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One of the most common TropesHiddenFromAudience, as the work tries to avoid pointing them out.
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I'm surprised this wasn't already here.

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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands (When characters frequently change jobs to whatever is convenient for the Plot)
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* ConvenientPhotograph: (An event is captured via photograph to move the Plot)
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Removed the cut page Arrested On Arrival.


* ArrestedOnArrival (Imagine you'd go somewhere and NOTHING happens...!)
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* ArrestedOnArrival (Imagine you'd go somewhere and NOTHING happens...!)
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* WithinArmsReach (A defensive weapon or ImprovisedWeapon is in arm's reach as the Plot Demands)

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* ContextSensitiveButton (A video game control that does different things depending on the current situation)



* DramaPreservingHandicap (Implementating Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)

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* DramaPreservingHandicap (Implementating (Implementing Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)


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* PlotSensitiveLatch (When locks open at the most inconvenient time)
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* BlamingTheRailroadedPlayerCharacter (The Plot demanded the player to do something heinous, and everyone hates their character for it)

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* BlamingTheRailroadedPlayerCharacter BlamedForBeingRailroaded (The Plot demanded the player to do something heinous, and everyone hates their character for it)
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* PlotAllergy (A character has allergies as the Plot Demands)
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* ContrivedCoincidence (The Plot demanded these things to happen)
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In other words: something exists or happens for no reason other than that the plot requires it to. See also InDexMachina, which is more about clumsy ways of resolving plots as a whole and tying up loose ends.

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In other words: something exists or happens for no reason other than that the plot requires it to. See also InDexMachina, IndExMachina, which is more about clumsy ways of resolving plots as a whole and tying up loose ends.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap (Implementation Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)

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* DramaPreservingHandicap (Implementation (Implementating Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)
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* ForgotTheDisability (Moments to remind characters and the viewers that a character is disabled who would have otherwise forgotten)
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* ResolvedNoodleIncident (The Plot makes a FlashBack to a situation only hinted at many episodes ago)

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* ResolvedNoodleIncident (The Plot makes a FlashBack to a situation only hinted at an occurrence that, many episodes ago)ago, was only brought up in conversation)
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* ResolvedNoodleIncident (The Plot makes a FlashBack to a situation only hinted at many episodes ago)

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* PlotInducedIllness (Sickness occurs as the Plot Demands)
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure (Plot makes people hate each other)



* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure (Plot makes people hate each other)



* PlotInducedIllness (Sickness occurs as the Plot Demands)



* PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills (When someone can Spy

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* PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills (When someone can Spy as the Plot Demands)
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The YMMV Crash Rescue Thread decided to cut this trope.


* AllegedPowerLimits (Removal of Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)
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* BlamingTheRailroadedPlayerCharacter (The Plot demanded the player to do something heinous, and everyone hates their character for it)
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* AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe

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* AsLethalAsItNeedsToBeAsLethalAsItNeedsToBe (Effective Killing Power as the Plot Demands)



* DramaPreservingHandicap

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* DramaPreservingHandicapDramaPreservingHandicap (Implementation Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)



* NarniaTime
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands
* PlotPoweredStamina
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure

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* NarniaTime
NarniaTime (Time Flows as the Plot Demands)
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands
NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands (When you just need to copy/paste characters into Plot)
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
NewPowersAsThePlotDemands (When characters are ''finally'' able to do something as the Plot Demands)
* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands
NewRulesAsThePlotDemands (When proper plotting isn't enough)
* PlotPoweredStamina
PlotPoweredStamina (Energy as the Plot Demands)
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailurePlotMandatedFriendshipFailure (Plot makes people hate each other)



* PlotInducedIllness
* PlotSensitiveItems
* PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills
* {{Railroading}}
* ScienceAtTheSpeedOfPlot
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands
* TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot
* UnscientificScience

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* PlotInducedIllness
PlotInducedIllness (Sickness occurs as the Plot Demands)
* PlotSensitiveItems
PlotSensitiveItems (When objects are powered by Plot)
* PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills
PlotSensitiveSnoopingSkills (When someone can Spy
* {{Railroading}}
{{Railroading}} (The Plot will proceed whether you want it to or not)
* ScienceAtTheSpeedOfPlot
ScienceAtTheSpeedOfPlot (Groundbreaking discoveries of the universe only occur cause Plot)
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe
StrongAsTheyNeedToBe (Effective Power as the Plot Demands)
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands
SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands (Spreading of Knowledge as the Plot Demands)
* TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot
TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot (When shape-shifting is powered by Plot)
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot
TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot (Plot as a Universal Speed Limit)
* UnscientificScienceUnscientificScience (Plot as the Only Universal Constant)
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* NarniaTime
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* StatusQuoIsGod
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* AllegedPowerLimits (Loose Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)

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* AllegedPowerLimits (Loose (Removal of Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)
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* PlotInducedIllness

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* DoesntWorkOnWood (the MundaneSolution doesn't work because [[WordOfGod we say so]].
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* DoesntWorkOnWood (the MundaneSolution doesn't work because [[WordOfGod we say so]].
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Redundant with the Ball Index.


* ConflictBall (Conflict as the Plot Demands)



* IdiotBall (Stupidity as the Plot Demands)



* SmartBall (Intelligence as the Plot Demands)

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+ CharacterDerailment



* CharacterDerailment and its subtropes (Characterization as the Plot Demands)
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* AllegedPowerLimits (Lose Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)

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* AllegedPowerLimits (Lose (Loose Power Limitations as the Plot Demands)

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Moved the line to be in alphabetic order


* ThePlotReaper (Deaths occur as the Plot Demands)



* ThePlotReaper (Deaths occur as the Plot Demands)
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* ThePlotReaper (Deaths occurs as the Plot Demands)

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* ThePlotReaper (Deaths occurs occur as the Plot Demands)

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