Basic Trope: An obstacle no one saw coming.
- Straight: Harry and Iggy come up with a foolproof plan to rob the city's largest bank by night... that didn't anticipate a traffic accident occurring right in front of their getaway car.
- Exaggerated: A single faulty wire causes a cascading failure that leads to both Harry and Iggy's getaway car (and the money) going up in flames in the accident.
- Downplayed: The accident only briefly stymies Harry and Iggy, and they manage to improvise their way to freedom with the money in tow.
- Justified:
- Harry and Iggy are used to having things go smoothly on a job, and are therefore unaccustomed to planning for certain extreme variables.
- Harry and Iggy aren't overburdened with imagination or intelligence.
- Harry and Iggy tend to skimp on thinking it through.
- Sometimes, fate or luck decides that you're getting the short end of the stick.
- Inverted: Based on their actions, nothing occurs during the heist that Harry and Iggy didn't plan for.
- Subverted: Harry and Iggy make every effort to iron out all the details of their plan, up to and including anticipating Martian attacks. They use a second escape vehicle parked a few blocks away and get off scot-free.
- Parodied: At the last possible second, both Harry and Iggy are struck dead by spontaneous human combustion.
- Zig Zagged: The bank robbery goes off without a hitch. Getting away clean is the problem, followed by the inevitable need to launder the money to avoid being caught afterwards. Harry and Iggy manage to avoid most of the pitfalls until an old man Harry bumped into during the robbery calls the police with an anonymous tip, leading to their arrests.
- Averted: Nothing totally unanticipated stops Harry and Iggy from completing the job.
- Enforced: Crime doesn't pay unless you're really, really lucky.
- Lampshaded: Harry and Iggy briefly list all the potential obstacles to their success before dismissing them as improbable.
- Invoked: The bank heist is a crime of opportunity that Harry and Iggy thought would be a lot easier.
- Exploited: The cops focus on the gaps in supposedly perfect plans to catch guys like Harry and Iggy red-handed.
- Defied: Harry and Iggy do their damndest to anticipate everything that could go wrong with their plan, spending every waking minute on it if necessary.
- Discussed: During their discussion of the heist, Harry and Iggy bounce ideas off one another to try and catch any mistakes.
- Conversed: While working, Harry and Iggy talk about what may go wrong next to try and take the edge off.
- Implied: The phrase "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" is a staple of Harry and Iggy's vocabularies.
- Deconstructed: Since nothing ever goes to plan, Harry and Iggy don't see the point in trying to rob banks. They go legitimate by providing banks with security tips based on their years of experience.
- Even a totally legitimate trip to their favorite restaurant is an ordeal for Harry and Iggy. They're used to it by this point.
- Reconstructed: By learning to anticipate numerous problems and plan around them, Harry and Iggy eventually become master criminals.
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