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'''Character A''': So I'm predictable. }}
** If you knew without Googling or proceeding to the next chapter that this is supposed to mean Character A is predisposed toward a particular side, well, I'm glad you came down from your [[Daydream Believer|terrifying]] [[Fan Wank|ivory tower]] long enough to watch a cartoon, but... chances are you're the author.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120408050724/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4251989/60/A_Few_Angry_Words This] chapter of ''A Few Angry Words''. There's a [[Shout-Out]] in there, but in the comments for the chapter, nobody gets [[The Bible|the reference.]] One guy almost does, but then proceeds to cite the wrong story.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118023505/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3291350/1/Prinz_von_Sommerhoffnung Prinz von Sommerhoffnung]'', my goodness. What's supposed to be, if the author can be believed, a ''[[My-HiME]]'' AU novelisation slaps you with a questionably correct piece of translation-wordplay from the title on. The various character names, ostensibly attempts at [[Captain Ersatz]]-ing, run on translations, transliterations and wordplay that need some amount of bizarre lateral thinking to decipher; not to mention that [[Shout-Out]]s both to modern and older works are handled in a roundabout way. Perhaps the worst part, though? The author ''knows'' his stuff is undecipherable, and seems, well, blasé about it.
* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]''. The author admits he likes to write intricate plots. He's not lying. He makes offhand references to the end-plot of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' by quoting ''another'' book. There's foreshadowing in both Medieval and Ancient ''Latin'', cross-referencing Roman generals across several periods of time. Part of the plot is revealed in flashbacks that don't bother with proper names. [[Go Mad from the Revelation|You might not actually want to know what is going on either...]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022032850/http://www.fanfiction.net/u/923867/S_Michael S-Michael], being [[Brilliant but Lazy]] as he is, will never, ever tell you anything you should already know. In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120414111849/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4526981/1/Thicker_than_Water Thicker than Water]'', that whole JD thing is based on real science! ''Better'' science than ''[[Blood+]]'' is, in fact! (Assuming of course that certain facts of chiropteran biology are inherently similar to human biology, at any rate.)
* The ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120416003217/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7276996/1/Cicadas_Case_of_the_End_Dreamer Cicadas: Case of the Endless Dreamer]''. The entire story, due to often being told by a malicious [[Unreliable Narrator]], relies on the reader managing to weave through the various red herrings present, pick up the small details, and determine exactly what is true and what is fiction. Otherwise, the reader has to deal with various inconsistencies with canon, contradictions, and will outright not have a clue what is going on in a good portion of the story.
* ''[[Kimi no Na Iowa]]'' extensively uses oblique references to naval history and [[Makoto Shinkai]]'s filmography as foreshadowing. Certain major reveals or the upcoming thereof are staring the reader right in the face should he know what he's looking at, and are conversely nigh-impenetrable until the [[Wham! Line]] hits if he doesn't.
== Film ==
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** The E-Space Trilogy was, according to the DVD specials on "Full Circle," partly written to start the show including science that "wouldn't be laughed at" by legitimate scientists. This is especially true in "Warriors' Gate," which takes place in a shrinking universe at coordinate 0 and has some connection to the I-Ching and the nature of randomness. Adric's frequent coin-flipping? Yeah, it means something.
** Depending who you ask, Steven Moffat's major story arc involving River Song and the Silence is either this or just plain full of [[Plot Hole]]s. There ''are'' fans who insist that everything you need to know about this storyline is obvious from the show, but get them discussing it in detail and it turns out they don't agree among themselves about anything but the broadest strokes of the plot, which isn't the part that confuses people.
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', "Objects In Space". Most blatantly the opening, but the whole thing is a philosophical statement on existentialism. [[Joss Whedon]]'s DVD Commentary ''might'' help the viewer to get the point (that objects have the meaning that people choose to give them).
* While most of the more obscure stuff in ''[[Lost]]'' falls under [[Genius Bonus]], it does fall under this trope when it comes to the plot, which has become increasingly complicated as the show has gone on, with innumerable callbacks to previous episodes, [[Continuity Lock Out|making it extremely hard for new viewers to understand what the heck is going on]]. Not to mention flash ''forwards''.
** ...Or the fact that in season five, the Island {{spoiler|skipped around in time. ''Literally''}}. ''[[Lost]]'' requires the utmost of attention, or else the viewer will be utterly confused. In fact, it's not uncommon for a viewer to miss an episode and be completely [[Incredibly Lame Pun|lost]].
** The [[Trippy Finale Syndrome|finale]] has this in spades. In what can only be described as the exact ''opposite'' of [[Creator Provincialism]], understanding it fully requires the viewer to have knowledge of obscure, mostly dead Eastern philosophies ([[Gnosticism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], Stoicism, Manichaeism) or concepts that don't crop up a lot in America. Case in point: everyone knows [[Karma]], but how many Americans know that "dharma" means a divine duty that leads to the [[wikipedia:Moksha|"moksha", or "letting go"]], one of the show's [[Arc Words]] and a super-critical concept in the final season?
* The 1980s TV Series ''[[Max Headroom]]'', of all things, was short-lived largely for this reason.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' jokes about ''everything'', from obscure songs most people have forgotten to classical history and famous works of art. Of course the fun of the show is that [[
** Done by other, different-style riffers as well, such as "The Agony Booth". "Hey, it's ''The Death of Socrates''! They told me there wouldn't be any French neoclassical paintings in this movie!"
** The riffs that revolve around these things are written so that they just sound funny even if you don't get the reference. ("It looks like a Frank Frazetta of Frank Zappa", "You look like Maude with a hellbeast", etc.)
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