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"Plot happens" is shorthand for "the outcome isn't surprisingly realistic, but just part of the plot". In other words, it's a kind of misuse. The term probably shouldn't be used in removal reasons, since not everyone is familiar with it.
I'm not sure if the removal is justified or not. I'm not familiar enough with the work to tell if the outcome is surprisingly realistic or not. Is this a work where people usually hit even when firing from the hip without aiming?
No, in fact it's not. The work is about a guy investigating the death of the girl he hooked up with.
“What is that? It's The Unknown!”
Personally just reading the entry on my own and without knowledge of the work, this doesn't sound like a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, and the deletion does read as justified. The entry just says "someone misses a gunshot, tries again and is more careful about it, then succeeds" — was there a reason why we should have expected otherwise?
Edited by number9robotic Thanks for playing Kings Quest V!
We do have a thread
for this sort of thing.
Ok, I'll go there soon. Thank you. Should I close this query?
Edited by Bubblepig “What is that? It's The Unknown!”
So I revisit the main page for Vengeance (2022) and discover that Surprisingly Realistic Outcome example was deleted, so I look at the history. The troper who deleted that example is Celestial Draco and their reason
to delete that example was "Plot happens" instead that saying the example is misused or something like that. Here's the example that they deleted (contain spoilers):
Was this troper's deletion justified or not? And what does "Plot happens" mean?
Edited by Bubblepig