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!![[SuperTrope Chekhov's Gun Depot also stocks:]]

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* PupatingPeril: Basically Chekhov’s Cocoon. If a cocoon, chrysalis, or pupa appears or is mentioned, whatever hatches out of it will be important and usually dangerous or aggressive.

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* PupatingPeril: Basically Chekhov’s Chekhov's Cocoon. If a cocoon, chrysalis, or pupa appears or is mentioned, whatever hatches out of it will be important and usually dangerous or aggressive.
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* A chandelier -- someone will [[ChandelierSwing swing on it]] in a fight, and/or it will come [[FallingChandelierOfDoom crashing down towards a crowd of people]].
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** ''ChekhovsGun/DoctorWho''
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* ChekhovsGag: You thought Chekhov's Gun was only introduced for the RuleOfFunny, but later it [[PlayedForDrama goes off dramatically.]]

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* ChekhovsGag: You thought A Chekhov's Gun that was only introduced for the RuleOfFunny, but later it [[PlayedForDrama goes off dramatically.]]
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* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Children + Alcohol = Children will inevitably drink the alcohol.
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Also referred to as "the Indiana Jones principle" in Thomas C. Foster's ''How to Read Literature Like a Professor,'' named after [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indy's]] early encounter with a snake at the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and how it set up his much [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes larger encounter with them]] later on. Another term for this is [[http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Setup_and_payoff "setup and payoff,"]] a technique used by Creator/RobertZemeckis and Bob Gale for the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy and regularly taught to scriptwriters nowadays.

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Also referred to as "the Indiana Jones principle" in Thomas C. Foster's ''How to Read Literature Like a Professor,'' named after [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indy's]] early encounter with a snake at the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and how it set up his much [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes larger encounter with them]] later on. Another term for this is [[http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Setup_and_payoff "setup and payoff,"]] a technique used by Creator/RobertZemeckis and Bob Gale for the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy and regularly taught to scriptwriters nowadays.
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* In a game module in the ''TabletopGame/StarWars'' RPG, a couple of Squib merchants arguing with another group of merchants near the entrance to a ruined Jedi Academy have a burned out lightsaber for sale. This lightsaber allows you to interact with an important NPC later on, finding out some key info.

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* In a game module in the ''TabletopGame/StarWars'' RPG, ''TabletopGame/StarWarsRoleplayingGame'', a couple of Squib merchants arguing with another group of merchants near the entrance to a ruined Jedi Academy have a burned out lightsaber for sale. This lightsaber allows you to interact with an important NPC later on, finding out some key info.

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