History CrazyPrepared / LiveActionTV

*** When we initially met Jack, he kept the following gadgets on his person: futuristic zoom-spyglasses, psychic paper, a sonic blaster with various settings, computer in his wrist strap that serves as a communications device as well as a video recorder and medical analysis tool, plus presumably the above mentioned bum gun. The Doctor travels with similar tools (apart from the weapons), but unlike him, Jack also believes in dressing to blend into any given time period, learning the local language and slang, hiding his space ship properly, and he apparently took time to find and use a dead man's identity — a foreigner, too, so small mistakes in cultural knowledge wouldn't immediately cost him his cover. He also has a number of military strategies memorized and can pull a decent plan of attack out of his hat on practically no notice.

** "Civil Defense". The trope seems to have been enforced, showing how Gul Dukat prepared the station's computer for a revolt of the Bajoran workers, even after they have been long gone. If they didn't surrender, the computer would lock the workers in the mines and flood them with deadly gas; in case they found a way to escape the mines, the computer would lock Ops and flood the station with deadly gas; in case the life support system that administers the gas was sabotaged, the computer would start a self-destruct system; in case it was attempted to fool the computer into thinking someone else was Gul Dukat, it would replicate phaser turrets that fire on all non-Cardassians. Ultimately subverted, as Gul Dukat didn't prepare for the event that Legate Kell would be even more Crazy Prepared - in the event that Gul Dukat himself would leave the station, the computer would revoke his access and transmit Kell's message about how cowardly Gul Dukat is, leaving the station after self-destruct is initialized. And for all these outcomes, TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat.

** Nate reveals he had thought of 13 ways for the team to pull their first job, one of which involves Hardison dying. Parker says she spends her free time thinking how to rob stuff, and proves it when she steals a highly guarded statue with common stuff, like a cone made of aluminum foil filled with ice. Hardison has a black light in his bag for times when a black light is needed. And Sophie can speak fluently in a ton of languages, and fake several others. Elliot, on the other hand is more of a well-prepared GeniusBruiser, than CrazyPrepared, as seen by his knowledge of neurosurgery, flight attendant protocol (Flight attendants always have a spare uniform) and the fact that he has a Flight Marshall badge with him at all times. Nate and Sophie have a bunch of fake passports with them at all times. The whole team makes a living through Nate's XanatosSpeedChess, so they'll have to be CrazyPrepared to pull it off.

* In an extremely strange case of out-of-universe CrazyPrepared, Creator/JMichaelStraczynski had contingency plans for ''every single character'' of ''all five seasons'' of ''Series/BabylonFive'' in case the actor in question dropped out or otherwise became unavailable. These "backdoors" were used at least four times:

** Barney takes CrazyPrepared to whole new levels, though. First, he spent six months secretly attending a special culinary school to learn the art of Shinjitsu hibachi cooking. Then, for over ''five years'', he made himself sneeze every time Marshall mentioned eating at the Shinjitsu restaurant, until eventually Marshall's subconscious was conditioned to crave Shinjitsu whenever he heard Barney's sneezes. All so that, if Barney ever wanted something from Marshall, he could use a sneeze to make him go the Shinjitsu restaurant, then [[BatmanGambit goad him into betting that Barney couldn't pull of Shinjitsu cooking tricks]].

* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': the Highguard are definitely this

* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. In the episode ''Court Martial'' it turns out that the pretty light show which we've seen behind Straker's desk for the previous 11 episodes isn't a decoration. It's [[spoiler:an escape route]]. Better still, someone else figures Straker would arrange this, and helps himself.

** Once to allow the transition from Commander Sinclair to Captain (after JMS realized that Sinclair's character arc had been played out too fast; at least, that was the official reason until after Michael O'Hare's death, at which point JMS revealed that the real reason was the actor's illness).

* An episode of Polish sitcom ''Swiat wedlug Kiepskich'' revolves around the main character having temporary job as a bureaucrat [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything whose sole task is finding excuses to reject every single client]]. While usually all it takes is absence of some irrelevant document, it finally backfires when one particularly obnoxious client brings along whole luggage full of all kinds of documents ([[UpToEleven like permission from his grandparents which he got them to sign thirty years earlier while they were still alive]]), in all possible languages, each in multiple copies (and then gets rejected in the end anyway [[ShaggyDogStory for not bringing black pen]]). Hilariously enough, by the end of the episode when the aforementioned main hero is about to get his long awaited salary for his [[BlatantLies hard work]], a neighbour, who happens to work as a bureaucrat too, brings him money, but pulls the very same tactic the hero was using for the whole episode to make sure he won't get any money at all.