Complexity Addiction: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives *evil laugh*, [[Large Ham|'''I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMAH!''']] It's ''brilliant'', ''BRILLIANT'', '''''BRILLIANT''''', I tell you! Genius, I say!... [[Comically Missing the Point|Or, to save on postage]], [[Subverted Trope|I'll just poison him with this.]]''|'''Yzma''', ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''}}

A character (usually the villain) comes up with a ridiculously elaborate plot that is so meticulously planned out that [[Tempting Fate|it can't possibly fail...]]

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** This turns out to be explained by {{spoiler|what remains of Arthas' humanity deliberately holding him back. If the Scourge were left to their own devices (possibly still under the control of Ner'zhul) then they would wipe out the living. Possibly the ridiculous plan is a way to justify his [[Orcus on His Throne|inaction]]. No, I'm not holding back. My plan just relies on bringing me to the brink of destruction.}}

*** Also worth noting from the above, {{spoiler|Arthas' intervention}} appears to be in the Lich King's subconscious. Meaning {{spoiler|in his rational mind, the Lich King actually thought having 10/25 mortals farm his strongest generals and almost kill him, only to be killed and raised to serve him seemed like a good idea, and one that would have worked if he had the foresight to kill Tirion Fordring at the start of the fight as he easily could have.}}

* [[Dwarf Fortress]] [[~~Community/~~Dwarf Fortress|players]] in general ''love'' this trope. Why dispose of garbage by throwing it in a trash dump outside when you can reduce it to ash in magma or hurl it {{spoiler|into the bottomless pits of Hell}}? Why use a few [[Game Breaker|cage traps]] when you can build a pressurized-magma [[Wave Motion Gun]]? As for dealing with captured enemies... throwing them into a cavern or off of a tower is the ''simple'' way of dealing with them, but [[Blood Sport|gladiatorial combat]] and deranged [[Death Trap|death traps]] are extremely popular as well.

* [[Dwarf Fortress]] [[Dwarf Fortress/Community|players]] in general ''love'' this trope. Why dispose of garbage by throwing it in a trash dump outside when you can reduce it to ash in magma or hurl it {{spoiler|into the bottomless pits of Hell}}? Why use a few [[Game Breaker|cage traps]] when you can build a pressurized-magma [[Wave Motion Gun]]? As for dealing with captured enemies... throwing them into a cavern or off of a tower is the ''simple'' way of dealing with them, but [[Blood Sport|gladiatorial combat]] and deranged [[Death Trap|death traps]] are extremely popular as well.

** Any feature, intended or not, someone will find a way to weaponize. Ignite artifacts to make incendiary booby-traps? Making drawbridge catapults to fire captive goblins at the next raiding party? Wait, let's drive a few dwarves berserk so they'll have to be slain and come back as violently vengeful ghosts, which we can turn against our enemies! Or setting up an elaborate gate and lever system to keep both Noble politics interesting and the population of [[Oh Crap|Carp]] well fed?

*** How about we start messing with the game files? Like increasing the body temperature of the common cat to create a trap based on cats breeding to a critical mass and the ensuring temperature rise wiping whole sections of the fortress of life/flammable material? How about making elephants breed faster with a higher body temperature and making that cat nuke into a medieval ICBM? Even better lets use strengthened doors and an invasion from Hell to flush the fortress of pesky kobold thieves?