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resolved fingerprint framing trope? Film
ok so you know like when there's like a cop or something and the person who is thought to be innocent used the thing that the cops want so he touches it then goes "oh nooo my prints are all over it now"
i can't think of an example right now sorry but it goes down pretty much exac the same way tysm bros
resolved Not Sure How To Do Drugs Film
In Film.Cocaine Bear, there is a scene where two children find a package of cocaine and attempt to do it by eating it. They spit it out immediately and they do not get high. What’s the trope for this?
Edited by BigBadShadow25resolved They wasted a perfectly good material Film
Is there any specific YMMV (or not) trope for a situation where great material for a TV series or a mini-series is "wasted" on a feature film, and as a result, it ends up cutting corners, under-developing characters, rushing plot bits etc.? Or when an adaptation of a book series ends up with a single feature movie, doing Compressed Adaptation, much to the detriment of the material and the final product?

Can actually apply to any action movie or show, but appears most frequently in shows about police.
The hero arrives at the bad guy's hideout, and is overwhelmingly outnumbered and outgunned. Any real cop in this situation would call for backup, but there is inevitably SOME reason why, in this particular case, they can't call for backup or don't have time to wait for the backup. The backup, when it does arrive, shows up only just after the hero has handled the situation himself.