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  Glass Onion is a great example actually because >!almost the entire movie is a red herring. Peg, whiskey, that bit with the governor. All obfuscation the exceedingly simple answer.!<
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  It's Chekhov’s Gun
  Edit: spelling >
  
  When watching “Everything everywhere all at once”, I saw the buttplug trophies on the desk and snickered to my brother that they are Checkovs Buttplugs… I was right >
  
  The sequence of the goons trying to penetrate themselves with the buttplugs to gain fighting abilities was crazy (as is most of the movie). >
  
  As someone who hasn’t seen or heard of the movie, W H A T
  Edit: As someone who has now seen the movie, W H A T >
  
  People get "powers" from other universes versions of themselves by doing nonsensical actions. 2 goons are trying to jump on a set off butt plugs to unlock kung fu skills from another universe. Weird movie! >
  
  Fuck me I think I missed that KEY INFORMATION when I watched it, had no fucking idea what was going on >
  
  How did you miss the whole sequence where she had to switch her shoes, and the ensuing series of conversations regarding extremely low probability actions such as chewing up a stick of chapstick? Lol >
  
  I can’t tell if this is real or satire. Am… am I having a stroke? >
  
  That's how the film feels >
  
  Another similar thing: when someone coughs in real life you don't think anything of it, people coughing is normal. However when someone coughs in a movie you already know that person is ill and probably has a serious condition. >
  
  And every woman puking is pregnant. >
  
  And every pregnant woman wants two combined foods that are so random they could be decided with a couple of d20 rols. >
  
  :rolls:
  Hotdog buns and weiners. >
  
  Weiners is how they get pregnant >
  
  The hot dogs were really just the wieners we met along the way >
  
  Yeah, Veronica, but just because you met a wiener didn’t mean you had to up and sleep with it! >
  
  Every fucking time a woman pukes on TV -- unless they're obviously overdosing -- I feel like the "Oh shit I'm pregnant" reveal is right around the corner, and lo and behold, it almost always is. >
  
  I dunno.
  Bridesmaids they just all had food poisoning. >
  
  I said it almost always is, to be fair! >
  
  This is checkovs gun. If a gun is introduced in act 1, it will be used by act 3 >
  
  Or in both acts two and four! >
  
  If not, it will definitely be used in act five or six. >
  
  Soap Opera Corollary: If a character mentions a headache, they'll be dead of a brain tumor in a week. >
  
  This is what everyone who gets migraines thinks all the time. >
  
  If I get my severe migraines, I’m willing it to happen.
  Ironically, when I did have something wrong with my brain (2 demyelinating lesions with inflammation), I didn’t have a headache in sight. >
  
  My dad actually did have brain cancer and I don't remember him complaining about his head hurting even once. 
  As someone who gets migraines though, having a family member die of brain cancer makes my anxiety really happy. Endless fuel. >
  
  Or a mention of an estranged relative.
  Welp... we know who comes in later and saves or ruins the moment. >
  
  "We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no."
  I reckon Bruno's gonna be key to this. >
  
  He told me my fish would die. The next day, dead! >
  
  And whenever there is a guy in a dark hooded suit and breathing heavily he is always the father of the protagonist >
  
  Batman is Bruce Wayne's dad? >
  
  In the flashpoint timeline, yes >
  
  So what's Bruce up to...?
  ...wha- what's Bruce doing in that timeline...?
  Oh, he's frolicking on a farm upstate, I bet! >
  
  Also, if they tell you what the plan is - it is guaranteed to go wrong.  
  If they only tell you part of or none of the plan - it will work. >
  
  This has ruined suspense ever since I learned it lol >
  
  Also bleeding during pregnancy means they’ve lost the baby. 
  Once I was pregnant I found out how common bleeding & spotting is during a perfectly fine pregnancies. Oh and the “bloody show” later on. >
  
  The quantity of blood is important though >
  
  It would take a long time to kill me with hayfever.  I'd have to sneeze myself to death.  Maybe they spray pollen at me while I'm defus8ng a bomb. >
  
  In movie, it means you'll sneeze at the exact wrong time when you're hiding from the villain and they'll discover you >
  
  That actually would happen.  Or during my sex scene. >
  
  It'd be a weird film if they mention a allergy and it has absolutely nothing to do with the plot >
  
  In the movie Moonfall the guy mentions his IBS several times, yet doesn't shit his pants at the end. >
  
  I am greatly disappointed. >
  
  By the film or the lack of poopy pants? >
  
  That this was not Chekhov's pants. >
  
  Chekhov’s Bum >
  
  My favorite is when the act like it none of your business and should never be mentioned because its embarrassing.
  Like MF we are stuck in a peanut factory and you didnt think to tell us you got a nut allergy?!?! >
  
  I didn't think it would be important >
  
  And whenever the phone rings there's never just a wrong number or a bum dial >
  
  And never a scam call >
  
  This!!! 50 spam calls a day and this guy gets none??? >
  
  I could see a Scream movie pulling this fakeout. You think it's gonna be the killer but it's someone asking about their cars extended warranty. >
  
  If you show a gun in the first act you have to use it by the third >
  
  Thanks, Anton. Chekhov’s allergies. >
  
  Marvel Phase 6
  Pepper Potts gets murdered with strawberries >
  
  Ironically she was severely allergic to pepper. >
  
  I’ve started noticing small details in movies that I feel like ruin the movie for me. If a character says something like man I can’t wait to go home and see my daughter, he’s getting killed off. Started ruining movies for myself this way >
  
  If a husband and wife are frolicking under a fluffy white blanket as the sun rises during the opening credits... she's dead now. >
  
  You always knew when someone was going to die on Walking Dead because they would have a scene where nothing is really happening but everyone is just so content and idyllic, I swear they have a filter just for that moment. >
  
  Brightness filter with added sun rays. >
  
  With a small number of exceptions of when allergies are used as part of the short hand for being an nerd/loser/outcast.  When a person is being described and "they're like allergic to everything" it usually doesn't kill them, it's just to other them.  Also, occasionally a person is allergic to chocolate and it is short hand to mean they are sad but resilient as an outsider. >
  
  Anyone see Burn After Reading? George Clooney’s character is a paranoid narcissist who mentions multiple times that he has deadly food allergies. He never once has a reaction and it has no bearing on the plot at all, other than establishing that he’s paranoid to the point of inventing illnesses. >
  
  Great movie, but also probably the exception that proves the rule. >
  
  No, danial jackson in stargate has allergies and isn’t killed or poisoned. >
  
  I'm pretty sure he gets killed and poisoned multiple times. 
  (Yes I know you were specifically referring to him getting killed by his allergies given the context it's just funny to me given your wording not specifying that.) >
  
  If it’s mentioned, it’s important. Nothing in a film is on accident >
  
  Good directors/writers of mystery plots do introduce misdirection and red herrings… but it seems to be exceedingly rare anymore. >
  
  I think it's a change in mystery philosophy.  A jigsaw puzzle with extra pieces is just sort of annoying.  A jigsaw puzzle with what seems like extra pieces that actually just intricately fit together right at the end is interesting, and provides a fun "aha" moment for people.  It's so much more satisfying when all of the elements come together, even if they seem random and unrelated. >
  
  Red herrings are fun too. I saw something in Glass Onion >!The governor has this moment where she makes a weird move and bumps into Dave Bautista and moves her arm in a way that looks like she stole his gun!< that led me down a wrong path and provided a great Ah ha. I’ve gone back and watched that scene again and it was deliberately directed that way. It was brilliant, and fun for those who saw it.