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* The Borg's first appearance was on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' as a mysterious, frighteningly advanced and implacable species from beyond known space. Then <i>''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]''</inowiki>'</nowiki>s premise is to travel through said quadrant to return home, frequently defeating them and even allowing an individualised one onto the USS ''Voyager'''s ranks.

* In the early years of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', we knew almost nothing about his people - it was six years before we learned the name "Time Lords". From the Tom Baker serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E03 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]'' onwards, we began to learn more and actually visited Gallifrey. Over the next decade or so, more stories featuring the corrupt, self-interested and machiavellian Time Lords were made, to the point where many fans complained that too much was being explained and the mystery had gone. One of the objectives of the so-called "Cartmell Master-plan" was to [[Retcon]] some of this and reintroduce the mystery .<ref>The series was canceled before the arc was completed and continued in [[Virgin New Adventures|the subsequent novels]]</ref>.

* ''[[Daredevil|]]'': Matt Murdock]]'s radar sense was original a super power, the freak result of the accident that blinded him. Later, [[Frank Miller]] introduced a mentor character and revealed that anyone could learn to "see" without their eyes the way that Matt does.

* This appears frequently ''[[Bionicle]]'', often overlapping ''heavily'' with the [[Doing inIn the Wizard]] tendencies it develops near the storyline's end. Almost every detail has to have a subversive explanation behind it. As the writer described to the fans, [[The Chris Carter Effect|tease all the plot threads you want]], but you have to deliver the explanations sometime.

** Silver colored pieces. To a lesser degree, also gold. When the Toa [[Mid-Season Upgrade|upgraded]] into Toa Nuva, they received silver armor and weapons to reflect that they're "more" than mere Toa. The Bohrok-Kal came along, sporting silver as their secondary color to showcase their eliteness compared to regular Bohrok. After these, silver parts became a standard for absolutely every character, and colored weapons became such a rarity in fact, that when the 2009 first wave sets re-introduced element-specific colorings, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|there was much happiness]]... that lasted 'till the second wave, which went back to giving silver weapons to about half its sets.<br />Gold went through an easier course. While beginning from 2004, many sets had it as their secondary or tertiary color, there were always figures (often special edition ones) that gave it some uniqueness. And in 2010, a former gold-wearing character had to be recolored silver just to make that year's "Golden Bionicle" promotion all the more special. But this didn't make all the other, ''non''-special golden characters nonexistent.

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