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* ScientistVideoJournal
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* JustTakeThePoster: A character takes a poster that was on a wall because they want the information on it.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: A helpful character who gives advice via earpiece to the main character related to whatever they're doing.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: A helpful character who gives advice via earpiece to the main character related to whatever they're doing.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: A helpful character who gives advice via earpiece to the main character related to whatever they're doing.
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* SniperScopeGlint: A character learns a sniper's location via a glint of light from their rifle.
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* CaughtOnTape: Usually involves a character learning something from a recording.
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Compare {{Exposition}}, where the audience learns stuff -- overlap is substantial, since these tropes can justify those ones.
ones. See also WhatIsThisIndex for standard questions characters tend to ask.
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* ConstantlyCurious: A character can't stop asking questions.
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* ConstantlyCurious: A character can't stop asking questions.
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Also compare TruthAndLies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes. Contrast with the InfauxmationDesk. See also TheShadesOfFact.
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Also compare TruthAndLies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes. Contrast with the InfauxmationDesk. See also TheShadesOfFact.
TheShadesOfFact and BookishTropes
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Tropes about characters' learning stuff.
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Tropes about characters' characters learning stuff.
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* NextStallShenanigans: A character in a bathroom stall overhears other characters talking about something.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A character knows things about a crime they wouldn't if they were innocent.
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* ApocalypticLogApocalypticLog: Someone finds a recording at a ruined area with no survivors that explains the cause of the death and destruction everywhere.
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* ConstantlyCuriousConstantlyCurious: A character can't stop asking questions.
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* GreatBigBookOfEverythingGreatBigBookOfEverything: Whenever the characters need to look something up, they consult a book that somehow has everything the characters need to know about the specific subject.
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* TheInformantTheInformant: A person who informs the heroes about what the criminals are up to or where they are hiding.
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* MrExpositionMrExposition: A character who moves the plot forward by explaining everything to the other characters.
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* AtLeastIAdmitItAtLeastIAdmitIt: A character claims that they're better from other people who do the misdeeds they do simply because they have the courtesy to not deny that they've done wrong.
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* DreamingOfThingsToComeDreamingOfThingsToCome: A character dreams about events that will happen later.
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* GaveUpTooSoonGaveUpTooSoon: The characters leave under the assumption that they have failed, but would've succeeded had they stuck around for just a bit longer.
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* ThatLiarLiesThatLiarLies: A person is called out for or accused of being a liar.
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* AkashicRecords
* ApocalypticLog
* BigBookOfWar
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** TomeOfEldritchLore
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Also compare TruthAndLies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes. See also TheShadesOfFact.
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Also compare TruthAndLies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes. Contrast with the InfauxmationDesk. See also TheShadesOfFact.
