Tropes about characters learning stuff.

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.

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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!!Characters and Objects

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* AkashicRecords
* AncientKeeper
* ApocalypticLog: Someone finds a recording at a ruined area with no survivors that explains the cause of the death and destruction everywhere.
* BakerStreetRegular
* BigBookOfWar
* BluffTheEavesdropper
* ConstantlyCurious: A character can't stop asking questions.
* CuriousAsAMonkey
* DominoRevelation
* EncyclopediaExposita
* ExasperatedPerp
* FireStolenFromTheGods
* GateOfTruth
* 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.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything
* HauntedHouseHistorian
* HumanHardDrive
* TheInformant: A person who informs the heroes about what the criminals are up to or where they are hiding.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge
* KnowledgeBroker
* MagicalDatabase
* MagicalLibrary
* MrExposition: A character who moves the plot forward by explaining everything to the other characters.
* MysteriousInformant
* OmniscientDatabase
* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn
* RealityWritingBook
* ScientistVideoJournal
* SpellBook
* StagingTheEavesdrop
* TomeOfEldritchLore
* TomesOfProphecyAndFate
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: A helpful character who gives advice via earpiece to the main character related to whatever they're doing.
* TheWatson

!!Events
* 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.
* BringNewsBack
* CaughtOnTape: Usually involves a character learning something from a recording.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts
* DoingResearch
* DoomedAppointment -- where it gets forestalled
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: A character dreams about events that will happen later.
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
* DreamSpying
* EpicHail
* ExactEavesdropping
* FeedTheMole
* FigureItOutYourself
* GaveUpTooSoon: The characters leave under the assumption that they have failed, but would've succeeded had they stuck around for just a bit longer.
* INeverGotAnyLetters
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A character knows things about a crime they wouldn't if they were innocent.
* InfallibleBabble
* InterrogationFlashback
* JustTakeThePoster: A character takes a poster that was on a wall because they want the information on it.
* LetMeGetThisStraight
* NextStallShenanigans: A character in a bathroom stall overhears other characters talking about something.
* NoteToSelf
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass
* OutOfContextEavesdropping
* PerpSweating
* ThePerryMasonMethod
* PullTheThread
* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum
* SniperScopeGlint: A character learns a sniper's location via a glint of light from their rifle.
* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy
* TellMeAboutMyFather
* ThatLiarLies: A person is called out for or accused of being a liar.
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