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* ContinuityNod: "RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun You should have no problem taking down a few {{mook}}s!"
* Call-Back: "RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Let's do the same thing here]] to take down these {{mook}}s!"
* CallForward: "These {{mook}}s are overwhelming us! Too bad you don't have the power to blow up a sun!"

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': The FakeOutOpening involves Woody, Jessie and Buzz facing off against One-Eyed Bart and Evil Dr. Porkchop, referencing Andy's playtime sequences with his toys in the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory previous]] [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 two movies]]. Other recurring elements include the "force-field dog", the "force-field dog-eating dinosaur", and "Death by Monkeys".

'''[[ComicBook/WarMachine Rhodey]]:''' No, it’s never come up.\\

* At one point in ''Theatre/ComeFromAway'', ''Film/Titanic1997'' is mentioned as one of the films that is shown to the travelers stranded on the airplane, which is followed by one woman singing the chorus of "My Heart Will Go On" from that movie before being cut off. Later in the show, when some of the stranded travelers in Gander are in a bar, they start singing karaoke, and a woman in the bar briefly repeats some of the same lyrics from "My Heart Will Go On".

* At one point in ''Theatre/ComeFromAway'', ''Film/Titanic1997'' is mentioned as one of the films that is shown to the travelers stranded on the airplane, which is followed by one woman singing the chorus of "My Heart Will Go On" from that movie before being cut off. Later in the movie, when some of the stranded travelers in Gander are in a bar, they start singing karaoke, and a woman in the bar briefly repeats some of the same lyrics from "My Heart Will Go On".

* ''WebVideo/TheBritishRailwayStories'': In episode 15, The Day Of The Deltic, Allen tells Sir Ralph that The Fair Maid will be cut soon. The Fair Maid is the express passenger train he became the locomotive for in episode 5.

* ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' contains multiple references to its previous game, ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'':

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': Marianne and [[spoiler:The Bog King's]] duet of [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra the title song]] is full of these from Marianne's first visit to [[TheLostWoods the Dark Forest]]. The various features of the forest that had frightened her then are now shown to be harmless or even beautiful.

* ''CallBack/DoctorWho''

[[caption-width-right:350:Awkward. Also, a callback between comics, in fact -- from ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' to ''Webcomic/MenageA3'']]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'': When Buster decides Johnny should play the piano for his performance, Johnny tells him, "I haven't played piano since I was a kid." When Johnny is performing, one of the lines he sings is: "feelin' like a little kid"

'''[[ComicBook/WarMachine Rhodey]]:''' [[SarcasmMode No, it’s never come up.]]\\

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* ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'' has an "Fetter" Memento (a magic item made by binding a ghost to its own anchor) called the Thirty-Thirty. This is a rifle once owned by a man named Donnie Pritchard, who once tried to sacrifice several people to a ghost town he was convinced was haunted by the ghost of its past. (Pritchard's captives overpowered him and beat him to death with the rifle.) Donnie Pritchard was a character in the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness book ''Ghost Stories'', in the story "Dust to Dust", about a literal ghost town.
* When ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' cards are reprinted, they sometimes receive new artwork, and this artwork may visually reference earlier artwork. For example, the original printing of [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220383 Prey Upon]] shows a werewolf pouncing on a human, while the [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=414468 Eldritch Moon reprint]] shows a [[LovecraftianSuperpower Dronepack]] werewolf pouncing on a regular werewolf.
* For another ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' example, one of the first pieces of fiction in the ''World of Darkness'' corebook was a sermon by Marco Singe, the Pain Prophet of New Delhi, and introduced the concept of "the God-Machine" to the gameline. Come ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'', it's revealed that Singe's family runs a MegaCorp that has a special connection to the God-Machine, gaining proprietary knowledge of occult physics from its work.

->'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]:''' Anybody remember [[Film/TheAvengers2012 when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?]]\\
'''[[ComicBook/WarMachine James "Rhodey" Rhodes]]:''' [[SarcasmMode No, it’s never come up.]]\\

* Even ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', one of the most stagnant and continuity-free strips in newspapers, has gotten in on the act a few times. In a strip from February 2017, Garfield thinks back on a time when he couldn't sleep: November 8, 1992. Sure enough, in the November 8, 1992 strip, Garfield can't get any sleep because of "night noises" keeping him awake.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' has several. In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Puppy Love", PJ got a crush on a girl after she recited her poetry. He does the same thing for the same reason in this movie. In the episode "Date with Destiny", Goofy went on a dancing date with one of Max's school staff members--he does the same thing here. The final scene has some to the first movie: the trophy engraving was reminiscent of what Max and Goofy said to each other when their relationship was at its tensest moment, and Bobby calls back to two jokes in one line when he uses the word "cheesa" to describe the pizza he's holding and pointedly calls it "scrumptious."

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'':
** The film opens the same way as the original film - a black screen intercut with footage of racing cars, while [=McQueen=] goes through his pre-racing ritual.
** During the Demolition Derby, Lightning tells Cruz to "turn right to go left", a teaching Doc gave him in the first film. [[MasterApprenticeChain Much like Lightning at that time]], Cruz doesn't see any sense in his words.
** When Cruz reveals her idolization of [=McQueen=], she says she used to watch him "flying through the air", referencing when Lightning leaped through the smoke during the pile-up in the first movie.
*** A picture of the scene itself can be seen at the museum in the Rust-eze Racing Center.
** Mater is in the pits watching all of [=McQueen=]'s races, showing that [=McQueen=] kept his [[WesternAnimation/Cars2 promise]].

* As per the series standard, ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'' has several.
** Hiccup makes Toothless an automatic tail fin so he can fly on his own which makes Astrid reference "Gift of the Night Fury", questioning that he made Toothless one before and he didn't want it then. Hiccup answers that Toothless didn't have a reason at that time, but he does now; he wants to follow and court the Light Fury.
** After Hiccup and his gang bring a Crimson Goregutter on the island, it begins to play with a baby Gronckle Fishlegs is taking care of and accidentally knocks over some pole, producing DisasterDominoes knocking over few buildings, just like at the beginning of the first movie after Hiccup shoots down Toothless.
** The Light Fury's [[spoiler:rescue of Hiccup is framed in exactly the same way as Toothless's rescue of Astrid in the first movie was: the human is tumbling through the air, gets caught, and then looks up to see the dragon ducking its head down to smile at them.]]
** While [[spoiler:being held prisoner by Grimmel]], Ruffnut references her crush on Eret in the second movie (saying that that ship has sailed and she's over him now), and also mentions Fishlegs and Snotlout fighting over her while expressing her misgivings about both of them.
** [[spoiler:Hiccup kills Grimmel in a similar manner to how he tried to kill Krogan during their first encounter [[GivingThemTheStrip (i.e. untying his prosthetic leg)]].]]
** In the epilogue Astrid rushes past Hiccup on Stormfly and looks back, silently challenging him to a race. It's the same interaction they had at the end of the second film, and Hiccup even gives his son a look as if to say: "some things never change."

* When ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' cards are reprinted, they sometimes receive new artwork, and this artwork may visually reference earlier artwork. For example, the original printing of [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220383 Prey Upon]] shows a werewolf pouncing on a human, while the [[https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=414468 Eldritch Moon reprint]] shows a [[LovecraftianSuperpower Dronepack]] werewolf pouncing on a regular werewolf.

** ''CallBack/MortalKombatVsTheOwlHouse''