Sandbox / It Makes Sense In Context Wick Check

So, there have been concerns about It Makes Sense in Context, as well as Makes Just as Much Sense in Context, as noted by Tropes Needing TRS, being huge Pothole Magnets. Additionally, the definition seems to describe them as fanspeak terms instead of tropes. This wick check is to determine if the former really is a pothole magnet as feared.

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Wicks checked: 50 (with 0 at Makes Sense In Context)

• Used as a pothole: 43/200
• ZCE: 0/200
• Misc.: 0/200

Used as a pothole

1. Abandoned Pet in a Box: In one episode of Doraemon, Doraemon helps Nobita secretly care for a box of puppies/kittens. After some time travel and thought process acceleration, the two returned to find that the dogs and cats became humanoid, gained the ability to talk, and built a sophisticated civilization with advanced technology. Apparently, the now-humanoid dogs and cats have decided to leave the Earth to another planet because they've predicted that the Earth will be facing a world-wide disaster. This short later gains an Adaptation Expansion into a full-length movie, Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey.
2. Bookworm: The title character of Steven Universe becomes one as an indirect result of having his TV privileges revoked for 1,000 years. Steven's friend Connie has been one from the start (she was seen reading a book when we first meet her) and appears to be the one who got him into reading.
3. Bunnies for Cuteness: Fruits Basket has Momiji, who is possessed by the Spirit of the Rabbit. He's the only Member of the Zodiac who really embraces his Zodiac form, as evidenced by the bunny plushies, bunny hoodies, bunny backpacks, bunny stationary, and being the first male Juunishi to hug Tohru on purpose. Somewhat subverted, though, since he's actually one of the most emotionally mature of the Sohmas (even though he looks like the youngest).
4. Came Back Strong: In Dragon Blood, Oreg comes back, after Ward killed him. Not only with stronger magic, but he's also a dragon.
5. Covered in Mud: In Cold Days, Harry Dresden's friends have to pass through a magical barrier, and end up covering themselves in mud to do it.
6. Dance Party Ending: Parodied at the end of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Slimy Dancing," in which Squidward wins a talent show by accidentally inventing a new dance move while cramping up inside SpongeBob's body. The episode cuts to an "epilogue" in which a boy frightens his mother by imitating the dance move. Following this most of the main characters suddenly show up in the kid's house and start doing the dance.
7. Doomy Dooms of Doom: From Phil Likes Tacos:
   Manager: Is there a problem here?
   Doug: Yah, the manager is here to save us from our DOOM!
   Manager: Actually, I was just going to say "Take it outside."
   Doug: No, we're still DOOMED!
   [...]
   Zoug: Ah haha, I'm here to crash your gaming party!
   Doug: Yah, Zoug is here to even the odds against our DOOM!
   Zoug: ...
   Doug: What, I need to stand up for meself? I'm out of here!
   Doug: No, we're still DOOMED!
   [...]
   Dolores: Just what is going on in here without us?
   Doug: Uhm... I'm not sure about this one, but I'm still going to keep shouting the word DOOM for fun. DOOOOOM!!
8. Egopolis: Every planet discovered by the titular Captain Star is named after him. Hilariously, the one episode where they actually discover a new planet on-screen (or rather, it's created by venting the spare magma out of another planet with a massive pipe. It was a weird show, okay?) has it happen when Star is technically no longer a captain. Science Officer Scarlet, the current acting captain, swiftly pounces on this to name it "Planet Scarlet". Granted said captains are hardly villains, but they are kind of jerks.
9. Exit, Pursued by a Bear: The VeggieTales Silly Song "The Yodeling Veterinarian of the Alps" literally has a bear chasing the titular character (played by Larry) off the stage at the end. Because yodeling to him didn't cure the bear traps on his paws.
10. Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise: A variant from an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force — where the Mooninites attempt to knock Frylock out with fumes via a garden hose connected to the giant glass cube Master Shake is current suffocating in thinking he's getting high, so they can burgle the Aqua Teens' house. Frylock easily defeats this by bending the end of the hose, causing the fumes to backfire on the Mooninites.
11. Good Old Fisticuffs: Hilariously happens in American Dragon: Jake Long when Fu fights a magical hairless cat for an ancient jewel. The cat starts an acrobatic martial art move she declares to have learned in the Shaolin temple. Fu slugs her with a simple punch he learned at a bar in the Bronx.
12. Halfway Plot Switch: In the 13th book of Colin Thompson's series The Floods (called The Royal Family), a plot about a dog breaking another dog's heart and a resulting revenge plot is suddenly interrupted by a fourth-wall-breaking "interregnum" chapter where the more central characters say that they're absolutely sick of that story arc, and then the rest of the book changes to a plot about Betty Flood pursuing the throne of Transylvania Waters and the Ultimate Super Wizard Powers.
13. Horns of Villainy: My Monster Secret: Akane is more The Gadfly than truly evil, but is still a demon nonetheless. She is never seen without her horns, even when she's using her illusions to make herself look like someone else. The horns also appear on any people (or meteors) that she's using her powers to control. It's also true in a literal sense, as when one of her horns gets broken, she becomes incredibly nice and supportive, which just freaks out the rest of the cast even more.
14. I Can Still Fight!: Shaman King: When he and the other candidates are dropped from a great height, it is assumed they will use their powers to land safely. Faust? He does nothing. He reasons the morphine he is constantly hopped up on will leave him conscious after landing, and then he can use Eliza (who is a trained nurse) as his hands to stitch himself together afterwards. Basically, Faust VIII treats his own body as We Have Reserves.
15. Ignored Aesop: South Park episode "Chinpokomon":
    Stan: Dude, Chinpokomon isn't cool anymore.
    Kyle: What?
    Cartman: Yeah, dude, that's way over.
    Kyle: Dude, you're just jealous because I'm Chinpoko Master!
    Stan: No, Kyle. You see, we learned something today. This whole Chinpokomon thing happened because we all followed the group. We only liked Chinpokomon because everyone else did. And look at the damage it caused.
    Kyle: So now I should stop liking Chinpokomon because you all don't?
    Stan: ...Ye-eah.
    Kyle: But if I stop now, I'll just be going with the group again. So, to be an individual, I have to bomb Pearl Harbor. See ya.
    Stan: Oh. Wait. Actually, I was wrong. You see, Kyle, I learned something, just now. It is good to go with the group. A group mentality is healthy, sometimes.
    Kyle: Aw, screw it; I'm too confused.
16. Jerkass at Your Discretion: iCarly: In "iReunite With Missy", we meet Carly's old best friend, Missy. She seems genuinely nice to everyone, if causing a lot of accidental misfortune for Sam...at first. As soon as Sam is alone with her, she starts openly taunting and bullying her, only turning on the charm when Carly is back. Carly only learns the truth when she accidentally catches her making fun of Sam when she thinks the two of them are alone. What solidifies her as this trope instead of a Jerkass to One is that Missy barely cares when Carly catches her and immediately sides with Sam, and is more ecstatic about the cruise trip she just won.
17. Jumping the Shark: Ansem Retort had this to say, after Jesus turned Marluxia into a gay dragon:
    Hades: And Alexander wept, for there were no more sharks to jump.
18. Karma Houdini Warranty: Dream SMP: In Season 3, after killing and reviving Tommy just to prove he could, Dream thought he could get away with it since he was already imprisoned in the maximum security cell of Pandora's Vault since the end of the last season. Despite this, karma still manages to catch up with him in weeks as Quackity, fueled by vengeance and a lost bet with his dead abusive ex, and with a little inside help from Sam, visits Dream to torture the knowledge of resurrection out of him. And he's planning to do this every single day for as long as he had to... which he is shown to go through with it. For 68 days in a row.
19. Kukris Are Kool: Whateley Universe: Chaka's Mithril knife, created accidentally when Silver stabbed Arch-Fiend with her moonsilver-covered hand, through the opening which Firefox had created in the magical cage they were trapped in. Its unique creation - involving mithril, magical fire, quenching in demonic ichor, and getting charged with Ki by Chaka to dislodge Silver's hand - imbued it with a magical bond that causes it to return to Toni's hand when thrown, and probably other things we haven't seen yet. The fact that it specifically formed into a kukri has the Magical Arts instructors baffled and has led to some odd speculation about what it means.
20. Land Poor: Marvel Comics' Black Knight runs into this issue; he inherits his British family's ancestral castle, but since he was a former run-of-the-mill American physicist before doing so (i.e. not Tony Stark or Reed Richards caliber), he doesn't really make enough money to keep up with the property costs. This then gets worse when he's turned into a statue for a lengthy period of time, to the point where his friend Victoria Bentley who actually is wealthy and lives nearby, has to use some of her wealth to help him out. When she ends up being killed down the line, the Black Knight finally turns the castle into a museum, which presumably finally solves the whole finances matter.
21. Love Floats: Miraculous Ladybug: During the special in New York, Marinette and Adrien eats a magic hotdog, and are sent in weightlessness. They start to dance a slow mid air, in front of the full moon. Even Alya says next morning that it was romantic.
22. My Instincts Are Showing: Regular Show: Rigby the raccoon has an addiction to eating out of the trash, which Mordecai calls him out on. Whilst Rigby can stand up and walk, he usually runs on all fours. Rigby also becomes roadkill in an early episode, but survives, due to his soul being outside his body (which was then possessed) at the time.
23. Never Learned to Read: Goo, from the Australia comic book-ish series Super Sidekicks is revealed to be illiterate at the end of the first book. It’s understandable since he was created in a lab by an evil scientist who kept him locked in a glass jar 90% of the time before he broke out (and destroyed the entire base after he escaped from the second jar he was locked in). Flygirl is shown to be teaching him to via children’s book in the second book, and by the third book, he gained enough of a grasp on it to read a simple wall inscription (long story).
24. Nightmare Sequence: James and the Giant Peach has the eponymous character dream that he's a caterpillar eating the peach in the title. Suddenly, his wicked aunts appear and spray a pesticide cloud at him... which then morphs into James' greatest fear — a rhino that killed his parents — that proceeds to pursue him and shortly after corner him under a bridge. All the while, his aunts chant in mock singsong voices "The rhino will get you!" in the background. Not to mention that the dream itself is presented in unsettling cut-out animation that resembles a deranged, nightmarish Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch.
25. One-Gender School: While the main setting of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is a co-ed Elevator School, at least one character is known to attend an all-girls school, and Hayasaka masqueraded as a student from another one when she was trying to seduce Shirogane. The Offical Doujinshi spin-off also featured an Alternate Universe where Shuchi'in Academy was an all-girls school, applying Gender Flips to all of the male characters.
26. Parallel Parking: The spectacular one is done in The Incredibles, when Mr. Incredible lands the van that was launched from a rocket, then skids perfectly into a vacant parallel spot.
27. Pinball Gag: One episode of Phineas and Ferb goes from a giant bowling to a giant pinball game all around town, then back to bowling with an army of giant robot penguins.
28. Rage Against the Author: An In-Universe example, the Animator vs. Animation series, which depicts a stick figure fighting its creator, and ocasionally fighting the icons on the desktop. Well, until the fourth part, where the two sides become friends.
29. Retirony: Dino Attack RPG has what might be not only a subversion but an inversion with Montoya. He was a former small-time crook involved with a big heist on a multi-million dollar corporation and the one member of the crew who had been planning to go clean when he was done. The heist was a disaster as a result of interference from one Silencia Venemosa and Montoya was one of only two men to escape from the massacre with their lives. Fast forward a few years later to the actual Dino Attack, and not only has Montoya successfully gone clean but [[spoiler:his only surviving partner and Silencia herself are killed in the final battle, making him the last surviving participant of the heist.]]
30. Satellite Love Interest: Jack Frost in A Bluer Shade of White. [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Olaf]]]] created him specifically to be anything Elsa wants. Jack says outright that he's not his own person; his love for Elsa is what he is and all he is.
31. Spit Out a Shoe: In Knowledge is Power, Voldemort is re-embodied as a six-foot tall squirrel. A Hungarian Horntail eats him and then spits out the tail.
32. Talking Your Way Out: Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor in particular has a knack for it; in "Paradise Towers", he escapes an execution by convincing his over-bureaucratic captors to let him escape.
33. Undead Fossils: Get Ace: In "Colossal Fossil" (and a moment repeated during the title sequence), Ace reassembles a T. rex skeleton via technology to battle a giant robot clown statue. It works like a Motion-Capture Mecha, with Ace residing in its head.
34. Unintentionally Sympathetic: Happy Tree Friends: While Sniffles is going out of his way to devour the Ants, he ends up becoming the lesser of two evils compared to them since they often retaliate by torturing him in such painful and horrific ways that go far beyond self-defense. Two occasions has Sniffles just minding his own business until they provoke him, either by stealing his cookies or causing him to trip and have his tongue stuck on ice.
35. Verbal Judo: Tim Allen claims to have gotten into comedy because of this. When he was in prison for drug dealing, he ended up running afoul of a big angry guy who was just shy of beating the snot out of Tim. Tim's reaction? He started doing P-P-P-Porky Pig impersonations, causing the guy to drop him and start laughing. He figured out that being the guy who could make people laugh went far for making his stay in prison better than it could have been.
36. Viva Las Vegas!: In the sixth season premiere of Scrubs, JD, overstressed about the fact that [[spoiler: he impregnated his new girlfriend on the first date]] drinks himself into a stupor and promptly gets kidnapped to Las Vegas by the elderly gay men who had commandeered his porch, almost gets married to one of them, wakes up in utter confusion flees the chapel at the last second, stumbles onto a stage where the Blue Man Group is playing, gets covered in blue paint and confetti, and finally gets beaten up by security, arrested, and has to call Turk to bail him out... all in the three-minute-long pre-credits teaser.
37. World's Shortest Book: In the fourth Spellsinger novel, Paths of the Perambulator, a cage of insults tries to taunt Mudge with "tell me everything you know, it won't take very long." However, Mudge just fires back "I'll tell you everything we both know. It won't take any longer."
38. Yes-Man: In The Legend of Korra the businessman Varrick is surrounded by these, who are too worried about Varrick being mad to tell him that the swami he hired can't actually let him levitate. When Bolin innocently states the obvious that Varrick is in fact not levitating, Varrick instantly takes a liking to him, and by association Asami who was there to do business.
39. You Must Be This Tall to Ride: The Sinbad the Sailor segment of Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights has the captain (who is depicted as a dwarf, similar to Mr. Spacely or Mr. Peebles) being too short for a log ride filled with the treasure he's after. He reacts by destroying the measurement sign and getting on the ride anyway.
40. Zany Scheme: Our Miss Brooks: There must be a course in zany schemes over at Madison High School. Everybody has had one in the works, one time or another. These are just a few examples. Remember, all make sense in context.
41. Zip Me Up: A somewhat disturbing example of this occurs in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted: Mother Nature asks her self-appointed love interest to help zip her up… because she doesn't have enough fingers to do it herself. She and her companions have been cutting off parts of their fingers to garner sympathy from others.
42. ABirthdayNotABreak.Literature: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: In the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus, new character Jason's birthday is only revealed when the cornucopia his girlfriend received from Achelous spits out a cake with purple frosting, midway through a near-suicidally dangerous quest with enemies at every turn. He hadn't wanted to say anything, given the situation.
43. ADayInTheLimelight.Western Animation: Codename: Kids Next Door:
    • "C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." had Numbuh 86 share the spotlight with Sector V, where she has to escape from the Delightful Children's birthday cake/space station while dealing with her feels for Numbuh 19th Century, an operative from 1800s who is nearly as sexist as she is.
    • Flem and Earl got their own episode, entitled "Lost at Sea", featuring them reminiscing while seemingly in the middle of the ocean, though it turns out that they were in their bathtub and were suffering from "steam-induced amnesia".

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1. Accidental Pervert: In Ranma's Sudden Wedding, Kasumi lands on top of Ranma after getting her body back from a cursed doll (It Makes Sense in Context) and her yukata falls open enough for him to accidentally touch her breast.
2. Felony Misdemeanor: Apparently, according to Ron Fox from Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, people with brown skin who smoke marijuana on an airplane are automatically terrorists (It Makes Sense in Context).
3. Fridge Brilliance: (description) May be evoked by Rewatch Bonus. Compare Hilarious in Hindsight, Heartwarming in Hindsight, It Makes Sense in Context. See also Ascended Fridge Horror for writers applying prior Fridge Horror in a way analogous to Fridge Brilliance. For the puzzle-solving equivalent, see the Egg of Columbus.
4. Mud Wrestling: In the Troll Cops episode "Cat Fight", Nepeta and Maggie end up brawling in a tub filled with pudding. It Makes Sense in Context.
5. Oh, and X Dies: Gnomeo & Juliet. A supporting character clearly believes this is going to happen and states it many times because the troubles of a new-found friend resembles a classic story he once wrote. It Makes Sense in Context.
6. This Image Is Not an Example: Ethnic Scrappy: Chin-Kee in American Born Chinese is an intentional parody of every negative Asian stereotype ever. It Makes Sense in Context as [[spoiler:he turns out to be the Monkey King, who deliberately put on this act to convince Jin Wang, who transformed himself into a white boy named Danny, to re-embrace his heritage]].
7. Walk on Water: Princess Tutu: An underground lake is magically transformed into a dancing stage for the Magical Girl and her Dark Magical Girl rival to have a Swan Lake themed dance-off. (It Makes Sense in Context.) Fakir also uses it to fight crows, but when the battle turns in his favor, Kraehe causes the water beneath him to no longer magically hold his weight, which nearly causes him to drown.