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KD
Since: May, 2009
14th May, 2023 06:51:38 AM
Also can end up being a Bittersweet Ending or Pyrrhic Victory if there were maimings or deaths on Team Good Guys.
Tropiarz
Since: Sep, 2022
14th May, 2023 06:54:18 AM
Despite the Plan reads like the exact thing I've been looking for
Is there any trope where:
- Characters plan something
- The plan is disrupted one way or another, in a truly dramatic fashion
- Yet their original goal is still achieved, despite the fact the plan itself failed entirely
My go-to example would be Alien³, it's director's cut to be precise, where the elaborate (and pretty solid) plan to capture the xenomorph goes sideways when the xenomorph attacks out of the blue and triggers a massive fire by pure chance, badly wounding half of the characters... but in the end the creature is still sealed off in a toxic waste-disposal unit, just as the whole plan originally anticipated.