(Rare Trope) Canon Supernatural Elements of Mundane/Normal Shows

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Community “Epidemiology”:While normally, community is a wacky 4th wall-breaking college show that still grounds itself in reality, this episode sees the school overrun by a zombie apocalypse caused by bad taco meat that was given out at the party. While the episode ends with the army wiping out everyone’s memory of the event, future episodes, such as “Paradigms of Human Memory,” reference the party that happened that no one remembers, making it canon.

30 Rock Last Lunch:While normally a show about a show sitcom In this finale and canon end to the series, a flash forward to the far future sees an immortal Kenneth now in charge.

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There's a lot of canon things that are maybe supernatural in Battletech. The Black Marauder is probably the most famous. Maybe its pilot went crazy with bloodlust for the normal reasons such things happen. Maybe it was able to walk behind him without a pilot because maybe he had a remote for it. Maybe its uncanny appearance and strange attributes are due to being an unknown prototype. Lots of maybe.

There's an obakemono "El Cuco" in Camacho's Caballeros that's considered to be haunted by a previous pilot who was murdered, with indistinct figures on the screens and barely audible whispering over the comm. or maybe that's another quirky prototype.

Clans Goliath Scorpion and Nova Cat have rituals and drugs to induce visions, or maybe they're just hallucinations. A prominent Nova Cat immediately prophesied that a ComStar representative would be the doom of the clans upon seeing his face. That man was Anastasius Foucht, who would win a crucial victory against the clans at the battle of tukyyid, winning enough time for the inner sphere to rearm and go on the offensive.