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{{quote|''"Thank God we created the, [[Buffy-Speak|you know... whatever... device]]."''|'''Jeff Megall''', ''[[Thank You for Smoking]]''}}
A justified [[Trope]] is one in which, in its common usage, runs counter to the normal laws of logic and probability but in a particular instance has a concrete reason for applying to the story. In other words, a trope is '''"justified"''' if it is ''required'' by other pre-existing elements in the story—otherwise the explanation is a [[Hand Wave]].
Note that there are varying degrees of justifying a trope and a spectrum of justification from the completely logical to [[A Wizard Did It]]. For a justification to be more than just [[A Wizard Did It]], there has to be reasons that make it [[It Makes Sense in Context|make sense ''in context''.]]
Here's a couple example scenarios:
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The justified case:
* The protagonist uses a [[Power Glows|
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto|The car blew up upon crashing]] because of the nitroglycerin that was put in the trunk in an earlier episode as part of a ploy to blast through a bank vault.
Now, how would these same scenarios look if the justifications were [[Hand Wave]]s requiring you [[MST3K Mantra|to turn your brain off]]?
* The protagonist uses a
* The car blew up upon being shot because the shooter aimed for the gas tank and said he used tracer rounds ([[Fridge Logic|but wait, why would he have tracer rounds in his service pistol?]]).
A '''Justified Trope''' has common ground with [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading]] in that both often deal with tropes that are typically illogical or otherwise problematic.
Remember that a trope being justified is not about it ultimately being good or bad or effective or ineffective - it's about whether or not it ''makes sense from an in-universe point of view''. A trope can be perfectly justified and still ruin a show. Contrarily, a trope may be completely unjustified and [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|make the story better]]. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Do not assume that the existence of a trope is inherently a sign of
See [[The Watson]], whose job is to explain justifications, and [[Meta Trope Intro]], which compares this with many other ways that a trope can be used. If the Justified Trope falls short, it's a [[Hand Wave]]. If the justification just makes the illogic of the trope ''worse'', then it becomes a [[Voodoo Shark]].
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Also, [[Justified]] redirects to here. If you're looking for the FX series, you're looking for ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]''.
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