The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
shoboni
Since: Oct, 2010
25th Feb, 2017 12:53:17 AM
I'm not sure that's a trope.
It just seems like the hero being pragmatic and clever, and in and of itself to narrow and specific to be a trope.
Edited by shoboni
The hero tells the villain that if he [the hero] had taken the conventional course of action, the villain would have won. Then the hero says what he decided to do instead.
An example of the trope was in the pilot episode of Mr Robot, where Elliot confronts the owner of a child pornography website in a cafe. Elliot says that usually he confronts people whose crimes he exposes online, but in this case, he does it in person, so the website owner doesn't wipe the evidence from the servers. Then Elliot says he instead sent an anonymous tip to the FBI with current time and location before leaving the cafe as the FBI agents enter it.
Edited by Kitezh