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As implied by the [[Dying Like Animals]] writeup, when this strategy fails, it fails ''hard''. Sometimes played for comic relief, as when the [[Wrong Genre Savvy|ignoring character]] ''thinks'' it's just [[Look Behind You|an attention ploy]], and they're in for [[Right Behind Me|a nasty surprise.]] |
As implied by the [[Dying Like Animals]] writeup, when this strategy fails, it fails ''hard''. Sometimes played for comic relief, as when the [[Wrong Genre Savvy|ignoring character]] ''thinks'' it's just [[Look Behind You|an attention ploy]], and they're in for [[Right Behind Me|a nasty surprise.]] |
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* The movie ''15 Minutes'' is about a pair of foreign terrorists who seek to videotape their murders, give the footage to the news, and become infamous that way. The ad campaign used the line "the only way to stop them... is not to watch." |
* The movie ''15 Minutes'' is about a pair of foreign terrorists who seek to videotape their murders, give the footage to the news, and become infamous that way. The ad campaign used the line "the only way to stop them... is not to watch." |
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* Used in the first ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'': the [[Final Girl]] actually turns her back on Freddy Krueger just as he is about to stab her, and he promptly ceases to exist. At least, until the sequel. (Or just the [[Revised Ending]], at that.) |
* Used in the first ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'': the [[Final Girl]] actually turns her back on Freddy Krueger just as he is about to stab her, and he promptly ceases to exist. At least, until the sequel. (Or just the [[Revised Ending]], at that.) |
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* ''[[Freddy VS Jason]]'' had a local [[Government Conspiracy]] involving a massive cover up of everything Freddie Krueger had done, down to interring all the surviving kids in an asylum and medicating them so they can't have dreams, because Freddie gets his power from kids being afraid of him. Freddie averts this trope by setting lose ''another'' [[Friday the |
* ''[[Freddy VS Jason]]'' had a local [[Government Conspiracy]] involving a massive cover up of everything Freddie Krueger had done, down to interring all the surviving kids in an asylum and medicating them so they can't have dreams, because Freddie gets his power from kids being afraid of him. Freddie averts this trope by setting lose ''another'' [[Friday the 13th (Film)|serial killer]], causing the kids to hear about Freddie when the [[Revealing Coverup]] begins to unravel due to the adults wondering if Freddie is back. |
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* At the end of ''[[Sphere]]'', in order to get rid of the destructive abilities the namesake Sphere had given them, the protagonists agree to use their power to make themselves forget about the Sphere and all of their activities involving it. In the original novel, at least, this works because the Sphere, by its own admission, didn't ''grant'' them these abilities -- they already had them, but it took the Sphere to make them aware of it so they could use them. Yeah, it's kind of a weird book. |
* At the end of ''[[Sphere]]'', in order to get rid of the destructive abilities the namesake Sphere had given them, the protagonists agree to use their power to make themselves forget about the Sphere and all of their activities involving it. In the original novel, at least, this works because the Sphere, by its own admission, didn't ''grant'' them these abilities -- they already had them, but it took the Sphere to make them aware of it so they could use them. Yeah, it's kind of a weird book. |
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* ''[[Untraceable]]'''s plot revolves around a website with streaming video of murders. The more hits on the website, the faster the victim dies. |
* ''[[Untraceable]]'''s plot revolves around a website with streaming video of murders. The more hits on the website, the faster the victim dies. |
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