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**** Don't forget {{spoiler|Arthur's continued bad luck throughout the sixth book give Agrajag a happy ending}}
** Contained in ''So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish'', Arthur and Fenchurch's first [[Mile-High Club|session]] is noted by a passenger on [[Look Ma, No Plane|a passing plane]], who is immensely relieved to find out that the world is nothing like she imagined. Towards the end of the novel, Arthur and Fenchurch are flying home from California, and are approached by the same passenger (who has been giving them odd looks throughout the flight) with the question "Do you two fly a lot?"
* [[Timothy Zahn]] is good at these. In ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' the thing Luke found on Dagobah, and Thrawn's vague hints about his plans, became important in the ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' duology. Of course, there are still [[What Happened to
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series uses this trope extensively, with minor details in one book become important plot points in later books. For example, a brief biography of Albus Dumbledore given in the first book mentions that he defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald. It is not until the final chapter in the final book of the series that the reader learns {{spoiler|that Dumbledore had been a close friend of Grindelwald when he was young and that his defeat of Grindelwald brought him into possession of the Elder Wand, a wand of immense power that Lord Voldemort grows to covet.}}
** {{spoiler|In fact, most of the important reveals in the seventh book are call backs to previously mentioned objects, characters, and information.}}
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** Then we have the first Snitch Harry ever caught, and the throwaway mention of Regulus, the diary, AND the locket. Then there's the motorcycle, the casual mention of Sirius in the very first chapter of the first book... Rowling loves these.
** In ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', when Mr. Weasely is in St. Mungo's, one of the portraits is absolutely convinced Ron has a deadly disease called spattergroit. In the seventh book, {{spoiler|Ron's cover story for running away to look for Horcruxes with Harry and Hermione is that he has spattergroit. He, Fred, and George charm the ghoul in the attack to have red hair and pustules.}}
* Used extensively (and hilariously) in ''[[Dirk
** For that matter, practically the entire book is like that. Almost any throwaway line anywhere in the book has some bearing on either plot, characters or backstory. Some just make better sense of other things, some are subtle foreshadowing, and some reappear long after you've forgotten them. It makes for a good second read.
** Since the plot involves {{spoiler|time travel}}, bricks fly in both directions.
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld
** An earlier brick joke would be in ''[[Discworld
*** This becomes a [[Running Gag]] throughout the series after the Librarian refuses to be turned back into a human.
** An example happens in ''[[Discworld
** Another one occurs in ''[[Discworld
*** There was also {{spoiler|"come on if you think you're hard enough"}}.
** The final battle between Mort and Death in the book ''[[Discworld
** In one Discworld book we're told that Rincewind could scream in panic in seceral languages, and that this is an important skill to have since while to us "ARGH!" might just be a panicked scream, in some languages it's a phrase translating into "Your wife is a great big hippo!" Later, something scary happens. How does Rincewind react?
{{quote| "'Your wife is a great big hippo!" Rincewind said. }}
** In ''[[Discworld
** A very early Rincewind book featured the line ''"!" said Rincewind''. In ''Interesting Times'', he sees the pictogram in Agatean that's equivalent to an exclamation point, which looks like a dog urinating, and in a moment of surprise we get ''"Oh, urinating dog," said Rincewind''.
** Early in ''[[Discworld
** Early in ''[[Discworld
** In the beginning of ''[[Discworld
*** Perhaps the biggest, it's mentioned at the end of ''[[Discworld
**** With only slightly less of a delay: It's mentioned in ''[[Discworld
** In ''[[All There in the Manual|Nanny Ogg's Cookbook]]'', a recipe for peppermint candies provided by the Master of Assassins is accompanied by strong editorial warnings ''not'' to include one of the listed ingredients, which is arsenic. Much later in the book, an illustration shows a rat holding a peppermint while the Death of Rats peers over its shoulder, which is captioned: "We really meant that about the arsenic."
* Another Terry Pratchett book, ''[[Nation]]'', makes a joke about Mrs. Ethel J. Bundy's Birthday Island early on. In the second-last chapter, {{spoiler|it turns out to be a real place}}.
* In the first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, it's established that during the war against Panis Rahl, the [[Evil Overlord]] had cursed all the red fruit grown in the Midlands to be poisonous, and nobody has been able to undo it. This isn't brought up again for the rest of the series until {{spoiler|the last book, when Richard, after using the Power of Orden, reveals among the other wrongs he's set right, he's undone the enchantment on the red fruit.}}
* In ''[[
** In another chapter, the book talks about the tabloid that [[Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse|War]] moonlights as a War Correspondent for (she always seems to be the first wherever a war breaks out. ''before'' it happens, even!), and talks about the kind of outlandish articles it usually publishes. The book mentions that one of the example stories is actually true, and later in the story quietly shows you which one it is.
*** That particular brick actually hits '''twice'''.
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* In Anthony Horowitz's ''The Night of the Scorpion'', the first chapter shows the main character and his sidekick travelling to South America from England. During the flight, the sidekick tries to learn some Spanish, but the only sentence he can get right is "Una cabra se comió mi pasaporte" ("A goat ate my passport"). Cue the last chapter, weeks later, the characters are resting in a farm and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the guy goes to fetch his passport in his room...]]
* In [[Leven Thumps]], Leven's favourite number is 11. {{spoiler|Not only is his name E. Leven, but it takes 11 thumps to knock down the tree and save the world.}}
* In the opening chapter of ''Aurora i Holland'', Anne-Cath Vestly throws a brick at the final line in the book. Aurora's grandmother is concerned about the girl turning into a tiny adult with no time to be a kid, so her father tells Aurora to go out and play and "be a kid". After pondering these cryptic words, Aurora goes to her BFF and asks he to come out and ''play kids''. After they spend a chapter trying to find out how to play at being kids (!), the main plot kicks in to take Aurora and her family to [[Exactly What It Says
{{quote| "Tomorrow we can play you-know-what."<br />
"What?"<br />
"Kids." }}
* In the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book "It Came From Beneath the Sink", the "Encyclopedia of the Weird" is consulted to identify the titular creature. When it is mentioned that the monster is a Grool, it is pointed out on the bright side it's not the more dangerous Lanx. At the end of the story, the protagonist is confronted with a Lanx.
* [[
* In his autobiography ''Anything Goes,'' [[John Barrowman]] mentions that he has never had any children, and he's absolutely sure of it. Several chapters later, he discusses being a gay man and having a girlfriend, who (and I paraphrase) "only convinced him that he was a player for the boys' team. And now [[I Know You Know|you know how I know]] that I don't have any kids."
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