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** Really, if he eats something at any point in the story, you can expect him to use it later, even if he obviously didn't plan to. For example, in one chapter, he escapes from being locked in a safe by eating the safe. Later, {{spoiler|He's caught in a massive explosion... and survives by hiding in the safe}}.

** There's also a subversion, during the MOLE arc. Early on, Macus is playing with a yo-yo and musing on how, in Zero-G, the yo-yo goes all the way to the end of its string regardless of what direction it's thrown. Bolt promptly eats it. {{spoiler|Later, Macus has his legs cut off by lasers and is set adrift. Bolt whips out the yo-yo and sends it in his direction... But the string isn't long enough to reach him}}.

* A few times in ''[[Ranma ½]]'': the horned mongoose whistle [[Easy Amnesia|Shinnosuke]] gave Akane ten years ago turns out to be the key to pacifying and sealing the [[Orochi]] of [[Misplaced Wildlife|Ryugenzawa]]. The photo of Akane that Nabiki snapped (and tried to sell to Ranma, but was bought by Ryouga) gave him the impetus to save himself from a rockslide, and was later used by the bad guys to kidnap her.

* In ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', [[Idol Singer|Sheryl]] loses one of her earrings ([[Call Back|inherited from her mother]]) when Alto crashes into her in mid-performance. She goes nuts looking for it, but later tells him to keep it as a good luck charm during combat (at which point it's lost forever.) It is later revealed that the earrings are made of {{spoiler|[[Applied Phlebotinum|Fold Quartz]], a material that can transmit thoughts and emotions across the galaxy, and she (and Alto) use the remaining one during the [[Grand Finale]] to communicate with the [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Vajra]]}}. It became so important, the Blu-Ray release of ''[[Macross Zero]]'' went back and [[Revision|added the earrings]] [[Call Forward|in a scene with Sheryl's ancestors]].

* Daisuke Aurora's silver-bullet pendant in ''[[Heat Guy J]]'' {{spoiler|it's actually a sort of flash drive containing all kinds of dirt on [[Big Bad|his brother.]]}}

* [[Zoids|Zoids Chaotic Century]] has a pretty big one. Remember The Valley of The Rareherts? It turns out that {{spoiler|Zoid Eve is located in there.}}

** {{spoiler|Mikoto's penchant for [[Big Eater|passing out from hunger]]:}} First shown in Episode 2, [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] in Finale.

** {{spoiler|Shizuru's [[Psycho Lesbian|thing]] for Natsuki:}} my Mom, ''somehow'', picked up on it in their '' first onscreen interaction, the first time she watched the series'' in Episode 3, becomes important in Episode 21.