), and the changes made in the plot were typical of the series.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series uses the ansible as a plot device.

The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.

A plot showing 100 random numbers with a " hidden " sine function, and an autocorrelation ( correlogram ) of the series on the bottom.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

A comic series was developed from the plot of the film as well.

In this work, the characters come upon a secret society's foul plot to destroy mankind, and pursue it first near to home and then in a series of exotic locations.

Today, maintaining strong plot and character continuity is also a high priority for many writers of long-running television series.

* The German erotic / vampire / comedy comic series Sandra Bodyshelly ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Harm Bengen incorporates several plot elements from vampiric fiction.

Déjà Vu is also a plot element in the episode " Mystery Spot " of the television series Supernatural where Sam Winchester wakes up in the same day as a result of being trapped in a time loop.

* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

She perceives and models reality according to the stereotypes and typical plot structures of the Gothic novel, leading to a series of absurd events culminating in catastrophe.

To this basic plot ( which comes from the Yahwist ) the Priestly source has added a series of covenants dividing history into stages, each with its own distinctive " sign ".

Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.

Artistic Director Krist ) and Director Emma Routledge ) adapted the scripts into a 4 part series featuring characters and plot points from the first 25 comics along with the company.

The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.

The series features a number of " superscience " inventions which figure as plot devices.

Yoshiyuki Tomino's original plot for the anime was considerably much more grim, with Amuro dying halfway through the series, and the crew of the White Base having to ally with Char ( who is given a red Gundam ), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon.

All that is long in the past of the series ' 30th century plot, where Mars is an established human-settled planet, humans living mainly " in the fertile canal areas " while most of the planet is desert.

It is also part of the plot of the movie Total Recall and the television series Babylon 5.

Ten years later, Dickens's Great Expectations contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters ( Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham ), and focuses on the hero's guilt.

The fictional plot focuses on the protagonists ' lifelong duty and commitment to the state for several generations.

Usually a short story focuses on one incident ; has a single plot, a single setting, and a small number of characters ; and covers a short period of time.

The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their titular tyrannical supervisors.

The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.

The plot focuses on thirteen-year-old Rynn Jacobs ( Foster ), a mysterious child whose dark secrets concerning her absent poet father are prodded by various nosy villagers in a New England town.

The plot focuses on a group of girls at an Australian women's college in the year 1900 who vanish during a Valentine's Day picnic at the site of an enormous rock formation.

Miller has claimed in interviews that inspiration for the plot came from Dirty Harry, perhaps specifically the 1983 film Sudden Impact, which like DKR focuses on an older Dirty Harry returning to fight crime after a lengthy convalescence.

A significant portion of the series ' plot focuses on the human characters ' efforts to identify all of the robot models which are embedded in the human population.

The plot focuses on a murderer whose increasing guilt leads him to believe he can hear his victim's heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him.

The plot focuses on the title character, a spinster librarian.

The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond.

The plot of the film focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send the titular character to Dallas, Texas, to try out for the famous “ Texas Cowgirls ” cheerleading squad.

The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious " rage " virus and focuses upon the struggle of four survivors to cope with the destruction of the life they once knew.

The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility.

The plot of A Link to the Past focuses on Link as he travels on a journey to save Hyrule, defeat Ganon and rescue the seven descendants of the Sages.

The film's plot focuses on Henry and The Purple Hand Gang fighting to prevent the closure of their school by an evil private school Headmaster.

The plot of the cartoon focuses on little Inki out hunting, oblivious to the fact that he himself is being hunted by a hungry lion.

The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their titular tyrannical supervisors.

The plot focuses on a prominent concert pianist, Charlotte Andergast ( Ingrid Bergman ), who has been neglectful and dismissive of her children, whom she has not seen in over seven years.

The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years.

* Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists

The movie focuses on a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.

The plot focuses on two couples who are held hostage by a sadistic backwoods family on Halloween.