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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* ''[[Sherlock]]'' episode ''The Great Game'', a bypass mention of an art display opening on the morning news later becomes a plot point.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Wedding of River Song" starts with a radio broadcast about solar flares blocking out the signal. {{spoiler|Turns out, it was a response to a cry for help for the Doctor, and the answer of ''millions'' of return call.}}
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* News reports early in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' prominently mention {{spoiler|Hugh Darrow's Panchaea project}}, which turns out to be [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. And additionally, the newsreader narrating those reports turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gunman]].
* Inverted in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]''. The [[Justified Tutorial]] has [[Player Character|Jake]] [[The Ace|Logan]] evaluating a novice flight instructor, and the tutorial's combat section has a group of drones go haywire and attack you. Later in the game, a news item reports that the instructor you evaluated saved her students when this happened again.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.
* In the ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)/Recap/S1 E2 A Leaf in The Wind|A Leaf in the Wind]]," Korra hears of up-and-coming [[Fictional Sport|pro-bending]] team the Fire Ferrets and star player Mako via a live radio broadcast, and later meets the team, {{spoiler|making her debut as a pro-bender soon after}}.
 
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