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* ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'': Diana, Leo's older sister, is shown buying a Lil' Quinny doll as a child in the crowd where Penelope is talking about Quinn's popularity as a child (as the first female heir). When she's shown later with Leo when they're kids in a flashback, the doll is present next to her.
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* In ''Webcomic/ZiggyPigAndSillySeal2022'', Ziggy Pig has a photo in his apartment of him and Silly Seal posing with ComicBook/DoctorDoom. This is a reference to the 2018 ''Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics'' one-shot, where it was established that Doom is a major fan of the duo.
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** In chapter 13, Kat disagrees with Alistair about which is Prodigy's best album, then Alistair gives all his possessions to Kat before he leaves. In chapter 14, Kat is seen wearing one of Ali's T-shirts. Then in chapter 15, she wears a shirt with the XL Recordings (Prodigy's record label) logo.
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** In chapter 13, Kat disagrees with Alistair about which is Prodigy's best album, then Alistair gives all his possessions to Kat before he leaves. In chapter 14, Kat is seen wearing one of Ali's T-shirts. Then in chapter 15, she wears a shirt with the XL Recordings Creator/XLRecordings (Prodigy's record label) logo.
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* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
** In chapter 13, Kat disagrees with Alistair about which is Prodigy's best album, then Alistair gives all his possessions to Kat before he leaves. In chapter 14, Kat is seen wearing one of Ali's T-shirts. Then in chapter 15, she wears a shirt with the XL Recordings (Prodigy's record label) logo.
** In chapter 20, Annie accidentally [[DefaceOfTheMoon leaves a giant fingerprint on the moon]]. Whenever the moon is shown in the background in later chapters, this print is still visible.
* When they did a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' parody for ''Webcomic/VGCats'', Leo draws his Rat-Flail (an item he tried to make in a poor attempt at a ''D&D'' game by tying a rat to a stick), then turns it into an gigantic living Rat-Morningstar.
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has its share of these as well. Some even link to AltText comments -- one memorable one being the Doc's List of Things To Do Before He Died. Another being the peg-faced pirates, and Dan [=McNinja's=] 'poison eyes'another is a pact the doc has with the police in his town, mentioned here http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p18/ and referenced here http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/28p11/
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has plenty of these, acting as both tiny details and important plot pieces throughout the course of the comic. The most significant of which being an elder dragon who happens to be the mother of a young adult dragon the main characters killed over ''400 strips earlier.''
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html "Wait a minute,]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0486.html I had a 22!"]]
** In the cast page, Haley is now holding an IOU note after she [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0649.html stole the diamond off the cast page.]]
** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html You're]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html invisible]]!"
** And then there's the boots that Haley wanted dyed when she bought her new armor. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0675.html Remember?]] Those ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0003.html lime green Boots of Speed]]'' she found and mentioned to V way back when as what seemed like a one-off gag?
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0685.html strip #685]], Buggy Lou mentions that Belkar "was pals with one of [his] suppliers" during Lou's "stint . . . buying slaves over on the Northern Continent." This is a reference to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0171.html strip #171]].
--->'''Belkar:''' The chick, we can sell into slavery. I know a guy who knows a guy.
** And a LampshadeHanging in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0683.html strip #683]] about a reference from [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0087.html strip #87]]:
--->'''Vaarsuvius:''' You are a bottomless pit of self-reference, are you not?
** Rich just [[UpToEleven outdid himself]] in the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0703.html 703rd strip]]:
--->'''Hobgoblin Mother:''' You clean that spill up this instant, Hobgoblin Cleric #2! I need to go change your brother, Hobgoblin Warrior from [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0433.html Strip #443, Panel 3.]]
* An [[Webcomic/ThisDomainIsIrrelevant untitled]] webcomic frequently makes use of this, frequently bringing up often inconsequential side points from older comics and twisting their meaning and often connecting them to all kinds of other events. Recently it has been [[http://thisdomainisirrelevant.net/592 revealed]] that this is all the machination of the {{Illuminati}} of which Creator/SteveJobs is a member.
* Read the AltText on [[http://www.xkcd.com/576/ comic 576]] of ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. Now, go back and read [[http://xkcd.com/325/ comic 325]].
** Also in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', the [[http://xkcd.com/220/ super soaker]] ends up [[http://xkcd.com/517/ reappearing]] a while later.
--->"Man, I forgot that was there."
** Another AltText nod from ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': AltText in [[http://www.xkcd.com/616/ #616]] referencing [[http://www.xkcd.com/150/ #150]]. There's also an AltText [[http://www.xkcd.com/368 reference]] to the [[http://www.xkcd.com/316/ elliptical reflector dish]].
* Appears a few times in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. First is the reference to "I lava you," first seen on a note read by Davan and Nancy, and later repeated in a joke between Lisa and Gaspar.
** There's also the time when Aubrey and Kestrel entered a supply closet in the Nerdrotica building, where Aubrey stored some props from her less successful escapades. She is shown picking up a Cthulu mask, a reference to an earlier plot where she attempted to film a show called "My Neighbor Cthulu."
* [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/comic/mkc7/ One strip]] in a Christmas-themed arc in ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'', has [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] starting to go around stealing things set to a FilkSong from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. Now, [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=254 going back]] [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/117-htksc4/ a year]]...
** Matthew acknowledges that [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/408-resourcefulness/ this strip]] is notably darker than standard Brawl in the Family fare, but check out the Alt Text and it'll point you to [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/350-ifittakesalifetime/ this one]]. Then all kinds of FridgeHorror pops up.
* ''Unwinder's Tall Comics'' has a lot of these, sometimes resulting in ContinuityCreep. For example, [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=32 this comic]] references at least 5 different earlier strips.
* ''Webcomic/LifeAndDeath'' mentions the GargleBlaster [[NoodleIncident incident]] a few hundred pages [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/index.php?p=698339 later.]]
* Many in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' with references to the Lint Mines of Dustworld, Bob's bottomless sock drawer, Molly wanting a pony for her birthday, the Grammar Squirrel, Molly's ridiculous fanfic crossovers ''(Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' meet ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon,'' or ''[[Literature/GulliversTravels Gulliver]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla),]]'' etc.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
** Strip [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1707 1707]] has a continuity nod from perhaps as early as strip [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=270 270]], as Jeph spontaneously decided to draw Faye, Penelope and Hannelore with their old hairstyles. The nod may be to an even earlier hairstyle, if you count when Faye wore her hair with clips in colours other than red.
** Strip [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2107 2107]] has Marigold ask if Hannelore's dad's spaceship has lasers, and Hanners tells her that the government took the lasers out. Marten replies "You too, hun?" referring to a sequence beginning with [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=147 strip 147]], in which the government tried to impound Pintsize's chassis because it had a laser weapon, which was then removed.
** And [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2201 strip 2201]], in which Momo wishes she could eat cupcakes, reminds Marten that that's [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=58 what happened to Pintsize's original chassis]].
* Made QUITE a few times in Triquetra Cats, which officially takes place in a probable alternate future of The Wotch, a short list includes the were creature jewel Wolfie and Katie use, (officially named in this timeline as the Samantha Stone, a reference to Samantha 'Wolfie' Wolfe) a descendant of Cassie Sinclaire named Circe, flashback panels showing Anne fighting Xaos, plus the plant that Cassie gives the love potion to is seen in a guest strip done by the Triquetra Cats team, this was later given a return nod in the Wotch where Glock mentions that "we need a full time force of people with expertise in mystical and scientific know how, and field agents prepped to deal with uncanny dangers, and entire SERVICE prepped to confront issues the public doesn't even believe in" in Triquetra Cats SERVICE is the name of the MIB type organization the main characters work for.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** Grace's comment on ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-01 here]] is a reference to Susan's opinion of it [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-07 here]].
** There's a much darker one [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1378 here]], about why Grace thinks it's okay to lie to people [[ForYourOwnGood for their own good]]. Unlike many references since the comic got commentary, there were simply too many comics to reference there for the artist to remember them all.
** [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1732 The flashback where]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Elliot nonchalantly gave directions to a griffin]] set up one of these in reverse.
* In Webcomic/ZokushoComics [[TheUndead Rotting]] [[ProfessionalKiller Johnny]] assassinates a mage who was throwing around some powerful destructive magics. In a later issue, the Wayward Cross gets hired in place of the the mage to take out a group of goblins that have taken over a fort. At the end of that, one of the things they came to get from the fort is taken by the people who hired the Wayward Cross, so there may be further implications.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is absolutely ''filled'' to the brim with in-jokes and references to past events. Often they become plot-relevant, but a lot are also just there for seasoned fans to pick out and to create a more cohesive work as a whole. (Andrew Hussie once claimed that there are very few pages that don't reference at least one other.) Strangely, there is actually an overriding plot reason for all of these, even the joke ones: circumstantial simultineity, in which similar events happen at the same paradox space time, is a real law of the Homestuck universe.
** To cite one of many, ''many'' examples, in Act 5 Act 1 Vriska complains to Aradia that she may as well rip her heart out of her chest with her super strong robot arm and pound away with it, because apparently it's up to her to feel emotions for the both of them. Later on, Aradia, in a robot body, does indeed rip her heart out and pound it against something. Much later in Act 6, the Autoresponder tells Jake that the brobot might as well rip its heart out of its chest with its super strong robot arm and pound away with it, because apparently it's up to the artificial intelligence to feel emotions for the both of them; later, it does indeed do this. There is absolutely no real meaning to these nods, but they're sure as hell fun to find.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** The Multiverse aspect, especially for changed or alternate versions of the established DBZ cast, allows for callbacks or pokes to aspects of the series.
** The movies have been rewritten to fit within DBZ history. More irritatingly, aspects like Bardock's visions and the Tuffles were rewritten or removed from some universes.
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** In chapter 13, Kat disagrees with Alistair about which is Prodigy's best album, then Alistair gives all his possessions to Kat before he leaves. In chapter 14, Kat is seen wearing one of Ali's T-shirts. Then in chapter 15, she wears a shirt with the XL Recordings (Prodigy's record label) logo.
** In chapter 20, Annie accidentally [[DefaceOfTheMoon leaves a giant fingerprint on the moon]]. Whenever the moon is shown in the background in later chapters, this print is still visible.
* When they did a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' parody for ''Webcomic/VGCats'', Leo draws his Rat-Flail (an item he tried to make in a poor attempt at a ''D&D'' game by tying a rat to a stick), then turns it into an gigantic living Rat-Morningstar.
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has its share of these as well. Some even link to AltText comments -- one memorable one being the Doc's List of Things To Do Before He Died. Another being the peg-faced pirates, and Dan [=McNinja's=] 'poison eyes'another is a pact the doc has with the police in his town, mentioned here http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p18/ and referenced here http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/28p11/
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has plenty of these, acting as both tiny details and important plot pieces throughout the course of the comic. The most significant of which being an elder dragon who happens to be the mother of a young adult dragon the main characters killed over ''400 strips earlier.''
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html "Wait a minute,]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0486.html I had a 22!"]]
** In the cast page, Haley is now holding an IOU note after she [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0649.html stole the diamond off the cast page.]]
** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html You're]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html invisible]]!"
** And then there's the boots that Haley wanted dyed when she bought her new armor. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0675.html Remember?]] Those ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0003.html lime green Boots of Speed]]'' she found and mentioned to V way back when as what seemed like a one-off gag?
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0685.html strip #685]], Buggy Lou mentions that Belkar "was pals with one of [his] suppliers" during Lou's "stint . . . buying slaves over on the Northern Continent." This is a reference to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0171.html strip #171]].
--->'''Belkar:''' The chick, we can sell into slavery. I know a guy who knows a guy.
** And a LampshadeHanging in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0683.html strip #683]] about a reference from [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0087.html strip #87]]:
--->'''Vaarsuvius:''' You are a bottomless pit of self-reference, are you not?
** Rich just [[UpToEleven outdid himself]] in the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0703.html 703rd strip]]:
--->'''Hobgoblin Mother:''' You clean that spill up this instant, Hobgoblin Cleric #2! I need to go change your brother, Hobgoblin Warrior from [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0433.html Strip #443, Panel 3.]]
* An [[Webcomic/ThisDomainIsIrrelevant untitled]] webcomic frequently makes use of this, frequently bringing up often inconsequential side points from older comics and twisting their meaning and often connecting them to all kinds of other events. Recently it has been [[http://thisdomainisirrelevant.net/592 revealed]] that this is all the machination of the {{Illuminati}} of which Creator/SteveJobs is a member.
* Read the AltText on [[http://www.xkcd.com/576/ comic 576]] of ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. Now, go back and read [[http://xkcd.com/325/ comic 325]].
** Also in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', the [[http://xkcd.com/220/ super soaker]] ends up [[http://xkcd.com/517/ reappearing]] a while later.
--->"Man, I forgot that was there."
** Another AltText nod from ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': AltText in [[http://www.xkcd.com/616/ #616]] referencing [[http://www.xkcd.com/150/ #150]]. There's also an AltText [[http://www.xkcd.com/368 reference]] to the [[http://www.xkcd.com/316/ elliptical reflector dish]].
* Appears a few times in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. First is the reference to "I lava you," first seen on a note read by Davan and Nancy, and later repeated in a joke between Lisa and Gaspar.
** There's also the time when Aubrey and Kestrel entered a supply closet in the Nerdrotica building, where Aubrey stored some props from her less successful escapades. She is shown picking up a Cthulu mask, a reference to an earlier plot where she attempted to film a show called "My Neighbor Cthulu."
* [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/comic/mkc7/ One strip]] in a Christmas-themed arc in ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'', has [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] starting to go around stealing things set to a FilkSong from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. Now, [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=254 going back]] [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/117-htksc4/ a year]]...
** Matthew acknowledges that [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/408-resourcefulness/ this strip]] is notably darker than standard Brawl in the Family fare, but check out the Alt Text and it'll point you to [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/350-ifittakesalifetime/ this one]]. Then all kinds of FridgeHorror pops up.
* ''Unwinder's Tall Comics'' has a lot of these, sometimes resulting in ContinuityCreep. For example, [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=32 this comic]] references at least 5 different earlier strips.
* ''Webcomic/LifeAndDeath'' mentions the GargleBlaster [[NoodleIncident incident]] a few hundred pages [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/index.php?p=698339 later.]]
* Many in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' with references to the Lint Mines of Dustworld, Bob's bottomless sock drawer, Molly wanting a pony for her birthday, the Grammar Squirrel, Molly's ridiculous fanfic crossovers ''(Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'' meet ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon,'' or ''[[Literature/GulliversTravels Gulliver]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla),]]'' etc.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
** Strip [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1707 1707]] has a continuity nod from perhaps as early as strip [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=270 270]], as Jeph spontaneously decided to draw Faye, Penelope and Hannelore with their old hairstyles. The nod may be to an even earlier hairstyle, if you count when Faye wore her hair with clips in colours other than red.
** Strip [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2107 2107]] has Marigold ask if Hannelore's dad's spaceship has lasers, and Hanners tells her that the government took the lasers out. Marten replies "You too, hun?" referring to a sequence beginning with [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=147 strip 147]], in which the government tried to impound Pintsize's chassis because it had a laser weapon, which was then removed.
** And [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2201 strip 2201]], in which Momo wishes she could eat cupcakes, reminds Marten that that's [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=58 what happened to Pintsize's original chassis]].
* Made QUITE a few times in Triquetra Cats, which officially takes place in a probable alternate future of The Wotch, a short list includes the were creature jewel Wolfie and Katie use, (officially named in this timeline as the Samantha Stone, a reference to Samantha 'Wolfie' Wolfe) a descendant of Cassie Sinclaire named Circe, flashback panels showing Anne fighting Xaos, plus the plant that Cassie gives the love potion to is seen in a guest strip done by the Triquetra Cats team, this was later given a return nod in the Wotch where Glock mentions that "we need a full time force of people with expertise in mystical and scientific know how, and field agents prepped to deal with uncanny dangers, and entire SERVICE prepped to confront issues the public doesn't even believe in" in Triquetra Cats SERVICE is the name of the MIB type organization the main characters work for.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** Grace's comment on ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-01 here]] is a reference to Susan's opinion of it [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-07 here]].
** There's a much darker one [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1378 here]], about why Grace thinks it's okay to lie to people [[ForYourOwnGood for their own good]]. Unlike many references since the comic got commentary, there were simply too many comics to reference there for the artist to remember them all.
** [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1732 The flashback where]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Elliot nonchalantly gave directions to a griffin]] set up one of these in reverse.
* In Webcomic/ZokushoComics [[TheUndead Rotting]] [[ProfessionalKiller Johnny]] assassinates a mage who was throwing around some powerful destructive magics. In a later issue, the Wayward Cross gets hired in place of the the mage to take out a group of goblins that have taken over a fort. At the end of that, one of the things they came to get from the fort is taken by the people who hired the Wayward Cross, so there may be further implications.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is absolutely ''filled'' to the brim with in-jokes and references to past events. Often they become plot-relevant, but a lot are also just there for seasoned fans to pick out and to create a more cohesive work as a whole. (Andrew Hussie once claimed that there are very few pages that don't reference at least one other.) Strangely, there is actually an overriding plot reason for all of these, even the joke ones: circumstantial simultineity, in which similar events happen at the same paradox space time, is a real law of the Homestuck universe.
** To cite one of many, ''many'' examples, in Act 5 Act 1 Vriska complains to Aradia that she may as well rip her heart out of her chest with her super strong robot arm and pound away with it, because apparently it's up to her to feel emotions for the both of them. Later on, Aradia, in a robot body, does indeed rip her heart out and pound it against something. Much later in Act 6, the Autoresponder tells Jake that the brobot might as well rip its heart out of its chest with its super strong robot arm and pound away with it, because apparently it's up to the artificial intelligence to feel emotions for the both of them; later, it does indeed do this. There is absolutely no real meaning to these nods, but they're sure as hell fun to find.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** The Multiverse aspect, especially for changed or alternate versions of the established DBZ cast, allows for callbacks or pokes to aspects of the series.
** The movies have been rewritten to fit within DBZ history. More irritatingly, aspects like Bardock's visions and the Tuffles were rewritten or removed from some universes.
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