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A [[Chekhov's Gun]] is an item introduced before its use, and is usually quite inconspicuous. In a movie, if you see a brief shot of a single object, such as a fork on a table, you can be guaranteed that that particular item will be used later in order to resolve a problem or as a weapon. The item's function may or may not be fully apparent at first and discovering its use may be part of the narrative device.
[[Chekhov's Armoury]] is when the writer uses several (and in some cases, uses too many) Chekhov's Guns, not all of which are painfully obvious. (Skilled writers may give the painfully obvious ones trivial uses, and use them chiefly to [[Red Herring|disguise]] the minor ones.)
[[The Law of Conservation of Detail]] taken to its logical extreme.
Carefully written and/or [[Myth Arc]]-laden shows tend to have a Chekhov's Armoury. It also provides good potting soil for [[Epileptic Trees]]. Opposite of [[Cow Tools]], where there are a large number of seemingly significant tchotchkes which turn out to be just window dressing.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* A ''lot'' of stuff in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'', especially regarding {{spoiler|Asuna. Notably, all of the times the spells Negi cast on her fail is not due to him being an [[Inept Mage]], but rather due to her Magic Cancel ability. Not to mention that her poor grades are implied to be caused by a large scale [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] spell.}} Plus a bunch of other stuff.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* So much stuff in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' that the wiki doesn't even have a list. The most notable examples might be the Heterodyne it's-not-a-lamp, Agatha's broken locket, the fate of Dr. Merlot... and oh, Dear Ghu, the time windows.
** One of the fans tried to [https://murgatroyd666.livejournal.com/11584.html collect these] - 2013/10/09 that list was updated to 35. The last so far is "2015/02/05: #33 has been fired" (Agatha's wasp-eater [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151221 exposes revenants]).
* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' has pulled the mother of all of these, a series of over 1000 comics now taking a seemingly insignificant event from one of the earliest comics and turning it into a plot device involving billions of years, the most powerful wizard in existence, and bringing back most of the major antagonists of the past 1000 comics BACK into the story for what will almost certainly be one of the comic's grand, absurdly awesome [[anticlimax]]es.
** When the characters all get their class changes, Thief says that he stole his ninja upgrade from the future. Later, when {{spoiler|Chaos downgrades the party back to level 1,}} Thief is the only one left in his class change suit. For about 5 seconds. {{spoiler|Because guess where he stole it from...}}
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* ''[[Last Res0rt]]''—If it's an item, pet, or person that has anything to do with one of the main characters, it's probably a [[Chekhov's Gun]]. Jigsaw's violin, Jason's jacket, Jason's dog, Adharia's bottle necklace, Daisy's leg, Daisy's autie lenses, ''Cypress's hair wrap...''
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' keeps its armory stocked with Chekhov's full arsenal. [[Chekhov's Gunman|Minor characters]], [[Chekhov's Gag|running gags given new significance]]... even [[Red Herring|red herrings]] have a tendency to return as some sort of plot device.
* ''EatATau'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20171023160956/http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/comics/2283888/non-sequitur/ illustrates] (NSFW).
{{quote|Dear EatATau readers: This is a piano. And these are bushes. But this is a pistol. This is Chekhov. Those are his guns.}}
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