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• Mad Max:
  • Probably the most obvious one is where Goose and the mechanic show Max the newly built Pursuit Special, meant as a means to keep him on the force. Instead he steals it for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • In Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, an early scene establishes that Max has an anti-tampering mechanism that self-destructs his car in the event someone tries to steal it (as a way to show how Properly Paranoid he's become). This later saves Max's life, as the thugs who ambush him and kill his dog inadvertently activate the device and blow themselves up.
  • Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome has an extra-delayed-fire Chekhov's Gun. In the first movie he's a cop with the Main Force Patrol. By the second movie the MFP has ceased to exist and is never mentioned, he even loses his cop car halfway through it. In the third movie he's set to battle the gigantic Blaster. Blaster is rendered helpless by Max's MFP police whistle, since Blaster has a Weaksauce Weakness against high-pitched noises.
  • Mad Max: Fury Road has the IV tubing that Nux was using to siphon blood from Max at the beginning of the film. At the end, Max uses it to save Furiosa's life after she suffered a near fatal stab wound. It also helps that Max is stated to have O-type blood, making him a universal donor.
• Man of Steel:
  • The Codex. It turns out to be encoded in Clark's own cells, thus giving Zod a reason to kill Clark so he can extract it from his corpse.
  • The Kryptonian spacecraft key with Jor-El's digital avatar stored on it. Lois uses it to summon Jor-El while imprisoned on Zod's spaceship so that she can escape and find a way to defeat Zod.
  • Clark's inability to control his enhanced senses as a child. It turns out to be an important detail when he goes up against Zod's soldiers, who haven't had a lifetime to acclimate to their sun-enhanced abilities. The sensory overload quickly incapacitates them when their environmental suits are breached. Zod ultimately figures his abilities out, but Clark's lifetime on Earth is likely a trump card in the end.
  • The hyperdrive on Clark's spacecraft. It's made from the same technology as Zod's hyperdrive—which he made by reverse-engineering the Phantom Zone projector. With some tweaking, the military is able to use it to send Zod's soldiers back to the Phantom Zone.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: The main character's wife is an ex-professional singer. Early in the film, she sings a duet with their son and he sings and whistles along. In the end, her powerful scream averts an assassination and her singing helps locate their son when he starts whistling along.
• Mandalay: Tanya accidentally cuts herself. Dr. Burton lends her some iodine. Iodine taken internally in large doses is extremely toxic... she later uses it to murder her ex-lover (who sold her into sex slavery) by puoring it into his drink.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man:
    • Tony Stark builds an electromagnetic device called an Arc Reactor to protect his heart, then upgrades the unit by having his secretary, Pepper, install a larger version in his chest. He tells her to throw the small unit away, but Pepper has it put in a display case for him. The miniature reactor becomes crucial later on, when Obadiah Stane takes the larger reactor from Tony's chest while he's paralyzed, and he must rely on the smaller model to power his suit and his heart. Also, Tony's second attempt at the suit doesn't work out too well after ice builds up during a high-atmosphere flight. He later uses this against the Big Bad.
    • The giant Arc-Reactor which is mentioned in the first third of the movie, then overloaded at the end to finally defeat Obadiah Stane. Every character, item, and detail has at least two uses in the movie. "How did you solve that icing problem?"
  • Iron Man 2:
    • Howard Stark's model of the Stark Expo and what happens when two repulsor blasts hit each other.
    • It also contains a subversion, when we are introduced to Hammer's "ex-wife" bunker-buster shell. When Rhodes tries to use it on Vanko, it proves completely worthless - after a long, dramatic charge-up sequence, the much-vaunted missile pings harmlessly off Vanko's armor and sputters on the ground like a dud firecracker. This includes a subversion and a straight example. When Hammer is going through all the weapons he's going to add to Rhode's armor, the "ex-wife" is the only one he manufactured himself. Hammer's well established incompetence at weapons design is Chekhov's Gun.
    • Black Widow takes out Happy Hogan with a flipping submission move. She later uses similar attacks to take out a hallway full of Hammer Industries guards.
  • A few pop up in Thor. Earlier, Darcy took a picture of Thor. The picture would be used later on a falsified ID. Also, Loki taunting Heimdall over secret passages that even Heimdall wasn't aware of would come to use when Loki uses those passages to escape death and arrive to Earth.
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron:
    • Flipped onto the heroes in this case. Remember how the Iron Legion from Iron Man 3 can be controlled by AI? Ultron did.
    • Helen Cho has invented a synthetic tissue that mimics human biology, which she uses to heal Clint. The same technology is later used to construct Vision's body.
    • Two from the previous movie (both involving Thor): the shockwave created when his hammer hits Cap's shield gets weaponized, and his thunder supercharging Tony's technology is used to give life to Vision.
    • During the final battle, Cap damages one of Ultron's drones, which Ultron is using to taunt him, and throws it off the edge of the flying city. This drone reappears at the end, damaged but still functional, as the last vessel of Ultron's consciousness. Vision caught him trying to sneak off.
  • Avengers: Infinity War
    • At the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony gifts Peter with a brand new Spider-Man costume as part of joining the Avengers, but declines it and the position. Come this film, he's wearing the suit and is part of the Avengers.
  • Avengers: Endgame
    • Back in Spider-Man: Homecoming, when Peter experimented with the full functions of his Spider-Man costume, he accidentally activated its "Instant Kill" mode and quickly turned it off before it could do anything. In Endgame, upon coming Back from the Dead and returning to Earth for the Final Battle, he unleashes this mode on Thanos's mooks.
• Maverick. Early in the movie Maverick mentions believing that if he concentrated hard enough, he could draw exactly the card he needed, then mentions that the trick had never worked. Near the end he must do exactly that to win the $500,000 poker championship.
• The Maze Runner has the two syringes filled with blue liquid that were with Teresa when she was taken to the Glade. First, one is used to save Alby after he is stung in the Maze by a Griever, then the second is used when Thomas stabs himself with a Griever stinger, in the hopes that he will remember what happened before the Maze.
• Medicine Man has a doctor in the rainforest where he believes he has found a cure for cancer in the local tribe's sugar supply after realising that the tribe had a very low cancer rate. He figures out that the tribe uses a particular plant for all of their food but he can't reproduce the cure himself. However he didn't consider that the supply could be contaminated and also ignores their liking for sugar coated ants.
• Mean Girls
  • Chekhov's big yellow school bus, rather.
  • Before the talent show scene, Janis tells Cady that "everybody in the English speaking world" knows the words to the song "Jingle Bell Rock". Cady presumably used this information to save the act.
  • In the sequel, the paranoid neighbor. Specifically his security cameras.
• Men in Black
  • The flying saucers from the first MIB meeting in 1961, converted into towers at Flushing.
  • The little red button in the LTD.
  • K orders J to fasten his seat belt before they go for a drive, and J lectures him about being polite. Just after K has J push the little red button he says "And you might want to put on a seat belt".
• Modesta: The sticks of firewood Modesta is gathering. She breaks one off to strike her husband when he is calling her names and heaping abuse. During the League of Liberated Women's first meeting, the firewood stick becomes a symbol of the women's efforts for equality. At the end, after both the men and the women agree that there should not be any physical violence, they all pair off and walk away, stepping over the the sticks.
• In Monsters, Samantha sees a TV documentary on how jellyfish attract mates with a light display. Later on she realises the giant alien is attracted to the light of a television set and turns it off.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Halfway through the film, a historian appears to summarize the next part of the plot and is murdered. Later, Arthur, Sir Bedevere, and Sir Lancelot are stopped on their quest and arrested for his murder.
  • Originally they had more modern scenes planned, but ultimately focused on the grail quest for the most part. It's funnier because it comes out of nowhere, anyhow.
  • Also, on the scene where they have to answer questions in order to cross the bridge, Arthur knows about swallows due to the first scene.
    • Which goes to show that, in comedy, the line between Chekhov's Gun, Running Gag, and Brick Joke can become rather blurry.
• Mortuary (1983): Early in the film, Greg and Josh find a machinegun stored inside a coffin at the mortuary warehouse. When Greg confronts Paul neat the end, he grabs the machinegun and tries to shoot him with it. Defied. There were no bullets in the gun.
• Most Wanted: Victoria's taser, which initially she tries to use on Dunn. Later he tases Braddock right in the groin with it.
• The Muppets:
  • Muppet Treasure Island: Gonzo's odd decision to keep starfish in his pants come in handy when they battle against the pirates. If people count, the fact that Statler and Waldorf are the animated, talking figureheads of the Hispaniola also counts.
  • Also in The Muppet Movie: The script of the movie. No, really.
  • And in The Muppets (2011), there's a scene in which Gonzo gets his fingers stuck in a bowling ball while trying to bowl a pin off Jack Black's head. They're still stuck until the last couple seconds of the movie, when the ball flies off and beans the Big Bad, giving him a brain injury and changing his personality, prompting him to sell Muppet Studios back to the Muppets.
• My Cousin Vinny is loaded with examples, from Lisa's ever-present camera and her extensive knowledge of automobiles to the story of Judge Malloy and the diner cook's brief explanation of how grits are cooked.
• In Mystery Men, Dr. Heller's Tornado-in-a-Can was intended to be a Chekhov's Gun but ended up as a deleted scene. Rather than throw The Bowler's bowling ball into Casanova Frankenstein's machine to destroy it, they were going to throw a Tornado-in-a-Can into it in the alternate version. The effect for this can still however be seen in the theatrical release; just after they toss the bowling ball in and it does its damage you can see the green swirling smoke coming out of the hole.
• Several in Mystery Team: Duncan's slingshot, the firecracker, Jason being "The Master of Disguise" and Eric, just to name a few. Subverted with Duncan and Charlie's "skills"

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• In The Naked Gun 2 and 1/2, Frank uses a police tank to crash though a house, a gated community, and a zoo. Much later, Frank wrestles Quentin Habsburg till Quentin accidentally falls out of a window. He plummets several stories before landing on a canopy and bouncing to the ground unscathed . . . where he is then mauled by a lion presumably from the zoo.
  • In a movie like this one its surprising they actually set that gag up as opposed to just having it randomly happen for no reason.
• Neighbors: The fireworks Kelly and Mac use these to eventually get the cops attention.
• Nightlight (2015): Robin straps a support-splint onto her ankle while changing her shoes in preparation for hiking in the woods. It later prevents the Bear Trap from breaking her ankle outright, although she's left bloodied and limping for a while. Also, Robin and Nia find a note in another teen's backpack that includes a reminder to watch out for rattlesnakes. Three guesses what Robin has a close call with not long after...
• Nope:
  • The wishing well camera at Jupiter's Claim is completely mechanical, which lets Emerald use it to take a photo of Jean Jacket.
  • The Kid Sheriff balloon at Jupiter’s Claim is very prominent in the film’s viral marketing campaign and the scenes depicting the park itself. Emerald uses it to explode Jean Jacket from the inside by using it as a lure filled with pressurized air.
  • OJ and Emerald's father was initially killed by a coin falling from the sky, which we later learn was Jean Jacket regurgitating the indigestible stuff it consumes accidentally. At the end, Emerald uses a coin to capture the definitive photograph of Jean Jacket.
  • While driving back home after being fired from the film set, Emerald and OJ pass a car dealership with numerous waving tube men out front. When they set up a plan in the climax to get Jean Jacket on film, Emerald steals the tube men and sets them up around their ranch to act as a makeshift motion-detection system; when Jean Jacket passes over any particular tube man, it will deflate, signifying its presence even when it's hidden in the clouds.
  • Early in the film, the UFO sucks up a horse statue with a rainbow pennant that was stuck to it. After realizing the UFO is actually a living animal, OJ surmises that it was agitated by eating a fake horse and predicts that it now associates the pennant with something inedible or unpleasant. He's able to get the alien to swerve away from him in the climax by releasing a rainbow pennant attached to a small parachute behind him.
  • While at Fry's Electronics purchasing security cameras for their ranch, Emerald also buys a bag of Sour Patch Kids. Later on, one of the security cameras is blocked by a curious praying mantis, preventing it from filming the UFO, Emerald tries to dislodge it by throwing the candies at the insect. It's subverted in that she doesn't manage to actually hit the mantis before the UFO leaves.
• Now You See Me:
  • Just about everything they're shown doing that isn't part of their shows is setting up for one of them or outwitting the police. That bit where Daniel tries (and fails) reading Tressler? Clever ploy to get the answer to his security questions on his bank account.

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• Oblivion (2013)
  • Jack's recurring dream about a viewfinder on the Empire State Building. It's where the original Jack Harper proposed marriage to Julia.
  • The fact that the Scavs La Résistance have been stealing drone power cores.
  • The fact that lightning strikes force electronics (such as the Bubble Ship's and the drones') to reboot if struck while flying.
  • The constant reminding to Mission Control to please send parts and armor to repair the drone on Tower 49, which it keeps disregarding. Julia's Big Damn Heroes Moment of Awesome later on is also a good example of Worf Had the Flu because of it.
  • The missing drone mentioned at the beginning. It was captured by La Résistance, but its intended use to carry a nuke to the Tet ends up sadly subverted.
  • The Bubble Ship and the drones using voice recognition to identify Jack. The latter comes in use when Jack first rescues Julia from the crashed "Odyssey" (since they're programmed to not shoot him). As for the former... as Jack discovers, all that it's necessary to use another clone's ship is to change the Tech operator number you say for ID, which comes in handy because he needs to use it to save Julia's life after she's accidentally shot.
  • The "Odyssey"'s flight recorder. And its nuclear reactor core.
  • The Scav communications equipment that Jack deactivates on the ruins of the Empire State Building. And the building itself.
  • The fact that the drones can track Jack's DNA comes back to bite the ass of La Résistance during the final act.
  • When Jack first reports about finding Julia to Mission Control, Sally says that she would be interested in meeting her. during the Trojan Prisoner gambit, Jack mentions this back to Sally to be allowed into the ship.
  • When Jack first starts checking the wreckage of the crashed "Odyssey", he opens a Human Popsicle capsule which is empty, and when the Scavs La Résistance arrive, you can see them taking that capsule. It becomes pretty important later on as the capsule Julia goes in thinking she and Jack will do the Trojan Prisoner gambit and Jack then transports to his cabin, where she will be safe. The capsule is labeled "J. Harper"—it belonged to her (real) husband.
  • A minor one: when Jack first disables the communications equipment on the Empire State, he takes a gorilla plushie that was on the room and puts it among his collection of scavenged stuff. Julia's child is seen playing with it in the movie's epilogue.
• At the start of Oculus, we watch as Kaylie set up various fail-safe measures to destroy the mirror, which can change the perception of the lead characters. One of these is a kill-switch attached to an anchor, not being run by electricity and on a straight path so the mirror is unable to influence it. Then she is tricked into walking in front of it as her brother flips the switch, leaving him to blame for her death.
• Old People: Before Sanna's wedding, Noah talks to his mom and Sanna about underground tunnels that connect the house to the cottage back when it was owned by rich people, and the cottage was the servants' quarters. Ella, Noah, and Laura use the tunnels to escape the murderous old people when they manage to get in the house.
• Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre:
  • Greg Simmonds has bought the red Mustang Danny Francesco drove in one of his movies and had it restored to its movie specifications: including the bulletproof rear end. This becomes relevant when Danny and Sarah use the car to escape from Simmonds' compound.
  • A subtle one occurs when Sarah is interrogating Simmonds' computer system for information about 'The Handle'. One of the files she opens and almost immediately discards shows the specs for a missile system. At the end of the film, Simmonds uses these missiles to blow up when the derelict hotel and the satellite dishes when he is intimidating Mike, Trent and Arnold.
  • Arnold and Trent, whom the team meets at Simmonds' party, are mentioned to have bought large quantities of gold. They are planning to use 'The Handle' to cause a financial collapse and use that gold to have economic control of the world.
• The Opposite of Sex: Dedee is shown packing a gun, and helpfully informs the audience, "This is foreshadowing. Duh!". And despite the fact that she toys with being an Unreliable Narrator, it does get used later on. Twice.
• Our Man Flint. Early in the movie Flint is woken up from suspended animation by his watch. Later on when Flint is apparently dead, the watch wakes him up again - he was just in suspended animation.
• Subverted in Outbreak. The soldiers begin rounding up infectees in the quarantined small town, and we get to see only one woman say a tearful goodbye to her family. We follow her for a few minutes while they take a blood sample during her initial medical exam. There is even a close up of the phial, labeled "Sample 612". In a later scene, we see a scientist examining blood slides:
  Scientist: "Sample 607: Infected. 608: Infected. 609: Infected. * Frustrated sigh* They can't all be infected. 610... Infected. 611...Infected. 612... Damn! Still infected!"

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• Pacific Rim:
  • Gipsy Danger is nuclear powered.
  • Chau uses his knife three times: once to intimidate Geiszler, once to check whether Otachi Jr. is dead, and once more to cut his way out of its stomach.
  • Though it's not explicitly noted, the fact that the Kaiju can tell Newt linked up with one of their brains from the far side of the rift indicates that it's possible for signals to pass through it. This comes in useful when mission control needs to keep monitoring Gipsy Danger's progress.
  • Raleigh's ability to pilot a Jaeger solo, which he does to finally deliver the final blow.
• Paddington (2014):
  • The sandwich Paddington keeps under his hat for emergencies comes very handy when he needs to get out of a jam.
• Ofelia's red shoes in Pan's Labyrinth are forgotten about halfway through the film, only to suddenly reappear at the end. They don't really do anything, they are just a part of the elaborate system of clues that let the viewer know the truth about what happens—red shoes are associated with The Fair Folk, as is Ofelia's all-green outfit, for that matter.
  • The bottle of sleeping medicine Ofelia's mother was given would count. At first, it seems completely unnecessary since Ofelia helps her mother to get better with the mandrake root. At the end of the movie though, she uses it to drug her stepfather and escape with her brother.
  • Mercedes' belt on her robe early on is revealed to have a hidden compartment where she stores her kitchen knife. The camera focused on it for too long for it to not be of any importance. As it turns out, later she is tied to a chair by the Big Bad, and when his back is turned, she retrieves the knife, cuts herself free, and in a Moment of Awesome slices open his cheek before making her escape.
• Happens twice in Papillon. First on the boat to French Guiana, where Papillon displays his pocket knife, which later is used by Papillon to defend Louis from two robbers. Later, when Papillon, Louis and Clusiot have escaped their captivity, Papillon is shown putting an axe in the back of his pants. The same axe is later used to kill an officer.
• The crack pipe the doctors smoke before conducting the autopsies on their victims in Pathology. This is seen often enough that it just becomes part of the doctors' ritual. Then Ted fills the autopsy room with gas which explodes when they light the pipe, killing all of them except Gallo.
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop has several, including the "Devil's Crotch" hot sauce and the Stalker with a Crush using GPS to track a cell phone.
• Paulie has the bookmark labelled "M.A."
• Paycheck has the main character ending up with his memory wiped after working on a top secret project involving seeing the future and then finding out that his pre-memory wipe self sent his post-memory wipe self an entire Chekhov's Armory full of random, seemingly useless crap to keep himself alive when things go south. Perhaps the most Egregious gun in the armory, though, is a digital watch that doesn't work that seems to serve no practical purpose even within the armory until it beeps and reads "GO" when the main character happens to find himself on a catwalk with a gun pointed at him.
• In Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Pee-Wee buys several strange items at the magic shop at the beginning of the movie, including a boomerang bowtie. However, it is only used in a deleted scene, whereas most of the other items do get used in the movie.
• In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the protagonists find a fountain full of Gold Drachma's when looking for the first Pearl of Persephone. Later on, when they meet Charon, guess what they have to bribe him with?
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Subverted early in the first film — a decorative shield-and-swords hangs over a fireplace in the governor's mansion in the grand swashbuckling fashion. When Elizabeth later goes to draw one of the swords to defend herself against invading pirates, she ends up pulling the whole thing down off the wall by accident — the swords are firmly attached to the shield and won't come loose.
    • Played straight with Elizabeth's bedwarmer; she uses it to dump hot coals on the pirates invading her room.
  • It's played straight in the same movie: Norrington mocks Jack's pistol (with only one shot) and compass (that's apparently broken); the pistol has symbolic importance and the compass proves important not only to the first movie but to the sequels as well.
  • An interesting one comes in the form of the sword Will forged for Norrington. At the end of the third film, Will is killed with this sword.
  • Ragetti's wooden eye seems to just be comic relief, until it turns out to be one of the Pieces of Eight.
    • Jack's own Piece of Eight is debatable, being present in the first two movies before the sequels were even written.
  • But the ultimate example, as far as the time between when we are shown the gun and when it is fired, are the barrel-pin hinges commonly used in jail cells of the period. In the first film, Will shows Jack how simple it is to unseat these hinges, thereby opening a jail cell door. In the third film, Jack recognizes that the hinges on the brig of the Flying Dutchman to be barrel-pin hinges, and is thus able to escape with ease because of Will's explanation from the first film.
  • Subverted again with the jar of dirt from the second movie. Jack ends up wasting it.
  • The knife Bootstrap Bill gives to Will is the same one that he uses to carve out his heart after Davy Jones is killed.
• In Pixels:
  • The glasses Eddie always has on him has Pac-Man and Donkey Kong cheat codes inscribed on them.
  • The Chewbacca mask Bill has won as a child is later used by him to sneak out of the White House.
• In Poison Ivy, Chekhov's Gun takes the form of a melancholy piano piece the heroine, Sylvie, composes and records for her mother as a birthday present, which the latter plays as she supposedly jumps to her death. Soon after, Ivy convinces Sylvie to take a ride with her in her mother's old sportscar as a final goodbye. As they drive, Ivy absently begins to hum the tune, leading Sylvie to realize Ivy was present when her mother died...
• In Preservation, Wit chides Mike for casually discarding a broken beer bottle on the way into the park. Later, she uses that same bottle to stab one of the hunters in the throat.
• The President's Analyst is soon being pursued by intelligence agents of every country out to capture him. In New York's Chinatown, an agent chasing him gets stuck in a phone booth which has a logo reading "TPC", which shows up several other places, like on a maintenance truck in suburbia and a wheelbarrow on the White House lawn - late in the movie, the analyst gets stuck in a phone booth which is pulled up and hauled off, with him in it, to the headquarters of TPC - The Phone Company.
• Chekhov's lack of a gun in The President's Last Bang. Chief Bodyguard Cha refuses his underling's suggestion to carry a gun to the party, saying that President Park doesn't like the sight of guns when he's drinking and relaxing. This later leaves him defenseless when Director Kim comes in shooting.
• A Chekhov's Blowgun in Primal, with Frank using the Blow Gun and curare darts he used to capture the monkeys against Loffler in the final showdown.
• Before the makeover scene in The Princess Diaries Paolo refuses to sign the confidentially agreement because, in his own words, 'I know how to keep a secret'. When Mia goes to school a few days later, paparazzi are swarming all over the place, which Paolo admits to being responsible for, for the sake of pride.
• Prometheus makes a point of showing the audience a rather pricey Automated Surgical Unit that can perform almost any kind of emergency surgery, including complex operations which is later used by Shaw to perform an emergency cesarean on herself, after having been infected by Holloway.
  • Also telling that, when she asks the machine for a cesarean section, the machine replies that it is not programmed for that, and she has to guide it through the procedure. Why would the female bankroller of the operation have a medical machine in her quarters not programmed for female anatomy? Because the machine is for the male head of the Weyland Corporation, who everyone else thinks is dead.
• In Promising Young Woman, Cassie wears Nina's half of their friendship necklace to confront Al, Nina's rapist and one of the former med school classmates that made Nina Driven to Suicide at his bachelor party. Cassie forces him to recall his actions and tries to carve Nina's name onto him as revenge, but Al overpowers her and smothers her to death with a pillow. He and his friend Joe then burn her body in the woods to dispose any evidence of the crime. However, the necklace fell off and wasn't burned, and the police were able to use it to find Cassie's remains and bring Al and Joe to justice.

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• The Quiet: The broken piano wire. Dot later uses it to strangle Paul.

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• Red Eye has a few examples of this:
  • One of the framed photographs on the mantelpiece in the opening sequence depicts Lisa playing hockey, which becomes relevant much later during the climax.
  • The Baybreeze/Seabreeze conversation at the bar, which initially seems like an irrelevant flirting scene, but isn't
  • The novelty pen that Lisa later uses to stab Rippner in the throat.
• Red Hill: The Aboriginal weaponry on display in the window of the information centre. It sits there in plain view for most of the movie, appearing to be nothing more than a demonstration of Red Hill's racial insensitivity. Until Jimmy steals the weapons and uses them to silently murder Willy and Manning.
• Repo Men, which begins in media res, shows Jude Law's character using a typewriter. Shortly after the film catches up to this scene, it's used to crush someone's skull.
• The peyote the pilot gives Richard when they land at the house in Revenge (2017). Jen later uses it to kill the pain when she performs Self-Surgery.
• Every single one of Professor Keenbean's inventions in the 1994 Richie Rich film gets used to combat the antagonists later on.
• Near the opening of the John Wayne movie Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance directs an incoming wagon train to park outside of town (and near the Big Bad's land) because its cargo contains dynamite he wants away from the jailhouse. Naturally, at the end of the movie, the big shootout happens in the same location.
• The Room (2003): The gun that Mark takes off Chris-R somehow winds up in Johnny's possession. Apparently. Due to a goof, the model changes from a Smith & Wesson 5906 to a Beretta 92.
• Run for the Sun:
  • Kate's magnetized notepad (it allows her attach a pen to the side of the pad) which she uses in the hotel bar and keeps in her purse. This is what later throws off the compass in the plane off and causes them to get lost.
  • Mike's Designated Bullet that acts as his #1 Dime. During the climax, he pushes the cartridge though a bullet hole in a door and then fires it by hitting the primer with a nail and a rock. It goes off and kills Browne on the other side of the door.

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