Basic Trope: A character does something because they've seen it in media before.
- Straight: Hiro gets the inspiration for his attack on Emperor Evulz from a movie he once watched, Tropers.
- Exaggerated: Hiro gets all of his inspiration for what he does from various pieces of media he's seen, even if it's absolutely impossible.
- Downplayed: Hiro only does one thing based on the movie Tropers, and it's wearing a Badass Longcoat like the main character Bob does.
- Justified:
- Hiro enjoys the movie Tropers, and wonders if it has some basis in reality.
- The stunt in the movie is plausible enough to be replicated in real life, so why not do it?
- Creativity is not one of Hiro's strong suits, so he rips off ideas from things he's seen in movies.
- Inverted: A character in a movie does something that had actually happened in real life.
- Subverted:
- Lance shoots down the idea because it's impossible to do it in real life.
- Hiro realizes the plan won't work like in the movie and tries to think of something else
- Double Subverted:
- The team is left with no choice and do the plan anyway
- The plan is set in motion, with some changes so that'll it work in reality.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody does anything because they've seen it in media before.
- Enforced: If the media is real, it can be a way of adding a Shout-Out.
- Lampshaded: "I feel like I saw something like this before..."
- Invoked: Hiro loves reenacting movie stunts, so he does so whenever he can.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz saw the same movie and knows how to ruin the plan.
- Defied: Lance decides that Hiro shouldn't be basing his attacks on a movie he watched, and comes up with another plan.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Well, let's just say that Tropers is just a movie for a reason - Hiro quickly learns This Is Reality.
- Reconstructed: Hiro decides to analyze the scene in Tropers and modify his plan as necessary.
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