A really creepy one, This troper has a birthmark in the back or her neck vaguely shaped like Australia... guess where she just moved.

A hilariously serendipitous one-- this troper just got out for summer vacation, and had promised her best friend she'd come over and watch AVeryPotterMusical with her (said best friend had never seen it, and this troper quotes it quite frequently). About two minutes ago, I stumbled upon the website mysteryseeker.com, and my mission was to go watch AVPM. I almost died.

When This Troper was little, she used to watch Pokémon when they broadcasted it on 4Kids. Many years later, her favorite anime is a certain anime that used to be dubbed by 4kids.

This DM ran a game wherein the big bad would reveal to be three vampires. However, earlier on in the game they decided to go to the tavern. In this DM's usual silly style, he declared that the tavern was called Ye Olde Taverne, and had a couple of other "e"s lying on the ground. One player declared that he picked them up and put them in his backpack. Later on, they managed to encounter the vampires sleeping during the day. Upon lamenting that they didn't have any stakes one of them loudly declared "WE HAVE THE "E"S!" They proceeded to take out and sharpen one E for each vampire and jammed them into their hearts.

''That'' is awesome.

"E"s lying on the ground? THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!

The "couple of other "E"s lying on the ground" thing seems to imply that the "E"s in question fell off the tavern's sign and no one bothered to clean them up.

I don't know; this seems less like Chekhov's Gun and more like Kleptomaniac Hero with a dash of MacGyvering thrown in.

Well, hey. The DM's the DM.

How many jokes were cracked about slaying the vampires with ease?

While it is certain this trope has been put to good use by any inventory savvy role-player, this troper has a memorable example. Early in an ''Underdark DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign, this troper's character bought a gimmicky "self-picking pick-axe". Many months later, the party came upon a situation where they had to break through the wall of a cave into a Drow temple while being accosted by an army of Drow. Cue pick-axe.

This troper was given a Catholic Apologetics book in his fourth year of HighSchool. He found '''much use for it in his second year of college for his Religious Education 30 class.'''

At a big track meet, this troper and all her teammates were given safety pins to attach their "number" signs to their uniforms. After the race, she thought (honest to gosh) "I should save this. Safety pins can come in handy." At the next meet, a screw holding her glasses together fell off and she fixed them with... the safety pin.

This troper's theatre director paraphrased it as, "If you hang a gun on the wall in Act I, someone had better have taken it down and shot someone by Act III." The script of the One-Act this troper later directed emphasized corn in its early dialogue. That corn became important about thirty pages later when the play ended.

How? Tell me right now, I'm interested.

This troper was playing a strange game of "slasher", a rp version of a slasher film, in my house. At one point I knocked over something to distract the slasher, but he just jumped over it. Later on while my sister was running away from the slasher, he stepped on the very same thing I knocked over and hurt his feet a lot. (Just so you know, it was a box of legoes. Godamn things are designed as feet doom.)

This troper's preferred staple of art. Her backpack was full of junk, just to be converted into artwork projects.

I have a friend who was like that. By the last day of school, he had a whole bunch of statues of horses made out of highlighters, and had made a replica of both Sora's and Riku's Keyblades frome KingdomHearts. I got to have the Riku one :).

This troper played King Lear in a summer conservatory production. A little while later I was interning at a shorter Shakespeare student summer program. While I was on break on one of the last couple of days, the director of the oldest group (who was doing Lear) was mentioning to someone else that the guy playing Lear had some medical issues and might need a pinch-hitter on performance day. Given the little time remaining, already knowing the lines would be helpful. You called? (The guy ultimately was fine, but I was just offstage had I been needed.)

This troper did one ''by accident'' in the first part of her LXG fanfic series. As she was writing, it came to pass that Mina Harker offered chemistry lessons to the fic's narrator. Later, a villain planted explosives in Mina's chemistry lab that were intended to kill the narrator (who conveniently wasn't there). Until that scene was written, even the troper herself didn't know what the point of the chemistry lesson subplot was; turned out to actually make sense in context.

This troper's DSRK fanfic is plotted to be full of these. But none of them have come to fruition yet. Does that make it a ''meta'' ChekhovsGun of sorts? (Yes, she's a ShamelessSelfPromoter, why do you ask?)

When this troper moved away from home for further education, my dad gave me his sleeping bag just in case I ever needed it. I told him I'm not one to go camping and I'm sure I'll never use it. Almost a full year later, I'm preparing for a play in which I needed to have - yup - a sleeping bag.

This troper once rummaged around in her pockets during French class looking for an eraser, and found a handful of gigantic Band-Aids instead. Two periods later, she crashed during a relay in PE and skinned both her knees.

Unfortunately literal for this troper's girlfriend. He keeps his gun in the nightstand and pointed that out to her when she moved in. At one point she ended up threatening a no-longer-friend with said gun to make them leave the apartment this troper and her were living in at the time.

This troper received a sketchpad as a Christmas gift when she was about twelve or thirteen. She drew a couple of pics at the party, then full out ignored it. Come starting year 7, she found it once more, and has been drawing ever since. That sketchpad is now an OldShame.

Something of a subversion: I ran a longrunning RPG campaign where the players ignored every ChekhovsGun that was put in front of them. You know the 'item that appears at the start of the adventure in order to make the end a little easier'. "Come on guys let's just go to the spooky castle. We don't need to waste time in market where the farmer is selling garlic and wooden stakes or the temple where we could get holy-water or crosses". Needless to say the climaxes were a lot more lethal than they were supposed to be (mostly because I refused to have the bad guys leave their weaknesses lying around their lairs).

This troper decided to phonetically memorize the Russian National Anthem because he rather likes it. A few months later, his friend moved to Russia, so...

For my 13th birthday, one of the presents I got was a small model of the TARDIS. One year later, I had to finish a model of a London street corner. The only thing left was an empty space on the sidewalk. Guess what I used?

This Troper's friend's uncle was chosen to participate in Reach for the Top, a trivia competition. Just before the show, this Troper's friend's father took his brother by the shoulders and said very seriously, and apropos of nothing, "Remember, Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus." You will never guess what the last question on the show was.

BUCEPHALUS!

This troper was once in a LARP, near the beginning of which a rival character hypnotized him to "disobey the next order your superiors give you." I spent the next hour praying for somebody, anybody, to phrase something to me as an imperative - until, at the very climax of the game, an enemy transformed into a giant dinosaur-dragon-thingy in order to flee from us. I run and block the exit, and my boss says to me, "Let them go." Cue Oh Shit moment as the dinosaur-dragon-thingy eats me.

This troper's neighbor once told me that he actually owned a shotgun that belonged to Anton Chekhov. Of course, this troper has never actually SEEN said Chekhov's gun . . .

Don't worry. It'll come into play sooner or later.

This troper had recently gotten into MysteryScienceTheater3000, due in part to the Nostalgia Critic and Linkara making references-or lack therof-to it. About a week later, my mom mentioned something she thought I might like to see-the Rifftrax Christmas Shortstravanganza. Guess who runs Rifftrax.

This troper's dad, before she left on a plane trip to the Philippines, gave her some pesos (the currency of the Philippines) for shopping or emergencies. When she got to the Philippines airport, there was some trouble with Customs. (Something about the passport, I don't remember) They wouldn't let me, or my brother through the barriers unless we paid a fine. Luckily, the money dad gave me was enough to let us through...

This troper was the unofficial tour guide for her family's Disney World vacation. One morning, she spent the whole ride to the park talking about their 1000 wishes program where they pick random families to receive special perks. Guess who was Epcot's family of the day that day.

This troper was in Biology today, and he needed to tie his hair back to dissect a starfish. He does not usually tie his hair back, so he was without any kind of tie. Suddenly, he remembered the rubber band that he had found somewhere about a week ago, and this trope was the first thing to flash through his head.

This troper, while having Silas Marner for a book report, went to [=SparkNotes=] to just browse through all of them and just for fun, played a quiz with random details from the book. Then came a pop-up quiz a month later, with him virtually forgetting everything he read about. Then the quiz was shown. Guess where all the quiz items came from.

This troper once brought a white board to school after randomly putting stuff in his bags. Later on, in a school-wide competition, his team forgot that they needed a white board to write their answers at. The catch was if his team (which eventually won 2nd place) doesn't bring in a blackboard, they'd be disqualified. Guess who saved the day and had the precious white board.

This troper had, after played Anima for the first time, bought a little calculator and left it in her backpack, for when they tried to play the game again. We stoped playing that game after that time. Months later, there was a reunion from a forum I was part of. We ended up dinning in a restaurant I know, and when it was time to pay, there were more than a few problems with the bill and they needed an easy way to calculate what each person had to pay. Cue this troper opening her backpack and producing the long forgotten calculator.

Recently appeared literally in a ''dream'' this troper had. Upon getting into the back seat of the car, I notice a gun on the floor, and have no idea why it's there. Later, we arrive at the bank, and the rest of my family heads in while I stay in the car. Also of note is that my sister forgets to close the back door behind her. Before they return, another family piles in, starts the car and starts to drive off--still with one back door open and me, unnoticed because I ducked down, in the back seat. As soon as the car started moving, I got up and explained that I thought they had the wrong car, and also that they were driving with the back door open, because ''my'' sister had forgotten to close it. They said they thought otherwise in terms that made their intentions quite clear. Guess how I foi8led the car theft. Yeah, dreams are weird.

One afternoon sometime in April or May, I was home alone and received a phone call from a neighbor, who claimed to have bought tickets to a baseball game for her, her husband, and my parents on a certain date in July. I mentioned it to my mom when she got home, and then promptly forgot about it. A few months later, there was a day when I really needed to be home alone for a few hours to do something I felt was very important but knew my parents wouldn't approve of. And as luck would have it, they were going to a baseball game that evening...

During a visit to my brother's place, we went to meet a few of his friends at Buffalo Wild Wings. One of his friends pointed out that he had found a tennis ball while he was walking to meet us. Later on that night, we were in the club and he then stated that he was going to throw said tennis ball out of an open patio. He was promptly thrown out, causing all of us to leave behind him.

This Troper once put his glasses holder (it holds his glasses on if he falls in water while sailing, for the curious) in his old coat pocket and forgot about it. A few weeks later, he was emptying out his coat pockets to place into his new coat while packing to go help his aunt out sailing and guess what he found? Similarly, he put a memory card in the same coat and is now preparing to use it to study for English Lit and Law when school starts. He was given said memory card back in February to do his ICT with, but he never used it.

The Troper was at a Globle Finals for Destination Imagination. He found a pin just laying around, since one of the points is collecting pins, he kept it. Later that night, he ended up trapped in the bathroom at the dorm he was staying in...in the basement...where few people went. After 15 minutes, he remembered the pin, and wedged it in the side of the door and slid it around until the door opened.

This Troper is a member of a forum, which has a ShoutBox that members regularly post in. One member posted something terribly drunk (but hilarious), so she screencapped it for later lulz. Then the forum's Wikipedia arrived and a article about the ShoutBox appeared. The troper posted the screencap onto the article and now the forum members love her.

A lot of my college textbooks come with [=CDs=] that go along with the text. I don't really use or need them during the class they were used with but they came in handy later during my mid-term and senior projects.

I still have a built-but-not-used team of naturally-trained level 100 Pokemon in my Yellow Version that was going to be used for a tournament that never happened. This may turn out to be a ChekhovsGun still waiting to be fired. I also have a toy phaser from the Star Trek movie era on my desk, but I doubt that will ever be important.

This Troper has a strange example, as my ChekhovsGun was not an object, but lack of one. Specifically, my lack of a *CENSORED* account. When my friend steamed our Skype chat live to *CENSORED*, my lack of an account was the only thing preventing the hacking of my computer.

This Troper came across the Troper Tales Page For Tsundere Over a Year Ago, not thinking much about it. Cut To just 5 minutes ago, where his friend was curious about whether or not Real Life Tsundere exist. Guess what i linked him to?

A couple of years ago I wrote a Weird-Al style rewrite of ''What I've Done'' by LinkinPark called ChekhovsGun in tribute to this site. I will be ridiculously depressed if this doesn't end up being needed someday.

This troper invoked this trope a year ago, as I gave a friend a boomerang with Chekhov written on it as a Christmas present. Sadly, it has yet to come in any real use yet, let alone twice.

This troper is now only able to use the laptop he owns as a weapon. Talk about an IndyPloy.

This trope and I seam to have a long history, if somewhat mundane. while working on fixing a computer for a costumer last week I dropped a screwdriver into the leg pocket of my coveralls (a pocket I never use) and forgot all about it as I left that job to go to a volunteer project I was working on, when I got to the countryside management project sight one of the guys ended up breaking a rake and no one had a screwdriver to replace the screw holding the rake head on, until I happened to catch my hand on something in my pocket, reaching in I pulled out the screwdriver.

another example was one time when younger I was reading a book when a friend knocked on the door, instead of putting the book down I absent-mindedly slipped it into the inside chest pocket of my jacket. Later in the day a boy decided to punch me in the chest messing around only to hit the book and regretting it pretty sharply.

A third example is what my friends have dubbed the “Mary Poppings bag” as despite the small size of the pack (a large Australian army webbing pouch) held not only clothing needed for a week long holiday, but also camping gear, books and every random thing anyone asked for (including matches, pencils, paper, knife, and even a light saber (well ok it was a glow stick, but it did for a visual pun when someone joked about starwars and how I probably had a light saber in the bag cue me reaching in to the bag to a chorus of “oh gods don't tell me you actually do”)

During Kawaii Kon 2010 this troper and friends entered a {{Munchkin}} tournament. All but one of us were eliminated in the prelims. My friend Justin was beaten by one guy who used a special bookmark that we all got that turns the player who use it into a monster to fight another player. That guy gave Justin the bookmark, which was pretty much useless because his match was over. So he decided to give it to his brother, Jay, who happened to still be playing his game. This one guy was a huge Munchkin addict that everybody ganged up on in one big giant {{Crowning Moment of Awesome. Jay dealt the final blow winning him the game, guess what he used...

First, I was on a Wiki Walk when I stumbled across an article about the Marvel Comics character Molten Man. Thinking Molten Man was just some third-tier character who I shouldn't even be wasting my time knowing about, I moved on. Later, I began watching The Spectacular Spider-Man episode called "Subtext". I immediately recognized the flaming villain as...Molten Man.

Second, I was listening to a fandub for the One Piece opening called One Day, when the word "camaraderie" was used in the lyrics. Knowing another word is always a good thing, and since I didn't know this one, I looked up the meaning. The next day or so, I remembered that I hadn't been reading Eoin Colfer's Airman lately, which I had borrowed form the library. I grabbed Airman and started the chapter I was on. The second page of this chapter used the word...camaraderie

Today, This Troper decided to read [=ISAM's=] mock summaries of WheelOfTime. Then, I looked at the Chekhov's Skill page and guess where the quote was from. An [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame Egregrious Source]]

A friend and I have frequent adventure roleplays set up like a common Saturday cartoon. In one RP, he gave me a Chekhov's Gun as a present. I'm still waiting to use it. It's been over two months and I can't wait to see his reaction.

Probably the biggest wait between the introduction and use of a Chekhov's Gun ever. When I was really, really young (about 4 or 5), I got a stuffed animal for Christmas. It was a dog, about the average size of a miniature dachsund, a fact that was specifically pointed out to me. Years later (I was about 12), I was asked the average length of a miniature dachsund, but I didn't have one to check. Guess what I measured instead.

This troper once had a BerensteinBears book that mentioned how oak trees were particularly tough. No clue what happened to it, but it's not the book that's important, it's the oak tree fact. Years later at a camp, where all the cabins were named after trees (hickory, aspen, maple, etc.), I was in a sort of puzzle where we had to solve clues to find new locations around the campgrounds. My team, which contained four people including me, was completely stumped on one clue: "The toughest of them all." It took me about three seconds to remember that fact and dash to the Oak cabin, where the next clue awaited us.

Very few of these examples are Chekhov's Guns, they're either contrived coincidences that don't fit the trope description or the original "Gun" influenced your future decisions/experiences.

This trooper was given a backpack as a graduation gift that had a very durable name card on it. I didn't think it was very necessary, but it wasn't worth it to try and take it off. One day I come home with said backpack...and all of the doors are locked. This is unusual, but I leave a pair of house keys in my car in case of such events. Too bad my brother took my car. So, guess what I used to pop the screen out of my living room window...?

When this troper was in Drivers Ed, there was a lesson where she had to drive the car out to a nearby city and particle city driving, during this they noticed a local Drivers Ed school car and started making fun of it. Later she flunked her schools Drivers Ed and she started going to the Driving Ed school that she made fun of, and let’s just say she did better there.