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* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has "Professor Oak's Lecture", where the Professor talks about one species of Pokémon and usually ends up getting attacked by it.

* The DVDs of the full ''[[Sky Girls]]'' series contain comedic extras in which Eika tries her hand at fishing. No, really.

* ''[[Naruto|Naruto Shippuden]]'' has omake at the end of most episodes; they ranged from characters talking about the history of Konoha to downright silliness like Shikamaru and Asuma talking about changing the show's name to Shikamaru/Asuma Shippuden. The latter is particularly memorable when Naruto shows up indignantly in the end and is handed the script for future episodes, only to find that he's barely in any of them. (A subtle dig at the manga's and its titular character's lack of screentime for a long period.)

** Also to note is that the ''Shippuden'' Omakes have been dubbed into English, which doesn't happen that often.

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has these at the end of most volumes. Included are special missions, a dating misunderstanding, a tour of the local girls' dormitory while searching for treasure, a [[High School AU]], Happy's backstory, and others. The latest one details Lucy's adventure in invading Natsu's house instead of the other way around for once. Several have already been incorporated into the anime, and two of these have been adapted into full-length OVAs.

* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is somewhat well-known for having hilarious omakes, which are different for the anime and manga. These range from having the [[Blood Knight]] partially [[Axe Crazy]] Revy turning into a [[Magical Girl]] who kills everyone because of [[Blue and Orange Morality]], to a [[High School AU]] where the most hard-core criminals become students, teachers, and the faculty.

 

== Comic Books ==

* During the 80's, several DC Comics titles would feature "backup stories" in the last five or six pages of each issue. Most notably, the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' series was backed up with ''Tales of the Green Lantern Corps'', short one-shot stories that would feature the members of the Green Lantern corps who didn't interact with Earth all that often. All of these were canon, though, and now that the Green Lantern Corps have their own title, that character development is coming in handy. Oh, and that one story about how the Corps was going to die, written by [[Alan Moore]]? Turns out it was important...

* ''[[Star Wars|Star Wars Tales]]'' featured one-page strips in most issues starring editors Dave Land and Jeremy Barlow, numerous artists, writers and other personnel interacting with the characters. Featured responses to fan mail, [[Running Gag]]s, Baby Darth Maul and the revelation that all of the strips are drawn by Jawas.

 

== Fan Works ==

* The later installments of ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'' by [[Eyrie Productions, Unlimited]] are prone to "Bonus Theater" segments, which showcase short humorous pieces, bizarre [[Spin-Off]] ideas and lighter (often [[Fourth Wall]]-breaking) views "behind the scenes" of the production.

* The final chapter of ''[[Heir to the Empire]]'' by Ozzallos includes a complete copy of the original first concept of the story.

 

* Pixar always throws extras in. In addition to their cartoon shorts, they usually add some supplementary material related to the main movie.

** ''[[A Bug's Life]]'' featured a blooper reel during the credits. On popular request, they added ones to ''Toy Story 2'' and ''Monsters, Inc.'' as well; on the latter, this is also available as a separate, selectable short on the DVD because it's only included in the widescreen version of the film.

** ''[[The Incredibles]]'' featured a 1950s style cartoon featuring Mr. Incredible and his "sidekick".

** ''[[WALL-E]]'' had an entire second film for those who bought the 2-disc special edition, ''The Pixar Story''

* The DVD of the first ''[[The Ring|Ringu]]'' movie features Sadako's cursed video as an ''omake''. After the end of the video, {{spoiler|the screen blurs and a close-up of Sadako's creepy eye displays}}, which might also be a [[Nightmare Fuel]] to some.

** The American remake also included the cursed movie on the DVD, but with two extra [[Nightmare Fuel]]-inducing factors: first, you couldn't pause, stop, or fast-forward through it, forcing you to watch the whole thing (unless you turned the TV off.) Second, after it's finished and it returns to the menu -- ''it plays the sound of a phone ringing.'' Creepy as hell.

* [[The Chronicles of Riddick]] had special features that looked into the backstory of the character's life, his weapons and training; background information on the Necromonger cult; the video diaries of the bounty hunter Toombs, which serves as a sort of prequel to the film and a virtual guide to the universe with info on characters and settings.

* The DVD for the 2001 remake of ''[[13 Ghosts]]'' includes a full set of biographical dossiers for the 12 ghosts used in the movie (narrated in [[Affably Evil]] fashion by good old Uncle Cyrus).

 

== Literature ==

** ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' also includes a "note on pronunciation", an "index of names" and "elements in Quenya and Sindarin" names. All are interesting, but the second one can be [[Loads and Loads of Characters|particularly useful]] when reading the book for the first time.

* As noted in the Trope Description, [[Charles Dickens]] regularly published his stories as serialized articles in newspapers and magazines. In addition to the primary story, he'd often include extra scenes, out-takes, where-are-they-now-style vignettes, and so on.

 

* Similar to ''The Ring'' example above, the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' season three boxed set contains a video that plays half a conversation ([[Timey-Wimey Ball|It's complicated]]) that took place in the episode Blink.

** We also have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s this] out of Character moment [[Cloudcuckoolander|(But no really)]] where we get to see what The Doctor really said to Martha during his video tape in "Human Nature".

* The number of television shows that offer "exclusive online content" on their network's websites is truly staggering. Common offerings include behind-the-scenes blogs; extended interviews with the actors, writers, or competitors; games; photo galleries; and unaired footage.

* Mockumentary-type shows like ''[[The Office]]'' and ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' will have a short tag that relates to a B-plot, or a one-off gag in earlier in the show. For instance, if a small gag was someone complaining about their Dr Pepper being stolen out of the office fridge, expect to see whoever it was taking the Dr Pepper out of the fridge during the bonus material.

 

== Music ==

* The 2012 re-issue of the discography of the science-fiction [[Death Metal]] band Timeghoul had the CD contained a digipak that had exclusive artwork as a completely wrap-around cover and a booklet containing lyrics and background notes on the band.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Newspaper comics, published in the Sunday edition, often are designed with an embedded, "thrown-away" panel or two, usually at the beginning. That is, the comics are designed to make sense even if the first panel or two are not printed. This is because some newspapers provide less space for the comics than do others. (Ironically they are now more likely to be included if the paper has less space, because the smallest full-width layout involves shrinking and rearranging the panels, leaving enough room for all of them.) In some cases the first couple of panels are a separate, but perhaps related, introductory gag and in other cases, the comic is so cleverly written that the elimination of the first two panels has no effect.

** This was eventually averted by [[Calvin and Hobbes]]. Later Sunday strips cannot be rearranged, at Bill Watterson's insistence.

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Skyrim]] comes with a very nice linen fold out map of the region, but the collector's edition comes with the Art of Skyrim, a map, a making of DVD and a statue of Alduin, the [[Big Bad]].

 

* ''[[Goodwill Heroes]]'' has one of the main characters updating his [http://twitter.com/#!/theWeldren Twitter account] via his cell phone every time a new page is uploaded.

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' ends each chapter with an omake featuring the protagonists as completely different from their [[Canon]] selves. The Chapter 4 omake ''[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/516 Grand Theft Colo: Otaku City]'', for example, shows Makoto, an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the main Megatokyo server owned by ColoGuys, stolen by a Largo that looks more like a 70's pimp; Piroko, Piro's gaming avatar, is an [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] [[Action Girl]], Kimiko is a gun-toting [[Yakuza]], Piro is an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Otaku]], Miho is a [[Wrench Wench]] [[Cute Witch]], and Erika and Yuki are cops who run a shady auction business.

* ''[[A Loonatics Tale]]'' features exclusive stories, artwork, and creator commentary in the collection books.

* ''[[Nature of Nature's Art]]'' featured a [http://nofna.com/log/?p=42 primer on spiders] as a companion to the third arc: a non-canonical, mostly humorous but educational super comic starring that story's protagonist, with a cameo appearance from the main characters from the second arc.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' includes several videos not directly related to the actual [[The Abridged Series|abridgement]], such as Christmas specials, bonus material of the villains' behind-the-scenes plotting, song parodies by the cast, an episode of ''[[Show Within a Show|Zorc and Pals]]'', and more.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|second TMNT series]] was supplemented by various types of bonus material during its run, including several one-minute shorts and character profiles, as well as "Mayhem From Mutant Island", a series of thirteen shorts which combined to make a full-length episode.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had a half-length "Lost Episode."

 

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