History PlayingWith / CrazyPrepared

** Although Amazing Girl has planned for some eventualities, there are some things that even she can't see coming.

** 1. Since there is absolutely no way that Amazing Girl could conceivably plan for every single eventuality, Amazing Girl's plans look good on paper but are inevitably flawed when they come into contact with real situations.
** 2. Because Amazing Girl's plans are that good, [[CassandraDidIt people begin to suspect that she's in on it,]] since ''no one'' could be that well prepared.
** 3. Amazing Girl's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
** 4. Amazing Girl prepared for everything... except the sheer WEIGHT of all those wonderful toys. As a result, she has to abandon her preparations and end up going into [[IndyPloy battle barehanded and unprepared.]]
** 5. Amazing Girl's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap" while they try to figure things out, she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.

** 1. Although Amazing Girl's plans can't cover everything, they are at least good enough to work from, and Amazing Girl is adept at [[XanatosSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
** 2. Amazing Girl is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence.
** 3. Amazing Girl's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so obsessively prepared]].
** 4. Amazing Girl is not only prepared for anything, but the items she has used to prepare herself are all multifunctional and relatively light, allowing her to carry them about fairly easily.
** 5. None of Amazing Girl's plans ever come in handy, but the practice of constantly making plans for new scenarios makes her an expert at the IndyPloy.
* '''Played for Laughs''':

* '''Played for Laughs''': Amazing Girl gets into slapstick dangers and her plans are very funny and weird.

* '''Exaggerated''': Amazing Girl is TheOmniscient, and has [[NotHyperbole literally planned for every eventuality in life.]] Including that one you just thought of, and that one, and the ones after them too.

** As "crazy" as Amazing Girl's preparedness was, the situation is a billion times worse than any of her assumptions ([[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality because]] [[ChandlersLaw drama]]) and she is not prepared ''enough'' (ex. Alice lives in Kansas, bought a house capable of withstanding F-5 tornadoes... which becomes ground zero for the landfall of history's first recorded ''F-10'').

** Since there is absolutely no way that Amazing Girl could conceivably plan for every single eventuality, Amazing Girl's plans look good on paper but are inevitably flawed when they come into contact with real situations.
** Because Amazing Girl's plans are that good, [[CassandraDidIt people begin to suspect that she's in on it,]] since ''no one'' could be that well prepared.
** Amazing Girl's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
** Amazing Girl prepared for everything... except the sheer WEIGHT of all those wonderful toys. As a result, she has to abandon her preparations and end up going into [[IndyPloy battle barehanded and unprepared.]]
** Amazing Girl's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap" while they try to figure things out, she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.

** Although Amazing Girl's plans can't cover everything, they are at least good enough to work from, and Amazing Girl is adept at [[XanatosSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
** Amazing Girl is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence.
** Amazing Girl's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so obsessively prepared]].
** Amazing Girl is not only prepared for anything, but the items she has used to prepare herself are all multifunctional and relatively light, allowing her to carry them about fairly easily.

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Amazing Girl is TheOmniscient, and has [[NotHyperbole literally planned for every eventuality in life.]] Including that one you just thought of, and that one, and the ones after them too.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Amazing Girl has a plan to thwart the BigBad but as it turns out, he had his own contingencies going and countered her plan. Just when it looks like the heroes will lose, it turns out Amazing Girl had a BatmanGambit in place that centered on allowing the bad guy to get close to winning before defeating him. After it is all over, she admits the second plan was really just an IndyPloy she thought up on the fly.

** Amazing Girl has a plan in case aliens infiltrate the government, but she's only planned for that highly specific situation and it never comes up... or it ''does'' come up, but once some other crazy situation appears (say for example "being chased by Satan-worshipping biker gangs through Death Valley") [[CripplingOverspecialization it turns out she doesn't has a plan for it]] (for additional irony points, it may be because it is [[EveryoneHasStandards too crazy even for her]]).

** 1. Since there is absolutely no way that Amazing Girl could conceivably plan for every single eventuality, Amazing Girl's plans look good on paper but are inevitably flawed when they come into contact with real situations.
** 2. Because Amazing Girl's plans are that good, [[CassandraDidIt people begin to suspect that she's in on it,]] since ''no one'' could be that well prepared.
** 3. Amazing Girl's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
** 4. Amazing Girl prepared for everything ...except the sheer WEIGHT of all those wonderful toys. As a result, she has to abandon her preparations and end up going into [[IndyPloy battle barehanded and unprepared.]]
** 5. Amazing Girl's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap" while they try to figure things out, she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.

** 1. Although Amazing Girl's plans can't cover everything, they are at least good enough to work from, and Amazing Girl is adept at [[XanatosSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
** 2. Amazing Girl is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence.
** 3. Amazing Girl's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so obsessively prepared]].
** 4. Amazing Girl is not only prepared for anything, but the items she has used to prepare herself are all multifuction and relatively light, allowing her to carry them about fairly easily.
** 5. None of Amazing Girl's plans ever come in handy, but the practice of constantly making plans for new scenario makes her an expert at the IndyPloy.

** -->'''[[WildCard Raccoon Kid]]:''' "What, are you gonna track the aliens with a personal satellite?"\\

* '''Exaggerated''': After uncovering evidence that aliens are replacing key members of the government to prepare for a massive global attack, the aliens have captured Bob and Amazing Girl and sent them into a temporal portal millions of years back to the Cretaceous era, coincidentally appearing in front of a ''TyrannosaurusRex''. The ''T. rex'' is being mind-controlled by a psychic genius who has allied himself with the aliens and programmed the ''T. rex'' to hunt down and kill Bob and Amazing Girl no matter what. Simultaneously, the ancient, slimy fish people who inhabited the Earth's oceans and shores long before humanity have a cult worshipping the celestial being [[EldritchAbomination Xy'glu]] and promised Bob and Amazing Girl as living sacrifices if they can catch them. And just for good measure, the aliens have also sent back armies of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninjas, pirates, zombies, robots and amalgams of same]] to make sure that they get killed, as well as vast, whirling clouds of nanites with enormous collective strength, and have [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also inexplicably made Amazing Girl and Bob smell like maple syrup from head-to-toe]]. In response, Amazing Girl enacts Plan Q, which is designed precisely for this situation.
* '''(Il)Logical Extreme''': Amazing Girl is TheOmniscient, and has [[NotHyperbole literally planned for every eventuality.]] Including that one you just thought of, and that one, and the ones after them too.

** Thanks to Amazing Girl's efforts in coordinating with law enforcement, there is a PoliceCodeForEverything. Practicality and encumberance got in the way of having police officers ''equipped'' for everything, though.

** Amazing Girl was [[XanatosGambit prepared for her own failure]] and this failure automatically activates the back up plan.

* '''Lampshaded''': "... There is no possible ''way'' you could have seen that coming". "And yet"
**
-->'''[[WildCard Raccoon Kid]]:''' "What, are you gonna track the aliens with a personal satellite?"\\

* '''Conversed''': "Amazing Girl must be the most forward thinking fictional character I've ever come across".

** Amazing Girl was [[XanatosGambit prepared for her own failure]] and this failure automatically activates the back up plan

** Amazing Girl has a plan in case aliens infiltrate the government, but she's only planned for that highly specific situation and it never comes up.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob and Amazing Girl find themselves in a cave. Amazing Girl pulls out rope and a flashlight, as well as a local map of the caves.

* '''(Il)Logical Extreme''': Amazing Girl is TheOmmnicient, and has [[NotHyperbole literally planned for every eventuality, ]]including if [[TimeCrash every eventuality happened all at once.]]

-->'''[[WildCard Raccoon Kid]]:''' "What, are you gonna track [[TheDragon Drake]] with a personal satellite?"\\

* '''Lampshaded''': "... There is no possible ''way'' you could have seen that coming". "And yet".
** "What are you gonna track [[TheDragon Drake]] with a personal satellite?" "..." "I was just kidding ''you have a satellite?''"

* '''Played for Drama''': Amazing Girl is cornered by two rapist thugs. She hasn't finished the plan yet, and prays every minute she escapes. After some tense moments and injuries, Amazing Girl finally escapes.

* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob have uncovered evidence of malevolent aliens infiltrating the government to prepare Earth for a massive invasion. Much to Bob's surprise, Alice has a plan for just this eventuality.
* '''Exaggerated''': After uncovering evidence that aliens are replacing key members of the government to prepare for a massive global attack, the aliens have captured Bob and Alice and sent them into a temporal portal millions of years back to the Cretaceous era, coincidentally appearing in front of a ''TyrannosaurusRex''. The ''T. rex'' is being mind-controlled by a psychic genius who has allied himself with the aliens and programmed the ''T. rex'' to hunt down and kill Bob and Alice no matter what. Simultaneously, the ancient, slimy fish people who inhabited the Earth's oceans and shores long before humanity have a cult worshipping the celestial being [[EldritchAbomination Xy'glu]] and promised Bob and Alice as living sacrifices if they can catch them. And just for good measure, the aliens have also sent back armies of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninjas, pirates, zombies, robots and amalgams of same]] to make sure that they get killed, as well as vast, whirling clouds of nanites with enormous collective strength, and have [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also inexplicably made Alice and Bob smell like maple syrup from head-to-toe]]. In response, Alice enacts Plan Q, which is designed precisely for this situation.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob and Alice find themselves in a cave. Alice pulls out rope and a flashlight, as well as a local map of the caves.

** Alice is a CrazySurvivalist or otherwise ProperlyParanoid or Franchise/{{Batman}}.
** Alice has precognition and prepares for what she knows is going to happen.
** Turns out that every one of Alice's plans has many different practical applications. Plan 9 for space ants works just as well for space termites.

** Alice doesn't have a plan, but she is very very good at the IndyPloy or MacGyvering.
** Alice never knows what to do in the most mundane of situations.
** Alice refused to build or prepare for anything, relying entirely [[BareFistedMonk on her bare hands]] and [[IndyPloy spur-of-the-moment plans.]]

** Alice ''does'' have a plan; unfortunately, she ForgotToFeedTheMonster, and is unable to put the plan into effect.
** Alice has a plan, but something she doesn't anticipate happens, thus completely ruining it.
** Alice puts the wrong plan into effect.

** Fortunately, Alice ''also'' has a plan for what to do if something prevented her from putting into effect the original plan or unexpected developments arose.
** Alice was [[XanatosGambit prepared for her own failure]] and this failure automatically activates the back up plan
** It only looked like the wrong plan; Alice in fact hit [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt Exactly What She Aimed At]].

** Alice carries around with her the ''Big Book of Complicated (or Simple) Plans for Unlikely Situations'', which she consults whenever she's faced with a problem. [[GreatBigBookOfEverything It invariably contains the solution]].
** Alice has a plan in case aliens infiltrate the government, but she's only planned for that highly specific situation and it never comes up.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice has a plan to thwart the BigBad but as it turns out, he had his own contingencies going and countered her plan. Just when it looks like the heroes will lose, it turns out Alice had a BatmanGambit in place that centered on allowing the bad guy to get close to winning before defeating him. After it is all over, she admits the second plan was really just an IndyPloy she thought up on the fly.

** Although Alice has planned for some eventualities, there are some things that even she can't see coming.
** Whatever kind of fancy gadget Alice brought along for the sake of being prepared, it only attracted trouble instead (such as thieves).
* '''Enforced''': The writers want to stress what a brilliant tactical genius Alice is.

* '''Invoked''': Alice spends every waking moment thinking of every possible situation that could arise and making a plan for it.

** The BigBad knows Alice plans for everything, including how to stop her own allies in case they pull a FaceHeelTurn or get BrainwashedAndCrazy. He steals these plans in order to defeat her teammates, then frames her for it.
** The BigBad steals Alice's HiddenSupplies to bolster his own (hey, even overlords need food, too).

** The aliens kill Alice. Her friends find out the hard way that she really didn't had a plan in place for that eventuality.
* '''Discussed''': "I've been traveling with Alice for years, and so far I haven't encountered a single situation which she doesn't have a plan for. It's actually kind of creepy, really".
* '''Conversed''': "Alice must be the most forward thinking fictional character I've ever come across".

** 1. Since there is absolutely no way that Alice could conceivably plan for every single eventuality, Alice's plans look good on paper but are inevitably flawed when they come into contact with real situations.
** 2. Because Alice's plans are that good, [[CassandraDidIt people begin to suspect that she's in on it,]] since ''no one'' could be that well prepared.
** 3. Alice's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
** 4. Alice prepared for everything ...except the sheer WEIGHT of all those wonderful toys. As a result, she has to abandon her preparations and end up going into [[IndyPloy battle barehanded and unprepared.]]
** 5. Alice's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap" while they try to figure things out, she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.

** 1. Although Alice's plans can't cover everything, they are at least good enough to work from, and Alice is adept at [[XanatosSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
** 2. Alice is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence.
** 3. Alice's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so obsessively prepared]].
** 4. Alice is not only prepared for anything, but the items she has used to prepare herself are all multifuction and relatively light, allowing her to carry them about fairly easily.
** 5. None of Alice's plans ever come in handy, but the practice of constantly making plans for new scenario makes her an expert at the IndyPloy.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice gets into slapstick dangers and her plans are very funny and weird.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is cornered by two rapist thugs. She hasn't finished the plan yet, and prays every minute she escapes. After some tense moments and injuries, Alice finally escapes.

* '''Exploited''': The BigBad knows Alice plans for everything, including how to stop her own allies in case they pull a FaceHeelTurn or get BrainwashedAndCrazy. He steals these plans in order to defeat her teammates, then frames her for it.

** Since there is absolutely no way that Alice could conceivably plan for every single eventuality, Alice's plans look good on paper but are inevitably flawed when they come into contact with real situations.
** Because Alice's plans are that good, [[CassandraDidIt people begin to suspect that she's in on it,]] since ''no one'' could be that well prepared.
** Alice's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
** Alice prepared for everything ...except the sheer WEIGHT of all those wonderful toys. As a result, she has to abandon her preparations and end up going into [[IndyPloy battle barehanded and unprepared.]]
** Alice's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap" while they try to figure things out, she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.

** Although Alice's plans can't cover everything, they are at least good enough to work from, and Alice is adept at [[XanatosSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
** None of her plans ever come in handy, but the practice of making plans makes her an expert at the IndyPloy.
** Alice is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence.
** Alice's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so prepared]]
** Alice is not only prepared for anything, but the items she has used to prepare herself are all multifuction and relatively light, allowing her to carry them about fairly easily.

* '''Averted''': Although Alice has planned for some eventualities, there are some things that even she can't see coming.

** Alice's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people having a SpannerInTheWorks appearing would be them going "OhCrap", she instead freezes to the point she has risked getting herself (and other people) killed.