Recap by Audit

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• Excel♡Saga: One episode has Il Palazzo justifying his decision not to include Excel in the latest mission by showing her a Clip Show of all the times she's failed her missions in past episodes.
• Food for the Soul: While Episode 1 of the anime directly shows Shinon, Kurea and Tsutsui arguing with the Student Services clerk regarding establishing the club, in the manga, it's narrated by them discussing what happened during the meeting after they left (which they squabble as to who caused the failure).
• Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: Some episodes have Lillie recapping previous episodes while writing about their events in her diary.
• Speed Grapher: Used explicitly in the episode "Audit the Wicked".

• Big Finish Doctor Who: The framing device of "The Settling" is Ace and Hex, back in the TARDIS after a harrowing adventure, discussing why Hex believes the adventure went poorly for him.

• The Avengers: The Avengers (Kurt Busiek) #56, "Lo! And There Shall Come an Accounting!", was about this. In the end, the money counters let the superheroes off the hook. Who's going to rag on Captain America for saving them?

Minecraft

• Parkour Civilization: "Minecraft but I become the RULER of PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" bridges two seasons by Evbo recapping the changes in the Civilization since last time. The episode is not included in the movie compilation.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Reversal Salt AU: The aftermath of Marinette's rise to fame through her widely acclaimed fashion designs is her hesitantly trailing behind her girlfriend, Lila, who basks in all the second-hand attention at a gala or socialite party. While the narration very briefly summarizes what led the characters there, the emotional impact of Lila's manipulations can only be made clear through her and Marinette's toxic relationship.

My Hero Academia

• The Best Case Scenario, if you're being "realistic":
  • In this series, Izuku doesn't join U.A.'s Hero Course, having decided there are other ways he can make things better without becoming a Pro Hero. Since the story is still told primarily from his perspective, this means he's Locked Out of the Loop about a lot of what's happening. One of the main ways the overall impact of his decision is revealed to him and the readers is through conversations with Principal Nedzu, his homeroom teacher Present Mic, and other members U.A.'s staff, as well as other students (especially those from the hero course), and the news reporting upon the fallout of things like villain attacks.
  • This includes learning who's been Killed By The Adaptation due to Izuku attending their funerals/memorial services held at U.A.
  • The Battle of Jaku provides several stark examples of this, as does Izuku's ventures into the city in its wake, as Japan gradually recovers from the complete dissolution of its Pro Hero system.
• Dead on Arrival (MHA): Both the Shizuoka Massacre and the Gunga Mountain Raid are shown in this manner. The Shizuoka Massacre is specifically told in the form of Overhaul reading his men the riot act over all the mistakes they made in carrying out his plans during the battle and how it turned a would-be Curb-Stomp Battle into a narrow victory with multiple failed objectives causing long-term issues, while the Gunga Mountain Raid involves Aizawa justifying to Governor Toshinori why the massive losses sustained were reasonable due to numerous unforseen issues.

Potter Verse

• Requiem For the Living: The animatic never shows Voldemort's intrusion on the Potters' residence. Instead, we learn how the fateful confrontation went as Sirius enters the house looking for Survivors. James lies by the front door and has a bloodied face, his family's first line of defense. Lily is sprawled by little Harry's crib, her arms abreast as if shielding her son with her own body. Lily and James died with their eyes wide open, indicating that Voldemort murdered them both with the Killing Curse. Harry is in his crib, teary-eyed but otherwise unharmed. The fact that his scar is not bleeding might indicate either its magical nature or that he's been alone for a while. The nursery's roof is blown up from the Killing Curse's violent rebound.

• Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe uses the device of Sam Axe being interrogated by the United States military about his activities in Colombia; which we learn have involved a journalist, a medical aid clinic, CIA agents, an apparent rebel group, the Colombian national police, and a rogue unit of the Colombian army.
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: The Thing sums up everything that has gone wrong to the Fantastic Four by the second act—Victor has achieved unlimited power, there's an intergalactic force wanting to exterminate the Earth, and due to a misunderstanding, they are official enemies of the USA. He then finishes with a sarcastic "Did I miss anything?.
• Slumdog Millionaire: The accounting is not of expenses, but of the main character's life experiences that led to his presence on a quiz show, and his knowledge of esoteric answers despite a dirt-poor childhood.

• A Certain Magical Index: In "The Queen Of The Adriatic Sea" Arc, Touma does an Opening Monologue explaining what happened to him between defeating Oriana on the first day of the Daihasei Festival and the end. Given this is Touma, it overlays a Bad Luck Montage: Walking in on Komoe changing, being headbutted by Seiri and having a gumball thrown at him by Aisa, and being kicked in the back of the head by Kuroko after doing a Bonfire Dance with Mikoto^note and also, fighting to prevent Academy City from being destroyed again.
• Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl: In the "present", the hero is obscenely wealthy, plagued by guilt, and going through therapy with a computer-generated psychologist. Most of the actual plot of the book is in his explanations to the computer of where the wealth (and guilt) came from.
• The Kingkiller Chronicle: For the first two books, it's unknown how Kvothe became a Broken Ace and a Failure Hero as both The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear center around how he became the stuff of legends in the first place. As a result, all clues to his fall from grace are hidden in the mess his life is now—he's a recluse barkeep in the middle of nowhere (the shame he feels at having failed his goal is unbearable) who cannot perform Sympathy magic anymore (so the event probably crushed his will) and has taken a Fae as his apprentice of sorts (so he's returned to the land of the fae at least a second time).
• Safehold: The Inquisition Prison that Clyntahn is in charge of suffers a serious, ehem, mishap. The event itself is off-page, and we only learn of it when Vicar Duchairn notices irregularities in the expense report and goes to investigate well after the fact.
• Vorkosigan Saga: Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold is actually a thinly disguised short story collection, with an audit as a framing device for the stories.

• Angel:
  • "Bachelor Party": Doyle asks Angel to snoop around his ex-wife's new fiancée, leading to an awkward scene where Angel spots the beau with a knife and tackles him through a plate-glass window. The next day, Angel grouses that Richard belongs to a family of harmless restauranteurs "with some pretty expensive windows."
  • "Time Bomb": The episode has a suit, Marcus Hamilton, reading off a list of damages caused by Angel's flunky during a rescue mission.
  "Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man; 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and 8 beautifully maintained lawns."
• Hunter (1984): Da Chief does this about an offscreen car chase, before deciding to get Hunter and Dee Dee new partners.
• JAG: In "Soul Searching", Harm and Bud go over the budget request for the office in which it appears that Harm's firing of an H&K in the courtroom (two seasons earlier in "Heroes") has caused structural damage to the roof. Through clever lawyering, Bud makes the outstanding expense go away under a building health plan.
• Legends of Tomorrow: In "Tender is the Nate", Hank barges into Director Ava Sharpe's office and drops a Doorstopper on her desk listing the Legends expenses; such as $135 million for a replacement Time Core (after the last one got blown up) and $1.7 million for historical costumes. Hank sarcastically comments that Ava must be in bed with the Legends if she's writing off those kind of expenses. Ava's flustered reaction is not helped by the fact that the Legend's captain Sara Lance is currently under Ava's desk running her hand up her boss's leg.
• Malcolm in the Middle: One episode used the parents going over their finances and strange expenditures to frame a clip show. For instance, "When did we spend so much on sequins?" transitioned to Bryan Cranston's roller dancing scene.
• Night Court did this plot once.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations" is told via flashback as Sisko explains what happened to the Department of Temporal Investigations.
• Stargate SG-1: The Clip Show episodes.
• A Very Secret Service: Clayborn's plan to tend honeypot traps toward influential individuals is foreshadowed in the first episode very subtly; her expense report includes some expensive lingerie.

• Mon Laferte: "Tu tanta falta de querer" leaves clues scattered in the lyrics about how the former lovers' life together was before breaking up. They shared an apartment, owned a few cats, and were very close, to the point that Laferte describes herself as her ex's "amiga y cómplice" (en. friend and confidant). Through the "La hiedra venenosa no te deja ver" metaphor, we can glean that something painful—maybe her flaws, maybe the falling out of love—prevents him from realizing that she still loves him, perhaps even more fiercely now.
• La oreja de Van Gogh: The lyrics of "Pop" recount the chaotic, shallow life of a soulless Queen of Pop by describing all that she leaves behind —bills, alcohol, and tons of money. The song also explains how she became such a sensation —she has pretty hands, speaks French, is talented (she sings, acts, and paints), and has culture.

• The Department Of Midnight: The last episode of season one, "Judgement", sees Dr. Carnack in front of a disciplinary tribunal board. It's prompted by an explosion at the Slade Research Station but the independent prosecutor, Dr. Ash, also lists many of the events from previous stories — such as burning down a house, sealing a lab with concrete and tasering a ghost.
  Dr. Ash: This year alone, Dr. Carnack, you have, in what I consider a fairly high-handed fashion, flooded a very expensive lab facility with ferro-concrete. You burned down a private home, apparently unconcerned as to whether anyone was inside it at the time. You have also — and I'd like some clarity on your report here — you claim to have used a taser on a ghost?

• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: This is, in fact, the radio drama's format. All of Johnny's adventures are narrated as he goes down the list filling out his expense report.

• Arknights: Laios' Fish out of Temporal Water status has caused him to incur great debt since he became an Operator, even if we don't always play through the incidents themselves. The expense report on his profile tells us that he's, for example, "[broken] engineering equipment while chasing metal crabs across the landship" and " injured Operators after blowing up the cafeteria kitchen from attempting to cook infused organisms". He also seems to have a penchant for getting ill due to food poisoning.
• Return of the Obra Dinn: Your Player Character is an insurance investigator. Your ultimate goal, after you investigate the Ghost Ship and deduce the fates of those aboard, is to posthumously award payments to victims' estates, or levy fines against those who committed crimes. This final accounting can be seen in the ending.

• Skippy's List: The list comprises all the things Specialist Schwarz, from the U.S. psychological operations division in Bosnia, is no longer allowed to do while representing the American army. The list itself only tells us the results of his The Loony actions, but doesn't explain how such ridiculousness came about. Some of his blog entries explain a few of the events that caused the bans, so there's that. For example, the entries pertaining to why he isn't allowed to mark mines with smiley faces, press-gang people, or go to battle naked let us know that Schwarz has probably done those things For the Lulz. The icing on the cake is that if an idea he comes up with makes him giggle for longer than 15 seconds, he's not allowed to execute it.

• Drb0sch: At the last minute of "catali̱xi̱", the player's game crashes. As it does so, a screencap of a discussion on b0sch's message-board pops up, revealing why b0sch was exploring the hellscape in the first place: The videos were portions of a livestream his forum had collaborated on to prevent the phenomenon from being lost to time; they'd already lost past footage and this was their workaround.
• The Spoony Experiment: In his Review of The Clones of Bruce Lee, Antwilter comments on the title character's action, leaving a wake of broken objects, injured people, and damaged property behind. Sarcastically, Antwilter demands to see the scene in which Bruce Lee has to explain his expense report.

• Bounty Hamster: In "The Trial", the final episode to be produced, Marion has to face a licensing tribunal when he's accused of conduct unbecoming his bounty hunter license. Cue Clip Show. (In the end, the tribunal does strip him of his license — and awards one to Cassie, having concluded that she's done more to earn one over the course of the series than Marion has.)
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Played with in "Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T.". The framing device is Numbuh 86 discovering why Sector V couldn't bring a pizza to the Moonbase, but this isn't established until the end of the episode. Additionally, the past events aren't depicted as normal, but in the unique styles of each member of Sector V.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Storm Over Ryloth", mid-way through Anakin has to recount the losses from the failed first attempt to break the Separatist blockade over Ryloth to Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi, which hammers home just how much of his fleet he's lost.
• Transformers: Rescue Bots:
  • In two-parters, Huxley Prescott often recaps the events of part one as part of his news show.
  • In "The More Things Stay the Same", Quickshadow recaps the events of "The More Things Change..." in the context of it being a report to Optimus.
  • In "Today and Forever", Frankie convinces Cody to document the situation due to the absurdity of it. To recap, Griffin Rock was teleported to the North Pole after a large active teleportation crystal accidentally was dropped onto the island's underground Reactaline veins.