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Line 2: [[File:no fanservice for you 4667.jpg\|link=Lil Formers\|frame\|[[Transformers\|Arcee]] is [http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2006/08/07/08072006/ certainly not doing] [[Rule 34\|some cheap]] [[Fan Service]], thank you very much.]] {{quote\|'''Ira Kane''': Snag it and put it in the bucket~~<br />~~. '''Harry Block''': I've seen this movie; the [[Black Dude Dies First]]. You snag it.~~\|''[[Evolution (film)\|Evolution]]''}}~~ \|''[[Evolution (film)\|Evolution]]''}} Happens when a character knows that a trope is about to happen, either due to being [[Genre Savvy]] or because someone is trying to [[Invoked Trope\|invoke]] it, and then actively attempts to [[Averted Trope\|avert]] it, [[Subverted Trope\|subvert]] it, or maybe even [[Inverted Trope\|invert]] it. Line 24 ⟶ 25: * The second season of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' is all about the characters defying the roles assigned to them by [[Rage Against the Author\|the writer of the story]]. * [[Complete Monster\|Johan Liebert]] from ''[[Monster (manga)\|Monster]]'' defies the trope of being [[Obviously Evil]], and on the surface, he seems like a really nice guy. * In the second ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' drama CD, Karina assures Barnaby that she has no intention of letting their animosity towards each other become [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]. So far she's proven successful: not only is any attraction between them still absent, they're now competing with each other for ''[[Friend Versus Lover\|Kotetsu's]]'' attention. {{quote\| '''Karina:''' You know those situations where people hate each other's guts at first, but then developing feeling for each other?~~<br />~~ '''Barnaby:''' Yeah?~~<br />~~ '''Karina:''' That's not going to happen. I'll rip down those [[Event Flag]]s myself if I have to. }} * At the end of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' {{spoiler\|[[A God Am I]] is deliberately shot down by the potential god-figure himself, who in response to his potential use of power and leadership simply states that he is "just Simon the Digger."}} ** If that trope had not been defied, {{spoiler\|the [[Bad Ending]] from the beginning of the show would have happened}}. == Comic Books == * ''[[Watchmen]]'' has {{spoiler\|Ozymandias deliver a typical Hannibal Lecture to the heroes 35 minutes ''after'' he'd already completed his plan. He's not a moron.}} * ''[[Black Orchid]]'' defies the same trope as ''[[Austin Powers]]'' below, except that the [[Mook]] really ''does'' [[No-Nonsense Nemesis\|shoot the main character in the head]]. He doesn't know that [[Good Thing You Can Heal\|she can regenerate]], but he [[Kill It with Fire\|sets her on fire]] to be absolutely certain she's [[Deader Than Dead]]. Given this is [[Decoy Protagonist\|on the second page]], it's a good thing [[Me's a Crowd]]. * At the end of volume 2 of ''[[~~Empowered (Comic Book)\|~~Empowered]]'' the eponymous superheroine saves the life of a criminal who's holding her hostage, [[What Measure Is a Mook?\|because he's still a human being with a wife and a daughter]]. == Fan Fiction ==▼ * ''[[Reconciliation]]'' seems to be headed toward the [[Netorare Genre]] at first glance; [[Katawa Shoujo\|Hanako]], after her Bad Ending, has isolated herself from Lilly and Hisao out of guilt for eight years. During this time, Lilly and Hisao have gotten together, and Hanako still has feelings for Hisao. The twist that forces Hanako out of her self-imposed isolation, however, is {{spoiler\|Lilly calling her to inform her of Hisao's death}}.▼ * In ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War\|Ace Combat the Equestrian War]]'', a rookie griffon soldier named Slip ''almost'' pulls a [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]], but he [[Genre Savvy\|seems to know what happens to deserters in war stories]], so he decides to keep fighting. Shortly after this sudden bout of courage, he's killed. ▼ ▲== Fan ~~Fiction~~Works == ▲* ''[[Reconciliation]]'' seems to be headed toward the [[Netorare Genre]] at first glance;: [[Katawa Shoujo\|Hanako]], after her Bad Ending, has isolated herself from Lilly and Hisao out of guilt for eight years. During this time, Lilly and Hisao have gotten together, and Hanako still has feelings for Hisao. The twist that forces Hanako out of her self-imposed isolation, however, is {{spoiler\|Lilly calling her to inform her of Hisao's death}}. ▲* In ''[[Ace Combat: The ~~Equestrian War\|Ace Combat the~~ Equestrian War]]'', a rookie griffon soldier named Slip ''almost'' pulls a [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]], but he [[Genre Savvy\|seems to know what happens to deserters in war stories]], so he decides to keep fighting. Shortly after this sudden bout of courage, he's killed. == Film == * The ''[[Scream (film)\|Scream]]'' films are supposedly loaded with this, yet most [[Horror Tropes]] in them are usually played straight or [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshaded]]. One genuine instance is when the second of the two killers is apparently dead at the end of the first film. Randy Meeks says this is the moment when the killer comes back to life for one last scare. The killer promptly does, but Sidney, without flinching, puts a bullet in his head: "Not in my movie." Also used in the second film. Also in the second film, a black man leaves town when the bodies start piling up, because he knows "[[Black Dude Dies First\|how long brothers last in these movies]]". He lives. * In ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', [[Red Shirt\|Guy]] is, in essence, a Defied Trope in character form. {{quote\| '''Guy''': Did you ever ''watch'' the show?}} * ''[[Austin Powers]]''. Dr Evil has captured Austin and wants to place him in "an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death" (Dr. Evil's words), and [[Stating the Simple Solution\|his son Scott wonders why they can't just shoot him]]. Despite Scott's best efforts, Dr Evil's [[Contractual Genre Blindness]] prevails, and Austin predictably escapes from the [[Shark Pool\|pool of mutated sea bass]] that he's suspended over. * Prince Herbert from ''[[Monty Python and ~~The~~the Holy Grail]]'' tries repeatedly to break out into an [["I Want" Song]], but his attempts are constantly foiled (complete with [[Letting the Air Out of the Band]]) by his father. * In ''[[Dogma]]'', Serendipity tries to goad Azrael into explaining his evil scheme to them, but he says, "Oh, no you don't: I've seen enough [[James Bond]] movies to know that you never reveal all the details of your plan, no matter ''how'' close you think you are to winning." * At the end of ''[[Iron Man]]'', Tony Lampshades all the typical angst-riddled consequences he can expect to face because of his [[Secret Identity]], only to subvert them all by declaring that he's Iron Man at a press conference. * ''[[Star Wars]]'': Han Solo immediately begins to [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?\|blast]] [[The Dragon\|Darth Vader]] as soon as he is revealed. [[NoWon't ~~Sell~~Work On Me]], though. * In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', superhero costume designer Edna Mode specifically states the hazards of [[Superheroes Wear Capes\|capes]], which turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gun]] with a villain. Of course, this has long been addressed in actual comics (for one, capes are easily detachable), and the ''real'' reason for "no capes" is that the animators didn't want to deal with cape physics and animation over the course of an entire film. * In ''[[Unfaithfully Yours]]'', Daphne asks her sister [[Pretty in Mink\|what fur she will be wearing]] to avoid [[Dresses the Same]]. == Literature == * Done in ''[[It's Kind of a Funny Story]]'', where the main character Craig refuses the possibility of heroin, because "If I were doing heroin, then I'd be a depressed teenager ''on heroin''. I didn't need to be that cliché." * In ''[[~~Discworld/Maskerade\|~~Maskerade]]'', once a series of murders begin happening at an opera house, the first thing they do is put extra guards on the [[Falling Chandelier of Doom\|giant chandelier]], to keep it from being dropped on anybody. * ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' plays with, but ultimately defies the [[Deal with the Devil]] trope. Screwtape explains that it's fallen out of favor ever since Hell made the strategic switch from promoting Satanism to promoting atheism, which is seen as a safer bet. * The ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~40,000]]'' novel ''[[Grey Knights]]'' notes that the Inquisition defies [[Never Found the Body]] in the case of Ghargatuloth; they sent the Grey Knight expedition down to Khorion IX instead of simply [[Earthshattering Kaboom\|calling Exterminatus on it]] because they needed eyes on the ground to see him die. * The short story [http://podcastle.org/2010/01/26/podcastle-88-another-end-of-the-empire/ Another End Of The Empire] by Tim Pratt features the [[Evil Overlord]] Mogrash who is told the following prophecy: {{quote\| "A child dwells in the village of Misery Chin, in the mountain provinces to the east. If allowed to grow to manhood, he will take over your empire, overthrow your ways and means, and send you from the halls of your palace forever." }} ** Rather than raze the village to the ground as his ancestors would have done, which he realised would have only fulfilled the prophecy as the boy would inevitably escape the slaughter somehow and take his revenge, Mogrash tries to avert the prophecy by being nice, instituting reforms, and raising the boys who could be threats as his own sons. [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy\|In the end the prophecy is fulfilled, one of the boys becomes his heir, his empire is changes irrevocably and he decided to leave his palace]]. * In the ''[[Myst]]'' novel, Atrus comes across one of the infamous D'ni puzzle-locks and tries to decipher it in the standard Myst [[Only Smart People May Pass]] fashion. His father Gehn picks up a blunt instrument and smashes it open. * [[Cassandra Truth]] is defied in ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' by Professor Kirke. When Peter and Susan tell him they think Lucy is lying about discovering a portal to Narnia in the old wardrobe, the professor suspects she's actually telling the truth (after all, [[The ~~Magicians~~Magician's Nephew\|he knows quite a lot about Narnia]]) and convinces them to trust her. * Albus Dumbledore defies [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] in ''[[Harry Potter and ~~The~~the Half-Blood Prince (novel)\|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. {{spoiler\|Sometime before the novel began, he put a [[Artifact of Doom\|cursed ring]] on his finger, which would have killed him in seconds had [[The Smart Guy\|Snape]] not intervened, and even then [[Your Days Are Numbered\|the curse still slowly kills him over the course of a year]]. During the book, the [[Mooks\|Death Eaters]] are attempting to infiltrate Hogwarts so they can kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore is aware that the [[Ax Crazy\|Ax Crazies]] [[Psycho Supporter\|Bellatrix Lestrange]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different\|Fenrir Greyback]] would just ''love'' to kill him slowly and painfully, so he orders Snape to kill him quickly and cleanly with ''[[One-Hit Kill\|Avada Kedavra]]''.}} == Live -Action TV ==▼ ▲== Live Action TV == * ''[[Buffy]]'' stabs Dracula again when he tries to resurrect, and then reminds him she's still there when he tries again. * Mixing this up a bit with [[Memetic Badass]], there's an LJ icon with [[Fan Nickname\|Spy Daddy]] from ''[[Alias (TV series)\|Alias]]'' that reads, "I am five steps ahead of you. I kill you in step four." Given that he is volunteering this information, he probably ''really'' kills you in step three. [[I Know You Know I Know\|Given that I've thought of this, he more likely kills you in step two...]] * [[Running Gag\|So, knowing that, he probably kills you at step one]]. [[Overly Long Gag\|But that means that he ''actually'' kills you right n---]] **** [[Running Gag\|He killed you]] [[Watchmen (comics)\|thirty-five minutes ago]]. * ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "Utopia": {{quote\| '''The Master''': Now then, Doctor! Ooh! New voice! ... Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat where I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me -- [[NOT!\|I ''don't'' think]]!}} * ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': Miley is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to [[Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults\|check for feet under the stalls]] before talking about her [[Secret Identity]] with Lilly in the ladies' room. == Video Games == * ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' has one of the guys who write the the saferoom graffiti proclaim that [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~the Real Monsters\|"WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS"]]. The guy ''underneath'' him says "No, that's the zombies". Have you been outside JACKASS!! I think it's them stupid I hope you are DEAD now [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|I miss the internet]] * Capcom openly defied [[No Export for You]] when they worked to clear the legal hurdles and get ''[[~~Tatsunokovs~~Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'' localized overseas. * ''[[Evil Dead\|Evil Dead: Hail To The King]]'' was pretty much a straight up Resident Evil clone with an Evil Dead look, including the puzzles (though, thankfully, most were much less obtuse and nonsensical than RE). However, in the latter part of the game, Ash, in a cutscene, reads the plaque on a door. After noting the overly complicated puzzle mechanism required to open it, and [[Dungeon Bypass\|just shoots the door open with his boomstick]] in the game's [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. * In ''[[Freedom Fighters (video game)\|Freedom Fighters]]'', you can prevent [[Respawning Enemies\|soviet reinforcements]] from coming in by blowing up the bridges their armored transport cars cross, and blowing up the helipads supplying assault and transport helicopters. * ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' presents this in the guise of one of the final [[Take a Third Option]] choices. A player actively seeking to achieve some sort of compromise between two factions is rewarded with a rather large "boom". * In ''[[Portal 2]]'', the [[Final Boss]] defies [[Boss Arena Idiocy]] by studying the recordings of how you defeated the previous boss and deliberately setting up the arena to avoid those same mistakes. The trope is then [[Zig Zagged Trope\|zig zagged]] by having the boss make an entirely new set of glaringly obvious mistakes. {{quote\| '''{{spoiler\|Wheatley}}:''' "I also took the liberty of studying the tapes of you killing her, and I am not going to make the same mistakes. Four-part plan is this: One, no portal surfaces. Two, start the [[Deadly Gas\|neurotoxin]] immediately. Three, bomb-proof shields for me, leading directly into number four: bombs, for throwing at you. You know what, this plan is so [[Tempting Fate\|foolproof]] that I'm going to give you a sporting chance and turn off the neurotoxin. I'm joking, of course. Goodbye."}} And taken further at the end: {{spoiler\|"STEP FIVE! BOOBY-TRAP THE STALEMATE RESOLUTION BUTTON!"}} {{spoiler\|Unfortunately for Wheatly, he failed to defy the final [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] trope: Chell opening a portal right under him, with the other side on the surface of the moon.}} * [[Beauty and the Beast\|Belle]] defies a [[Sadistic Choice]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''. Xaldin kidnaps her and takes the rose that can lift Beast's curse, forcing Beast to choose which he'll give back. Although Beast chooses for Belle to be safe, she elbows Xaldin, saving herself and the rose. * ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II'': Irenicus: "No, you'll varrant no [[Just Between You and Me\|villain's exposition]] from me." == [[Web Comics]] == Line 102 ⟶ 96: * The DM of ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' will not tolerate [[Off the Rails]] when he can help it. Only twice do the players pull it off. * ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' does this with an old classic: {{quote\| '''Rayne:''' [[Cut Himself Shaving\|I fell down some stairs.]]~~<br />~~ '''Noel:''' No he didn't. I beat the shit out of him with a smile on my face. }} * Tarquin from [[Order of the Stick]] is so [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] that he hands out ''guidelines'' on defying tropes to his guards. {{spoiler\|They work.}} ** And [[Cool Old Guy]] Julio Scoundrel defies [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]. {{quote\| '''Elan:''' Will I ever see you again?~~<br />~~ '''Julio Scoundrél:''' Well, as an older mentor figure, the most likely scenario is that I'd return only to be randomly killed by an enemy of yours so that you can cradle my dying body while swearing revenge — so don't take it personally if I say I sincerely hope we never cross paths again. }} * [[Axe Cop]] ~~advices~~advises the families of crime fighters to hide in the bushes outside their house with guns every night to avert [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]. == [[Web Original]] == Line 117 ⟶ 110: * In [[The Spoony Experiment\|Spoony's]] review of the ''Wing Commander'' movie, he takes one look at the cover (showing Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr.) and shrieks in terror. He explains thusly: "You know that thing, [[Covers Always Lie\|you can't trust a book by its cover?]] Well fuck you! That's books, not movies!" * When [[Bad Movie Beatdown\|Film Brain]] learns that [[Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li\|M. Bison's plan]] amounts to an "evil property development scheme", he interrupts the [[Street Fighter (film)\|OF COURSE!]] saying it doesn't deserve that [[Running Gag\|joke]]. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509232013/http://thatfellowinthecoat.com/somejerkcaptaineo.php Part two of this video] on ''[[Mr. Coat and Friends]]'' defied [["Previously On..."]], noting that [[Where Do You Think You Are?\|it was on the internet]], and we could just watch part one. * The hentai flash site [[Zone Archive]] had apparently been pestered to make a something related to ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. So they did...however not what you would expect. After bringing up a shot of Pinkie Pie in [[Naughty Tentacles]], selecting pretty much any of the animation options [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=turycXIxRiw causes this to happen.] It speaks for itself. == Western Animation == Line 129 ⟶ 121: ** {{spoiler\|Jinx eventually does the same}}. * In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "The Best Night Ever", the ponies are running away from the chaos they've caused at the Grand Galloping Gala and Rarity drops her glass slipper. Pinkie Pie lampshades the trope of [[The Girl Who Fits This Slipper]] and Rarity, who has no interest in meeting [[Prince Charmless\|Prince Blueblood]] ever again, screams and crushes the slipper into powder. == Real Life == Line 135 ⟶ 126: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Trope Tropes]] [[Category:Abridged Series Tropes]] [[Category:Screw This Index, I Have Tropes]] [[Category:~~Defied~~Playing with a Trope]]