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Florestan
Since: May, 2015
8th May, 2024 02:08:28 PM
Related to Two Rights Make a Wrong? From the third paragraph: "When someone tries to solve a problem, the solutions counteract each other ... it could be like flipping a switch, then flipping it again, not realizing it had been done the first time."
Veanne
Since: Jul, 2012
8th May, 2024 10:31:19 PM
Two Rights Make a Wrong has a wide variety of examples, and these might work. It might be the closest trope we have.
A situation that can be played for drama or humor: something with a binary state (an on-off switch, a MacGuffin and an identical-looking decoy, etc.) keeps getting switched from one state to the other.
- A Jame Bond movie has Bond switch the Big Bad's computer tape with an audio one. Unfortunately, he disposed of the real one by putting it down the Bond Girl's bikini, who interpreted this as her needing to switch the tapes, which she did.
- In Asterix, two hostile Gaul chieftains (both Too Important to Walk and are carried on shields) are negotiating, with one turning his back on the other. His shieldbearers believe they're supposed to do the same, ruining the chieftain's attempt at drama.
- In Good Omens, three babies are present in the maternity ward, an American politician's son, the Antichrist and a third one. There's a Satanic plot to switch the first two babies out, but because two of the cultists do so separately, the Antichrist ends up raised by a perfectly normal couple instead of being in a position to start Armageddon.
- Often seen when playing Uno, when a player uses a reverse card but the next also uses one.
Edited by Chabal2