At some point later Cleomenes instigated a plot to restore Hippias to the rule of Athens.

Since this curl is not the same at every point, its plot is a bit more interesting:

* A key plot point in the comedy Evolution involves nitrogen-based life forms, and using selenium-based shampoo to poison them ( with the bonus of a product placement for Head & Shoulders ).

Déjà vu provides a plot point in The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

* Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in which gazpacho is a major plot point.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.

Limbo is a major plot point in the film.

At some point on the plot, another character elaborates: " We have lost the element of surprise and they do not fear us.

By 1969 the popular press had taken notice, to the point that it was used as a plot device in Star Trek, and sparked fears of a " polywater gap " in the USA.

Dillard, includes as a major plot point the aftermath of T ' Pol killing a person during a mission.

Before it was published, however, the TV series aired " The Seventh ", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced last-minute revisions to Dillard's book.

' " The studio and Shatner himself had few concerns about the plot point.

It's as if someone was commenting on the plot from an all-seeing point of view.

The unpredictability of the TARDIS's short-range guidance ( relative to the size of the Universe ) has often been a plot point in the Doctor's travels.

Of interest, but not crucial to the plot of this or further books, is that North and South Korea were said to be unified at some point between The Sum of All Fears and this book.

In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.

This was a plot point in the movie Closer, where one character imitated a female in an anonymous London sex chat room in order to induce a meeting between his own girlfriend and the chat partner.

I had to plot that through the books because at the point where you see what was really going on, it would have been an absolute cheat on the reader at that point just to show a bunch of stuff you've never seen before.

A fictional proto-bungee jump is a plot point in the Michael Chabon novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Though Data's striving for humanity and desire for human emotion is a significant plot point ( and source for humor ) throughout the series, he continually shows a nuanced sense of wisdom, sensitivity, and curiosity.

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

When the land becomes barren, horticulturists clear a new plot and leave the old plot to revert to its natural state.

The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in a murder plot.

Its existence is hinted at in the storyline of both Marathon and Marathon 2, and its release from Lh ' owon's star becomes a major plot point during Marathon Infinity.

She views Heathcliff as a romantic hero, despite Catherine's warning her against such a view, and becomes an unwitting participant in his plot for revenge.

The plot becomes more complex when Lucentio, who has recently come to Padua to attend university, sees Bianca and instantly falls in love with her.

") Cleaning out the closet becomes the show's plot, inventorying much of the contents along the way: a photo album, a rusty horseshoe, a ten-foot pole.

James followed with The Princess Casamassima ( 1886 ), the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in far left politics and a terrorist assassination plot.

Heinlein did use a similar plot in the short story "— All You Zombies —", in which a character becomes both of his own parents.

His eidetic memory becomes a minor plot point.

Time becomes available for significant background and character / plot development.

The plot centers on a young boy who becomes a hostage after he is accidentally closed inside a moving van.

With all of the events occurring in a single night, the plot becomes more stimulating as well as lending more plausibility to the series of unlucky coincidences that conspire against the visitors.

Without this ' device ' the hero would never find the headquarters and be unable to reach the climactic scene ; however the character becomes less of a plot device if the author gives them a back-story and a plausible motivation for defecting and makes them an interesting character in their own right.

In a parallel plot, an underprivileged youth from Brooklyn, Lesra Martin ( Vicellous Reon Shannon ), becomes interested in Carter's life and destiny after reading Carter's autobiography, and convinces his Canadian foster family to commit themselves to his case.

This was followed by a lengthy nine-issue story arc, " The Fear Machine ", revolving around a masonic plot to collect people's fears, in order to resurrect a demon known as Juntakillokian, and his efforts to prevent this with the help of environmentalists, including Mercury, a young psychic girl, and Marj, her mother, with whom he becomes romantically involved.

For the book, Seltzer took liberties with his own material, augmenting plot points and character backgrounds and changing details ( such as character names — Holly becomes Chessa Whyte, Keith Jennings becomes Huber Jennings, Father Brennan becomes Father Edgardo Emilio Tassone, et cetera ).

The holodeck was used as a plot device to explore metaphysical questions, in such episodes as " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", in which a holodeck character becomes self-aware and contemplates the nature of his identity and continued existence.

The continual litigation that was a theme in that book becomes the central theme and plot device in A Frolic of His Own ( 1994 )— which earned him his second National Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction — where it seems that everyone is suing someone.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.