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== Anime and Manga ==
* Duel Monsters in the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga was just supposed to be a one-shot deal, but eventually became [[Merchandise-Driven|more and more important to the plot]]. The same thing happened to Kaiba, who went from [[Monster of the Week]] to [[Big Bad]] to [[Anti-Hero]] and finally to [[The Rival]].
** The mystical aspects of the game has also become this; originally just a bunch of dark magic from Ancient Egypt that the game's creator was tricked into bringing back through the game, it eventually evolved into an entire ''series'' of [[Alternate Dimension|Alternate Dimensions]] full of monsters, and eventually into a power that's [[Older Than They Think]] and is part of ''the Earth itself''.
* [[Ki Attacks]] and powering up in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. At the beginning of the original Dragonball, there were no [[Ki Attacks]], and the first of them, the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Kamehameha]], didn't appear until the middle of the first arc. Even then it sort of the trump card, and wasn't played terribly often. As the series progressed though, the KameHameHa became a more standard attack, and Ki Attacks became more and more prominent. Then DBZ came along and it became the main premise behind practically everything the fighters did. They could fly, teleport, power up, etc., all based on Ki manipulation. [[Ki Attacks]] eventually led to [[Beam Spam]], and the ability to power up that was introduced early in DBZ became the method by which nearly every [[Big Bad]] but the last one was defeated, by digging just a little deeper and becoming just a bit more powerful.
** It's also interesting to note that ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' started as a homage to [[Journey to the West]], then it got a little martial-arts focused and drifted so far you almost forgot the original ''purpose'' of the story was to find the Dragon Balls. By two-thirds of the series gone past, the balls were so easy to recollect again by the good guys, and the bad guys were no longer focused on getting wishes from them and settled for the destruction of the world and the rest of the cosmos.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the [[Silver Age]] ''[[Superman]]'' comics, Kryptonite went from a simple [[Achilles' Heel]] to a rainbow of [[Green Rocks]] that could do anything, and were present in ludicrous quantities. This was toned down [[Post-Crisis]], but ''[[Smallville]]'' seems to have taken it back up.
** Currently, it was brought back in the comic books as well.
*** [[Lampshaded]] in an issue of Superman/Batman where Superman is almost accidentally killed because it was cheaper for a film company to use real kryptonite rather than make a prop.
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*** Although, in ''Ocarina of Time'', it was required only to seal him away; you're able to harm Ganon with the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Biggoron Sword]].
* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' games were once about bipedal nuclear tanks but ever since ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' introduced the Patriots, everything, even retroactively, has something to do with them.
** In the earlier games, [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]] was handwaved by the fact that the weapons were keyed to their users via [[Nanomachines]] and won't function for anyone else. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', the entire plot revolves around the weapon-identifying nanomachines (hence the subtitle) and the computer system that regulates them.
* In the first ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] game'', the Chaos Emeralds were merely bonus items to collect. They gained the ability to transform Sonic into his [[Super Mode]] in the [[Sega Genesis|Genesis sequels]]. The 3D games saw them turn into [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] around which plots of entire games were based, and the emeralds gained [[Green Rocks|the power to energize weapons of mass destruction, bring the dead back to life, and seal away monstrosities that live inside the planet]].
* Dragons were mostly background lore in the ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series. Come ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' and pretty much anything can be explained (retroactively) via dragons. Liches, zombies, the Blades, an important part of the Empire's history...etc. Even door keys in several dungeons have the shape of dragon claws.
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** There's also Bun-Bun's grudge against Santa Claus. At first there were just a handful of strips around Christmas each year where Bun-Bun would try (and fail) to kill Santa Claus. The feud kept escalating, however, with more and more side characters (the Easter Bunny, Santa's black ops elves, aliens with a weakness against Nerf) getting involved, until it eventually exploded into Bun-Bun amassing an army and going on a holiday killing, world conquering rampage in the three month long "Holiday Wars" saga (which itself launched the even longer "Oceans Unmoving" arc).
** Both of these Plot Tumors, however, seem to have been successfully removed. The Dimension of Pain has not been seen for years, ever since "That Which Redeems" concluded. And, while Bun-Bun still makes the occasional attack on Santa Claus, holiday figures and black ops elves have long since ceased to play a prominent role in the story.
*** Although with the 4U city mutants and the mutagen causing squid on a stick, the Dimension of Pain looks to be moving back towards being important. Timeless space also managed to be fit in.
* ''[[Concession]]'' started off as a comic strip about a bunch of anthropomorphic characters who worked at a concession stand at a movie theater (The author actually based it around the stupidity he experienced, working in customer service is a good way to get material for comic strips). But if you look at the most recent comics...you'll not really see that much about an actual concession stand. For awhile, the actual concession stand was more or less put to the side, and until it got wrapped up in the massive [[Plot Tumor]], it didn't even play a role beyond the occasional appearance of a main character who was still employed there. Immelmann has actually ''admitted'' that it's only really about concession stands [[In Name Only]] and centers around the character Joel and his plot, it even says so right in the "About" section.
* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' the original comic was mainly a slice of life style that was mainly a gag a day style. Then ninjas were added. And a demonic refrigerator. After that, things got weird. Now the whole story revolves around the weirdness and the weirdos and pretty much every arc has ninjas in it due to Sam becoming the Ninja Emperor.
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