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* [[Roger Ebert]] did [[TV Tropes]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011143706/http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm before TV Tropes].
* Well, you've survived this long, implying that you have at least some amount of genre savviness... Or you've just had the [[Born Lucky|dumb luck]] not to walk into anything requiring said savviness.
* Anyone who's been on this site long enough has learned what to expect from Spoilers based on the sentence and Spoiler length. Sadly, this starts making spoilers quite useless. Plus, the site [[It Was His Sled|tends to make them notice recurring themes in general]]. Whether this is [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|a bad thing]] or [[Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life|not]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|may vary]].
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* Can anyone say the [[Evil Overlord List]]?
* To some extent, the "nicer form" (so to speak) of counterinsurgency can be said to require this to some extent, at least to avoid a [[0% Approval Rating]].
* Ever since Alexander the Great, there have been stories of great commanders who ate hardtack, showed off their scars and exchanged very dirty jokes with their men. Because it's a great way to remake oneself into a
* Murphy's Law, [[Finagle's Law]], [[Sturgeon's Law]] and their many variants are all intended to be this, whether you agree depends on where you stand on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]].
* Everyone at this wiki may as well count. [[Meta Concepts|The idea on its own]]. But especially in the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page sometimes. It's possible to become so savvy about the genre and the creator's themes and habits that you can predict certain revelations and plot points way before they happen. To the point that some viewer ideas are better than what the writers had planned and become a case of [[Ascended Fanon]].
* Most gamers ''usually'' become [[Genre Savvy]], especially those who specialize in playing a couple of computer or board games. This also makes some things ''easier'' for them -- such as when people learn common tricks and obstacles, or variations of them. For example, players of [[Role
* People who watch plenty of movies can't help but notice certain casting patterns: if it's [[Sean Bean]] - [[Chronically-Killed Actor|he probably won't survive]], [[Denzel Washington]]'s character gonna be real rough, and so on. While most of the time it's no big revelation, this can blow surprises when you notice that out of X characters, only 1 is played by famous actor - you naturally expect that character to turn out the most relevant. This in turn is sometimes played with by authors, when the real surprise is always intended for said recognized-face character to not have a secret or relevance in the end.
* A few people in reality TV shows were often [[Genre Savvy]] -- Todd of ''[[Survivor]]'' fame, Kevin in the American ''[[Big Brother]]'', and the list goes on.
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