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All complex problems are solved by sudden epiphany! In every Locked Room Mystery, the detective can't solve the crime just by examining the relevant evidence. They always need some external inspiration (apparently) completely unrelated to everything, something along the lines of: …or… Can take the form of a Flashback-Montage Realization and will lead directly to The Summation, unless there's an Evidence Scavenger Hunt in between. Often the character having the epiphany will tell the person whose offhand remark inspired it that they're "a genius" or the like; the remarker will then variously nod in a befuddled manner, ask "I'm what?", or simply demand an explanation. A character who wants clarification about what they just heard will often ask the other person to Repeat What You Just Said. Named for perhaps the most famous non-detective related example, Archimedes' exclamation of "Eureka!" after jumping into a bath and realizing that held the key to the problem he was trying to solve. (See below for details.) The Eureka Moment shows up a lot on diagnosis-mystery medical shows, such as House, in which he does it in nearly every episode, and in the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, which isn't even a medical detective show! It may also show up on telenovelas or soap operas with some ongoing secret that defines a character or even the main plot. The truth is often almost revealed several times, by easily overheard conversations or weak evidence, and each time the status quo is kept with some contrived explanation. When the Eureka Moment takes place, The Reveal is not the result of a confession or an evidence that is too solid to be ignored, but instead the result of the hero putting all the small hints together and figuring out the truth by himself. In this case, expect a wave of several flashbacks of those hints before the "Eureka!". Not to be confused with a Bat Deduction. While both can initially appear almost identical, a Eureka Moment leads to a coherent chain of reasoning that the detective can explain to the bystanders later; whereas a Bat Deduction, if it gets explained at all, makes even less sense after the explanation. However, although logically sound, the Eureka Moment may be enough to convince the one who came to it, but not to convince others (specially a court of law). In this case, the character may began a quest to obtain a Smoking Gun to prove things beyond any reasonable doubt. Often used as a Deus ex Machina, albeit one that is acceptable more often than annoying. If the detective actually takes the idea literally rather than using it as an inspiration, that is I Was Just Joking. Can even happen in your sleep, with Dreaming the Truth. Compare Luck-Based Search Technique and You Were Trying Too Hard. See Placebo Eureka Moment for when there wasn't any external inspiration, but they act like there was, and Love Epiphany, when the insight gained is that one party loves the other. See also Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! for a similar situation where instead of finding a solution, someone becomes aware of a problem. May contain unmarked spoilers. |
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In Narbonic, Dave has a particularly nonsensical one when he needs to figure out how to get back together with his ex-girlfriend. Despite his advice simply amounting to, "...Just do it!", when this triggers a Eureka in Dave Artie opines, "Somebody has to be the superintelligent one." | |
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Fallen King: Joey and Tristan ramble about The Wizard of Oz and wanting to fly home like Dorothy, and suddenly remember Kaiba's helicopter. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): A little downplayed. Hearing Martin ask whether Monster X would be more comparable to God (like Godzilla) or the Devil (like Ghidorah) after they've discovered that Monster X has developed silver in its biology prompts Dr. Ilene Chen to, after a moment's deliberation, recall a couple mythological god-devil fusions like Baphomet and Abraxas, comparing Monster X to them. | |
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The Far Side; one cartoon shows Albert Einstein having written and crossed out on a blackboard "E=mc^3", "E=mc^4", and many other variations with the number different. He notices the cleaning lady who has just straightened out his desk saying, "There we go, everything squared away. Squaaaared away." | |
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In the éX-Driver film, after they are captured on Wang Somin's orders, Angela Gambino tells Souichi Sugano that she rigged a car to crash when they first met and later made an exploding AI cleaning car severely damage the track, all in an effort to ultimately stop her father Rico from gambling on the race. | |
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In Super Cub, Koguma is busy trying to find a cheap way of protecting her eyes, since she can't afford a helmet with a face shield, when she sees a man cleaning her school's library with a protective face mask and goggles. She then realizes that goggles are a cheap but practical solution. | |
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Bakugo in Waiting is worth it figured out that Izuku's step-father Toshinori was All Might on his own simply from observation. | |
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Justice League of America: Used in the Origins Episode story for Grant Morrison's JLA (1997). Starro has taken over a tower filled with people along with The Flash (Wally West). A temporary team, comprised of the rest of Morrison's first line up — Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) — have gathered, only for The Spectre to step in and tell them "no". After being shown a Bad Future, Batman decides to go in alone. When the Spectre isn't stopping Batman, Spectre points out that Batman is only human, that Starro is aiming for metahumans. Superman realizes that the answer is right there and asks Spectre to strip them of their powers so they can aid Batman. | |
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Like a Dragon Played for Laughs in Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 with "Revelations", wherein Kiryu and others observe odd happenings, recording them, and gain inspiration from them to develop new combat skills. When the feature is introduced in 3, it entails Kiryu taking pictures of an elderly woman on a scooter who got distracted by a poster of a sexy Korean actor, bumped into the rear fender of a car in front of her, and unwittingly performs a forward flip over the car. After witnessing this and taking the pictures, Kiryu blogs about it and gets inspiration for a new attack wherein he similarly flips over and dropkicks an enemy. While the Revelations mechanic would be absent for the next few entries in the series, the idea returns in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth via Alo-Happy Tours, which send Kasuga and company on themed tours around Hawaii, each of which lead to inspiration that unlocks new jobs. To name one example: while parasailing, Kasuga falls off after narrowly avoiding a flying bird and saves himself from a nasty collision with the ground by catching onto and swinging around a palm tree, after which he swats away the subsequently falling coconuts with martial arts moves. He then realizes he was acting just like a hero from a Hong Kong film, which leads to the unlocking of the Action Star job. In the case of Female jobs Chitose is the one that has Revelations, such as after pulling off some incredibly impressive Yoga moves while all the guys just twist their backs she suddenly gets inspired to unlock the Kunoichi job. |
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The SpongeBob Musical: During "Hero is My Middle Name", Spongebob tells Sandy that she's the only person in Bikini Bottom with the smarts to figure out a way to stop the eruption of Mount Humongous, then hastily adds "But no pressure!" This gives Sandy the idea to build a device to disrupt the building pressure in the volcano's magma chamber which will nullify the eruption. | |
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Bob Gale got the idea for Back to the Future when he visited his parents and looked through his father's high school yearbook, learning his father had been the class president. Remembering his own high school class president, who was somebody he didn't care for, Gale wondered if he would've been friends with his father had they gone to high school together. | |
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Rat Queens: A flashback shows Violet condemned to a miserable life of fulfilling family obligations. Then she meets Morgan who has escaped by just ignoring the obligations. Shortly afterward Violet does the same. | |
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Naruto has more than a few of these when trying to learn new jutsus. When learning the Rasengan's rotation step, which involves bursting a water balloon, he struggles with getting the water to rotate in the desired fashion until he happens upon a cat batting one of his water balloons around. He gets the idea of using his other hand to start the rotation, and quickly masters the step. When Naruto's learning the Rasenshuriken, an advanced form of the Rasengan that also involves adding wind element chakra into the Rasengan, Naruto, who already needs a Shadow Clone to handle the "control" step of the Rasengan, complains that adding the wind chakra is like looking left and right at the same time. Kakashi then summons a Shadow Clone to show Naruto how he can do that, inspiring Naruto to add an additional clone to do just that. Late in Naruto's Sage Mode training, Naruto, struggling with how to use sage chakra in battle when he has to sit still in order to gather it, hears the previous "look left and right" phrase again, and comes up with the plan to have a Shadow Clone gather sage chakra. |
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Happens twice in Fullmetal Alchemist, within the same scene. When trying to decipher a code from Scar's brother's notes, the group takes a break to reassemble Al who is in pieces, like a puzzle. May rips the bindings of the notes and with Scar and Marcoh's help reassemble it to see the nationwide transmutation circle (which Ed and Al figured out beforehand). When trying to think there was a silver lining in this, Yoki sneezes and causes the papers to shift. They're annoyed that the papers have been 'flipped over', and Al comes to his realization that the papers needed to be turned over to see the other half of the hidden message: a second transmutation circle which can be used to reverse the effects of the first. | |
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In Dawn of War 2: Retribution, Kaptain Bluddflagg has one of these when he figures out where Big Bad Kyras is hiding in the campaign map. | |
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The Maze Agency: In almost every issue, some seemingly random comment or event will start the gears spinning in Gabe's head and cause him to suddenly see the solution to the current mystery. | |
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One of these happens in episode 10, "Wrip an' Vinkle", of No Evil. When Ichabod insists that the Black Tezcatlipoca should be bound by the rules of the pact formed in the second episode, "And the Raven Brought Fire", Huey comments that this one doesn't seem to know that. This inspires Ichabod to recreate the formation of the pact in miniature to bind the fragment of the Ick. | |
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A Discussed Trope in Schlock Mercenary where it's noted that great scientific discoveries are more likely to be reacted to with "Hmm, that's funny...", except for the ones that get an Oh, Crap! response. However here Kevyn gives the more traditional response, then demands a bath as per tradition. | |
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In Freefall, when Florence and Winston are discussing his difficulty with space travel, he says he'll sleep on it, and she replies "Sleep on it! That's it!" and hugs him. Winston thinks "I said something clever. I don't know what and right now I really don't care." There's also Sam Starfall finally figuring out why Mr. Kornada was trying to lobotomize every robot out there. A stray remark from another robot ("No, you can't have it. That's mine") makes him realize robots have property, stealable property that would go back to the manufacturer (and thus to Kornada) if they were killed or decerebrated like that. Being Sam, he finds it brilliant aside from its excess callousness. |
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On Absolute Power (BBC), Martin's comments (usually that they should give up, or similarly unhelpful) often give Charles a Eureka Moment. Lampshade Hanging in the second episode: | |
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In The Kindaichi Case Files, whenever Kindaichi feels stuck trying to deduce a murder plot, something seemingly unrelated soon jolts him into the realization that will help him to solve the case at hand. | |
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In All Mixed Up!, Oscar, feeling frustrated after spending half a week trying to figure out why agents are turning into various objects, lashes out, remarking on how he and Otto are getting nowhere and how things get "all mixed up" no matter what they do. This allows Otto to figure out that the culprit is turning everyone into objects that are anagrams of their titles and names. | |
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Beast Wars: Uprising: During "Trigger Warnings", at the climax, Wolfang has several of these; determining that the scribbling note he found on Lidar's body says "wings post-forging", that murder victim Twirl was trying to hide her original alt-mode, and that she was a Targetmaster. Then, when it looks like everything's wrapped up, he recalls something Blackarachnia told him, that Overrun, a nerdy tech guy, introduced Blackarachnia and Twirl. Because Overrun was also a Targetmaster, and he's the one who killed Twirl. Early on in "Not All Megatrons", Megatron is ruminating on the Uprising, as he thinks about his old ant-droid farm. This is when he hits on the idea of severing proto-formers from their need for processed energon by taking on beast modes. |
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In Virtue's Last Reward, this happens to Sigma whenever he's in a tight situation and he suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, gains the knowledge to overcome it. There's also a few moments where Sigma accuses a character of being the one who planted the bombs due to suddenly knowing who it was for no apparent reason. Turns out whenever he has one of these moments, he's remembering something that he found out through "mind-jumping", where he jumps into the body of alternative timeline versions of himself. It's stated in game that one of the things needed for accessing the morphogenetic field is danger, hence why it typically only happens when he's in a tight spot. Sigma himself also doesn't remember his mind-jumping: From his perspective he IS just suddenly knowing information he can't know. In order to play through these moments, the player them-self has to have gone through one of the paths where the information is revealed through one way or another, before going back and having Sigma remember that information in the path where it isn't. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: When Chloe struggles to figure out what her story is going to be about, having been hit with writer's block for three days, describes this as constantly chasing after something...and then creates a story that is basically a Revenge Fic on how she hates Goh chasing after Mew. The chapter later when Chloe is praised by Titus for having figured out the answer to his question — "What does she have in common to previous passengers" — she says that forgiving Lexi (For having lashed out at his father and getting Chloe hot water burns when trying to stop the fight) wasn't that big a deal. She realizes that the answer to the question is that all passengers had the potential to change for the better. An even bigger moment happens when Atticus wishes to know about the tales of Pokémon in Chloe's world. Chloe realizes that even if she doesn't like being a Professor or Trainer, she could still be involved with the monsters in some way by researching the numerous legends and myths surrounding them. |
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In Magic Kaito, another work by author Gosho Aoyama (author of the aforementioned Case Closed), Kaito figures out how an old, poor magician got a parliamentary pen after a kidnapper claiming to be the Kaitou Kid took the Prime Minister after Aoko tells him the key to beating the boss of their video game is to defeat the king controlling him first. | |
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In Homestuck, John figures out how to use the Alchemiter as a Merging Machine after reading about a card trick. | |
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Green Lantern: When Katma Tui is tasked with recruiting an inhabitant of the Ophidian Depths into the Green Lantern Corps, she has some difficulty due to the recruit Rot Lop Fan being of a blind species and therefore being unable to understand Katma's attempts at informing him about the Green Lantern Corps and their oath due to having no concept of color or light. When Rot Lop Fan says the word "ring" while trying to sympathize with her difficulty in getting him to understand, Katma Tui realizes a way to work around the issue when she instead makes Rot Lop Fan an F-Sharp Bell and explains the power ring and oath to him using terms related to sound. | |
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Game & Watch: Meta example; Gunpei Yokoi watching a bored businessman play around with a calculator. | |
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Civilization VI has this as a game mechanic. Completing certain actions will reward players with Eurekas and Inspirations, where the player gains a set amount of the Science or Culture needed for a Technology or Civic. These include things like building three Mines for the Eureka for Apprenticeship, which improves Mines further and also unlocks the Industrial Zone or building a Wonder for the Inspiration for Drama and Poetry, which unlocks the Theater Square. | |
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Persona 4: Being a murder mystery, there's one such moment. However, it's the player who has to initiate it, fitting in with the theme of "Reaching out to the Truth". At a critical moment in the case, the player is given a review of the facts (several times), and then a list of names. You get 3 tries, and there is only one right answer. Fail and the case goes cold, leading to the Bad End. But if you get it right, and Protagonist will say the name out loud, leading to the team figuring out who The Killer might be. | |
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Persona 5: Toward the end of the game Akechi has one while on a talk show to discuss the apparent suicide of the leader of the Phantom Thieves (whom Akechi believes he has successfully murdered), and recalls that he felt dizzy for a moment. Someone's cell phone rings, whereupon Akechi realizes that Sae, by showing him the cell phone, inadvertently shifted Akechi into the Metaverse and had him kill a cognitive replica of the protagonist. At that point, Akechi acts like nothing is wrong, but soon sets out to find the protagonist inside Shido's Palace and finish the job. | |
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Sonic Adventure 2 When Sonic finds himself trapped in an escape pod rigged to explode with the fake Chaos Emerald that Tails created to sabotage the Eclipse Cannon, he recalls what Tails said about the fake Emerald: "It has the same wavelength and properties, but is less powerful than the real one." Realizing this, he figures that he can use even this fake Emerald to activate Chaos Control to teleport out of harm's way. During the Last Story, as Amy begs Shadow to help the heroes prevent the ARK from destroying Earth, a certain phrase she uses triggers his dormant memory: when Amy says "Give them a chance", it leads to Shadow recalling that Maria didn't want him to carry out revenge on her behalf. Instead, her last words were "Give them a chance to be happy". Realizing that Maria wanted Shadow to protect humanity, he completes his Heel–Face Turn and joins Sonic in saving the Earth. |
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Mall Rats: Lincoln is impatient with Leni rejecting all his shoe choices, but when he complains to himself that she's "turning them down flat", he gets an idea about wearing the top she rejected with a pair of flats and wearing the heels she rejected earlier with a romper. | |
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In Earth and Sky, Twilight first starts working on how to help non-pegasus ponies fly after her conversations with Pinkie and Pumpkin, but doesn't settle on the idea of using artificial wings until she sees Sweetie Belle wearing a pair as part of her Princess Celestia costume. | |
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Naru has these regularly in Ghost Hunt, usually due to an offhand comment from Mai. | |
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin got his nickname this way. He was trying to come up with a nickname he could use to reflect an ice-cold stoic badass character, but kept proverbially hitting his head against the wall, unable to come up with anything. Just before he was about to give up, his wife made him some tea and told him "drink it before it gets stone cold." A moment later, both Austin and his wife looked at each other and realized what they'd just come up with. | |
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Occurs in Patlabor: The Movie. Our heroes are trying to find out what's causing some Humongous Mecha with a new OS to go out of control. While taking a break while the investigation seems to be leading nowhere, Noah sees a dog barking at something they can't see & mentions they can hear things humans can't, cluing Shinohara in to the fact that ultrasonic waves are the culprit. Shinohara actually gets two of these in the film. The second comes when they learn that the evil genius who created the program had a plan to make all the robots in Tokyo to go crazy at once & are trying to figure out what could cause enough ultrasonic waves to make it happen. When a whistling tea kettle causes a nearby figurine in a glass case to shake they realize it's sympathetic vibrations in skyscrapers caused by the wind. Fortunately, it'd take a mind-bogglingly huge building & incredibly powerful winds for a city-wide disaster to occur. Unfortunately, a giant factory complex has just finished construction in Tokyo Bay & a record-breaking typhoon is due to hit in three days… |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe got started this way. According to the Building a Cinematic Universe documentary, when Marvel Studios was first created, one of the first meetings featured a discussion of which properties they still had the rights to. As they listed off the properties they couldn't use at the time (Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Blade...), they slowly realized they still had the rights to most of the various characters who formed The Avengers. This trope helped solved a hurdle in making Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: the writers were having trouble in trying to figure out how to get the heroes to the Quantum Realm and meeting Kang and how he would recognize them. They soon remembered they had unwittingly given themselves an answer from back in Ant-Man — Darren Cross, who was seemingly shrunken into nothingness in the climax. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one Gyro Gearloose story, the Beagle Boys steal Gyro's thinking cap (a device that he needs to come up with great ideas) and threaten to destroy it unless Gyro builds them special gear to help them with heists. Helpless, Gyro is forced to comply and while the Beagles go on a crime spree, laments that he can't come up with a brilliant idea to stop the crooks. This gets him thinking- Does the idea have to be brilliant? After all, fancy tools or not, the Beagle Boys are the same greedy thugs they've always been. He defeats the Beagles by creating a knockout gas bomb disguised as a diamond, and simply waits for the Beagles to steal it. | |
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Mortal Kombat 9: Throughout the game, Raiden is desperately trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong after receiving a message from his future self during the events of Armageddon, said message being the incredibly vague "He must win." After multiple screw-ups and becoming desperate enough to try striking a deal with Quan Chi when Shao Kahn launches a full-scale invasion of Earthrealm, Raiden points out to Quan Chi that Shao Kahn can only merge the realms through victory in a Mortal Kombat tournament; otherwise, he will face the judgment of the Elder Gods. As soon as those words are out of his mouth, Raiden realizes that "He must win" actually refers to Shao Kahn himself; as his invasion is considered an unlawful breach of the rules of Mortal Kombat, Shao Kahn must be allowed to merge the realms so the Elder Gods can punish him for his violation. | |
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In Grim Fandango, after Manny discovers a suitcase filled with tickets for the Number Nine 9 train, he comments that something about them feels off but he can't figure out what. Once he rescues Meche, she shows him more tickets in a room and says they just "sit there". Hearing that makes Manny remember that real Double-N tickets move around on their own and fly to the person they belong to, and realize the tickets he saw before were actually counterfeits. | |
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Art Ops: The Body has one from seeing Juliet eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Thinking of how the two complement each other, it leads him to realise that the best way to track down the Mona Lisa is to release Bruno, the Mona Lisa's own Foil. | |
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Batman: Batman's Eureka Moment from way, way back in Detective Comics #27 defined his career: | |
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Dirty Sympathy: Apollo realizes that his bracelet helps him pinpoint lies when it reacts when Klavier says he can handle Daryan but it doesn't when Apollo goads him into admitting that he hates Daryan and would rather be with Apollo. | |
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Graduate Meeting of Mutual Killing: Trial 2. The surviving characters need to find a culprit candidate besides Hikasa, the one that's already under suspicion, and the Mastermind, a former suspect. However, there's almost no evidence that could point towards anybody else. Toriumi has spent the whole trial forcing people to throw a ball around in what she said was "a way to keep hands nimble and our minds even more nimble". Then Ogata realizes the true purpose of this ruse: to find who among the survivors is left-handed, as only a left-handed person could have killed the victim the way it happened, without alerting the culprit. And how did it result? It succeeded. | |
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Iznogoud: Evil characters also can have this, as Iznogoud proves: | |
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A rare villainous version occurs in Final Fantasy IX with Kuja. Kuja's goal is to get the most powerful Eidolon possible in order to defeat his creator, Garland. Kuja has his lackeys attempt to forcibly extract Eiko's Eidolons, only to then see that Eiko's moogle companion, Mog, transforms into an Eidolon and kicks ass due to her wanting to protect Eiko. The scene gives Kuja an idea that will grant him a similar power. Since Trance gives people who are under extreme duress/emotion a huge boost in power, Kuja decides to let Zidane's party kick his ass in battle until Trance activates so that he can use his new powers to utterly crush Zidane and his friends. | |
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In an episode of Cardcaptor Sakura, wherein two of her magical allies were cursed with Shapeshifter Mode Lock and could not effectively masquerade as non-magical, she had no idea how to break the spell until she was given a dead crab as a gift. She was inspired by the crab's shell which protects it "just like a shield!" and deduced that she could use her Shield card to protect her allies from the curse's outside interference long enough for them to transform. This was also how she first defeated the Watery card. As she was at the aquarium with Yukito, she stares at his ice drink for a bit...then realizes that, since Watery is water, it can be stopped by freezing it. |
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Supergod: Reddin has a literal one while sitting on the toilet, foreshadowing that it's a really crap idea, given that his idea causes The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Superman: In Superman: Space Age, Flash's ship-in-a-bottle gift gives Superman the idea to use Kryptonian crystals as an ark for humanity. | |
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In Red vs. Blue episode "Test Your Might", the only way to unlock an alien AI is to pass a test of physical ability and 'mental clarity'. After both Tucker and Agent Carolina fail, Caboose makes one of his stupid comments, prompting Church to groan, "Jesus, that empty-headed little... wait a minute. 'Empty-headed'." At that point, Church realizes that Caboose might be Too Dumb to Fool. | |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: In Act III chapter 42, with the revelation that Fairy Tale is still active and coming to attack Yokai Academy, Tsukune remarks to Moka that Akua and Kahlua said that Fairy Tale had been destroyed. At that very moment, Moka recalls the mystery vampire agent they fought in Ashton City during Act II, and from the evidence she failed to notice before (namely the agent's fighting style, voice over the radio, knowledge of Moka, and the fact that Akua just suddenly showed up right after they left Ashton City), realizes that Akua was said vampire agent; thus, Akua and Kahlua have been working for Fairy Tale all along. | |
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Wapsi Square: Amanda you're a friggen genius! | |
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In Emerald City Confidential, Petra, a private investigator, is hired by a Femme Fatale named Dee to find her Runaway Fiancé. Petra doesn't realize that Dee is in fact Dorothy Gale until Dee mentions tornadoes. | |
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In The Egg Team, Eggman suddenly comes up with the idea of using Mobians to fight against Sonic and his friends while repairing Metal Sonic, who had been recently defeated. | |
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Case Closed does this a lot. One time, Conan solved a murder he had been stuck on just by Ran mentioning that she had bought new pajamas for them. (To be more specific, she mentioned that said PJs were a matched pair, leading Conan to realize that the murderer was a set of identical twins.) Conan is a brilliant detective hiding in the body of a small child, so if he figures something out before anyone else, it's not uncommon for him to subtly lead those around him to their own Eureka Moment, rather than raising suspicions about himself by voicing his deductions directly. There is also a certain part wherein Heiji and Conan figure out a dying message, but start, at Heiji's prompting, to subtly lead Kazuha to deciphering it to make her feel better, as she was about to cry. As well as Conan deliberately inducing Eureka moments to Kogoro due to Kogoro's It's Personal attitude after the murder of one of his old judo teammates. |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: Kong (who up until now has been the Dumb Muscle school bully) remembers several things: the incident with Peter Parker and the weird spider at Oscorp, that Pete suddenly became a great basketball player, that he broke Flash's hand, that Spider-Man debuted at the wrestling club shortly after the gang visited it, that Spider-Man showed up to save the school when the Green Goblin began to attack it...and Kong suddenly realizes Peter Parker is Spider-Man! Being Kong, his response to this is to then run through the school yelling this to the world. | |
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Happens to Misawa in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX as a way to break himself out of the resident cult's More than Mind Control. It's also a Shout-Out to Archimedes' original eureka moment, so keep the Brain Bleach handy. (The dub edited in a pair of underpants.) | |
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While the Revelations mechanic would be absent for the next few entries in the series, the idea returns in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth via Alo-Happy Tours, which send Kasuga and company on themed tours around Hawaii, each of which lead to inspiration that unlocks new jobs. To name one example: while parasailing, Kasuga falls off after narrowly avoiding a flying bird and saves himself from a nasty collision with the ground by catching onto and swinging around a palm tree, after which he swats away the subsequently falling coconuts with martial arts moves. He then realizes he was acting just like a hero from a Hong Kong film, which leads to the unlocking of the Action Star job. In the case of Female jobs Chitose is the one that has Revelations, such as after pulling off some incredibly impressive Yoga moves while all the guys just twist their backs she suddenly gets inspired to unlock the Kunoichi job. | |
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Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero: Lampshaded. Naomi asks Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld, who helped develop the Jaegers, to recount the development of technology. She refers to the anecdotal story that he got the idea to build giant robots to fight the Kaiju when watching his son play with action figures as his "famous Eureka moment". | |
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During the Apollo 13 mission, NASA engineers needed to make the Command Module's air filters fit the incompatible slots of the Lunar Module. The solution was devised by a engineer while he was driving to work. The film dramatization split this between an entire team of engineers, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. | |
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Berrybrook Middle School: After some words from Ms. Tobins, Peppi gets the idea to unite the Art and Science clubs through a project that combines their talents. In "Brave", after Jensen says that Akilah and Jenny's fight was a lizard brain moment, the former realizes that he's absolutely right, and she finds it in herself to both make amends (though it's mostly Jenny who apologizes) and help get Felicity out of suspension. |
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Mega Man 11 starts off with this. Dr. Wily once worked on a Double Gear project with Dr. Light back at Robot University, but for whatever reason he thought the project was not necessary to continue or incorporate into his work. However, as the nightmares of his repeated losses to Light and Mega Man start catching up to him, he starts to remember this work... | |
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Heavy Rain: The clues start coming together in the last act for the characters (and, by extension, the player) this way. | |
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Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0: While watching the botched first attempt at the group photo from inside, Cinderella and Rapunzel discreetly admit that regardless of whether or not Goofy was chosen to take the photo, a mishap of some kind was pretty much inevitable, as while everyone was bright and chirpy prior to Goofy's accident, there was no doubt an air of unimaginable pressure regarding such a truly epic milestone. Cinderella, however, remains optimistic that they'll find *some* way to turn it around. She, Rapunzel and Moana, along with their respective Princes and a few other characters then head downstairs as quickly as possible in an effort to help make the group photo a reality. On the way downstairs, she quickly gives Rapunzel an idea to lift everyone's spirits; playing the one tune that defines Disney more than any other; "When You Wish Upon a Star". | |
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Dimentio has one in L's Empire here. | |
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This trope helped solved a hurdle in making Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: the writers were having trouble in trying to figure out how to get the heroes to the Quantum Realm and meeting Kang and how he would recognize them. They soon remembered they had unwittingly given themselves an answer from back in Ant-Man — Darren Cross, who was seemingly shrunken into nothingness in the climax. | |
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In Ensign Sue Must Die, Spock has one. Spock Prime's reaction simply rubs the salt in the wound. | |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles: Shizune needs to find someone who can be a messenger in charge of running important messages between Konoha and Suna, or else she'll have to do that job herself. She asks Naruto if he's willing to do that, but he declines, much to her disappointment. Naruto then wishes he knew someone who wanted to go to Suna alone, only to immediately realize that Shikamaru might be that person. The latter accepts the job, as it will allow him to spend more time with Temari, although Naruto never even thought about that and only assumed Shikamaru would accept it just because he doesn't mind being by himself and the job requires little work. During a picnic with Hinata in Chapter 90, Naruto has a conversation with her that leads to him having an idea regarding a jutsu he's practicing. In Chapter 95, Naruto has an epiphany regarding his jutsu after Hinata says "I guess if we are both feeling it... then we must be one...". However, he mispronounces it as "an apipananny". |
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Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott) #648, Mister Fantastic and Iron Man have literally minutes to defuse a bomb left by Doctor Octopus that would destroy New York City, while the rest of the Fantastic Four and The Avengers look on. Johnny Storm suggests that Spider-Man could come up with a "fallback plan", prompting Spider-Man to point at a clock reading nearly 2 a.m., saying "There's no time for me to come up with a fallback… fall back… THAT'S IT!" He then syncs the bomb's electronic timer with its main OS system's internal clock. Turns out it was the first Sunday in November, meaning the end of Daylight Savings Time, when people set their clocks back an hour or "Fall back". By syncing the bomb's timer, Spider-Man was able to extend the countdown by an hour, giving the FF and the Avengers enough time to take the bombs out to sea to explode harmlessly. Ultimate Spider-Man: Kong (who up until now has been the Dumb Muscle school bully) remembers several things: the incident with Peter Parker and the weird spider at Oscorp, that Pete suddenly became a great basketball player, that he broke Flash's hand, that Spider-Man debuted at the wrestling club shortly after the gang visited it, that Spider-Man showed up to save the school when the Green Goblin began to attack it...and Kong suddenly realizes Peter Parker is Spider-Man! Being Kong, his response to this is to then run through the school yelling this to the world. |
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Taito from Consolers has one when her game starts going faster as she plays. "And why does it keep going faster now? This just makes it keep getting harder and-" "Wait a minute..." The next moment, she's ready to introduce difficulty curves to the gaming world. | |
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In the Zero Escape series: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: In one ending, Junpei looks at Snake's dead body, whilst searching the Shower room for Clover, and notices his left arm's bone: the real Snake's left arm was in fact prosthetic. Snake is thus still alive, and Junpei slowly realizes who did it. In another route, Clover makes the connection. Heck, the entire plot is based on the idea that a person being in danger and having enough of these moments can trigger morphogenetic fields, essentially allowing telepathy. Junpei gets possibly the best one, so Akane can contact him. In Virtue's Last Reward, this happens to Sigma whenever he's in a tight situation and he suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, gains the knowledge to overcome it. There's also a few moments where Sigma accuses a character of being the one who planted the bombs due to suddenly knowing who it was for no apparent reason. Turns out whenever he has one of these moments, he's remembering something that he found out through "mind-jumping", where he jumps into the body of alternative timeline versions of himself. It's stated in game that one of the things needed for accessing the morphogenetic field is danger, hence why it typically only happens when he's in a tight spot. Sigma himself also doesn't remember his mind-jumping: From his perspective he IS just suddenly knowing information he can't know. In order to play through these moments, the player them-self has to have gone through one of the paths where the information is revealed through one way or another, before going back and having Sigma remember that information in the path where it isn't. |
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Maria no Danzai: While comforting Yajima over her trauma and her wishing that Kowase was never found, Maria muses how, after being bullied like she was, it's not strange that she would wish death upon Kowase. It certainly wouldn't be that strange if someone in her position considered outright killing people, either. She then remembers that there was another victim mentioned in Kiritaka's diary: the student he saved when he first became Okaya's target. Maria quickly guesses that said student, Akihiro Yuda, may have been the one responsible for murdering Iijima a couple of weeks before, and goes to talk to him about it; his reaction practically confirms her suspicions. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Tedd has such a moment when he realizes that the only way for Elliot to stop getting spells themed around turning into a girl is for one such spell to accurately reflect who he is. Magic is trying desperately to give him a spell that reflects his personality, but the gender bending, which is the one thing it is absolutely sure about, is also the one part it is getting wrong. After having her clothes spontaneously grow back to full size off her shrunken body, Grace is able to figure out how magic's change gave her the ability to transform her clothes. She then proceeds to follow tradition by shouting "Eureka" and running around naked. |
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Fashion Upgrade: Marinette decides the theme for the fashion show will be the temporary heroes of Paris after she prevents Chat Noir from falling off her couch and he thanks her calling her "his hero". Discussed. When asked how she came up with the idea of making Mayura the main character in the class play, which allows it to fit the chosen theme without hitting Paris’s Hawk Moth-shaped Trauma Button, Rose credits “a visit from inspiration.� “Inspiration� more frequently goes by the name Marinette Dupain-Cheng, but Rose can’t admit this because the class isn’t supposed to have outside help or discuss the details of their project with others. |
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In the Moldiver episode "Intruder", Mirai Ozora is cornered by the Machinegal Dolls in their Super Doll uniforms. However, she quickly deduces the suits are partly protected by a pseudo-molecule as opposed to the Moldiver suit, which is fully protected by said molecule and comes up with a plan to take the Dolls down. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992): A librarian gets the idea for a hot air balloon from a boy who draws an analogy to his bubble bath. | |
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RuneScape: During the events leading up to the destruction of the old wizards' tower, mages were baffled on how to make new teleportation spells. The Red apprentice was working on a different problem; how to increase the effectiveness of combat spells by bypassing defenses. He had an idea he thought would work, but couldn't figure out why it wasn't. So he showed it to the Grey apprentice, who had the Eureka Moment; his idea — sending the spell through a second plane with Law magic — was the solution to the teleportation problem. | |
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This Bites!: During the Thriller Bark arc, the crew ends up dealing with Moria who had Awakened his Devil Fruit powers, leading Su to snark that Soundbite was as helpless as the rest of them even though he's on the same level. This causes Soundbite to snap and go into a rant that he's still a snail and his powers still have limits, and that Awakened abilities take god-tier amounts of energy to use, topped off by saying even Moria's pushing it since he just Awakened, and that even if he had ten times his normal energy, Soundbite wouldn't be able to use as much power as Moria's using for ten minutes without burning out. Upon reaching those last two words, Cross and Soundbite realize how to defeat him. | |
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Justice Society of America: In Classified, at the end of The Fall and Rise of Vandal Savage story arc of, Vandal Savage is at his lowest point. He's dying of a brain tumor, all of his resources are gone, and he just failed to kill Alan Scott whom he sees as an embodiment of "The Green", a bogeyman of death that has haunted Vandal Savage throughout his long life. He bitterly realizes that Alan Scott will outlive him. The disfigured clone Vandal Savage made of himself as part of his failed scheme then asks him if there's anything he can do to make Savage comfortable and addresses him as "father". Vandal Savage pauses then asks the clone to repeat what he just called him. The clone calls him father again. This leads to Vandal realizing that the clone is technically a descendant of his, and since Vandal's immortality is rejuvenated by eating the flesh of his descendants... | |
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Daredevil: Parodied in a "how to draw the characters" variant cover: | |
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Arguably the entire point of Yakitate!! Japan, but applied to making bread. For example, one of these moments leads to the creation of Kazuma's "sushi-style" melon bread. | |
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In Utawarerumono, Hakuoro studies a strand of Mutikapa's fur in frustration, unable to explain why the creature fled the previous night when it had him and Eruruw in its grasp... unable, that is, until Eruruw drenches him and the fur in tea and this trope ensues. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Ash Ketchum has one of these in pretty much every Gym battle to turn it around (granted, his epiphanies don't always make the most sense). If you see him panicking because his opponent is pulling some kind of unbeatable schtick, then snap his head up with a thousand-yard stare and say "wait, that's it!", chances are someone's about to get their ass beat. Sometimes his companions do it too. May and Dawn get a few of these during their contest battles. Invoked by Cameron by snapping his headband back if he's in a pinch during a Pokémon battle. It doesn't always work though. |
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In Assassin's Creed II, Ezio and an ally are trying to figure out how to get into the Doge's palace to prevent an assassination plot. The friend remarks that the walls are so high, "only a bird could get over them". Ezio hears this and mutters "A bird... yes...", then runs off to ask Leonardo da Vinci about that flying machine of his... Leonardo later has his own Eureka Moment after they discover that said flying machine doesn't get very far on its own. In his frustration, he throws a piece of paper into the fire, where it starts to rise from the heat, inspiring the crew to set up bonfires across Venice. Bartolomeo inspires Ezio to another Eureka Moment when he realizes that they have no chance of storming Baron de Valois's fortress to rescue Pantasilea. He starts wondering if it would just be best to just give himself up, leading Ezio to his idea of disguising the mercenaries as French soldiers and pretending that he surrendered himself to get past the gates. |
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The Ouroboros: April, like the rest of her companions, is puzzled about how the Stable Time Loop they're supposedly enacting is meant to work, especially since their future counterparts have refused to offer any real explanations, citing 'spoilers'. Things click into place when she overhears a sulking Leo, sore over Donnie's teasing about how he's Not So Above It All, grumbles "No wonder our future selves don't want us to come home." This causes her to realize that their counterparts lied — they really don't want them to come home. Ever. | |
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Togusa gets two of these moments, early in the first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and in both of them, he's in a bathroom, looking at the mirror. In the second, the mirror is crucial: He realizes that, from the batch of pictures he's examining, all of them show a mirror or other reflective surface, but the camera isn't visible in any of them. In fact, this is basically his main schtick. It's one of the reasons he's one of Section 9's most effective members; he's really good at putting the pieces together. |
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The Order of the Stick: A monster of some kind has planted itself outside the entrance of Xykon's lair. Xykon wants it caught alive so Redcloak can tame it. Annoyed, Redcloak complains how difficult that is, and that the last monster they had only fell asleep after eating. This inspires the two villains to defeat the beast by feeding several dozen of their own minions to it, even going as far as giving that giant crackers and celery sticks. Elan has one after Roy suggests not to focus on Tarquin and Nale as part of his family and that he should focus on his figurative family instead. He decides to send a message to Julio Scoundrél, whom he had met earlier. Vaarsuvius has one when complaining about how incredibly difficult they're finding it to defeat Zzd'tri. Towards the end of Blood Runs in the Family and for a good majority of Utterly Dwarfed, Roy spends the two arcs convinced that Vampire Durkon is still really Durkon, when in reality the vampire is possessing Durkon's body. It isn't until "Giving Up Hope" that the vampire tries to bring down Roy by bringing up one of his darkest memories. Realizing that the real Durkon would never do something that cruel, Roy finally realizes Durkon is Not Himself. |
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Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness (Megas XLR & Touhou Project): Reimu experiences one of these. When Coop is able to attack both Yuuka and her clone in the midst of a Double Spark, she has a flashback to the events of Imperishable Night and the teamwork needed to resolve the incident... and it's there that she's finally able to figure out how to get everyone out of the fight alive. | |
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Parodied in the first season finale of Telltale's Sam & Max: Freelance Police series. Most fans had figured out by this point who the season villain was, so at the beginning of the episode Sam is trying to figure out who the villain is. Max has to drop increasingly obvious clues before Sam finally figures it out... through a nonsensical logical leap based on the fact that he's never said the word "morning." | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has at least one of these, when Calvin becomes The Insomniac and tries to get to sleep, an inquiry regarding stopping all noise prompts Hobbes to use the Time Pauser. | |
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In A Sword to Pass, Rau and Bo-katan have one when the conversation for a representative for the pacifist moves to the Wrens. They both realize that Alrich would be the perfect person to find a suitable representative and that no one would dare to assassinate such a high profiled member of House Vizsla. | |
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Happens a few times in the Ace Attorney series. In case 4 of the first game, you're backed into a corner, you have no proof that the witness isn't who he says he is, and it looks like you're going to lose. von Karma then says something as a joke which suddenly turns everything around: "Perhaps you would like to cross-examine the parrot for some comic relief?" This trope is probably why the Edgeworth-based spin-off game makes his catchphrase "Eureka!" He actually does get one in AAI case 2, when Zinc LeBlanc falls over the railing in the plane's cargo bay, raising the possibility that the victim was pushed to his death, and died much earlier than Edgeworth realized. At several points in AAI Edgeworth will hit a brick wall with his confrontations, but then the player is reminded of past innocuous scraps of conversation, then links together half a dozen or so pieces of logic, which leads to a whole new perspective on the case. Dual Destinies features Revisualization (Thought Route in Japan), which shows the character's thought process as they come up with the Eureka Moment. Spirit of Justice once again features Revisualization. However, the most noteworthy moment for the game comes in the final case, where Apollo has to, on the spot, and at gunpoint, figure out how to dethrone a country's queen. First he zeroes in on Ga'ran's obsession with the Founder's Orb, and rebel leader Dhurke's comments that the Orb is the key to overthrowing her. He figures that there must be some reason that Ga'ran wants the Orb so desperately. Thinking through the possibilities, he realizes that people want the Founder's Orb because it's said to grant spiritual power, which is one of the preresequites to claim the throne under the kingdom's laws, and if Ga'ran wants it because of that, that would mean that she has no spiritual power of her own. And if Ga'ran doesn't actually have any spiritual power, then that means that Ga'ran has no claim to the throne. |
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Vegeta gets one during the final battle against Buu in Dragon Ball Z. When Goku doesn't have the energy to push the Spirit Bomb to destroy Buu, Vegeta tries to get Mr. Satan to talk the people of Earth into giving more energy, and Mr. Satan refuses, because it would probably kill them (as they had already donated their energy to form the Spirit Bomb in the first place). Vegeta angrily points out that if it wasn't for his plan to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish back Earth and its people, they'd all still be dead... and then Vegeta realizes that they still have a wish left, which they use to restore Goku's energy. | |
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Tomb Raider (2013): After cauterizing her wounded side, the intense pain gives Lara the idea to create Flaming Arrows. | |
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Parodied in the "Store Detective" skit in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: | |
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According to IMDB, composer Bill Conti had a rocking theme all ready for the Training Montage, but couldn't figure out what to call it. Director Avildsen, impressed by the nameless piece, agreed that "It should be almost like Rocky is flying now." | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: In one ending, Junpei looks at Snake's dead body, whilst searching the Shower room for Clover, and notices his left arm's bone: the real Snake's left arm was in fact prosthetic. Snake is thus still alive, and Junpei slowly realizes who did it. In another route, Clover makes the connection. Heck, the entire plot is based on the idea that a person being in danger and having enough of these moments can trigger morphogenetic fields, essentially allowing telepathy. Junpei gets possibly the best one, so Akane can contact him. |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Haruhi Suzumiya & TV Tropes; author Died During Production): Mikuru realizes a loophole to allow a time traveler to change history without violating causality after commenting to Kyon that the dinner she just cooked was "add[ing] some things from outside of the normal recipe". | |
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Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk: In Chapter 38, after seeing a modeling photo of Hana (who he knows is a boy) and Udon (who he knows is actually Shimazaki), Yuzuru sees Shimazaki walking by with Hanae. He suddenly realizes who Hana really is. | |
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Minilife TV: In "Trouble Ian Paradise", when Chris chases after Ian in their freezer, Ian loses his grip on a mountain of ice, leaving him and Chris hanging from it. Ian says he really needs to pee, which gives Chris the idea for Ian to melt some of the ice with his urine to create a small cave for them to take refuge in. In "The X-Team Attacks", after the X-Team announces their plan to execute the fighters of the 28th Legondo World Martial Arts Tournament, Chris and Ian wonder what they can do to stop them. Ian asks Jack if the time machine at Minilife Studios is fixed, but Jack says its time-travelling function is still broken and it can only teleport. After Chris realizes it can still be used as a teleporter, they get the idea to teleport to the arena and rescue the fighters in time. |
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In the Horseshoes and Hand Grenades story, SplitxEnd, Yayoi figures out how Gentaro was resurrected from the dead after seeing her best friend JK being possessed by Ryutaros and having to beat him up with a pillow. In A Month of Sundays, Akiko as Kamen Rider Skull makes a comment about Shotaro not knowing about justice that makes Jun solve everything regarding Damballa's Carnival of the Human Spirit act clear. |
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In Mister Ajikko, whenever Yoichi is unsure about what to do to solve his culinary problems at hand, expect him to encounter something seemingly unrelated that will inspire and lead him to a needed solution soon afterwards. | |
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A meta example for Super Smash Bros.: Masahiro Sakurai gets swarmed with dozens of requests for characters to join the roster, and naturally, not everyone can make the cut. His solution to this? Let the players add who they want with Mii Fighters, complete with a variety of in-game costumes, three fighting styles to choose from, and twelve special attacks for each fighting style! | |
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