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The trap has been set. Now, it's time for someone to fall into it. Or, the heroes have discovered the evil plan, but there's nothing they can actually do about it until the plan is in motion. So you line up the cannon, circle the horses, and... Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })If it's the hero having this exchange, it's often followed by a Time-Compression Montage. If it's the villain, we generally cut directly to our heroes approaching the trap. Note that if someone gets tired of waiting and attempts pre-emptive action, the consequences are usually dire. Used to be commonly rendered as "And now we play the Waiting Game...", but this line is now almost never played straight. Take this example from The Simpsons: The Waiting Puzzle is the video game version. Compare The Stakeout. When The Plan involves waiting for a very long time, it's a Long Game. |
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The Doom novels had this trope invoked frequently from the second book through the fourth book, generally expressed as "Hurry up and wait." | |
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In Sluggy Freelance Hereti-Corp's overall plan for finding Dr. Steve's base lab is to wait until Torg (one of only three or four living people who's been there) gets scared enough of Oasis that he goes to the lab looking for a tool or weapon to stop her with. May be the best strategy, since their two attempts to force the information out of Torg both ended with a lot of Hereti-Corp personnel getting killed. The Fate Spiders, after they make some alterations to the Web of Fate, sit back to see whether their efforts save the world, since the actions of character(s) who are Immune to Fate make even their long term predictions somewhat uncertain. And the Sentient Cream Pies With Great Comic Timing. |
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Subverted by Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. | |
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From Chuck Norris Facts: "Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He waits." | |
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Edgedancer (a novella of The Stormlight Archive): Lift tells this to Wyndle as they begin The Stakeout. This being said, she gets tired of it pretty quickly and goes to sleep, telling Wyndle to hold the fort and wake her up if anything happens. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks stakes out a burglar in the episode "The Burglar". | |
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Jerkcity uses this after they seek help from a god of dicks. | |
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Lampshaded in the Neighborhood Cluck Productions abridged parody of Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone. | |
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In Star Trek (2009), Nero says this when his ship arrives at the coordinates where Ambassador Spock is going to enter the alternate timeline. In this case, they only have to wait for about a minute. | |
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Played straight in Danny, the Champion of the World. Danny and his father have dosed pheasants with sleeping pills, and wait for the roosting pheasants to fall out of the trees. While they wait, they somewhat anxiously discuss whether the plan is likely to work. | |
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The Mother in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening reacts to the loss of Kal'Hirol with this and a fine, healthy and educational evil laugh. | |
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An episode of Phineas and Ferb revolves around the main characters sitting around and waiting to see exactly how the titular characters inventions keep disappearing right before their mother gets home. They even break out into a song about how they're waiting for something to happen. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Hermione and Harry see their past selves in Hagrid's hut, Harry wants to rush in and capture Peter Pettigrew who is hiding as Scabbers, Ron's rat. Hermione says they must wait until actions they take won't disrupt what for them are past events. She and Harry are forced to wait until the group comes back out of the tunnel, knowing that Pettigrew gets away and Lupin will change into his werewolf form. Since this was a Stable Time Loop world, it wasn't just that they shouldn't - logically, they couldn't. |
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Final Fantasy XV has this exchange at the beginning of the game, after getting the Regalia into Hammerhead for repairs. | |
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Lost Season Five: The characters have become Trapped in the Past, which is still an improvement over random, erratic and increasingly frequent time travel they've been experiencing. When asked "Now What?", Sawyer replies "We wait". | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire Illyrio Mopatis' plan to restore the Targaryens has involved over 15 years of this. As changing events required repeated extensions of the wait time, Lord Connington gets tired of it and goes off-script, invading Westeros with Aegon without reaching Danaerys. | |
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In part 2 of Life of Pi, this was one of Pi's strategies for dealing with Richard Parker. He was originally going to outlast and wait for the tiger to die of starvation/thirst. But eventually after realizing the tiger would be desperate enough to attack him, as well as hearing it offer a sound of friendship, Pi decides to keep the tiger alive on the lifeboat, and establish an Alpha-Omega relationship with it to protect himself. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the aptly named card Standstill. | |
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Said by veteran Igarashi to rookie Rin in salvage manga Wa ga Na wa Umishi. Rin whines about the team having fun when people are in trouble. Igarashi shoots him down: Being a pro means doing nothing unless the time is right. | |
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In The Awesomes Dr. Malocchio proclaims that with the first stage of his plan complete all they have to do now is wait. Then one of his minions suggests that instead they go get sushi and come back, which he agrees is a better plan. | |
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Danger Mouse: In "The Great Bone Idol," Count Duckula has found the Great Bone Idol. Greenback has opened it and released the imprisoned bark of Cerebrus eminating from a bone which is calling upon all the dogs in the world. With the bone in his hand, Duckula asks what's next. "We wait," says Greenback. Duckula then tosses the bone back into the idol and it locks back up. Greenback, Duckula and Stiletto are now overwhelmed by dogs with no way of controlling them. | |
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Invoked in the penultimate confrontation of The Blues Brothers: Bob and the Good Ole Boys have bought tickets to the Blues Brothers' show, and must now wait for the band to actually come on stage. Subverted by the police, who must also wait, but in their case, it's because the officer in charge wants to see the band play before they arrest them. |
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While planning to drug the tiger in the bathroom, the character Alan is set up to deliver this line in "The Hangover". | |
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Many Sherlock Holmes stories include Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade waiting for the criminal to fall in Holmes' trap. | |
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In Final Fantasy X, when Tidus asks what they should do while Yuna is praying to the Fayth, Kimahri answers: "Pick spot. Shut up. Wait." | |
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The Doctor Who episode "Vincent and the Doctor" shows why the Doctor fails at this trope. | |
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NES action-adventure/rail shooter The Guardian Legend has this advice for opening a locked door: "Wait, wait forever..." | |
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The producers of The Amazing Race are famous for subjecting their contestants to a variation of this trope. At the beginning of many legs of the race we're told "Racer A and Racer B who arrived first at 1:53 p.m. will now depart at 1:53 a.m." And with the last place team we're told "Racer M and Racer N who arrived at 4:14 p.m. will now depart at 4:14 a.m." Then the teams race to the airport to find that the first available flight to their destination doesn't leave until noon. Or they race to some local tourist trap that doesn't open until 10 a.m. | |
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The Ultimates: Hawkeye has Hulk on his sight, armed with an arrow with the antidote, but he'll shoot at "the right moment". Fury urges him to stop the nonsenses and fire already. | |
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A waiting game forms a large part of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Having failed to dig Mr Fox out of his hole, even with mechanical shovels, the three mean farmers decide to starve him out, waiting to shoot him dead if he emerges. They do this for three days, until Mr Fox thinks of a way to escape. The three farmers are still waiting at the end of the story. | |
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A Family Guy manatee joke has Peter as Zan of the Wonder Twins. He/Jayna get called on a mission. She leaves, he turns into a tampon and jumps into her purse: | |
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