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[[File:JesusGunDoor.jpg|link=Jesus|frame|The readers will never see this coming!]]
{{quote|''"When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand."''
|'''[[Raymond Chandler]]'''}}
As codified by pulp novelist [[Raymond Chandler]], Chandler's Law is a concise but evocative piece of advice for writers who have somehow painted themselves into a corner, plotwise. The addition of a new opponent or complication, usually amidst a burst of violence, can free a protagonist from where he has become mired in the current plot.
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Not to be confused with ''anything'' to do with [[Friends|Chandler Bing]], nor [[Sonichu|Christian Weston Chandler]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', The [[Tournament Arc|Chunin Exam Finals]] culminate in a series of seven one-on-one single-elimination fights between the remaining eight participants. By the middle of the third battle, the Tournament was no longer progressing the story by itself, so the author chose that moment for [[Big Bad|Orochimaru]] to reveal his Evil Plan to destroy the Leaf Village.
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* ''[[My Immortal]]'' abuses the concept so much that it becomes a [[Random Events Plot]] very quickly. It's pretty coherent (Ebony and Draco meet, date, screw like bunnies, break up) until Voldemort shows up. And Snape becomes a pedophile. And Draco gets captured. And Dumbledore turns evil. And Draco commits suicide. And comes back to life. This is all in about 2,000 words, by the way.
** Which is, in itself, a kind of [[Mind Screw]], just to keep up with what little coherency the story has.
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