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Convenient Eclipse
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The heroes are in a sticky situation somewhere. So the writer makes the story happen at a specific time where a natural event, like an eclipse, is about to happen. On any other day of the year the heroes would be caught/killed, but sheer planning for the event (or just lucky outcomes due to it) yields an unexpected outcome. This is obviously not Truth in Television. Eclipses are very rare, and in the modern era, you're very unlikely to see one without knowing in advance that it's happening. A convenient way to set up a God Guise. Compare/contrast with Deus ex Machina, Contrived Coincidence and Weather Saves the Day. See also Total Eclipse of the Plot. |
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1960's Batman (1966) episode "The Cat and the Fiddle". Batman and Robin are tied under giant magnifying glasses so they'll be broiled to death by concentrated sunlight. An eclipse gives them time to move one of the glasses so it burns through their bonds and frees them. | |
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In The Road to El Dorado, the titular city already believes that Tulio and Miguel are gods, but this gets "confirmed" when their bickering happens to coincide with a local volcano acting up; it calms down right when they do. The two of them don't even seem to notice it. | |
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Played with on Donkey Kong Country; DK finds his position of future ruler challenged by Kong Fu, an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who can mop the floor with him, working on behalf of King K. Rool. Diddy finds out that Kong Fu is afraid of the dark, and ensures the fight takes place at the time of a solar eclipse mentioned earlier by Cranky. However, DK can't bring himself to beat an ape when he's down. Luckily, K. Rool's crew mocks Kong Fu's phobia, causing Kong Fu to throw the duel to spite them. | |
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Parodied on The Simpsons in "Marge and the Monorail" when an eclipse causes the out-of-control solar powered train to stop temporarily and everyone breathes a sigh of relief... only for the sun to come back out and cause the train to start again. | |
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In Treasure of the Rudra this is how the story progresses At Avdol; after defeating a member of the Rudra Cult, the party is temporarily separated: Legin takes the kidnapped children back to their families, Sork takes Lolo to see the Prophet Solon to find a way of getting Lolo's Memories back. Surlent decides to see the Eclipse, several seconds after it happens, a loud noise is heard from below and Surlent checks it out, The Rudra on the stone was awakened by the Eclipse and kills Surlent embedding a Cosmic Keystone inside him. | |
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Back to the Future: The climax of the movie hinges upon the fact that Marty happened to be sent mere days before the only lightning strike he could possibly know the exact time and place of, thus giving him the energy necessary to get back... to the future. | |
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Parodied in Darkwing Duck. Darkwing was to be executed by a group of medieval peasants for witchcraft, but was informed that the time of the execution coincided exactly with a solar eclipse and decided to threaten the peasants that he would block the sun if they didn't release him. Unfortunately, Launchpad misread the date of the eclipse, which was actually happening the day after; Darkwing ended up having to stall for 24 hours, pretending to put out the sun, before it actually went dark. Peasants = amazed. And it was probably parodied there because it had already been played straight on that show's predecessor, DuckTales (1987). Scrooge McDuck went into a South American country on the deadline day to resign a lease on the company he owned there, but, like Darkwing, he found himself scheduled to be executed by the local dictator instead. His nephews, who had inadvertently caused this predicament by tricking Scrooge — and through him, the entire world! — into thinking it was the next day, consulted their super-exhaustive Junior Woodchucks Guidebook to try to fix things. And what do you know, a Convenient Eclipse was supposed to happen today! The boys showed the dictator the eclipse, thus correcting the date, and "Unca Scrooge" was not only free to go, but free to resign that lease. The exact same plot was later recycled for the TaleSpin episode "The Time Bandit". |
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In one Full Frontal Nerdity arc, the guys are playing Call of Cthulhu as cultists. During a magic duel with a rival cult, in this strip Nelson uses the at the time real world solar eclipse across North America on August 21st, 2017 in game to defeat said rival cultists. | |
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Played straight in the Ready Jet Go! special "Back to Bortron 7." When Mitchell is about to expose Jet's secret to the entire town, Jet 2 causes a solar eclipse with his flashlight, which distracts the townspeople long enough from seeing the Propulsion house land back on Earth. | |
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Parodied again in Fanboy and Chum Chum: When Fanboy is told he is going to die after naptime, he tries everything he can to keep everyone awake while he devises a plan. One of these efforts is him opening the curtains and saying they should go outside, but as soon as he does an eclipse comes, causing Fanboy to scream, "Curse you semi-elliptical orbit!!" | |
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Die Hard 2 has Colonel Stuart and his team heavily relying on a bad storm on the exact day they need to hold the airport to ransom. On a day with good visibility, it would have been nearly impossible to trick pilots into crashing by messing with the landing systems. It's sort of implied that they may have had some other plans if the weather had been clear. Note that Garber says "God loves the Infantry" when Cochrane gives him a weather update at the bar. The weather nicely played in their favor. |
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And it was probably parodied there because it had already been played straight on that show's predecessor, DuckTales (1987). Scrooge McDuck went into a South American country on the deadline day to resign a lease on the company he owned there, but, like Darkwing, he found himself scheduled to be executed by the local dictator instead. His nephews, who had inadvertently caused this predicament by tricking Scrooge — and through him, the entire world! — into thinking it was the next day, consulted their super-exhaustive Junior Woodchucks Guidebook to try to fix things. And what do you know, a Convenient Eclipse was supposed to happen today! The boys showed the dictator the eclipse, thus correcting the date, and "Unca Scrooge" was not only free to go, but free to resign that lease. The exact same plot was later recycled for the TaleSpin episode "The Time Bandit". |
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Persona 2: Innocent Sin has the Grand Cross and the Leonids, which factor into the villains' plans. From this, you can tell exactly when the game took place in real life. | |
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Apocalypto: The Mayan leaders secretly know that an eclipse will occur during their sacrifices, since this is the whole point of the show. It conveniently occurs just before our hero was to be sacrificed. | |
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A Knight In Camelot: Vivien Morgan accidentally travels back in time with her laptop into the period of Arthurian Legend and is soon arrested. Looking up info on her laptop that there should be a solar eclipse right at the time of her execution, she bluffs her way out of burning stake by threatening the locals with eternal darkness as the moon passes by. | |
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In one episode of McHale's Navy, the men have been ordered by Captain Binghamton to negotiate with a tribe of violent native islanders for the use of their land for an airstrip for the U.S. military. Parker tries to impress their chieftain with his lighter but it doesn't work, and while fiddling with the lighter an eclipse occurs and the chief thinks Parker did it. Mchale quickly orders the men to play along and that Parker has powerful magic. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Parodied in the Don Rosa comic story "The Once and Future Duck", where Donald Duck is about to be executed by (the historical) King Arthur, and he orders his nephews to wow Arthur by predicting an eclipse. After protesting "That only works in old movies and comic books, Unca Donald!", they reply "You have two options: get them to pack up camp and move to Madagascar, or stay here and convince them to delay the execution for 237 years!" Don is instead saved from execution when Gyro beeps the horn on his truck and scares the whole camp silly. | |
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The Beatles follow a daffy professor to a tropical island to see a lunar eclipse. The natives on the island are hostile but they panic when the eclipse occurs. The Beatles sing "Mr. Moonlight" (the episode's title) under the notion they're bringing the moon back and calm the natives. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender subverts and plays around with this. A solar eclipse set to come in a few months provides the heroes with a clear way to defeat the Big Bad (the way the magic system of the setting works means that he and his forces will be temporarily depowered during the eclipse), but it's far from convenient and much more accurately portrayed than in most media; the eclipse only lasts for about eight minutes, giving them an incredibly tight schedule to work on that leaves almost no margin for error. Sure enough, the attempt to exploit the eclipse goes horribly wrong when it turns out the Big Bad also knew it was coming and wisely chose to sit the day out in his emergency bunker. There's also a villainous inversion with the imminent arrival of Sozin's Comet (which has the opposite effect of the eclipse) creating a deadline of less than a year for the entire plot. Otherwise Aang would have the option to take his time mastering all the elements and facing the Fire Lord only when he was completely ready. |
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The musical remake of Little Shop of Horrors has the evil plant coming to Earth during an unexpected eclipse. Never mind the fact that real eclipses are predicted decades in advance, so there's never an "unexpected" one. Which would make an alien ship passing between Earth and the Sun pretty unexpected, huh? |
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In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (and any similar guy-from-now-ends-up-in-medieval-times plot), the hero just happens to be around on the same day as a total eclipse, which he can use to his benefit. On any other day of the year, he would simply be run through. There's also the convenience of him happening to know the exact date and time of the eclipse and his execution being slated at the exact same time. | |
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Played for laughs in Regular Show. Mordecai has jinxed Rigby (someone has to say his name three times before he can talk freely again, otherwise he'll be punched for talking). During Rigby's Butt-Monkey montage, an eclipse happens in the middle of the day. Awestruck, Rigby comments "Woah!" and "It's so beautiful...", which leads to Mordecai punching him twice for both comments. | |
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It happens in Tintin album "Prisoners of the Sun": when held prisoner by a surviving group of Incas and pending execution by sun-lit pyre, Tintin claims the date of the eclipse is Captain Haddock's birthday, causing the Inca priest to schedule their execution for that day. During the day itself, Tintin fakes being able to command the sun and the Incas let them go. It's a little more believable than many examples of this trope, as the Inca leader tells Tintin that he must die within a month, but can choose which time for the execution (being a full month, the chance that an eclipse actually would occur in that time period is a little higher). Also, Tintin found a newspaper that had astronomical tables printed in it. Hergé himself admitted that since the Incas were solar worshippers and skilled astronomers who knew about eclipses, it's doubtful they would have been fooled by such a trick in real life. | |
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In Pharaoh Herhor (the de facto ruler of Egypt) uses one to dissuade the peasants from rebelling. | |
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Ladyhawke. "Night without a day, day without a night." | |
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Sort-of inverted in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money: the hero escapes the vampires into the sunlight... Then guess what happens. Note that the moon must have wanted the vampires to win; it literally comes racing across the sky then screeches to a halt when it reaches the proper position. | |
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In Superman mini-series The Krypton Chronicles, the Man of Steel and his cousin learn their ancestor Jaf-El convinced the people of Krypton to abandon polytheism and worship Rao exclusively. When people asked Jaf-El a sign that Rao is the only god, Jaf announced Rao would turn the red sun yellow at once. When the Sun indeed turned yellow, his listeners became convinced. As listening to that story, Superman states that was the period when the Gold Volcano erupted, scattering yellow dust all over the atmosphere. He notes his ancestor couldn't have known about it, though, so maybe Jaf-El had some kind of prophetic dream after all. | |
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In Lawrence Miles's Interference, IM Foreman prevents a town from being destroyed by convincing the attackers that he can blot out the sun. Cue an eclipse. However the attackers know it was an eclipse. Then, Foreman pretends he actually has technology allowing him to rearrange a solar system, and tells the attackers they should check his species. Turns out he's a Gallifreyan - who do own such technology and are dangerous enough to not take lightly. The attackers retreat. It was just a regular natural eclipse though. | |
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In Accident, an eclipse prevents the Brain's plan for killing Fong (which relies on reflected sunlight) from working. When the eclipse ends, the sun comes out and the plan triggers, killing Fong's wife. | |
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Occurs in the book King Solomon's Mines (though not most of the movie versions) to con themselves out of death at the hands of African natives. Changed to a convenient lunar eclipse in later editions when Haggard realised that solar eclipses aren't followed by full moons. One of the villains tries explaining that the eclipse is a natural occurrence that will pass soon, but no one bothers to listen to her. The 1937 British movie kept the Solar Eclipse from the first edition. It helps that one of the characters was carrying an Almanac at the time, which documents that sort of thing, and which is often logically carried on long expeditions like the one they were on. |
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In the video-game adaptation of The Darkness, when Jackie initiates his attack on his uncle's island hideaway, the sun has started to rise, and the player is left with the horrifying realization that the Darkness, which is reliant on, well, darkness to provide Jackie with his shield and offensive powers that make him capable of taking down the entire Mafia all alone, won't be any help. And then the Darkness conjures an eclipse to happen on the spot, restoring your abilities. Not that The Darkness directly conjured the eclipse as much as it kept Jackie on the hook long enough that it would occur at just the right time for Jackie's raid, ensuring that Jackie would have the power required to pull off the kind of atrocities that The Darkness needed to fully take him over. |
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In Hey Arnold!, the title character was born while his parents were living among the Green-Eyed People in San Lorenzo. When his mother was in labor, the local volcano started erupting; just as Arnold was born, it stopped. Word of God says that in The Jungle Movie, the Green-Eyed People will consider Arnold a godlike figure because of this reason. | |
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Subverted in The Last Camel Died At Noon, an Affectionate Parody of King Solomon's Mines. A family of adventure archaeologists are in a lost civilization and looking to impress the natives. The wife asks her husband if a Convenient Eclipse coming up by any chance, and his response is essentially, "How the Hell would I know? I'm an archaeologist, not an astronomer." | |
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| Convenient Eclipse / int_eb0eeb16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Amelia Peabody | hasFeature |
Convenient Eclipse / int_eb0eeb16 |
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