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Originally Posted by Quoth
OTOH, Checkov says you shouldn't mention such a thing unless it's going to be used.
I think it depends.  |
I think if a murder weapon is going to be used it should not be obvious that it is the murder weapon. An example of this is in the DC Comic Miniseries
Identity Crisis where the murder weapon appears but it wasn't obvious that it actually was the murder weapon until the big reveal. However, to long-time comic book readers the murder weapon becomes a bit obvious in retrospect, but even then the final reveal wasn't as straight forward as it seems.