Idiot Plot: Difference between revisions

** Carpathia's [[Techno Babble]] explanation for said disappearances is apparently accepted readily. Apparently all the scientists who would rebuke it for its inaccuracies forgot everything they knew.

** Most of Carpathia's machinations require this to work. Asking countries to destroy most of their nuclear weapons and give the remainder to him? And they fall for it?

** Honorable mention should also go to the Global Community Faith. Carpathia gets some religious leaders together, they hold a press conference announcing that as of now, all religions are now united into a new, only vaguely defined, faith. And everyone except newly converted PMD Christians and the Jews are happy to go along with it.

* Mentioned in one of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Black Widowers]]'' stories: One character mentions he's having trouble writing his story without it turning into an Idiot Plot, and was trying to find a way to prevent characters from asking the obvious question that would resolve the mystery. Their guest then causes another Idiot Plot in much the same way.

** You also have to wonder why Dumbledore didn't just {{spoiler|confront Draco the minute he learned the kid was trying to kill him. The case can be made that doing so would have wrecked Dumbledore's plan to have Snape kill him and win favor with Voldemort, but c'mon....does Rowling really expect us to believe that Dumbles KNEW Draco would smuggle Death Eaters into the school at the end of the year?}}

* Kurt Vonnegut's ''Galapagos'' doesn't just abuse this trope, but positively ''runs on it'' in its entirety. The book is basically nothing but the characters acting like utter morons and the author dropping a [[Contrived Coincidence]] in their way all the time.

 

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