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Caught in a storm or Negative Space Wedgie, one or a party of travellers happen on a long-lost scientist or wizard (depending on the setting). This person has considerable local power, often with some kind of slaves or robots to do his bidding, but either cannot leave their place of exile, or chooses not to. This is a trope about accidental rediscovery (at least from the traveller's point of view). If the travellers have gone looking for the lost scientist or wizard then they are more likely to be seeking a Hermit Guru. In most cases the Affably Evil lost scientist or wizard has either a dark secret or a sinister goal that requires the travellers. He may have a supporting cast of servants or slaves, and may also have a beautiful daughter to provide romantic interest, typically introduced in a No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine scene. He may be famously lost so that one of the heroes can fill in his Backstory by starting with "I read about him at school...". Any unusual equipment that he has is justified by A Wizard Did It. If the lost scientist or wizard is not evil then he may have been secretly watching the party and decided that these people are worthy of help, usually some form of Applied Phlebotinum. The arrival of the right heroes can also induce a Heel–Face Turn on the part of an evil scientist/wizard, or induce a formerly good one to take off their Jade-Colored Glasses. The earliest known version of this trope is The Tempest (making it Older Than Steam), in which the exiled wizard Prospero causes a storm in order to bring a party travelling by sea onto his island in order to wreak revenge. The setting of a lost wizard on an island won't work in the modern world, but the concept has been Recycled with a Gimmick several times, most famously in Forbidden Planet, with a scientist on a planet instead of a wizard on an island. The lost scientists in these versions lack Prospero's Invisibility Cloak, so only the dark secret or motive is kept hidden. Instead, the relationship between the travellers and the scientist is used to drive a mystery plot with the travellers gradually realizing that all is not as it seems. The Unbuilt Trope from which this came may have been the King in the Mountain. Not to be confused with Stumbled Into the Plot. Examples |
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In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke crashes into Dagobah and just so happens to land right next to the grand Jedi master, Yoda. Luke doesn't even think that the little frog man he meets could be Yoda because he hadn't even begun to look for the guy yet! | |
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In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gonn stumbles upon the Chosen One and son of a virgin mother, Anakin Skywalker, because they randomly decided to look for ship parts in the one neighborhood on the one planet where anyone like Anakin existed. | |
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In The Hour of the Dragon, an unconscious Conan the Barbarian is found and healed by a hermit witch. When he tells her what's happening to Cimmeria, she decides to help fight for the country's freedom. | |
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An early arc of 8-Bit Theater has the party get sucked into a Negative Space Wedgie to meet Sarda, "The Wizard Who Did It". | |
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Charles Ludlam's play Utopia, Incorporated borrows liberally from the plot of The Tempest, and thus has Anarch, leader of the utopian island (with beautiful daughter). | |
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In The Last Continent the wizards of Unseen University stumble upon the God of Evolution, who chose self-exile after he destroyed a city in a fit of pique. The space-time wedgie which trapped the wizards was a window portal that was improperly wedged open. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic: The party is sent down to the Kashyyyk Shadowlands. They soon stumble on Jolee Bindo, a self-exiled Jedi who is aware that he's known as "the crazy old man in the dangerous woods," and volunteers himself into the party in exchange for leading them to the Plot Coupon. Yes, he knew exactly who the Player Character was (or is), but figured it wasn't his place to say anything. Jolee is nothing if not very meta about the whole concept. | |
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In Everworld, Merlin follows the characters around, trying to capture Senna; and when he is encountered, it is often this trope. He means no harm to the characters other than Senna; and even with Senna, he wishes she would understand that his attempts to capture her are for the greater good of both Everworld and Senna's own safety (she doesn't ever see it this way). | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender In "The Deserter", Aang and friends happen to bump into the servant of the legendary firbending master Jeong-Jeong. He has a hidden encampment where fellow deserters learn from his example and fight any intruders who disturb his solitude. He isn't as sinister as other examples of this trope, but he is cynical and only reluctantly agrees to help the heroes learn his magical arts. In "The Swamp", a tornado sends our heroes tumbling into a vast swamp that is guarded by a waterbending guru whose spiritual wisdom and bending techniques are not seen anywhere else in the world. He starts as an antagonist, as with many examples of this trope, but as it becomes clear that the heroes mean the swamp no harm, he shares his insight into the magic of the swamp and connectedness of all things. |
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Critical Role: Campaign Two: The Nein and their stowaway, Twiggy, find a golden orb able to make coins appear from the air, but discover that it is actually a portal to a pocket dimension that is home to the long-lost wizard Halas and his many monsters and experiments. This has factors of both the wizard and scientist version of the trope, since while Halas has dragons and enchantments galore, he also has laser weaponry, automatons of stone and steel, and even malformed clones akin to Frankenstein's monster. | |
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A New Hope has Luke 'accidentally' meet Obi-Wan Kenobi, samurai space-wizard. Later it transpires that Kenobi has been keeping a close eye on Luke, and their meeting was no accident. | |
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In Wings of Fire, Sunny discovers the animus Stonemover in Jade Mountain. He stays there because he turned himself partially into stone to counteract the standard effects of using animus powers, and sustains himself by enchanting a fox to bring him food every few days. | |
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In The Island of Doctor Moreau, the protagonist discovers Dr Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London, experimenting with the uplift of animals to humans through painful surgery. | |
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Toll the Hounds: Harllo stumbles upon a legless T'lan Imass deep down in the mine. Nimander and his companions stumble upon Gothos in his abandoned Azath Tower, although he may be lost by his own will. |
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Played with in The Dragon Prince. Viren spends a season and a half trying to figure out the purpose of a Magic Mirror; he eventually uses it to contact Aaravos, an Ambiguously Evil figure who seems to be very important to the setting's lore. However, Aaravos is still trapped somewhere by the end of season three, but still "helps" Viren to accomplish his goals. | |
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The Black Hole has the lost scientist Dr. Reinhardt alone on a giant ship full of robots (some of whom turn out to be the original crew with mind-control implants), plus big robot Maximillian as The Dragon. The eponymous black hole is the Negative Space Wedgie. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series uses this a couple of times: "Metamorphosis": Lost scientist Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, is discovered by the Enterprise. "Requiem for Methuselah": Mr. Flint owns a planet in the Omega system. He has a number of robots as servants and a beautiful female ward named Rayna Kapec. He has tremendous technological power, enough to destroy the Enterprise. He has two dark secrets. The first is that he is an immortal man from Earth and is thousands of years old. The second is that his ward is not human, but actually an android robot in female form, and he needs to have her emotions wakened so she will love him. Her name may be a reference to Karel Čapek, who coined the word "robot". |
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Forbidden Planet is The Tempest IN SPACE!, with Prospero replaced by Dr. Edward Morbius. | |
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In The Mysterious Island, five American balloonists are marooned on an island in the South Pacific. They eventually discover the aged Captain Nemo still living in the Nautilus, which is hidden in a cave under the island. Nemo turns out to have been behind a number of strange but helpful events in the story. | |
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Happens twice in The Force Awakens. For one, Finn happens to leave the First Order within a few miles of Rey, perhaps the most powerful Force-user in the franchise, and befriend her without knowing any of this. Then, they randomly decide to steal a ship which happens to belong to legendary war-hero Han Solo, who meets up with them to take back his ship. | |
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In Cycle of Hatred, Jaina Proudmoore is looking for a place to create a settlement and stumbles on a hidden shack protected by powerful wards. After bypassing the wards, she discovers Aegwynn, the only female Guardian of Tirisfal and Jaina's childhood hero. Aegwynn ends up helping Jaina defeat a demon and becomes her secret advisor. | |
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Up has the explorer Charles F. Muntz with a huge pack of talking dogs living in his airship. In the No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine scene, the cook is one of his dogs. | |
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In Surf's Up, after Cody gets hurt surfing, lifeguard Nani takes her to her uncle Zeke, a reclusive hermit living in the jungle, to recuperate. Eventually, Cody recognizes Zeke for who he really is — his childhood surfing idol Big Z, who faked his own death to get away from the limelight. | |
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DuckTales: During the "Gold Odyssey" arc, the heroes encounter a Really 700 Years Old sorcerer named Laird who serves as the antagonist for that part of the story. | |
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The Legend of Korra: In season 2, the titular character is lost at sea after being attacked by a dark spirit and ends up washed ashore at the footsteps of the Fire Sages, an order of mystics loyal to the Avatar who happen to be able to trigger her memories of her original past life. In season 4, Korra bumps into a spirit that she follows into a vast swamp, where she runs into the reclusive and legendary originator of metalbending, Toph Beifong. Toph is reluctant to help Korra and is very antagonistic towards her, but she does let her know about the true limits of metalbending and seismic sense. |
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Babylon 5: Sheridan meeting Lorien on Z'ha'dum. Lorien had been living there for millennia, and as he was the First One, the Shadows had built their stronghold around this place out of a largely forgotten veneration. Sheridan was the first of the young races to "come this far" and actually meet Lorien, who then became instrumental in helping him. Since he has some powers that might be described as "supernatural", one could say he's a "lost wizard" of sorts. Lorien has no sinister motive, but that doesn't stop Garibaldi suspecting him of one. | |
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