Line #29 PlayingWith/UnguidedLabTour


1	'''Basic Trope''': A top-secret workplace is introduced by having a character explore it unnoticed.
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3	* '''Straight''': The FourManBand, consisting of [[OnlySaneMan Harry]] [[Fiction500 Oswalt]], [[TheSmartGuy Pete]] [[SpiderManSendUp Perkins]], [[ButtMonkey Eddie]] [[CasanovaWannabe Roque]], and [[TheBigGuy Flash]] [[ComedicSociopath Young]], manages to enter the secret labs of Oswalt Enterprises without being seen.
4	* '''Exaggerated''':
5	** The FourManBand go unseen ''for hours'' and manages to explore the whole facility, even accidentally damaging no small amount of expensive equipment along the way (while ''still'' unnoticed).
6	** Ditto, but along with the usual FourManBand, there's [[AlphaBitch Gwynn]] [[DumbBlond Tracey]], [[AcademicAlphaBitch Alicia]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing P.]] [[NerdyBully Navarro]], [[DeadpanSnarker Ulysses]] [[PintsizePowerhouse Smalls]], [[LovableJock Clay]] [[GentleGiant T.]] [[AllLovingHero Finnigan]], [[TheJuggernaut Maxmilian]] [[TheQuietOne Khan]], [[SpicyLatina Adelita]] [[AffirmativeActionLegacy Diaz]]...
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Only one of them explores the secret labs.
9	** The FourManBand only manages to enter a few rooms of one of the secret labs, and nothing more.
10	* '''Justified''':
11	** Harry managed to find a secret entrance. It's just up to everyone else (''especially'' Flash) to not go through the facility WithCatlikeTread.
12	** Norbert, Harry's father, allowed Harry and the gang to waltz around his labs. He just didn't tell everyone working there about this.
13	** It was supposed to be a ''guided'' lab tour, but for whatever reason the guides are missing. So the rest were just told to mess around wherever and however they like.
14	* '''Inverted''': The FourManBand get caught in the offices of Oswalt Enterprises; A very decisively ''un''-secret workplace that has the characters get caught in it.
15	* ''' Subverted''': The FourManBand go around the secret labs. Cue the ConvenientlyTimedGuard.
16	* '''Double Subverted''': Who Flash proceeds to knock out before said guard can even let a noise out, let alone raise the alarms.
17	* '''Parodied''': Harry and the Gang go through the facility WithCatlikeTread. They ''still'' aren't noticed by anybody, even when Flash [[NoIndoorVoice bellows]] at the others to hurry up, [[StealthyColossus Flash, Clay, and Max (who are 6'8", 6'3", and 6'5" respectively)]] bolt down the hallway in full view of everyone in the lab (''[[SarcasmMode Clearly]]'' [[RefugeInAudacity those gigantic, hulking bruisers sprinting down the secret labs at top speed are just some hallucinations and not a sign of a comedically catastrophic breach of security]]), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Alicia chews her gum a bit too loudly]]. Bonus points if the last part is the one that gets them caught.
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** The FourManBand never find out about the facility at all.
20	** The FourManBand get caught in the facility upon entrance.
21	* '''Invoked''':
22	** Harry decides to start snooping around, just for the fun of it. He brings the three others along for the ride.
23	** Norbert, Harry's father, secretly allows him and his three (or more) friends to sneak around in the labs for anything they'd like to see.
24	* '''Exploited''': Pete takes pictures of whatever incriminating evidence that Oswalt Enterprises keeps hidden in order to submit them to his boss, John Joshua Johnson. Bonus points if Norbert finds out about these pictures and sues John, which in turn makes it a RevealingCoverUp.
25	* '''Defied''':
26	** The FourManBand is closely monitored. There are at least 5 tracking devices on each of them, and 500 more on Flash.
27	** Oswalt Enterprises keeps its security ''extra'' tight, with at least fifty guards and fifty cameras per room.
28	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Harry and the Gang ''are'' in Oswalt Enterprises, but they're going around the rooms, from the offices, to the secret labs, with varying success at stealth; Either being caught, or getting away unnoticed.
29	* '''Enforced''': A variety of reasons; Mostly as an introduction to the work's favored brand of AppliedPhlebotinum.
30	* '''Lampshaded''': Pete muses, "How has nobody ever caught us by now? We've been through like, what, 50 of these secret labs already? Man, TheGuardsMustBeCrazy!"
31	* '''Discussed''': One of the guards has ''just'' found out that there were people coming in here ''unnoticed''. He chats it up with his coworkers, remarking that they seriously need to upgrade security if there's at least four fellows coming in and out of the lab. And yet they don't even do much about it!
32	* '''Conversed''': AliceAndBob, the audience, are wondering if their security is ''that bad'' that four misfits can sneak in and out of the place.
33	* '''Played for Drama''': Harry and the Gang are exposed to the work's favored brand of AppliedPhlebotinum. They now have to deal with having been infected with strange, horrific symptoms, and the cool powers that come with it are ''not enough'' to balance just how painful living had just become. Harry has to deal with his mind going completely haywire, Pete often feels like his skin's going to come off, Eddie's constantly puking BlackBlood, Flash is pretty much in a perpetual electric chair, Gwynn feels like everything from her neck down is completely numb, Clay has a killer headache and feels like a horn's growing out of his forehead, Maximilian often goes crazy and claws at his own neck and shoulders as if something's been attached to his collarbone, Adelita is slowly growing a SplitPersonality between her usual self and someone named "Superior Superia", and Alicia's perception of time has been drastically slowed to the point where she has SuperReflexes.
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35	Damn it! How the hell are they constantly having an UnguidedLabTour around here!? This page has such SwissCheeseSecurity that even a 10 foot block of granite can come in without being noticed!
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37	%%* '''Played for Laughs:'''
38	%%* '''Played for Horror:'''
39	%%* '''Implied:''' ???
40	%%* '''Untwisted:''' ???
41	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
42	%%* '''Deconstructed:''' ???

Context PlayingWith / UnguidedLabTour