That is a true flaw yes, assuming that the "hero" is genre savvy enough to exploit rule 81. The same however could be said for any rule. If the villain has his hench men in a control room seated so they can see whoever comes into the room, then surely a genre savvy hero could just come through the wall instead. There is Genre Savvy and then there is Genre savvy. Genre savvy is taking it too far in most instances.
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"Come though the wall"...?
For Christ's sake... it's a fun little list. The point isn't to find errors assuming that the protagonist is omniscient.
We're not changing it. We didn't originate the list, we just borrowed it. How it is is how it stays, because it's someone else's intellectual property. (A lot of someones, in fact).
Just laugh at the cliches, already.
"Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right." - Hillaire Belloc, The Pacifist
And finding flaws in the list isn't fun? Since most fictional villains arrogantly believe themselves to be flawless, if you interpret the list in that way, there's nothing wrong with searching for flaws in the list itself.
...shouldn't this be a "single installment" review? :P
This is such a stupid review. "WELL WHAT IF THE FIVE YEAR OLD CHILD WAS ACTUALLY A SPY AND TOLD YOU THE WRONG THING?" "WHAT IF THE HERO WAS EQUIPPED WITH A NUKE THAT WOULD BLOW UP WHEN CREMATED?" The point isn't that this would make your tenure as an evil overlord totally foolproof, the point is that, as an evil overlord, you would take reasonable precautions to further your goals rather than making obvious mistakes. If the hero has a contingency plan prepared just in case you don't fall for his first clever ruse, that's a different thing; this isn't "how to never fail," it's "how to avoid guaranteed failure."
Calm yourself young grasshopper. Find your centre
I found this review to be fun and light-hearted as I imagine it was. And if you know your Terry Pratchett, Sam Vimes does this with such skill that it actually looks like he's trying not to look behind them and then decks them as they flinch round :D
I even thought magnum provided a pretty neat little solution :D Of course it doesn't apply to all the times where it's not a moving platform but a charging rhino or falling power cable etc
Fate just has it in for villains
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Not every plan is flawless
In number 81, I spotted a fatal flaw. If your enemy has smarts on the level of Light Yagami, Batman or Lelouch, he might be able to trick the Overlord who follows this list into making a really wide opening.
Here's a scenario:
1.) On a train while fighting villain, Hero looks behind Villain then ducks. 2.) Villain immediately ducks as well. 3.) As the Villain does so, the Hero hits him in the face with his power, shoots him in the eye with his gun, or stabs him while he's flat on the floor.
You should change number 81 into: "If I am fighting with the hero atop a moving platform, I will always be in a position where I am able to look ahead to where the said platform is taking us."
I have yet to spot more flaws. But I'm sure that there are.