This Index Is Useless

Boy, we live in an incredible world, eh? Society has created an infrastructure designed to help those that need it, Science has created all manner of convenient gadgetry, and you can always ask your elders for answers to some of the more confusing questions... That is, unless you're in a work of fiction. Then you can expect all this to be, well... useless. Here's a bunch of useless tropes about useless things, thrown together for the convenience of... someone else. For you, it's useless.


 * Adults Are Useless
 * Armor Is Useless
 * The Ditz
 * Failure Hero
 * Guns Are Worthless
 * Joke Character
 * The Load
 * The Millstone
 * Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
 * Police Are Useless
 * Overreacting Airport Security
 * Reed Richards Is Useless
 * Science Is Useless
 * Shields Are Useless
 * Somebody Else's Problem
 * Spoony Bard
 * Power-Up Letdown
 * Useless Notes
 * Useless Protagonist
 * Useless Security Camera
 * Useless Superpowers
 * Useless Useful Non-Combat Abilities
 * Useless Useful Spell
 * Useless Useful Stealth
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 * Shoot the Builder