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* A literal example happens in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when Buck shows off his fancy shotgun to Hank, only for it to be the central piece of the next episode's murder mystery.
* In ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', [[CanonForeigner Superman X]], through LegoGenetics, was given immunity to the [[TropeNamers literal]] KryptoniteFactor. It was never addressed again, and not even once throughout the series did it have any use, until the finale, [[spoiler:when it saves the Original Superman's life.]]

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* A literal example happens in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when Buck shows off his fancy shotgun to Hank, only for it to be the central piece centerpiece of the next episode's murder mystery.
* In ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'', [[CanonForeigner Superman X]], through LegoGenetics, was given immunity to the [[TropeNamers literal]] KryptoniteFactor. It was never addressed again, and not even once throughout the series did it have any use, until the finale, [[spoiler:when it saves the Original Superman's life.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'':
** In "The Grand Opening!", when Butterbean and friends are setting up the café, Butterbean first discovers the case that reads "For the Fairy Finish" and the magic beans it contains. Later when nobody comes to the café and Jasper finds the invitations were ripped up, Butterbean remembers the magic bean case and uses one, the Flutter Bean, to call everyone in Puddlebrook (in addition to starting a WorldHealingWave) and officially open the café for business.
** Early on in "The Perfect Picnic!", Cricket notes that ants hate cinnamon. Later during the picnic when hordes of ants come out of nowhere (because there's something sticky nearby and ants love sticky things), Cricket realizes said fact and borrows a jar of cinnamon which she uses to chase the ants away and save the picnic.
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** The same episode also sets up the origin of Bizarro later that season. Luthor explains that Superman, weakened with Krytonite, actually bled while fighting the robot dinosaur. This granted the villain a rare opportunity to collect his DNA for cloning.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' involved Dark Ace getting his hands on [[HumongousMecha a suit of huge robotic armor]]. At the same time, Finn gets enthralled by a transforming puzzle (like an uber Rubix). It kept being conspicuously brought up when the other characters were trying to figure out how to stop Dark Ace. In fact, both the puzzle and the armor were said to drive people insane. It was working up to some revelation that either it could be used to distract Dark Ace as he falls into dementia (it's even mentioned that he's got diminished mental ability due to the suit) or that somehow the puzzle and suit are related. Turned out to be mostly red herring though: An offhanded comment about powering it up when it went out of juice was key to victory. The toy itself was unceremoniously melted in the episode's denouement.
** Played straight with the Oracle Stone from [[RuinsForRuinsSake the]] [[TempleOfDoom Forbidden]] [[LandmarkOfLore City]] in season one, which turns out to be a very, very important item in the final (and only real arc) of the series, with serious ramifications when it falls into the wrong hands.

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An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' involved involves Dark Ace getting his hands on [[HumongousMecha a suit of huge robotic armor]]. At the same time, Finn gets enthralled by a transforming puzzle (like an uber Rubix). It kept being conspicuously brought up when the other characters were trying to figure out how to stop Dark Ace. In fact, both the puzzle and the armor were said to drive people insane. It was working up to some revelation that either it could be used to distract Dark Ace as he falls into dementia (it's even mentioned that he's got diminished mental ability due to the suit) or that somehow the puzzle and suit are related. Turned out to be mostly red herring though: An offhanded comment about powering it up when it went out of juice was key to victory. The toy itself was unceremoniously melted in the episode's denouement.
** Played straight with the Oracle Stone from [[RuinsForRuinsSake the]] [[TempleOfDoom Forbidden]] [[LandmarkOfLore the Forbidden City]] in season one, which turns out to be a very, very important item in the final (and only real arc) of the series, with serious ramifications when it falls into the wrong hands.



* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': Early on in the twentieth episode, Chris notices that a goldsmith (Undapawa) accidentally let a golden statue made by him fell off his bag. Chris grabs the object and quickly runs to the man to give it back to him. Later in the episode, an antagonistic businessman falsely accuses Undapawa of having performed a trade with him by using fake gold statues made of clay, and throws it onto the floor so it breaks and he can prove his point. Chris then grabs the pieces of the statue and realizes that it wasn't made by Undapawa, as the recalls that the one he grabbed early on was heavier due to it being made of actual gold. The evil man disregards the observation (as he knows his lie has just been exposed) and tries to abduct Chris and Lon. Cue a fight.



** In one episode of ''Total Drama World Tour'', the prize for winning a challenge is an electric meat grinder, which Heather promptly throws out the window despite being warned not to. Next episode, the teams have to stuff sausages, grinding meat by hand. Instead of using, say, an electric meat grinder.
* Like with Film/JamesBond's Q, every gadget that Jerry gives the girls in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' gets used in that episode, many of them with even ''more'' ridiculously specialized uses.
** He's still at it in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez''.

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** * In one episode of ''Total Drama World Tour'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaWorldTour'', the prize for winning a challenge is an electric meat grinder, which Heather promptly throws out the window despite being warned not to. Next episode, the teams have to stuff sausages, grinding meat by hand. Instead of using, say, an electric meat grinder.
* Like with Film/JamesBond's Q, every gadget that Jerry gives the girls in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' gets used in that episode, many of them with even ''more'' ridiculously specialized uses.
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uses. He's still at it in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez''.
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* ''Transformers WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had several set up in its first season, such as the alien artifacts that were lying around. Rhinox notes that one of the moons doesn't seem right, that it's much lighter than it should be, a Chekhov's Gun that gets fired twice. First it's actually an [[ThatsNoMoon alien super-weapon]] that is designed to wipe out all life on the planet, because it is a giant experiment and the Vok needed a way to reset it if it got contaminated, such as from a bunch of marooned time-travellers. Second, it means the planet only had one natural moon, and the artifical moon being destroyed revealed that they were on EarthAllAlong. In the first episode, we briefly see a golden disk, a relic Megatron and crew stole, intending for it to lead them thorugh time to a prehistoric Earth. After initially believeing they were NOT on Earth, the disk became irrelevent, until Season 2, when the revelation that they actually were on Earth meant that the disk held knowledge of the future, and large portions of that season's plot revolve around the disk and the knowledge it contains.

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* ''Transformers WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had several set up in its first season, such as the alien artifacts that were lying around. Rhinox notes that one of the moons doesn't seem right, that it's much lighter than it should be, a Chekhov's Gun that gets fired twice. First it's actually an [[ThatsNoMoon alien super-weapon]] that is designed to wipe out all life on the planet, because it is a giant experiment and the Vok needed a way to reset it if it got contaminated, such as from a bunch of marooned time-travellers. Second, it means the planet only had one natural moon, and the artifical moon being destroyed revealed that they were on EarthAllAlong. In the first episode, we briefly see a golden disk, a relic Megatron and crew stole, intending for it to lead them thorugh through time to a prehistoric Earth. After initially believeing they were NOT on Earth, the disk became irrelevent, until Season 2, when the revelation that they actually were on Earth meant that the disk held knowledge of the future, and large portions of that season's plot revolve around the disk and the knowledge it contains.

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