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They know more about the threat than anyone. Can tell the hero/heroine everything they want to know. They're a cop who's been hunting the [[Serial Killer]] for their entire career, or the [[Great White Hunter]] who knows more about dangerous animals than anyone. Perhaps [[Haunted House Historian|they're an expert on ancient curses]], or is schooled in the ways of killer robots. Whoever they are, they're the good guy's best and most reliable source of information regarding The Threat, its plans, its motivations, its patterns, its strengths, and its weaknesses. |
They know more about the threat than anyone. Can tell the hero/heroine everything they want to know. They're a cop who's been hunting the [[Serial Killer]] for their entire career, or the [[Great White Hunter]] who knows more about dangerous animals than anyone. Perhaps [[Haunted House Historian|they're an expert on ancient curses]], or is schooled in the ways of killer robots. Whoever they are, they're the good guy's best and most reliable source of information regarding The Threat, its plans, its motivations, its patterns, its strengths, and its weaknesses. |
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Unfortunately for them, they're not the hero of the story. Even more unfortunately, they're just useful enough to the hero that their death will make our heroes even more vulnerable, and their plight more dramatic. Worse still, since they're the expert on The Threat, their death by the Threat will augment the advantage the villain has over the |
Unfortunately for them, they're not the hero of the story. Even more unfortunately, they're just useful enough to the hero that their death will make our heroes even more vulnerable, and their plight more dramatic. Worse still, since they're the expert on The Threat, their death by the Threat will augment the advantage the villain has over the heroes—after all, if this Expert couldn't win against them, what shot do our non-Expert main heroes have? |
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The above may be unfortunate, but this is just embarrassing: Not only will our Expert get killed by the [[Big Bad]], but at no time in the confrontation will our Expert even pose a major challenge to the Big Bad. The Expert, (usually late in the game having imparted all their useful advice and wisdom about the threat), will be dispatched neatly, cleanly and almost effortlessly by the villain/monster/demon, making the audience wonder how in the hell this guy even lived long enough to ever become an expert on this particular threat at all. |
The above may be unfortunate, but this is just embarrassing: Not only will our Expert get killed by the [[Big Bad]], but at no time in the confrontation will our Expert even pose a major challenge to the Big Bad. The Expert, (usually late in the game having imparted all their useful advice and wisdom about the threat), will be dispatched neatly, cleanly and almost effortlessly by the villain/monster/demon, making the audience wonder how in the hell this guy even lived long enough to ever become an expert on this particular threat at all. |
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== Film == |
== Film == |
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* Robert Muldoon from ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' "knows more about Raptors than anyone" ... but is pretty quickly and easily dispatched by the raptors once they're loose when they use their standard attack pattern. One wonders if the fact he was [[Acceptable Targets|a hunter]] in a Hollywood movie might have something to do with it. In the book, it's Hammond instead, and Muldoon survives the experience after shooting the T-Rex with a rocket launcher, blowing at least one raptor in half with a shotgun and still continuing to be an untouchable [[Badass]] even after he finally gets so drunk he can barely stand. |
* Robert Muldoon from ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' "knows more about Raptors than anyone" ... but is pretty quickly and easily dispatched by the raptors once they're loose when they use their standard attack pattern. One wonders if the fact he was [[Acceptable Targets|a hunter]] in a Hollywood movie might have something to do with it. In the book, it's Hammond instead, and Muldoon survives the experience after shooting the T-Rex with a rocket launcher, blowing at least one raptor in half with a shotgun and still continuing to be an untouchable [[Badass]] even after he finally gets so drunk he can barely stand. |
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** Muldoon does have one thing in his defense: He's a hunter, not a paleontologist. He's studied the Hammond-mutated Raptors and how they reacted in captivity, but he hasn't studied their behavior in the wild. |
** Muldoon does have one thing in his defense: He's a hunter, not a paleontologist. He's studied the Hammond-mutated Raptors and how they reacted in captivity, but he hasn't studied their behavior in the wild. |
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