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1Tropes about characters learning stuff.
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3Compare {{Exposition}}, where the audience learns stuff -- overlap is substantial, since these tropes can justify those ones. See also WhatIsThisIndex for standard questions characters tend to ask.
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5Also compare TruthAndLies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes. Contrast with the InfauxmationDesk. See also TheShadesOfFact and BookishTropes
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8!!Characters and Objects
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10[[index]]
11* AkashicRecords
12* AncientKeeper
13* ApocalypticLog: Someone finds a recording at a ruined area with no survivors that explains the cause of the death and destruction everywhere.
14* BakerStreetRegular
15* BigBookOfWar
16* BluffTheEavesdropper
17* ConstantlyCurious: A character can't stop asking questions.
18* CuriousAsAMonkey
19* DominoRevelation
20* EncyclopediaExposita
21* ExasperatedPerp
22* FireStolenFromTheGods
23* GateOfTruth
24* GreatBigBookOfEverything: 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.
25* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything
26* HauntedHouseHistorian
27* HumanHardDrive
28* TheInformant: A person who informs the heroes about what the criminals are up to or where they are hiding.
29* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge
30* KnowledgeBroker
31* MagicalDatabase
32* MagicalLibrary
33* MrExposition: A character who moves the plot forward by explaining everything to the other characters.
34* MysteriousInformant
35* OmniscientDatabase
36* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn
37* RealityWritingBook
38* ScientistVideoJournal
39* SpellBook
40* StagingTheEavesdrop
41* TomeOfEldritchLore
42* TomesOfProphecyAndFate
43* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: A helpful character who gives advice via earpiece to the main character related to whatever they're doing.
44* TheWatson
45
46!!Events
47* AtLeastIAdmitIt: 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.
48* BringNewsBack
49* CaughtOnTape: Usually involves a character learning something from a recording.
50* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts
51* DoingResearch
52* DoomedAppointment -- where it gets forestalled
53* DreamingOfThingsToCome: A character dreams about events that will happen later.
54* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
55* DreamSpying
56* EpicHail
57* ExactEavesdropping
58* FeedTheMole
59* FigureItOutYourself
60* GaveUpTooSoon: The characters leave under the assumption that they have failed, but would've succeeded had they stuck around for just a bit longer.
61* INeverGotAnyLetters
62* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A character knows things about a crime they wouldn't if they were innocent.
63* InfallibleBabble
64* InterrogationFlashback
65* JustTakeThePoster: A character takes a poster that was on a wall because they want the information on it.
66* LetMeGetThisStraight
67* NextStallShenanigans: A character in a bathroom stall overhears other characters talking about something.
68* NoteToSelf
69* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass
70* OutOfContextEavesdropping
71* PerpSweating
72* ThePerryMasonMethod
73* PullTheThread
74* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum
75* SniperScopeGlint: A character learns a sniper's location via a glint of light from their rifle.
76* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy
77* TellMeAboutMyFather
78* ThatLiarLies: A person is called out for or accused of being a liar.
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