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6	->'''Date:''' Hey, Mizuki. What's inside that backpack you always have on you?\
7	'''Mizuki:''' Well... Water, dehydrated bread, chocolate, biscuits, a flashlight, a hand charger, Swiss army knife, a candle, matches, triangular badges, a first aid kit, whistle, portable toilet, a plastic bag, duct tape, a grenade, a magnet, disposable hand warmers...\
8	'''Date:''' Do you have an entire disaster relief kit in your bag?\
9	'''Mizuki:''' Better safe than sorry. I'm ready for anything.
10	-->-- ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles''
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13	Simply put, a character is ''excessively'' prepared for a scenario, no matter how unlikely.
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15	This trope is for you if you always have a backpack with tools and supplies to [[MacGyvering MacGyver]] your way out of a tight spot, if your car's trunk has enough camping gear and food to spend an unplanned night in the woods if your vehicle breaks down, or if you have a large, impressive gun rack all sorted by varmint size, and if you are GenreSavvy enough to prepare for every unlikely trope,
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17	''See also:'' PoliceCodeForEverything, ProperlyParanoid, SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat, YouDidntAsk, UnspokenPlanGuarantee, BatmanGambit, HiddenSupplies, SurvivalistStash, SeenItAll, WallOfWeapons, and CrazySurvivalist. Also compare TheAnticipator, who manages to remain unsurprised despite lack of preparation. Compare UnlikelySpare. Contrast ForgotToFeedTheMonster. TrustPassword is a SubTrope. If programmers try to anticipate everything the user might do, then it's DevelopersForesight.
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20	!!Examples:
21	[[index]]
22	!!!By franchise:
23	* ''CrazyPrepared/{{Batman}}''
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25	!!!By medium:
26	* CrazyPrepared/{{Advertising}}
27	* CrazyPrepared/AnimeAndManga
28	* CrazyPrepared/AudioPlay
29	* CrazyPrepared/ComicBooks
30	* CrazyPrepared/ComicStrips
31	* CrazyPrepared/FanWorks
32	* [[CrazyPrepared/AnimatedFilms Film — Animated]]
33	* [[CrazyPrepared/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]
34	* CrazyPrepared/{{Literature}}
35	* CrazyPrepared/LiveActionTV
36	* CrazyPrepared/ProfessionalWrestling
37	* CrazyPrepared/PuppetShows
38	* CrazyPrepared/StandUpComedy
39	* CrazyPrepared/TabletopGames
40	* CrazyPrepared/VideoGames
41	* CrazyPrepared/WebAnimation
42	* CrazyPrepared/{{Webcomics}}
43	* CrazyPrepared/WebOriginal
44	* CrazyPrepared/WesternAnimation
45	* CrazyPrepared/RealLife
46	[[/index]]
47	[[folder:Game Shows]]
48	* On ''Series/TaskMaster'', Alex is often ''insanely'' ready for the antics of the comedians. One task involved two sets of instructions on two separate cards: the first card read "say a letter of the alphabet", and when the contestant said that, Alex presented them with a second card that read "put the most things beginning with the letter you just said on the tray". Ed Gamble thought he was being clever when he answered "[[MathematiciansAnswer a letter of the alphabet]]", but Alex, without skipping a beat, had another card ready that said "Ha ha ha. You must now pick a letter of the alphabet and say ''that'' out loud."
49	--> '''Ed:''' You must be ''so'' proud of yourself that that worked.
50	[[/folder]]
51	[[folder:Theatre]]
52	* Brian Le Petit (principal clown) in Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Mystere}}'' is crazy prepared for pulling any prank you could think to pull on unsuspecting RealLife audience members, such as [[spoiler: fake tickets, a blonde wig, confetti, a lacy bra, and several buckets of popcorn]], most of which he hides up his sleeves or in his pockets. If that does not count, we later find he has quick access to [[spoiler: a gun, a chainsaw, and a can of air freshener]]. As a bonus, he's not one of the characters in the story, but a [[ThePrankster prankster]] who somehow got into the theater and decided to amuse himself, so there's even less ''sensible'' explanation for where he's finding/why he's carrying some of these things.
53	[[/folder]]
54	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
55	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
56	** In [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Case 1-4]], it turns out that Manfred von Karma [[spoiler:has trained Polly the parrot to stop squawking her usual phrases because he correctly anticipated Phoenix might be desperate enough to take a joke suggestion to call the bird as a witness at face value.]] That said, Phoenix and Maya are still able to work around it and blow the case wide open.
57	** Phoenix Wright, aka the player, himself. You may not know ''why'' you have to pick up random pieces of "evidence", but they ''will'' come in handy, because you're ready with them. Lampshaded twice in the first game's final case, where Edgeworth tells him about a [[ChekhovsGun seemingly unrelated screwdriver]] from the game's second case. Phoenix jots down info about it just in case, prompting Edgeworth to point out how stubborn Phoenix can be sometimes, and Phoenix himself later notes his own surprise when said screwdriver ends up being a key piece of evidence on the final day of the trial.
58	** Lana Skye has people doing work for her while she's in containment. One case is when she kept very conclusive evidence [[spoiler:in the back of an Evidence Law book]]. And for bonus points, [[spoiler:the Evidence Law book itself was the final piece of evidence needed to convict the killer]].
59	** Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', states that, as a prosecutor that takes cases all over the world, he studies all he can about the context of the cases he takes. While in itself a very sensible thing to do, what puts him in this trope is the ridiculously short timeframes in which he manages to do so. For instance, he manages to research enough information about rakugo, in a single night, to be able to talk about it for hours and even ''give full performances'', added by the fact he was handling a completely different case the previous day.
60	* The fourth case's culprit in ''VisualNovel/TyrionCuthbertAttorneyOfTheArcane'' [[NearVillainVictory almost]] gets off scot-free because they prepared for the very unlikely scenario that ended up happening, and only gets caught thanks to a DeusExMachina. [[spoiler:Beatrice used her demonic familiar, Marrunath, to murder her father. Marrunath is constantly hidden from everyone else thanks to the invisibility spell she casts on him every hour, so nobody even knows about his existence. Despite this, Tyrion manages to figure out through deduction and Celeste's Detect Magic spell (which can detect the usage of the invisibility spell) that Beatrice has a familiar. He has him testify, and finds out that demons can't lie. When it seems that it's going to be easy for Tyrion to prove his case, Beatrice steps in and has Marrunath confess to the crime. Then she asks him "Did I order you to murder my father?", to which he answers "No, you did not". Which is technically true - she just told him he ''could'' murder the victim, knowing that he ''would''. She argues that familiars have their own agency and she's not to blame for the murder, except her Blood Contract with Marrunath explains the concept that he can't kill any human without her express permission. Of course, the contract is not in evidence, so Tyrion would have normally lost had his dead mother not suddenly communicated with him and taught him how to issue a Divine Edict to get a copy of the contract - something that not even Beatrice could have possibly predicted. And keep in mind, the only reason Beatrice was even a suspect in this case was because [[SpannerInTheWorks an unpredictable third party accidentally framed her]]. So she avoided directly ordering Marrunath in preparation for the extremely unlikely scenario that Marrunath was called to testify.]]
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