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* In [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7081044/1/Crumbling_Masks this] ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'' fanfiction, Saito and Louise relationship of [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|Abuse is ok when is female on male]] is taken seriously; but instead of the usual angst one might expect from this type of stories {{spoiler|It ends with both of them realizing they actually enjoy being in a S&M relationship and accepting themselves as the kind of persons who would enjoy that kind of thing.}}
* In the ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2379730/1/My_Life_as_a_Teenaged_Von_Neumann_Device My Life as a Teenaged Von Neumann Device], [[Robot Girl|Jenny's]] [[Ridiculously Human Robot|ridiculously human nature]] is extended to her having a robotic reproductive system... and her discovering all the baggage that comes with sex, up to and including {{spoiler|being molested and raped by Cluster guards, and an accidental pregnancy}}. Also, [[Alpha Bitch|Brittany Crust]]'s rivalry with Jenny [[Villainous Breakdown|turns into a full-blown paranoid hatred of machines]] that [[Sanity Slippage|culminates in a psychotic break]] where she {{spoiler|starts talking to her television, tries to rape [[Kissing Cousins|her cousin Tiff]], tries to ''murder'' Tiff's boyfriend in a jealous rage, and ultimately ''merges'' with Queen Vexus in a last-ditch effort to get rid of Jenny.}}
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** And [[The First Cut Is the Deepest|he wasn't always that lucky.]]
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* In [[Mass Effect 3]] {{spoiler|turns out the Asari are so great because a Prothean came to them and helped them out a lot}}. This alone wouldn't qualify but the revelation is treated ingame as if it was some deep dark secret.
* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
** In the original game, ''[[Metal Gear 1987]]'', Snake looked to be in his twenties - but he looked to be late-middle-aged in ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]''. For the sequel ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', the character designer decided to go with a Solid Snake [[Retcon|who appeared to be in his early-thirties]], younger-looking than his previous incarnation. As a joke referencing this, the characters who knew Snake in ''Metal Gear 2'' joke about his 'age'; the sign that Gray Fox is back to normal is when he teases Snake with the throwaway line ''"You haven't aged well"''. However, in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|Metal Gear Solid 2]]'', which started the Patriots plot arc, Snake is explicitly mentioned in the script as looking almost unrecognisably older than his self in ''Metal Gear Solid'', even though ''MGS2'' starts only two years later. Liquid spells it out:
{{quote|''"You're drowning in time! I know what it's like, Brother. Few more years and you'll be another dead clone of the old man!"''}}
*** And it continues in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|Metal Gear Solid 4]]''. The reason for the [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] was changed to fit in with [[Retcon|Retcons]] introduced in the third game, but becomes entirely horrible. Snake now appears to be in his mid-to-late seventies and his health is suffering as a result. {{spoiler|His own parents}} look younger than he does. It's very alarming to remember that the whole plot element started as a [[Continuity Nod]] joke.
** Knowing the developer, it was probably intentional that the gameplay obstacle before fighting the final bosses of ''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' was the same - a linear area which damages Snake as he crosses it, and there's no way he can prevent it sapping his health. In ''Metal Gear'', you were told by one of the support characters to [[Heal Thyself|eat Rations]] (which immediately restored your health bar) in order to get across the electric floor. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' - [[Tear Jerker|I'd rather not think about it]].
** Applying [[Broad Strokes]] to ''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake'' allowed their eight-bit wackiness to be taken fairly seriously in the ''Solid'' series. Snake didn't seem that affected by the events of Outer Heaven at the time (he also had to do things like avoid giant constantly moving rolling pins and use a bomb blast suit to make himself immune to a strong wind), and ''Metal Gear 2'' attempted to paint him as a very traditional action hero who retired after Outer Heaven because he was a loose cannon and too badass to take orders from authority. ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', and its [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart, ''[[Metal Gear Ghost Babel]]'', claimed that Snake suffered immense guilt over his actions in Outer Heaven, got diagnosed with PTSD, and was forced to retire and go into hiding because he was unable to cope with the demands of everyday life.
** One scene in ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake'' involved Snake knowing a woman for all of five minutes. She [[Fatal Family Photo|tells him about her family's history]], asks him about his (he says "I have no family"), and then she dies. Snake's over-the-top grief at her death was, at the time, a major [[Narm]]. In ''Metal Gear Solid'', which established that Snake had been essentially growing up in near-total isolation and had never had anyone tell him about their life or ask him about his own, his instant attachment to her seems very justifiable and deeply tragic.
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** In the ep "City Sushi", its revealed Mr.Kim is {{spoiler|an insane caucasian psychiatrist with multiple personalities that everyone just lets him be Mr.Kim by the end}}.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', how Master Billy Quizboy got his mechanical hand is told through [[The Rashomon]], and the end of the episode has him saying he doesn't really remember. A later episode shows {{spoiler|this was because he [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|had his mind wiped]]. His arm was bitten off by a pit-bull, and was given the replacement which had a monitoring device so he could act as [[The Mole]]}}.
* Helga's family life in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' was originally played for laughs. This included her father calling her by her sister's name, her mother always falling asleep on the couch and all of them generally neglecting her. Then came "Helga on the Couch"... and [[Tear Jerker|no one was laughing anymore]].
* In the ''Family Guy'' episode "Jerome is the New Black," Quagmire tells Brian that Cheryl Tiegs was the love of his life who left him and the break-up is the reason why Quagmire is a sex addict. Three past episodes had clues that make the revelation logical (and not just something the writers pulled out of their butts): in "Emission Impossible," Quagmire has a poster of Cheryl Tiegs on his refrigerator (during the scene where Chris shows Quagmire the objects he found on the scavenger hunt), in "The Perfect Castaway," Quagmire's reason for being blind (in a game the guys are playing) is because every woman he has sex with will, in his mind, be like Cheryl Tiegs, and in "Barely Legal" (the one where Meg becomes obsessed with Brian), Quagmire gives Meg the Shel Silverstein book ''The Missing Piece'' and tells her that he reads it whenever he feels that he needs to find the one thing in his life that's missing.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', a joke in "Where The Buggalo Roam" where Kif thought that kissing Amy (while [[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?|buggalo stampeded]]) was making love to her was eventually fleshed out in a later episode - Kif has [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] which means that when he feels a great sense of love for someone else, his skin becomes receptive to genetic material, which is how his species reproduces. In other words, kissing Amy really was making love to her.
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