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SeptimusHeap
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19th Aug, 2018 01:25:21 AM
Seems like you want to ask in Trope Finder.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Is there a collective Trope that covers: Hotwiring a car, Cauterizing a Wound, Hacking Computers and Picking Locks.
These actions now are just presented with little or no actual details to the audience and we either fill in the blanks or more often than not suspend our disbelief.
Character reaches under dash of car pulling out wires: They are hotwiring a car. Character heats up a knife/metal object: they are applying First Aid. Character grabs keyboard and precedes to thrash away on it: they are hacking a computer. Character has thin metal item/bobby pin: they are going to pick a lock.
needless to say none of those actions will work the audience just has to accept that it will.