User blog:BlueDagger/Chekhov's Guns in Gravity Falls

An ongoing list of potential Chekhov's Guns in the show Gravity Falls.

For those of you who don't know, a Chekhov's Gun is a literary technique in which an object or other element is introduced early in the story, and is seemingly irrelevant. However, later in the story, that object or element serves some major purpose.

A great example of a Chekhov's Gun would be the One Ring. Introduced in The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, it is seemingly just a ring won by Bilbo. However, in Lord of the Rings, it is revealed that the ring is the most dangerous artifact in existence, and the driving point of the whole plot.

A list of potential Chekhov's Guns appearing in Gravity Falls:


 * 1) Mabel's grappling hook gun she got from Stan at the end of Tourist Trapped.


 * 1) The monocle that came attached to the book 3.


 * 1) The President's Key given to Dipper by Quentin Trembley.