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** One of the common criticisms of ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' was that it was continuity porn in both senses of the term. DC in general is perceived to engage in 'hard continuity' (i.e., inconsistencies are deliberately explained) versus Marvel's 'softer' kind (inconsistencies, especially [[Dork Age|bad ones, are eventually just ignored]]).
** ''[[Zero Hour]]'' was explicitly supposed to clean up continuity problems caused by ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''. Writer [[Geoff Johns]]' run on any book (''[[Green Lantern]]'', ''[[Flash]]'', ''[[Justice Society of America|JSA]]'', etc) will indulge on this at one point or another. As will [[Grant Morrison]]'s.
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*** This was even commented on by one of the writers (Mark Waid), who mentioned that ''"...no good fiction ever came out of worrying first and foremost whether its events fit into 'continuity'."''
** [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' is assuredly the ultimate embodiment of this trope, being continuity porn for '''all continuities ever'''. Many sequences and moments in the stories seem to have no purpose other than for Moore to reference as many fictional places and characters as possible. To the extent of explaining Hyde's slow transformation from human to monster, and having a very small date range for the actual events (1891-1894, during Sherlock Holmes' supposed death after falling off a cliff with Moriarty. It is actually considered one of the Holmes sub-works despite Holmes appearing only briefly in a flashback).
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* "Ayla and the Tests", in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', is probably this trope, since there is a ''ton'' of continuity polishing over every other character's stories for most of the Fall 2006 term, fixing a bunch of little tiny things the fans had spotted (or in a couple cases, things only the author had spotted).
* The 2006 novel ''[[Friday the 13th|Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs]]'' is ripe with this, with every ''Friday the 13th'' film released at the time (with the exception of ''Jason X'', since it takes place in the future) getting lots and lots of references, with even minor elements being referred to.
* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''-based [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] ''Doors to Doom'', released in 1991, featured appearances by [[Donkey Kong Country|Donkey Kong]], his son, the building from [[Donkey Kong|the original arcade game]], [[Super Mario Bros. 2|Wart and Subcon]], and also mentioned Mario's original girlfriend Pauline.
* [[The Icelandic Sagas]], being semi-accurate descriptions of major events in Icelandic history all happening in the narrow time frame of around 200 years. It's not uncommon for a main character from one saga to become a minor one in another, or vice versa.
* Definately present in ''[[Warrior Cats|Bluestar's Prophecy]]''. Scenes from later books replicated in full with detailed explanations of what was going on, lots of cameos of Field Guide characters, and backstories for all the major villains of the [[Myth Arc|first arc]]. As well, the book did it's best to give backstories to almost all the characters in the [[Cast Herd|main group]]. This was [[Loads and Loads of Characters|kind of difficult.]] It even gave a large role to a character who was only mentioned once in the entire series and didn't get on the cast list in that book ( {{spoiler|Rosetail}}).
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A major complaint about ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' is that a lot of the story falls between this and [[Continuity Lock Out]]; containing references and themes from even the games on the [[MSX]]; bringing back minor dangling plot threads and references as [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]], [[Applied Phlebotinum]], and [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhovs Guns]]; and fitting in fanservice cameos from almost every character who wasn't confirmed dead - as well as a couple of fanservice cameos from characters who ''were''. Even a lot of the ''camera angles and character motions'' were lifted from previous games as blink-and-you'll-miss-it symbolism for the kind of hardcore fans who'd memorised every single cutscene. Of course, to some extent this was the whole point of the game, and anyone who wasn't extremely familiar with the whole saga really has no business playing a game designed to wrap ''everything'' up. Or a game with '4' in the title, for that matter.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' had at least ''four'' examples of this: the Konquest mode of ''Deception'' (which was quickly thrown into [[Canon Discontinuity]] despite a halfway-decent attempt to explain [[Where Are They Now]] for each of the forgotten characters), ''Armageddon'' (which was what ''Deception's'' Konquest Mode would've been if [[They Just Didn't Care]]), ''Annihilation'' (which tried to cram as many character references as possible, to the detriment of the plot), and ''Conquest'' (with a C, which gave several mortal characters [[Identical Grandfather|Identical Grandfathers]] ''just'' so fans of the show can see them despite being 500 years before they were technically supposed to appear). And one has to wonder why people say plot doesn't matter in an MK game...
* Though any newcomer can jump into ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' at any point without having to know what the general plot is for the series, they won't experience the deep appreciation a longtime fan will have over all the subtle references to previous games.
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