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* ''[[Return to Zork]]'' had various characters making reference to a "boar in the forest" joke, which was always interrupted at inconvenient times. One could make the argument that {{spoiler|the blacksmith's interruption, "Did you hear the one about the boar in the forest? Ooops, greasy fingers" was the whole joke, as it did gain laughs from the audience when you told it at Chuckles Comedy Club}}. Eventually {{spoiler|the player encounters a statue of a boar in The Forest of the Spirits which must be struck by a sword to uncover one of the missing pieces of the Disc of Frobozz.}}

* In ''[[Uncharted]] 2'' Sully tells Nate that they should follow a hose that leads to a campsite, in which Nate remarks, "You ''always'' follow the hose. Remember back in Montreal?" Sully answers, "You'll never let that go, will you?" with no explanation as to what happened in Montreal.

'''Barney:''' That's what you said the last time.

'''Alyx:''' ''(in the teleporter)'' Hey uh, yeah, about that cat...

'''Barney:''' Did you hear a cat just now? That damn thing haunts me... }}

** ''[[Concerned]]'' [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-08-03 referenced] this from before the incident.

* ''[[Sam and Max]]'', in the Telltale episodes, constantly refer to events that happen in other cases without getting into the specifics. Examples:

{{quote|'''Max:''' Great, now what am I going to do with the buckets of Sea Monster Blood?

 

'''Sam:''' Remember our old car, Max?

'''Max:''' I said I was sorry!

 

'''Sam: (looking at a dartboard with one dart in it)''' Someday we're going to finish that game.

** And then there's the intense, bizarre phobia of ''porcelain''.

** ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' starts at the end of an adventure we don't get to see. Apparently, it involved LeChuck being reincarnated as a walrus.

* ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'' had the Horus Rebellion that was mentioned by two Federation members. Nothing else was mentioned about it besides the fact that it was apparently as bad as the events of the game.

* In ''[[Persona 4]]'' it's occasionally mentioned that Kanji singlehandedly beat a biker gang while he was still in middle school. Actual information on how the fight went down is never explained, but Kanji finally relents and says the only reason he got into the fight in the first place was because [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|they were making too much noise and giving his mom a headache.]]

'''Pauling:''' You know what? Nevermind. }}

** Finally, we have issue of [[The Faceless|the Pyro]]'s gender, which Valve is keen to tease about. Their official stance: it's one of those questions "that get asked so often that they become, in a sense, unanswerable."

* Medic's Patient, Heavy, has one as well (although it never is mentioned in his "original" game, but in [[Poker Night At the Inventory]]):

{{quote|'''Heavy:''' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}tVtAFoS0GyM We had to either box or learn to herd goats.] *[[Beat]] ... I am not good with goats."}}

{{quote|'''Hassan''': Er... well, let's just say I had ''two'' gold earrings, Sire, and I'm not likely to get the second one back anytime soon.}}

* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' had Incident Playtime with cyberdogs involved which took a sizable chunk out of the budget of the Big Empty. Given the fact the female cyberdog was in heat, lets just say that it was mating season and a lot of sterilization (of both the cyberdogs and the resulting mess) was involved...

* In ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', the rise of Porre as a military superpower and the fall of the Guardian kingdom came across as this to many players, especially since Crono, Marle, and Lucca returned home after beating [[Eldritch Abomination|Lavos]] in [[Chrono Trigger|the first game]]. Even the DS [[Updated Rerelease]] of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', which reveals {{spoiler|Dalton}} as having masterminded the fall of the Guardia, sheds only a little bit more light.

* At the end of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', Lubba actually tells Mario that he met Rosalina before. However, it's never explained when the two last met, and Lubba isn't even in the first ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' game at all!

* In every ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls]]'' game except ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]'', the player starts out as a prisoner. In ''[[The Elder Scrolls: Arena]]'', ''[[Morrowind]]'', and ''[[Oblivion]]'', it's never explained what the crime was that landed you there. ''[[Oblivion]]'' even has a dialog option where the [[Player Character]] (that deserves repeating: the ''character you play'') doesn't know either.

** ''[[Skyrim]]'' never tells you outright, but it's heavily implied you were a victim of mistaken identity on the part of the Imperial Legion. It seems they were rounding up Stormcloaks at Skyrim's border and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now the [[Noodle Incident]] becomes why you were crossing the border into Skyrim.

* ''[[EV Nova]]'' has the mysterious artificial ring around the planet Kont. This [[Noodle Incident]] was eventually resolved when [[Word of God|one of the devs]] let slip on the forums that it was an [[Precursors|ancient]] [[Warp Whistle|hypergate]].

** A [[Game Mod|fan-made sequel]] replaced one of the governments from ''Nova'' with a giant [[Negative Space Wedgie|hyperspace rift]] full of [[Swirly Energy Thingy|Swirly Energy Thingies]] and sensor interference. No explanation is ever given, though there's quite a few [[Epileptic Trees]] [[In-Universe]]. (Out-of-universe, the Polaris were removed to stop their [[Higher-Tech Species|super-advanced ships]] from [[Game Breaker|wrecking game balance]].)

{{quote|'''Kamarov:''' Hm... I guess I owe you one.

'''Gaz:''' Bloody right you do. }}