Isn't Aliens an example of this trope? It's not included here OR on the Aliens page, so I hesitate to add it (plus I'm an infrequent contributor and get yelled at whenever I try anything). But when they carefully weld shut the door to the lab, and are completely baffled to see (on the motion detector screen) the aliens swarming into the room, only to discover that they completely forgot to check whether the corridor wall extends all the way to the floor deck above, and the aliens are coming in via a dropped ceiling — first of all, it's unlikely architecture, but isn't it also Myopic Architecture?
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It's an incomplete barricade because they don't account for the ceiling, but the one completed is effective against a frontal assault. It's not an obvious flaw during the moment, just in hindsight, so it doesn't qualify for the trope. The failure lies not in the barricade itself but in the lack of awareness of their surroundings and in not anticipating that "they can think" . More of a tactical blunder, yet neither the audience or the characters were expecting that outmanoeuvre, as the previous repelled attack was a frontal one, so again the flaw is not obvious until it's too late.
I agree it's an example of Myopic Architecture , which describes a bigger picture beyond the barricade itself. In fact I'm rewritting a similar entry around that trope.
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Would the scene in "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" with the Cotton Candy Glob* be an example of this trope or a subversion? The barricade, after all, is ineffective, it's just that it's to the monster's detriment that he passes through it.
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The Lord of the Rings example (the "typical elf work" one) is on the list twice. If they could be merged, please. I'm not quite sure how I'd word the merge.
"Sometimes the thing they were trying to escape may have even helped them construct the barricade while they weren't looking." This is linked to Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, but (having read the linked Trope) I fail to see how it's an example. When the villain is watching you barricade yourselves in a room he's already in, so he's handing you material to use on the barricade, thus more effectively trapping yourselves (which appears to be what is described here) that is NOT an example of the villain inadvertently solving a hero's problem for him (which is what Nice Job Fixing It, Villain is). Is it?
Is the current page quote from Doctor Who a Take That at Signs? Because it feels like it could easily be one.
I am the man who was slain by a ghoul, became a vampire, became a ghoul that killed my human self, became a soul in a sword.