A plan will guide the plot, often an Evil Plan, hatched by the villain. Some plans are complex, with so many unforeseen events acting in concert, making it a ...

Everything is going according to plan. That one little phrase is all it takes to cause even the most apparently monumental loss to be completely turned on its ...

This trope is the reason Villains Act, Heroes React; the villain needs to be doing something evil or the hero has no evil to thwart.

Unspoken Plan Guarantee · Unspoken Plan Guarantee (trope) · "When there is a plan, things cannot go according to it. If they do, the plan becomes a spoiler.".

This escape route: it tends to be extremely humiliating and undignified, not to mention horribly disgusting to even think about.

A Sitcom plot where the characters are trying to pull off some kind of easy, straightforward operation: throw a surprise party, open a restaurant, ...

The Five-Year Plan trope as used in popular culture. After an American TV series has completed five seasons, usually about 100 episodes, it can be sold for ...

Often used to invoke an I Meant to Do That. Might also involve the plan going horribly wrong and then what caused it to go wrong yielding the intended result.

The Model Planning trope as used in popular culture. This is the use of models or Props to represent the areas used to make plans, given that such things ...

28 окт. 2021 г. · This trope covers both, the rule is that the chances of the plan working are inversely correlated to how much they talk about the plan, so ...