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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Yuki mentions Kuyou Suou is left with a currently not enabled [[Fun Size|"chibi mode"]] after doing modifications to her using Haruhi's [[Reality Warper]] powers. Kuyou uses this mode later as a defense [[You Will Be Assimilated|from being assimilated]] with an [[Alternate Universe]] version of herself.
 
== Film ==
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** In the second movie, Ian Malcolm's daughter Kelly mentioned about her being cut from the gymnastics team. She later used those skills on an improvised uneven bars to kick a raptor out a window.
** Combined with another [[Chekhov's Gun]], Billy from the third movie mentions he has experience with base jumping as he starts to pack up the parachute they found.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]'' had Mutt mention that he took fencing classes and was rather proficient at it.
* Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei's character) in ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'' and her knowledge of cars.
* It was established in the first ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie that Mikaela had a criminal record for helping her dad steal cars. In the climax she demonstrated the knowledge of how to hot wire a tow truck when Bumblebee was injured. Interestingly enough, this turns into a [[Chekhov's Skill]] in the sequel, where she has to hotwire another vehicle in a hurry.
* In ''[[Independence Day]]'' they made mention that the President was a fighter pilot during the Gulf War. In the climax he decided against reason and took control of an aircraft in their [[Last Stand]]. "I'm a pilot. I belong up in the air."
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'' Episode 4: ''[[A New Hope]]'', [[Farm Boy|farm boy]] [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] is actually a [[Ace Pilot|hot-shot bush pilot]] who used to bullseye womprats with his T-16 back home. Surely the wacky adventures Luke must have had while growing up on Tatooine had much to do with flying a military space fighter at extremely high speeds in a tunnel while evading fire from the most skilled pilots of the galactic [[The Empire|empire]]
** T-16s are, as explained in the Expanded Universe, common civilian craft, the equivalent of a Cessna. The advantage it gave Luke to have flown a T-16 is the fact that the T-65 X-Wing has almost the same control scheme, being made by the same shipyard. And T-16s have a low-power (by Star Wars standards) laser. Luke wouldn't have had to evade the Empire chasing him down just for flying around in his legally-owned civilian-grade aircraft.
* In ''[[Angels and Demons]]'', McKenna (the priest) mentions that he knows how to fly helicopters. Guess what happens later in the movie? He volunteers for a suicide mission to take a ticking bomb up in the air so it couldn't hurt anyone when the job could only be done by flying a helicopter (there was another pilot there but it wasn't his heroic moment).
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== Role Playing Game ==
* The RPG [[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]] actually has this as a game mechanic. Every character has a typically useless skill. It is generally the job of the GM to work it into the story in a plot-relevant way, but by the end it can be difficult to even remember what your useless skill was to begin with.
 
== Theater ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Early on in ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate/Staystay Nightnight]],'' Mitsuzuri attempts to get Shirou to rejoin the archery club, and it's mentioned that Shirou was very good at it. {{spoiler|One of the Servants is of the class Archer...[[Future Badass|guess who he]] [[It Was His Sled|really is?]] }}
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Dave the Barbarian (Animation)|Dave the Barbarian]]''. When Fang insults Dave's hobby of collecting little figurines, he outright '''says''' "Someday my love of decorative knick-knacks will come in handy!" Later on, it turns out that the [[Monster of the Week]] loves decorative knick-knacks; as Dave gladly supplies her, Fang glares and mutters "I hate you."
* One episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' opens up with Peter and Joe discovering Quagmire has hung himself to enhance his pleasure of masturbation. Quagmire is rushed to the hospital and recovers and the the scene is never mentioned again. However, near the end of the episode, Quagmire confronts his sister's abusive boyfriend and winds up being nearly choked to death by him. Because Quagmire chokes himself regularly for a sexual thrill, he manages to pretend he was killed and proceeds to kill the attacker when the guy least suspects it.
 
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