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Tropes about characters' learning stuff.

Compare Exposition, where the audience learns stuff — overlap is substantial, since these tropes can justify those ones.

Also compare Truth and Lies; you can learn both true and false information from any of these tropes.

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Characters and Objects

• Ancient Keeper
• Apocalyptic Log
• Bluff The Eavesdropper
• Curious as a Monkey
• Constantly Curious
• Encyclopedia Exposita
• Exasperated Perp
• Gate of Truth
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• The Informant
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• Knowledge Broker
  • The Informant
• Mr. Exposition
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  • Akashic Records
  • Apocalyptic Log
  • Big Book of War
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  • Tomes of Prophecy and Fate
• Magical Library

Events

• At Least I Admit It
• Bring News Back
• Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
• Doing Research
• Doomed Appointment — where it gets forestalled
• Dreaming of Things to Come
• Dreaming of Times Gone By
• Dream Spying
• Epic Hail
• Exact Eavesdropping
• Feed the Mole
• Figure It Out Yourself
• Gave Up Too Soon
• I Never Got Any Letters
• Infallible Babble
• Let Me Get This Straight
• Note to Self
• Only The Knowledgable May Pass
• Perp Sweating
• The Perry Mason Method
• Pull the Thread
• Someday This Will Come In Handy
• Tell Me About My Father
• That Liar Lies

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The Shades of Fact

Truth and Lies

German Media

Tropes

Japanese Media

Infauxmation Desk

Index Index

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