History GenreSavvy / Film

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': Marty's seen enough Westerns to know how to survive in the Wild West for real despite having no prowess with gunfighting whatsoever.
* ''[[Film/BeingHands being Hands]]'': Both Hands and Lilith constantly reference the universe they're within. In one existence, both the GM character and Hands realize the same thing.
--> '''Hands:''' ''[while giggling]'' ...Expeditious retreat. Can I do that?\\
'''GM:''' ''[deadpan]'' It seems like you set this whole thing up just so you could brag about your D&D character.
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''
** The brothers have an argument about whether they need rope. Connor thinks that rope is always a ChekhovsGun, but Murphy tells him that [[ThisIsReality this isn't a movie]].
** Smecker starts working out the methods the brothers are using when we realizes that the insanity he's seeing at the crime scenes are the results of people doing stuff they see in cheesy action movies.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Javier Gomez in the 1970s subplot.
--> '''Luisa Rey''': "I promise I'll tell you everything that happened in the morning."\\
'''Javier Gomez''': "Okay, but I hope you realize you just said exactly what every character in any decent mystery says right before they get killed."
* ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'': Ronnie is quick to speculate that [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] are responsible for the recent string of murders, being familiar with them through pop culture. He explains what they are and the [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain standard rules]] for killing them.
* ''Film/DeadSnow'': The Genre Savvy character tells everyone not to get bitten when he realizes that they're under attack by zombies. One character later saws his own arm off with a chainsaw after being bitten because of this, though it's never actually established whether biting really does lead to zombification.
* ''Film/DeepInTheValley'': Because of his immense porn collection, Lester knows most the characters and locations in Deep Valley, including facts like the sorority house having a disused attic.
* In ''Film/{{Drishyam}}'', Georgekutty played by Mohanlal knows how to avoid getting caught by the police because he watches procedurals regularly.
* Many of the recurring characters in Creator/KevinSmith's films seem to be genre-savvy. One glaring example is Azrael from the film ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', who, as his EvilPlan for the destruction of all reality comes together, is asked how he did it and what he needs to do by the imprisoned good guys. Azrael's response:
-->'''Azrael:''' Oh no, I've seen way too many ''[[Film/JamesBond Bond]]'' movies to know that you [[JustBetweenYouAndMe never reveal all the details of your plan]], no matter how close you may think you are to winning.
* In the 1999 live action ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' movie, all of the main characters understand that they live in a corny, formulaic melodrama, and they're perfectly happy about it. Later, the hero and villain begin to deviate from their predetermined roles within the genre, which provokes a severe existential crisis in both men. This is so stressful that Snidely Whiplash returns to his villainous ways, despite knowing in advance that "The Bad Guy" is automatically predestined to failure.
--> '''Snidely Whiplash''': This is the part of the job I hate the most, the ending. Up until then, being The Bad Guy is the best job in the world.
* Barney in ''Film/EvilLaugh'', thanks to his horror movie expertise. Though it seems [[spoiler:that he doesn't know about DeathByMocking]].
-->You're going to have sex? Don't! Every time someone has sex in a horror story [[SexSignalsDeath they get murdered]]!
* In ''Film/TheFaculty'', several of the students (being sci-fi fans), realise that the strange goings-on at the school resemble the ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. Though they correctly work out that the 'infected' are actually part of a greater 'queen' organism (and what happens should they find and kill it), they fail to realise that the queen is actually [[spoiler:The New Girl]] and not one of the more obvious suspects. The 'queen' even asserts that they should stop resisting her, since this plot ended in them winning even in fiction (the pod people in the aforementioned Body Snatchers). Though Genre Savvy, Casey comes up with a quite amazing conspiracy theory regarding aliens: he asks whether sci-fi itself is a tool for the authorities to inure the public to the existence of aliens, [[FictionAsCoverUp just so nobody would believe it if it really happened]]. Stokely is unsurprisingly not convinced in the slightest, but thinks it's a cool idea.
* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'': David is detained by NASA and put in a room with a mirror. He says he's watched a lot of movies and correctly guesses there are people watching him through the mirror.
* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' contained this little gem: "I've seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."
* ''Film/FrightNight1985'': The two main characters, a teenage horror film fan and a professional HorrorHost, get all of their information on killing zombies from horror films. This is lampshaded in one scene where the horror host asserts that movies have been correct on all points so far, so they can safely assume that other tropes will hold true as well. The [[Film/FrightNight2011 2011 remake]] notably omits this trope as one of its major revisions.
* Pretty much all of ''Film/GalaxyQuest'':
** When the characters [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame realize they're in a real space battle]], they try to use sensible, real-life tactics, and fight the tendency to act like the characters they play -- which backfires, because they're ''much'' more effective once they start acting their parts.
** The PluckyComicRelief is the most Genre Savvy of the bunch, leading to him being convinced he's doomed because he used to play a nameless RedShirt. He manages to survive and [[PromotionToOpeningTitles gets upgraded to a main character]] with the rank of security chief. Guy actually starts out as the ''only'' Genre Savvy member of the crew (and OnlySaneMan) before they all wise up.
---> '''Guy''': Didn't you guys ever ''watch'' the show?
** In possibly one of the most well-done moments of villain genre savviness ever, once shown the "historical documents", Sarris is the only nonhuman character who realizes that he is dealing with actors who have been mistaken for real explorers. This implies that unlike the Thermians, his own race produces entertainment.
---> '''Sarris''': How adorable. The actors are going to play war with me!
* ''Film/GlassOnion'': Benoit Blanc is a detective in a mystery story who's also familiar with mystery fiction and its conventions. He thinks ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' is dumb but is quite complimentary towards the mystery/crime/thriller works of Creator/GillianFlynn.
* ''Film/TheHardWay''. The TagAlongActor warns the CowboyCop that the killer will come after him as it's the Third Act. The cop laughs off the warning, as "real criminals stay well away from the police". As the killer he's chasing is not entirely sane, that's exactly what he does.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' plays off one of the characters' detailed knowledge of action cop films.
* ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' has Trish display this a few times. As Darry is climbing down the drain pipe [[spoiler:looking for a dead body]], Trish tells him, "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it? This is it!" Later, after hitting the Creeper with their car, Darry asks, "Do you think he's dead?" Trish responds, "They never are," before running him over a few more times. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but at least she tried]].
* ''Film/JudasKiss'': During some lighthearted banter with Detective Friedman, Agent Sadie Hawkins reels off a list of every trope/cliche that normally applies to female {{FBI Agent}}s in movies. Over the course of the film, she demonstrates that not a single one of them applies to her (Except possibly her being a better driver than Friedman, and he was the one brought that up, not her).
* [[BigBad Valentine]] in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' is a fan of spy thrillers, and lampshades BondVillainStupidity before averting it by [[spoiler:shooting [[MentorArchetype Harry]] in the head]].
* Both the main characters in ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' use their knowledge of the plots of mystery novels to foresee the events which will occur in the movie. At one point there is a false end where the female lead says something along the lines of, "this isn't how it ends, this can't be how it ends. Usually at this point there's a big action sequence where the hero kills a bunch of people for no good reason." Shortly thereafter the hero becomes engaged in a big action scene where he kills a bunch of people.
* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', Danny Madigan, the kid from the real world, having seen so many action movies, knows all the clichés and plot devices when he winds up inside one. Jack Slater, the fictional Hollywood action hero who lives in the movie, refuses to believe him, suffering from GenreBlindness.
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Egdar and Allen make Sam read vampire comics to help him defend himself from the real vampires in Santa Carla.
* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse version of Spider-Man is a sci-fi and action movie buff and constantly uses tactics the heroes in those films use against his foes.
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': Spider-Man uses the AT-AT sequence in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' as a cue for how to defeat Ant-Man after he turns himself into a giant, tangling up Ant-Man's feet with webbing and then having the others knock him over.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' You ever see that really old movie, ''Empire Strikes Back''?\\
'''War Machine:''' Jesus, Tony, how old ''is'' this guy?
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': When Iron Man on-the-spot asks him to formulate a plan that will take out Ebony Maw and save Doctor Strange, Spidey thinks about it for a few seconds and asks Iron Man if he's "ever seen this really old movie, ''Film/{{Aliens}}''?" Cut to Iron Man confronting Maw:
-->'''Ebony Maw:''' Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.\\
'''Iron Man:''' Yeah, but the kid's seen more movies. ''[blasts hole in hull of spaceship, [[ThrownOutTheAirlock Ebony Maw gets blown out]]]''
* ''Film/Masquerade2021'': Casey has clearly taken her horror movie viewings on board. She doesn't choose the obvious hiding places and keeps moving around to evade the intruders. And she knows ''not'' to step on weak floorboards -- though she does make a mistake eventually.
* In ''[[Film/Monster1999 Monster!]]'', secondary protagonist Lloyd Reeves starred in the movies the title Monster [[RefugeeFromTVLand escaped from]], and his "power" as the designated Town Hero means he retains full awareness of the "rules" of {{B Movie}}s when the Monster revives during the triannual film festival and [[RealityWarper forcibly imposes those rules on reality]]. During the movie itself, this meta-awareness makes him more of a zigzagged MadOracle, as he is able to explain what those "rules" are to his grandson Travis and prepare him to take Lloyd's place as the Town Hero. This knowledge ranges from knowing the name of the potential LoveInterest that Travis met to knowing that [[ItOnlyWorksOnce he needs to come up with a unique method of destroying the Monster each time it revives]].
* ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'': A group of young monster movie fans fight back an invasion of classic movie monsters using their cinema knowledge.
* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': Julek, upon hearing that Ms. Iza and Zosia will go look for Daniel while Bartek and Aniela wait by the lake for him, points out that, in HorrorFilms, splitting up is usually what gets people killed.
* In ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'', Judge Benson is fairly good at predicting what will happen, particularly when he wagers that the sheriff's failure will be followed by [[TorchesAndPitchforks a mob]].
* ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'': Several characters in the film are very aware of teen comedy conventions, explicitly commenting on them as they occur. Jake and Ricky even try to one-up each other in their competition over Janey by citing the advantages their respective roles have.
%%* ''Film/ParisWhenItSizzles'' is about a jaded screenwriter who sees everything in terms of film tropes, which the movie proceeds to discuss, illustrate and parody to hell and back.
* The entirety of the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' franchise is based on the characters being Genre Savvy, to the point that they make comments like "I know [[BlackDudeDiesFirst what happens to the black dude]], and I'm getting out of here." Randy Meeks was a veritable fountain of knowledge about how to survive a horror movie until he found a giant IdiotBall and turned his back to a dangerous area. In fact, most characters who die are the ones who make stupid mistakes. The characters know this, and discuss mistakes that should never be made, such as going off on your own.
* In a BMovie example, the characters of the Gerry Lively film ''Shattered Lies'' are particularly Genre Savvy, especially Donald Holt in the opening.
* In ''Film/{{Sleuth}}'' both characters try to use their knowledge of detective stories to their advantage.
* In ''Film/StayTuned'', a TV addict played by John Ritter buys a TV set [[DealWithTheDevil from the Devil]], and he and his wife end up TrappedInTVLand. Every show is a hellish parody, and all of them are specifically designed to kill them. At one point, he and his wife end up as [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry animated mice being hunted by a robot cat]]. After finally getting some respite, he starts to wonder what a "real" cartoon mouse would do... and promptly orders a robot ''dog'' from [[AcmeProducts the ACME company]]. [[InstantHomeDelivery It arrives immediately]], and chases away the robot cat.
* Pretty much the entire point and struggle of ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' revolves around the lead character (who hears a voice narrating his life) trying to figure out what kind of story he's in. If it's a comedy, he'll live; if it's a tragedy, he'll die. For help he visits a professor of Literature, who asks him bizarre questions like "Are you the King of anything?" and "Do you have magical powers?" His negative responses eliminate fantasy, mythology, historical fiction and other genres in order to find out the type of story he's in.
* In ''Film/ThreeThousandYearsofLonging'', Alithea has a doctorate in Narratology, and so has studied all genres of storytelling. She says that every story ever told about wishes 'is a cautionary tale,' and thus she refuses to make any wishes, to the [[LiteralGenie Genie]]'s great frustration.
* In ''Film/TimeBandits'', Kevin, at least, knows what's up when they meet Myth/RobinHood. He even tries to explain to the dwarves afterwards that ''of course'' Robin was going to hand out the stolen treasure to the poor.
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' deconstructs this trope horrifically. [[spoiler: Elijah takes Genre Savvy too far and sees comic book tropes in the real world - and he's not ''entirely'' wrong[[note]]the film implies the real-life people who inspired the tropes[[/note]] - so he causes "accidents" which kill hundreds of people in the hopes of finding a superhero. It ends as he reveals the truth to David and happily describes how he is clearly meant to be the villain of their story, delighted to finally know his purpose.]]
-->'''Elijah''': [[spoiler: I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the [[{{Foil}} exact opposite]] of the hero. And most times [[BigBadFriend they're friends]], like you and me!]]
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Just like in the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} graphic novel'': [[spoiler:Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, declares that he is not a "comic book villain", and therefore had already completed his plan 35 minutes before beginning his BreakingSpeech]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Everyone has MediumAwareness; the fact that a small percentage of the population '''doesn't''' is a plot point.
* In ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'', Chuck is a horror movie fan who works at a comic store. The reason Sam calls her is that he figures her knowledge of the horror genre might help him survive the slasher movie situation he finds himself in.
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* ''Film/BeingHands'': Both Hands and Lilith constantly reference the universe they're within. In one existence, both the GM character and Hands realize the same thing.

* In ''Film/TimeBandits'', Kevin, at least, knows what's up when they meet RobinHood. He even tries to explain to the dwarves afterwards that ''of course'' Robin was going to hand out the stolen treasure to the poor.

-->You're going to have sex? Don't! Every time someone has sex in a horror story [[DeathBySex they get murdered]]!

* In ''Drishyam'', Georgekutty played by Mohanlal knows how to avoid getting caught by the police because he watches procedurals regularly.

* In Film/ThreeThousandYearsofLonging, Alithea has a doctorate in Narratology, and so has studied all genres of storytelling. She says that every story ever told about wishes 'is a cautionary tale,' and thus she refuses to make any wishes, to the [[LiteralGenie Genie]]'s great frustration.

* In the live action ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' movie in 1999, all of the main characters understand that they live in a corny, formulaic melodrama, and they're perfectly happy about it. Later, the hero and villain begin to deviate from their predetermined roles within the genre, which provokes a severe existential crisis in both men. This is so stressful that Snidely Whiplash returns to his villainous ways, despite knowing in advance that "The Bad Guy" is automatically predestined to failure.

* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': Julek, upon hearing that Ms. Iza and Zosia will go look for Daniel while Bartek and Aniela wait by the lake for him, points out that, in HorrorFilms, splitting up is usually what gets people killed.
* The entirety of the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' franchise is based on the characters being Genre Savvy, to the point that they make comments like "I know [[BlackDudeDiesFirst what happens to the black dude]], and I'm getting out of here." Randy Meeks was a veritable fountain of knowledge about how to survive a horror movie until he found a giant IdiotBall and turned his back to a dangerous area. In fact, most characters who die are the ones who make stupid mistakes. The characters know this, and discuss mistakes that should never be made, such as going off on your own.
* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' contained this little gem: "I've seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."

* ''Film/HotFuzz'' plays off one of the characters' detailed knowledge of action cop films.

* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', Danny Madigan, the kid from the real world, having seen so many action movies, knows all the clichés and plot devices when he winds up inside one. Jack Slater, the fictional Hollywood action hero who lives in the movie, refuses to believe him, suffering from GenreBlindness.

* Many of the recurring characters in Creator/KevinSmith's films seem to be genre-savvy. One glaring example is Azrael from the film ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', who, as his EvilPlan for the destruction of all reality comes together, is asked how he did it and what he needs to do by the imprisoned good guys. Azrael's response:
-->'''Azrael:''' Oh no, I've seen way too many ''[[Film/JamesBond Bond]]'' movies to know that you [[JustBetweenYouAndMe never reveal all the details of your plan]], no matter how close you may think you are to winning.
* In a BMovie example, the characters of the Gerry Lively film ''Shattered Lies'' are particularly Genre Savvy, especially Donald Holt in the opening.
* In ''Film/TimeBandits'', Kevin, at least, knows what's up when they meet RobinHood. He even tries to explain to the dwarves afterwards that ''of course'' Robin was going to hand out the stolen treasure to the poor.
* Pretty much the entire point and struggle of ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' revolves around the lead character (who hears a voice narrating his life) trying to figure out what kind of story he's in. If it's a comedy, he'll live; if it's a tragedy, he'll die. For help he visits a professor of Literature, who asks him bizarre questions like "Are you the King of anything?" and "Do you have magical powers?" His negative responses eliminate fantasy, mythology, historical fiction and other genres in order to find out the type of story he's in.
* In ''Film/StayTuned'', a TV addict played by John Ritter buys a TV set [[DealWithTheDevil from the Devil]], and he and his wife end up TrappedInTVLand. Every show is a hellish parody, and all of them are specifically designed to kill them. At one point, he and his wife end up as [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry animated mice being hunted by a robot cat]]. After finally getting some respite, he starts to wonder what a "real" cartoon mouse would do... and promptly orders a robot ''dog'' from [[AcmeProducts the ACME company]]. [[InstantHomeDelivery It arrives immediately]], and chases away the robot cat.

* ''Film/DeadSnow'': The Genre Savvy character tells everyone not to get bitten when he realizes that they're under attack by zombies. One character later saws his own arm off with a chainsaw after being bitten because of this, though it's never actually established whether biting really does lead to zombification.
* Barney in ''Film/EvilLaugh'', thanks to his horror movie expertise. Though it seems [[spoiler:that he doesn't know about DeathByMocking]].
-->You're going to have sex? Don't! Every time someone has sex in a horror story [[DeathBySex they get murdered]]!
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': Marty's seen enough Westerns to know how to survive in the Wild West for real despite having no prowess with gunfighting whatsoever.
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''
** The brothers have an argument about whether they need rope. Connor thinks that rope is always a ChekhovsGun, but Murphy tells him that [[ThisIsReality this isn't a movie]].
** Smecker starts working out the methods the brothers are using when we realizes that the insanity he's seeing at the crime scenes are the results of people doing stuff they see in cheesy action movies.
* In ''Film/{{Sleuth}}'' both characters try to use their knowledge of detective stories to their advantage.
* ''Film/TheHardWay''. The TagAlongActor warns the CowboyCop that the killer will come after him as it's the Third Act. The cop laughs off the warning, as "real criminals stay well away from the police". As the killer he's chasing is not entirely sane, that's exactly what he does.
* In ''Drishyam'', Georgekutty played by Mohanlal knows how to avoid getting caught by the police because he watches procedurals regularly.
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' deconstructs this trope horrifically. [[spoiler: Elijah takes Genre Savvy too far and sees comic book tropes in the real world - and he's not ''entirely'' wrong[[note]]the film implies the real-life people who inspired the tropes[[/note]] - so he causes "accidents" which kill hundreds of people in the hopes of finding a superhero. It ends as he reveals the truth to David and happily describes how he is clearly meant to be the villain of their story, delighted to finally know his purpose.]]
-->'''Elijah''': [[spoiler: I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the [[{{Foil}} exact opposite]] of the hero. And most times [[BigBadFriend they're friends]], like you and me!]]

* [[BigBad Valentine]] in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' is a fan of spy thrillers, and lampshades BondVillainStupidity before averting it by [[spoiler:shooting [[MentorArchetype Harry]] in the head]].
* ''Film/FrightNight1985'': The two main characters, a teenage horror film fan and a professional HorrorHost, get all of their information on killing zombies from horror films. This is lampshaded in one scene where the horror host asserts that movies have been correct on all points so far, so they can safely assume that other tropes will hold true as well. The [[Film/FrightNight2011 2011 remake]] notably omits this trope as one of its major revisions.
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Just like in the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} graphic novel'': [[spoiler:Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, declares that he is not a "comic book villain", and therefore had already completed his plan 35 minutes before beginning his BreakingSpeech]]
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Javier Gomez in the 1970s subplot.
--> '''Luisa Rey''': "I promise I'll tell you everything that happened in the morning."\\
'''Javier Gomez''': "Okay, but I hope you realize you just said exactly what every character in any decent mystery says right before they get killed."
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Egdar and Allen make Sam read vampire comics to help him defend himself from the real vampires in Santa Carla.
%%* ''Film/ParisWhenItSizzles'' is about a jaded screenwriter who sees everything in terms of film tropes, which the movie proceeds to discuss, illustrate and parody to hell and back.

* ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'': Ronnie is quick to speculate that [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] are responsible for the recent string of murders, being familiar with them through pop culture. He explains what they are and the [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain standard rules]] for killing them.
* ''Film/JudasKiss'': During some lighthearted banter with Detective Friedman, Agent Sadie Hawkins reels off a list of every trope/cliche that normally applies to female {{FBI Agent}}s in movies. Over the course of the film, she demonstrates that not a single one of them applies to her. (Except possibly her being a better driver than Friedman, and he was the one brought that up, not her.)
* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'': David is detained by NASA and put in a room with a mirror. He says he's watched a lot of movies and correctly guesses there are people watching him through the mirror.
* In ''[[Film/Monster1999 Monster!]]'', secondary protagonist Lloyd Reeves starred in the movies the title Monster [[RefugeeFromTVLand escaped from]], and his "power" as the designated Town Hero means he retains full awareness of the "rules" of {{B Movie}}s when the Monster revives during the triannual film festival and [[RealityWarper forcibly imposes those rules on reality]]. During the movie itself, this meta-awareness makes him more of a zigzagged MadOracle, as he is able to explain what those "rules" are to his grandson Travis and prepare him to take Lloyd's place as the Town Hero. This knowledge ranges from knowing the name of the potential LoveInterest that Travis met to knowing that [[ItOnlyWorksOnce he needs to come up with a unique method of destroying the Monster each time it revives]].
* ''Film/Masquerade2021'': Casey has clearly taken her horror movie viewings on board. She doesn't choose the obvious hiding places and keeps moving around to evade the intruders. And she knows ''not'' to step on weak floorboards -- though she does make a mistake eventually.

%%* In ''[[Film/Monster1999 Monster!]]'', Lloyd Reeves starred in the movies the title Monster [[RefugeeFromTVLand escaped from]], thus is this trope due to knowing how monster movies work. This is especially helpful as the Monster [[RealityWarper warps reality to run by the rules of one.]] As other characters realize what's going on, they start applying the rules of the movies as well.

* In ''Drishyam'', Vijay knows how to avoid getting caught by the police because he watches procedurals regularly.