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** Of course, it's really a 'heads I win, tails you lose' situation; Ishtar does ''not'' [[Woman Scorned|take rejection well]], and spends the rest of the tale trying to screw Gilgamesh over in ever more creative ways. And very often succeeding.
* In the [[Framing Story]] of [[How Kazir Won His Wife]], the sorcerer implies that he got his position through [[Knights and Knaves|knowing how to deal with pairs of people of whom one always lied and the other always told the truth]]. In the [[Story Within a Story]], the king was genre savvy enough to realise that Kazir was familiar with the [[Knights and Knaves]] puzzle, so Kazir ended up [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] when the king set a slightly different puzzle.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]] features quite a few characters like this, thanks to the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]. Several of the witches, especially Granny Weatherwax, have a feel for "stories", and can use them to their own ends if they have to. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is pretty [[Genre Savvy]] when it comes to tropes of detective stories and police procedurals. Malicia from ''The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents'' is either ''too'' [[Genre Savvy]], or [[Wrong Genre Savvy|not savvy enough.]] She insists on ''always'' seeing things in terms of stories, ranging from fairy tales to [[Kid Detective]] novels like ''Tom Swift'', ''The Hardy Boys'', and ''The Famous Five'' (she even claims at one point that four kids and a dog is "the right number for an adventure"). Furthermore, she has trouble in coping with subversions and exceptions, and [[Heroic Wannabe|always makes herself out to be the main character of the "story"]]. Rincewind the Wizzard [sic], meanwhile, is very much aware of [[
** It's even the whole basis of the plot in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]''. The stories want to be told, whatever the effects on their players. Lily is arranging the city of Genua along the lines of these stories. The toymaker will be a jolly, red-faced man who whistles while he works ''if he knows what's good for him''. The servant girl will marry the prince, with the help of her fairy godmother, whoever has to get hurt along the way.
** "...Exactly one in a million?"
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