Line #3 ChekhovsGun/Theatre


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9	* In ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'', it is mentioned that Archie has Muscular Dystrophy, however, the disease doesn't show up again until [[ManipulativeBastard He uses the disease to guilt Evan's mom into buying tickets for an R-rated movie]]
10	* An actual gun belonging to Joe Keller is introduced in the first act of Arthur Miller's ''Theatre/AllMySons'' and reappears in the last scene [[spoiler: when Joe shoots himself.]]
11	* In ''Theatre/{{Amaluna}}'', Miranda is given a crystal/stone by the Moon Goddess at the beginning of the latter's aerial hoop act. Towards the end of the show, she uses its powers to save Romeo from Cali.
12	* ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'' mentions this trope in the script:
13	-->He gets the [=SuperSoaker=] Fire Extinguisher, thus fulfilling the Chekhovian unities, to wit: "If you bring on a [=SuperSoaker=] Fire Extinguisher, it must eventually go off."
14	* A literal example in ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood''. Watson first enters carrying a starters pistol, which returns in the climax.
15	* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': Cyrano’s slight cut at Act II Scene III would be important at Act II Scene VI.
16	* Used to great effect in Eugene O'Neill's one act play ''Theatre/TheEmperorJones''. In the first scene, the eponymous self-proclaimed Emperor explains to another character how he managed to convince all of his subjects that only bullets made of pure silver could hurt him. To demonstrate his arrogance and overconfidence, he pulls out his gun and shows the other character an actual SilverBullet he commissioned himself which he keeps inside the gun's bullet chamber at all times as a final resort in case the vengeful natives finally catch up with him. Naturally, the silver bullet is used towards the end of the play, but in an ironic twist, the actual bullet itself is used to 'kill' a terrifying hallucination dredged up by the Emperor's own mind. In the play's final scene, the report of the gun has given away his position to the vengeful natives, who, upon locating their hated despot in the middle of a dark jungle, riddle the Emperor full of homemade silver bullets.
17	* The title character of ''Theatre/HeddaGabler'' only derives much enjoyment from two things: the pistols she inherited from her father, and manipulating people. At the end of the third act she gives her disgraced ex-lover Løvborg one of them, urging him to commit suicide with it (although he ends up shooting himself by accident instead). When this is found out by her husband's unscrupulous friend Judge Brack, who hopes to blackmail her into sleeping with him, she shoots herself with the other one.
18	* In the opera ''Königskinder'', the WickedWitch enlists the Goose Girl to help bake a poisoned loaf of bread that will kill anyone who eats so much as half of it. Several acts later, this item is unsuspectingly bought by a starving young couple who split it between themselves. [[spoiler:Ironically, one of them is the Goose Girl.]]
19	* ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'': Berowne mentions in Act I scene 1 that the Princess's father is "decrepit, sick, and bedrid." This never comes up again until five acts of witty banter later, when the father dies, so the ladies have to leave and go into mourning and none of the couples can get married.
20	* Used in Beaumarchais's ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro'': Marcellina makes a throwaway comment in Act I regarding her long-lost son--who is naturally revealed later to be Figaro, conveniently removing his obligation to marry her.
21	** [[Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro Mozart's opera]] dispenses with the setup, making the LukeIAmYourFather moment much funnier.
22	* In ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', Kim shoots her cousin Thuy when he tries to kill her mixed-race son. A flashback later in the show reveals that Chris gave her the gun for protection. This might technically invert this trope, but it's played straight later when Kim uses the same gun to shoot herself in order to force Chris and his wife to take the boy to America with them.
23	* In ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'', there is a fire axe present from the beginning of the first act. Jonathan breaks the glass and uses it in the third act.
24	* ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' includes an embroidered handkerchief that becomes central to the plot in the second act. Performances, such as 1995's film version, include the handkerchief earlier in the film as a part of Desdemona's costume. Shakespeare's plays, as written, do not include prop or costuming instructions, so the necessity to include specific props such as this must be inferred by the director.
25	* ''Theatre/PokemonLive'' has [=MechaMew2=] learning Selfdestruct at the beginning; it uses this in the finale to blow itself up and take down Team Rocket.
26	* In ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'', this is parodied. Professor Oak gives Ash a turkey baster, saying he'll know when the time is right to use it. [[spoiler: He attempts to use it to cut his bonds, but drops it]].
27	* How about guns in Chekhov's own plays? In ''Theatre/TheSeagull'', Konstantin Treplyev kills a seagull and brings his rifle on stage. The trope is seemingly {{subverted}} when he attempts to use it to suicide and is not successful, but at the end of the play manages to succeed. In ''Theatre/UncleVanya'' however, the gun with which [[spoiler:Uncle Vanya attempts to kill the professor]] only gets a mention in the stage directions at the beginning of the first act, and the trope is completely averted in ''Theatre/TheCherryOrchard'', where a gun is seen but never fired.
28	* Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'': In an early scene, Jekyll and Helen discuss the fact that the published version of Jekyll's formula contains a printing error that would make the resulting concoction lethal, killing its recipient in seconds. In the final scene, Hyde forces Helen to make up a fresh batch of the serum for him, and warns her not to deviate from the recipe. She makes the batch using the published formula, leading to Hyde's death.
29	* In ''Theatre/TheWildDuck'' great attention is paid to the Ekdal's family gun or "That there gun" as Hjelmer Ekdal's wife puts it. [[spoiler: In the final act of the play, Ekdal's young daughter Hedvig kills herself with it.]]
30	* In the Polish play "Tango" by Mrozek, there is a revolver that several characters handle through the story. In the end it never fires... and is instead used to bludgeon the protagonist to death.
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Context ChekhovsGun / Theatre