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=== In which there are Examples
== Anime & Manga ==
* Most Anime and some Manga use [[Excited Episode Title
** ''[[Baccano!]]''. Memorable episode titles include "Jacuzzi Splot Cries, Gets Scared and Musters Reckless Valor", "Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them", and "Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking A Lot and Slaughtering A Lot".
** ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' ("Goku Dies! There's Only One Last Chance").
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== Comic Books ==
* Every issue of ''[[The Sandman]]'' story arc "Season of Mists"
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''
* The comic book ''[[Fables]]'' does it at the beginning of each issue.
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* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'' and its sequels, ''[[Castle in the Air]]'' and ''[[House of Many Ways]]''.
* ''This is the Way the World Ends'', a novel about nuclear war, uses headings with its characteristic [[Gallows Humor|bitter, bitter humor]]: (paraphrased) "In which the limitations of civil defense are explored in a manner that some readers may find disturbing."
* As it is a parody of Dumas's work, the ''[[Dragaera|Khaavren Romances]]'' have chapter titles in this style, sometimes playing off of specific Dumas chapter
** Several of the author's Vlad Taltos series books have '''front-cover blurbs''' in this format. "In Which Vlad and His Jhereg Learn How the Love of a Good Woman Can Turn a Cold-Blooded Killer Into a '''Real''' Mean S.O.B. ..." or "In which Vlad must survive among an alien race: '''his own.'''"
* The 18th century Spanish novel ''Friar Gerund'' makes fun of this with titles like "In Which We Accomplish The Promise Made By The Previous One", "In Which Something Happens", and "In Which Someone Sneezes And The Story Continues".
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*** Trying to kill us all, anonymous troper? Perhaps the murderer is you!
* ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'', by Carlo Collodi. Every chapter is titled with a description. For example, the very first chapter is ''HOW IT HAPPENED THAT MAESTRO CHERRY, CARPENTER, FOUND A PIECE OF WOOD THAT WEPT AND LAUGHED LIKE A CHILD.'' Collodi was contemporary with Queen Victoria.
* Daniel Defoe's ''[http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/defoe.moll.shtml The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife
** And to lesser extent ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''
* [[E. T. A. Hoffmann|ETA Hoffmann]] created deliberately misleading chapter summaries for his comic story ''The Golden Pot''; for example, in the section summarized as "How Deputy Headmaster Paulmann put out his pipe and went to bed", that is hardly the most important thing that
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' has some highly amusing examples of this.
* Kim Stanley Robinson's ''The Years of Rice and Salt'' is divided into several sections, but the first section features chapter headings in this style.
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* ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' uses this, sans the "in which," usually to great comedic effect. The chapter in which our hero Perseus first sees the Fates is entitled "Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death."
** Many of Rick Riordan's young adults novels feature this. Such as in the [[Kane Chronicles]]: "I Have a Date with the God of Toilet Paper"
* Fielding's ''[[Tom Jones]]''. The book is divided into "Books" which are subdivided into "Chapters." Each "Chapter" is about ten pages and the header summarizes it. The first chapter of each book is an analysis of literary techniques used in the upcoming book. It's worth pointing out that Fielding wrote the book serialized, publishing roughly a chapter a week from
* Howard Whitehouse's ''Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones'' has three books:
** ''The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken''
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* ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' offers two summaries in this format for most of its regularly numbered pages in the author's notes, such as:
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In which we discover that watching your parents flirt is uncomfortable whether you're 30(ish) or 1300(ish).
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Tales of MU]]'', in which the chapter subheadings are all ironic.
** Of course, all are perfectly logical once you read the story. For example, the title "Girly Fight" in conjunction with the subtitle "In Which Mackenzie Gets The Finger", implies that dear old Mack is in a word fight. You're wrong if you think so. In one of the most hillaristurbing scenes in the world, she [[Mind Rape
* Each new episode of [[Kevin Smith]]'s podcast, [[S Modcast]], is summarized via this, e.g "Episode #150: In which our heroes meet Melf (aka Sugartits, the antisemitic house elf)."
* A recent side story of ''[[The Descendants]]'' used this in the chapter titles combined with [[Antiquated Linguistics]].
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