrack." That is, the album was packaged with an actual novella (written by Nesmith), and you're supposed to read it as you listen to the album. 20 years later he tried that format again with ''The Garden''.
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* Almost all traditional [[Theatrical Productions]] have this to an extent--whereas a film or TV series have credits in them, and books feature acknowledgements, etc. etc., if one wants to know who the cast and crew of a particular production are, or sometimes even what the setting is, one needs to have a program from that production (or look it up online...), which will have all that listed. With the exception of ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'', no shows generally use title cards to indicate things, and with the exception of ''[[Passing Strange]]'', no show usually has the names of the cast and crew listed aloud at any time during the run.
* If you want to completely understand the underlying themes, vague plots, and significance of all - well, most of - the peculiar characters and acts in a given [[Cirque Du Soleil]] show, you will probably have to buy the souvenir program and/or explore the official website. According to the 20th anniversary book ''20 Years Under the Sun'', the creators prefer that people watch the more abstract shows (such as those of director Franco Dragone) and create their own interpretations of them rather than have the creators' ideas in mind all along.
* In [[The Drowsy Chaperone]], Man-in-Chair never names Trix or Geroge's actors, but the CD case to the 2006 recording gives them names. Because this could have been created for the CD alone, it could also be considered [[Loose Canon]].
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** ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' has an amazingly complex (not to mention amazingly ridiculous) storyline, for example, but you wouldn't know it from playing the game. Not to mention the players don't find out which characters' endings are canon until the next game in the series is released. Mostly the main plot involves [[The Starscream|someone betraying someone else]] and trying to conquer the multiverse, only to be betrayed, only for the betrayer to be betrayed, only for the original betrayer taking back his throne, rinsing and repeating. Everything else involves the heroes trying to defeat/free themselves from the current overlord, and being blindsided by the next usurper. This one doesn't resemble the movies at all, either.
*** The [[Gambit Pileup]] is extremely hilariously [[Lampshaded]] in the intro movie of ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]]'': ''Everyone in the series'' is attempting to rush towards and climb some sort of ziggurat, happily killing each other along the way.
** ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' is an example of a fighting game that ''tries'' to explain everything in-game, but due to lack of dialogue, multiple plot threads, and a cut sequence, it still requires [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/modea/modea17.html the explanation page] on the game's official website for a reasonable understanding of the plot. Most notably, because a scene featuring Meta Knight and King Dedede was cut from the game, you'd never know how the Subspace Army obtained the battleship Halberd, or how {{spoiler|Dedede knew about Tabuu}}.
*** Furthermore, the only way that one can find out the actual names of the Special Attacks for all of the characters is by either reading the instruction manual (which is incomplete as it lacks certain characters) or visiting the aforementioned official website for ''Super Smash Bros.'' This is averted for the original ''Super Smash Bros.'' (Nintendo 64), however, as animations accompanied by the Special Attack names are briefly shown at intervals when one reads the biographies found in the Data section.
** The ''[[Rival Schools]]'' series simultaneously averts and plays this trope straight. On one hand, the fighting portions of each game have introductions, cutscenes and endings that (for the most part) explain what's going on and the motivations behind most of the characters' actions; on the other, the [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] character creation modes in each game actually reveals even more background info about each character, as well as little known facets of their personalities (though none of it is required to understand the story). If you only play the games in English, you'd never guess [[Gentle Giant]] Boman is a fan of sunbathing, or [[Musical Assassin]] Yurika can identify a person by the ''[[Super Senses|sound of their footsteps]]''.
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** Western text-only computer games used passages from the manual for anti-piracy, but the [[Infocom]] games often included toy-like extras to the game. Most were for amusement or to flesh out an idea in the game, but occasionally something, such as a map, would contain very important information.
*** On the other hand, nearly all of the second-generation (SCI) and third-generation (SCIV) Sierra games that don't have actual copy protection claim, right at the start, that you need "information from the manual" to complete the game, whereas in fact that isn't true. In some cases you do need [[Guide Dang It|information from the hint line]], though.
* While it's not critical to playing the games, the [[King's Quest]] manuals have massive amounts of [[Backstory]] and character notes. The Peter Spear player's guide cranks it [[Up to Eleven]] with a creation myth for the universe the series is set in, documents "written" by the characters, and a fictional history of Daventry. And that's not even touching the [[Fanon]] on the universe...
* The manual for [[Sid Meier]] games, particularly the original Pirates, [[Shown Their Work|are loaded with historically-accurate details]] about the era you're playing, including Silver Train and Treasure Fleet routes, information on known pirates of the era, detailed notes on the cities, and commentary on the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the era's firearms!
* Important new plot points are set up in the [[Limited Special Collectors Ultimate Edition|Japanese only special editions]] of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Not Japanese? [[No Export for You|No story expansion for you.]]
** You also need [[Chain of Memories|the spinoff on the GBA]] to understand some of the plot points of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' -- which is a [[PlayStation 2]] game like the first.
*** In an odd surprise from [[Square Enix]], ''Re: Chain of Memories'' was released in North America in December 2008 (but not in Europe, because [[Memetic Mutation|Square-Enix really hates Europe]]). For the unaware, this is a remake of said GBA game, but on the PS2, and in Japan it came bundled with the [[Updated Rerelease]] of KHII.
*** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* [[Square Enix]]'s "Ultimania" series. These monstrous manuals easily contain a hundred pages for a ''short'' book. Most of them are suitably [[Doorstopper|doorstoppers]] and are packed with all of the information anyone could ever want about the game and its storyline. Unfortunately, it's all in Japanese so it is up to the kindness of fan translators for this information to be shared for a broader audience.
** On a similar note, the ''Reunion Files'' book is essentially ''Ultimania'' for ''FFVII: Advent Children''. It further explains several plot elements, such as who the Remnants are and {{spoiler|the fact that they're actually inadvertently undertaking Sephiroth's will}}, amongst other things. Mercifully, it's in both Japanese and English, and a lot more is covered in the more readily-available ''Advent Children Complete'', but it's still annoying that it's only conventionally available in Japan.
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*** That said, the more basic information about it really is [[All There in the Manual]].
*** Or, more simply, [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/story/index.html here].
** This is made glaringly obvious when certain characters or subplots become relevant to the main storyline, and suddenly some fully-developed characters will show up in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' without their full backstory being given. Half of the story in the Sunwell Plateau dungeon, covering the adventures of Anveena Teague and Kalecgos, is only found in ''[[The Sunwell Trilogy]]'', a manga series released several years before the dungeon. Anyone who did the dungeon without reading the book saw a few conversations between Kaelcgos and a girl in a bubble who loved him without knowing that {{spoiler|Anveena is the human embodiment of the energy of the destroyed Sunwell}}. It is why her "explosion" helps end the encounter.
** The entirety of the Nerubian race's political system, motivations, and personality is found outside the game. In the game there's only one with a speaking part, and it's just about a quest like any other npc.
** Ditto as for why people are supposed to invade the Obsidian Sanctum, a sacred place to the black dragons where there is supposed to be no conflict, and kill a dragon who's defending a clutch of eggs. This is because they're twilight dragon eggs, and their presence indicates that the dragon Deathwing is working against the other dragonflights. The red dragonflight is using you as a proxy because they can't directly confront the black dragonflight about it. But the dungeon just showed up after a patch without any of this explanation.
** The Dungeon Journal often reveals details about bosses that don't come up in the game, particularly for those that don't appear in Expanded Universe works. For example, Asira Dawnslayer's entry reveals that she was a mercenary who worked for the Twilight Hammer Cult, then was slowly corrupted until she [[Meaningful Rename|changed her name from Sunbright to Dawnslayer]].
** Perhaps the most egregious example is the return of King Varian Wrynn. To sum up, since the game was first released, there had always been a long and involved questline involving finding out what happened to the missing king. This quest line cut off suddenly at around level 30 with the capture of someone that might have some information, and a letter to the player saying that they would be called on again when the prisoner divulged his information. Fast-forward several years and the quest line was slightly expanded, only to dead-end again with no real conclusion. In Wrath of the Lich King, the king was suddenly back with (from the perspective of someone who doesn't follow the [[Expanded Universe]]) no explanation whatsoever. Why? Because they literally took a quest that had been left dangling in-game for four years and concluded it in the comic book series, in which the missing king is the main character.
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** Even more so, the original ''Halo'' begins with the characters having just discovered the installation. What happened before that is covered in ''[[Halo The Fall Of Reach]]''. Another novel, ''[[First Strike]]'', explains what happened between the first and second games (like Johnson's survival), and ''[[Halo the Flood]]'' explains why no one else survived the events of the first game and goes into detail about the Flood and Covenant.
** Only the extended fiction explains why the powerful and numerous Brutes are not seen in the first game.
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' is notorious for this: the significance of Dr. Halsey, why she distrusts Noble Team, the {{spoiler|Forerunner artefact, Cortana, the ''Pillar of Autumn''}}, and even the ''setting'' won't make full sense unless you've played the first game and read both ''[[The Fall of Reach]]'' and ''[[Ghosts of Onyx]]''.
*** Even if you have, you'll also need to read Halsey's Journal (which only came with the Limited/Legendary edition of the game), [http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 this in-universe communication] on Bungie's official website, ''and'' the 2010/2011 reprint of ''The Fall of Reach'', in order to settle ''Halo: Reach'''s apparent contradictions with earlier EU material.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'' and its sequel ''Radiant Dawn'' had its backstory explained at the official Japanese website for the series, namely {{spoiler|that <s>Sephiran</s> Lehran and Altina founded Begnion together and they were the first couple to bear a Branded child.}}
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** One can play through the game without reading the codex at all, but it does kind of beg to be read (with the flashing every time you pause). It's kind of an instance where more detail becomes available as you learn about things (ie, Joker explains the Normandy's stealth drives a bit, the codex provides a bit more), and not so much where you have to read the codex to understand stuff. However, at the end of the game, having read the codex articles on the Protheans helps make things make more sense.
** The comic book series ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' (an official prequel to ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'') explains {{spoiler|Liara}}'s attempts to get Shepard's body back from the Shadow Broker in much greater detail, and how {{spoiler|she first met Feron}}. The DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker" references, but doesn't fully explain, the events mentioned in the comic series.
** One tie-in novel, ''[[Mass Effect: Retribution|Retribution]]'', finally explains fully one of the major mysteries of the second game: why are the Reapers {{spoiler|converting humans into a Reaper}}? The answer: because organic life is short and imperfect, the Reapers think they're doing us a ''favor'' by {{spoiler|granting us an immortal existence as one of them}}.
*** ''Retribution'' only confirmed speculation after ''Mass Effect 2''. Harbinger's lines, such as {{spoiler|"we are the harbinger of their ascension"}} and {{spoiler|"[we] are your salvation through destruction"}} make more sense, but it was fairly clear what was going on. Again, this is a case of expanding on something that was briefly covered in the games.
* ''[[Xenogears]]'' had {{spoiler|most of its entire second disk}} removed from the plot due to rushed development, and much of its plot only becomes clear in the [[No Export for You|Japanese-only]] Perfect Works. Thankfully, it has been [http://www.flickr.com/photos/29956195@N08/sets/72157616593453778/ been translated into English].
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* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' author Jeph Jacques has constantly put in bits and pieces about how the AI's in the comic (AnthroPC's, etc.) function, and after 8 years, finally gave a full rundown in the commentary section of [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1996 this comic.]
* ''[[Adventure Dennis]]'' has its final chapter devoted to an "information booklet" that reveals some information about the story and specifically acts like an old game manual.
* [[Maggot Boy]] has a [http://maggot-boy.com/extra.html written version] that goes into a lot more detail than the comic. Sketches on the artist's deviantart page also give information on some of the characters before the events of the comic.
* Was originally true in [[Collar 6]], with the website containing an "About" section...until the entire section was retconned out of existence (its still there, though). For the most part the author considers anything outside of the comic itself, even coming directly from [[Word of God]], to be non-canon. On some occasions he's even gotten mad because various side-comments he made about the comic were referenced as [[Word of God]] on [[This Very Wiki]].
* [[Universal Compass]] has a lot of this in the comments below the webcomic page due to the complexity of the plot.
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** As of 2010, there's also an artbook, which shows, among other things, the evolution of the character designs, background art, storyboards, sketches, and a ton of other stuff, including a little bit more in-universe background info.
* A lot of character and setting details for ''[[Transformers]]'' are only found with the back-of-the-box toy descriptions for the characters and profiles released as supplementary material, occasionally with characters who never even made it into the show itself.
** ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' also had a bit of this as well, one example would be the Dreadlok Buzzer whom was a disgruntled former Sociology professor in Cambridge England. Before he joined the Dreadnoks Richard "Buzzer" Blinken was a sociology college professor in England whom got in trouble because the college he worked at did not like his "extremist left-wing political beliefs". Buzzer wanted to do some research on Australian Biker gangs in which he ended up being a part of the very thing he was researching when he joined the Dreadnoks.
** It should be noted that the box bios often have their own canon and storyline that might match the show's events, but for the most part writes it's own story. This is especially obvious in the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' toys. Since only 20 characters or so were introduced in the series, and dozens were created for the toyline, the differences are expected. Also, in the beginning the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' were set to take place after the Autobot-Decepticon war, among the humans. The early toys reference this, and the characters who appear in the show often have an entirely different characterization in their initial bios.
** The ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' [[Running the Asylum|writing and art staff]] actually sat down and ''wrote'' a pair of manuals. The Allspark Almanac I and II are a pair of incredibly detailed books about the characters, setting, and plot devices in the show, including a lot of things that most cartoon writers would never think about in the first place. It's also ridiculously geeky.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] (a bit more literally) in ''[[Toy Story]] 2'', when Rex discovers the player's guide to a video game he's been trying to beat. He cries indignantly, "They make it so [[Guide Dang It|you can't beat the game unless you buy this book]]! It's extortion, is what it is." Later in the film, the tip on how to beat the game (enter the villain's lair through a secret side entrance) is used in the real world when the toys sneak into their own villain's apartment.
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* The book six of the series [[Hey Arnold!]]:[http://www.amazon.com/Arnold-Arnolds-Files-Groening-Bartlett/dp/0439381495/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Arnold's E-Files] confirms that Brainy is in love with Helga and that he has [[Hidden Depths]].
* Many "Art of" Disney books contain information that wasn't mentioned in their films.
* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has a tie-in comic, like most DC [[Animated Adaptation|animated adaptations]], but theirs is co-written by writers and producers from the series and goes into details like why the Justice League abandoned their headquarters at Mt. Justice, how Artemis found the battle with A.M.A.Z.O., and just ''why'' [[Superboy]] hates monkeys so much.
* ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'' has the [http://crewofomens.tumblr.com Crew Of Omens Blog] where they take questions and hold chats, and the [http://soundslikejeff.wordpress.com/ Sound Designers' Blog], where they detail the sound art created for the show.
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' has tie-in comics containing stories and bios that confirm such details as the Crimson Dynamo's real name, [[Iron Man (film)|Ivan Vanko]], and the identity of the "giant robot" [[Iron Man]] fought in his first episode, Ultimo. They also record the capturing of some criminals whose defeats did not receive inclusion in the show's 52 episodes.
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