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* There are a couple of this in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', most notably among Father and the homunculi about the so called "promised day".
** Which was pretty obviously going to be a {{spoiler|solar eclipse}} long before Brosh's younger siblings woke him up wanting to borrow his telescope...
* Used and abused extensively in both ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[xxxHolic×××HOLiC]]'', most often delivered by Yuuko, Fai and Fei Wang. It took more than ''twenty'' volumes of hearing people referring cryptically to Fei Wang's ''"wish"'' before it was revealed what it actually was. Another dragged-out example are the constant allusions to how "Syaoran is the person closest to Watanuki".
** Even the [[Exposition]] is typically given via Cryptic Conversation; you need to wait a while longer (sometimes ''months'') to get more exposition to explain the cryptic parts of the last batch. Even when everything is said outright, [[Mind Screw|its still somewhat hard to comprehend]], giving the impression of this trope on occasion even when things are being said outright.
* Lampshaded in [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] when Kurama says something akin to "Oh, I see. It must be... that." and Yusuke responds that he is going to start charging him money every time he is vague.