Fallout
Fallout noun - Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect.
Usage example: a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal
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Issue
Issue noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: one of the issues of the Civil War was a resolution to the question of states' rights
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Fallout 3 mostly avoids the issue altogether by not even including a straight option.
Source: Video Game / Fallout - An X-Men issue dealt with a James Jaspers from a parallel Earth whose only apparent power was reality jumping, the fallout from which caused an entire town in Africa to have similar baby booms.
Source: Bizarre Baby Boom -
Wham Episode: Volume 2, issue 11, which is the fallout from Civil War II: Captain Marvel calls Kamala a traitor and severs all ties with her.
Source: Comicbook / Ms. Marvel (2014)
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