Chekhovs Skill / Fan Works

• In Kyon: Big Damn Hero Mikuru asked Yuki to teach her to be a paramedic in order to build confidence and have an helpful skill while Kyon and Kanae are training. This becomes useful later when Kyon got hurt after a battle and Yuki can't heal him.
• This is more like Chekhov's Habit, but there's a Running Gag in Hunting the Unicorn of David writing down everything relevant to the Warblers (and especially Blaine). It proves useful when he has hard evidence that Blaine has a stalker.
• In the Transformers fanfic series Black Crayons, Ironhide begins teaching Annabelle how to speak Cybertronian. First, it is a cute way to learn about the Twins' pranking plans. Later, it becomes a life-saving skill when she overhears a key piece of information from Starscream.
• Jack's ability to memorize fingerprints on things to distinguish them from similar things helps him put out a fire at Dr. Brainstorm's lab in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series.
• In Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, some tactics and maneuvers shown by Firefly help her wingmares (especially Rainbow Dash) in future battles.
• In the second chapter of A Growing Affection Hinata suggests Naruto work on chakra control by trying to create a tiny Rasengan on each finger tip. This becomes the Five-Points Rasengan jutsu, and shows up multiple times in the story, including the final battle.
• Legacy Of The Rasengan: Naruto has Kaze Kiwa no Jutsu. In this fic it's one of Naruto's signature moves and sees a lot of use. It ends up inspiring Naruto to create the Rasengan since the mechanics of both are similar (no hand signs, spinning chakra, very good chakra control). Also helps Naruto in his fight with Neji since it made it easier for him to concentrate his chakra enough to mimic Neji's fighting style and rip through his Rotation.
• Regeneration in Children of Time: Kit Bennett reveals herself as a Time Lord, and the Daleks torture her to study a Time Lord's use of regenerative energy. At the climax, Kit uses a burst of that energy to knock out the Daleks' computers, destroying Dalek Caan in the process. Then in the season finale, baby Katherine, who will grow up to be Kit, heals her dying father and half-dead godfather.
• In Break My Fall, Red spends his lunches helping out at the nurse's office. This later becomes important when he has to rush to the nurse's office after school hours to get supplies to treat Green's self-harm wounds.
• Subverted in The End of Ends. You'd think Beast Boy's Magic Voices might be the reason for why he sounds so different as Count Logan, but it's revealed that the mask simply disguised his voice.
• In Despair's Last Resort, Naomi is established as being the Super High School Level Translator, who knows ten languages. As she's dying, she uses her blood to leave a dying message. But in order to hide it from the killer, she leaves it in French. This allows the one living student who knows French to pick out who the culprit is.
  • Takara's experience as a journalist helps her out in the investigations.
• Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox. During her fight with Kin in Chapter 16, Ino demonstrates that she's got an extremely painful Groin Attack that she learned in order to deal with any perverted men who'd try to hit on her while shopping at her father's store; said attack consists of grabbing the victim's privates and twisting. That tactic proves extremely useful 68 chapters later to deter Aoi's Attempted Rape.
• Fate/Black Reflection. Rider dreams about Ichigo's fight with Kenpachi in Soul Society through the Command Seal link. The next night, Ichigo displays the ability to handle Berserker easily, to the wonderment of everyone else there. Rider eventually recalls the dream and realizes that the reason Ichigo can fight Berserker so well is because he has experience fighting opponents with overwhelming power and no strategy.
• The Fifth Act. Genesis always tries to cast status effects on Cloud, only for them to never work. Once Cloud gets possessed by Jenova, Genesis's reflexive casting stopped Cloud without them having to kill him.
• In Katawa Shoujo post-Hanako Good End fanfic Sisterhood, Hanako attends a first-aid course, the intention being she would be able to put it into practice and use these skills to keep calm in the event Hisao was to have another heart attack, unlike the previous time in which she had a severe panic attack. Instead, she ends up using her skills to save Lilly's father's life after he collapses from a heart attack.
• Eroninja
  • Yukata makes a puppet that she uses as a sex toy. Her spending months of using it gives her such fine control that during the puppet user tournament, she displays the ability to use her puppet to control another puppet, something previously thought impossible.
  • Shizune deciding to embrace her passion for poisons becomes critical in stopping Furofuki from creating a false Shinju.
• In Gift of A Diamond, Blue Diamond thought it would have been useful for Steven to learn their outdated written language, which comes in handy when reading Centipeedle's message to them.
• The Second Try: In chapter 4, Asuka declares that Shinji will be responsible for the main medical care. In chapter 6, Shinji uses what he's learnt to take care of Asuka during her pregnancy, and delivering their daughter Aki safely.
• Deliberately enforced by Kakashi in Team 7's Ascension when he left Naruto a scroll containing water technique. A few months later, he makes Team 7 live in a training ground that has no water at all and keeps them from getting any from outside.
• The Peace Not Promised: Lily is established early on to have natural talent at silent casting and wandless casting, but struggles to combine them. Professor Flitwick pushes her to improve, telling her that he won't pass her in Charms unless she masters at least one wordless wandless spell — much to her dismay, but she does take up the challenge and succeed. In the climax, when Voldemort has immobilised and silenced her to read her mind and learn all she knows about Severus, she is able to use her magic to stab him with the Sword of Gryffindor.
• In Chapter 17 of This Bites!, Cross tries to encourage Nami, who's still worried about her skills even with the Clima-Tact nearing completion, by telling her that she must have picked up a lot of useful skills during her run as a thief. Two chapters later, after For Want of a Nail leaves most of the Straw Hats trapped in the cage under Rain Dinners with no Mr. 3 to break them out, she remembers that talk and utilizes one such skill: lockpicking.
  Nami: Crocodile might be a criminal mastermind, but he is a cheap bastard when it comes to locks. A South Blue double-tumbler deadlock without any of the typical security features or precautions one might expect? Please. I almost felt insulted.
• Discussed and defied in Lost Boy. Midway through the story when he is training with Astrid, it is revealed that Hiccup is a natural with a sword when holding it with his left hand. When Snotlout challenges Hiccup to a duel to reclaim his status as heir, Hiccup manages to win using his right hand. When Astrid asks him why not just take the easier option and fight with his left hand, Hiccup tells her that he knew he would win this way, but he did not want to kill Snotlout and he knew Snotlout would become overconfident and show his true colors.
• When the Brush hits the Canvas: Link is the blacksmith's apprentice. When he has to buy a shield, it's obviously made for right-handed people, which means that left-handed Link cannot use it properly. A small segment in the story is devoted to Link going to the smithy to get the necessary tools and then modifying the shield's straps.
• The Bolt Chronicles: An example is shown carrying over from the movie to one of the stories. In the film, Mittens teaches Bolt how to beg and do cute things to coax food from trailer park visitors, one of these being a charming roll-over maneuver while on his back. In "The Wind," Bolt uses the same spin move to get out of the way of his dog fight antagonist Ike, who charges towards him with head lowered. Ike doesn't realize Bolt has evaded him and crashes full force into a brick wall, breaking his neck with a loud crack, ending the fight.
• In Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents, Barnes's metal arm can detect electromagnetic signals, which assists him in removing HYDRA's trackers from his body. HYDRA reportedly wasn't able to figure out how the arm works, how it connects to Barnes's nervous system, or even its full capabilities. Like that it's actually of Niðavellir origin, and allows him to interface with a mysterious spaceship.
• Ginny Weasley and the Half-Blood Prince: Subverted. When Harry gets knocked out mid-game, Ginny assures everyone she can play both Chaser and Seeker because she's used to playing two-a-side Quidditch with her brothers. Of course, earlier we saw that two-a-side Quidditch is a horrible, confusing mess, and her team loses the game badly.
  Dean: ...how do you play two-a-side Quidditch?
  Ginny: [grimly] You can't.
• In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Ariadne Granger shows an aptitude for Dimensional Transfiguration, the technique of using magic to expand or contract spaces, and works with Hermione to enchant their Bigger on the Inside bags and later a suitcase not unlike Newt Scamander's in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. After continuing to practice this, over a hundred chapters after they made the bags, Ariadne has the idea of a spell which would bend space using it, which would deflect the Killing Curse. In her final confrontation with Voldemort, she uses it to kill him.

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