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* There's an interesting anecdote about ''[[John Dies Atat the End]]'' regarding ''Camel Holocaust'', the "song" that John wrote for his band early in the book. In the original webnovel, the protagonists have to stall a group of monsters at a later date by playing ''Sweet Child O' Mine'' on a set of guitars they stole from Elton John. When the book was to be put into print, however, the issue of copyright came up. The author stared dumbly into space, scratched his butt, and realized that he had left Chekhov's Gun sitting in his back pocket. Thus, the day was saved by <s>Fat Jackson's Flap Wagon</s> [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band|Three Arm Sally]].

* The Whateley Weapons Fair at [[Super -Hero School|Whateley Academy]] in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Phase is asked to try a forcefield disruptor by an inventor who has very little cred. It's just the thing Phase needs at the end of the Fair, when someone's weapon makes everything else go haywire. Then, much later, Phase uses another one of the forcefield disruptors in a fight, and it blows up on her.

* Linkara's Magic Gun in [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Atop the Fourth Wall]], which he's been wielding since the beginning, turns out to be rather important in the [[Silent Hill]]: Dead/Alive review, going from prop to plot point and ''character''.

** In his review of a ''[[World of Warcraft Comic(comics)|World of Warcraft]]'', Linkara finds a working pokeball. He later uses it to capture a pyramid head

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20101223112849/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944834/ this episode] of College Humor's [[Hardly Working]] , David casually references a book that {{spoiler|Sam}} borrowed, and never returned. This is largely ignored until the end of the episode, when David realizes that {{spoiler|Sam was trying to kill him so he wouldn't have to return the book.}} He even goes so far as to [[Break the Fourth Wall]] by looking at the camera and saying "Remember? From the beginning?"

* In ''[[I'm a Marvel And ImI'm ADCa DC]]'', Spiderman telling Batman that he thinks he might have been married once would help Batman realize how Spiderman was immune to the Joker's brainwashing.

* In an early ''[[Fine Structure (Literature)|Fine Structure]]'' story, Seph thinks to herself that Mitch, who can phase through things, could kill someone instantly by materializing his hand inside their head, but she doesn't think he'd do that and doesn't mention it. Near the end of the series, he does just that.

* In [[Four4 Swords Misadventures]], Green Link procures a broken magic mirror, thus getting them into a series of misadventures before finally warping back to the entrance of the first dungeon. Afrerwards, Red decides to dipose of it, thinking that it would do them more harm than good. {{spoiler|Turns out, the mirror was the only way barring an extensive trading quest for the heroes to get to the Twilight Realm where Zelda is being held by Vaati. In other words, Red really should have let Green keep the mirror so it could be fixed.}}

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