1 | Tropes about characters learning stuff. |
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3 | Compare {{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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5 | Also 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. |
79 | [[/index]] |
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