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Line 10: Sometimes the drop-in character's arrival is presaged by an ironic foreshadowing—see [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]. Compare [[Your Door Was Open]] (when the neighbor ~~drops~~can income ~~unannounced~~and go as he pleases because nothing is there to stop him) and [[Stealth Hi Bye]] (when the neighbor suddenly just appears or disappears without explanation). For a different sort of [[A Worldwide Punomenon\|"drop in character"]], see [[Face Heel Turn]] or [[Moral Event Horizon]]. For yet another different sort, see [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]. Line 111: == [[Newspaper Comics]] == * Elmo, the neighborhood kid who often drops in on ''[[Blondie (comic strip)\|Blondie]]'''s Dagwood, usually while he's trying to nap. On at least one occasion this was lampshaded by Dagwood saying, "I've got to put a lock on that front door." * An inversion of this, of course, would be ''[[Dennis the Menace US\|Dennis the Menace (US)]]'', whose title character frquently dropped in unannounced (and unwelcomed) on crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson. * ''[[Sally Forth (syndicated strip)\|\|Sally Forth]]'' has one of these in Faye, the best friend of the Forths' daughter Hillary. She often pops up at odd times, and the strip will lampshade this by having Sally or Ted sarcastically ask whether she's moved in with them.