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KD
Since: May, 2009
27th Apr, 2024 07:49:09 AM
Closest Thing We Got, possibly as an Exaggerated Trope or Parodied Trope.
- Alice: We need someone to run a message across two forests and a mountain, but we're all incapacitated except for you, Bob.Bob: But I'm a Gadgeteer Genius, not a marathon runner.Alice: You have two working legs, don't you? Get running!
Ner0014reN
Since: Aug, 2023
27th Apr, 2024 07:54:35 AM
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman, inverted (someone whose attributes run contrary to the needs of the current situation is told to solve it)
TMH-Sir-Iron-Vomit
Since: Mar, 2024
27th Apr, 2024 10:04:28 AM
If you can collect enough examples, why not try the Trope Launch Pad?
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vulpeculae
(The New Girl)
27th Apr, 2024 06:14:04 PM
Could overlap with Wrong Genre Savvy, but I agree that this could be its own trope.
GoldenDarkness
Since: Jan, 2001
29th Apr, 2024 09:25:29 AM
May be a form of Removing the Crucial Teammate
Instead of "highly-specific scenario happens to give specialized character time to shine", it's "for dramatic / Cringe Comedy reasons, the scenario happens to the least-suited character".
e.g. the heroes need to Bring News Back, but all of them are in some way incapacitated, and so it falls to the scrawny, asthmatic, nerdy guy to run through two forests and a mountain without getting lost. Or The Big Guy is stuck trying to fend off a Media Scrum that The Face could have handled in his sleep; the guy who Cannot Talk to Women needs to persuade The Baroness to give up the cause of evil instead of The Casanova; the Shrinking Violet needs to cosplay a Genki Girl, etc.
Usually they succeed.
Edited by Chabal2