History Main / ChekhovsNews

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe''. The JustifiedTutorial has [[PlayerCharacter Jake]] [[TheAce Logan]] evaluating a novice flight instructor, and the tutorial's combat section has a group of drones go haywire and attack you. Later in the game, a news item reports that the instructor you evaluated saved her students when this happened again.

* In the first court case of ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'', you get to read London's newspaper about a bunch of jewel thefts across town, which has nothing to do with your case of assault. [[spoiler:It turns out that the last witness is one of those thieves, which provides motive to ''her'' assault on your client, who had evidence of her theft.]]

* Whenever there's a newspaper in BabylonFive it was made for freezeframe and contains ForeShadowing and/or FridgeBrilliance.

* Wakana Sonozaki's radio show "Healling Princess" from KamenRiderW.

* In the "Series/{{Community}}" episode "Intro to Political Science", as Troy and Abed are covering the Greendale election, the news scroll at the bottom of the frame foreshadows the plot lines of several future episodes.

* In the "Series/Community" episode "Intro to Political Science", as Troy and Abed are covering the Greendale election, the news scroll at the bottom of the frame foreshadows the plot lines of several future episodes.

* An {{XKCD}} comic titled ''[[http://xkcd.com/1387/ Clumsy Foreshadowing]]'' suggests imagining this trope is in force to make the news more interesting.

* In the ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' short "Sad, Sad Larry," when Larry is trying to hang himself, the news discusses a chainsaw murderer on the loose. Later, when Larry is immobilized and hospitalized, the chainsaw murderer appears and, much to Larry's dismay, does not kill him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping from Syndrome, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had used to his LaserVision to carve the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.

* Early in the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the [=DeLorean=] and go back home]].

-->--'''Harry''', ''Film/KissKissBangBang''

* In ''Halloween III: Season of the Witch'', a TV news report near the beginning tells of a large block that has vanished from Stonehenge. This becomes significant [[spoiler:near the end, when Mr. Cochran reveals he's the one who stole the stone, and is using chips from it to sabotage his Silver Shamrock masks.]]

->''Okay, I apologize. That is a terrible scene. It's like, "Why was that in the movie? Gee, you think maybe it'll come back later, maybe?" I hate that. A TV's on, talking about the new power plant. [[CaptainObvious Wonder where the climax will happen.]]''

The protagonists turns on the TV, listen to the radio, or skim the newspaper as part of a morning routine (or, in the case of going to the movies in the old days, seeing a newsreel before the movie begins) and we get some brief look at the big news, then some background noise small articles and local goings-on. Of course, by the LawOfConservationOfDetail, it's ''never'' really very small; even the most mundane or seemingly faraway events crash into the here and now with dramatic results.

Contrast IgnoredVitalNewsReports, in which the importance of a news item is obvious to the audience but the characters ignore it. This does not include news items that are purely {{Foreshadowing}}; to be Chekhov's News, the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]" starts with a radio broadcast about solar flares blocking out the signal. [[spoiler: Turns out, it was a response to a cry for help for the Doctor, and the answer of ''millions'' of return call.]]

* In the ''VisualNovel/{{Yarudora}}'' game ''VisualNovel/DoubleCast'', such an event happens very early in the game if you go eat ramen with the main heroine; as you eat, a brief interview of a psychologist will be aired on the shop's TV. [[spoiler: Turns out that this psychologist was the one who attended the main heroine for her SplitPersonality in the backstory, and her testimony to the protagonist when he finds this out is crucial for solving the case.]]

That article about a new building opening? It will house the DoomsdayDevice MacGuffin.\\
Reporter mentions sudden disappearance of a species? They're actually aliens going home.\\
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators.\\
Whatever the seemingly small-fry buzz, it may appear irrelevant or incidental right now but will turn out to be critical to the resolution of the plot.

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->''Okay, I apologize. That is a terrible scene. It's like, "Why was that in the movie? Gee, you think maybe it'll come back later, maybe?" I hate that. A TV's on, talking about the new power plant. Wonder where the climax will happen.''

-->--'''Harry''', ''KissKissBangBang''

That article about a new building opening? It will house the DoomsdayDevice MacGuffin.
Reporter mentions sudden disappearance of a species? They're actually aliens going home.
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators. Whatever the seemingly small-fry buzz, it may appear irrelevant or incidental right now but will turn out to be critical to the resolution of the plot.

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* Early in the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the [=DeLorean=] and go back home]].
* {{Lampshade}}d in ''KissKissBangBang'', where the narrator expresses his contempt for the trope. It is later played straight by the film.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode ''[[Recap/SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]'', a bypass mention of an art display opening on the morning news later becomes a plot point.

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* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: throughout the first half of "Ayla and the Grinch", Ayla keeps making fun of the sleazy attempts of the various news channels to get ratings based on a series of deaths in the area, assumed to be the work of a serial killer nicknamed The Headhunter. Then Ayla ends up facing off against the killer to protect a theater full of beauty pageant contestants. It's something much, much worse than the newspeople thought.
* In the Cyanide and Happiness short "Sad, Sad Larry," when Larry is trying to hang himself, the news discusses a chainsaw murderer on the loose. Later, when Larry is immobilized and hospitalized, the chainsaw murderer appears and, much to Larry's dismay, does not kill him.
* In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIajQIv7T5c&feature=share&list=UUPd3_ljdxr_2lFLz9_Zx-PQ The Shoe-In]], a guy named Kyle is going in for a job interview and hears a report on the radio about a suspect in a high-speed police chase that blew through roadblocks. Kyle seems unimpressed and even amused. The interview starts off pretty well, with them discussing Kyle's outstanding achievements [[spoiler:which were probably all made up]]. Things begin to turn around when the interviewer sees some of his drawings, all of which are penises. Then his background check comes in. It's revealed that Kyle has a criminal record that includes an attempted rape (of a puppy) and a murder (of the puppy's owner). When asked why he isn't in jail, Kyle states that he skipped bail.
--> '''Kyle''': "Do you know how many roadblocks I had to dodge in order to get to this interview on time?"

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible is reading the newspaper with a headline about his former superhero colleague Gazerbeam. Later, when he's escaping the robot, he finds Gazerbeam's skeleton in a cave, who had carved the word "Kronos" into the wall before he died.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' "[[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS1E2ALeafInTheWind A Leaf in the Wind]]," Korra hears of up-and-coming [[FictionalSport pro-bending]] team the Fire Ferrets and star player Mako via a live radio broadcast, and later meets the team, [[spoiler: making her debut as a pro-bender soon after]].
** She's also seen reading the newspaper early in the episode, [[http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e321/Paratia/ThisGuyRightHere.png and on the back is a picture of Tahno,]] [[ChekhovsGunman who will later become her rival.]]