Line #68 PlayingWith/CrazyPrepared


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character has a specific plan devised to help them with their current circumstances, no matter how unusual or unlikely those circumstances are.
2	* '''Straight''': [[SuperIntelligence Amazing Girl]] and [[OlderSidekick Bob]] have uncovered evidence of malevolent aliens infiltrating the government to prepare Earth for a massive invasion. Much to Bob's surprise, Amazing Girl has a plan for just this eventuality.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** 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.
5	** Amazing Girl has a a plan that not only takes into eventuality the possibility of alien infiltrators (a problem with a broad definition), but that covers an increasingly absurd amount of minute details such as the alien infiltrators having a base in Walla Walla guarded by cyborg T-Rexes with technology powered by cream cheese (which is completely different from the plan for alien infiltrators having a base in Knockemstiff with Civil War soldier zombies and the secondary objective of brainwashing the whole world into eating only tofu).
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** 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.
8	** Thanks to Amazing Girl's efforts in coordinating with law enforcement, there is a PoliceCodeForEverything. Practicality and encumbrance got in the way of having police officers ''equipped'' for everything, though.
9	** XanatosGambit
10	* '''Justified''':
11	** Amazing Girl is a CrazySurvivalist or otherwise ProperlyParanoid or Franchise/{{Batman}}.
12	** Amazing Girl has precognition and prepares for what she knows is going to happen.
13	** Turns out that every one of Amazing Girl's plans has many different practical applications. Plan 9 for space ants works just as well for space termites.
14	** Amazing Girl's preventive measures are just more evidence that she lives in a WorldOfWeirdness -- seriously, why else would she have been able to purchase T-Rex repellent from a professional veterinarian?
15	** Alice [[ButtMonkey has been in a world of shit]] a whole lot. She goes through all the trouble to make 26 plans because they all inevitably fail on her.
16	* '''Inverted''':
17	** Amazing Girl doesn't have a plan, but she is very very good at the IndyPloy or MacGyvering.
18	** Amazing Girl never knows what to do in the most mundane of situations.
19	** Amazing Girl refused to build or prepare for anything, relying entirely [[BareFistedMonk on her bare hands]] and [[IndyPloy spur-of-the-moment plans.]]
20	* '''Subverted''':
21	** 1.) Amazing Girl ''does'' have a plan; unfortunately, she ForgotToFeedTheMonster, and is unable to put the plan into effect.
22	** 2.) Amazing Girl has a plan, but something she doesn't anticipate happens, thus completely ruining it.
23	** 3.) Amazing Girl has a plan, but it's [[ComplexityAddiction more complicated than it is practical]], and backfires greatly.
24	** 4.) Amazing Girl puts the wrong plan into effect.
25	** 5.) Amazing Girl ''insists'' she has a plan to calm her allies, but it soon becomes clear it's an IndyPloy.
26	* '''Doubly Subverted''':
27	** Fortunately, Amazing Girl ''also'' has a plan for what to do if something prevented her from putting into effect the original plan or unexpected developments arose.
28	** 1.) Amazing Girl was [[XanatosGambit prepared for her own failure]] and this failure automatically activates the backup plan.
29	** 2.) It only looked like the wrong plan; Amazing Girl in fact hit [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt Exactly What She Aimed At]].
30	** 3.) She is, however, better at improvising things on the fly than good old Indy because she took time to develop a very varied skill set.
31	** 4.) With a little GambitSpeedChess, she makes the "wrong" plan work for the situation.
32	** 5.) When the IndyPloy is revealed, Amazing Girl insists that she ''really did have a plan'', it just had a mere 5 steps instead of the usual 20. She improvised the other 15 steps.
33	* '''Parodied''':
34	** Amazing Girl 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]].
35	** 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 have a plan for it]] (for additional irony points, it may be because it is [[EveryoneHasStandards too crazy even for her]]).
36	** The absurd amounts of preparation Amazing Girl has readied are more proof of her being a ParodySue.
37	** Amazing Girl knows what to bring [[BreakingTheFourthWall because she read the script]].
38	* '''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.
39	* '''Averted''':
40	** Although Amazing Girl has planned for some eventualities, there are some things that even she [[{{Didntseethatcoming}} can't see coming]].
41	** Whatever kind of fancy gadget Amazing Girl brought along for the sake of being prepared, it only attracted trouble instead (such as thieves).
42	** As "crazy" as Amazing Girl's preparedness was, the situation is a billion times worse than any of her assumptions ([[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality because 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'').
43	* '''Enforced''': The writers want to stress the brilliant tactical genius possessed by Amazing Girl.
44	* '''Lampshaded''':
45	** "... There is no possible ''way'' you could have seen that coming". "And yet"
46	** '''[[WildCard Raccoon Kid]]:''' "What, are you gonna track the aliens with a personal satellite?"\
47	'''[[CrazyPrepared Amazing Girl]]:''' "..."\
48	'''Raccoon Kid:''' "I was just kidding ''you have a satellite?''"
49	* '''Invoked''': Amazing Girl spends every waking moment thinking of every possible situation that could arise and making a plan for it.
50	* '''Exploited''':
51	** The BigBad knows Amazing Girl 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.
52	** The BigBad steals Amazing Girl's HiddenSupplies to bolster his own (hey, even overlords need food, too).
53	* '''Defied''':
54	** The aliens spend every waking moment and divert all of their resources towards devising a plan which absolutely no one could possibly anticipate.
55	** The aliens destroy her plans, including the one about what to do when aliens destroy your plans.
56	** The aliens kill Amazing Girl. Her friends find out the hard way that she really didn't have a plan in place for that eventuality.
57	* '''Discussed''': "I've been traveling with Amazing Girl 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".
58	* '''Conversed''': "Amazing Girl must be the most forward-thinking fictional character I've ever come across".
59	* '''Deconstructed''':
60	** 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.
61	** 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.
62	** 3.) Amazing Girl's mind is slowly shattering under the strain of trying to prepare for ''every'' eventuality, no matter how unlikely.
63	** 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.]]
64	** 5.) Amazing Girl's greatest weakness is DidntSeeThatComing. While the reaction of most people to having a SpannerInTheWorks appear 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.
65	** 6.) Amazing Girl's plan, for reasons beyond her control or comprehension, becomes a CorruptedContingency. Now she is going to have to look at the survivors in the eye and admit that whatever horrors they endured were ''her'' idea.
66	* '''Reconstructed''':
67	** 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 [[GambitSpeedChess adjusting them to compensate for situational and contextual differences]].
68	** 2.) Amazing Girl is prepared for people suspecting that she's in on it, and she has a {{plan}} how to prove her innocence. Of course, she anticipated that.
69	** 3.) Amazing Girl's mind has already shattered, and [[PowerBornOfMadness this is precisely why she is so obsessively prepared]].
70	** 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.
71	** 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. She doesn't freeze because her plan for "If I freeze because of something unexpected" is to train herself to think "move to the next plan", and this enables her to continue functioning, even if the next plan is "make something up as I go".
72	** 6.) As horrible as things got because Amazing Girl's contingency plan backfired/misfired/was hijacked, they could have been [[GodzillaThreshold a hell of a lot worse]].
73	* '''Played for Laughs''':
74	** Amazing Girl gets into slapstick dangers and her plans are very funny and weird.
75	** Amazing Girl [[ContrivedCoincidence just happened to find some rope lying around about a minute before it was needed]] and [[GladIThoughtOfIt decided to act like she was prepared all along]].
76	** Amazing Girl seriously thinks that something sensible and common to do like carrying a ballpoint pen in her pocket or credit card in her wallet counts as "being crazy prepared". For additional comedy points, [[ThePenIsMightier that pen]] or [[SkeletonKeyCard credit card]] is what saves the universe.
77	** Amazing Girl's preparedness makes her the DeusExMachina to the tale of [[HeroOfAnotherStory Jim]], the guy who has busted himself to the bone trying to survive the alien invasion. For further comedy points, her role as the DeusExMachina happens at the exact time and place that makes Jim's [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome efforts]] a [[AllForNothing complete]] waste [[ShaggyDogStory of time]].
78	* '''Played for Drama''': Amazing Girl is cornered by two rapist thugs. She has planned for this possibility, and darts through them to the right. [[OutGambitted She did not plan for a larger gang to be waiting for her there, let alone each with super powers]], as she is not being targeted for rape but being kidnapped by HumanTraffickers. She prays every minute she escapes. After some tense moments and injuries, she finally escapes.
79	* '''Played for Horror''': Alice "Amazing Girl" Troper is an absurdly hyper-competent SerialKiller that loves to hand her victims a HopeSpot only for them to find out that she's at least a hundred and fifty steps ahead and there is absolutely nothing, and that is ''nothing'' ever '''in the universe''' (not even thinking that getting the attention of that AlienInvasion that just started will hopefully SummonBiggerFish to get her off their backs), [[ImplacableMan that will stop her]].
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81	I ''knew'' you'd want to go back to CrazyPrepared...
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85	%%* '''Implied''': ???

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