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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:Back-up 8235.jpg\|link=~~Comicbook/~~Identity Disc\|frame\|Plan B--sometimes it's so good, you actually want your other plans to fail.]] {{quote\|''"Next time, let's '''start''' with Plan B."'' \|'''Lexi''', \|''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]''}} A [[Stock Phrase]], generally said in the middle of an action scene when things are going wrong. There are two common forms of plan B: ''[[Screw This, I'm Outta Here\|Run like hell]]'' and ''[[Stuff Blowing Up\|Boom!]]'' Line 19: * ''[[Hex]]'' has: "Looks like a good time for Plan B. Sure do wish I had me a Plan B." Followed a few pages later by "Looks like I just found me a Plan B". * ''[[Runaways]]'' gives us "We always use plan B. Why don't we just make it plan A?" * There's this great exchange in an issue of ''[[~~Archies~~ Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)\|Sonic: Universe]]'', where Shadow the Hedgehog and his "Team Dark" attempt to get a Chaos Emerald from the God-Panda currently lording over them in the "Special Zone." After failing the mini-game, Omega turns to Shadow and asks if it's time for plan B. Shadow answers in the affirmative and Plan B basically comprises entirely of Omega unloading his entire arsenal, which makes up over half of his total mass, in the God-Panda's face. {{quote\|'''Omega''': "I like Plan B."}} * In the American Manga ''[[Vampire Cheerleaders]]'', the leader is thwarted in using her [[Kiss of the Vampire\|bite]] to alter the mind of the boy who announced he will expose them. Line 38: * In the ''[[Harry Potter]]/[[Sailor Moon]]/[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic ''[[The Girl Who Loved]]'', {{spoiler\|[[Gender Bender\|Mary Riddle]]}} can't figure out a "Plan A" for getting into Harry and Usagi's heavily-protected wedding, and is stuck with several Plans B and C, none of which she likes. == [[Film]] ~~-- Animated~~ == * Lampshaded in ''[[Wizards]]'', when [[Mook]] 1, having seen that Plan A (machine gunning hostages) doesn't work, announces "Now for Plan B!" "What's Plan B?" asks Mook 2. "You'll see." And he blows up the temple. But they forgot to go outside first. ~~== [[Film]] -- Live Action ==~~ * ''[[Hudson Hawk]]''. The title character apparently kills Tommy Five-Tone, so the Mayflowers can't use Tommy to convince him to work for them. Minerva Mayflower turns to her operative George Kaplan: {{quote\|'''Minerva''': Plan B, George. Line 170 ⟶ 168: == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[[Adventurers!]]'' subverts it in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100628012129/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20060225.html this strip] because Plan B is just failure. * Belkar has a tendency to comment on this trope in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''; in one strip he said "Run like hell" had always struck him as plan A, and later he spent a series of strips announcing the letter of every new plan his teammates came up with. {{quote\|'''Belkar''': Didn't we go through this already? We're on like plan Q. ... And plan R starts to take form.}} Line 241 ⟶ 239: * In one episode of ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', Junko is hypnotized to become more aggressive to take part in a wrestling tournament. Unfortunately, Junko's new personality [[Becoming the Mask\|causes him to forget about his teammates]], and when Aerrow is forced into the ring by Cyclonis, Finn has forgotten the words to undo the hypnosis. {{quote\|'''Finn:''' Anybody got a plan B?}} * In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)\|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode “Nano”, Donatello’s first plan to stop the piecemeal robot controlled by the out-of-control [[~~Nano Machine~~Nanomachines]]s [[Kill It With Fire\| (using a welding torch on it)]] fails, so he goes to plan B, knocking it into a car compactor. But that doesn’t work either. Raphael tells him he really hopes he has a plan-C, and [[Crazy Prepared\| Donatello actually does]], which consists of grabbing it with a magnet crane and dumping it in a vat of molten steel, which works. [[Only Mostly Dead\| Until it comes back next the season, that is.]] * In the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R.", Sector V tries to sneak up on [[It Makes Sense In Context\| the coffee drilling rig]] with Lenny's help in a helicopter by impersonating the Delightful Children's voices, but the villains are onto them. When Lenny nervously asks if they have a plan-B, Numbuh One responds that they "always have a plan-B!" and then hits a button on the dashboard labeled "Plan-B", causing the helicopter to transform into the [[Fun ~~With~~with Acronyms\| S.U.B.S.T.A.N.D.A.R.D.]], a 2x4 Technology submarine. Unfortunately, that doesn't work very well either. == [[Real Life]] == Line 256 ⟶ 254: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Time for Plan B~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Improvised Index]] [[Category:Stock Phrases]] [[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Time for Plan B]]