Chekhov's gun

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  1. A dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
    — It seems like a violation of Chekhov’s gun rule to put Naomi Campbell in the first act and not have her throw a phone at someone in the third. (She tore up a check instead.)
  2. An element that is introduced early in the story whose significance to the plot does not become clear until later.
    — The episode of the sun-god's island is the Odyssey's equivalent of Chekhov's gun, announced in the poem's earliest lines as the occasion of the companions' downfall and anticipated ever since.

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Calque of Russian Чеховское ружьё (Čexovskoje ružʹjó). The principle was articulated by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and reported in various forms.
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