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* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has a rather [[Broken Base|divisive]] example. The [[Back From the Dead|death and return]] of {{spoiler|Nunnally vi Britannia}} was seen as an [[Ass Pull]] by some segments of the fandom. Others, however, pointed out some of these in the death episode, particularly {{spoiler|the presence of a second, identical transport plane in the hangar}}. Additionally, {{spoiler|Rollo is sent to retrieve Nunnally, while Sayoko rescues the captive Kallen, gets her to her mecha, and ''still'' manages to find Nunnally first. This doesn't make sense unless Rollo found the wrong plane and assumed Nunnally was in it without actually bothering to check.}}

* In the background of episode 6 of ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'', Nanako leaves a television show playing while the conversation with Yu and Dojima is going on. The words are fully intelligible, and it's very obviously reminiscent of {{spoiler|Naoto's show on the Midnight Channel,}} much later on.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Darkness Falls]]'', the evil Tooth Fairy (don't ask) pulls this trick when the good guys have made it to the top of the lighthouse. Everything seems okay to ''them'', but after a moment we can see the monster out the window, drifting closer...

* In the beginning of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', a man is pretending to be Allan Quatermain, while halfway through the conversation we can see Sean Connery, the real Quatermain, sitting in shadows just to his left. Eventually he turns around and tells the impostor to toddle off.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', {{spoiler|Two-Face}} (or at least his hand) can be seen grabbing Maroni's passenger as Maroni gets in the car, before {{spoiler|Two-Face gets in and kills his driver.}}

* In the [[Dario Argento]] film ''[[Deep Red]]'', when the main characters enters the psychic's apartment after her murder, the murderer's face can briefly be seen in a mirror as he passes. He spends the rest of the movie trying to remember what he's seen, and doesn't put it together until the very end; nowadays, an alert viewer with a DVD and a pause button can figure it out immediately.