prokopetz:

More favourite tropes:

  • Overstated warning of very minor threat
  • Understated warning of incredibly dangerous threat
  • Comically inadequate safety measures
  • Safety measures that seem comically inadequate, but actually work
  • Advisory of oddly specific danger
  • Advisory that suggests oddly specific precautions, but doesn’t say why
  • Conspicuous over-preparedness for contextually unlikely threat
  • Conspicuous under-preparedness for contextually imminent threat
  • Apparently harmless thing turns out to be dangerous
  • Apparently dangerous thing proves so, but not for the expected reason

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