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* Robert Jordan beat this trope to death with the copious amounts of exposition in his ''[[The Wheel of Time|Wheel of Time]]'' series to recap events already firmly established in previous novels in the series, many of which was delivered through character dialogue; somewhat justified by the Door Stopper size of the series and difficulty in keeping track of the myriad of dangling plot threads.
* Subverted in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' books, whenever the scene includes Richard and two other mages. On finding some kind of magical oddity or artifact, the two or more learned mages will start talking to one another, entirely leaving out the "As You Know" bits...until Richard, who barely knows a thing about magic, tells them to stop and explain in terms he can follow.
* The novelization of the film ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]'' employs the conceit that it is just the latest volume of a large series of such books, and uses variations on this trope ("As faithful readers will recall from ''Bastardy Proved a Spur''...") to make bogus [[Continuity Nod]]s to events in the prior (non-existent) books.
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