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  • An Adventure of Sheep and Chicken: It is mentioned (by the narrator) in the middle of the second episode that the hiker has the power to shrink things at will. At the end of the same episode, the hiker shrinks Chicken and steals him.
  • Battle for BFDI: In episode 29 "SOS (Save Our Show)" when the show is losing its animation budget (complete with an Medium-Shift Gag showing the animation becoming MS Paint, followed by paper cut outs, and then the storyboard), Flower sacrifices all the money the Announcer gave her, which was intended for her fashion line, to get the animation budget back.
  • The Dominant Stick videos use this trope on more than one occasion.
  • In the first episode of DSBT InsaniT, 'The Party', Portica brings some strange purple Jell-O...Which turns out to be a remnant of Slima, one of the villains the gang defeated before the events of the web series.
  • When fighting the antagonist in Dusk's Dawn, Donut and Star Whistle wonder where Breeze Rider is. He shows up later to snatch the villain's weapon.
  • Bidoof's Big Stand of Pokémon sees its titular Bidoof sneezing repeatedly throughout it. She ends up sneezing at a critical moment in a Pokémon battle, causing her to inadvertently jump up and avoid the opposing Staraptor's Hyper Beam that was inching up to her as she charged through the air toward it, allowing Bidoof to smack it in the head and win the battle.
  • In Four Swords Misadventures, Green Link procures a broken magic mirror, thus getting them into a series of misadventures before finally warping back to the entrance of the first dungeon. Afterwards, Red decides to dispose of it, thinking that it would do them more harm than good. Turns out, the mirror was the only way barring an extensive trading quest for the heroes to get to the Twilight Realm where Zelda is being held by Vaati. In other words, Red really should have let Green keep the mirror so it could be fixed.
  • FTL: Kestrel Adventures: The Fire Bomb Launcher found floating in space became useful when Jose and Ricardo were escaping from the Rebel base in Kaban during Episode 21.
  • Parodied in Girl Chan In Paradise when Kenstar points out a bucket of water for no good reason (the bucket is then used to defeat a Bushido Blaster who can set himself on fire. There's also a retroactive one in the same episode, when Kenstar is asked how he knew to break the artist Bushido Blaster's giant pencil, and has a flashback to when he was a kid.
    Kenstar's Mother: DEAR SON KENSTAR, BREAK THAT PENCIL.
    Kenstar: WHYYYY, MOTHER-SAN?
    Kenstar's Mother: SOMEDAY YOU'LL LEARN, KENSTAR. SOMEDAY.
    Kenstar: WOOOOOOOOOOOW
  • Mari-Kari subverts this with a scythe in the elementary school's groundskeeping shed, seen in the second episode. Despite the psychotic ghost slasher girl, it's never seen again.
  • A Mythology Gag referencing One More Day is used at the beginning of the second season of Marvel Vs DC: Happy Hour. It becomes an essential plot point at the end of the season.
    Spider-man: Bats, I think I might have been married and forgot about it.
  • The Most Popular Girls in School: Deandra's robotic arm comes in handy at Season 2's climax (at Cheer Nationals).
  • In Pokemon World Revolution, we get introduced to a race of God-Killers known as The Titans near the end of Season 3. We also find out that Susan.Mageall has no memories of her real parents. Cut to the final season and it's revealed that she is a member of the Titan Race.
  • In RWBY, rocket-propelled lockers are introduced for the sake of a gag where Jaune gets stuffed into his locker and launched away. In the volume 3 episode "The Battle Of Beacon", they come back into play as a serious way for the characters to retrieve their weapons, as weapons to pin down the Nevermore that's attacking the arena, and as an improvised method of flight for Ruby.
    • And in the Volume 3 finale, they show up one last time, as Pyrrha shoves Jaune in one to send him away from the fight she knows she is about to face.
    • Another example is Ruby's eyes. Ozpin mentions them in the first episode of the show, and in the finale of Volume 3, upon witnessing Pyrrha's death, Ruby's eye's project light that freezes the Grimm dragon.
    • In the first episode of Volume 9, when Weiss and Blake try to find Yang, Blake describes her as kind of scary but isn't. In episode 6, it's explained as a factor for why Yang falls in love with Blake. Blake was never intimidated by Yang, even when Blake wasn't being friendly at the time.
  • In TOME Gamecrazed receives an important item called the drain edge from Asterob as early as episode two that is able to absorb in-game energy. This was set up so the group could use it for sealing away the Forbidden Power in the finale. An Axe-Crazy computer virus that can hurt the MMO's players in real life.
  • Unforgotten Realms subverts this by having Schmoopy cause his body to revert to wolf form... just because he might not get another chance.
    Eluamous: Why the hell did you make him do that?
    Schmoopy: Dude, I don't want to waste a perfectly good plot device we ended up spending, like, three episodes setting up just because we're not gonna end up using it!
  • The Wrath of Giga Bowser: After being warned by Marth about survivors meeting up at the Stadium, Ness can be seen filling Mr Game & Watch's bucket with two fully-charged PK Flashes and a PK Fire. This later proves crucial in defeating Giga Bowser, as unloading the bucket at Roy allows him to launch a counterattack powerful enough to send it flying.


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