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* The stop-motion animation film ''[[A Town Called Panic]]'' plays it straight when Cowboy and Indian try to order 50 bricks to build a barbecue for their friend, Horse. They accidentally order 50 million bricks, and the day wears into evening as truck after truck deliver loads of bricks, until there is a pile as large as the house. Horse returns home to a brick-free yard, except for the newly constructed barbecue. His birthday party runs well into the night, and it is not until the lights are out at bedtime that we find out where the 49,999,950 other bricks have gone. They are neatly stacked on the roof, forming a cube larger than the house.

* In the [[DreamWorks]] movie ''[[Megamind]]'', snarky [[Damsel in Distress]] Roxanne complains early on that the titular villain's gimmicks are getting old, and he needs to make things more exciting. The thing is, Megamind has a habit of [[Malaproper|mispronouncing and misinterpreting words]]. So later in the movie, she opens a door in Megamind's lair marked "EXIT" to reveal a deep pit full of alligators, some random toys on the ground, and a disco ball hanging overhead. Not an "exiting" room, but an "exciting" room, as Megamind later explains.

* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', in the beginning of the movie, Yzma announces Kronk to "Pull the lever", and [[No OSHA Compliance|it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator]] as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, "Why do we even ''HAVE'' that lever?" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About 3/4ths of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzko walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab". The first thing shown is a drenched Kuzko walking back in grumbling, "Why does she even ''HAVE'' that lever?"

 

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Roger keeps blowing his lines, seeing tweeting birds instead of stars at the beginning of the film. Later, in [[Toon Town]], Eddie Valiant gets brained and sees tweeting birds. And finally, during Roger's subverted [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, he gets a pile of bricks dropped on him, causing him to see...

{{quote|''"Look, Raoul! Stars! Ready whenever you are!"''}}

** {{spoiler|The Hulk getting a little payback on Thor after he uppercut the green giant with his hammer. As they take down a Leviathan at the Grand Street Station, Hulk lays a right hand straight across the God of Thunder's jaw and sends him flying off-screen. [[Hilarity Ensues]].}}

* ''[[Anger Management]]'' has the main character almost taking a seat between two fat passengers before Buddy offers him one. {{spoiler|The air marshal that assaulted the main character with a tazer had taken that seat, shown at the end of the film.}}

 

* Although usually common for 80s action flicks to start out with a flashback where a criminal or terrorist gets away and becomes the [[Big Bad]], an unusual variation takes place in the Gary Busey movie Bulletproof, where McBain as a police officer gets stuck in a hostage situation and the bad guy shoots through the hostage which gets McBain in trouble, touching off the events of the film. You would expect him to be amongst the South American revolutionaries or the Muslim radicals helping them, but he never reappears...Until a Russian HIND is shown enroute to land some Russian tankers who are there to take the supertank back to the motherland. As with most brick jokes, the Chekhov is a throwaway radio conversation. The passage of time was very kind to him, as the common street thug is now a major in the glorious Red Army. He technically isn't the [[Big Bad]] either (some nebulous guy we never meet in Russian intelligence who set it all up) since he's just there to take the tank. Also a [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]] moment. And then a show-off that of course is a callback to the initial hostage situation.

* Throughout [[Stranger Than Fiction]], there are a few things that pop up, on screen or in mention, a number of times: the black woman, the child with his bike, and Harold's wristwatch. It isn't until the end, however, {{spoiler|that we discover that these three things are all part of Harold's fate: the small child falls off his bike, Harold saves him, is hit by a bus driven by the black woman (fresh on the job), and is saved because of his wristwatch.}} It's nothing short of poignant.

** Given that the setup for that joke happened two movies and ''fifteen years'' previously, this could be a great [[Trope Codifier]].

** Don't forget about {{spoiler|Sarge and his men parachuting out of the window near the start of the film, only for them to land in Sunnyside at the end of the film}}!

* In the ''[[Scary Movie]]'' series, the first movie has the first victim die by being hit by a car and being launched in the air, and then ends with the sole survivor screaming in the street and getting hit by a car and launched into the air, and then the survivor has it happen again in Scary Movie 2 although the butler is also hit.

* ''[[Wild Wild West]]''. Jim West and Dr. Loveless have an [[Overly Long Gag]] where they use [[Volleying Insults]] toward each other. Near the end of the film they meet again for the last time and get in one more set of insults.

* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' Drill Instructor Zim is told that he'd have to "bust himself down to private" to see any action in the war. At the end of the movie we find out {{spoiler|the person to capture the brain bug is Private Zim}}.

* In ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'':

* In ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', the crew dupes two of the aliens holding them hostage by sealing them in an enclosed space, then depressurizing the room and venting them into space. Several scenes later, as General Sarris talks to his lieutenant, one of the two creatures airlocked hits the front window before sliding off, prompting an angered reaction from the crew. This is [[Played for Laughs]].