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Footnotes 1 First discovered in 1841 in the country of Asteriskia are a valuable literary device 2 They'd fetch half a million commas on the black market and not just for scholars or high school students who need to pad out a report on the "Life and Death of Joan of Arc". 3 Who was not Noah's wife, by the way. No, authors of fiction use them too and often in various interesting and experimental ways. 4 Everyone experiments in college, right? These footnotes could contain jokes, 5 What did one footnote say to the other? "Follow me and we'll go places!" more information about what's going on in the story, 6 I am editing this page whilst being attacked by ninja mice. or even an entirely different story. 7 The ninja mice hail from a dwarf planet orbiting the star Zerkimirk. Their journey to Earth has brought them in conflict with many humans, and many of them now seek vengeance for the death of their leader, Spickaspeak. These authors have Footnote Fever! 8 Symptoms of Footnote Fever may include phantom hand syndrome, monkey lung, scrofula, late-onset albinism, pulmonary weevils and mild rash Many translations will use footnotes because the main problem of translation (rather than simply transliteration) deals with how to get across elements that are specific to said work's original language or place of origin (puns, metaphors, hidden meanings, references, Values Dissonance, etc.). Methods to prevent these elements from being Lost in Translation boil down to Woolseyisms or Translator's Notes (TN), footnotes where the translator explains elements that are too difficult to explain and keep the narrative flow uninterrupted. Obviously, translation into seriously unrelated languages tends to devolve into footnote fever quite quickly. See Too Long; Didn't Dub for more specific cases. Examples of works utilizing footnotes only rarely applies in Non-Fiction Literature because citation is often done with footnotes, making it a standard feature of the medium. For the Webcomic equivalent, see Alt Text. The Comic Book equivalent is Clue from Ed. Compare and contrast Colon Cancer. |
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Njal Gets Burned uses footnotes frequently to comment on villain social norms, or just make jokes. | |
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Narbonic did one of these in a direct Shout-Out to their use in Marvel comics as a Clue from Ed.. The joke was finished by Helen telling them off. | |
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Thursday Next has her footnoterphone, which people in the Bookworld use as phones or personal radios. More than that, in one of the books, (the third, maybe?) Thursday escapes from danger by escaping into the footnotes of the book. The main story, which had been in the first person up until that point, becomes a very dry third-person narration until she rejoins the narrative once it's safe. A printing error in First Among Sequels meant that footnotes were omitted. Confusing doesn't cover it. |
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Beauty Queens uses footnotes to make comic asides, fictional pop culture references and describe imaginary products. | |
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The Horrible Histories books and some similar series use this occasionally — the Coping With series in particular loved this trope. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) uses this constantly, though it seems to be Depending On The Editor. | |
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A Chorus of Dragons: The books are presented as annotated, edited accounts prepared by Thurvishar (one and three) or Senera (two and four), with extensive footnotes on their part to provide additional context on character motivations, backstory, worldbuilding details and speculation that the characters either don't mention in-text or wouldn't be privy to, alongside the occasional sarcastic remark or quip concerning events they are personally invested in. | |
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Geek Rage loves using footnotes, going as far as having "***" for a footnote. | |
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The Unadulterated Cat argues with itself in three-deep nested footnotes. | |
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Suicide for Hire uses them a lot; in this page for example, there are three of them, pointing out how obvious someone is while they think they're hiding, among other things. | |
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Simply Weird: The (fake) History of Weird Comics Incorporated, A (fake) Comic Book Company has a total of 47 footnotes! | |
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Equestria: A History Revealed is double funny if you check the footnotes leading to bibliography. Intermingled with scientific-sounding books there are Loose Change's derogative comments on the text, books on maths and Spanish for dummies and a literary masterpiece "What are Fingers? Anthro puberty and you". | |
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While Asteroid in Love is a simple Schoolgirl Series, it includes large amounts of (mostly accurate) trivia on astronomy, geology, and other sciences. While the author didn't include much in terms of footnotes, a Chinese fan translation seems to be written by science majors, which means that translation describes each star mentioned as footnotes, and gives the readers pages—more than 4 pages per chapter in some chapters—of scientific introductions. There are one or two chapters that the translators decided to give an introductory lecture on astronomic viewing, making the notes longer than the manga itself. | |
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School Rumble's author slips tossing a quick joke or observation on the sides of the manga's panels to sometimes add to the delivery, explore a character's motivations, or snark at the cast's wackiness. | |
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Book Of Days features not only Twilight Sparkle's footnotes to help explain pieces of Clover the Clever's journal (which the entire work is supposed to be Twilight's translation of) but also banter from Princess Celestia and Luna. | |
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Taken literally by the Boob in Yellow Submarine who writes on a pad with a pen between his toes. | |
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Harry Potter: In the mainland Chinese translations, there are footnotes that are needed to translate English-language jokes (like "It's getting Blacker every day"), as well as ones to change subtext into text (like "This is not a typo, Slughorn just mistook Ron Weasley's name."), and advertising other books in the franchise (like "For more information on [X], please read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, published by the People's Chinese Publication Company."). The Japanese translation uses a handy fold-out pamphlet to explain all the Western Magic info. |
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Michael Lawrence's Jiggy Mccue series has this in every book. | |
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The Divine Comedy: Most English copies are at least 50% footnotes, explaining Dante's detailed parody of contemporary Italian politics, extensive reference to Biblical and Mythological sources, and common folk tales that haven't been widely told since the Renaissance. However, there's one notorious instance in the Paradiso where the first ever Dante commenter (his own son and co-writer) admits he doesn't have a clue what Dante was talking about. | |
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Return To The Willows, a fan-written followup to The Wind in the Willows does this. The American edition has a number of footnotes to explain British terms, but there are a number of other footnotes, including one explaining the concept of life not being fair, and another directing readers back to the previous footnote when Mr. Toad complains to himself about how unfair things are. | |
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Planet Mercenary is presented as a marketing tool for the titular Schlockiverse weapons retailer with comments from the CEO and writing team throughout the book, often conversing with one another. Including the first CEO murdering two writers for maligning certain products and the survivors deposing her. | |
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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green features many footnotes, in which he says: "[They] can allow you to create a kind of secret second narrative, which is important if, say, you're writing a book about what a story is and whether stories are significant." Most of them exist to translate dialog that's in a foreign language, or to explain the math jokes. | |
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Men in White was published with a great number of footnotes. The brief ones are usually explanations of medical jargon or the name-dropping of famous doctors. The longer notes range from histories of medical practice to aggrieved rants about Nazi Germany's interference with the medical profession and legal prohibitions against abortion that create a demand for Back Alley Doctors. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In chapter 109, the Rentarou Family decides to put on a pretend drinking party using "Serious Kids' Beer" to welcome Hard-Drinking Party Girl Momoha into the fold. Unfortunately, this gets vetoed when the Big Cheese of the Publishing Biz tells everyone via dreams that depicting minors drinking or drunk as good, whether sincerely or simulated, is a no-no. Rentarou finds multiple workarounds to pull it off without actaully drinking anything alcoholic, one of which is a footnote reading "No alcohol or anything with similar effects has been consumed" to tack on to any panels in which characters appear drunk. This footnote then appears on nearly every single panel for the next chapter and a half. | |
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House of Leaves weaves much of the plot in its footnotes, often using footnotes within footnotes within footnotes to create "windows" or mazes inside the book. The physical orientation of the footnotes on the page also works to reflect the twisted feeling of the plot (often taking up several pages, appearing mirrored from page to page, vertical on either side of the page, or in boxes in the center of the page, in the middle of the central narrative). Footnotes which become The Long List tend to actually have coded messages inside them. | |
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One footnote from a Discworld book was included as part of a quotation cited in a non-fiction chapter of a The Science of Discworld book. This footnote (footquote?), in turn, had a footnote explaining all this* and the explanatory footnote declared itself to be a "metafootnote". | |
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Fox Demon Cultivation Manual's English version is translated by the same people and also contains footnotes (though usually they're not as lengthy as in Qiang Jin Jiu). | |
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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien contains extensive and lengthy footnotes in which the narrator expounds the theories and experiments of the great fictional philosopher de Selby. These footnotes span several pages and often overtake the main plotline, and add to the absurdist tone of the book. | |
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A scholarly printing of Finnegans Wake may have at least two inches of footnote for every inch of text, just to explain what's going on in any given passage. | |
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Junko Mizuno's Pure Trance manga has footnotes for every character, item, and animal in the story on every page, as well as several full-page notes and random artwork. While these "notes" are numbered, they aren't directly connected to the story. | |
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In The Daily Show's America (The Book), the sidenotes are to keep up the illusion of being a school textbook, which often have all sorts of bizarre infoboxes in the margins. The footnotes are unexplainable except by Rule of Funny, however. America: The Book also has a faux essay on "How to Filibuster" that's basically a page of footnotes, footnotes within footnotes, symbols that look like footnotes within footnotes... A later "Teacher's Edition" of America: The Book adds another layer of commentary, in the form of angry red notes scrawled all through the book by a history professor who is almost but not quite aware that the book is comedy. |
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The Annotated Series is named for the YouTube feature. | |
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While Homestuck (and the associated Paradox Space) make use of Alt Text, the main comic's print version has a footnote on every page, ranging anywhere from behind the scenes commentary through casual spoilers to Hussie-brand humor. | |
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The Cartoon History of the Universe has footnotes for digressions from the main narrative. Rather than the usual caption within a panel, they're additional comics at the bottom of the page, indicated by an asterisk being painted by a foot. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! frequently has annotations to help people get the joke, or explain the background to a concept in the strip. One strip, though, degenerated into a cluster Footnote-Bomb. Also, here's an example that might considered as ironic. And then there's this. | |
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The Lunar Rebellion is presented in-universe as the most recent edition of Shadow Kicker's memoirs, as edited by her distant descendant Cloud Kicker. As a result, it is liberally interspersed with annotations and running commentary on Cloud's part as she alternatively provides exposition and clarification on historical details or her own opinions of the various events. | |
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The REPCONN Museum in Fallout: New Vegas has a ton of plaques suffering from this.* This statement not admissible in court. | |
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The Young Ones cash-in, Neil's Book Of The Dead, has a chapter in which a footnote defining the word "vibe" gets its own footnote, which gets its own footnote, et cetera, until the footnotes take over five whole pages and go completely off track until eventually coming full circle to defining "vibe" again. At which point it becomes necessary to define "deja vu" — in a footnote... | |
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Howard Taylor of Schlock Mercenary uses footnotes to explain some of the dicey details and cultural references that would ruin the narrative if explained in-story, as well as additional jokes. | |
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The Language of Literature (Grade 6): Because this is a textbook used to teach English language reading, there are many definitions given with footnotes, additional questions/challenges in sidebars, certain phrases are highlighted, and sometimes multiple stories/poems share a page. | |
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Parodied by xkcd in "Footnote Labyrinths", which has recursive footnotes among other things. Another xkcd footnotes an IHOP menu in the style of House of Leaves. | |
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 uses footnotes to provide sources such as statistics and news articles for the narrator's descriptions of the social context of the protagonist's life. This ties in with the Framing Device; the novel is framed as a report by the titular character's psychiatrist. | |
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Angel Child, Dragon Child: Some of the pages have small notes at the bottom that explain to English-speaking readers how to pronounce the Vietnamese words in the text. | |
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Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell has numerous footnotes that mostly detail the history and folklore surrounding the topic of magic. These footnotes regularly take up more space than the main body and occasionally gobble up a whole page. | |
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Castle Dreams, a rather surreal and existentialist entry in John DeChancie's Castle Perilous series to begin with, has oodles of fun playing with spurious footnotes. The topics range from somewhat serious explanations of literary tropes, self-referential textual allusions, and obscure plot points to tongue-in-cheek humor, a hilarious send-up of many fantasy tropes, random comments which have nothing at all to do with the book, and even times where the footnote writer propositions the reader for a date. And that doesn't even begin to describe the preface in which the supposed footnote writer reveals he didn't write them at all (or the preface!), as well as quizzes and tests scattered throughout the novel — usually based on info from the footnotes. | |
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Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus contains a number of these (type "footnote n" to see the nth foortnote) in a rather pratchettian vein. | |
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The new-series Myth Adventures novels make a Running Gag of using footnotes to shamelessly plug the old series novels. | |
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Randall Munroe does it again in his science blog What If?, in the entry Frozen Rivers: | |
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In the Forgotten Realms setting, there are a set of in-universe travel guides written by Volothamp Geddarm, or "Volo" for short. The books are peppered with footnotes from the Archmage Elminster, who corrects Volo's often erroneous facts, refutes Volo's conclusions, or plain insults Volo's intelligence! | |
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Every chapter of The New Humans thus far, ranging from jokes to short character studies, to a few lengthy world building digressions. | |
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GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class's art edutainment tendencies plus the heavy use of puns means every manga volume by Yen Press has at least 4 pages of translator's notes. | |
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Good Day to You, How About a Game?: The scanlations come with multiple pages of notes explaining the byzantine rules of mahjong, in addition to the exposition the characters in the story do. | |
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Girl Genius uses them occasionally in the original strip, but really goes to town with the concept in the print-novel adaptations by the same authors. | |
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The annotated versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The latter has a span of four pages that consists entirely of footnotes. Likewise, in The Annotated Hunting of the Snark, it is rare for any page to be less than half footnotes. | |
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Digger uses footnotes for anecdotes, world-building, wombat curses, and explaining the occasional use of Unsound Effect instead of onomatopoeia ("There IS no feasible onomatopoeia for this."). | |
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All over the place in World War Z, a fictional novel about the aftermath of a global zombie war presented as if it were non-fiction. The footnotes refer to real and fictitious events that took place before and during the war, explain unfamiliar terms, etc. | |
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When reading The History of Middle-earth one is very conscious that both J. R. R. Tolkien and his son and editor Christopher Tolkien are Oxford professors and so given to exhaustive footnoting and citations. | |
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The Death Gate Cycle: Within the story itself, the books are imagined as an in-universe account written by Alfred chronicling the series' events. As a part of this, the text is dotted with footnotes providing clarification and exposition on various bits of lore and worldbuilding that would not otherwise fit in the text itself without bogging down the narrative flow, which are presented as authorial asides and clarifications inserted by Alfred and Haplo for the benefit of in-universe readers. | |
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To quote an Amazon review for Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book, "[w]hile the book is primarily made up of the same material that is posted on the website, the true point of the book is hidden in its footnotes [...] [which] tell the story of a troubled kid who buries himself in a ninja fantasy in order to escape his negligent parents, over-critical teachers and to compensate for his lack of friends." The story of the footnotes and the main text are very different. | |
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Yuria 100 Shiki is filled with Little Yellow Boxes explaining how Yuria's current bizarre behaviour relates to her programming as a Sex Bot. | |
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War with the Newts by Karel ÄŒapek contains footnotes that encompass several pages, and excerpt from a newspaper in a totally unknown language. | |
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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service has extremely thorough footnotes, mainly translating all the SFX that were left in the original Japanese, but also explaining historical events, relevant cultural tidbits, etc. The footnotes in the first few volumes tended to be heavy on the SFX and rather dry in describing the other things, but as the series progressed the footnotes started getting more entertaining, with the editor rambling on subjects only tangentially related to the original footnote, cracking jokes, and generally sounding a lot less formal. | |
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The footnotes in The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin are sometimes humorous sidebars but more often wildly out-of-character hints to young readers. One chapter begins with a footnote suggesting that those who are horse lovers rather than puzzle lovers skip to the next chapter. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple has a lot of these captions; in particular, the "Miu has a habit of throwing anyone standing behind her" box is practically a running gag. And many times when a person appears, a little box with their name (and character summary) will pop up. As there are tons of characters, this can be helpful in keeping track of everyone, but it also applies to people who show up all the time, like Kenichi's masters. So we get captions like "Appachai: Death God Of Muay Thai" and "Sakaki Shio: The 100-Dan Karate Master", like every ten chapters or so. | |
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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett uses footnotes to great comedic effect, memorably setting up a king-sized Brick Joke about Elvis. Also, backstory, digressions, gags, and Call Backs abound. | |
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In Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, footnotes are freely used to expand on points, provide backstory, insert jokes and the occasional Shout-Out. Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle and Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg continue the grand tradition set up by the previous books. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy uses this as well. Indeed, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy spun off whole other stories in its footnotes, one of which was later expanded into the computer game and book Starship Titanic. |
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Parodied, like everything else, in The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers. Since they are the autobiography of the Author Avatar, who himself is a parody, the footnotes are all from the Author Avatar and not the author, which makes them very worth reading, as they usually include even more hilarity. Unless they have been inserted by the Translator Avatar. | |
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Most English translations of The Bible are full of footnotes — generally cross-references to other verses and useful notes that are often repeated over and over, because people treat the Bible as a reference book rather than read it through. Many other notes give alternate wordings to passages, reflecting that the original texts were in several different languages and that translating things can change the meaning in subtle ways, i.e. The Four Loves all being translated to "Love" or a difference between "kill" and "murder". Oxford's Annotated Bible uses footnotes to, of all things, point out where the translator switched a pronoun with its antecedent and vice-versa for better English flow. I know there are inherent problems with translation, dude, but I can trust you with this much... "Study" Bibles can contain as much commentary as text. Notable historical examples include the 1560 Geneva Bible and the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible. The former, having Puritan commentary suggesting limits to the power of the church hierarchy and monarchs, drove King James VI/I to commission a new translation without notes that you may be familiar with. The latter introduced millions of readers to dispensationalist theology and formed a foundation to American fundamentalism. |
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The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch is loaded with footnotes. They appear in his Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, which has a footnote below a footnote that explains footnotes. "Usually, footnotes are indicated by a star or stars (plural) like these ***." The *** labeled footnote says "Ha. Made you look." | |
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Brave New World: The Portuguese translation includes a footnote for every quoting or paraphrasing of William Shakespeare (usually by John the Savage) containing the source of the quote and the quote in its original form and language. At one point, the footnotes take up half the page. John really likes his Shakespeare. | |
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Try Abdullah Yusuf Ali's celebrated translation of the Noble Qur'an, by wordcount, the footnoted commentary is 20-times longer than the holy text it's expounding upon. | |
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In Total Drama Island by Gilbert and Sullivan, Footnote Fever manifests in two ways: Because the compilation uses so many verses, and to preserve some sense of Gilbert's stories, the verses are segregated into a separate section. A cross-referencing system enables the reader to move quickly between the plot summaries (called the Guide To Incidents) and the verses. Many of the more obscure terms in the verses are marked either with underlining (in the web-based version) or a different color font (in the PDF version) to indicate that they have Glossary entries. |
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Jonathon L. Howard tends to use footnotes in his Johannes Cabal novels, and in Johannes Cabal the Detective there's one that mentions Cabal keeps a collection of his wanted posters, and in a bit of rare vanity his favorite is the one with the highest bounty. | |
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Alan Moore's From Hell contains pages upon pages of footnotes in the appendix, though most of them aren't called out in the actual panels. Keeping a bookmark in the appendix can be a necessity. | |
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The Chick Tracts are chock full of them, usually Biblical verses. | |
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The Gospel According to Larry and its sequel, Vote for Larry, have humorous (and sometimes informative) footnotes dotted about the books. | |
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Saki: There's a fan translation of the manga with pages of end notes after each chapter to explain what's going on to people who don't play proper Mahjong (as opposed to the solitaire game). | |
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The published script of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is annotated with a great number of footnotes, many of them entirely frivolous; for example, one footnote is a recipe for guacamole. The great number, to be exact, is 11188, but on closer examination footnotes 100 through 179, 200 through 1179 and 1200 through 11179 appear to have been skipped. The radio show includes frequent breaks for "Audio Footnote Time." | |
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The first episode of Babe Ruth: Man-Tank Gladiator alone has 18 footnotes. | |
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Why, on this very wiki!* See? This article, duh. |
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Loyal Enemies is generously spiced with footnotes explaining things Shelena isn't bothered to elaborate upon, as well as referring the readers to various Fictional Documents for additional information. They don't say anything on the subject of ghyrs, though. Polish translation bumps the footnote quota even higher, as the editors felt the need to explain to Polish readers old Russian aristocratic titles and weights and measures' system the author's using. |
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution uses the footnotes to paint the fourth wall — as is customary for Holmesian fanfic, Meyer claims the story is a missing Watson manuscript, so Meyer comments on Watson's throwaway remarks to other cases, incontinuitous remarks, and historical mistakes. The best: | |
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Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) plays with this in his book Lake Wobegon Days, which includes lengthy footnotes and a parallel narrative. A "footnote" stretches over the bottom third or half of at least half a dozen pages. Presumably it's not included in the main body of text JUST for the humor value. In one small-print copy, it lasts twenty-five pages. | |
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Spoofed in the Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny Special: One page features a Note from Ed. that has four sub-footnotes, the last of which ends with the editor saying "It's a miracle I remember all this...send help." | |
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For Warhammer 40,000, the equivalent is found in just about every page of The Regimental Standard, a parody Imperial Guard newsletter done in the same vein as the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. | |
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Shadowrun books have footnotes on the pages, but since they're supposed to be paper versions of online texts, the footnotes are comment threads, in-character from characters accessing the pages. Pages on equipment may include notes on where and when or when not to use it, organizations and important people get snarks pro and con, etc. | |
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Indeed, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy spun off whole other stories in its footnotes, one of which was later expanded into the computer game and book Starship Titanic. | |
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The Warhammer magazine White Dwarf usually doesn't indulge in this, but one series of articles about Wood Elves called "Winter Comes To The Forest" from a few years ago revelled in it. For Warhammer 40,000, the equivalent is found in just about every page of The Regimental Standard, a parody Imperial Guard newsletter done in the same vein as the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. |
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Every signpost in Exit Path that doesn't have a picture has a message in big letters with an asterisk at the end, then a message in small letters that begins with an asterisk and clarifies the previous message. This being a dystopia, the bigger message is typically a blatant lie and the smaller message always resembles something out of Paranoia. | |
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Warriors of the World occasionally has footnotes scattered throughout chapters to shed background worldbuilding info on any odd terminology and names, and to translate Rogue Slang and Morrocian if it's not translated in-universe. | |
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John Hodgman's Complete World Knowledge, being a parody of almanacks, naturally makes good use of these, but More Information Than You Require deserves special mention for going so far as to include a footnote in the title. | |
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Isoraqathedh, the author of the pony/altworld crossover Ponies on Lyr uses four different types of footnotes, all of which are used liberally. | |
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Various Uncyclopedia articles use footnotes for extra jokes. | |
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The Asterix comics often use footnotes to highlight Historical In-Jokes. | |
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Some editions of the stories of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie translate the detective's French phrases into English this way. | |
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It shows up again in The Pale King, whenever Wallace provides a direct narration. | |
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Each chapter in The Legend of Total Drama Island has an extensive Notes section, with over 30 entries in some cases, most of which explain obscure and/or highbrow allusions. | |
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The Dresden Files role-playing books have post-it notes used by Harry and Billy to discuss modifications that might need to be made, or Dresden's trademark snark. Bob the skull also chimes in, often leading Billy to wonder how he's doing that. | |
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This trope is often employed by some authors (e.g. Tsukasa Hojo and Wataru Yoshizumi) for "author's commentary"; for example, in Yoshizumi's Mint na Bokura, one character wonders out loud "Why didn't I think of this earlier?", and below the panel there's written "...Because you're an idiot?" | |
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Drawing A Blank is a fairly straightforward case. The 68 footnotes all relate to items that Carlton is uncertain whether the reader will understand the reference (and show that he has an excellent mind for historical trivia). | |
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Ninja Nonsense: In volume 1, there's almost half as many footnotes as there are pages (63 footnotes, 148 pages) and 31 of those footnotes are needlessly big with the biggest being two footnotes that are three sentences and 75 words long. Not to mention that they pop up literally every two or three pages as well. | |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has a number of footnotes; each one starts out fairly informative but soon turns into a rant against Trujillo, the then-dictator of the Dominican Republic. | |
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The Twilight Saga: The Chinese translation averaged one footnote every five pages; the scene where Edward and Bella discuss their university plans entailed a half page long note on American universities, their cultural connotation, and the mechanics of the SAT. | |
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Michael Gerber's Barry Trotter parody books used footnotes to expand one-line jokes in the text into paragraph-long comedic monologues that would otherwise break the flow of the narrative. They were funny, too, until book number three. | |
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The Foundation Trilogy: The Encyclopedia Galactica is read as an Epigraph at the start of each story segment, but also interrupts the dialogue occasionally to clarify terms that the audience may be unfamiliar with. Mostly during "Part One: The Psychohistorians and the Encyclopedists". | |
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The Rivers of London novella What Abigail Did That Summer has several footnotes translating the more impenetrable parts of Abigail's London teenspeak, supposedly written by Professor Postmartin for the benefit of Agent Reynolds, and flavoured with Postmartin's sardonic views about young people and the decline of the language. | |
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Qiang Jin Jiu: The English translation is full of footnotes explaining things non-Chinese readers are unfamiliar with. The translator jokingly nicknamed it "The Novel Where the Footnotes Are Longer Than the Actual Translation" because of this. Fox Demon Cultivation Manual's English version is translated by the same people and also contains footnotes (though usually they're not as lengthy as in Qiang Jin Jiu). |
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K-On! is translated by Yen Press, and has around 4 pages of translator's notes at the end of each volume in order to explain puns and other cultural stuff that would otherwise be missed. | |
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GURPS favours sidebars or box-outs (depending on edition) rather than footnotes, but the GURPS-based Discworld Roleplaying Game includes footnotes in order to better emulate its source material. It also has sidebars or box-outs (depending on the edition) — and even footnotes in those. | |
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For Want of a Nail is an Alternate History work where the American Revolution failed, and it's notable for it's extensive footnotes and references to academic books that don't exist. | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Used to reflect the fact the narrator, a djinn, can keep track of several trains of thought simultaneously. And basically to add sarcastic and/or bragging asides. It was also a nice method of adding details about people/places without derailing the story's momentum. Toward the end of the last book, Bartimaeus ends up Sharing a Body with Nathaniel. The first time he inserts a footnote after this occurs, he's cut short and back in the main text, Nathaniel tells him to "stop doing that". This is the only time a footnote appears outside the Bartimaeus chapters. Bartimaeus really takes this up to ridiculous heights in the prequel where this is one instance of him putting a footnote inside his footnote when snarking about the abilities of Solomon's ring. To distinguish this from normal footnotes, he uses a star instead of a number. |
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Hidamari Sketch, also in a high school arts program setting, of which Yen Press publishes as Sunshine Sketch, manages only 1 page of notes per volume (and in volume 4, more than 50% of that page is blank). It's amazing what a slight change in focus can do... | |
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Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version uses footnotes as a character device that highlights unreliable passages in the narration. As the editor of his father's autobiography, the narrator's son must correct any of his father's misstated facts. The frequency of these corrections increases as the father falls victim to both hubris and Alzheimer's disease. While most of these changes are minor, a few are essential to plot and character development. | |
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The traditional Chinese translations of The Camp Half-Blood Series make fairly liberal use of footnotes, primarily to explain historical, geographical and cultural references from the Western world and especially the U.S.note For instance, The Mark of Athena references the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", a patriotic American Civil War-era song which the average Chinese speaker from the other side of the planet would otherwise be unfamiliar with, while The Hidden Oracle notes on characters drinking bug juice (i.e. super-sweet, artificially-flavored powdered juice drinks like Kool-Aid) and watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They also make clarifications on Greco-Roman mythological figures and eventsnote [A] is the god/titan of [B], [C] is the child of [D], [Event E] happened to [F], etc., render Call-Backs to previous books more explicit, and explain the occasional pun and specific term.note If wordplay regarding the English language specifically is required, however, they render it in the original text with Chinese translations for the words in brackets. Just one book alone can have over a hundred footnotes, and we're talking about a series with 15 main books here. | |
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The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon is narrated by an autistic teenager who often pauses the narrative to explain his train of thought, discuss a mathematical problem or clarify his words to make absolutely sure that he doesn't accidentally give the wrong impression (he has a total aversion to lying). | |
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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: The YouTube subtitles include translator's notes explaining things non-Chinese viewers are unfamiliar with, like the difference between difujin (official wife) and cefujin (second wife or concubine). | |
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Welcome to Lodoss Island, which tells the story of the manga version of Record of Lodoss War entirely in comical omakes, often has translator's notes explaining puns (for example, that aho, in addition to being one of the Japanese transliterations of the noise a crow makes, is also Japanese for "dumbass"). In one, however, Parn describes goblins in a rather nonsensical manner, and the translator's note states that Parn is babbling like an idiot even in the original Japanese. | |
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