1 | ->'''Gumball''': Man, I really wish something that once seemed insignificant would show up and save me!\ |
2 | (''Darwin charges at Bobert, but he gets knocked away for the second time.'')\ |
3 | '''Gumball''': Okay, something else insignificant. |
4 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', "The Robot" |
5 | |
6 | ->'''Thornton Reed''': Take this, Dag.\ |
7 | '''Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.''': What is it?\ |
8 | '''Thornton Reed''': ''Something that might come in handy.'' |
9 | -->-- ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', "Scotch Mist" |
10 | |
11 | ->It appears that you're heading directly into the heart of the volcano. On reflection, this was inevitable, really. I mean, you can't just have a Final Boss Battle near a volcano. It would be like having a [[ChaseScene car chase]] in which the [[FruitCart fruit cart]] doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a [[GiantRobot giant robot]] and never using RocketPunch. |
12 | -->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' |
13 | |
14 | ->'''TG:''' you just HAD TO FIGURE all that juice was going to come back to haunt me\ |
15 | '''TG:''' like frankensteins incontinent fucking ghost\ |
16 | '''TG:''' it was like\ |
17 | '''TG:''' chekhov's juice |
18 | -->--'''Dave Strider''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' |
19 | |
20 | ->''You know how at the start of an adventure, you find some seemingly trivial thing that turns out to be important later?\ |
21 | But at the time you have no idea why or how it'll turn out to be important?'' |
22 | -->--'''Creator/AndrewHussie''' to Caliborn, ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' |
23 | |
24 | ->''"Cool, I'm sure this won't be relevant ever!"'' |
25 | -->-- '''Creator/MaryCagle''', [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-11-page-20 author's notes]] on ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' |
26 | |
27 | ->'''Vyvyan''': "It's a potion I've invented, where, when the patient drinks it, he turns into an [[AxCrazy axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]] It's basically a cure...[[PsychoSerum for not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]] The potential market's enormous!"\ |
28 | '''Neil''': "Is this it?"\ |
29 | '''Vyvyan''': "Yeah, yeah, I put it in a Coke can so nobody'd drink it by mistake."\ |
30 | '''Neil''': "[[LampshadeHanging Y'know, I just bet a bit later on somebody does drink that and turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac.]]"\ |
31 | '''Rick''': "Yes, I bet that as well. That's just the sort of crazy, imaginative thing that happens around here." |
32 | -->--''Series/TheYoungOnes'' |
33 | |
34 | ->''This means nothing right now, but obviously will later.'' |
35 | -->--'''Creator/AndrewHussie''' |
36 | |
37 | ->'''Goops:''' Hey Snoozy. Why is there a gun in the drawer?\ |
38 | '''Suzy:''' Oh. That. It's a Chekhov's Gun. It's a literary device, basically a notable but seemingly-insignificant item that becomes important later in the plot.\ |
39 | '''Goops:''' Ok. Why is it here?\ |
40 | '''Suzy:''' Some weird magical girl appeared one day and gave it to us. [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/guest-comic-ayme-sotuyo Rough edge, or something?]] It's good to have around in case monsters attack or somebody threatens a tenant. It's surprisingly good at inflicting blunt-force trauma. |
41 | -->-- ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26390635 Praesperavero]]'', a ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' fanfic |
42 | |
43 | ->''[[{{Foreshadowing}} Remember that, Annie]]: [[SkeletonKey A key that opens any lock]]. That could be useful.'' |
44 | -->--''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'' |
45 | |
46 | ->'''Casey''': Well, you know what they say about a gun in the first act, Ron.\ |
47 | '''[[TheDitz Kyle]]''': First act of what? |
48 | -->--''Series/PartyDown'' |
49 | |
50 | ->''"We’ve been trained by movies that if you find some seemingly unimportant bauble, then the story will later create a situation where it will be the key to solving a problem in an unexpected way."'' |
51 | -->--''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' |
52 | |
53 | ->'''Archer:''' God, I SAID the cap slips off the poison pen for no reason, didn't I?!\ |
54 | '''Cyril:''' I know, I know, but I just assumed that if anything bad happened it-it would've been-\ |
55 | '''Archer:''' No, do NOT say the Chekhov gun Cyril! THAT, sir, is a facile argument!\ |
56 | '''Woodhouse:''' [[GeniusBonus Also woefully esoteric.]] |
57 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' |
58 | |
59 | ->''The coffin was the trap, the coffin was the solution. [[LampshadeHanging That's so neat I could write a thesis.]]'' |
60 | -->-- '''[[Series/DoctorWho The Eleventh Doctor]]''', ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' |
61 | |
62 | -> ''Works like a charm. I could build a mechanical barrel-maker in my sleep, but for ''real'' inventing genius, these ''Brain-Transfer Helmets have to be my pièce de résistance!'' |
63 | -->-- '''Cranky Kong''', in a scene from ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' which shouldn't need any further explanation. |
64 | |
65 | ->''[Film/JamesBond] always used every single item. [[DeconstructedTrope He never came back and said "Q, I've got a lot of stuff I didn't use on that adventure."]]'' |
66 | -->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Unrepeatable'' |
67 | |
68 | ->''Show a gun on the mantelpiece in the first act. Before the curtain goes down, it's going to blow someone's scrotum off.'' |
69 | -->-- '''[[MadArtist Sam Krieg]]''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' |
70 | |
71 | -> ''I won't find it fantastic or think it absurd\ |
72 | When the gun in the first act goes off in the third.'' |
73 | -->-- '''Music/AimeeMann''', "Frankenstein" |
74 | |
75 | ->''[[RecordNeedleScratch Cut the music!]] Go back and look at that fern. Stanley, this fern will be ''very important'' later in the story. Make sure you study it closely, and remember it carefully.'' |
76 | -->-- '''The Narrator''', ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' |
77 | |
78 | ->''"He takes out from his pocket a .44, and checks it's loaded. (beat) [[LampshadeHanging I don't know why he checks it's loaded, surely he is the one who loaded it.]]"'' |
79 | -->-- '''Hans Kieslowski''' adding to the script, ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'' |
80 | |
81 | ->''"Ha! I threw that shit before I came in the room!"'' |
82 | -->-- ''Film/BlackDynamite'' |
83 | |
84 | ->''"So the moral of the story is, you never know when random, seemingly unimportant, stuff will turn out to be very important. Which is why you shouldn't question me when I tell you to build me something like a hammock, or...a human slingshot."'' |
85 | -->-- '''[[LazyBum Grif]]''', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy'', "Something Else Entirely" |
86 | |
87 | ->'''Francis''': You lied to me, Bluebeard. What's more, you withheld important information from me. And you know exactly what I mean, my friend. But I'm still puzzled why you did it. |
88 | ->'''Bluebeard''': Well, uh...I thought maybe it wasn't that important. |
89 | ->'''Francis''': Not that important? When it's a matter of solving a case as complex as this one, every detail is important, Bluebeard, every single one! Any little thing can unexpectedly become important under certain circumstances. |
90 | -->--''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' ''(novel only)'' |
91 | |
92 | ->''"I guess you want me to repay that favor I've been owing you for half a century, right?"'' |
93 | -->--'''Tránsito Soto''', ''Literature/TheHouseOfTheSpirits'' |
94 | |
95 | ->[[AC: Prime Directives]] |
96 | ->[[AC: 1: Serve the public trust]] |
97 | ->[[AC: 2: Protect the innocent]] |
98 | ->[[AC: 3: Uphold the law]] |
99 | ->[[AC: 4: Classified]] |
100 | -->--''Film/RoboCop1987'' |
101 | |
102 | ->'''Unseen Narrator:''' Now pay close attention to that ham. Cause it’s not the last time you're gonna see that ham in the story!\ |
103 | ''[later]''\ |
104 | '''Gaz:''' ''[shouting]'' Dib! Do you still have that ham I gave you?\ |
105 | '''Dib:''' Of course! ''[pulls ham out]'' THE HAM!\ |
106 | '''Narrator:''' See? There’s that ham again! |
107 | -->--''WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus'' |
108 | |
109 | ->''"GRAPPLING HOOK! Told you it will come in handy!"'' |
110 | -->--'''Mabel Pines''', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' (In which Mabel uses the grappling hook she grabbed in the [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E1TouristTrapped first episode]] to [[spoiler:save Dipper and herself from a deadly fall in the [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E20GideonRises first season finale]]]].) |
111 | |
112 | ->'''Polly:''' Hey, what do you think made these holes?\ |
113 | '''Hop Pop:''' Mmh, better not to ask. Come on!\ |
114 | '''Polly:''' I feel like this is going to come back later! |
115 | -->--''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', "Marcy at the Gates" |
116 | |
117 | -> '''Kevin''': (As Katherine tiptoes through the sorority house with a gun) Anton Chekov was at the premiere and he said loudly, "Oh, they showed a gun in Act One and now they're using it in Act Three! Wonder where they got ''that'' idea?!" |
118 | -> '''Bill''': Bitter, bitter man. |
119 | -> '''Kevin''': Yeah. |
120 | --->-- ''Podcast/RiffTrax'', ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'' |
121 | |
122 | ->''"It ended up being useful in a roundabout way"'' |
123 | -->--'''[[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Calliope Mori]]''' while playing [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Henry Stickmin]] |
124 | |
125 | ->''"That's a surprise tool that can help us later."'' |
126 | -->--'''Mickey Mouse''' describing the Mystery Mousketool, ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' |
127 | |
128 | ->''"What, your cellar? Oh yeah, right, I'd forgotten all about that. You mean it's actually important now?"'' |
129 | -->--'''Sasha''', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' |
130 | |
131 | ->'''Luxord:''' Take this card. It will be useful in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIV''.\ |
132 | '''Sora:''' Nice!\ |
133 | '''Luxord:''' [[SequelGap When it releases in 2024.]]\ |
134 | '''Sora:''' Not nice! |
135 | -->-- ''[[WebVideo/KingdomHeartsInANutshell Kingdom Hearts 3 in a nutshell]]'' |
136 | |
137 | ->'''Roy:''' Does anyone have any additional skills or talents that haven't come up so far?\ |
138 | <The team members reveal they have various talents such as basket-weaving, crocheting, blowing smoke rings, making soap, and beekeeping>\ |
139 | '''Roy:''' '''''Uggh.'''''\ |
140 | '''Haley:''' You were hoping for something more useful? \ |
141 | '''Roy:''' No, I'm just pre-emptively annoyed that one of those is going to end up saving the day later. |
142 | -->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' ''[[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1268.html 1268]]'' |
143 | |
144 | ->'''Mr. Gus:''' Remember earlier when we flashed back to that flashback?\ |
145 | ''(Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve [[NestedStory remember themselves remembering]] Uncle Grandpa's party foul)''\ |
146 | '''Pizza Steve:''' Oh yeah, I knew that was gonna be significant to the story. |
147 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', "Shower Party" |
148 | |
149 | ->“Well, they gave me the gun. I had to do something with it.”\ |
150 | “Chekhov,” she said.\ |
151 | “Check off what?”\ |
152 | She rolled her eyes. “Creator/AntonChekhov, Keller. The Russian writer.” |
153 | -->-- ''Hit List'' by Creator/LawrenceBlock |
154 | |
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