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** Likewise, the Master Sword being the only sword able to kill Ganon is a relatively recent idea. In its first appearance in ''A Link to the Past'', the Master Sword was a powerful weapon to defeat evil, but in order to kill Ganon you had to stun him with the Master Sword, then actually harm him with a Silver Arrow. After ''Ocarina of Time'' the relationship has been reversed, and the Light Arrows are needed to stun Ganon so you can harm him with the Master Sword. Sometimes you don't even need the arrows at all. The Master Sword meanwhile has been given increased importance, and it's a Comic Keystone just as important to the world of Hyrule as the Triforce now.
*** 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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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has had a couple of these, thanks to being [[Kudzu Plot]] incarnate.
** The Dimension of Pain was originally just a concept that fueled roughly a week's worth of strips. Then Pete Abrams decided to make it a [[Running Gag]], having the Dimension of Pain demons show up each Halloween to claim Torg's soul. Each Halloween arc got longer than the last, and eventually the demons caught on so much that they were made the stars of their own [[B
*** Although Pete Abrams has stated he knew the demons would be invading the Dimension of Lame when he left them a potential means to do so, right in the first story.
** 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).
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