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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
10th Dec, 2018 06:53:01 AM
Probably worth troping, assuming we don't have this yet.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
bitemytail
Since: Dec, 2011
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
10th Dec, 2018 08:27:21 AM
^^ That.
4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
10th Dec, 2018 02:30:57 PM
^^ That's the supertrope for this. (Although it now depends on the OP whether he'd just settle with using the supertrope or not...)
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Considering proposing something along these lines to the Trope launch pad, Do We Have This One and if not, is it tropeable?
A character is alerted to something being amiss because another character is preparing either too much or too little food, or because the dining table is set for the wrong number of people. Some examples:
- Moonraker: After narrowly surviving a landslide while visiting the Dover cliffs, James Bond returns to his host's house and finds the host didn't set a place for him at the dinner table during the evening meal, causing Bond to suspect the landslide was actually an attempted assassination.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Harry, Ron and Hermione go to visit their friend Luna and her father Xeno, but Xeno prepares tea for four people instead of five. When Harry spots this, Xeno confesses that Luna was kidnapped by the Death Eaters to give them leverage over him.
- Doctor Who episode "It Takes You Away": The Doctor encounters a man called Erik, who she's been looking for, while exploring an Alternate Universe, and notes that he's preparing two plates of food despite not expecting visitors. The other plate is for his wife Trine, who died in the main universe, and this universe has created an illusion of her to entice Erik into not returning home.
Edited by Astaroth