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* Alien characters in ''[[Animorphs]]'' often allude to various other species or situations that have nothing to do with the plot; for example early books would sometimes list random species the Yeerks had supposedly enslaved, though practically none of them are seen except for Hork-Bajir, Taxxons and Gedds. There's also a whole subplot happening off-scene with a planet called Anati: apparently the Yeerks knew very little about it (including whether or not it was inhabited) and sent Visser One to conquer it, but she wound up failing for some unknown reason.

* Following the tradition of the films, the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' make references of their own, some of them mentioned or expanded on by others, some of them never mentioned again. It gets downright fractal at times. Try hitting [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random Random Page] on [[The Wiki Rule|Wookieepedia]] and see [[Wiki Walk|how far you can get]] before finding an article with one line of description and one or two appearances.

* In the beginning of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', the third-person narrator often makes references to historical events and figures, such as the fall of Gilead and John Farson, as well as important characters in [[Badass Longcoat|the gunslinger's]] [[Mysterious Past|past]]. Many of these are clarified later in the series, further expanding the previously sparse world.

* ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'' has lots of these, references made by characters to things that happened in their pasts, references to the history of the world etc. Of course given that only the first book of a ten book series has been released, and that [[Brandon Sanderson]] loves to collect [[Chekhov's Armoury|loads and loads of Chekhov's guns]] it's highly likely that a lot of them are just waiting to go off.

'''Jesus''': Fine! Then what about Sector 35?

'''Stan''': Sector 35? (scoffs) Sector 35 makes Sector 16 look like Sector 48! }}

 

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