1 | '''Basic Trope''': Stating the obvious. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle These are different ways this trope can be played:]] |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob always states the obvious. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': ''Everything'' Bob says is ''so freakin' obvious'' that ''everyone'' should know it. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': While exploring a mysterious place, Bob comments on something that may be obvious to us, but has more features than meet the eye. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Bob is such a [[TheDitz ditz]] that he can only state, well, the obvious. |
7 | ** Alternately, Bob is a robot and was not programmed with an understanding of "obviousness", so he states the obvious without realizing it. |
8 | ** Bob points out the obvious to emphasize something. |
9 | ** Bob has been cursed to make only statements that are obvious to everyone. |
10 | ** Bob is in shock. |
11 | ** Bob's friend Charlie is being CaptainOblivious, forcing Bob to state the obvious. |
12 | ** Bob's friend Charlie is blind and he is describing things to him to avoid him getting hurt or confused. |
13 | ** Bob states the obvious as part of his thinking process because things make better sense to him when [[ThinkingOutLoud spoken aloud]]. |
14 | ** Bob is deliberately being CaptainObvious as a form of [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], or to direct mockery toward him. |
15 | ** [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope Bob's lawyer advised him to state the obvious about his product]] to avoid a FrivolousLawsuit. |
16 | ** [[ChildrenAreInnocent Bob is still a child.]] Things that are obvious to adults are still mind-blowing to him. |
17 | ** While these things may be obvious to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bob]] and his co-pilot, they won't be to [[ApocalypticLog the NTSB replaying the CVR should anything happen]]. |
18 | * '''Inverted''': |
19 | ** Bob always states BlatantLies. |
20 | ** Bob is ComicallyMissingThePoint. |
21 | ** Bob always states the subtle or ''un''obvious. Only a few people can fully understand the true meaning of his words, without Bob simplifying what he says to them. |
22 | * '''Subverted''': |
23 | ** Bob is watching the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl on TV with his {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, Charlie. Bob says, "[[SarcasmMode I am]] ''[[SarcasmMode not]]'' [[SarcasmMode watching the Super Bowl]]." Charlie is amused. |
24 | ** While this may be an obvious fact nowadays, not so during Bob's days. |
25 | ** [[MotorMouth "WhileTheFactsIStateMayBeObviousToThoseThatActuallyWatchTheseEvents,I'mStatingThemForThoseListeningToTroperFM…AndAliceShootsAndItGoesAcrossTheField…GOAL!"]] |
26 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
27 | ** Bob continues, "I am not watching the Super Bowl; [[TheTreacheryOfImages I am watching a TV that is displaying the Super Bowl]]." |
28 | ** What Bob said was, in fact, well-known even in his time. |
29 | * '''Parodied''': |
30 | ** Bob is literally a superhero called Captain Obvious [[BlessedWithSuck whose only superpower is his unparalleled ability to point out the glaringly obvious]]. |
31 | ** Bob [[OneWordVocabulary can say only one word: "Air!"]], which everyone else knows they breathe. |
32 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob states the obvious to TheDitz Alice, who actually needs it to be stated to her, but when he's with more intelligent people he doesn't. |
33 | * '''Averted''': Nothing obvious is stated. |
34 | * '''Enforced''': |
35 | ** ViewersAreMorons. |
36 | ** The way the previous episodes of ''Bob's Journey Around The World'' were dubbed from Tropestani to English meant that the ''Bob Visits America'''s English To Tropestani scenes became [[DubInducedPlothole English To English scenes]]. |
37 | * '''Lampshaded''': [[SarcasmMode "Gee, thanks, Bob! I really learned something!"]] |
38 | * '''Invoked''': Bob is actually very perceptive but uses the obvious statements as part of his ObfuscatingStupidity. |
39 | * '''Exploited''': Bob uses obvious statements to hide not very obvious ones when in company of people who should not known the latter. |
40 | * '''Defied''': |
41 | ** Bob begins with "You know..." but Alice cuts him off and [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks if he's actually pointing out something the others can't see]]. He apologizes and shuts up. |
42 | ** Bob himself just says, "I suppose you see the obvious." Everybody else indicates assent. |
43 | * '''Discussed''': "Next time Bob says something obvious, I'm gonna punch his lights out." |
44 | * '''Conversed''': "DrinkingGame: Take a shot every time Bob says something obvious." |
45 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob's friends lose respect for him every time he states the obvious, which makes Bob feels like he's in the wrong for doing so. |
46 | * '''Reconstructed''': Bob's friend Max consoles Bob, telling him that he doesn't have to feel bad for stating the obvious and that the so-called friends are just being {{Jerkass}}es; Bob feels better now. |
47 | * '''Implied''': |
48 | -->'''Carol''': Did Bob say anything useful? |
49 | -->'''Charlie''': Not really. |
50 | * '''Played for Drama''': [[OnlySaneMan Bob]] says, "IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace. It's dangerous," just before the FiveManBand goes to [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Valley of Death]]. When they get there, he points out all the remains of previous adventurers and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou creatures that look ready to eat them]] to the rest of his team. They all tell him that they know how dangerous it is and they're well-prepared ... right before they're all snatched away. |
51 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is an onlooking character in an update of ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', and we're invited to laugh at how NakedPeopleAreFunny along with him. |
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53 | -->This is the end of the page.[[CaptainObvious This link goes back to Captain Obvious!]] |
54 | -->'''Alice''': Hey, you! Stop [[CaptainObvious stating the obvious!]] |
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56 | %%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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