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*** It could also be a suggestion that up until then, the question was unanswered -- the vigilantes were mostly ungoverned. {{spoiler|Then Ozymandias manipulates them all, showing that he was watching and controlling the "watchmen."}} The question was only shown when it had been answered.

*** There's also an interview with Alan Moore somewhere where he mentioned a possible double meaning: not who watches to see if the watchmen are criminals, but who watches them to look after them and take care of them. The question within the story is the first meaning, going unasked because {{spoiler|someone already is. Afterwards, it's Alan Moore telling the reader that ''no one'' takes care of the watchmen, hence their various psychological issues and the slaughter of Manhattan.}} Heavy.

** Also, "Barbelith."

* ''[[Blackest Night]]'': '''RISE.'''

* In ''[[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]'' highly trained assassins known as The Minutemen are brainwashed into forgetting their time as killers only to be "awakened" by the use of the cryptic word "Croatoa". This is eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|part of a larger conspiracy involving the founding of the United States of America.}}

* The phrase "The Crimson Hand" kept cropping up in the post-Donna ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip, along with the Arc Image of, well, a crimson hand. Eventually revealed as {{spoiler|a ruthless gang Majenta Pryce was a member of, prior to ''Hotel Historia''}}.

* In ''[[Deadpool]]'', during Chris Priest's run. Occasionally, whenever things would get dramatic, Deadpool would say "None of this is actually happening. Somewhere, there's a guy with a typewriter..."

** ''"This is the story of the Green Scar. The Eye of Anger, the Worldbreaker... Harkanon, Haarg, Holku... '''HULK.''' And how he finally came home."'' (repeated at both the beginning and end of the story)

** Sakaarson and Worldbreaker.