Intended
Intended adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.
Throwaway
Throwaway adjective - Intended to be thrown away after use.
Both words in one sentence
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Another common reason is that a Wrong Genre Savvy audience mistakenly attached too much importance to what always was intended to be a throwaway.
Source: What Happened to the Mouse? - Scrooge McDuck made many such references in comics by Carl Barks, which were intended as pure throwaway references to give the impression that Scrooge has lived a long, exciting life as an adventurer and businessman.
Source: Cryptic Background Reference - In the Atlantis pilot "Rising", O'Neill's pilot (pun not intended) initially seems like a throwaway character... until he waltzes into the Antarctic outpost and it turns out that he possesses the Ancient gene, and is immediately recruited into the Atlantis Expedition.
Source: Chekhov's Gunman
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