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behindthesky
Since: Mar, 2012
28th Jun, 2013 11:11:45 AM
Chekhov's Gag, maybe?
if something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, i am to assume i am not allowed to do it
Bisected8
MOD
(Primordial Chaos)
28th Jun, 2013 11:20:31 AM
Brick Joke? Reality Ensues, maybe (since the joke was basically the logical concequences of her being so obvious). There's also Open Secret.
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Freezer
Since: Jan, 2001
MsAmiClassified
Since: Jun, 2012
28th Jun, 2013 09:00:48 PM
@behindthesky: Yeah, Chekhov's Gag fits.
moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblr
So, years ago, El Goonish Shive made this joke
. It was, as far as I know, intended as a one-off which would not be followed up on.
More recently, though, it became necessary for Nanase's magic to become common knowledge, and that joke was used to skip the explanation
, which, as Dan pointed out on Twitter
, would have distracted from the ongoing plot.
Are there any tropes in this aside from the obvious Call-Back or am I just trying too hard to see patterns in things I find mildly interesting?