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In comedy works, it sometimes happens that a character will attempt to summon their [[Mooks|minions]], [[The Reveal|reveal]] a surprise character/animal/pet, or use a creature-based attack, only to have said minions/mooks/critters show up dead or incapacitated. Why? Because the character forgot to feed them or otherwise pay for their upkeep.
 
This trope is frequently a [[Parody Satire, Parody, Pastiche|parody]], is almost always [[Lampshaded]], and is often used as a form of [[Deconstruction]] applied to other tropes, such as [[Zerg Rush]], [[We Have Reserves]], [[Summon Magic]], and [[Bee-Bee Gun]]. When it happens, it's usually to the [[Miser Advisor]], [[Jerkass]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]], or [[The Ditz]] characters, as they're presumably the kinds of people who would be too flaky or too cheap to feed the minions. The [[Butt Monkey]] or [[Cosmic Plaything]] may also suffer this fate as a natural consequence of the universe screwing with them. When it happens to an [[Evil Overlord]], it can be a result of incompetence on the part of the [[Minion with an F In Evil]].
 
Compare [[It Works Better with Bullets]], [[For Want of a Nail]]. Contrast [[Infinite Supplies]], [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]], [[Perpetual Motion Monster]]. A subtrope and subversion of [[Crazy Prepared]].
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