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Models of larger things are often used in fiction for a variety of reasons. Heck, if there isn't an immediate thing happening with the model in one scene, it's likely something will happen later. One common use is models to describe plans (that will go wrong of course). Often overlaps with The Big Board, Exposition Diagram and Planning with Props. Another is a Corrupt Corporate Executive showing the plans he makes for some place he is going to rebuild after tearing down some place (that the heroes have to save). Sometimes a model can actually be one of the special effects props on a show, thrown in as a nod to attentive fans. A Super-Trope to: Miniature Effects (the models have a meta use in the show) Model Planning (using these when describing plans) Reality Changing Miniature (the model affects the real object when interacted with) Scale Model Destruction (the model is doomed) This Is What the Building Will Look Like (a model of a future construction we are not likely to see completed). Compare Fun Size. |
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The Simpsons: In the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy", Homer enters a "build a model nuclear power plant" contest for kids... and not only kicks their asses,note Homer's copy of the existing plant but with stripes added beat Martin's functioning model for a better one because Burns hates being told everything he's done isn't already perfect but humiliates his antagonistic co-worker into a Villainous Breakdown and accidental suicide! |
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Diamonds Are Forever: Willard Whyte has a rather large image of the United States on the floor with models of all his enterprises. This provides a "Eureka!" Moment where the Supervillain Lair is, when Bond points out a model of an offshore oil rig that isn't part of Whyte's business empire. | |
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In one Dilbert strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss is shown a model of a nuclear power plant their company is building. When he asks how large the real one will be, Dilbert says it will be half the model's size and cost $20 to build. | |
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On Austin Powers, Number Two says the trope quote, which includes the fact that one of Megacorp's enterprises is a factory that builds models of factories. | |
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In The World God Only Knows Haqua tries to summarize the events of her introductory arc with a miniature model of the school and animated dolls. It ends up with the figurines of Keima and Haqua engaging in… questionable activities. | |
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The climax of Hot Fuzz is in a model of the town (including an infamous weaponizing of it). | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail names the trope when Arthur's servant snipes that Camelot is just a special effects model (and is immediately shushed), after all the knights act amazed at the sight. Ironically, it wasn't a model; the filmmakers used a real castle because a model would've been too expensive. | |
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In Despicable Me, Gru gives a pep talk to his Minions, during which he reveals that they had stolen the Statue of Liberty- "The small one from Las Vegas," that is, as well as a respective replica of the Eiffel Tower. | |
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The Goodies' sketch (above) of a Viking ship foundering in a mighty maelstrom which turns out to be a model in a bathtub first saw the light of day in the show's radio precursor, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, also written by Garden and Oddie. | |
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In The Mighty Boosh episode "The Nightmare of Milky Joe" there appears to be a ship in the distance that may rescue our heroes from the island they're stranded on. It's only a model, as Vince proves when he reaches out and plucks it right off the horizon. | |
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Fred in The Flintstones, in his first executive board meeting where Cliff is describing the pre-planned community he plans to build with his new revolutionary automated construction system that will make traditional quarrying obsolete. After unveiling the model of the community, Fred stands up, picks up one of the model houses and asks aloud: | |
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Battle of the Bulge. Col. Martin Hessler is being shown models of Germany's new wonder weapons, including one of the King Tiger tank. He snarks, "It's a very beautiful model, General. It proves that the Germans are still the world's best toy makers." However the general just smiles and takes him to inspect the very real King Tigers they've assembled for the upcoming attack. | |
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In Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "An Embarrassment of Dooplers", Tendi and Rutherford spend the episode building a model of their ship, the USS Cerritos. A fully functional model, complete with phasers and a working warp core. At the end of the episode, Tendi decides to up their game with a model of Deep Space Nine, complete with miniature Jadiza and Erzi Dax! | |
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Wrong is Right. Sean Connery's character is briefing the White House staff on what will happen to New York City if the two suitcase nukes hidden there by terrorists explode, when he's apparently Killed Mid-Sentence along with everyone else amid scenes of the city burning and melting amid a fiery mushroom cloud. We then see everyone staring glumly at a smoldering model of New York that's just been destroyed in a simulated blast. | |
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Close to the halfway mark of the VeggieTales episode "Rack, Shack, and Benny", Mr. Nezzer shows the titular characters a model of the giant amphitheater and bunny statue that he's constructed so the workers can bow down and show their love for the bunny. | |
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The Mann vs. Machine map Coaltown in Team Fortress 2 includes a small museum containing, among other things, a model of ... the map itself. | |
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In Black Adder Goes Forth Melchett and Darling show George a model of the stretch of ground that has been captured in the latest battle. It turns out that the model is on a scale of 1:1, so the actual gain is only a few square feet. Closer examination reveals that it's not even a model — it's the actual square of turf. | |
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Zoolander: When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the "Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too," Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus In the Architect's Sketch, the second architect (the one who didn't design an abattoir) shows a model of a high rise block of flats that falls apart in various ways during the presentation, ending with it catching fire. The developers nevertheless decide to go with the design, saying it will probably be OK if the tenants don't weight very much and they have a spate of good weather. But it's mostly because the architect was a Freemason. | |
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