Plot-Sensitive Button: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Wow! Just what I needed! In fact, it would seem to me that these give me just what I need at that moment in time! Oh, I see! Context sensitive! Clever!"''|'''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'''}}

 

 

It's a decades-old geek joke that the perfect computer would only have one instruction: Do What I Want. In [[The Future]], this will be achieved, so that a character can push the same button over and over and have it do something different each time. (Often a [[Big Red Button]], but not always)

:In another ad, office supplies randomly fall from the air—until a family discovers their one-year-old happily playing with a new toy. Current commercials have people [[Magic A Is Magic A|trying (and failing) to use said EASY button for things other than office supplies]]. Staples then actually [[Defictionalization|manufactured these buttons]], which simply state "that was easy" when pressed.

 

* In ''[[Code Geass]]'' Lelouch has a switch shaped vaguely like a chess piece that serves multiple functions, ranging from remote controlling guns of a freshly hijacked mecha, detonating planted explosives, causing his [[Humongous Mecha]] to eject a container full of mini-mirrors which let him reflect his [[Evil Eye]] at improbable angles, and causing Mount Fuji to erupt. As one might expect from this example, [[Memetic Mutation]] has turned the switch into the anime equivalent of [[Batman]]'s utility belt.

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the Ganmen's controls don't have a clear connection to the operation. When asked how to operate one, Simon says you just move the levers back and forth and it does what you want.

 

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