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That article about a new building opening? It will house the [[Doomsday Device]] [[MacGuffin]].
Reporter mentions sudden disappearance of a species? They're actually aliens going home.
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators. Whatever the seemingly small-fry buzz, it may appear irrelevant or incidental right now but will turn out to be critical to the resolution of the plot.▼
Radio announcement of an author cancelling his book tour? He's been silenced by the Brotherhood of Ancient Conspirators.
Contrast [[Ignored Vital News Reports]], in which the importance of a news item is obvious to the audience but the characters ignore it. This does not include news items that are purely [[Foreshadowing]]; to be Chekhov's News, the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.▼
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▲Contrast [[Ignored Vital News Reports]], in which the importance of a news item is obvious to the audience but the characters ignore it. This does not include news items that are purely [[Foreshadowing]]; to be [[Chekhov's News]], the news must appear early on without obvious significance, and the payoff has to appear later in the work.
Compare with [[Coincidental Broadcast]], in which the randomly-encountered news is relevant to the what's happening ''right now'' in the plot.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Summer Wars]]'', there is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards the [[Big Fancy House]] everyone's living in.
* In ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', there's a running news item involving a dirigible. At the climax, {{spoiler|it runs into trouble and Kiki must rescue her friend Tombo, who's desperately hanging from a rope on it}}.
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* ''[[Date Night]]'' has an early mention of a local senate, an iconic broom and clean-up act who turns out to play a big part in why the heroes are getting chased down.
* Early in the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'' movie, a random passerby mentions the 30th anniversary of a terrible lighting bolt that struck their monument in 1955. {{spoiler|1=At the end of the movie, since plutonium was very rare at the time, Doc Brown and Marty, stuck in 1955, use the power of the bolt to power the DeLorean and go back home}}.
* [[Lampshade
* Subverted in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', where the news broadcasts follow this trope, but the characters never notice them.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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* News reports early in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' prominently mention {{spoiler|Hugh Darrow's Panchaea project}}, which turns out to be [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. And additionally, the newsreader narrating those reports turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gunman]].
* Inverted in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]''. The [[Justified Tutorial]] has [[Player Character|Jake]] [[The Ace|Logan]] evaluating a novice flight instructor, and the tutorial's combat section has a group of drones go haywire and attack you. Later in the game, a news item reports that the instructor you evaluated saved her students when this happened again.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* [[RWBY]]: In V1E2a, a newscast shows a relatively-peaceful protest by Faunus before it's switched over to Glynda welcoming the students to Beacon. V1E9 introduces (to those who haven't seen the prologue trailers) the White Fang, a not-at-all-peaceful Faunus terrorist group.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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[[Category:This Index Will Be Important Later]]
[[Category:News Tropes]]
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