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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ritsuko from ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'' is played up as sort of a [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]] [[Crazy Prepared|/k/ommando]] taken [[Up to Eleven]], but even so her [[Survivalist Stash|ammo dump]] never seems to run dry of bullets, grenades, landmines, miscellaneous tacticool equipment or even
* Poor [[Butt Monkey|Kelly]]. Due to the fighting in ''[[Transformers]]'', robots In Disguise, she's gone through probably one fairly expensive car per ''episode'', and yet still seems to be able to get her hands on another one without any kind of insurance gouging, due to the fact that she always has something fancy.
== [[
* Most superheroes, in both cartoons and live action, are guilty of this. Sometimes it's explained, but often it isn't. [[Batman]] has Wayne Enterprises as a front to bankroll his ventures, but how does [[Superman]] afford to pay the grounds crew responsible for maintaining the Fortress of Solitude while he's living in Metropolis? Of course, it's possible to explain this away—Superman, for example, had a horde of robots he had built using his superpowers to maintain the Fortress—but most don't bother.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Culture]]'' of Ian M. Banks' novels has created a utopian, post-scarcity society through harnessing the forces of the universes' underlying "grid", apparently effortless energy-matter conversion and the inception of benevolent [[
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series, where does the gunslinger Roland get all of his bullets
** In Book 2, Roland actually does visit a gun shop in New York and stocks up. Books 5-7 feature fights with gun-wielding mooks, visits to civilized towns, and a return to New York - plenty of opportunities to re-supply.
== [[Live
* MoonBase Alpha on ''[[Space: 1999]]'' had an apparently infinite supply of Eagle Transporters. They blew up one every episode, it seemed, and never ran out.
** ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' did the same trick with Starbugs, until the reconstructed ''Red Dwarf'' in season 8 showed there were at least a dozen of them available.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' was a particularly [[Egregious]] offender. Voyager was stranded on the other side of the galaxy, far away from Federation space, but they rarely had any supply problems.
** ''Voyager'' has both played this straight and disregarded it. In the early seasons, "replicator rations" and the use of a greenhouse to grow crops on the ship were prominent subplots, along with Neelix having to scout out supplies and contacts for the crew (as he was intended to be an intermediary between the ship and other alien races for supplies). On the other hand, the ship was damaged so often and lost so many key components - including a grand total of '''16 shuttles''' - that it's hard to fathom how the ship made it back to Earth in one piece, let alone looking just as spotless as when it first set out at the beginning of the series. Later episodes like "Fury", where a time-travelling Kes causes a Vidiian warship to blow out three of Voyager's decks (in an episode set during the early seasons, when rationing and supplies were vitally important), make the ship's ability to effortlessly repair damage even more ridiculous.
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** The old ''BG'' revealed in later episodes that food ''remained'' a problem. The crew of the ''Galactica'' herself had at least adequate food (justified in that they have to be fighting-capable to keep the fleet alive), but there were a lot of hungry people on the other ships, though maybe no longer starving. When Lucifer attempted to lead the Fleet astray, we got to see some of them.
*** When the food synthesiser gets contaminated in the new BSG, getting access to an alternate supply ("the algae planet") not only provides plot fodder for a couple of episodes, but the crew of Galactica can be seen to be eating rations of slimy green goop a whole series later, in place of the ramen-esque noodles seen in earlier episodes.▼
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The 2004 reboot of ''Battlestar Galactica'']] is also very conscious of realistic supply problems for the crews of the various ships in the fleet.
** The legendary Farscape episode, "Crackers Don't Matter", revolves around the crew going slowly insane defending their stacks of tasteless crackers, the only food available on the ship.▼
▲*** When the food synthesiser gets contaminated
** Then in Farscape Season 3 they held up a bank and stole enough money that they never seem to be in short supply of anything from that point on. Interestingly enough, on the occasions that they ''are'' in need of supplies (in "Thanks For Sharing" for example), it's not because they're short on money, but because their reputation has scared potential traders off.▼
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* ''[[Farscape]]'' is likewise aware of supply issues:
▲** The legendary ''[[Farscape]]'' episode, "Crackers Don't Matter", revolves around the crew going slowly insane defending their stacks of tasteless crackers, the only food available on the ship.
▲** Then in ''Farscape'' Season 3 they held up a bank and stole enough money that they never seem to be in short supply of anything from that point on. Interestingly enough, on the occasions that they ''are'' in need of supplies (in "Thanks For Sharing" for example), it's not because they're short on money, but because their reputation has scared potential traders off.
* ''[[Firefly]]'':
** ''Firefly'' extended its aversion of this trope to the supplies that would be in demand when colonizing new planets with scarce resources. It subverted viewer expectations in the (original) pilot episode, when the valuable loot that the crew is smuggling turns out not to be precious metal or money as expected, but "protein bars" to feed new settlers—where a single bar of perhaps a pound was enough to feed a family of four for a month, and give them basic immunizations to boot. This happened again in "Shindig", when it's revealed at the end of the episode that the valuable cargo that the crew is hired to smuggle is a herd of cattle. Shepherd Book buys his way onto the ship with a valuable box of ''strawberries''.
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▲** The original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Battlestar Galactica]]'' also had farm ships that provided the fleet with food, although having a large clear dome on a craft that's rarely near a star [[Physics Goof|seems a bit pointless]].
▲*** The same applies to the Botanical Ship(s) from the new series. Strangely there is a large domed luxury liner, and under the dome there is an elabourate simulation of the sky and sunlight (though "the horizon could need work") which could have been applied to the farm ships, meaning the Colonials have a way round it, [[Fridge Logic|but don't use it]]
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': "Just repeat to yourself: 'It's just a show...'"
** Oddly enough, MST3K ''did'' explain this one with the Umbilicus that Dr. Forrester used to send stuff to Joel and the Bots. Later on, after Dr. F's funding is cut and he detaches the Umbilicus, Observer, aka Brain Guy, uses his ultra-powerful consciousness to magically pop anything Mike and the Bots need into existence.
* Despite being stuck on an island the characters on ''[[Lost]]'' never seemed to run out of supplies. Every time they came close, they'd find another source. At one point, food literally ''fell from the sky''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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