Phlebotinum note is de veelzijdige substantie die op iets kan worden ingewreven om een effect te veroorzaken dat een verhaal nodig heeft. Voorbeelden zijn onder andere: nanotechnologie, magische kristallen emanaties, elvenstof en groene stenen.
In essentie is het plot-brandstof. Zonder dit zou het verhaal tot een abrupt einde komen. Het is de wetenschap die de sneller-dan-het-licht apparatuur aandrijft op het ruimteschip zodat de personages ergens kunnen komen, het is de magie die de Ei-MacGuffin uitbroedt, zodat de protagonist een bedreigde soort kan redden, het zijn de vreemde dingen die onbekend zijn voor de wetenschap of magie die eigenlijk alles doen behalve de limieten en gevaren nodig voor het verhaal. De lezer weet niet hoe Phlebotinum zou werken en de makers hopen dat het niemand het iets kan schelen.
Volgens Joss Whedon, tijdens het DVD-commentaar voor de pilot-aflevering van Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is de term "phlebotinum" afkomstig van Buffy schrijver (en medebedenker van Angel) David Greenwalt's plotselinge uitbarsting: "Raak de phlebotinum niet aan!", wat niets betekende. Fun Fact
Als het phlebotinum in kwestie gewoon een fysieke substantie is met ongewone/extreme eigenschappen, dan heb je vrijwel zeker te maken met het element [[Unobtainium Onverkrijgbarium]].
Alias Handwuivium. Vergelijk Schrijverkrachten, Handwuif, MacGuffin, Deus ex Machina en 't Was een Tovenaar. Contrasteer Verkeerd Toegepast Phlebotinum. Niet verwarren met Phlebotomy.
Tropes
- Abnormal Ammo
- Achilles' Power Cord
- Aesoptinum
- Agony Beam
- Amplifier Artifact
- Amulet of Concentrated Awesome
- Amulet of Dependency
- Ancient Artifact
- Antimatter
- Are These Wires Important?
- Artifact of Doom
- Artifact of Power
- Artificial Gravity
- Art Initiates Life
- Artistic License – Chemistry
- Artistic License – Space
- Automated Automobiles
- Background Magic Field
- Bamboo Technology
- Big Red Button
- Bio-Augmentation
- Black Box
- Blind Jump
- Blood Bath
- Body to Jewel
- Built with LEGO
- By the Power of Grayskull!
- Came from the Sky
- Can't Have Sex, Ever
- Carrying the Antidote
- Chemistry Can Do Anything
- Clarke's Third Law
- Clingy Costume
- Clingy MacGuffin
- Clone Angst
- Cold Iron
- Collapsing Lair
- Comm Links
- Containment Field
- Correspondence Course
- Counterpart Artifacts
- Cure for Cancer
- Dangerous Device Disposal Debacle
- Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction
- The Dark Side
- Deflector Shields
- Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
- Detachable Lower Half
- Deus ex Nukina
- Devolution Device
- Diagnosed by the Audience
- Disability Superpower
- Disco Tech
- Diverting Power
- Do-Anything Robot
- Doomsday Device
- Duct Tape for Everything
- Electric Instant Gratification
- Electric Torture
- Elemental Absorption
- EMP
- Energy Absorption
- Every Car Is a Pinto
- Everything Sensor
- Exact Time to Failure
- Explosive Instrumentation
- Explosive Overclocking
- Exposition Beam
- Extradimensional Power Source
- Failsafe Failure
- Fantasy Metals
- Faster-Than-Light Travel
- Fertile Feet
- Fold the Page, Fold the Space
- Forgotten Phlebotinum
- Forgotten Superweapon
- Fountain of Youth
- Functional Magic
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
- Going to Give It More Energy
- Gravity Sucks
- Great Big Book of Everything
- Green Rocks
- Handy Remote Control
- Hard Light
- Harmful to Touch
- Healing Potion
- Healing Vat
- Helping Hands
- Hidden Wire
- Hihi'irokane
- Holding Back the Phlebotinum
- Hologram Projection Imperfection
- Hulking Out
- Human Popsicle
- Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball
- Hyperspace Lanes
- Hypno Ray
- I Know Your True Name
- Implausible Synchrony
- Imported Alien Phlebotinum
- Incredibly Obvious Bug
- Inertial Dampening
- Infinite Supplies
- Infrared Xray Camera
- Inventional Wisdom
- Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality
- Invisibility Cloak
- Involuntary Shapeshifting
- Item Amplifier
- It Runs on Nonsensoleum
- Jack up with Phlebotinum
- Jet Pack
- LEGO Genetics
- Ley Line
- Lightning Can Do Anything
- The Little Detecto
- Living Battery
- Losing Your Head
- Lost Technology
- Lotus-Eater Machine
- Love Potion
- Loyal Phlebotinum
- Made of Explodium
- Made of Indestructium
- Made of Phlebotinum
- Magi Babble
- Magic A Is Magic A
- Magical Accessory
- Magically-Binding Contract
- Magical Particle Accelerator
- Magic Antidote
- Magic from Technology
- Magic Meteor
- Magic Music
- Magic Plastic Surgery
- Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
- Magic Tool
- Make a Wish
- Matter Replicator
- May Contain Evil
- Medieval Stasis
- Menstrual Menace
- Mental Picture Projector
- Mind-Control Device
- Mind Probe
- Minovsky Physics
- Mirror Morality Machine
- Misapplied Phlebotinum
- Mithril
- Mobile-Suit Human
- Mutagenic Goo
- My Car Hates Me
- Nanomachines
- No Blood for Phlebotinum
- No Off Button
- Not of This Earth
- No Water Proofing In The Future
- The Nudifier
- Offscreen Villain Dark Matter
- Orichalcum
- Our Clones Are Identical
- Our Phlebotinum Child
- Overclocking Attack
- Override Command
- Panacea
- Paranormal Mundane Item
- Percussive Maintenance
- Perilous Power Source
- Perpetual Motion Machine
- Philosopher's Stone
- Phlebotinum Analogy
- Phlebotinum Battery
- Phlebotinum Bomb
- Phlebotinum Breakdown
- Phlebotinum Girl
- Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment
- Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
- Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity
- Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs
- Phlebotinum Muncher
- Phlebotinum Overdose
- Phlebotinum Overload
- Phlebotinum Pills
- Phlebotinum Rebel
- Placebotinum Effect
- Plot-Sensitive Button
- Plot-Sensitive Items
- Portal Book
- Portal Picture
- Portal Pool
- Powered by a Forsaken Child
- Power Source
- Power-Up Food
- Pressure-Sensitive Interface
- Professor Guinea Pig
- Projected Man
- Psychic Nosebleed
- Public Domain Artifact
- Pure Energy
- Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything
- Radiation-Induced Superpowers
- Reactionless Drive
- Readings Are Off the Scale
- Readings Blew Up the Scale
- Reinventing the Telephone
- Restraining Bolt
- Reverse Polarity
- Rewriting Reality
- Rube Goldberg Device
- Runs on Ignorance
- Saved by the Phlebotinum
- Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
- Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!
- Screwball Serum
- Secret Project Refugee Family
- Self-Defenseless
- Self-Destruct Mechanism
- Self-Guarding Phlebotinum
- Self-Healing Phlebotinum
- Sentient Cosmic Force
- Sentient Phlebotinum
- Sharpened to a Single Atom
- Shoe Phone
- Shrink Ray
- Silver Bullet
- Single Phlebotinum Limit
- Solid Clouds
- Soul Fragment
- Soul-Powered Engine
- Space Is Magic
- Spy Satellites
- States of Phlebotinum
- Supernormal Bindings
- Super Wrist-Gadget
- Surgical Impersonation
- Swirly Energy Thingy
- Techno Babble
- Thin Dimensional Barrier
- 30-Second Blackout
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Thunderbolt Iron
- Tim Taylor Technology
- Time Stands Still
- Time Travel
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
- Toxic Phlebotinum
- Toxic Waste Can Do Anything
- Tracking Device
- Transformation Causes
- Transformation Ray
- Transformation Trinket
- Translator Microbes
- Truth Serums
- Unobtainium
- Upgrade Artifact
- Utility Belt
- Utility Magic
- Villain-Beating Artifact
- Virgin Power
- Virgin Sacrifice
- Virtual Ghost
- Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Weather-Control Machine
- We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum
- What Do You Mean, It's Phlebotinum?
- Wheel of Pain
- When Things Spin, Science Happens
- Wire Dilemma
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
- Within Parameters
- Words Can Break My Bones
- World-Healing Wave
- Zillion-Dollar Bill
Toegepast Phlebotinum behoord tot de Legendarische Tropes.
[Engels: Applied Phlebotinum]