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* ''Literature/LoneWolf'':
** As a staple of Gamebooks, any item found by the protagonist (even seemingly useless trinkets) can prove surprisingly useful later in the book -- or sometimes, one or two books further in the series. However, there are also plenty of random items that serve no purpose but to take up space in the backpack, and thus you must choose wisely what you keep. Also, it is quite possible to miss the specific path were any item happens to be used.
** For the evil side, the Orb of Death that Zakhan Kimah demands in exchange for his allegiance to the Darklords, and receives in ''Shadow on the Sand''. A savvy enough player could guess it'd show up again, since major villains are rarely left unpunished in the series; sure enough, Zakhan Kimah, armed with the artifact, is the FinalBoss of ''The Cauldron of Fear''.
** As a staple of Gamebooks, any item found by the protagonist (even seemingly useless trinkets) can prove surprisingly useful later in the book -- or sometimes, one or two books further in the series. However, there are also plenty of random items that serve no purpose but to take up space in the backpack, and thus you must choose wisely what you keep. Also, it is quite possible to miss the specific path were any item happens to be used.
** For the evil side, the Orb of Death that Zakhan Kimah demands in exchange for his allegiance to the Darklords, and receives in ''Shadow on the Sand''. A savvy enough player could guess it'd show up again, since major villains are rarely left unpunished in the series; sure enough, Zakhan Kimah, armed with the artifact, is the FinalBoss of ''The Cauldron of Fear''.
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* This trope was featured in Episode 3 of the TV Tropes podcast ''Podcast/OnTheTropes''.
* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'':
** Taking pictures of the floating cats is deadly. Established over a year before firing in episode 48.
** Also the list of seemingly random items that was given out by the Secret Police for summary memorization to grant protection from something. Fired over 2 years later in Episode 57, aptly titled "The List". [[spoiler:It was just a drill, fortunately for everyone that forgot it.]]
** Cecil's being auctioned off in Episode 37. The gun doesn't fire until over a year later in Episode 63 when Cecil, [[spoiler:after having saved Dana's life several times without his remembering doing so,]] wonders if [[spoiler:Dana was the one who bought him]].
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** Taking pictures of the floating cats is deadly. Established over a year before firing in episode 48.
** Also the list of seemingly random items that was given out by the Secret Police for summary memorization to grant protection from something. Fired over 2 years later in Episode 57, aptly titled "The List". [[spoiler:It was just a drill, fortunately for everyone that forgot it.]]
** Cecil's being auctioned off in Episode 37. The gun doesn't fire until over a year later in Episode 63 when Cecil, [[spoiler:after having saved Dana's life several times without his remembering doing so,]] wonders if [[spoiler:Dana was the one who bought him]].
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* Subverted in ''Roleplay/NanQuest''. After Nan's memories start to fade, the paycheck she receives at the start of the story allows her to remember she was an electrician... but the paper is an ominous note rather than a paycheck, which just throws Nan's state of mind even more into question.
* Subverted in ''Roleplay/NanQuest''. After Nan's memories start to fade, the paycheck she receives at the start of the story allows her to remember she was an electrician... but the paper is an ominous note rather than a paycheck, which just throws Nan's state of mind even more into question.
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* The web series ''[[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/cHustle/date/desc commodoreHustle]]'' (by the guys at ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'') introduced Mr. Ballsmatron in episode 7, and other than a few cameos, it never played a role until the season finale, with an ultimate ball kick and its destruction. Making it possibly the first appearance of a Chekhov's Ball-kicking robot.
* Mocked in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''. During Nella's song at the end, she mentions the Chekhov's Stairs (that the lead pushed someone down at the climax of the film) that have been there since Act One.
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** Linkara's Magic Gun, which he's been wielding since the beginning, turns out to be rather important in the ''Comicbook/SilentHill: Dead/Alive'' review, going from prop to plot point and ''character''.
** In his review of a ''ComicBook/WorldOfWarcraft'' comic, Linkara finds a working pokeball. He later uses it to capture a pyramid head
* In [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944834/ this episode]] of Website/CollegeHumor's ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'', David casually references a book that [[spoiler:Sam]] borrowed, and never returned. This is largely ignored until the end of the episode, when David realizes that [[spoiler:Sam was trying to kill him so he wouldn't have to return the book.]] He even goes so far as to BreakTheFourthWall by looking at the camera and saying "Remember? From the beginning?"
* In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', Spider-Man telling Batman that he thinks he might have been married once would help Batman realize how Spiderman was immune to the Joker's brainwashing.
* Both subverted and parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19jSMFtURI one episode]] of [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashen's Tech Dump]] when, after showing off a highly toxic action figure sealed in a glass case with a biohazard sticker on it, he blatantly sticks it so that it's balancing precariously on the front of the desk and continues with the episode. When the case spends the whole episode without falling off, he finally just reaches out and pushes it off the desk himself.
* ''WebVideo/TVTrash'': ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' review begins with Hewy Toonmore (from ''WebVideo/HewysAnimatedMovieReviews'') breaking into Chris's show by using a remote, mentioning that all online reviewers have this. This is used as a chekov's gun twice. Chris would later obtain a remote, and used it to team up with WebVideo/TheCartoonHero to review the animated adaptation of ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel''. On a much more serious note, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Malicia]] was able to track down the remote's frequency to find Chris and attack him after his review of ''Series/MaskedRider'']].
* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Roy and Karen find a number of random objects in a hollowed-out tree, including a pen, a feather, and a glove. [[spoiler:The pen turns out to be a "transponder" that opens a portal to an AlternateTooniverse, and in the sequel, the feather magically turns a man into a talking piece of paper.]]
* Inverted and played for laughs in the 15th ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms}'' Kickstarter sketch.
* During the 2012 campaign of ''WebVideo/D20Live'', [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] makes sure to have his character, Tandem, put a piece of glassware in a small sack and crush it to chunks. Later on in the game, when the party encounters a mutated man-giant, Tandem's first action is to [[EyeScream throw the crushed glass in his face]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqKAzGadmYo Boat Comedy]] did a sketch where people at an antiques show [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety grossly mishandle]] a fancy loaded flintlock pistol "owned by Creator/AntonChekhov" with various gunshot-like noises happening over and over again as incidental events. It plays on the trope by deliberately averting it again and again. [[spoiler:The gun [[RedHerring never fires]]]].
* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'': In Petscop 1, Paul follows some introductions telling him to "walk downstairs and, in the bottom, turn right instead of proceeding to become a shadow monster man" (actually, access the menu and press Down several times, then Right). This allows him to enter the Newmaker Plane. Much later, in Petscop 9, Paul follows the same instructions, this time more literally, and becomes temporarily a LivingShadow, something that gives him access to the windmill.
* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'', in this case uses a "Chekhov's Game Bug". During his narrative let's play of "The Crownless Eagle", for some odd reason Istanbul makes the game turns go at a snail's pace. In his next series, "Second Chance", it is discovered the reason for this: The hidden portal which will allow humanity to flee their doomed planet.
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* The web series ''[[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/cHustle/date/desc commodoreHustle]]'' (by the guys at ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'') introduced Mr. Ballsmatron in episode 7, and other than a few cameos, it never played a role until the season finale, with an ultimate ball kick and its destruction. Making it possibly the first appearance of a Chekhov's Ball-kicking robot.
* Mocked in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''. During Nella's song at the end, she mentions the Chekhov's Stairs (that the lead pushed someone down at the climax of the film) that have been there since Act One.
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** Linkara's Magic Gun, which he's been wielding since the beginning, turns out to be rather important in the ''Comicbook/SilentHill: Dead/Alive'' review, going from prop to plot point and ''character''.
** In his review of a ''ComicBook/WorldOfWarcraft'' comic, Linkara finds a working pokeball. He later uses it to capture a pyramid head
* In [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944834/ this episode]] of Website/CollegeHumor's ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'', David casually references a book that [[spoiler:Sam]] borrowed, and never returned. This is largely ignored until the end of the episode, when David realizes that [[spoiler:Sam was trying to kill him so he wouldn't have to return the book.]] He even goes so far as to BreakTheFourthWall by looking at the camera and saying "Remember? From the beginning?"
* In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', Spider-Man telling Batman that he thinks he might have been married once would help Batman realize how Spiderman was immune to the Joker's brainwashing.
* Both subverted and parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19jSMFtURI one episode]] of [[WebVideo/StuartAshen Ashen's Tech Dump]] when, after showing off a highly toxic action figure sealed in a glass case with a biohazard sticker on it, he blatantly sticks it so that it's balancing precariously on the front of the desk and continues with the episode. When the case spends the whole episode without falling off, he finally just reaches out and pushes it off the desk himself.
* ''WebVideo/TVTrash'': ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' review begins with Hewy Toonmore (from ''WebVideo/HewysAnimatedMovieReviews'') breaking into Chris's show by using a remote, mentioning that all online reviewers have this. This is used as a chekov's gun twice. Chris would later obtain a remote, and used it to team up with WebVideo/TheCartoonHero to review the animated adaptation of ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel''. On a much more serious note, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Malicia]] was able to track down the remote's frequency to find Chris and attack him after his review of ''Series/MaskedRider'']].
* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Roy and Karen find a number of random objects in a hollowed-out tree, including a pen, a feather, and a glove. [[spoiler:The pen turns out to be a "transponder" that opens a portal to an AlternateTooniverse, and in the sequel, the feather magically turns a man into a talking piece of paper.]]
* Inverted and played for laughs in the 15th ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms}'' Kickstarter sketch.
* During the 2012 campaign of ''WebVideo/D20Live'', [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] makes sure to have his character, Tandem, put a piece of glassware in a small sack and crush it to chunks. Later on in the game, when the party encounters a mutated man-giant, Tandem's first action is to [[EyeScream throw the crushed glass in his face]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqKAzGadmYo Boat Comedy]] did a sketch where people at an antiques show [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety grossly mishandle]] a fancy loaded flintlock pistol "owned by Creator/AntonChekhov" with various gunshot-like noises happening over and over again as incidental events. It plays on the trope by deliberately averting it again and again. [[spoiler:The gun [[RedHerring never fires]]]].
* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'': In Petscop 1, Paul follows some introductions telling him to "walk downstairs and, in the bottom, turn right instead of proceeding to become a shadow monster man" (actually, access the menu and press Down several times, then Right). This allows him to enter the Newmaker Plane. Much later, in Petscop 9, Paul follows the same instructions, this time more literally, and becomes temporarily a LivingShadow, something that gives him access to the windmill.
* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'', in this case uses a "Chekhov's Game Bug". During his narrative let's play of "The Crownless Eagle", for some odd reason Istanbul makes the game turns go at a snail's pace. In his next series, "Second Chance", it is discovered the reason for this: The hidden portal which will allow humanity to flee their doomed planet.
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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio play ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho195Mistfall Mistfall]]'', the cobweb filled tunnel in the cave that the Doctor and the New Alzarians do not take plays a major role in the story's resolution.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** OlderThanFeudalism: Perseus, prior to his fight against Medusa, gets a number of gifts from the Gods. Every one of them turns out to be critically useful.
** And that note, Medusa's head. While he was meant to simply retrieve it, Perseus ended up using it to kill Cetus and save Andromeda.
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* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' game of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' has this, or rather, Chekhovs missiles. Kimmi outfitted the shuttle with them just in case. [[spoiler: Subverted in that they don't advance the plot, Kimmi just fires them to destroy the ships at the end and because she really wanted to fire them]].
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* This trope is the entire idea behind WWE's "Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank" matches, which give their winner the opportunity to exercise the right to a world title match anytime they like within the coming year--usually at a theoretically unexpected and dramatically opportune moment, like [[CombatPragmatist right after the current champion has just been thoroughly beaten up by someone else]] [[spoiler:or at an event where they have better moral support, like Wrestling/RobVanDam at One Night Stand 2006, who is the only person to successfully cash in his shot after announcing it beforehand]].
* In their classic ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 13'' submission match, Wrestling/BretHart grabbed the timekeeper's bell from ringside midway through the match and set it on the apron without ever getting a chance to use it. Later, as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin attempted to strangle him with an extension cord by hanging him off the apron, Hart grabbed the bell and smashed Austin in the face with it, allowing him to escape, recompose himself, and lock Austin in the [[FinishingMove Sharpshooter]] to win the match.
* Wrestling/MickFoley brought a chair with him to the ring for his confrontation with Wrestling/{{Ryback}} on the April 22, 2013 ''Raw.'' Mick left before the chair could be used. Then Wrestling/TheShield showed up and looked to be targeting [=Ryback=]. [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE Champion]] Wrestling/JohnCena walked out and it looked like he was going to simply stand back and let the Shield beat up on Ryback, in retaliation for Ryback having done the same thing the week before. Instead, Cena grabbed the chair and used it on the Shield.
* Averted during Wrestling/JerryLawler's first-ever WWE Championship Match against Wrestling/TheMiz on the November 29, 2010 ''Raw.'' The Miz had set up a table outside the ring for him to slam Jerry Lawler through. During the last minutes of the match, [[spoiler:after having already disposed of Alex Riley]], Lawler managed to push The Miz off the top turnbuckle and through that exact table The Miz set up for him earlier. [[spoiler:Averted as Lawler still lost the match due to Wrestling/MichaelCole interfering on The Miz's behalf]].
* Subverted during the Wrestling/DeanAmbrose–Wrestling/BrockLesnar match at Wrestling/WrestleMania 32 in 2016. According to [[http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/15132979/the-highs-lows-wrestlemania-32 this review]] by an Creator/{{ESPN}} writer, "It was the match that finally put the lie to the Chekhov's Gun principle — they introduced a sea of weapons and managed to use approximately two."
* The counter to Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush's FinishingMove The Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Special, since the only reason anyone would insist on coming up with a counter to his own finisher is because it would be important to the story later, which is exactly what happened.[[note]]At ''The Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence'' on November 17, 2007, Wrestling/ChrisHero defeated Equinox in a Mask vs. Hair match by breaking the CHIKARA Special by kicking Equinox in the head and locking Equinox in the hold instead. Earlier that same night, Hydra, a member of Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}}'s The Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, essentially sacrificed himself to end Wrestling/ShaneStorm's losing streak. It would slowly be revealed that Storm had sold out the ''[[{{Face}} tecnicos]]'' by giving the counter to Mantis who gave it to Hero. Equinox unmasked and wrestled for the rest of his career as Wrestling/VinGerard. At ''Style and Substance'' on September 7, 2008, Storm officially turned ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' and became STIGMA, forming The [=UnStable=] with Gerard, later adding the returning Colin Delaney. It turned out that Mantis and CHIKARA Commissioner Creator/BobSaget (yes, Bob Saget) had made a deal to send Hero to wrestle for Dr. Cube, the BigBad of Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel, in exchange for Cube giving Mantis The Eye of Tyr, a Myth/{{Norse Mytholog|y}}ical artifact that can be used to control minds. This ultimately led to the debut of Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes at the end of the 2009 SeasonFinale ''[=Three-Fisted Tales=]'' on November 22, 2009, which was the night that Mantis' two years of machinations completely blew up in his face.[[/note]]
* Averted at ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor ROH Fight of the Century]]'', August 5, 2006. Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli brought a briefcase with him to the four-corner survival match against winner Wrestling/{{Nigel McGuinness}}, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/JayLethal that never came into play.
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* In an episode of ''Radio/{{Gunsmoke}}'' titled "Last Fling", specific mention is made of a woman's big, fancy hatpin. Later in the story, [[spoiler:her estranged husband attacks her and she stabs him to death with it]].
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* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'':
** Slightly more notable that these are often times accidental examples, as their use as a Chekhov's Gun wasn't intended up until becoming such.
** The Anti-Chuck Norris Turret in both games. It originally popped up a few times in the beginning of the first game, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just as a counter to all Chuck Norris attacks]], and was forgotten for a while. [[spoiler: However, it reappeared later on, in an upgraded form, as the FinalBoss of the game. It was so powerful that only the intervention of the [[BigGood Secret of the Void]] were the players able to defeat it.]] It later reappeared in [=DTG2=], resuming its original role of the Godmodder's counter to Chuck Norris-based attacks, until [[spoiler: Trial 6, when the Godmodder used it to break through the Bedrock underneath the Nether and freeing the [[EldritchAbomination Red Dragon]]]].
* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'':
** The T-1 Typhoon that was left in the desert after Zenna and George were attacked by [=TumTum=] Tribesmen ended up having a brief but important role in driving an invading army of Mutant Dinosaurs out of the Dino Attack Team's camp on Adventurers' Island.
** Shortly before the Goo Caverns mission, it was established that Dino Attack Team began developing a weapon powerful enough to [[InstantWinCondition destroy an entire army]] without leveling a city. Think this is going to be important sometime in the future?
** Hotwire's PDA malfunctioned after Kat's death. Turns out that's what happens when a human consciousness stores itself in a pocket-sized communication device.
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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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** It mentions in the first edition that one of the daughters of the Scarlet Empress had followed her into the Imperial Manse one night and simply disappeared. It would only be deep into Second Edition when Lillun returned. [[BodyHorror Unfortunately.]]
** Also worth mentioning was the AI "Eyem," named for the first thing it said to those who discovered it, a throwaway mention of a wonder of the First Age, or at least the Shogunate. Again, fast forward to the second edition, where the First Age version of the internet is a sentient network known as I AM.
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* Many of the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks published in the United Kingdom have the reader collect all sorts of strange odds and ends, most of which seem to have no possible justification for the adventurer taking them along. Naturally, those seemingly useless items end up being just what the reader needs to get him- or herself out of trouble, or otherwise make an enemy easier to defeat.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
** OlderThanFeudalism: Perseus, prior to his fight against Medusa, gets a number of gifts from the Gods. Every one of them turns out to be critically useful.
** And that note, Medusa's head. While he was meant to simply retrieve it, Perseus ended up using it to kill Cetus and save Andromeda.
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* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' game of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' has this, or rather, Chekhovs missiles. Kimmi outfitted the shuttle with them just in case. [[spoiler: Subverted in that they don't advance the plot, Kimmi just fires them to destroy the ships at the end and because she really wanted to fire them]].
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* This trope is the entire idea behind WWE's "Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank" matches, which give their winner the opportunity to exercise the right to a world title match anytime they like within the coming year--usually at a theoretically unexpected and dramatically opportune moment, like [[CombatPragmatist right after the current champion has just been thoroughly beaten up by someone else]] [[spoiler:or at an event where they have better moral support, like Wrestling/RobVanDam at One Night Stand 2006, who is the only person to successfully cash in his shot after announcing it beforehand]].
* In their classic ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 13'' submission match, Wrestling/BretHart grabbed the timekeeper's bell from ringside midway through the match and set it on the apron without ever getting a chance to use it. Later, as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin attempted to strangle him with an extension cord by hanging him off the apron, Hart grabbed the bell and smashed Austin in the face with it, allowing him to escape, recompose himself, and lock Austin in the [[FinishingMove Sharpshooter]] to win the match.
* Wrestling/MickFoley brought a chair with him to the ring for his confrontation with Wrestling/{{Ryback}} on the April 22, 2013 ''Raw.'' Mick left before the chair could be used. Then Wrestling/TheShield showed up and looked to be targeting [=Ryback=]. [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE Champion]] Wrestling/JohnCena walked out and it looked like he was going to simply stand back and let the Shield beat up on Ryback, in retaliation for Ryback having done the same thing the week before. Instead, Cena grabbed the chair and used it on the Shield.
* Averted during Wrestling/JerryLawler's first-ever WWE Championship Match against Wrestling/TheMiz on the November 29, 2010 ''Raw.'' The Miz had set up a table outside the ring for him to slam Jerry Lawler through. During the last minutes of the match, [[spoiler:after having already disposed of Alex Riley]], Lawler managed to push The Miz off the top turnbuckle and through that exact table The Miz set up for him earlier. [[spoiler:Averted as Lawler still lost the match due to Wrestling/MichaelCole interfering on The Miz's behalf]].
* Subverted during the Wrestling/DeanAmbrose–Wrestling/BrockLesnar match at Wrestling/WrestleMania 32 in 2016. According to [[http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/15132979/the-highs-lows-wrestlemania-32 this review]] by an Creator/{{ESPN}} writer, "It was the match that finally put the lie to the Chekhov's Gun principle — they introduced a sea of weapons and managed to use approximately two."
* The counter to Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush's FinishingMove The Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Special, since the only reason anyone would insist on coming up with a counter to his own finisher is because it would be important to the story later, which is exactly what happened.[[note]]At ''The Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence'' on November 17, 2007, Wrestling/ChrisHero defeated Equinox in a Mask vs. Hair match by breaking the CHIKARA Special by kicking Equinox in the head and locking Equinox in the hold instead. Earlier that same night, Hydra, a member of Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}}'s The Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, essentially sacrificed himself to end Wrestling/ShaneStorm's losing streak. It would slowly be revealed that Storm had sold out the ''[[{{Face}} tecnicos]]'' by giving the counter to Mantis who gave it to Hero. Equinox unmasked and wrestled for the rest of his career as Wrestling/VinGerard. At ''Style and Substance'' on September 7, 2008, Storm officially turned ''[[{{Heel}} rudo]]'' and became STIGMA, forming The [=UnStable=] with Gerard, later adding the returning Colin Delaney. It turned out that Mantis and CHIKARA Commissioner Creator/BobSaget (yes, Bob Saget) had made a deal to send Hero to wrestle for Dr. Cube, the BigBad of Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel, in exchange for Cube giving Mantis The Eye of Tyr, a Myth/{{Norse Mytholog|y}}ical artifact that can be used to control minds. This ultimately led to the debut of Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes at the end of the 2009 SeasonFinale ''[=Three-Fisted Tales=]'' on November 22, 2009, which was the night that Mantis' two years of machinations completely blew up in his face.[[/note]]
* Averted at ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor ROH Fight of the Century]]'', August 5, 2006. Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli brought a briefcase with him to the four-corner survival match against winner Wrestling/{{Nigel McGuinness}}, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/JayLethal that never came into play.
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* In an episode of ''Radio/{{Gunsmoke}}'' titled "Last Fling", specific mention is made of a woman's big, fancy hatpin. Later in the story, [[spoiler:her estranged husband attacks her and she stabs him to death with it]].
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'':
** Slightly more notable that these are often times accidental examples, as their use as a Chekhov's Gun wasn't intended up until becoming such.
** The Anti-Chuck Norris Turret in both games. It originally popped up a few times in the beginning of the first game, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just as a counter to all Chuck Norris attacks]], and was forgotten for a while. [[spoiler: However, it reappeared later on, in an upgraded form, as the FinalBoss of the game. It was so powerful that only the intervention of the [[BigGood Secret of the Void]] were the players able to defeat it.]] It later reappeared in [=DTG2=], resuming its original role of the Godmodder's counter to Chuck Norris-based attacks, until [[spoiler: Trial 6, when the Godmodder used it to break through the Bedrock underneath the Nether and freeing the [[EldritchAbomination Red Dragon]]]].
* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'':
** The T-1 Typhoon that was left in the desert after Zenna and George were attacked by [=TumTum=] Tribesmen ended up having a brief but important role in driving an invading army of Mutant Dinosaurs out of the Dino Attack Team's camp on Adventurers' Island.
** Shortly before the Goo Caverns mission, it was established that Dino Attack Team began developing a weapon powerful enough to [[InstantWinCondition destroy an entire army]] without leveling a city. Think this is going to be important sometime in the future?
** Hotwire's PDA malfunctioned after Kat's death. Turns out that's what happens when a human consciousness stores itself in a pocket-sized communication device.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* 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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** It mentions in the first edition that one of the daughters of the Scarlet Empress had followed her into the Imperial Manse one night and simply disappeared. It would only be deep into Second Edition when Lillun returned. [[BodyHorror Unfortunately.]]
** Also worth mentioning was the AI "Eyem," named for the first thing it said to those who discovered it, a throwaway mention of a wonder of the First Age, or at least the Shogunate. Again, fast forward to the second edition, where the First Age version of the internet is a sentient network known as I AM.
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* The Transmogrifier Gun in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. It was first used for a story arc where Calvin introduces it and wants Hobbes to turn him into a Pterodactyl. He turns him into a ''tiny'' one, and a massive transmogrifying fight ensues. In a later arc, Calvin is falling down to earth because a balloon that lifted him in the sky popped. He roots for some chewing gum in his pocket, in the hopes he can blow a big bubble and use it as a parachute, when he finds the gun, transforms himself into a light particle, and zips back home.
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* The Transmogrifier Gun in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. It was first used for a story arc where Calvin introduces it and wants Hobbes to turn him into a Pterodactyl. He turns him into a ''tiny'' one, and a massive transmogrifying fight ensues. In a later arc, Calvin is falling down to earth because a balloon that lifted him in the sky popped. He roots for some chewing gum in his pocket, in the hopes he can blow a big bubble and use it as a parachute, when he finds the gun, transforms himself into a light particle, and zips back home.
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* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' does this in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Lilly heads to the airport to leave for Scotland, never to return, a RaceForYourLove scene ensues, but Hisao has a heart attack mere meters away from her. He comes to 2 days later in a hospital bed. He's laying there resenting himself for not being able to stop Lilly leaving and listening to the EKG speaker, when he notices a second sound in the room. He turns his head to the side and notices the music box he bought for Lilly back in Act 2. A few seconds later, Lilly herself comes into the room, having never left Japan.]]
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* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' does this in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Lilly heads to the airport to leave for Scotland, never to return, a RaceForYourLove scene ensues, but Hisao has a heart attack mere meters away from her. He comes to 2 days later in a hospital bed. He's laying there resenting himself for not being able to stop Lilly leaving and listening to the EKG speaker, when he notices a second sound in the room. He turns his head to the side and notices the music box he bought for Lilly back in Act 2. A few seconds later, Lilly herself comes into the room, having never left Japan.]]
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* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' does this in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Lilly heads to the airport to leave for Scotland, never to return, a RaceForYourLove scene ensues, but Hisao has a heart attack mere meters away from her. He comes to 2 days later in a hospital bed. He's laying there resenting himself for not being able to stop Lilly leaving and listening to the EKG speaker, when he notices a second sound in the room. He turns his head to the side and notices the music box he bought for Lilly back in Act 2. A few seconds later, Lilly herself comes into the room, having never left Japan.]]
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* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' does this in Lilly's Good Ending. [[spoiler: Lilly heads to the airport to leave for Scotland, never to return, a RaceForYourLove scene ensues, but Hisao has a heart attack mere meters away from her. He comes to 2 days later in a hospital bed. He's laying there resenting himself for not being able to stop Lilly leaving and listening to the EKG speaker, when he notices a second sound in the room. He turns his head to the side and notices the music box he bought for Lilly back in Act 2. A few seconds later, Lilly herself comes into the room, having never left Japan.]]
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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 [[BerserkButton 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 [[BerserkButton [[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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