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* According to ''ComicBook/TheInvadersComicBook'', [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] once fought against ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] and the rest of the team during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII after having been summoned to Earth by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. A young [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] was also present during this storyline, but never directly interacted with the heroes.[[note]]As a way of getting around the problems this would cause for ComicBookTime, a later retcon established that this was actually a future version of Doom who'd traveled back to the 1940s to study the Nazis just before their downfall.[[/note]] After realizing he'd been manipulated by the Nazis, Thor realized he was not yet meant to walk among humans, and returned to Asgard. A throwaway line hinting at LaserGuidedAmnesia explained why Cap and Namor never mentioned knowing Thor when they served together on the Avengers decades later.

* According to ''Comicbook/TheInvaders'', [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] once fought against Captain America, [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] and the rest of the team during World War 2 after having been summoned to Earth by Hitler. A young [[Comicbook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] was also present during this storyline, but never directly interacted with the heroes.[[note]]As a way of getting around the problems this would cause for ComicBookTime, a later retcon established that this was actually a future version of Doom who'd traveled back to the 1940s to study the Nazis just before their downfall.[[/note]] After realizing he'd been manipulated by the Nazis, Thor realized he was not yet meant to walk among humans, and returned to Asgard. A throwaway line hinting at LaserGuidedAmnesia explained why Cap and Namor never mentioned knowing Thor when they served together on the Avengers decades later.
* Jason Aaron's ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' run revealed that as a young man, Thor's father Odin was part of a team of proto-Avengers that included Agamotto (the first [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Sorcerer Supreme]]), and prehistoric versions of Comicbook/BlackPanther, Comicbook/GhostRider, [[Comicbook/JeanGrey Phoenix]], Comicbook/IronFist and [[Comicbook/TheNewUniverse Starbrand]]. Upon meeting T'Challa in the present for the first time, Odin claimed to have met many different Black Panthers throughout history.

* Comicbook/{{Apocalypse}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' was later revealed to have encountered, over the course of his long life, the following characters from different corners of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse: Comicbook/MisterSinister, the [[ComicBook/XForce Externals]], [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]], Comicbook/TheEternals, Comicbook/TheAvengers villain Kang the Conqueror, the Brood, [[Comicbook/MoonKnight an ancient avatar of Khonshu]], Abraham van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and {{Dracula}}.

* Comicbook/{{Apocalypse}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' was later revealed to have encountered, over the course of his long life, the following characters from different corners of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse: Mister Sinister, the [[ComicBook/XForce Externals]], [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]], Comicbook/TheEternals, Comicbook/TheAvengers villain Kang the Conqueror, the Brood, [[Comicbook/MoonKnight an ancient avatar of Khonshu]], Abraham van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and {{Dracula}}.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' TV series has Herc being quite {{the hero}}, even though much later, in the movie, he admits he's never done anything heroic to the disenchanted citizens of Thebes. He spent far more time [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength causing accidents]], and never went to Thebes in the series (usually in Athens, but went almost everywhere else in or near Greece ''besides'' Thebes). A more blatant continuity error is how Hades knows of and plots against teen Hercules in the series, even though in the movie he thought Hercules had been killed as a baby. At the very least though, in the one episode Megara appeared, they hurriedly had both she and Hercules lose memory of each other so that they could meet again in the movie.

* ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' does this with a lot of Robot Masters; before the plot of ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'', Pharaoh Man, Bright Man, Plant Man, Concrete Man, and Splash Woman had all made significant appearances, and a number of others had made cameos. And due to placing the events of ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman'' between ''2'' and ''3'', the Robot Masters from the latter were all well-established characters by then as well. That said, these were all preexisting Robot Masters in the games that Wily simply reprogrammed and repurposed, so it makes sense that they were at least ''around'' for a while prior to their games (hell, Mega Man explicitly recognized the crew from ''9'' on sight as Doctor Light's creations, and they're noted to be very old). One case where this notably wasn't done was with the cast of ''5'', ''7'', and ''8'', which were all explicitly created by Doctor Wily for the events of those games and therefore would have no reason to exist beforehand.

** As did Felix and Oscar of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple''. In one episode they met when they were kids, but in another they met when they were in the Army and in a third episode they met when they were both on the same jury!

--> '''Burns''': Smithers, who is this man?\\

* The original ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' features Lara Croft meeting Larson and Pierre Dupond for the first time. ''VideoGame/TombRaiderChronicles'' has the two appear as ThoseTwoBadGuys for a flashback level, and the dialogue makes it clear that both have crossed paths with Lara before.

* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo.'' It's canon to ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' thanks to a MythologyGag featuring an ArtShift to the former show's style in a flashback, but from there most incarnations that explore the gang's backstory have them meeting in their teens (until ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}},'' that is).

* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo.'' It's canon to ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' thanks to a MythologyGag featuring an ArtShift to the former show's style in a flashback, but from there incarnations that explore the gang's backstory have them meeting in their teens (until ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}},'' that is).

* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo.'' It's canon to ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' thanks to a MythologyGag featuring an ArtShift to the former show's style in a flashback, but from there most incarnations that explore the gang's backstory have them meeting in their teens (until ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}},'' that is).

* A flashback in the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' TV special ''Snoopy's Reunion'' not only retcons the backstory seen in both the strip and ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' of how Charlie Brown obtained Snoopy, but shows that Sally and Linus were already a part of Charlie Brown's life at that point, with Linus accompanying him to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to pick out Snoopy. In the comic strip Snoopy was around long before Linus (then an infant) was introduced, and Sally wasn't even born yet.

* A flashback in the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' TV special ''Snoopy's Reunion'' not only retcons the backstory seen in both the strip and ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' of how Charlie Brown obtained Snoopy, but shows that Sally and Linus were already a part of his life at that point, with Linus accompanying him to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to pick out Snoopy. In the comic strip Snoopy was around long before Linus and Lucy were introduced, and Sally wasn't even born yet.

* A flashback in the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' TV special ''Snoopy's Reunion'' not only retcons the backstory seen in both the strip and ''Film/SnoopyComeHome'' of how Charlie Brown obtained Snoopy, but shows that Sally and Linus were already a part of his life at that point, with Linus accompanying him to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to pick out Snoopy. In the comic strip Snoopy was around long before Linus and Lucy were introduced, and Sally wasn't even born yet.

* Creator/DerekRobinson uses this a lot in his serial novels of wartime aviation. Characters in one novel frequently carry over into the next - providing they [[EverybodyDies survive]]. In ''Literature/HulloRussiaGoodbyeEngland'', several characters carry over from the last of his UsefulNotes/WW2 trilogy, ''Damn Good Show'' as we follow 409 Squadron into the nuclear jet age. As a bonus, intelligence officer Skull Skelton returns into an age where his moral ambiguities and ability to see in terms of finely nuanced greys are welcomed by an RAF to whom the old certainties are dead.

** That's just the start. Characters know each other from other crossovers, such as [[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever Marvel Vs Capcom 3 or Street Fighter X Tekken]]. Several also recognize each other by reputation if they have a good reason to, such as people with knowledge of demons, like [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]] or [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]] knowing of [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Sparda]] and figuring out Dante is his son.

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* Notably averted by ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', despite being a continuity-heavy series that actually has fairly important prequels.

* The ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' TV series has Herc being quite {{the hero}}, even though much later, in the movie, he admits he's never done anything heroic to the disenchanted citizens of Thebes. He spent far more time [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength causing accidents]], and never went to Thebes in the series (usually in Athens, but went almost everywhere else in or near Greece ''besides'' Thebes). A more blatant continuity error is how Hades knows of and plots against teen Hercules in the series, even though in the movie he thought Hercules had been killed as a baby. At the very least though, in the one episode Megara appeared, they hurriedly had both she and Hercules lose memory of each other so that they could meet again in the movie.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Throughout the show's airing, a Star Wars fan worth their salt would probably be thinking "Hey, how is Anakin interacting and fighting with Count Dooku and Grievous when they only officially met in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', since Anakin was obviously referencing the battle on Geonosis when he says his powers have doubled? Or when Anakin joked about Grievous' height?" It's only upon looking back at the series that it's apparent Anakin never actually met General Grievous, making his quip valid. As well, the creators did try to cover their bases with Dooku by making their final clash in the series rather climactic and dramatic, justifying Anakin's claim of his powers having doubled since such a fight.

* The ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' TV series has Herc being quite {{the hero}}, even though much later, in the movie, he admits he's never done anything heroic to the disenchanted citizens of Thebes. He spent far more time [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength causing accidents]], and never went to Thebes in the series (usually in Athens, but went almost everywhere else in or near Greece ''besides'' Thebes). There's the fact that up until his reappearance as an adult in the movie, Hades didn't even know he existed, in fact he thought he had been killed as a baby. At the very least though, in the one episode Megara appeared, they hurriedly had both she and Hercules lose memory of each other so that they could meet again in the movie.

* Parodied in ''{{PvP}}'' when the main characters were brought back in time by a magical d20 and stumbled across Skull. When they get back, they ask him why he never mentioned meeting them before. He says he "used to drink a lot back then".

* The ''[[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse Star Trek]]'' novel ''[[http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Enterprise:_The_First_Adventure Enterprise: The First Adventure]]'' has most of Kirk's Enterprise crew already meeting each other before the start of the original series.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': James Kirk was the "first person" to do lots of stuff. But it turns out Jonathan Archer (captain of Series/StarTrekEnterprise ) did them all first'''er'''.

* Spoofed repeatedly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which features Scruffy the Janitor, a fellow who meets the cast for the first time... every time he appears. Whenever Scruffy enters a scene, there's usually a mention of how he has no idea who any of the main characters are, and none of them know who he is, either, thus deliberately contradicting all his prior appearances. This leads to such lines as "Boy, I've never seen [Bender] so down..or ever before."

* Spoofed repeatedly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which features Scruffy the Janitor, a fellow who meets the cast for the first time... every time he appears. Whenever Scruffy enters a scene, there's usually a mention of how he has no idea who any of the main characters are, and none of them know who he is, either, thus deliberately contradicting all his prior appearances. This leads to such lines as "Boy, I've never seen [Bender] so down..nor ever before."

* Spoofed repeatedly on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which features Scruffy the Janitor, a fellow who meets the cast for the first time... every time he appears. Whenever Scruffy enters a scene, there's usually a mention of how he has no idea who any of the main characters are, and none of them know who he is, either, thus deliberately contradicting all his prior appearances. This leads to such lines as "Gee, I've never seen Bender so upset... or ever before."