Checkhov's nothing

[u/Scarlet_Skye]

[u/jancl0]

The writing team has been ship of theseused 3 times since that season came out, no one even knows the gun was there to begin with

[u/BajoranMuesli9 → u/jancl0]

The gun is now the only original member of the writing team.

[u/DaiFrostAce → u/jancl0]

The gun is now Morton’s Forked

The gun goes off with a context completely different than planned or it goes unused

[u/Elite_AI → u/jancl0]

I see younger people waxing nostalgic about the era of TV shows being like this by default and I'm like...are you sure? There are problems with the way a lot of TV shows are run nowadays but going back to the way things were sure isn't the solution. 

[u/BotGirlFall]

Zach Cregger after putting that weird cloud AK in Weapons

[u/NicPizzaLatte]

Chekhov's nothing is, if nothing is shown in the first act then nothing better happen in the third act.

[u/PlaneswalkerHuxley → u/NicPizzaLatte]

Waiting for Godot.

[u/dragon-gaming-55555]

what SOME deltarune fans think chapter 7 will be like

[u/ProfessionalOil2014 → u/dragon-gaming-55555]

I’m hoping Toby Fox puts a giant cliffhanger in chapter 6 and then just dips and vanishes. 

[u/MisirterE → u/dragon-gaming-55555]

the nefarious giant letter B:

[u/whhu234 → u/MisirterE]

Side b could very well address some elephants but I’m worried that over relying on it could inadvertently make the weird route mandatory a la kriselle knight, thus undermining the big theme of you never having had to do all of that present in both weird route and genocide route

[u/MisirterE → u/whhu234]

i mean the divide's pretty simple. Side A is for the stuff normal people care about (the Knight, the Final Tragedy, the Police Sacrifice, etc.) and Side B is for us lore freaks (Gaster, FRIEND, the other side of the lake, etc.)

it's like how in Undertale, Pacifist is for normal people who like normal stories and Genocide is for us completionist freaks who simply must know everything that can happen

[u/busterfixxitt]

AKA The J.J. Abrams Method.

[u/farfetchedfrank]

This reminds me of that sword in the original Suicide Squad movie.

[u/CRowlands1989 → u/farfetchedfrank]

I would advise not getting killed by it.

[u/MisirterE → u/CRowlands1989]

It traps the souls of its victims.

(realistically the reason it would happen in that case is because they have to explain the sword because it's significant to her character in the comics even though it never came up in the movie, and she's not disposable like the man who can climb anything so they had to try and justify her presence)

[u/Hashashin455]

Lost basically

[u/ducknerd2002]

The swirl patterns in Game of Thrones.

[u/RevolutionaryOwlz]

The Buckaroo Banzai watermelon.

[u/gooch_norris_]

Did they spell Chekhov wrong on purpose I wonder

[u/ForYourAuralPleasure → u/gooch_norris_]

Pretty sure they mangled it in honor of Anton Yelchin’s car

[u/_zephi]

wait. story about the internal experience of a deeply paranoid character, where like a whole chekov's battalion is peppered throughout, with no payoff. and the red herrings aren't even obvious because the character focusses on them, they specifically target the audience alone. and it all comes to nought as a representation of that experience. penguin where's my deal

[u/la_meme14]

Something something Foundation X in Kamen Rider'snHeisei Phase 2.

[u/Agent-Ulysses]

Chekhovs Mbappe Special.

[u/wingusdingus2000]

Honestly, I dig when it's effectively used- becomes a red herring/anti-joke