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* In ''[[Paprika]]'', it's entirely possible to miss {{spoiler|Osanai's bloody hand moving across the glass}} in the background of a mostly still shot of Dr. Chiba and Shima.

* Before the sudden and gruesome death of {{spoiler|[[General Ripper|General Regius]]}} in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', we actually see the killer moving closer to the victim in the background with each shot of the room they're in. But since {{spoiler|she was [[Master of Disguise|disguised]] as a [[Living Prop]]}}, it's quite easy for the audience's mind to ignore it the first time around.

* In the beginning of the ''Half a Life'' arc of ''[[Gotham Central]]'', almost a full issue before the [[Reveal]], Brian Selker ([[Private Detective]]) is following Renee Montoya to a restaurant called "Maloney's", taking intrusive pictures for a lawsuit that is about to be leveled against her. Being a long-distance shot in a comic book, with hand-drawn lettering instead of typed, there is not a lot of detail to be made out about the restaurant, and the name almost seems to be drawn as an afterthought: Maloney's Bar & ''Girl''. It is not a typo, it is a ''[[Gay Bar Reveal|revelation]]'', and if you missed it you need to wait until the end of the issue to get the full story.

* In ''Transformers: All Hail Megatron'' while the Decepticons are smashing up everything in New York, the reader might notice that in the background Thundercracker dosen't look particularly happy about what's going on. {{spoiler|Sure enough in the finale of the story Thundercracker betrays the Decepticons and ends up saving the day}}.

* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', during the "Charity" episode, there are several minor scenes involving Zoe walking around with a child from the village named Katie, whose parents were killed in a raid, and whom Zoe became attached to out of a sense of maternal protectiveness. {{spoiler|Katie's full name is Kathryn Wade, and she's an "Inducer" psychic who escaped from the Academy, and can apparently control emotions and perceptions in people around her - and is apparently behind everything that happened in that arc of the story.}}

* Rare literary example: In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', the four and the Hunter find themselves on a ledge overlooking a 500-foot-wide canyon that they have to get across. Paul and John get into an inane argument about whether or not Paul should jump across and thus break the ledge, while behind them, the Hunter calmly sets up a series of magic stepping squares across the canyon.