History PlayingWith / GenreSavvy

* '''Straight''': Bob, the lead detective in a murder mystery, arrives at what appears to be a suicide and notes that it is NeverSuicide, AlwaysMurder in murder mystery stories that look like this, and thus suggests that this case is a murder. He is revealed to be correct.

* '''Played for Drama''': With his GenreSavviness, Bob excludes everybody else from what he's doing, and vice versa.

* '''Implied''': Bob is [[TheGhost unseen]], but many people mention his knowledge in stories.

* '''Played for Drama''': With his GenreSavvy, Bob excludes everybody else from what he's doing, and vice versa.

%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%%* '''Implied''': ???

** Bob takes the above world's destruction [[UpToEleven quite literally]], out of disgust of [[SurroundedByIdiots the idiocy of its inner workings.]]

** While dominantly CosmicHorrorStory, it's actually a CosmicHorrorStory[=/=][[DetectiveDrama Detective Novel]] hybrid.

'''Basic Trope''': A character demonstrates awareness of the particular conventions that usually govern stories and genres like the one they are participating in. May or may not involve LeaningOnTheFourthWall.

** RealityEnsues; it turns out that in this particular case, it actually ''was'' a suicide, plain and simple, and Bob just [[YouWatchTooMuchX reads too many detective novels]].

** The real world doesn't exactly conform to the laws of fiction, and [[RealityEnsues Bob learns this the hard way]].

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob can accurately predict everything that will happen in the story.

** Bob has a great deal of experience of the kinds of story he is involved in, whether as an active participant in previous examples or as a reader / consumer / producer of them.
** Bob's in a story brought to life. He's read so many that he can essentially spot the transition at once, possibly because it's based off a story he encounters already. Now that he is confirmed to be working within the realm of what he knows, He doesn't hesitate a second to play off genre conventions.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is alternatively GenreSavvy, WrongGenreSavvy, and {{Genre Blind|ness}}. The rules of the story keep changing from underneath him so he doesn't know where he is most of the time; at one point the story seems to be a murder mystery, spirals into a Cosmic Horror, goes from there to being a [[TwoFistedTale pulp adventure thriller]] before ending up back as a murder mystery.

* '''Enforced''': "This is a pretty hackneyed trope / story we're putting together here; it'd be pretty funny if we had the characters acknowledge it."

** "First time I've ever seen a [[SpitTake Spit Take]] in real life."

* '''Exploited''': Bob becomes CombatPragmatist and is able to actively use his knowledge of genre conventions to uncover and defeat his enemies.

** The murderer intentionally removes any trope-like elements to his crime, thus rendering Bob's GenreSavvy useless.

** Bob's sheer GenreSavvy ends up writing his author into a corner, as there's no way the story would really survive with him in it. The author is forced into an early ending, [[OrphanedSeries abandons the story from a lack of usable ideas]], or simply [[DeathByGenreSavvy kills him off so he'll stop being a nuisance]].
** Bob discovers that being GenreSavvy doesn't necessarily make him more capable of [[YouCantFightFate stopping certain conventions from happening]] and his attempts to do so only make them worse.

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is able to use his GenreSavvy to [[MustMakeAmends put things back together as they should be]].

%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

** Bob is a [[OneOfUs troper]].

** CrazyPrepared

** Bob is TheOmniscient.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is alternatively GenreSavvy, WrongGenreSavvy, [[GenreBlindness Genre Blind]] and DangerouslyGenreSavvy. The rules of the story keep changing from underneath him so he doesn't know where he is most of the time; at one point the story seems to be a murder mystery, spirals into a Cosmic Horror, goes from there to being a [[TwoFistedTale pulp adventure thriller]] before ending up back as a murder mystery.

** On a more in-universe related note, the villains notice that Bob is DangerouslyGenreSavvy, and [[OutGambitted acts accordingly]]. [[DownerEnding Unfortunately,]] [[CurbStompBattle that didn't end very well for the heroes.]]

* '''Exploited''': Bob becomes DangerouslyGenreSavvy and is able to actively use his knowledge of genre conventions to uncover and defeat his enemies.

** DangerouslyGenreSavvy

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob can accurately predict everything that will happen in the story.

%%* '''Exaggerated''':
%%** Bob is CrazyPrepared and can accurately predict whether or not any snail he encounters will fall into a pool of lava and alligators from the size of its shell.
%%** Bob has PsychicPowers (or something close to it) and can foresee the entire story.

%%* '''Inverted''': Bob suffers GenreBlindness and has absolutely no understanding or awareness of the conventions of the stories he is in at all.

%%** Bob is WrongGenreSavvy; he ''thinks'' he's in a detective novel, but he's actually in a CosmicHorrorStory.

%%** Alternately: Bob might have been wrong in claiming that it's NeverSuicide, but the victim was [[DrivenToMadness intentionally]] DrivenToSuicide by someone who wanted him dead.

%%** "I ''knew'' this was going to happen."

%%* '''Exploited''': Bob is DangerouslyGenreSavvy and is able to actively use his knowledge of genre conventions to uncover and defeat his enemies.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob, the lead detective in a murder mystery, arrives at what appears to be a suicide and notes that it is NeverSuicide, AlwaysMurder in cases that look like this, and thus suggests that this case is a murder. He is revealed to be correct.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is CrazyPrepared and can accurately predict whether or not any snail he encounters will fall into a pool of lava and alligators from the size of its shell.
** Bob has PsychicPowers (or something close to it) and can foresee the entire story.

** Bob's in a story brought to life. He's read so many that he can essentially spot the transition at once, possibly because it's based off a story he encounterd already. Now that he is confirmed to be working within the realm of what he knows, He doesn't hesitate a second to play off genre conventions.
* '''Inverted''': Bob suffers GenreBlindness and has absolutely no understanding or awareness of the conventions of the stories he is in at all.

** Bob is WrongGenreSavvy; he ''thinks'' he's in a detective novel, but he's actually in a CosmicHorrorStory.
** Alternatively, RealityEnsues; it turns out that in this particular case, it actually ''was'' a suicide, plain and simple, and Bob just [[YouWatchTooMuchX reads too many detective novels]].

** Alternately: Bob might have been wrong in claiming that it's NeverSuicide, but the victim was [[DrivenToMadness intentionally]] DrivenToSuicide by someone who wanted him dead.

** "I ''knew'' this was going to happen."
** Alternatively, "I've seen cartoons like this before!"

* '''Exploited''': Bob is DangerouslyGenreSavvy and is able to actively use his knowledge of genre conventions to uncover and defeat his enemies.

'''Basic Trope''': A character demonstrates awareness of the particular conventions that usually govern stories and genres like the one they are participating in. May or may not involve Leaning on the Fourth Wall.

'''Basic Trope''': A character demonstrates awareness of the particular conventions that usually govern stories and genres like the one they are participating in.