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** Character based approaches like to build page count by separating archetypes into what boils down to [[Gender Flip|male and female]] takes on a single character...
* Can anyone say the [[Evil Overlord List]]?
* To some extent, the "nicer form" (so to speak) of counterinsurgency can be said to require this to some extent, at least to avoid a [[Zero
* Ever since Alexander the Great, there have been stories of great commanders who ate hardtack, showed off their scars and exchanged very dirty jokes with their men. Because it's a great way to remake oneself into a legendart [[Magnetic Hero]]- and this worked for Alexander back then!
* Murphy's Law, [[Finagle's Law]], [[Sturgeon's Law]] and their many variants are all intended to be this, whether you agree depends on where you stand on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]].
* Everyone at this wiki may as well count. [[Meta Concepts|The idea on its own]]. But especially in the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page sometimes. It's possible to become so savvy about the genre and the creator's themes and habits that you can predict certain revelations and plot points way before they happen. To the point that some viewer ideas are better than what the writers had planned and become a case of [[Ascended Fanon]].
* Most gamers ''usually'' become [[Genre Savvy]], especially those who specialize in playing a couple of computer or board games. This also makes some things ''easier'' for them -- such as when people learn common tricks and obstacles, or variations of them. For example, players of [[Role Playing Game|RPGs]] shall be aware of [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]] and may roll out a mage on their first quest. Players of Shmups would know common tactics that can make even new games ''much less'' frustrating. And players of [[First-Person Shooter|FPSes]] will know how weapons work and what the best situation is to use them. This, coupled with age and experience, causes many gamers to cry "[[It's Easy, So It Sucks]]".
* People who watch plenty of movies can't help but notice certain casting patterns: if it's [[Sean Bean]] - [[Chronically
* A few people in reality TV shows were often [[Genre Savvy]] -- Todd of ''[[Survivor]]'' fame, Kevin in the American ''[[Big Brother]]'', and the list goes on.
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* If you go out to eat with someone who has worked in a restaurant or another sort of commercial-scale kitchen, odds are there will be a few menu items they will vehemently tell you to avoid; they know, or at least have an idea of, the dark secrets that go into the making of these items.
* One killer on ''[[The First 48]]'' has apparently murdered his boyfriend, but had an ''extremely'' high IQ and never admitted a ''thing'' about the crime, though he did cry at one point. The detectives then had to charge him without a body, only the third time it had been done in that state. They noted how unsatisfying it was not to have proper closure.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHaiMzgCNA This guy does what any good hero should do at the beginning of a monster movie.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OB9EU_Zotc I'm sensing a theme here.]
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* This is why smart cops keep a surrendering suspect covered by at least one, preferably more, officers until he is fully secured. [[I Surrender, Suckers]] is ''real''.
* Medical professionals have heard any story you might come up with already. It's OK. You're not going to freak them out, or get judged, or anything else because, simply, no matter what kind of [[Noodle Incident]] you have gotten yourself involved in, someone else has done it before, and they probably had to at the very least study that sort of thing in school, assuming they themselves did not actually deal with a similar case the weekend before. So go ahead and tell them about how that [[Mallrats|cat]] got [[Ass Shove|stuck]].
* Subverted by Roman dictator Fabius Maximus. In order to defeat Hannibal, Fabius set up a [[Xanatos Gambit]]; Hannibal was raiding an enclosed valley at the time, and the only way out was through one of several mountain passes. Fabius put an army at each one of these passes. If Hannibal attacked any of them, the other armies would be able to converge on that area and destroy him, but if he stayed put, his army would starve. Hannibal, being the [[Magnificent Bastard]] that he was, took a [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Take a Third Option|third option]]: tying dry wood to the horns of oxen, then lighting the wood on fire and setting the oxen on the Roman positions in the middle of the night. The Romans had no idea what was going on, so they panicked and attacked Hannibal. Fabius, suspecting that this was bait for an ambush, did nothing. He was sort of right; it was an ambush, but only for the army defending the mountain pass. [[Out
* The Israeli Army issues two pairs of dog tags, one around the neck and the other worn in a pocket in the boot-just in case a soldier has his head blown off. it's mentioned at the beginning of ''Battle Los Angeles'', though with US troops.
* [[Amber Benson]], of ''[[Buffy]]'' fame, refused to return to the show once her character was killed off. Her reasoning was she knew that [[Joss Whedon]] would have done something horrible to Tara, or used her as part of a [[Plan]] to kill Willow.
* [[Useful Notes/Amish|The Amish]] may abstain from most technological conveniences, but they're hardly ignorant of the world at large. They're quite [[Genre Savvy]] about the world they live in.
* You know those warning labels on ''everything''? [[Obvious Rule Patch|In many cases, they actually have a lawsuit behind it.]] Companies learn fast, and don't forget.
* The point of science is to get [[Genre Savvy]] about how the universe works. With the proper understanding of the [[Lightning Can Do Anything|electricity]] and [[
* Half of taking an exam is knowing the answers, and half is knowing how they'll ask the questions. For example, with questions like "Here are 3 statements: explain whether they are true or false," 2 will be true and the other will be false. This gives a good shortcut to getting the right answers.
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