Line #12 PlayingWith/ClockKing


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character who somehow can predict with alarming accuracy how future events will happen.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is capable of predicting future events down to the second.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob knows everything that will happen... Even how the world will end.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Bob knows the schedule for several upcoming events, but only in general terms.
5	** ScheduleFanatic
6	* '''Justified''':
7	** Bob has physic or magical powers.
8	** Bob is [[TimeTravel from the future]].
9	** Bob can [[TimeMaster control time]].
10	** Bob is exerting an extreme form of AwesomenessByAnalysis, that relies on [[TheSocialExpert psychology]], [[SherlockScan pattern recognition]] and [[RenaissanceMan eruditeness]] to predict the short term (and even long term) actions of people and systems.
11	** Bob is a CosmicPlaything and every plan he has is enforced by the Universe itself to go right.
12	* '''Inverted''': Every prediction Bob makes about the future is entirely inaccurate. But he can know the past accurately.
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** DidntSeeThatComing
15	** GambitRoulette
16	** SpannerInTheWorks
17	* '''Double Subverted''': Bob's prediction of when the train will arrive fails... but then he remembers that every second Tuesday of the month, that particular train is twenty seconds late.
18	* '''Parodied''': Bob only knows when he'll have to go to the bathroom next.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob can exactly time any event involving a person or thing he already knows about, but add an X factor and his predictions go askew.
20	* '''Averted''':
21	** Bob lacks the ability.
22	** Predictions this precise are acknowledged as being literally impossible in most cases.
23	* '''Enforced''': "We have to have someone that knows the future."
24	* '''Lampshaded''': "How did he know what I'd do? Can he read the future or something?"
25	* '''Invoked''': Bob looks up every listed schedule for train times, guard shifts, and any number of events in the area of his next plan, to know just when to act and how to act.
26	* '''Exploited''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] forces Bob to tell him future events so he can plan ahead.
27	* '''Defied''': Bob decides that it would be pointless to memorize so much trivial information and to just stick with the necessities.
28	* '''Discussed''': "He's always exactly where he needs to be down to the second, he must have a hell of a personal planner."
29	* '''Conversed''': ???
30	* '''Deconstructed''':
31	** Some tiny detail fails in Bob's plan, which was so painstakingly planned out he never thought of how to act in such a situation, causing the whole scheme to fall apart.
32	** Knowing that it takes point-zero-nine seconds for his opponent to toss a punch [[TalkToTheFist doesn't gives Bob the necessary reflexive speed to dodge that punch]].
33	* '''Reconstructed''': Luckily, Bob, a ''real'' planner knew the exact probabilities of each failure, and [[XanatosGambit planned accordingly to win either case]]. Also, being CrazyPrepared, created a bunch of other painstakingly intricate plans, understanding that everything has multiple possible outcomes, realizes it's TimeForPlanB, he also has plans C-Z and if THOSE fail, plans Alpha-Omega. Also, again OverlyLongGag part of being CrazyPrepared means being prepared for being caught unprepared: Unlike many if not most ClockKing Bob is also good at XanatosSpeedChess, able to improvise when his plans all fail, MagnificentBastard anyone?
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35	And you return to the ClockKing page, after exactly one minute and forty seconds from opening this page.
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37	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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39	%%* '''Implied:''': ???
40	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
41	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / ClockKing