Line #11 PlayingWith/SwissCheeseSecurity


1	'''Basic Trope''': Ridiculously lax building security.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice, a fairly normal citizen with practically no official credentials, can simply walk into the employees-only areas of [=SecuriCorps=] by wandering through an unlocked back door.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Literally none of the doors in [=SecuriCorps=] has a lock on it except for the restrooms, none of the computers is password-protected, and no security guards, cameras, or infrared lasers are anywhere to be seen.
4	* '''Downplayed''': The building is only secured as a normal low-value office despite its contents.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** The community in the area is largely trustworthy, so the risk in cutting security costs is a low one.
7	** There's nothing inside really worth stealing.
8	** This is a sign that their hostage security expert is screwing with them.
9	** The building is a trap rigged to blow.
10	* '''Inverted''': [=SecuriCorps=]' security is so impenetrable even a head of state can't get in.
11	* '''Subverted''':
12	** Alice goes for the back door of [=SecuriCorps=], which is unlocked... and an alarm sounds.
13	** Alice enters the [=SecuriCorps=] building with no trouble. ''Exiting'', on the other hand, is nigh-unto-impossible.
14	* '''Double Subverted''':
15	** But nobody comes to investigate the alarm, which shuts off after a few seconds. Alice shrugs her shoulders and continues.
16	** Causing all to evacuate as Alice had tripped the fire alarm by opening the fire exit. [[note]]Guess that means [[AvertedTrope you can't say they have]] NoOSHACompliance[[/note]]
17	** Alice can't get out the same way she came in, but then she finds another unlocked, unguarded door on the other side of the building.
18	* '''Parodied''':
19	** [=SecuriCorps=]' security is literally nothing but signs saying "DO NOT ENTER" and increasingly desperate variants thereof. ("Please, please, for the love of Pete do not enter! You're really not supposed to be here! What would your mother say if she saw you doing this?")
20	** [=SecuriCorps=] is regularly infiltrated by entire marching bands.
21	** [=SecuriCorps=]' security consists of literal Swiss cheese.
22	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice enters [=SecuriCorps=] through an unlocked back door. A flashback shows that this was because a thief had recently tripped the alarm and broken the lock before being escorted off by the police. However, it turns out that this was the only barrier to entry; no further security is present as Alice makes her way to the boardroom. Cut to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bob]], who is watching Alice through a sequence of hidden cameras, having disabled security to lure Alice into a trap. Suddenly, Alice wanders off camera, then appears in Bob's lair through a door that really should have been locked.
23	* '''Averted''': [=SecuriCorps=] has reasonable security.
24	* '''Enforced''': "We need Alice to get the [[MacGuffin secret documents]], but no one will believe she could sneak by security. Oh well, maybe people won't notice..."
25	* '''Lampshaded''': "...Seriously? No alarms? No locks? No guards? What kind of security is this?"
26	* '''Invoked''': See Justified #3 and #4.
27	* '''Exploited''': Alice, noticing how so little attention people seem to pay to security, goes from building to building stealing everything she can.
28	* '''Defied''': Bob goes out of his way to make sure that his security is tight, arranging audits to make sure that no one will be able to take advantage of this trope.
29	* '''Discussed''': "[[ThisIsReality This isn't a movie]], there's no way we can just waltz into [=SecuriCorps=] and talk to the CEO."
30	* '''Conversed''': "You know, you'd think the villain would spend some of the money in his vault on some locks and a Rent-A-Cop."
31	* '''Deconstructed''': A thief notices Alice's entry and promptly waltzes past [=SecuriCorps=]' alleged security measures and steals all its secrets, bankrupting the company within days.
32	* '''Reconstructed''': It turns out the lax security is just a ruse; the documents are meaningless gibberish and the REAL documents are in a safety deposit box, which itself is at a different location entirely.
33	* '''Implied''': Alice is shown planning to infiltrate the [=SecuriCorps=] building, which we're told is extremely well-guarded, and then we cut to her walking away from the building saying, "Wow, that was far easier than I expected."
34	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice is TheKlutz and, if [=SecuriCorps=] had worthy security, she'd long since have blown her cover to smithereens.
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36	Shouldn't this door back to SwissCheeseSecurity have a [[BuffySpeak biometric handprint thingy]], or at least a lock?
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38	%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
39	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???

Context PlayingWith / SwissCheeseSecurity