The World Is Not Ready/Playing With: Difference between revisions

* '''Subverted''': The magical wards that prevent Muggles from noticing the [[Wizarding School]] break down, but rather than the expected mass panic, people are more excited about it.

* '''Double Subverted''': But once they find out that no, not ''everybody'' can attend and get the gift, they get upset and turn on the school.

** A [[Mad Scientist]]'s boss has got so used to his inventions uprooting society that he keeps him in a dungeon and covers up everything he does out of paranoid terror. "[[The World Is Not Ready]] for horeseradish sauce in squeezy bottles!"

* '''Deconstructed''': Humanity discovers FTL radio and travel and learns about their world's long and rich history of being screwed with, invaded and nearly destroyed by aliens. As a result, mankind becomes extremely untrusting of galactic civilization at large.

** The [[Powers That Be|Powers That Be's]] insistence on this trope turns it into a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Humanity was meant to be kept in the dark, by ignorance or force, since they are inherently a curious race, and if they were able to utilize [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|FTL travel to it's fullest]], the universe itself would be doomed by the [[Eldritch Abomination|evil forces]] humanity would accidentally release.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The normal [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] organization that the [[Five-Man Band]] goes up against on occasion is shown as being competent enough to handle the threats in question and more concerned about the public, however they remain [[Locked Out of the Loop]].

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