A good part of something that is otherwise fairly bad or unpleasant.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bright, spot.
An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
An offshoot.
A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.
By-product.
The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.