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* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
** The rifle used in Season 2 is briefly seen in the pilot, while Will is looking for a place to hide in the shed.
** Hopper mentions to one of his officers early on that falling into the quarry from the top would break every bone in your body, as you would hit the water at such a speed it would be like cement. This is one of the things that leads him to believe something isn't right when he sees Will's intact and unscathed "corpse" in the morgue.
** The Wrist-Rocket – '''not''' slingshot – is introduced early and gets some use in the final episode of Season 1, though it proves completely ineffective.
** Steve sings into a baseball bat while trying to woo back Nancy. He later uses the bat to rescue her.
** Mr. Clarke's ham radio is introduced early on and is used by Eleven in a later episode.
** Subverted with the hairspray as weapon in Season 3. We only see it as a sight gag in the first episode, when logic might dictate parts of the Mind Flayer could be fought with a HairsprayFlamethrower. It doesn't happen.
** In the first episode of season 3, Dustin sets up a powerful radio in order to communicate with Suzie, his girlfriend in Utah. The radio is all but forgotten until the last episode, in which Dustin uses the radio to communicate with the rest of the teams, ''and'' even manages to finally talk to Suzie who helps the heroes.
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* ''{{Series/Succession}}'': the Brightstar Cruises sexual misconduct scandal.
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* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': Emma Peel has a Chekhov's Wardrobe in the original series. Her clothing style either involved wearing a skirt or a skin-tight SpyCatsuit. Proper British ladies cannot fight in skirts, so she was always wearing her catsuit whenever she became involved in a fight. This may suggest otherwise unmentioned psychic powers she possessed, as her unerring ability to recognize hours before a fight that she would later be involved with one, sometimes requiring her to go home and change clothes before taking other actions. Likewise, if she is seen infiltrating enemy territory in a dress or skirt, it's clear that she will not be caught or otherwise need to pound on said enemies. Either this or we must assume that catsuits cause fights and skirts create peace.
** The one exception to this otherwise hard and fast rule occurs in "Return of the Cybernauts", where fashion sense (Emma was going to a formal party) and the plot (she will later attack Steed after being mind controlled) could not be meshed, resulting in an oddly surreal scene where the villain of the piece pulls off her skirt after mind-zapping her so that she can perform the subsequent, oddly stilted, fight scene.
** Calling it a "fight scene" is a stretch; she robo-marches up to an unsuspecting Steed and lays him out a single karate chop.
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--> "I can have a gun and I must have a gun. That's the rule of Chekhov's Gun: ''have a gun.;; And now it's been seen, I am going to have to shoot someone, before the end of the play."

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* Parodied during Robert's "Acting Masterclass" on ''Series/TheGoesWrongShow'' when he explains why he has a gun with him onstage, which he can and indeed ''must'' use. (He later makes good on this by shooting [[SitcomArchNemesis Chris]] at the end of an unrelated ballet piece.)
--> "I can have a gun and I must have a gun. That's the rule of Chekhov's Gun: ''have a gun.;; And now it's been seen, I am going to have to shoot someone, before the end of the play."
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** The webisodes do this retroactively for the "red machete", a weapon carried by the Claimers (and later, Rick) during the fifth and sixth seasons. The "Red Machete" webseries establishes that it was a weapon owned by a father and his two daughters, eventually coming into the ownership of the man's daughter Mandy (due to her being the SoleSurvivor of her family), up until it's stolen by a group of scavengers. From there, the weapon passes through various circumstances until it's found by the Claimers, who use it up until Rick takes it from them in the fifth-season finale. The weapon is then stored in the Alexandria armory and subsequently seized by a member of Negan's army, who makes his way back far enough towards Georgia that when he is inevitably killed, Mandy discovers said machete and uses it to dispatch two walkers before placing it at her father's grave. This then turns into a case of ChekhovsBoomerang when it's revealed that an unknown individual (implied to be Alpha, of the Whisperers) takes the weapon, with it being implied as her signature weapon (to the extent that she uses it to [[spoiler:beahead Tara, Enid and several other survivors]]) in the penultimate episode of the ninth season.
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* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** During Olive's flashback in "Training Day", when she and a few other agents-in-training see Precinct 13579 for the first time, Oscar is shown pulling a large circular vault and telling everyone that a pienado is coming through. Todd then asks what a pienado is, and Obfusco explains that it's like a tornado but made out of pies. Sure enough, Todd wields it when he completes his FaceHeelTurn and launches an attack on his former coworkers, opening the vault and letting the pienado loose.
** At the beginning of "Disorder in the Court", Otto and Olive are discussing the Soundcheck concert that was held earlier that day at the mall, with Otto lamenting that he couldn't go followed by Olive asking him why he likes the band so much. That Soundcheck concert ends up playing a key role in proving Olive innocent during her trial...because ''she'' attended the concert in her partner's stead.
** In "Oscar Strikes Back", Oona tests a Tiny-Note-inator as a gadget that could potentially help Oscar and Oprah. Later on, when President Obbs has a group of {{Brainwashed}} Scientists search the garage in order to find the person working with Oscar and Oprah, Oona uses the gadget to [[ChameleonCamouflage cover herself, and the ice cream van she came to Lab-Con in, in sticky notes.]] It works, and the group passes her on by, allowing her to make an escape for the nearby elevator.
** The Season 3 premiere, "Odd Beginnings", has two.
*** The Bag O' Machines, which Arctic Mr. O gives to Opal and Omar in lieu of gadgets.
*** Omar's New York City souvenirs. His Empire State Building replica helps him measure a painting for Oswald's test, and later on, it helps him open the map containing the location of the [[ArtifactOfPower 44-leaf clover.]] Along with his "I Love NY" shoelace, it also helps him measure the stick that tells him, Opal and Oswald what door to use to enter the ancient Odd Squad Headquarters.
** In "Box Trot", Orla and Osmerelda are shown consistently discussing high-fives throughout the episode. When the Form-Changer, in the form of Osmerelda, [[ImpostorForgotOneDetail high-fives Orla with her non-dominant right hand,]] it manages to tip Orla off as she exposes the Form-Changer along with Star Wipe, Monsieur Papier-Mache and Lady Bread, who are working with her.

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* ''Series/UglyBetty'': A literal example in "A League of Their Own", where Claire takes a rifle off the wall of the house she and Yoga are staying at and almost shoots Wilhelmina with it.



* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Used countless times in the series. For instance, in Season 5 Episode 4 "Detour", Mulder and Scully are on a trip to a teambuilding conference with two agents (which foreshadows the general theme of the entire episode). The other agents enthusiastically talk about how they built a tower from furniture and how awesome that felt. Mulder is bored and then beyond pleased when an off-side project pops up, which he immediately connects with another X-File case. Scully is worried about the conference, so Mulder promises her they can build a tower from furniture later in their motel rooms. They end up stranded in the woods and fall into a pit. They find there a lot of human bodies, both dead and barely alive. There is no other option than to utilize the bodies and build... a tower from the bodies so that they could get out of the pit. Other examples Chekhov's Gun will be posted at the recap sub-page (''Recap.TheXFiles'').

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Used countless times in the series. For instance, in Season 5 Episode 4 "Detour", Mulder and Scully are on a trip to a teambuilding conference with two agents (which foreshadows the general theme of the entire episode). The other agents enthusiastically talk about how they built a tower from furniture and how awesome that felt. Mulder is bored and then beyond pleased when an off-side project pops up, which he immediately connects with another X-File case. Scully is worried about the conference, so Mulder promises her they can build a tower from furniture later in their motel rooms. They end up stranded in the woods and fall into a pit. They find there a lot of human bodies, both dead and barely alive. There is no other option than to utilize the bodies and build... a tower from the bodies so that they could get out of the pit. Other examples of Chekhov's Gun will be posted at the recap sub-page (''Recap.TheXFiles'').
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* ''Series/WordOfHonor'': The hairpin that Wen Kexing gives Zhou Zishu is actually [[spoiler: the real key to the armory.]]
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* ''Series/TheUntamed'': Early on, Wei Wuxian creates a talisman that explodes into small flashes of light, which is best for creating distractions. Lan Wangji uses this when the Wen Clan arrives to attack the Cloud Recesses, and is revealed to hold onto another when they arrive at Yunping City and Wen Ning gets harassed (albeit harmlessly) by some young boys.
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* ''Series/NirvanaInFire'':
** The book Mei Changsu keeps reading and writing in that showed up episode 1. It's the key to Consort Jing figuring out that Mei Changsu is actually Lin Shu.
** The letter Xie Yu writes is actually a confession of the entire process by which the Chiyan army and Prince Qi were framed which is later used as the spring board on which to re-launch the investigate into the old case.

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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "The Darkness and the Light", Kira is taking herbs for her pregnancy that render sedatives ineffective, which later allows her to turn the tables on her kidnapper.

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In the episode "The Darkness and the Light", Kira is taking herbs for her pregnancy that render sedatives ineffective, which later allows her to turn the tables on her kidnapper.
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* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Aaron's brandy tin. [[spoiler: Later used in a rather neat ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' moment a la Marty [=McFly=]'s similar version in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'']]. [[spoiler:Specifically, it's used as a shield to keep the holder very much alive when bullets are incoming.]]

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* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Aaron's brandy tin. [[spoiler: Later used in a rather neat ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' moment a la Marty [=McFly=]'s similar version in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'']].''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. [[spoiler:Specifically, it's used as a shield to keep the holder very much alive when bullets are incoming.]]
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* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Aaron's brandy tin. [[spoiler: Later used in a rather neat ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' moment a la Marty [=McFly=]'s similar version in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'']].

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* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Aaron's brandy tin. [[spoiler: Later used in a rather neat ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' moment a la Marty [=McFly=]'s similar version in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'']]. [[spoiler:Specifically, it's used as a shield to keep the holder very much alive when bullets are incoming.]]
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* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': A holiday episode started with Tim and Al practically blinding the ''Tool Time'' audience with some sort of halogen setup. It seemed like a basic opening gag and so I was surprised when Tim's sons activation of the house's Christmas lights (itself a subplot) ''allowed the airliner he was on to land in previously paralyzing fog''.

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* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': A holiday episode started with Tim and Al practically blinding the ''Tool Time'' audience with some sort of halogen setup. It seemed like a basic opening gag and so I it was surprised surprising when Tim's sons sons' activation of the house's Christmas lights (itself a subplot) ''allowed the airliner he was on to land in previously paralyzing blinding fog''.
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* ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'': At the start of the story, Dr. Chou turns away when a car with a flashing siren passes, mentioning he suffers from light sensitivity. This becomes relevant at the climax when the lab's SelfDestructMechanism is activated and he ends up being incapacitated due to all the [[EpilepticFlashingLights flashing lights]] that suddenly turn all around the facility.
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** The "hitchhiker's pack" gets a level of prominence unmatched by few other items in the series, and its importance carries across a whopping ''seven seasons''. The (orange) backpack is originally carried by a random hitchhiker who tries to flag down Rick, Michonne and Carl at the beginning of "Clear" -- and when they leave King County at the end of said episode, they pass the hitchhiker, who has been consumed by walkers, and take his backpack as they drive off. A half-season later, when [[spoiler:the prison falls]], Glenn finds and loads the backpack with supplies (including the aforementioned Molotov) and takes it with him as he escapes. It is later carried by Glenn (and Maggie) during the Terminus arc, and then used by Rick to stow supplies during the mission to Atlanta to rescue Beth and Carol in the fifth-season episode "Crossed". Finally, it's brought to Alexandria and placed in the group's supply cache, where it is utilized at several points in Season 8 -- Rick carries it with him when he and Michonne have to flee Alexandria, and it is later filled with supplies by Carl and left for the "mystery survivor" (Siddiq). It then makes a return in Season 10 during [[spoiler:Michonne's last episode]], where she envisions a dream sequence where ''she'' has become the hitchhiker left behind by Rick and Carl in "Clear". It is also implied (but not confirmed) that Virgil, who appears in Season 10 and 11, carries a similar distinctive orange backpack, which he had found at some point prior to his first appearance and which was returned to him by Michonne in "The World Before".
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** Chapter 13 confirms that Beskar can block a lightsaber strike, an attribute it has in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. Mando receives a spear made of pure Beskar at the end of the episode, and it’s one of the few things that survive [[spoiler: the ''Razor Crest''’s destruction]]. When Mando approaches Bo-Katan for a raid on Moff Gideon’s cruiser, she tells him that the Moff is in possession of a weapon that can cut through anything except pure Beskar, known to the audience to be the Darksaber, and so Mando brings it with and [[spoiler: uses it to fight and disarm Moff Gideon, making him the rightful owner of the Darksaber and setting up conflict between him and Bo-Katan]]. Oh, and it’s the only weapon in his arsenal that can destroy a dark trooper.

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* ''Series/TheBarrier'': The appartement in which Julia and her boyfriend Carlos live finds itself deserted early in the series due to some of its events. Later, the protagonists find themselves in need for a place to meet with [[spoiler:the parents of children taken away by the government under false pretenses]], and start using the empty appartment for that purpose.

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The appartement in which Julia and her boyfriend Carlos live finds itself deserted early in the series due to some of its events. Later, the protagonists find themselves in need for a place to meet with [[spoiler:the parents of children taken away by the government under false pretenses]], and start using the empty appartment for that purpose.purpose.
** Iván is sometimes seen in a lime green convertible, distinct from both Luis' car and the one Hugo was asked to repair. Iván later uses that car to [[spoiler:take a sick Manuela to Alejo's camp]].
** The footage of Alejo's camp that Julia finds Marta and Sergio watching allows her to recognize the place when she and Hugo wind up in it.
** Luis asks for the ambulance that was used to [[spoiler:bring a sick Iván from Alejo's camp]] to be parked behind the house so neighbors won't see it. It's later used to [[spoiler:smuggle Luis out of Sector 1 after he uses his televised speech to alert people of the government's true intentions towards their children]].

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* ''Series/TheBarrier'': The appartement in which Julia and her boyfriend Carlos live finds itself deserted early in the series due to some of its events. Later, the protagonists find themselves in need for a place to meet with [[spoiler:the parents of children taken away by the government under false pretenses]], and start using the empty appartment for that purpose.



* ''Series/TheBarrier'': The appartement in which Julia and her boyfriend Carlos finds itself deserted early in the series due to some of its events. Later, the protagonists find themselves in need for a place to meet with [[spoiler:the parents of children taken away by the government under false pretenses]], and start using the empty appartment for that purpose.
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** After a treasure hunter is killed, the team discover that the killer was after a map of an forest area in Virginia where a treasure might be buried. Tim then metntions that Gibbs's cabin is not that far from that area. At the end of the episode, the team tricks the killer by providing him with fake coordinates of the treasure site. The coordinates are actually those of Gibbs's cabin where the agents await the killer's arrival.
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* In the third episode of season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Mando, Cara, Greef and Mythrol—their landspeeder driver—enter an Imperial base to destroy it. As they enter through the garage, Mythrol points at an armored speeder under a tarp and says: "Look, it's a mint Trexler Marauder!" Nice job hanging that lampshade on ChekhovsGun, Mythrol. (Yes, they later use it to escape with. And it does have mounted guns on it, which come in handy.)

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* In the third episode of season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Mando, Cara, Greef and Mythrol—their landspeeder driver—enter an Imperial base to destroy it. As they enter through the garage, Mythrol points at an armored speeder under a tarp and says: "Look, it's a mint Trexler Marauder!" Nice job [[LampshadeHanging hanging that lampshade lampshade]] on ChekhovsGun, Chekhov's Gun, Mythrol. (Yes, they later use it to escape with. And it does have mounted guns on it, which come in handy.)
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* In the third episode of season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Mando, Cara, Greef and Mythrol—their landspeeder driver—enter an Imperial base to destroy it. As they enter through the garage, Mythrol points at an armored speeder under a tarp and says: "Look, it's a mint Trexler Marauder!" Nice job hanging that lampshade on ChekhovsGun, Mythrol. (Yes, they later use it to escape with. And it does have mounted guns on it, which come in handy.)
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* ''Series/TheAvengers'': Emma Peel has a Chekhov's Wardrobe in the original series. Her clothing style either involved wearing a skirt or a skin-tight SpyCatsuit. Proper British ladies cannot fight in skirts, so she was always wearing her catsuit whenever she became involved in a fight. This may suggest otherwise unmentioned psychic powers she possessed, as her unerring ability to recognize hours before a fight that she would later be involved with one, sometimes requiring her to go home and change clothes before taking other actions. Likewise, if she is seen infiltrating enemy territory in a dress or skirt, it's clear that she will not be caught or otherwise need to pound on said enemies. Either this or we must assume that catsuits cause fights and skirts create peace.

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* ''Series/TheAvengers'': ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': Emma Peel has a Chekhov's Wardrobe in the original series. Her clothing style either involved wearing a skirt or a skin-tight SpyCatsuit. Proper British ladies cannot fight in skirts, so she was always wearing her catsuit whenever she became involved in a fight. This may suggest otherwise unmentioned psychic powers she possessed, as her unerring ability to recognize hours before a fight that she would later be involved with one, sometimes requiring her to go home and change clothes before taking other actions. Likewise, if she is seen infiltrating enemy territory in a dress or skirt, it's clear that she will not be caught or otherwise need to pound on said enemies. Either this or we must assume that catsuits cause fights and skirts create peace.
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** A somewhat more literal example occurs in "Remedial Chaos Theory". In the first timeline explored, Troy finds a gun stashed away in Annie's bag, as a short gag. This goes on for the rest of the episode unaddressed, until one of the last timelines explored, where it plays a role in the "Darkest Timeline".

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** A somewhat more literal example occurs in "Remedial [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory".Theory]]. In the first timeline explored, Troy finds a gun stashed away in Annie's bag, as a short gag. This goes on for the rest of the episode unaddressed, until one of the last timelines explored, where it plays a role in the "Darkest Timeline".
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* ''Series/AlexRider'': Tom's phone goes on quite the journey. It's confiscated in the first episode, and Alex gets caught stealing it back. This gets it ''re''-confiscated by Ian Rider and gives Alex a way to find his car when he doesn't believe the official story of how his uncle died and goes investigating. Tom is left without a phone at inconvenient moments until Alex demands that it be returned, which is ''good news'' because it allows Tom to take a selfie outside the Roscoe building, [[spoiler: thus leaving a social media trail when the Roscoe duplicate takes him prisoner]]. It's also ''bad news'', because [[spoiler:Roscoe finds evidence on it that blows Alex's cover]]. Finally, [[spoiler:Duplicate!Alex uses it to send Real!Alex an IHaveYourWife video when ''he'' takes Tom hostage]].
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** Those caches of wildfire that the Mad King wanted to detonate, before Jaime shanked him? Cersei used all of them in the destruction of the Sept of Baelor in the Season 6 finale, " Winds of Winter."

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* Near the beginning of one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Castle is unsuccessfully attempting to befriend a gaggle of 2nd graders. Among the mean things they do to him: take a polaroid picture of him that looks like he peed his pants, and throw a bowl of marbles to make him trip. [[spoiler:The [[MonsterOfTheWeek murderer of the week]] is looking for a picture hidden in the camera that took that picture, and Castle throws the same bowl of marbles at the end of the episode to trip the guy as he's getting away with it.]]
** The season 8 opener has a literal gun used this way: at the beginning of the first episode, Castle shows off all the neat PI toys he built in his new office, including a hidden spring-loaded gun in his desk. At the end of the second episode, during a tense standoff, Castle gets to use it. (Neat toy!)


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** The season 8 opener has a literal gun used this way: at the beginning of the first episode, Castle shows off all the neat PI toys he built in his new office, including a hidden spring-loaded gun in his desk. At the end of the second episode, during a tense standoff, Castle gets to use it. (Neat toy!)

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