History CrazyPrepared / VideoGames

* the MonsterHunter series requires players to follow this tropes. Going LeeroyJenkins towards nearly every beast will ensure a swift, painful and expensive demise.

* In the ''StarFox'' series, [[spoiler:Andross]] had multiple contingency plans in case his life was threatened. [[ActuallyADoombot Robot fake]], [[FarewellBelovedFalco resurrection-by]]-[[CloningBlues cloning]], [[StarFoxAdventures resurrection by]] [[YourSoulIsMine stolen]] [[LifeDrain magic]], and a VirtualGhost. He also had his nephew trained in the ways of war in order to have an interim commander.

* Setsumi in ''{{Narcissu}}'' has prepared several things in case she escapes, which she never does. This becomes handy after she did escape with the protagonist.

* Dr. Bian Zoldark from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' does a good job of being this trope. In the Original Generation series, his plan to unite the world against the alien threat could've suceeded, even if the heroes failed, and in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'', he's managed to get bloody near every superweapon (such as Mazinger, Getter, {{Daitarn 3}}, etc.) maker or user in on his plans and drew up plans to keep Earth from being blown up, and went as far as to leave backup plans (the Earth and Moon Cradle in both continuities), just in case.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' game credits the protagonist with this ability. Right after the tutorial section, Deadpool inflates a large bouncy castle, which the player will likely dismiss as further evidence of his insanity and forget about. [[BrickJoke At the end of the level, he jumps out of a skyscraper with his target, landing safely on the castle]]. Later on, a series of flashbacks show him setting up a RubeGoldbergDevice to create a bridge for the X-Men.

* In ''ResidentEvil4'', Leon goes to the Spanish village only to investigate and ask questions, yet he brought along a pistol, knife, attache case, flashlight, radio, binoculars, a tracking device, and a ''grappling hook'' (And, if you played the game on Easy, a shotgun). Of course, he was investigating a group that had kidnapped the President's daughter, so he had pretty good reason to expect trouble.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' Nanosuit always seemed to be crazy prepared. It can breathe underwater, has thrusters to work in zero gravity, can survive being frozen to -200 degrees and also provides a decent amount of protection against rockets and artillery. Yet it can't seem to survive a single bite from a [[BorderPatrol medium-sized shark]]...
* Any experienced ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' players know well enough to venture into an unknown mission not carrying equipment for all kinds of situations. These include radar equipped with bio-sensors so one can target biological threats, weapons that can track even the fastest of opponents such as machineguns or missiles, and weapons that cause a lot of damage to armored enemies. Some very professional players deliberately use overweighted [=ACs=] loaded with every weapon for any situations in Arenas, and ''eject any unnecessary weapons when the fight begins, depending on the enemy''.

* The Space MMORPG ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' features a form of this, with players not only having to haul around different types of ammunition, missiles and drones for engaging targets at different ranges or fighting different types of enemies strong against particular types of damage and capacitor batteries for sustaining fire or damage, but also spare modules, since some may mean the difference between winning a fight and being made utterly useless, which often leads to utterly dead. What's more, in many situations, whether you are flying a large or a small ship, it doesn't matter how high your skills are or expensive your ship and gear; you have to change to different ship. Naturally, in the economy of [=EvE=], with experienced players often having whole stacks of ships in hangars strewn about and the ability to travel light years in an instant, this isn't such a big deal.
* Princess Liesel from {{visual novel}} ''VisualNovel/PrincessWaltz'' is physically weak, but a great blacksmith. As such she is defined by her HopeSpot killing, pulling out device after device to counter any attack her opponent makes. Being a bit of a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] she normally makes sure her opponents are where, when and how she wants them too.

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' combines a crafting system with various types of damage resistance. If you're smart, you'll be carrying at least one self-made and -enchanted Silver, Cold Iron and Adamantine version of your favored weapon, if neccessary an additional bludgeoning weapon, and remember to add an alignment-enchanted weapon as well, so that you have the means to effectively hurt all the Werecreatures, devils and demons, Golems, Skeletons, Liches and what have you with the proper weapon of choice. Or just play a monk, where your hands end up being all those things anyway.

* The RTS ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' has an expansion pack called ''The Core Contingency'', where its about the Core Empire's plan to fucking IMPLODE the galaxy in on itself in case they lost, which they did.

* [[BigBad Manfred von Karma]] is one example of this from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' -- he retrains the ''[[spoiler: parrot]]'' to get a guilty verdict! The other CrazyPrepared person is Phoenix Wright aka the player. You may not know ''why'' you have to "pick up" random pieces of "evidence", but they ''will'' come in handy, because you're ready with them.
** The OTHER other person is Lana Skye. Maybe not as crazy as von Karma or Phoenix, but she does have people doing work for her while she's in containment. One case is when she kept very conclusive evidence [[spoiler: in the back of an Evidence Law book.]]
*** And for bonus points, [[spoiler: the Evidence Law book itself was the final piece of evidence needed to convict the killer.]]

*** [[spoiler: Which is probably why in [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 the sequels]], he is prepared to [[CombatPragmatist murder meddling teenagers in cold blood before they can stop him again]]. When that fails, he uses a machine to keep the new player characters from catching Kyurem to use against him.]]

* Let's hope your ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' character remembered to bring a spider web, a barbed-wire fence, a baseball, a firecracker, a blowgun, and a can of hairspray (among others) to the Naughty Sorceress' tower, or you're not getting through. The game involves farming and combining ridiculous items to pass the challenges. Softcore speed runners have to be be CrazyPrepared too. If you want to finish that fast run, you had better have your [[NewGamePlus Ancestral Storage]] well stocked with everything from ghost pickles to drum machines to hockey sticks of furious angry rage.
* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', when requesting backup from superspy extrodinaire [[CloudCuckoolander Steven Heck]], during your infiltration into a subway in Taipei, Steven tells you not to worry about the details, he's got you covered. When heavily under fire, you make the call and Steven's backup involves him [[spoiler: hurtling by the platform in a stolen subway car and strafing the platform with a minigun he's bolted to the back of it, cackling maniacally all the while]]. He'd prepared that ''years'' ago, just in case.

** Only this plethora of stuff will likely put you over the weight limit, meaning you can't run from the pack of [[DemonicSpiders mutant dogs, and worse,]] chasing you down. Not only do you need to know what you may need but how much of it you can afford to carry.
** It is entirely possible to beat every main quest in the game with an inventory of one rifle, 500 rounds of ammo, and a few baguettes - provided you use artifacts and their associated benefits/disadvantages judiciously. This requires an inordinate amount of face-shooting & bolt throwing, though.
* [[spoiler:Cynthia Weaver]] in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', with a little more emphasis on the "crazy" part. The enemies in the game are made of darkness, so she always carries around a light of some sort, even in the middle of the day. She left behind supply caches of ammo and light-emitting objects like flares just in case an author got pulled into Cauldron Lake and the [[EldritchAbomination Dark Presence]] forced them to [[RewritingReality write it free]]; the caches are even marked with special light-sensitive ink that can only be seen by someone who was touched by the Dark Presence. None of this, however, compares to [[spoiler:the Well-Lit Room. The name is actually a bit of an understatement; there are lightbulbs everywhere and absolutely no shadows inside. The room is connected to a decommissioned power plant, so there's no need to find a power source. Cynthia even knows what bulbs need to be changed when, right down their manufacturer and serial number.]]

** Terumi winds up deconstructing this, as he was only CrazyPrepared ''because'' he had witnessed hundreds and hundreds of time loops. Without such preparation (as ''Slight Hope'' demonstrates and ''Chronophantasma'' ultimately confirms), his victories are due to overwhelming power and blind luck, and neither can last forever on their own. [[spoiler:Makoto Nanaya intervening on the behalf of Tsubaki Yayoi led to his downfall in both instances - and in the latter, his [[KilledOffForReal death by Hakumen]]. Then again, considering what [[SmarterThanYouLook Ma]][[PluckyGirl ko]][[SpannerInTheWorks to]] is, [[TemptingFate antagonizing her]] [[KarmicDeath was a very bad idea]].]]
* Mr. House, from ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', was not only aware that nuclear Armageddon was on the way but also made extensive preparation for his own and Vegas' survival during and after the fact. Though his projection of the date the war would break out was off - ''by less than a day'' - he saved a sizable chunk of Las Vegas from becoming blasted and irradiated wreckage (unlike, for example, Washington DC or Pittsburg in the same setting), and emerged two hundred years later to wall it off and claim it as his own territory from the tribes that had overtaken it in his absence. Without that ''one setback'', it's very likely he would have ruled completely unchallenged for a long, long time. As they say, the House always wins.

* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' is a colossal idiot who ends up almost causing the lab to self-destruct through neglect and incompetence. So after the fight, the player probably wouldn't have expected [[spoiler: him to rig the stalemate button, which the player would certainly go for next, with explosives in case he lost the fight. Not only that, but he specifically leaves it out of his "Four Part Plan" speech detailing everything he's done to fix every flaw evident in [=GLaDOS=]' fight from the first game.]]

* Merveille from ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}''. [[spoiler:She "let" the ''intentionally'' "defective" Red escape with the Dahak - which she created ''specifically'' to protect him - seemingly as a backup plan or some form of insurance against Baion.]]
* Daniel Clarke from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''. [[spoiler: He set up THREE well-stocked armories, a fully mapped-out rooftop escape route (complete with mattresses stacked in a balcony in the event one would need to jump down), as well as having enough explosives rigged into his laboratory to ''take out an armoured helicopter in mid-flight'' that he detonates when Spetsnaz forces attempt to retrieve his research.]]

** During the ''Citadel DLC'', during a quiet party, Garrus and Zaeed will decide to booby trap Shepard's apartment just in case [[spoiler: another Shepard clone]] shows up. They rig up the glass by the entry door, the coffeemaker, and the refrigerator. Zaeed almost turns the hottub into a plasma bath up until Shepard points out that the DNA trigger won't work because [[spoiler: his/her clone would have the same DNA]].
* In the ''StarFox'' series, [[spoiler: Andross]] had multiple contingency plans in case his life was threatened. [[ActuallyADoombot Robot fake]], resurrection-by-cloning, resurrection by stolen magic, and a VirtualGhost. He also had his nephew trained in the ways of war in order to have an interim commander.
* In ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'', one of the achievements you can get is defeating the wizard arena's resident champion on the first try. However, the only way you can do this is by collecting specific items which are seemingly random, such as s Heavy Cake, a Magic Rope and a Copper Rod.
* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4N5OhcY9s Meet the Spy]]'' from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Scout jokingly asks the BLU Spy if he's the president of the RED Spy's fanclub. The Spy's retort? "No, that would be ''[[YourMom your mother!]]''" after which he manages to show Scout pictures of the Spy having sex with his mother.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' game credits the protagonist with this ability. Right after the tutorial section Deadpool inflates a large bouncy castle, which the player will likely dismiss as further evidence of his insanity and forget about. [[BrickJoke At the end of the level he jumps out of a skyscraper with his target, landing safely on the castle]]. Later on a series of flashbacks show him setting up a RubeGoldbergDevice to create a bridge for the X-Men.

* [[BigBad Manfred von Karma]] is one example of this from ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' -- he retrains the ''[[spoiler: parrot]]'' to get a guilty verdict! The other CrazyPrepared person is Phoenix Wright aka the player. You may not know ''why'' you have to "pick up" random pieces of "evidence", but they ''will'' come in handy, because you're ready with them.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl: the Subspace Emissary'', [[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] prepared for the appearance of Tabuu, with his ability to defeat all of the heroes gathered against him, by creating special badges and sticking them on the trophies of defeated heroes. The badges would, after a set amount of time, revive the heroes. With this, [[Franchise/{{Mario}} Luigi and [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Ness]] were able to travel into Subspace and rescue the others.]]

* In ''ResidentEvil4'', Leon goes to the Spanish village only to investigate and ask questions, yet he brought along a pistol, knife, attache case, flashlight, radio, binoculars, a tracking device, and a ''grappling hook''. Of course, he was investigating a group that had kidnapped the President's daughter, so he had pretty good reason to expect trouble.

* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4N5OhcY9s Meet the Spy]]'' from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Scout jokingly asks the BLU Spy if he's the president of the RED Spy's fanclub. The Spy's retort? "No, that would be ''[[YourMom your mother!]]''" after which he manages to show Scout pictures of the Spy having sex with his mother.

* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Darkrai]]]] from the second ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' game. [[spoiler:He had a total of ''five backup plans'' to try and kill the heroes. First, he tried to convince the heroes to "[[DrivenToSuicide disappear]]". When that didn't work, he tricked a PhysicalGod into trying to kill them. When that failed, he lured them to his lair and finish them. When they arrived, he trapped the hero in a nightmare where their partner joined Darkrai due to crossing the DespairEventHorizon. When they freed themselves, he summons an army of {{Mooks}} to help him kill them. When he and his minions are beaten, he reveals he'd already prepared a dimensional portal to escape through! The only thing he wasn't prepared for was the previously mentioned PhysicalGod showing up and blasting the portal as he tried to escape.]]

* Geoffrey from ''{{Disgaea 3}}'', whose ''CatchPhrase'' is, "I thought this might happen, so I (X)".

* Among the functions of the [[GameMod MARS script]] for ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]'' is automatically switching guns in and out of your ship's batteries based on what that battery is targeting. Naturally this only works if you have said weapons in your cargo bay, which means you're likely to be carrying two or three entire loadouts ([[MoreDakka anti-fighter]], [[WaveMotionGun anti-capital]], and maybe anti-corvette).

* In ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'', one of the achievements you can get is defeating the wizard arena's resident champion on the first try. However, the only way you can do this is by collecting specific items which are seemingly random, such as s Heavy Cake, a Magic Rope and a Copper Rod.

* In the ''StarFox'' series, [[spoiler: Andross]] had multiple contingency plans in case his life was threatened. [[ActuallyADoombot Robot fake]], resurrection-by-cloning, resurrection by stolen magic, and a VirtualGhost. He also had his nephew trained in the ways of war in order to have an interim commander.

* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, the Graal Spike Thrower is a shotgun specifically designed by the Krogan for hunting Thresher Maws. With that in mind, it features special built in blades, so that in the event that a Krogan gets swallowed by a Maw, they can either cut themselves out or cause severe internal bleeding to take it down with them. Overall, it says something about the Krogan that they designed a shotgun believing that it was a very real possibility that they might be ''eaten'' at some point.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', quite a few of The Nameless One's previous incarnations were CrazyPrepared -- and for the most part, you benefit greatly from their contingencies, if you use them without being physically (or morally) offended.

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', one of the more extreme "facilities" developed by players is called the "Fuck The World" device, which will lock your fortress up tight and flood the surrounding area with magma. Some fortresses also allow different areas of the fortress to be locked off and flooded. Or set up the main dining hall's roof to collapse, dropping hundreds of tons of rock on everyone inside. Or drop everyone in the trading depot into a room where dragons breath fire on them through a grate. This editor's even seen a concept for a Fortress that monitors foot traffic inside the fortress: If there's abnormal activity indicating a catastrophic population loss or an extended "Tantrum Spiral", the fortress will lock itself and activate the Fuck The World device, taking the world down with it.
* Let's give a ShoutOut to the crazy preparedness of Shao Khan, of which took up the third ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' game; despite all his blabber about YouHaveFailedMe to his minions, he knew he might end up failing to win Earthrealm through legal means, so arranged to have his dead wife revived and BrainwashedAndCrazy on Earthrealm, allowing him to step through the dimensional borders to claim her, and thus ''force'' a merger between Earth and Outworld. First three things he does upon doing so? Lock down his wife with bodyguards, steal the souls of everyone on Earth that isn't TheChosenOne, and send a vast army of bloodthirsty, nigh-invulnerable beasts after said Chosen Ones to prevent them from ruining his plans. [[NearVillainVictory It didn't work out quite as planned]], but you've got to give him credit for trying. He also shows this off in later games; anticipating that his "loyal" minions might one day attempt to overthrow him, he places a decoy in his place during the events of ''Deadly Alliance'', thus surviving his infamous assassination attempt. ''Then'', in ''Armageddon'', he revives Shang Tsung (who had been vaporized by Raiden's attempt to destroy the Dragon King in ''Deception'') and forces fealty on him, revealing that all minions swearing loyalty to him gets hit with a spell that, if Khan dies at any time, causes them to croak, as well...as well as giving him the ability to revive them at will. ''Damn''.
** Oh, and ''Mortal Kombat 9'' reveals he had his victory speech planned ''waaaaaaay'' in advance.

** Additionally, Aperture Science has automated testing facility announcements in case [=GLaDOS=] is incapcitated. They have prepared such announcements for any possibility. '''ANY''' possibility.

* Among the functions of the [[GameMod MARS script]] for ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]'' is automatically switching guns in and out of your ship's batteries based on what that battery is targeting. Naturally this only works if you have said weapons in your cargo bay, which means you're likely to be carrying two or three entire loadouts ([[MoreDakka anti-fighter]], [[WaveMotionGun anti-capital]], and maybe anti-corvette).

* ''JaggedAlliance 2's'' extensive panoply of weapons (specifically, in the fan-made v1.13) means you have the ability to outfit your mercs with the tools they need for any battlefield situation (multiple enemies at mid-range, close-range combat, enemies holed up in a building, ''tanks''...). Limited carry weight of your mercs makes this a bit more difficult, but it's easy to compartmentalize.
* When Travis Touchdown arrives at the Rank 25 fight in ''NoMoreHeroes 2'', assassin Charlie [=MacDonald=] and his cheerleading squad transform into a HumongousMecha. Travis responds: "I thought something like this might happen." He then summons his own HumongousMecha and he and Charlie proceed to have a giant mecha fight in the middle of Santa Destroy.
* Old Sierra adventure games required you to be insanely prepared for everything at all times, or render the game completely impossible to finish.

* Quite a bit of ''{{Nethack}}'''s gameplay consists of packratting items that can counter the game's many deathtraps: a lizard corpse to prevent being petrified, greased clothing in case a monster tries to grab you, boots of levitation to avoid pits, and an amulet of self-resurrection if everything else fails. Though the vast majority of them will, in fact, be used in a given successful run -- certainly, you will have to fight Medusa with a mirror and deal with the cloak-grabbing enemies around her, find a castle which you need an instrument to enter, fly, resist fire, have an instant-kill available, dig out quick routes from one set of stairs to another for a fast escape, detect traps or have a stockpile of food (and detecting traps actually requires a detect gold scroll and something that conveys confusion), and I'm just listing things tied to fixed dungeon events, not individual monsters like the cockatrice or golems. [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy A towel is also a very useful item to have.]]

* Some weapons in ''BaldursGate II''. Against mages, if they're not protected from magical weapons: Carsomyr (otherwise an unenchanted weapon). Against fire elementals or salamanders: The Wave. Against Air Elementals: Staff of Air. Against Undead: Runehammer. Against trolls or golems: Crom Faeyr. Against anyone that wouldn't die by loss of hitpoints: Chaos. For shopping (yes, for shopping): the Rose Blade. For Warrior/Cleric Multiclasses: Flail of Ages. For Backstabs: Black Blade of Disaster (or the Staff of the Ram). And then you move onto choosing spells for the wizards, clerics, and druids. Never leave home without: [[BeeBeeGun Insect Plague]] (for rendering casters unable to use their spells), Polymorph Self (flind form has a + 3 magic weapon, mustard jelly is 100% magic resistant), Spell Turning, multiple healing/resurrection spells, Polymorph Other (in case your allies are charmed), Glitterdust (for dealing with invisibles), Burning Hands/Acid Arrow (in case of trolls), Chaos (to leave your enemies fighting each other), Drain Resistance (to deal with magic resistant enemies), Fireball ([[KillItWithFire because it's Fireball]])...
* The Space MMORPG ''EvEOnline'' features a form of this, with players not only having to haul around different types of ammunition, missiles and drones for engaging targets at different ranges or fighting different types of enemies strong against particular types of damage and capacitor batteries for sustaining fire or damage, but also spare modules, since some may mean the difference between winning a fight and being made utterly useless, which often leads to utterly dead. What's more, in many situations, whether you are flying a large or a small ship, it doesn't matter how high your skills are or expensive your ship and gear; you have to change to different ship. Naturally, in the economy of [=EvE=], with experienced players often having whole stacks of ships in hangars strewn about and the ability to travel light years in an instant, this isn't such a big deal.
* Princess Liesel from VisualNovel ''PrincessWaltz'' is physically weak, but a great blacksmith. As such she is defined by her HopeSpot killing, pulling out device after device to counter any attack her opponent makes. Being a bit of a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] she normally makes sure her opponents are where, when and how she wants them too.
* If you think about it for a moment, the main character of every AdventureGame ever made belongs here. [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Eaten by a snake]]? They've got an item that can get them out. [[VideoGame/KingsQuest Locked in an inescapable labyrinth]]? Portable hole-in-a-wall. [[TheLongestJourney Need to restore the victims of a medusa to flesh and blood]]? Yeah, there's something in the inventory for that. [[GuideDangIt Unless you]] [[LostForever missed it]].

* In ''PlanescapeTorment'', quite a few of The Nameless One's previous incarnations were CrazyPrepared -- and for the most part, you benefit greatly from their contingencies, if you use them without being physically (or morally) offended.

* The RTS TotalAnnihilation has an expansion pack called The Core Contingency, where its about the Core Empire's plan to [[spoiler:fucking IMPLODE the galaxy in on itself in case they lost, which they did]].

** In the case of Zero, the only capsules that he uses (outside of the Xtreme duo on the Game Boy Color) are for semi-game-breaking 'ultimate armors,' the functions of which go unexplained, so the canonicity of Zero's capsules is suspect. Specifically in X5, (the only game where you can use Zero's alternate armor without unlocking it via a button code or other means, like in X8) X's and Zero's Ultimate Armors are found from the same capsule in one of the game's final levels, so you can only get both if you grab it with one character, die, and then come back with the other.

* Every MMO encourages this by virtue of having so many scenarios possible. The old EverQuest has a decade of content available for picking up neat toys.
* Dr. Bian Zoldark from VideoGame/SuperRobotWars does a good job of being this trope. In the Original Generation series, his plan to unite the world against the alien threat could've suceeded, even if the heroes failed, and in SuperRobotWarsAlpha, he's managed to get bloody near every superweapon (such as Mazinger, Getter, {{Daitarn 3}}, etc.) maker or user in on his plans and drew up plans to keep Earth from being blown up, and went as far as to leave backup plans (the Earth and Moon Cradle in both continuities), just in case.

* Let's give a ShoutOut to the crazy preparedness of Shao Khan, of which took up the third ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' game; despite all his blabber about YouHaveFailedMe to his minions, he knew he might end up failing to win Earthrealm through legal means, so arranged to have his dead wife revived and BrainwashedAndCrazy on Earthrealm, allowing him to step through the dimensional borders to claim her, and thus ''force'' a merger between Earth and Outworld. First three things he does upon doing so? Lock down his wife with bodyguards, steal the souls of everyone on Earth that isn't TheChosenOne, and send a vast army of bloodthirsty, nigh-invulnerable beasts after said Chosen Ones to prevent them from ruining his plans. [[NearVillainVictory It didn't work out quite as planned]], but you've got to give him credit for trying. He also shows this off in later games; anticipating that his "loyal" minions might one day attempt to overthrow him, he places a decoy in his place during the events of ''Deadly Alliance'', thus surviving his infamous assassination attempt. ''Then'', in ''Armageddon'', he revives Shang Tsung (who had been vaporized by Raiden's attempt to destroy the Dragon King in ''Deception'') and forces fealty on him, revealing that all minions swearing loyalty to him gets hit with a spell that, if Khan dies at any time, causes them to croak, as well...as well as giving him the ability to revive them at will. ''Damn''.
* [[BigBad Manfred von Karma]] is one example of this from ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' -- he retrains the [[spoiler: ''parrot'']] to get a guilty verdict! The other CrazyPrepared person is Phoenix Wright aka the player. You may not know ''why'' you have to "pick up" random pieces of "evidence", but they ''will'' come in handy, because you're ready with them.

** Practically ''any'' opponent in the PWT in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' qualifies (of course, it's not ''supposed'' to be easy). Using Type Advantage rarely works here, because they usually have a precaution against that. For instance, Sabrina uses Psychics, and the most common strategy against such Pokemon is to use Dark Pokemon; however, she almost always opens with an Alakazam that is ''incredibly'' fast which knows Focus Blast, a power Fighting attack that can flatten most Dark Types before any of them can hurt it. On top of that, it has a Colbur Berry, which means that it can resist most damage from the first Dark Attack that hits it.
* Let's hope your KingdomOfLoathing character remembered to bring a spider web, a barbed-wire fence, a baseball, a firecracker, a blowgun, and a can of hairspray (among others) to the Naughty Sorceress' tower, or you're not getting through. The game involves farming and combining ridiculous items to pass the challenges. Softcore speed runners have to be be CrazyPrepared too. If you want to finish that fast run, you had better have your [[NewGamePlus Ancestral Storage]] well stocked with everything from ghost pickles to drum machines to hockey sticks of furious angry rage.
* In ''AlphaProtocol'', when requesting backup from superspy extrodinaire [[CloudCuckoolander Steven Heck]], during your infiltration into a subway in Taipei, Steven tells you not to worry about the details, he's got you covered. When heavily under fire, you make the call and Steven's backup involves him [[spoiler: hurtling by the platform in a stolen subway car and strafing the platform with a minigun he's bolted to the back of it, cackling maniacally all the while]]. He'd prepared that ''years'' ago, just in case.

* [[spoiler:Cynthia Weaver]] in ''AlanWake'', with a little more emphasis on the "crazy" part. The enemies in the game are made of darkness, so she always carries around a light of some sort, even in the middle of the day. She left behind supply caches of ammo and light-emitting objects like flares just in case an author got pulled into Cauldron Lake and the [[EldritchAbomination Dark Presence]] forced them to [[RewritingReality write it free]]; the caches are even marked with special light-sensitive ink that can only be seen by someone who was touched by the Dark Presence. None of this, however, compares to [[spoiler:the Well-Lit Room. The name is actually a bit of an understatement; there are lightbulbs everywhere and absolutely no shadows inside. The room is connected to a decommissioned power plant, so there's no need to find a power source. Cynthia even knows what bulbs need to be changed when, right down their manufacturer and serial number.]]
* In the FightingGame VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3, at least one of SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom's basic attacks and one of his hyper combos involve attacking the opponent with machinery he previously hid on the battle site. As fights in this game can take place anywhere from an ordinary city street to the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'s private training room to the extradimensional home of [[TheMightyThor the Norse Gods]], this demonstrates an impressive degree of preparedness on his part.
** Rocket Raccoon gives one huge "Bitch, please" to Doom in UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3. Hidden gigantic bear traps, remote-activated sinkholes, swinging log traps, and an air-strike just waiting for him to give the order while a helicopter assures he remains at a safe distance.

* Your character in [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]] and [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] can be an example of this, if done right. While nearly all of these examples can be replicated with spells, hoarding potions is a great way to survive. Low on health or magicka? Chug some potions. Diseased? Chug potions. Water breathing? There's a potion for that. Need to be more liked by people? Potion for that. Need help in a fight? Slight twist here: there's a scroll for that. Need someone to start the fight instead of you? Again, scroll. Need to carry more loot? Potions and scrolls can help. And this isn't even bringing enchantments into play...

* At the beginning of SonicChronicles, Eggman was so prepared for the epic battle that he even anticipated his own defeat. According to what he says, this was the only reason he survived.
* The final boss of VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} is a colossal idiot who ends up almost causing the lab to self-destruct through neglect and incompetence. So after the fight, the player probably wouldn't have expected [[spoiler: him to rig the stalemate button, which the player would certainly go for next. with explosives in case he lost the fight. Not only that, but he specifically leaves it out of his "Four Part Plan" speech detailing everything he's done to fix every flaw evident in GLaDOS' fight from the first game.]]
** Additionally, Aperture Science has automated testing facility announcements in case GLaDOS is incapcitated. They have prepared such announcements for any possibility. '''ANY''' possibility.
* Merveille from ''{{Solatorobo}}''. [[spoiler:She "let" the ''intentionally'' "defective" Red escape with the Dahak - which she created ''specifically'' to protect him - seemingly as a backup plan or some form of insurance against Baion.]]
* Daniel Clarke from VideoGame/CallOfDuty: Black Ops. [[spoiler: He set up THREE well-stocked armories, a fully mapped-out rooftop escape route (complete with mattresses stacked in a balcony in the event one would need to jump down), as well as having enough explosives rigged into his laboratory to ''take out an armoured helicopter in mid-flight'' that he detonates when Spetsnaz forces attempt to retrieve his research.]]