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* The UsefulNotes/SegaCD port of ''VideoGame/TheNinjaWarriors'' includes a weird bonus cinema scene in which Taito's in-house band Zuntata puts on a concert playing the first stage theme, which somehow becomes the inspiration for the game's plot. Oddly, this is voiced in English with Japanese subtitles, despite the Sega CD port being released in Japan only.

** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' featured a blooper reel during the credits. On popular request, they added ones to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' as well; on the latter, this is also available as a separate, selectable short on the DVD and Blu-Ray because it's only included in the full screen version of the film.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games generally do this in their expanded re-releases. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' was the most notable contributor, featuring a 'Secret Theatre' with movies such as the humorous Metal Gear Raiden shorts, dedicated to humiliating him, and the Snake vs. Monkey minigame, which featured Snake and...a monkey. Sadly, most of these special features were left out in the HD re-release.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games generally do this in their expanded re-releases. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' was the most notable contributor, featuring a 'Secret Theatre' with movies such as the humorous Metal Gear Raiden shorts, dedicated to humiliating him, and the Snake vs. Monkey minigame, which featured Snake and...a monkey. Sadly, most of these special features were left out in the HD re-release.

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** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' 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 and Blu-Ray because it's only included in the widescreen version of the film.

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Nearly all types of media feature extras: artwork is popular for anime and manga, particularly holiday art (''especially'' if the artists can draw the ladies in {{Sexy Santa Dress}}es); musicians regularly add "{{Hidden Track}}s" to their records (though this practice has faded somewhat, as CD players generally play the entire disc, instead of discreet tracks); television producers create extra scenes to be shown over the credits or as online-only "webisodes"; movie producers sometimes create whole new short films, just to add as an "extra" on the DVD, although nowadays Picture Dramas also often fulfill that role; and comic books often feature "backup stories" that are only a handful of pages long. DVD Collector's Editions often come with a reproduction of a prop or another similar bit of memorabilia.

** Some are serious (like Picture Dramas which fill in gaps in the backstory), but mostly they're comedic, like the Flash-animated and highly nonsensical Baba Theater included with the ''R2'' [=DVDs=]. Even the Manga Spin Offs have been known to add the occasional omake pages, involving such characters as Lelouch, Clovis, and Bartley.

** The picture drama associated with the last episode of Code Geass R2 actually extends the show's ending, showing what some might consider to be the true conclusion of the series.

* 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 ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' 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 Creator/AlanMoore? Turns out it was important...

* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'' has ''lots'' of short bonus chapters and illustrations, posted by Creator/NorioSakurai on her Twitter account, which are later added to the series' Volumes and fitted in between the main chapters. Some of them even serve as [[TheRemake blueprints for later events in the story]], such as the ValentinesDayEpisode.