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Often in the Pilot of a series, the writers establish characters and their relationships to others and will mention how a friend or loved one mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Because of the Law of Conservation of Detail, this becomes a form of Foreshadowing that works better than an Ass Pull when the writers run out of ideas; they can then return the relative, often through some form of Applied Phlebotinum, or else He's Just Hiding. The characters will almost Never Say "Die" when it concerns their lost loved ones; they're simply Missing-In-Action due to the "mysterious circumstances" that took them away.

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  • Chekhov MIA
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  • Often in the Pilot of a series, the writers establish characters and their relationships to others and will mention how a friend or loved one mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Because of the Law of Conservation of Detail, this becomes a form of Foreshadowing that works better than an Ass Pull when the writers run out of ideas; they can then return the relative, often through some form of Applied Phlebotinum, or else He's Just Hiding. The characters will almost Never Say "Die" when it concerns their lost loved ones; they're simply Missing-In-Action due to the "mysterious circumstances" that took them away.
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  • Often in the Pilot of a series, the writers establish characters and their relationships to others and will mention how a friend or loved one mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Because of the Law of Conservation of Detail, this becomes a form of Foreshadowing that works better than an Ass Pull when the writers run out of ideas; they can then return the relative, often through some form of Applied Phlebotinum, or else He's Just Hiding. The characters will almost Never Say "Die" when it concerns their lost loved ones; they're simply Missing-In-Action due to the "mysterious circumstances" that took them away. An uncommon-though-not-unheard-of variant has an established character saying that the MIA character IS dead, but the MIA character later shows up, with the established character's explanation being something along the lines of "he was/is dead to me," or else otherwise skewed by the character's viewpoint. Compare to Dead Little Sister, except for the fact that they're never dead. If the character mentioned early as missing actually is dead, and stays that way, then that's not a Chekhov MIA, that's a Posthumous Character. In some cases, Comic Book Death is to be blamed for this. Examples of Chekhov MIA include:
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