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Suspect Is Hatless
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You're a witness to a crime, and you saw the criminal and which way he's going. There's just one problem: you can only offer a uselessly vague description of no help to anyone. For example, the best you can do is that you're almost certain he wasn't wearing a hat. This happens with both civilians and police officers. Basically, a witness gives a vague and more-or-less useless description, with the only definite clues being ultimately irrelevant (or at least apparently unhelpful). Truth in Television, when it comes to witness descriptions, especially in cases when it wasn't obvious that the suspect was committing a crime at the time. May result from watching The Nondescript commit a crime, since they're naturally unmemorable. May lead to Amalgamated Individual where every crime committed by a hatless suspect is attributed to a single person. |
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In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon tells Puck to smear the love potion on the eyes of a youth dressed in Athenian garb. Given the play is set in a forest just outside of Athens, it is perhaps not surprising that Puck smears the potion on the eyes of the wrong youth dressed in Athenian garb. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Parodied in Red Ears. A woman filing a police report gives an incredibly precise description of her rapist's appearance (muscular, balding, red beard, black glasses, yellow bowtie, striped green-maroon jacket, beige trenchcoat, grey fedora) to the police officer interviewing her, but he doesn't seem to notice that she's talking about his lieutenant. | |
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One Herman strip featured a man who had been tied up and left lying face-flat on the floor by a burglar. The only thing he can give the police is a very detailed description of the crook's shoes and shoelaces. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, strip 602, Haley tries to describe Durkon to a cleric. She has difficulty distinguishing him from most other dwarves. | |
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The Swan Princess: The dying king describes Rothbart's transformed form (which is a gigantic bat-man hybrid) who attacked him and took Odette, as "a great animal" that "is not what it seems". This (and Derek's discovery that the king meant a transforming "animal") doesn't really helps them in determining which animal to start looking for and as such leads to hilarity (comic sidekick Bromley trying unsuccessfully to attack various small animals) and drama (Derek trying to kill the transformed Odette, because an animal that "is not what it seems" obviously could disguise itself into something like a swan...). | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who audio "Day of the Master", when the Eighth Doctor asks his companion Liv to describe which incarnation of the Master she just met, Liv is only able to describe him as "bearded, urbane and a bit sadistic". This is an accurate description of the Master Liv met, who is the War Master, but the Doctor notes that the description could apply to many incarnations of the Master, which thus prevents the Doctor from realizing that this version of the Master is from his relative future. | |
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Subverted in the third Valhalla album, when Thor tries to describe his encounter with a mysterious stranger. Loki asks "How many eyes did he have?", and it occurs to Thor that the stranger was, in fact, one-eyed, which means it was probably Odin (who has been missing for a while). | |
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Youngblood (2017) begins with a character trying to report her missing friend to the police. The problem? They're both superheroes, and she doesn't know his real name or what he looks like without a mask. The best that she can give is his hero name (Man-Up) and the fact that he's tall. | |
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Early on in Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter gets captured and unmasked by the Kingpin, with the crime boss planning to send a recording of this to the media. However, Spider-Man escapes and destroys the tapes, and as neither the Kingpin nor his minions bothered to memorize his face, all they can remember is "white male teenager", which isn't exactly helpful in New York City. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: In the first episode of the TV series, the main trio's teacher-of-the-week, Briefcase, vanishes into thin air and the puppets ask the nearby factory workers if they've seen him. The Red Guy describes Briefcase as a "strange box person," and when one of the workers mistakenly believes he's referring to the first aid kit, Red Guy replies that the guy he's looking for is "more of a business bag." Yellow Guy does an even worse job describing Briefcase, neglecting to mention that the missing teacher is a sentient briefcase at all; instead, he offers vague descriptors like "He eats breakfast" and "He's one of those ones with one of himself!?" (Referring to how Briefcase carries a smaller, non-sentient briefcase of his own.) | |
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In Mage: The Ascension, the Arcane ability weaponizes this trope. It messes with the victim's recollections so they cannot provide an accurate description (they'll forget some of these: age, hair color, clothing, items carried, even sex). While more costly, it can be more powerful when used on multiple targets, since their descriptions will conflict with each other. Even if someone remembers you well, everyone else will insist that their memories are also accurate. Higher ranks of Arcane will also cause photographs of you to become blurry, and database entries about you to disappear. The lesser-known science fiction game Alternity copies this in its psionic power Obscure. |
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Some editions of Shadowrun have "Nondescript" as a purchasable quality - you look so generic that any attempt to describe you falls into this trope. Even a facial recognition AI has trouble distinguishing you from the millions of other people in its databanks - at best, it comes up with "a human/elf/dwarf/troll/orc" and gives up. | |
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Jenny Nicholson criticizes the show Paranormal Home Inspectors for its psychic invariably describing having trouble breathing on the basis it's a generic manifestation (linked to her overall vague and muddled readings), and listing the myriad deaths that could result in this phenomenon all the way up to "being dead and therefore no longer able to breathe, as in, all ghosts". | |
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Welcome to Night Vale: The Man In The Tan Jacket, who is unremarkable and indescribable to anyone who sees him, outside of noting that he wears a tan jacket and carries a briefcase full of flies. He is "about five or six-foot something, probably with hair and normal human features." Admittedly, this is Night Vale, where "[probably has] normal human features" excludes a fair chunk of residents and visitors. Cecil and Kevin's descriptions of each other are basically "this is a guy who looks like me only creepier". Without telling the audience what "looks like me" actually means. The only concrete things we get is that they are neither tall nor short, fat nor thin, and have at least two eyes; Kevin's being completely black. |
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In Lost Together, the Musk Dynasty is seeking for the thief who stole a royal heirloom — a readheaded girl. Since Ranko also fits the description, they start chasing after her, to the real thief's dismay as she never meant to involve an innocent in this mess. | |
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The lesser-known science fiction game Alternity copies this in its psionic power Obscure. | |
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In one issue of Groo the Wanderer, Groo asks a passerby whether he has seen the man who was standing next to where Groo was standing a while back. | |
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The Dog's attempt to describe Cousin Cathy in Footrot Flats includes that she only has hair on the top of her head and she walks on her hind legs, because all humans look alike to him. Fortunately, Wal can't understand him anyway. | |
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