Noodle Incident/Fan Works

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  • In one ongoing Daria Fanfic series, the characters occasionally make mention of "the Porterhouse Challenge", which may be related to the very large steak that a number of restaurants offer (hilariously large, in some cases) with the caveat that if a person can eat it in one sitting, the meal is free.
  • In Shinji and Warhammer40K, Ayanami Rei, Kirishima Mana and Ibuki Maya all decide to relieve Shinji's pent up teenage stress in order to up his sync ratio. The subsequent events demolish several buildings, and both psychic warriors and terminators had to be deployed.
  • Used in a Harry/Ginny fanfic duology. Who knew bolding and italicizing a pronoun could be so effective...
  • In chapter 14 of the Harry Potter fan fiction Living Without Danger, sequel to Living With Danger, the adults reference "The Great Hogwarts Noodle Incident," though they never explain exactly what happened (to the reader, at least).

"You mean you don't remember the Great Hogwarts Noodle Incident?"
Letha's eyebrows rose. "The Noodle Incident – that was you?"
Padfoot was sliding down in his chair as if wishing someone would Vanish him.
"Do enlighten those of us who weren't there," urged Danger, smiling wickedly.
"Yeah, please?" echoed the cubs.
Moony laced his fingers together. "Well, it all started with a comic book, an action figure, and a stuffed tiger..."

And so began the Great Butterbeer Incident of '96. Many of those in attendance refused to speak of it ever again, those who will respond to inquiries will reply with only one descriptive word...
Everywhere.

  • In the Cats fanfiction Those Awful Pipes, there is frequent reference to "The Turkey Incident", which the Rum Tum Tugger is still angry about. Mistoffolees apologized for that, Bastet!

"...This is about the turkey incident, isn't it?"
"NO!"

    • The incident was the subject of its own oneshot. To poor Demeter, however, whose mostly Fanon distaste for Tugger is legendary and who would have LOVED to see a large turkey decide Tugger was its mate it will forever be a Noodle Incident.

Demeter: (horrified) No! ...I missed it!

Spider-Man: (about Green Goblin) Honestly, who's stupid enough to get that drunk?
Iron Man: Look, Comic-Con went really well, all right? I've been very good, everybody was celebrating, everyone was doing it, we thought we could make it to Tijuana, they dropped the charges, so just shut up, okay?!
(awkward silence)

  • The summary of Atomicskull's Star Trek AU fic Citylights is this: "World War III (known as Almost the End of the World) occurred in 2014 during Milan Fashion Week. It was short, it was bloody, and it was absolutely spectacular to see unfold." We never do find out exactly what happened. The final part of the series suggests it might have had something to do with investing. Or taxes. The jury's still out.
  • In the Harry Potter fanfic Let's Do The Time Warp Again by Rorschach's Blot, there is mention of an incident where James and Sirius gave Snape an all-expense paid canoeing trip to Georgia and then stole his wand. Exactly what happened during the trip is never explained, but it caused Snape to lose both his arms and legs as well as develop a debilitating fear of banjo music.
  • There's an Iron Man: Armored Adventures fanfic where religion comes up in one chapter, and Tony explains he doesn't go to church because of an incident involving a coffee maker. Apparently they still haven't gotten the stains out of that church's ceiling, though Tony's father was very proud he managed to get the thing airborne.
    • Also from that same fanfic: Tony can't get any pets until every last gerbil has come out of orbit. Tony's response: "So if the squirrel doesn't come back, that's okay then?"
  • This Bizenghast fanfic involves Edaniel giving Edrear a haircut and somehow shaving a rude word into Edrear's hair. Said rude word implies doing ... things to groundhogs and farming equipment.
  • First Impressions: Murdoc and his old cronies agreed never to mention "that thing you did with the cat and the watermelon and the box of fireworks" again. It never gets explained, but apparently it was at least marginally less disturbing than making out with a dead body (which he actually didn't do). May or may not be the same thing as "the thing with the cat" which he refers to later, which appears to have been somehow sexual in nature but was "taken entirely out of context" by the gossips.
  • This Iron Man: Armored Adventures fanfic, which is an AU in which Tony and Gene grew up together, has Super Toaster. Apparently it leveled a city block and the dust cloud took two or three days to clear. Gene has never stopped teasing Tony about it. Tony also apparently created laser weasels, and they got loose at The White House Correspondents Dinner once.
  • In The Wasteland Life], a Fallout 3 fanfiction starring a Lone Wanderer named Bren, he along with with a Former Brotherhood of Steel went into a metro in which Bren smelt something (a deathclaw eating a dead Super Mutant) that reminds him of "Butch's Science Project in the Eighth grade, it got an F minus and boy it was horrible to the Janitors who had to clean it up" creating a small noodle Incident that makes you wonder what could have Butch possibly done at that point in his life in the Vault.
  • Averted in the Power Rangers epic Of Love and Bunnies. What start out as Noodle Incidents (usually related to inside jokes) are eventually explained. Amazingly, they live up to what's implied about them.
  • In Red Witch's Galaxy Rangers fanfic Sins of the Father several of them are invoked by Commander Cain as to why Galaxy Rangers and alcohol don't mix.

"I am of course referring to some wonderful karaoke performances, flights of fancy while being high on cough syrup, a few fights at bars…" Cain went on. "And of course the most memorable of all, Captain Foxx's impersonation of a naked cowboy riding a mechanical bull...The rest of you nut jobs aren't exactly the most civilized drunks I've seen either we all know what happened the last time Ranger Bennett got drunk and what she did in the closet with four rangers, an ambassador, a pair of handcuffs and that toilet plunger! Please also observe the dress code. In other words stay dressed and no nudity! Also do not set anything on fire! I know it's a common sense rule but after last afternoon's little mishap in the cafeteria I think I should remind certain people that."

  • Kyon defeating twelve Yakuza and intimidating Mori affects a lot of the plot in Kyon: Big Damn Hero, but it's not entirely clear what happened until it happens in Chapter 27, becoming a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
    • Referenced later, when Kuyou attempts to swallow a whole plate of noodles at once (and chokes), and Kyon refuses to elaborate when asked about it later.
  • In this Psych fanfic, Shawn says: "You'll notice that I did catch hoof and mouth in the fifth grade after a trip to a petting zoo. Interesting fact, llamas aren't as friendly as they appear."
  • Subverted in the Code Geass fanfic Living Contradictory with 'The Sword Incident', which is explained in detail right after it's first brought up. The trope is then played straight with 'The Beard Incident'.
  • In the Fourteen Days fanfic, everyone comments on how much of a pervert Charlie is by stating a few occurrences along with the phrase: "and don't forget the pasta incident"

Charlie: Hey, we promised not to talk about that! I was framed!

  • Bri Nara loves these.
    • In The Ultimate Bet there's: "the incident with the rubber chicken, L, and banana pudding." and also

Ide: Yeah but remember the incident in the office with: the fruit smoothie, the giant inflatable clown, the crayola pencils, the toilet paper, the 50 pounds of pixie stix, Matsuda, and the 15-year-old fangirl going 'MATSUDA-NII!'

    • The various incidents on an Akatsuki member's birthday. Since Hidan is ban from Vegas and Zetsu is ban from the movies.
    • It's a small world after all gave us this gem.

Spain: If this is about the incident with the bull and the jelly-doughnuts, I already said sorry-

Rule 19: We are not actually naming the incidents. If Special Agent McGee says that we are naming the incidents, he is wrong, and should be reminded of the Exploding Highlighter Incident. Shut up, McGee. Ziva, stop laughing. Abby, why are you here?
Addendum to Rule 19: Only Special Agent DiNozzo can name the incidents.
The official incidents include: the Exploding Highlighter Incident, the Ziva's Unexpected Soy Allergy Incident, the Don't Touch That Incident, the Curiously Zen Marine Sergeant Incident, and the Admittedly Heartwarming but Decidedly Unmentionable Flowchart Incident.

  • The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fic My Little Parcel takes place in the aftermath of Twilight and friends' latest adventure, an adventure involving pirates and sea monsters, of which only tantalizing hints are given.
  • In the Good Omens fanfic Manchester Lost, Death owes the Antichrist a favor for never mentioning this one incident. It involved two kittens, thirteen girl scouts, an ice cream cone, a goat and six pairs of socks.
  • The Bones fanfic Pretty The World has one. In Chapter Four, the OCs discuss amongst themselves a trip to Tijuana that involved injuries, life scarring, hypothermia, barn animals, carrots and something with a pencil that didn't matter due to gel padding.
  • In this Glee fic, "the great Wasabi Debate of 2010" is mentioned.
  • In M. McGregor's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Peggy Sue fanfiction, I Am What I Am, one of the ways the time-traveling Xander demonstrates how well he knows Buffy is by bringing up an unexplained "Apple Cider Incident."
  • In the Mass Effect fanfic Inglorious Boshtets, we're never told what, exactly, Prazza did in that issue of the porno magazine Fornax that got it labeled the "Forbidden Issue," but we are told that an elcor was involved, that it violated at least thirteen laws in Citadel space, that it turned one poor C-Sec officer off sex for good, that Prazza did it to try to raise money for a Pilgrimage gift and got disowned by his family because of it and was unable to complete his Pilgrimage as a result, that the issue in question caused many who viewed it to go crazy or commit suicide, that the owner of the magazine was arrested the day after the issue was published and the magazine got a tarnished image and a ton of lawsuits because of it, and that it was something that went against the law of the galaxy, if not the universe, and most definitely didn't do much to improve relations with quarians in general.
    • In the sequel, Project Gethinator, we learn from Nehallennia, the managing director of Fornax, that what happened in the Forbidden Issue was the brainchild of Fornax's first human director, whose work was massively popular before this, and that he conceived it as a kind of "magnum opus." On top of everything else that happened (Nehallennia mentions that even asari matriarchs were rendered comatose for weeks by the scene in question), it ruined the director's career and led to the suicides of three of the actors involved.
  • In A Hero, Kyouko somehow managed to antagonize every single Puella Magi gang in Tokyo the last time she went there. To the point that they'll work together to kill her if she showed up.
  • In the Pony POV Series, Applejack gives us a few details of a rather... Crazy adventure had in Canterlot. It involved the ghost of a Sea Pony, a lost locket, and Applebloom being transformed into a Sea Pony for a short time. Not even Applejack is sure how that last part happened...
  • Unlike most examples, which play this for laughs, Akiko's time as a Magical Girl, such as the four years against the Nightmare Factory, but especially during the three years she fought the Circus of Blood, will mostly be glossed over if it is mentioned at all. This is because no one could write a snippet without subjecting the girl to horrors that would break most magical girls. Not even Puella Magi Madoka Magica compares to the death, gore and despair discussed in the abstract in the DISCUSSION parts of the subject.
  • In the Ace Attorney/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic crossover Turnabout Storm, prosecutor Trixie presents an envelope that the victim was carrying with him, and given Rainbow Dash's reaction when she shows it, it seems to be decisive proof of her guilt. Turns out its contents were some Embarrassing Old Photos of Rainbow that were found on the victim, showing that she had a possible motive for the murder (though Trixie shows them to the court largely to humiliate Rainbow Dash).
  • The Axis Powers Hetalia fic Chasing an Empty Dream has this:

Prussia: Hey, you remember that one Valentine's Day where you had a tomato thing and—
Germany: I've worked very hard to repress those memories, thank you very much.

  • Getting Back On Your Hooves has several. During their visit to Canterlot, Twilight went to see Discord's statue to make sure he was still locked up tight. Spike somehow snuck past the guards and wrote Discord drools on his face in marker. They both got arrested, but Princess Celestia apparently got a good laugh out of it.
    • While working for Fluttershy, Trixie tried to get eggs from one of the chickens, named Gertrude, who she was warned was tempromental. We don't see what happened, but apparently she tried to pry her off her eggs with a crowbar and ended up getting thoroughly beaten up. Trixie insists that Gertrude was a "ninja chicken" and tells the others to never speak of it again.
    • The Cutie Mark Crusaders get two when Trixie is working for Rarity. Sweetie Belle tells Twilight about the time they were "Cutie Mark Crusader Tenis Players", all we know is they got banned from the tenis court. Later, the other Cutie Mark Crusaders assume Sweetie Belle wrecked Rarity's shop again because of a previous incident when they tried being "Cutie Mark Crusader Basket Weavers" and them ending up in a wrecking ball. Apparently, it also involved something happening with a bird that got Fluttershy mad at them and they ended up covered in tree sap...again.
  • If Friends of a Solar Empire, there is mention of Fluttershy joining Rarity's crew in some rather over-the-top antics during the last shore leave. Just what they did is never mentioned.

Rarity: Colonel Rekav, you are forbidden from gambling anything.

  • The Katawa Shoujo fic "From Shizune's Perspective" occasionally brings up incidents that are not elaborated on, as noted by Word of God.

Misha: “You’re relapsing into Supreme Overlady mode again. Is another intervention in order?”

    • Another one is on one of Shizune's past relationships. [1]

Misha: "Maybe as the last speaking girl to turn you down I shouldn’t talk, but why not branch out? Your last deaf boyfriend was a total jackass."
Shizune: "That’s why I’m bi."
Misha: "And your last deaf girlfriend was even worse."
Shizune narrates: I grimaced at those memories. Fucking St. Pfil’s transfer students.

Nightmare Moon: "How mother didn't disown us after the silence weed incident, I'll never know."
Celestia: "Pray pardon, sister, but thou shouldst no doubt recall who started that!"

  • In the X-Men fanfic Mutatis Mutandis by Artemis's Liege, it's never told what happened between Manuel de la Rocha and Kitty Pryde, but his words and actions indicate that he deeply hates her.
  • Douglas Sangnoir of Drunkard's Walk makes the occasional cryptic reference to events in his life. For instance, from Drunkard's Walk II:

Which is how I ended up, somewhat less than an hour later, standing in a blank, empty "dead-zone" isolation chamber, stripped down to my Fruit-of-the-Looms. (White briefs, if you must know. The rumors that I only wear custom-made Shadowwalker Underoos are gross exaggerations. It was only that one unfortunate incident, and anyway the lady involved settled out of court.)

And in Drunkard's Walk VIII, several references to Doug's time working at the Romanian dragon reserve with Charlie Weasley that come out this way:

[Charlie] stood and then yanked me to my feet. "C'mon, let's go to the Cauldron. My treat."
"Um, no," I said, following after him as he began striding off down the alley. "I remember what happened the last time you offered to pick up the tab at a pub."
"Relax," Charlie called back over his shoulder. "There won't be any trolls in the Cauldron. I swear."

"You're the only one we have available, which is your own damn fault, need I remind you."
"THE DIARRHETIC RHINOCEROS WAS NOT MY FAULT AND YOU KNOW IT!" Harder howled.
"But the superglue, chicken feathers, olive oil, and super-strength condoms were," Holloway countered again.

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  1. ↑ This was written before the full game came out
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