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This is when Chekhov's Gun has been fired enough to make it predictable to long-time viewers. Basically something will happen in a show, and a viewer knows what is going to happen next. Let's say some woman buys a new dress. If it's fancy enough, and she gushes over it, that dress is getting wrecked. Or say a guy has a fear of flying even if that is never shown before. Odds are he is going to get over it by the end (except when you're being ironic in the Alanis Morissette sense). This is common in Strictly Formula fiction, but it doesn't necessarily hurt the story. Note this is strictly when the clue is In-Universe. If the clue is meta to the story, it's another trope. Let's say Sgt. Bilko in The Phil Silvers Show has a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme. Even if we know it's not going to work, it doesn't count because it's what always happens on the show. Now if he had a certain part of his plan that made it clear exactly how the plan would fail, that would be this trope. Or let's say Dr. House thinks he's solved the latest disease mystery. If the only clue that he hasn't solved it yet is the fact that the episode is only half over (or he hasn't ruled out lupus by then), that is not this trope. That is Spoiled by the Format. Or if you're watching anything from Joss Whedon and you just know that the characters will be throwing Buffy Speak left and right, the Happily Married couple will implode or that the most likable Mauve Shirt in the bunch will be Killed Off for Real in a horrible fashion. Or playing a BioWare game and can spot your future party member three levels before they actually join, or things are going so well at Act 2 that you're just waiting on The Reveal to throw everything straight to hell? Nope, that's Signature Style. Should you sit through enough stories of Doctor Who and notice that the Doctor or someone else defeats the Daleks seemingly for good, but you know from experience that it won't be long before they come back just as though nothing happened, bigger and badder than ever. You're really dealing with Joker Immunity. Again, that trope is just a relative of this one. Ways this trope 'can count'' include if the characters are aware of what is going to happen, that is Lampshade Hanging due to Genre Savvy. You can also know when a proper example of a Subverted Trope happens, when something is telegraphed, but doesn't happen. A Super-Trope to Tempting Fate (characters saying something that dares the universe into making things miserable for them, with the universe happily complying), Too Happy to Live (the extreme happiness makes it clear that tragedy is about to strike). Finally, examples shouldn't be specific, so much as be just about the clue, and what is going to happen next. See also Foreshadowing. Compare Suspicious Video-Game Generosity and similar video game tropes that give away tough sections through their level design. |
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Dr. House has a new patient with a mysterious ailment. Said patient has a minor symptom that is mentioned, dismissed as irrelevant, and not mentioned for the next 30-40 minutes. Bet you ten bucks House's brilliant final diagnosis is based mostly on that one symptom. | |
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Exploited by Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger. The protagonist's vast knowledge of Super Sentai tropes allows him to notice when something happens during a battle that leads to the heroes winning, cuing the team to start turning the tables. Subverted in season 2's episode 11: Malshina has performed a Hostile Show Takeover on the Super Sentai series and altered the real world to one in which evil wins and all these "flags" are reversed, resulting in Delu-Knight winning a battle after doing a bunch of things that would make him lose. Later, Nobuo exploits this fact by doing the same thing. |
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The First 48: The police have a suspect in interrogation. Is his face blurred? If the answer is "yes", he's not getting arrested. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: Whenever the Instant Bandages on a character last for more than a single panel, it's guaranteed that the bandaged body part will suffer at least one more Amusing Injury. | |
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Oh, look, the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers are showing interest in a topic or issue that they usually don't. I wonder if the Big Bad in the moon will find some way to turn it into or summon an appropriate monster, inadvertently teaching them a valuable life lesson on the issue in the process. | |
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The Incredible Hulk (1977): Not so often as Once an Episode, but if there's any water around whenever Banner hulks out, the baddie is gonna get wet. | |
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On Perry Mason, in the period at the beginning of the episode where the murder hasn't happened yet, if someone says anything along the lines of "I'll kill you" to another person, the second person will end up dead pretty soon and the first person will be the prime suspect (and hence Perry's client). In court, if Perry asks to reserve the right to recall a witness, it's likely that said witness is the killer. | |
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Criminal Intent likes to defy the trope by offering up multiple guest stars in an episode. | |
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The Disney Ducks Comic Universe practically has its own private set of Undead Horse Tropes, elements that have been used to death and back again during the trillions of stories so far. For example: | |
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Spoofed in That Mitchell and Webb Look's "Get Me Hennimore!" sketches, parodying old A Simple Plan sitcoms. Bumbling assistant is given two incredibly easy-to-confuse tasks by his oblivious boss, who has to leave the office for some contrived reason - Gilligan Cut to the inevitable chaos that the boss comes back to. | |
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Star Trek: Every Sugar Bowl planet that our heroes visit will turn out to be a Crapsaccharine World. In the episode Timescape, in an early scene on the time-frozen Enterprise you can see a Romulan in the background moving slightly. On initial watching it's easy to dismiss it as the actor not standing still properly. But ten minutes later it turns out to be one of the non-time-frozen aliens, so it's the *character* not standing still properly. |
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The Onion parodies this in "President Faces Down Monster In Action-Packed Schedule" with the White House Press Secretary summing the President's upcoming day like a standard disaster movie. He also reports that in a few years, the President will repeat this schedule but with greater production values and shittier writing. "Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster" |
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If, on nearly any episode of Monk, something is given somewhat significant notice, it will be used to solve the crime. | |
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Law & Order: A big-name guest star is on "The Mothership" or SVU: If this star isn't the victim or the defense lawyer, (s)he's the perp. Criminal Intent likes to defy the trope by offering up multiple guest stars in an episode. If there's a courthouse Perp Walk, there's a 50/50 chance of a Vigilante Execution. If said walk occurs at the halfway point of the episode or 55-minute mark, the question becomes who's going to pull the trigger. |
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Dateline: If a homicide victim's close family member, particularly a spouse, is not interviewed in the first half of the episode, there's about a 90% chance that person will be found guilty of their murder before it's over. | |
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One of the girls on Sister, Sister just got two hot dates. Everyone knows there'll be a Twin Switch coming. | |
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Game of Thrones: Two characters share a scene of open and genuine heartfelt emotion - be it romantic, familial or True Companions-type? One or both of them will end up dead or maimed by the end of the season. It's even odds they don't make it through that episode. Season Six may have disrupted the pattern with the reunion of Sansa and Jon. But since Jon had already been murdered and resurrected and Sansa had been put through the ringer by Ramsey Bolton, that might still count. | |
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In Urban Legend, familiarity with the urban legends involved can spoil the experience. The "Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light?" sequence is particularly foreshadowed. | |
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For at least the first few seasons, if an attractive woman showed up on Two and a Half Men for one or two episodes, if Charlie wasn't sleeping with her, Alan would be. | |
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Doctor Who. Any exciting new technology, whether in the Present Day or The Future, is either going to Go Horribly Wrong and create monsters, or was always secretly meant to create monsters. A Sugar Bowl planet created thanks to an exciting new technology? Yep, it's both. | |
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Olaf's Frozen Adventure: Elsa going up into the castle's attic looking for Anna sets up a classic jump scare as Anna is hiding in one of the trunks. Prompting a gasp and a mild "Anna, what are you doing?" from Elsa. As they browse Elsa's trunk of old belongings, it seems set up for a second jump scare. Anna finds it only full of Elsa's old gloves. Elsa lifts out a row of gloves and her childhood stuffed penguin Sir Jorgen Bjorgen. She reaches into her trunk and pulls out a small wooden box with two tiny bells on it. She hands it to Anna and tells her to look inside...and finds old drawings of Olaf that Anna would slip under Elsa's door. | |
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Swords over a fireplace, where any characters have any sword experience whatsoever, or even if they don't, as in How I Met Your Mother. There will be a sword fight, almost certainly with lots and lots of Flynning | |
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Frasier: Oh look, the Cranes are throwing a party. Cue A Simple Plan, with the occasional "Fawlty Towers" Plot. | |
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