Impossible Item Drop: Difference between revisions

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== Action Adventure ==

* In the ''Zelda'' series, most enemies (and [[Die Chair Die|random objects like pots or bushes]]) drop rupees, arrows, bombs, magic potion vials, and hearts at random. Even better, whenever you get a new item (bow, bomb bag, slingshot, etc...) that consumes something, whatever it is suddenly starts appearing everywhere in spite of its not showing up before.

* In the ''Zelda'' series, most enemies (and [[Die, Chair, Die!|random objects like pots or bushes]]) drop rupees, arrows, bombs, magic potion vials, and hearts at random. Even better, whenever you get a new item (bow, bomb bag, slingshot, etc...) that consumes something, whatever it is suddenly starts appearing everywhere in spite of its not showing up before.

** As a [[Lampshade Hanging]], ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap]]'' states that tiny little people called Picori hide useful items in random places in order to make life easier.

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', there's no bomb bag, and bombs start dropping from pots or random monsters as soon as you leave the Sanctuary. Arrows, too, though they're useless until you get the bow.

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== Real Time Strategy ==

* The enemies in ''[[Warhammer 40 K]] [[Dawn of War]] 2'' randomly drop various articles of [[Space Marine]] weaponry, armor, attribute-enhancing Purity Seals and other stuff. While it could be justified for the Orks, who are notable plunderers and looters, and even for the Eldar who might just happen to be carrying these things back to their base to study, but it is entirely confusing for the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranids]], who have no need for such things and no means to ''carry'' them. And there is still a question of why and, most importantly, how would they lug around armor plates from a [[Mini Mecha]] Dreadnought?

* The enemies in ''[[Warhammer 40 K]] [[Dawn of War]] 2'' randomly drop various articles of [[Space Marine]] weaponry, armor, attribute-enhancing Purity Seals and other stuff. While it could be justified for the Orks, who are notable plunderers and looters, and even for the Eldar who might just happen to be carrying these things back to their base to study, but it is entirely confusing for the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranids]], who have no need for such things and no means to ''carry'' them. And there is still a question of why and, most importantly, how would they lug around armor plates from a [[Mini-Mecha]] Dreadnought?

** Tyranids eat literally everything, and have no internal digestive system -- they instead leap into digestion pools created by Tyrannoforming so the Hive Fleet can reclaim the raw materials. Presumably, the items they drop are whatever made it through being eaten intact enough to salvage.

** It was then [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] as being "released from the Blood Raven vaults" as reward instead. But the question of ''how'' some of these items reached the chapter vaults in the first place led to the [[Kleptomaniac Hero|Bloody Magpies]] [[Me Me]].

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== [[Stealth Based Game]] ==

* ''[[Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' does this. Oh, sometimes it is reasonable, like guards holding crossbow bolts or bullets - [[Real Life]] soldiers do hold onto ammo - or Borgia messengers holding onto rare [[Vendor Trash]] that might well be what they are supposed to be transporting. However, when guards pack poison vials or the random pickpockets are also holding onto rare [[Vendor Trash]], it gets less plausible.

* ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' does this. Oh, sometimes it is reasonable, like guards holding crossbow bolts or bullets - [[Real Life]] soldiers do hold onto ammo - or Borgia messengers holding onto rare [[Vendor Trash]] that might well be what they are supposed to be transporting. However, when guards pack poison vials or the random pickpockets are also holding onto rare [[Vendor Trash]], it gets less plausible.

** It's even worse in ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations (Video Game)|Revelations]],'' when bomb components are added. Why, exactly, would a halberd-wielding palace guard be carrying deadly poisonous datura powder?

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Guards tend to confiscate things from criminals they apprehend, and a pickpocket could have anything depending on who was the last person they stole from.]]

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