Line #4 Quotes/ContractualGenreBlindness


1	->''182. No figuring out the plot and killing the actual villain five minutes into the adventure.''
2	-->--'''[[http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html 1600]] Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'''
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4	->'''Elan''': I'm torn, because on one hand, I want to share something important that happened to me while we were apart... But on the other hand, bardic tradition demands that [[ThirdActMisunderstanding I withhold it all so that at some later point, you can accidentally learn an incomplete version and jump to all of the wrong conclusions – later leading to entertaining dramatic conflict later in our relationship]].\
5	'''Haley''': So...what are you going to do?\
6	'''Elan''': [[DefiedTrope Tell you everything.]] How are we supposed to get a happy ending if we can't be honest?
7	-->--''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html #670]]
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9	->'''Elan''': Nale! You're alive!\
10	'''Nale''': Of course I'm alive, you moron. What I can't figure out is how you didn't KNOW I was alive the whole time. ''You're'' the bard, surely you should have known that [[NeverFoundTheBody when the bad guy dies off-screen, he's not really dead unless you see the body]]. And half the time, not even then.\
11	'''Elan''': Yeah, but the hero always THINKS the bad guy is dead until he shows up again.\
12	'''Nale''': But... if you know that, then how can you be surprised... Why didn't you realize thinking I was dead was... I mean... Gah! I think I'm giving myself a migraine trying to understand the level of willful ignorance that requires!\
13	'''Elan''': First blood: ELAN!
14	-->--''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0793.html #793]]
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16	->''For countless generations we have done things in a certain way. We can't just do everything differently now because it... "makes sense".''
17	-->--''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}''
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19	->'''Chris:''' ''(to Rebecca)'' "Well, I'm gonna head over there now. Wanna come with?"
20	->'''Rebecca:''' "Normally, yes. But... having a medic with you at all times in a SurvivalHorror game...?"
21	->'''Chris:''' ''(sees her point)'' "Yeah, [[GenreSavvy that would kill all the tension faster than]] [[RedShirt a redshirt."]]
22	-->--''WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged''
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24	->'''Senor Senior, Sr.:''' A proper villain always leaves his foe when he is about to expire.\
25	'''Senor Senior, Jr.:''' Why?\
26	'''Senor Senior, Sr.:''' Well, it would be ''bad form'' to just loll about, waiting for it!
27	-->--''WesternAnimation/KimPossible,'' "Animal Attraction"
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29	->''No Muttley, we '''''can't''''' win fairly! We are'' '''[[CardCarryingVillain villains]]''', ''ergo we'' '''have''' ''to [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat cheat]]!''
30	-->-- '''Dick Dastardly''' in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Forever'' {{pilot}} (while his car is three feet from the finish line)
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32	->'''Eddie:''' You mean to tell me you could have taken you hand out of that cuff ''at any time?!''
33	->'''Roger:''' No, not at ''any'' time. Only when it was ''funny''.
34	-->--''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''
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36	->''Igor, the day vampires win all the time, that's the day we will be knocked back beyond return.''
37	-->-- '''Count Magpyr''' explaining why vampires need to endure being beaten repeatedly, ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''
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39	->'''Bass''': Isn't he the bad guy that's going to try to kill us all?\
40	'''Proto Man''': Yes, but we're not supposed to know that, so shut up.
41	-->--''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', "[[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/011016c Mynd's a Bad Guy]]"

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