Meaningful Background Event: Difference between revisions

See also [[Dramatic Irony]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* A lot of the humor in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' comes from background events to which the heroes are initially oblivious. The most startling example comes from the scenes where Shaun and Ed enter and exit The Winchester. When they enter, there is a couple making out by a phone booth. When Shaun and Ed leave, the couple is still there. Shaun and Ed make a note of this and go on their way, not noticing how one is being devoured.

** Another oft-noted example contains an element of [[Ironic Echo]] - in two scenes, Shaun walks to his local supermarket, buys something, and walks back home. The first time, everything's normal. The second time, the street is trashed, and there's a lot of blood and dead bodies - [[Zombie Apocalypse|some walking about]] - around the place. Shaun's equally oblivious both times.

* A double example in ''[[The Descent (Film)|The Descent]]''. Before the crash, you can see both the other car approaching and that their own car is drifting over the white line into the wrong lane.

* In ''[[Spider-Man (Film)|Spider-Man]] 3'', the {{spoiler|meteorite carrying the Venom symbiote}} falls to earth while Peter and Mary Jane are macking on a giant web hammock.

** In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]'', while the Doctor is talking to the Vashta Nerada, Other Dave says "We should go now, Doctor!" repeatedly. It turns out that he has been eaten, and the words are just his communication device ghosting.

** In "The Time Of Angels", you can notice Amy occasionally slipping numbers into her dialog. It's so fast you'll have trouble noticing it, and you might not even pick up that she's counting down. {{spoiler|Eventually the Doctor notices, and realises that it means the Weeping Angels are possessing her [[For the Evulz]]}}.

* In ''[[Fringe]]'' every single episode has an observer in the background of an important scene.

* In the ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' episode ''The Brocha Divide'', you can see one of [[The Virus|the Touched]] in the forest behind Daniel and Teal'c as they tend to the body of a woman. They actually attack a couple of minutes later.

== Web Original ==

* In ''Final Fantasy III Trilogy'', while the heroes are answering the bridge troll's questions, you can briefly see Kefka pull Celes offscreen and then replace her after taking her likeness.

* Crosses over with a [[Funny Background Event]] in the first ''Tankmen'' cartoon. During one scene there's a gag in the background where we see a soldier get shot right after learning that he's about to have a son with his wife. It seems like just a minor one-off joke in the background. Over the course of the various ''Tankmen'' cartoons we learn who he was, how he joined the Tankmen, how he met Sgt. John Captain, his origins, some of his personality, and who killed him.