Basic Trope: Irrelevant object that turns out to be useful in the end.
- Straight: Charlie finds a wand that can perfectly change the colors of any image. He eventually uses it to modify the data on a thermal camera.
- Exaggerated: Charlie finds a stick from a rare "blue-bark tree". Turns out The Dragon is deathly allergic to blue-bark.
- Downplayed: The color-changing wand is available through a sidequest, and provides a slightly easier way to do an evidence-forging minigame near the end of the game.
- Justified: There are no problems early on that can be solved with the wand.
- Inverted: A Disc-One Nuke available by starting a New Game Plus stops being useful after the first few chapters.
- Subverted: The wand can actually be used earlier on, but only if you've selected a certain class.
- Double Subverted: The wand is only used for a few class-specific sidequests after you get it, after which it stops being useful until much later.
- Parodied:
- Before he even starts his quest, Charlie's mother conveniently hands him a slip of paper saying "IOU one free victory against the final boss".
- The wand is a Talking Weapon that constantly begs to be used. Charlie feels bad for it, and begins using it for standard things like pushing doorbells.
- Zig Zagged: Depending on what branch you take, the wand will either be the focus of gameplay, an occasional puzzle-solving tool, or plainly irrelevant.
- Averted: You have a very small inventory, and everything counts.
- Enforced: The puzzles were removed due to negative reception from playtesting, but someone realized that the wand needs at least one puzzle associated with it so it wouldn't be a Useless Item.
- Lampshaded: "Not like anyone in this town needs to have their photographs messed with. Or anyone in the next town. I'll just put this away for now..."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Charlie sharpens the end of the wand and uses it as an Improvised Weapon.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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