This index is a sub-index to Probability Tropes, and related to This Index Is Highly Improbable. Here are tropes for when something is made rather glaringly obvious to or convenient for a character(s), in order to move things along quickly. Consider it God simultaneously railroading, holding and pointing with the character(s) hand.
NOTICE THIS: Not all relevant tropes will have "suspicious" or "convenient" in their names, and not all tropes with "suspicious" or "convenient" are relevant.
Tropes:
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Benevolent Architecture
- Blatant Item Placement
- Boss-Arena Idiocy
- Chance Meeting Between Antagonists
- Coincidental Broadcast
- Coincidental Disguise-Complementing Trait
- Contrived Coincidence
- Convenient Cranny
- Convenient Eclipse: An eclipse occurs just in time to help the heroes in some way.
- Convenient Enemy Base
- Convenient Escape Boat
- Conveniently an Orphan
- Conveniently Cellmates
- Conveniently Close Planet
- Conveniently Empty Building
- Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
- Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
- Conveniently Timed Distraction
- Conveniently Timed Guard
- Convenient Miscarriage
- Convenient Questing
- The Convenient Store Next Door
- Convenient Weakness Placement
- Crazy-Prepared
- Deus ex Machina
- Exact Eavesdropping
- Fake Better Alternate Timeline
- Googling the New Acquaintance
- Great Big Book of Everything
- Hellistics: Unrelated events turn out to be connected with each other just to screw over the character(s).
- Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat
- It's a Small World, After All
- It's A Small Net After All
- Just Take the Poster
- Laser-Guided Broadcast
- Million to One Chance
- Mundane Solution
- Notice This
- Omniscient Database
- One Degree of Separation
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
- Overhead Interaction Indicator
- Plot Tailored to the Party
- Precision Crash
- Railroading
- Suspiciously Apropos Music
- Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record
- Suspiciously Specific Sermon
- Suspicious Video-Game Generosity
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
- Throw the Mook at Them
- Too Good to Be True
- Within Arm's Reach
