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They will often try to [[Exploited Trope|take advantage of tropes]], either to fail embarrassingly (often because they're actually [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]), or to achieve remarkable feats to everyone else's astonishment. The sophisticated savvy can realize that they do not know what characters they are playing, or whether they are exactly in the same genre as the books they read.
Genre savviness sometimes occurs when [[And You Thought It Was a Game]] shows up. This is a [[Justified Trope]] in situations where the character was initially recruited for their knowledge of the genre. (''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', ''[[The Last Starfighter]]'', ''[[¡Three Amigos! (Film)|Three Amigos]]!'') It can also be justified through experience -- hopefully, after going through dozens of [[Let's You and Him Fight]] scenarios a superhero will eventually see them coming and start trying to avoid them ahead of time.
There are two finely-distinguished varieties of genre savvy. The first comes form being familiar with ''fiction.'' A good example of this is the ''Scream'' series, where the genre savvy characters are savvy because they've watched horror movies. The other kind comes from being a character in some sort of serial fiction, and ''having a good memory.'' For example, many modern comic book superhero characters exhibit a lot of savviness, simply because they can remember all the weird things that've happened to them, and thus are not surprised when yet another evil twin shows up.
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