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* ''[[Zork]]'' has "Hello, Sailor!". For the uninitiated, this phrase appears on the instructions for use of a small inflatable raft in the first installment of the series. Typing it into the game results in the same response as to any attempt to use cheat codes such as 'xyzzy'. It appears to be a throwaway joke. Then you meet a Viking sailor in the third game, who gives you an invisibility potion if you say "Hello, Sailor!" when he appears.

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' has a case of a bouncing brick. The issue of {{spoiler|a spirit medium taking on the appearance of the person she channels}} comes up in case 2-2 (Phoenix proves that's not what happened) and it proves a casual joke in 3-3. In 3-5, however, {{spoiler|it becomes the only possible explanation for why Iris can be in two places at once--someone else is channeling the spirit of her twin sister Dahlia.}}

* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', there's an obnoxious reporter who tries her hardest to make you look bad and twist your words with her snide insinuations. A renegade option lets you punch her. In the sequel, once again she tries to interview you, leading to you getting fed up with her disingenuous assertions and knocking her to the ground again, but this time with blood!

{{quote|"I should have done that the first time."}}

*** One more serious one comes up as well. Towards the end of the first one, {{spoiler|the leader of the Salarian Commandos gives a rousing speech ending with "Our influence will stop Saren, in the battle today, we will hold the line!"}} Later, in Mass Effect 2, {{spoiler|if Salarian commando Mordin Solus is killed, his last words are: "Tell them... I held the line."}}

**** Mordin actually served under that guy and even mentioned his love of rousing speeches and saying Hold The Line.

* In ''[[Xenosaga]] 3'', there's a scene where your party runs through a city that has turned into a battlefield during a return-to-the-past kind of thing. MOMO pushes down Jr to avoid a falling ''BFG'' and they end up on the ground. Jr looks up and sees ES Asher, resident ''[[Humongous Mecha]]'', flying away. He shouts at its pilot to watch where he's fighting and chaos, laying on the ground at his feet, apologized. Doesn't make sense unless you have played the previous game in the series. If you have, you'll recognize the BFG as the one he and Canaan threw away when they were piloting Asher into Miltia 15 years ago.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series has a variation, and something of an [[Easter Egg]], spanning two games. In ''[[Morrowind]]'' the first character the player encounters is Jiub, a fellow passenger/prisoner on the ship who asks some scripted questions related to character creation; he then disappears from the game when the player leaves the ship. In ''[[Oblivion]]'' (set in a different province and a few years later) characters will sometimes mention how they've heard that Saint Jiub has finished driving the [[Goddamned Bats|cliff racers]] from Morrowind.

* In ''[[Breath of Fire]] III'', a mysterious cloaked man named Loki approaches Ryu and his <s>friends</s> adopted family Rei and Teepo, coercing them to go [[Just Like Robin Hood]] and steal from the local town's corrupt mayor, McNeil. They succeed, but McNeil later got his revenge, delivering one of the game's most devastating [[Player Punch|Player Punches]]. However, Loki has become a [[Karma Houdini]], disappearing before the Mayor could even find out about his involvement. Cue the [[Time Skip]], and we still see Loki alive and well in town, {{spoiler|until a few scenes later, he was now bruised, bleeding and beaten to a pulp, courtesy of Ryu's [[Papa Wolf]] adoptive brother, Rei. The latter didn't take too kindly to the loss of his family, after all.}}

* In the Playstation game ''[[Heart of Darkness (video game)|Heart of Darkness]]'' the player loses their lightning gun when a large monster eats it, way later in the game the player gets eaten by the same monster that ate his gun, and uses the gun to destroy the monster from the inside.

* The Snakes in ''[[City of Villains]]''.

* In ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', Chuckles is introduced as the [[The Hyena|always-laughing skeletal minion]] during the attack on Swordhaven Castle. Said skeletal minion gets blown to bits in a [[Kick the Dog]] moment by Drakath during his introduction scene following the battle between King Alteon and Sepulchure. Chuckles became popular with players, who launched a "Save Chuckles" campaign that ultimately culminated in a quest that had the player bringing him to Death himself, who eventually was only able to bring back his skull. Fast forward two years and eight Chaos Lord sagas later to the Doomwood saga, where {{spoiler|Chuckles frees Gravelyn, who it turns out was his creator, from enslavement by Noxus during the Shadowfall War, by knocking Noxus off the Shadowscythe throne when every other undead minion in her army was under Noxus' control. After Noxus' defeat, Gravelyn rewards the little fella by giving him a new body -- that of Noxus}}!

* At the beginning of ''[[The Reconstruction]]'', [[Deadpan Snarker|Qualstio]] complains about [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|the fanfare that plays when characters join the guild]]. Much later on, another character comments on it after joining, to the confusion of everyone else.

* In "Homestar Ruiner", the first episode of ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', the episode begins with Strong Bad getting an email asking why he hasn't "beat the snot" out of Homestar yet. Strong Bad thinks it's a good idea, but he gets sidetracked by his plan to beat Homestar in the big Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race. In the endgame, after Homestar is knocked out of a window along with a number of other uninvited guests in Strong Bad's house, he yells "Ow, my snot!"

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'', early in the game the bridge across the river is blocked by a group of women chatting about how they dislike housework. One of them comments on how she's bad at cleaning her house and wishes there was someone to do it for her. A while later - after you find your Loftwing, race in the Wing Ceremony, fly with Zelda, wake up after she falls into the tornado, find Fi and get the Goddess Sword, you're finally able to go across the bridge, and if you go in her house you'll find that it's ''[[Extremely Dusty Home|completely]]'' [[Extremely Dusty Home|covered in dust and spiderwebs]]. Much later in the game, you finally get an item that is able to blow the dust out, so you do actually clean the house for her.

** After she pays you for cleaning the house, if you come back later at night, you'll hear her son yelling at her for wasting the money he earned at his [[Just for Pun|knight job]] for her to buy food. He comes outside and talks to you, wondering aloud [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|what kind of jerk would help his mother with her money-wasting endeavors.]] Not sarcastically; he really doesn't know it was you. Link, apparently, does not tell him.

* ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' has {{spoiler|Silver throwing cars at you for him being a moron because [[Too Dumb to Live|of him thinking you're an impostor.]] At the end, the cars he threw at you land on '''him''' when he's defeated.}}

** Also, at the very start of the game Sonic's [[Trademarked Favorite Food|birthday chilidog]] gets sucked up by the time rift that kicks off the plot. The very first thing that happens in the ending? Sonic catches the falling Chili dog and joyfully notes that it's still warm because [[Timey-Wimey Ball|he hasn't been gone for long in the real world.]]

''[a pigeon sound emits from the Scout's chest]''

'''Medic:''' ...Archimedies? }}

* ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' in the kitchen, there's a chainsaw, but the programmers never got around to programming in the gasoline can it needs. The gasoline can shows up on the planet Mars in ''[[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders]]'', a [[Spiritual Successor]] game which was also created by [[LucasArts]].

* Combined with [[Inverted]] [[Chekhov's News]] in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]''. The combat portion of the [[Justified Tutorial]] consists of you fighting off a group of target drones that went haywire while you were evaluating a novice flight instructor. A news item later in the game reveals that the instructor went on to save the lives of her students when the same thing happened again.

* In the science fiction survival game ''[[Subnautica]]'', you are the sole survivor of the crash landing of a starship owned by a company called Alterra. One of the many announcements made by your computer assistant very early in the game is that you will have to reimburse Alterra for all the materiel you salvage and the tools and equipment you use in the process of getting off the ocean planet on which you are stranded. Some thirty or so hours of play later, after you've built a starship and successfully rescued yourself, and after the ending credits finish rolling, the same computer voice welcomes you back to Alterra and blandly informs you that you are required to pay your tab of a trillion or so credits before they'll let you land. [[Hard Cut]] to black.

* ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'': Dibot points out that {{spoiler|Ran is Yui's caddie, Tomoko Okui}}. Seeing as Dibot is a moron, Yui dismisses his claims. However, {{spoiler|Tomoko takes off her disguise before the final boss fight and reveals herself as Ran.}}