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* ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'': This is a recognized talent on the Moon, called "intuitionism". Selene has it, and it proves really helpful. In parallel universe, Emotionals have it, but only Dua makes real use of it.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Meme Oshino can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their problem.
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** Samantha Carter in ''Series/StargateSG1'' frequently exhibits this trope early in the series, able to deduce the purpose of alien devices and the nature of various supersciences. As the series progresses, she shifts out of this trope and toward a more realistic "Able to exposit on the basis of training and experience".
** [=McKay=] in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' often avoids this trope -- despite his stated arrogance, he is frequently unwilling to exposit a theory until he has given some piece of technology a thorough examination under laboratory conditions. When circumstances force him to postulate anyway, he's frequently wrong.
** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.
** [=McKay=] in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' often avoids this trope -- despite his stated arrogance, he is frequently unwilling to exposit a theory until he has given some piece of technology a thorough examination under laboratory conditions. When circumstances force him to postulate anyway, he's frequently wrong.
** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.
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*** Samantha Carterin ''Series/StargateSG1'' frequently exhibits this trope early in the series, able to deduce the purpose of alien devices and the nature of various supersciences. As the series progresses, she shifts out of this trope and toward a more realistic "Able to exposit on the basis of training and experience".
*** Daniel Jackson does this just as often with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E8TheFirstOnes "The First Ones"]] with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.
** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': [=McKay=]in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' often avoids this trope -- despite his stated arrogance, he is frequently unwilling to exposit a theory until he has given some piece of technology a thorough examination under laboratory conditions. When circumstances force him to postulate anyway, he's frequently wrong.
** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.wrong.
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*** Daniel Jackson does this just as often with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E8TheFirstOnes "The First Ones"]] with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.
** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': [=McKay=]
** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape recorder out.
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* ''{{ComicBook/Cattivik}}'': PlayedForLaughs in a story where the ''[[MediumAwareness narration boxes]]'' turn against the protagonists. One of the characters, calling himself "TheProfessor", explains to everybody else what happened and how they need to fight for their life, "like in movies". When asked ''what'' he is a professor of, he admits he's a junior high gym coach... But he's watched a lot of movies.
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* ''{{ComicBook/Cattivik}}'': PlayedForLaughs in a story where the ''[[MediumAwareness [[MediumAwareness narration boxes]]'' boxes]] turn against the protagonists. One of the characters, calling himself "TheProfessor", explains to everybody else what happened and how they need to fight for their life, "like in movies". When asked ''what'' he is a professor of, he admits he's a junior high gym coach... But he's watched a lot of movies.
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* ''Fanfic/ReturningTheStones'': Cap is able to figure out what happened to Red Skull based on their last encounter and his knowledge of the Tesseract’s powers.
* ''Fanfic/SecretWar'': Attelus' savviness tends to come off a lot like this but it is mostly {{subverted}} in that he isn't always right.
* ''Fanfic/SecretWar'': Attelus' savviness tends to come off a lot like this but it is mostly {{subverted}} in that he isn't always right.
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* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': When the World Engine starts up, Dr. Hamilton correctly observes that it's a gravity weapon. And then he declares that they are somehow increasing Earth's mass. Deducting that the World Engine affects gravity is feasible because everything is getting heavier. However, how would Hamilton even notice that the Earth is getting bigger? Yet, he's absolutely right.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The final episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor "The Armageddon Factor"]] starts with two characters [[RecapByAudit conveniently recapping]] some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. This is strange because these events happened on a different planet and no one present has been in communication with them.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The final episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor "The Armageddon Factor"]] starts with two characters Shap and Merac [[RecapByAudit conveniently recapping]] some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. This is strange because these events happened on a different planet and no one present has been in communication with them.
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* Tetsuo Segawa from ''Guyver'' may be the patron saint of ExpositionIntuition: thanks to ''being a science-fiction fan'', he is able to make numerous, highly specific, and perfectly accurate "guesses" about how the Guyver suit works, the nature of the Zoanoids, that they are being controlled by a major corporation, the various details of the Cronos corporation, the [[{{Namedar}} names of individual Zoanoids]], and so forth.
* Meme Oshino in ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their story of their problem.
* Meme Oshino in ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their story of their problem.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Meme Oshino can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their problem.
* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'': Tetsuo Segawafrom ''Guyver'' may be the patron saint of ExpositionIntuition: thanks to ''being a science-fiction fan'', he is able to make numerous, highly specific, and perfectly accurate "guesses" about how the Guyver suit works, the nature of the Zoanoids, that they are being controlled by a major corporation, the various details of the Cronos corporation, the [[{{Namedar}} names of individual Zoanoids]], and so forth.
* Meme Oshino in ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' can always tell what supernatural phenomena affected each girl, usually based on Koyomi's secondhand recounting of their story of their problem.
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** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but you could blink and miss it.
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** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact fact, James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but you could blink and miss it.
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* Doctor Forrester in ''Film/{{The War of the Worlds|1953}}''. He's able to deduce how the Martian heat ray works, how the war machines levitate, and even determines ''based on nothing more than seeing what we do'' that an alien weapon which causes its victims to light up with XRaySparks then fade to nothing works by "cutting across the lines of electromagnetic force" that holds matter together.
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* ''Literature/TheLangoliers'': Creator/StephenKing's AuthorAvatar author character manages to guess exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And it works.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The final episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor "The Armageddon Factor"]] starts with two characters [[RecapByAudit conveniently recapping]] some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. This is strange because these events happened on a different planet and no one present has been in communication with them.
* ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'': The kids, who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
* ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'': The kids, who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
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** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape-recorder out.
* At the beginning of the final episode of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Armageddon Factor", two characters conveniently recap for us some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. Which is strange because these events happened on ''a different planet'' and no one present has been in communication with them.
* In a minor example, the kids on ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'', who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', Creator/StephenKing's AuthorAvatar author character, played by Dean Stockwell, manages to ''guess'' exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And '''it works'''.
* At the beginning of the final episode of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Armageddon Factor", two characters conveniently recap for us some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. Which is strange because these events happened on ''a different planet'' and no one present has been in communication with them.
* In a minor example, the kids on ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'', who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', Creator/StephenKing's AuthorAvatar author character, played by Dean Stockwell, manages to ''guess'' exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And '''it works'''.
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** Daniel Jackson does this just as often, with alien cultures and languages instead of science. He spends most of the episode "The First Ones," with an almost-silent alien that doesn't speak English. So naturally, he spends every scene explaining exactly what he thinks is going on, even when he doesn't have his tape-recorder tape recorder out.
* At the beginning of the final episode of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Armageddon Factor", two characters conveniently recap for us some recent events and the predicament the Doctor is in. Which is strange because these events happened on ''a different planet'' and no one present has been in communication with them.
* In a minor example, the kids on ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'', who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', Creator/StephenKing's AuthorAvatar author character, played by Dean Stockwell, manages to ''guess'' exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And '''it works'''.
* In a minor example, the kids on ''Series/{{Land of the Lost|1974}}'', who've become fair experts on giant reptilian beasts by this point, are threatened by a two-headed snake in the first episode of season three. Having escaped, they name it "[=LuLu=]", one "Lu" for each head. How does this fit this trope? It fits, because the two-headed snake's body is ''completely underwater'', out of view, when they run into it. So how did they instantly catch on that it was a multi-headed creature, rather than two big snakes?
* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', Creator/StephenKing's AuthorAvatar author character, played by Dean Stockwell, manages to ''guess'' exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And '''it works'''.
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* In the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Liara pulls this on the Shadow Broker. She admits to you afterward that she was guessing.
-->'''Liara:''' You're a Yahg, a pre-spaceflight species quarantined to your home-world for massacring the Council's first contact teams. This base is older than your planet's discovery, which means you killed the original Shadow Broker sixty years ago, then took over. I'm guessing you were taken from your world by a trophy hunter who wanted a slave...or a pet. How am I doing?
-->'''Liara:''' You're a Yahg, a pre-spaceflight species quarantined to your home-world for massacring the Council's first contact teams. This base is older than your planet's discovery, which means you killed the original Shadow Broker sixty years ago, then took over. I'm guessing you were taken from your world by a trophy hunter who wanted a slave...or a pet. How am I doing?
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': In the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', DLC, Liara pulls this on the Shadow Broker. She admits to you afterward that she was guessing.
-->'''Liara:''' You're a Yahg, a pre-spaceflight species quarantined to yourhome-world home world for massacring the Council's first contact teams. This base is older than your planet's discovery, which means you killed the original Shadow Broker sixty years ago, then took over. I'm guessing you were taken from your world by a trophy hunter who wanted a slave...or a pet. How am I doing?
-->'''Liara:''' You're a Yahg, a pre-spaceflight species quarantined to your
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** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but you could blink and miss it.
** Also having gone back in time before HBP, Harry shouldn't know who Slughorn is nor his significance to Voldemort's backstory. This is [[HandWave explained]] as him having access to Voldemort's memories, which [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands wasn't mentioned until that point]].
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** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but you could blink and miss it.
** Also having gone back in time before HBP, Harry shouldn't know who Slughorn is nor his significance to Voldemort's backstory. This is [[HandWave explained]] as him having access to Voldemort's memories, which [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands wasn't mentioned until that point]].
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** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but you could blink and miss it.
** Also having gone back in time before HBP, Harry shouldn't know who Slughorn is nor his significance to Voldemort's backstory. This is [[HandWave explained]] as him having access to Voldemort's memories, which [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands wasn't mentioned until that point]].
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