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** Bob is a JackOfAllTrades or a generalist, not a specialist; he is able to identify problems, but needs to call in an expert to solve anything that isn't a surface issue.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob was just being arrogant; he only understands nuclear physics.
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** [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder "I'm a physicist, not a biologist!"]]
** Bob was just being arrogant; he only understands nuclear physics.
** [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder "I'm a physicist, not a biologist!"]]
** Bob was just being arrogant; he only understands nuclear physics.
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* '''Averted''': Bob is a nuclear physicist. He only understand nuclear physics.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expert character, but can't be bothered to research individual fields.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expert character, but can't be bothered to research individual fields.
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* '''Averted''': Bob is a nuclear physicist. He only understand understands nuclear physics.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expertcharacter, character but can't be bothered to research individual fields.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expert
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"It's a good thing we've got Bob. [[EconomyCast Hiring a whole R&D team would be super expensive.]]
* '''Conversed''':???"You'd think they'd need to have more scientists to do all of this stuff, but I guess then it'd be hard to keep track of all the characters."
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* '''Implied''': Bob is specifically a robotics engineer, but is mentioned inventing new components for said robots that would normally require a different area of expertise.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is repeatedly asked what field he specializes in. [[MathematiciansAnswer He always gives vague answers like "science, obviously!"]]
* '''Played For Drama''': Being the only person working on all of his research and experiments is running Bob ragged and severely impacting his mental health.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is repeatedly asked what field he specializes in. [[MathematiciansAnswer He always gives vague answers like "science, obviously!"]]
* '''Played For Drama''': Being the only person working on all of his research and experiments is running Bob ragged and severely impacting his mental health.
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** Bob specifically says that he is merely TheClosestThingWeGot.
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** Bob specifically says that he is merely TheClosestThingWeGot.the ClosestThingWeGot.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a StupidScientist with a SmallNameBigEgo who isn't actually too proficient in the many different scientific disciplines he claims knowledge in.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a StupidScientist with a SmallNameBigEgo who isn't actually has spread himself too proficient in the many different scientific disciplines he claims knowledge in.thin.
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* Bob having familiarity in a diverse range of fields allow him to come up with unorthodox ideas by blending one field with another. They don't always pan out, but it helps to serve as a check for the actual experts on whether there's some hidden assumption they're collectively missing that might be causing the problem.
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* Bob having familiarity in a diverse range of fields allow him to come up with unorthodox ideas by blending one field with another. They don't always pan out, but it helps to serve as a check for the actual experts on whether there's some hidden assumption they're collectively missing that might be causing the problem.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's cursory knowledge of multiple fields allows him to oversee and coordinate specialists in those fields.
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** Bob's cursory knowledge of multiple fields allows him to oversee and coordinate specialists in thosefields.fields.
** Bob may not be the foremost expert in a given field, but he's familiar enough with them that he can sense if something a purported expert says sounds wrong and prevent the group from being conned straight away until he can do some independent research to verify the claims.
** Bob's cursory knowledge of multiple fields allows him to oversee and coordinate specialists in those
** Bob may not be the foremost expert in a given field, but he's familiar enough with them that he can sense if something a purported expert says sounds wrong and prevent the group from being conned straight away until he can do some independent research to verify the claims.
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** Bob is able to accomplish the same tasks as a specialist in the field but only with reference materials and while taking three times as long, and often three times the resources from failed experiments. Compared to [[EpicFail the massive failures of untrained amateurs]] that is pretty good.
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** Bob specifically says that he is merely TheClosestThingWeGot.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of physics, biology, and chemistry
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of physics, biology, and chemistrychemistry.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology, and biology.chemistry
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.physics, chemistry, and biology.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology] astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] astrobiology] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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* '''Deconstructed''': **Bob is actually a StupidScientist with a SmallNameBigEgo who isn't actually too proficient in the many different scientific disciplines he claims knowledge in.
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* '''Deconstructed''': **Bob Bob is actually a StupidScientist with a SmallNameBigEgo who isn't actually too proficient in the many different scientific disciplines he claims knowledge in.
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** Bob specializes in an interdisciplinary field such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology astrobiology]] which requires some knowledge of various scientific disciplines.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a StupidScientist who has spread himself too thin across many scientific fields.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob **Bob is actually a StupidScientist with a SmallNameBigEgo who has spread himself isn't actually too thin across proficient in the many different scientific fields.disciplines he claims knowledge in.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a MasterOfNone who has spread himself too thin across many scientific fields.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a MasterOfNone StupidScientist who has spread himself too thin across many scientific fields.
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* '''Parodied''': Bob is also an expert in cheesemaking and balloon animals
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** Bob is also an expert in cheesemaking and balloonanimals animals.
** Bob occasionally mixes up his disciplines, prescribing antivirus software to human patients while attempting to administer booster shots to computers.
** Bob is also an expert in cheesemaking and balloon
** Bob occasionally mixes up his disciplines, prescribing antivirus software to human patients while attempting to administer booster shots to computers.
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* '''Justified''': Bob is supernaturally intelligent and learns science for fun.
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** Bob is supernaturally intelligent and learns science forfun.fun.
** Bob lives in a time when scientific disciplines are very poorly developed, which allows him to study many of them.
** Bob is several centuries old, which has given him time to study several scientific branches.
** Bob is supernaturally intelligent and learns science for
** Bob lives in a time when scientific disciplines are very poorly developed, which allows him to study many of them.
** Bob is several centuries old, which has given him time to study several scientific branches.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's cursory knowledge of multiple fields allows him to oversee and coordinate specialists in those fields.
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'''Basic Trope''': A scientist is an expert in all sciences.
* '''Straight''': Bob is a nuclear physicist, but he is shown to be an expert in biology and chemistry too.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is an expert in everything.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is a nuclear physicist, but he's an expert in other branches of physics too.
* '''Justified''': Bob is supernaturally intelligent and learns science for fun.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is ridiculously specialized and only studies uranium.
* '''Subverted''': Bob was just being arrogant; he only understands nuclear physics.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob still knows way too much about things out of his field of study.
* '''Parodied''': Bob is also an expert in cheesemaking and balloon animals
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's knowledge varies depending on how much the writer knows about science.
* '''Averted''': Bob is a nuclear physicist. He only understand nuclear physics.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expert character, but can't be bothered to research individual fields.
* '''Lampshaded''': "So...Bob's a nuclear physicist, what does he know about frogs?" "Don't question it."
* '''Invoked''': Universities force any student going into sciences to study all the sciences.
* '''Exploited''': Bob is able to get many high-paying jobs because of his wide expertise.
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to discuss any science other than nuclear physics.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a MasterOfNone who has spread himself too thin across many scientific fields.
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* '''Straight''': Bob is a nuclear physicist, but he is shown to be an expert in biology and chemistry too.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is an expert in everything.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is a nuclear physicist, but he's an expert in other branches of physics too.
* '''Justified''': Bob is supernaturally intelligent and learns science for fun.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is ridiculously specialized and only studies uranium.
* '''Subverted''': Bob was just being arrogant; he only understands nuclear physics.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob still knows way too much about things out of his field of study.
* '''Parodied''': Bob is also an expert in cheesemaking and balloon animals
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's knowledge varies depending on how much the writer knows about science.
* '''Averted''': Bob is a nuclear physicist. He only understand nuclear physics.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want an expert character, but can't be bothered to research individual fields.
* '''Lampshaded''': "So...Bob's a nuclear physicist, what does he know about frogs?" "Don't question it."
* '''Invoked''': Universities force any student going into sciences to study all the sciences.
* '''Exploited''': Bob is able to get many high-paying jobs because of his wide expertise.
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to discuss any science other than nuclear physics.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is actually a MasterOfNone who has spread himself too thin across many scientific fields.
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