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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This is a favored tactic of ''[[Cromartie High School]]'', often combined with [[Random Events Plot]] or [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]. Rarely will anything actually be resolved. One episode for example ended with:
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' [[The Un-Reveal|Will anyone learn Hokuto's Lackey's name?]] (second plot) [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What will happen with the Boss Championship?]] (first plot) Many questions will be answered in the next episode of ''Cromartie High School''... [[Lampshade Hanging|and many will not]]. We hope you'll join us then.}}
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''The Cottage'', a British movie begins as a black comedy about a bungled kidnapping before turning into a dark horror comedy about a Leatherface-type slasher killer half way through. Presumably it was inspired by ''From Dusk Til Dawn''.
* The classic ''[[Predator]]'' starts with Arnie Schwarzenegger trying with his fellow soldiers to save an US politician from a band of South American terrorists. After he discovers that this was just an excuse to save some Black OPS agents, this plot is conveniently thrown out of the window when an alien with an explosive plasma [[Shoulder Cannon]] and a [[Visible Invisibility|cloaking device]] begins [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|hunting them]]. Unlike some other examples, this wasn't a surprise to original audiences, and the film begins with something falling to Earth from space.
* ''[[A View to a Kill]]'' starts out with an investigation of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Max Zorin and his sale of EMP resistant microchips to [[Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On|Soviet Russia]]. [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] investigates by attending a horse sale, where he finds out that Zorin is also trading in illegal augmentations. Neither of these plot points make much of a difference in the end because right after Bond is escapes, the real plan to destroy Silicon Valley is introduced and a relatively minor clue (a check made out to Stacey Sutton) brings Bond to California.
* ''Miracle Mile'' {{spoiler|What looks like an indie romance-comedy suddenly takes a right turn when it looks like the world is going to end.}}
* ''When the Cat's Away''/''Chacun cherche son chat'' {{spoiler|like the Simpsons badger example above- the missing cat just wanders back into the movie and is found, but the plot keeps going.}}
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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]: School's Out [[Musical Episode|The Musical]]'' switches plots, like, four or five times. It starts out about Timmy on summer vacation...okay, then it's about his parents trying to send him to a boring camp, that's still related...but wait, now it's about kid's ruling the world? And ''now'' it's about the Pixies taking over Fairyworld? And half of it's about some business guy who's [[Non-Ironic Clown|actually a clown]]? ''[[Mind Screw|What?]]''
* ''[[Sonic Underground]]'' used and invoked this in "Wedding Bell Blues." Since Queen Aleena didn't show for her forced marriage to Robotnik, they'll instead crown Sonia queen in her stead—with Robotnik as the real power.
* In one episode of ''[[My Little Pony:
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