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** The manga does this frequently, with little side-stories that play out on the title pages, telling us of the exploits of seemingly minor characters from previous storylines. Sometimes these are just for fun, but sometimes they can turn out to be surprisingly important to the main story.
* Now that the action of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' takes place primarily in the Magical World, an occasional chapter looks back at the characters left behind in Japan and the UK. For like two pages each time, at least.
* The episode of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' that focuses on Mustang's team.
* ''[[Batman Gotham Knight]]'' is an anime movie designed to bridge the gap between the films ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', made up of a series of vignettes by different animators. One of the vignettes shows a group of kids discussing/arguing about what they saw when they witnessed Batman fighting someone.
* Episode 18 of ''[[Rental Magica]]'' featured mainly Daphne and Sekiren, [[Synchronous Episodes|showing what they were up to when Itsuki and Adilicia dealt with a demon problem the episode before]].
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* A sequence of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episodes centers on Carl and the Aqua Teens' landlord Markula. The Aqua Teens themselves are absent, having been cocooned by military spiders in the Mojave Desert.
* The episode "The Big Scoop" in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', third season, was Chester and AJ's version of what happened in "A Wish Too Far." When they notice Timmy's sudden popularity, at the same time required to write for the school newspaper, they investigate to find out how he got popular. [[Flashback with the Other Darrin|The voices were redubbed]] due to different voice actors for Chester and AJ, and the animation was also changed, possibly to match the pace of the dubbed version.
* The framing device for the ''[[Recess]]'' direct-to-video special, ''"Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street" is this for the three main teachers, taking place right after the [[Christmas Episode]] "Yes Mikey, Santa Does Shave". In the episode itself, Principal Prickly only appeared in two scenes, Miss Finster appeared in the same amount of scenes but had even less dialoge, and Miss Grotke only appeared for a few seconds.
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' has an episode, "To Steal an Ant-Man," which consists almost entirely of [[Immortal Iron Fist|Iron Fist]] and [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire|Luke Cage]] (who had never appeared in the cartoon before this point) fighting criminals. None of the Avengers appear except for [[The Wasp]], who only does so during the first three minutes, and ex-Avenger [[Ant-Man|Hank Pym]], who had enlisted the two Heroes For Hire to hunt the man who stole his former crimefighting equipment. Hank gets some additional [[Character Development]] in this episode, giving it some connection to one of the show's main plots.
* The ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Girls Night Out" is sort of a cross between this and a [[Crossover]], focusing entirely on Batgirl and Supergirl due to their veteran counterparts both being out of town.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]''
** The ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode "Birth of Evil" is one of the oddest examples of this Trope, in that it's one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series, [[Oscar Bait| won an Emmy and a few minor Awards]], yet it had almost no Jack, the story focusing on the origins of Aku and his father's original battle with the villain, which had previously only been mentioned in the pilot episode. Jack appears for only about a minute in the final scene, after he is born.
** "The Scotsman Saves Jack" could be considered this, because while Jack does have an important role, he is at most the deuteragonist here to the Scotsman, who is the true protagonist of the episode.
* The ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' episode "Rise Of The Numbericons The Movie" in season 7. The only member of the regular cast who appears is Morty, and he is, at most, a secondary role. The story focuses mostly on the alien prince Water-T, who first appeared in "Get Schwifty", where his people's war against the Numbericons was first mentioned.
 
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