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Line 24: * In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', Harvey Dent manages to take control of dramatic events at a trial and turn them to his advantage, effectively exploiting [[Courtroom Antics]]. An accused gangster tries to shoot him in the middle of the trial - Dent promptly punches and disarms him, stunning the entire court. When the judge calls for a recess, Dent hams it up: "Your honor, I'm not finished!". * When Tom is [[Everyone Chasing You\|chased by half the student body]] in ''[[PCU]]'', he hides from them, and then realizes The Pit needs lots of people at their party, so they can raise money. He then gets the people to chase him to the party. * In ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the ~~2nd Dimension\|Phineas and Ferb The Movie Across The~~ 2nd Dimension]]'', Candace exploited her [[Failure Is the Only Option\|inability to bust her brothers]] to make sure Doof-2 didn't take over the Tri-state area. * In ''[[Tangled]]'' Flynn and Rapunzel exploit the [[Power Glows]] trope when they use her [[Magic Hair]] to find a way out of a flooding cave. == Literature == * In ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'', when he and his disciples were kidnapped by a villain-of-the-week-esque demon, the transmigrated Shen Qingqiu has no qualms into exploiting the [[Plot Armor]] surrounding the original protagonist Luo Binghe by directing the demon to try and attack the poor boy. Said attempt ends in a roof support column inexplicably collapsing above the demon, which also frees Luo Binghe and distracts the demon long enough for the boy to free Shen Qingqiu. == Video Games == * In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: ~~Skyward Sword\|The Legend of Zelda~~ Skyward Sword]]'', you find out that {{spoiler\|[[God in Human Form\|Zelda/Hylia]] herself}} exploited Link's series-common trait of [[The Determinator]]. {{spoiler\|She knew that if it meant rescuing Zelda from danger, he would go to any lengths to ensure it, without any thought of his own safety. All of this was to ensure that he would be able to wield the Triforce in order to vanquish [[Bigger Bad\|Demise]]...[[My God, What Have I Done?\|but this doesn't mean she didn't feel intense remorse for doing so,]] and, as such, [[Must Make Amends\|sealed herself in sleep for thousands of years]] to maintain the seal on Demise so that Link could have more time to permanently finish the job.}} * ''[[Vega Strike]]'' explored and exploited genre conventions for [[Some Kind of Force Field]]. Since [[Deflector Shields]] are mostly transparent, lasers are the least hindered by shields of all weapon types in VS 'verse. And if shields flash when hit, one of implications is... PESC (Photon Emission on Shield Collapse) warhead. A single shield emitter mounted on an autocannon shell or rocket is charged when shot and optimized to fail violently when it hits, converting much of its energy into a strong laser pulse. Of course, there's nothing to focus it, but it goes off right on the target's shield. Line 43 ⟶ 46: == Real Life == * [[Pink Means Feminine]] was exploited by making it the color for breast cancer awareness. Of course, men get breast cancer too (and masculine women, and gender-nonbinary people) -- the tissue's there for everyone in varying amounts. But because [[Tropes Are Flexible]], the symbol can effect public awareness of the disease more generally (although some advocates call for a dot of blue in the pink, or a half of the ribbon -- though the latter is used for [[w:pink and blue ribbon\|awareness of other medical and social issues]] too). As a counter: {{quote\|When I see pink I’m reminded of all things feminine...My delayed breast cancer diagnosis resulted in a mastectomy. There’s nothing feminine or pink about that.\|[https://powerfulpatients.org/2020/10/21/breast-cancer-awareness-month-and-its-many-shades-of-pink-and-blue Siobhan Freeney]}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Trope Tropes]]▼ [[Category:Exploited Trope]] ▲[[Category:Trope Tropes]] [[Category:Playing with a Trope]]