Halfway through the first chapter of ''FireEmblem: The Blazing Sword'', this troper asked his brother "Is this Lyn a lost princess or something?" Not a particularly amazing guess, but nevertheless impressed the shit out of my brother.

There's a joke, "I'm gonna kill millions of jews and one clown." The expected response is "Why the clown," to which someone else replies, "See? No one cares about the jews!" {{Haven}} was savvy enough to reply "Why the millions of jews?"

If that were me, I'd just respond with "See? No one cares about killing a clown!"

What about Jewish Clowns?

Still nobody would care.

If you where truely Genre Savvy the answer would be "Why kill anyone?" if you where Genre Savvy, but never got a joke then you would kill the person in a way that no one knew it was you.

My response would be "Nobody cares about the clown."

This Troper once responded to this, "What if the clown's Jewish, too?"

This Troper always tells his friends about events as if life were a high-school soap opera. Things like saying "So this episode is about their relationship" or "Man, the writers are terrible." Combines with BreakingTheFourthWall

Thanks to this site and his father, this troper is now genre savvy enough to tell just why something in a movie is off.

So, pretty much, TV Tropes ruined your life?

It may be pessimism/mistrust rather being GenreSavvy, but this troper tends to know when something will either go wrong or to be suspicious of certain things before they happen. Unfortunately, she still gets caught being GenreBlind on the odd occasion, usually in terms of romance and out-of-the-blue actions.

This isn't strictly speaking a ''personal'' tale, but still fits in RealLife. GenreSavvy is arguably a synonym for "street smart," in the sense of knowing the various ways in which others will try to rip you off, whether using common distractions to pick your pocket (e.g. the "squirt mustard on you and offer to clean it off" trick) or tricking you via e-mail into giving them access to your bank account.

You know, the Nigerian Prince got my bank account number, and the transaction ACTUALLY worked! I don't get why everyone's always all up in his business all the time. Seriously... Ehrm... He just asked if anyone wants to e-mail me their bank info- so he can do the same for you! Totally legit!

This troper is really weirdly good at making sarcastic predictions for the immediate future. For instance, I'll say "Hey, you know, I bet that just because I didn't bring my textbook to class today, we're gonna use it." And it will happen 80% of the time. It's quite creepy. Also, in the multiple choice tests when you have more than one answer that could be right, it's the one you think it couldn't be.

Happens to this Troper too. Me saying "I bet the subway will get stuck in the tunnel" while in a hurry has been followed by it actually happening so many times I actually avoid saying it these days. And it really does seem to happen a lot less often, which I find rather hilarious. I even found myself wondering if I’m a subway Butt Monkey at one point.

Happens to this troper also. I work in a pizzeria, and it seems that whenever I think of a regular customer who hasn’t ordered for a while, said customer is the next person to order. If only I could use this prognostication ability to my benefit…

This Tropette's school has multiple doors, all of which are always locked for some reason. The second I leave to go check the other doors, someone comes to unlock the door I was just at. Most recently, I half-jokingly offered to go check the other door, because then someone with a key would come. I was right.

Once a guy brought cookies to our english class. Our english teacher also made cookies once in a blue moon, so once the boy brought cookies, I immediately knew the teacher was bringing cookies as well. She did.

This troper has never had a boyfriend, because any guy she meets gets an immediate trope analysis, and she tends to meet too many Deadpan Snarkers with whom she would not be compatible. I didn't even realize I did this until I found this site. That's how sad I am.

Well, then, maybe you could go turn to the other team if you can? Just a thought.

I, {{@/Jonn}}, once commented on ScottMcCloud's blog, thus; #QUOTE#'''Jonn''':I don't know who that girl is, but she's cute.\\ '''[=McCloud=]''': Which girl? This thread is drowning in girls!\\ '''Jonn''': The picture outside the cut. This one, which is undoubtedly your daughter and now I will be horribly embaressed.\\ '''[=McCloud=]''': Yup. That's Sky.

Your words are confusing, though I figured the same thing by the fact that he actually had that pic.

Well, he was at a college; it could easily have been a shot of a fan. However, I've also got a nearly-perfect Bridget-Sense, at least when not in real life. (I've had little chance to test it thus, for obvious reasons.) I was able to figure out the lead singer of Tokio Hotel was a really pretty dude after a five-second clip on TRL.

My siblings and I used to watch TV by predicting the plot twists as soon as possible. My big brother asserted that he could easily be a writer.

Also, I seem to be one of the few people who actually checks reviews before going to see movies, even if they're popular. Hence, when RottenTomatoes said ''{{Avatar}}'' was basically a summer action movie with excellent visuals and a mediocre story, that's ''exactly'' what I went in expecting. And it was, an I enjoyed it as such. So when the people suffering from HypeBacklash complain about how the movie was "hyped" like it was the "best movie ever", I just FacePalm.

"That should be a trope" is the new catchphrase of this troper about...Well, almost anything

This troper does that as well.

Same for this troper! We need a club!

Having worked at [=McDonald's=], this troper always informs people not to leave the window and demand their food when the food is delayed. Because moving the drive through is more important than moving the lines inside, they get the job quicker. He has been the unfortunate person to have to hand food to parked cars that have been waiting for a good hour and are generally pissed about it.

This troper went into the woods with a friend once and proceeded to become less sober. After a til dawn discussion about the nature of humanity and tearful confessions of past abuse she lamented to her friend 'I'm not in a goofy college movie! It's one of those depressing indy flicks'.

Is this troper bad for wishing that there were more endings where the heroes lost more than one party member, didn't inevitably pair the good looking smart guy with the plain looking heroine, or didn't succeed at all?

This troper is able to predict future events based on the will of the Irony Gods. rule: the Irony Gods WILL screw you over in the most amusing way possible. The way to beat them is to make them do it in your favour... for instance, study really hard for that test coming up. stress about that test. Put your cartoon-watching schedule on hold, because that test is gonna be a killer. If you do this, the Irony Gods will make the test incredibly easy, just to make your effort worthless, and you will pass. If you don't do this, the test will be incredibly difficult, and you will fail. (Some people would argue that studying is what made the test easy, but they're just in denial.)

This is extremely true. This Troper has actively tried to make the most ironic result of some situations be the most beneficial to herself. It's quite funny how often it works. For example, the best way to pass a test after you've actually taken it is to make over-the-top complaints on how you most definitely failed it - the grade will nearly always end up way better than you first expected. Of course, there's the downside of looking like a cocky whiner to those who got lower grades than you... But sometimes the sacrifice is worth it.

LIES! This Troper did an exam yesterday. How did it go? AWESOME! How much did he study? BUGGER ALL!

ThisTroper has never studied an hour in his life, and has never failed a test. ( Except for one teacher who specifically tried to make me.)

This troper notices the same thing, and that it sometimes is ironically ironic, I.E. the god of irony are as genre savvy as me. The solution? Rig it so that the outcome is ''un''ironic, if you can tell which of the gods is on shift.

Did you ever think that the test might be ridiculously easy if you study for it ''because you studied?'' And hard ''because you didn't?''

Well, somebody hasn't taken that many tests, then.

This editors brother is so GenreSavvy, that it is borderline scary. I once complained to him that I hate the slackers on my class and I'll proceed to do the final project myself. His answer to me: "Look, don't do that, or otherwise you'll have to choose a new theme, which means you'll have to do more work, but you're so lazy that you won't get it done and you are too arrogant to ask help so you'll papers will get late, which means more work and crying, swearing and frustration for you." I didn't listen his advice. Guess what happened. And that isn't the only case. To extension I'm also quite GenreSavvy, once I stop and take few minutes to think what the heck I'm doing.

During the last election, this troper discovered further evidence that he is a character in a sitcom: the likelihood of the caller at the door being an attractive, idealistic young campaign volunteer was inversely proportional to whether I was wearing pants. This caused me to start wearing pants out all times out of paranoia, at which point the veritable flood of cute campaign volunteers ceased entirely.

Oh, I loved that episode!

This troper recommends the opposite course of action: NEVER wear pants. Then you'll get nothing but cute campaign volunteers, AND you've already got your pants off. Head start!

A general rule of thumb: if a teacher/professor/speaker/whatever asks a question with a seemingly obvious answer, answer the opposite, because they set it up as a trick. Especially helpful when they encourage you into an action to set you up into an annoying YouBastard speech. Unfortunately, for this troper, some of them have wisened up.

This troper also happened to come across an interestingly worded link on the CrowningMusicOfAwesome page. Instead of merely clicking it, he typed in the YouTube code on Google. Sure enough, it was the infamous Rickroll.

This troper has seen the link enough that I have basically memorised the link.

Several weeks ago, this troper was at a concert (one with assigned seating) with several of his dorm-mates. One of them had mentioned that some online acquaintances were also coming to the concert. This troper semi-sarcastically remarked "Watch them have the seats right in front of us -- then I will ''know'' my life's a sitcom." Guess what?

This troper is intentionally trying to be WrongGenreSavvy; he regularly asks regions a camera could potentially be hidden, "What do you, the viewers at home, think?" as though his life is a bad reality TV series.

Wait, there are ''good'' reality TV series?

Good question. What about...uh...well...there has to be one ''somewhere'', right?

There was one. It was called "The Intercept" and it was badass. The contestant was given a car with a tracking device in it, and had to evade the police until time was up. If they could do it, they kept the car. The police would do everything that they would normally do to stop a thief. They wouldn't shoot, but they would pistol whip the poor bastard if they caught up with him. The contestants did some crazy things to escape. One person drove his car into an open boxcar on a moving train. The only person who ever won was the guy who managed to break the tracking device.

Upon the conclusion of the Steelers vs. Cardinals SuperBowl, this troper informed her father, "If this were a movie, the Cardinals would have won. Or wait... maybe not..."

This troper awoke one morning and watched an incredibly heavy, almost alarming fog roll slowly into her small suburban town. On the phone with a friend, she remarked, "I wonder if this is the day my life turns into a video game..." (Sadly, no.)

It's kind of sad, really, that whenver a serious, dramatic trope occur's in this troper's life, she cannot for the life of her take anything seriously and begins pointing it out, making jokes about it, and laughing. This applies to lots of tropes because for the life of me I can't stop looking and seeing them.

This troper has heterchromia when it comes to this; one eye is Genre Savvy, and the other is either WrongGenreSavvy or an IdiotBall.

Invest in an EyepatchOfPower.

This Troper keeps getting herself in and out of trouble at school, thanks to the power of GenreSavvy. The secret: Whatever you do, don't ever think you're safe. Because when you do, the universe will think you're fine and leave you to solve your own problems. All you need to do is constantly worry until you're absolutely sure things have cleared up.

Funny story about this one. After a field trip in high school several of us decided to skip the last period. The whole time I was paranoid that we'd get caught by the cops (who seem to always be around at the worst times). By the middle of the next week all of us were calming down since we seemingly had escaped notice, but stayed alert until we were positive that they weren't going to bust us.

... Is it possible for a Troper to ''not'' be fairly genre savvy?

Not really. It's what either brings us here, or a result of being here.

This Troper made a comic superhero whose main power was being genre savvy. He could predict nearly anything a villain would do before they could, which led to the in-universe belief that he was actually psychic and somehow didn't know it.

GenreSavvy runs in this troper's family. We have {{averted}} many, many sit-com hijinks and SoapOpera difficulties this way. The best story involves a bottle of gatorade mixed with my mother's laxatives, my father' love of gatorade... and a ''very clearly placed label,'' after my mother muttered "this is too much like the set-up for a sit-com episode..." (DoubleSubverted when I decided to let the neighborhood pest drink some anyway.)

The mathematical search engine Wolfram|Alpha was debuted to large media attention... during a thunderstorm. Several people pointed out that activating a revolutionary new computer system during a lightning storm has generally not gone well in the past.

When this troper's grandfather (whose wife, the troper's grandmother, died nearly a year before this) began seeing one of his female childhood friends, the troper's father was GenreSavvy enough to realize "this might bother his grandkids if they just suddenly find out about it when we go to visit next week" and decided to break the news to them in advance, with a clearly well-thought-out speech emphasizing how it was what their grandmother would want, he still loved her, this would make him happy, etc. The troper himself, being equally GenreSavvy if not more so, figured out nearly everything from the first sentence or two, and ended up bored as he waited for TheReveal, even pointing out afterward that he'd "seen this episode of everything ever" and had already internalized the concept to the point that it didn't really bother him.

Same here. A month ago (March 2010, for when it's no longer a month ago) my dad told us that our grandma had begun seeing old relatives. Both me and my brother both responded that we knew where this was going, which is why we weren't too surprised at what happened a short time later (I'm sure I don't need to explain further).

This troper saw ''{{The Matrix}}'', about which she knew zero, for the first time the other day with some friends and was able to accurately suss out, among other things, which character was TheMole, which character would survive the EverybodysDeadDave, and ''several exact lines'' before they actually happened on screen. But it was when she got frustrated and yelled "Well, if they can manipulate the Matrix to have super-bullet-dodging-powers, why don't they just stop the goddamn bullets in midair instead of dodging them!" that everyone gave her funny looks. TVTropesWillRuinYourLife indeed.

Whenever this troper goes to the cinema with family or friends, she knows she's going to have to apologize to them afterwards -- she'll basically do just what the Troper above did with ''TheMatrix'', out loud, and people will be ''very'' pissed at her. Which is why she has stopped watching movies at the cinema entirely.

This Troper started out doing something he calls the Countdown. He starts from 5 and expects something to happen when he gets to 1 when watching a movie. He can also accurately predict what his friends think, feel, and what they're going to do, and uses this to his advantage making him a bit of a Manipulative Bastard.

This troper gets funny looks sometimes when she predicts how her friends' latest adventure will probably turn out...and turns out to be right. She also gets funny looks for her friends when she knows things they never told her (or anyone else, for that matter). It's all because, when she isn't being {{Wrong Genre Savvy}} (which is just as often), she is extremely genre savvy.

This troper is a habitual MagnificentBastard who knows what he is doing, and, when I was confronted by a few enemies(who even mentioned some parallels between Light Yagami and I) about if I was the guy who had introduced a bunch of new rules in a class, I smirked and said, "You'd expect that I would burst into villain breakdown and say that I am Kira, that only I can do this, and this and that. No, I am not the guy who did this, and if I was, I would not be killed by a few seconds and a monologue that would get me killed by the Matsuda among you." They walked off, grumbling something about if I knew they were coming

Do our actions in video games count? Because I've got one from when some friends and I were playing Dirge of Cerberus. We get to the endgame, cutscenes out the wazoo, and my buddy decides to skip. During the loading screen after he hit the skip button, I say "You know it's just going to go to another cutscene, right?" Sure enough...

In/around sixth grade, this troper was sitting on the swing sets, when suddenly two classmates of his started arguing, and they were starting to get pretty steamed. He knew these two classmates were best friends, even to the point of looking alike, and so he immediately jumped out of the swing and shouted something along the lines of, "Stop! If you don't you two will switch bodies to find out what the other's life is like! They looked at me funny, talked with each other for a few moments about how much of a weirdo I was, then walked off together, one with her arm across the other's shoulders, of this troper recalls correctly. This, of course, was my plan all along...

This troper had a dream recently. He seems to be genre savvy enough to say: "I share my room with a two-headed man, a giant squirrel and a girl who stepped out of one of my writings. Damn, my life is a {{Webcomic}}!". (It must definitely count that he usually knows when he is dreaming... and yes, his dreams can get pretty weird)

This troper is almost psychically aware of when people are about to say or do something stupid (fiction and real life). Also, sometimes I can tell not only when a trope will come into play, but if it will be subverted (as in "no way they will let a straight use of that trope happen, this main character would die!").

In this troper's book, the main character comes across a lab with a massive self destruct button. he muses on how it is obviously designed to be an alarm... then pushes it, just so he can have fun massacring the guards.

This troper was out driving in his permit. My dad told me to pull into the gas station. There where two cops coming out of the station. Instantly I thought "Oh crap! This is going to be a 'Funny story 20 years from now' event isn't it?" Thankfully I pulled in perfectly.

Much to the annoyance of my friends, I have taken to shouting "SEQUEL HOOK!" At the end of just about every movie I see. I've been wrong once.

I have been less lucky; when I watched ''CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'', I had a perfect idea how it was going to end ... and was completely and utterly wrong, because it was a Chinese movie, not an American one. (And for the record, I would have preferred a "cliched" happy ending to the actual one.)

This troper actually liked ''HouseOfFlyingDaggers'' (another Chinese martial arts film) precisely ''because of'' the tragic ending - not to mention the action and the breathtaking Chinese scenery as well as ZhangZiyi (this troper, while a white Australian, tends to have a very keen interest for quite a few Chinese and other Asian women - but '''not''' for the usual stereotypical reasons, people...) He does get sick of the usual trite Hollywood happy endings sometimes. By the way, this troper made sure he was watching it in Mandarin with the English subtitles (he's almost always on the Subbing side of the SubbingVersusDubbing wars...)

This troper has an absolutely fantastic memory because he often forgets things. Paradox? Nah. I realize I'm going to forget stuff and I write it down. "Hm. Well we've got all of the shopping, but I have the feeling there's something else I need to-" "Milk"

This troper refuses to watch any sort of movie involving romance, since she can always guess the exact outcome.even in the rare few that don't set them selves up in the standard "he'll get the girl in the end" way.

When this troper was twelve, she in the woods playing Spotlight, a game played with torches [flashlights in America] at night, she wandered too far from the other kids, and somehow got turned around. Lost in the forest, in the dark, by herself, she was handling it okay for the first few minutes... Then she tripped and broke her torch, and promptly started getting really terrified that a psycho with a mask and some kind of sharp weapon was going to appear. There was also a mysterious light that was flashing every so often, and she was wondering if that would turn out to be aliens who would abduct her or something. Eventually she found her way back, though, without any psycho killers chasing her, and the flashes of light turned out to be lightning, even though it hadn't rained, and for some reason that possibly defies the laws of nature, there was no thunder either. Perhaps it was too far away to hear?

Sheet lightning doesn't produce thunder.

This Troper vows to respond to any {{Henway}} with "Would you care to tell me what exactly a henway is?" and any Longgenericinsultsayswhat? with "Come again?" Hasn't happened yet, though...

The first time this troper heard that one, he didn't see the joke coming, but still responded: "Define Henway" and has used that as his stock response to the gag ever since.

This Troper once read an e-mail with this little gem in it: "The probability of dropped toast landing jelly-side down is directly proportional to the price of the floor/carpet." In other words, the more expensive the flooring, the more likely you are to stain it.

This Troper and his friends are GenreSavvy enough that we've stopped trying to explain problems in TV or video games. "Because the writers said so," is pretty much our catch phrase. There have been numerous occasions where we've predicted something while watch TV.

For this Troper, it has been both played straight and subverted. It's been played straight in anything this troper views, be it tv, books, comics, commercials, etc to the point of very few things entertaining me (happened before tv tropes entered her life, mind you) as well as being the only one who predicted that one of her guy bff's and his girlfriend would get back together (a long and complicated story that I don't mind explaining). It's subverted in that anything I might predict about myself never happens or happens differently.

This troper predicted the ratings machine ''all the time'' in ''{{Survivor}}'' and ''knew'' Russell was incredibly lucky to have a bunch of players who didn't even BOTHER searching for the hidden immunity idol when they practically gave them all a map to it. He just ''knows'' CBS will try and slant the show to keep Russell on as much as possible, and that the ''next'' person to try Russell's game will have to do it even ''better'' if they don't wanna be blindsided when they're not needed or thrown off early. Obviously - you can tell this troper would make a rather boring Survivor player because he'd pretty much sit around the camp all month in a pair of shorts and a swimsuit hidden under his sweatpants and with two sets of clothes, watching the idiots running around in spaghetti straps complaining how cold it is and failing at making a fire, or try and become the Fan Favourite - because they'd ''always'' try and slant the show towards the Fan Favourite. He'd also be even ''more'' boring in ''BigBrother'' because he would, like Sharon and Kevin, sit around the house all summer and start playing much harder when everyone's done yelling at each other.

this troper was visiting collages with her mom in Chicago. After navigating though hevy traffic, mom said something along the lines of "Well, it looks like we didnt lose too much time" I yeled at her to stop, because that ment we would get lost or something. Sure enough we spent the next 45 minutes driving around Chicago trying to find Northwestren because google maps failed us. We ended missing the tour.

This troper is ridiculously so. I am somehow able to predict what plot twists are about to be revealed in the first few seconds of every episode of every american TV show I watch even when I'm not a fan of it. It's bordering on precognition really and lately it seems to be working for real life too.

This troper has an incredible case of this in video games. It's quite useful. I quickly gathered such things as to max Nanako's Social Link early, something's gonna take her out of the picture, Make note of the first Pokemon you see a Team Rocket/Aqua/Magma/Galactic grunt use because you'll be fighting that a lot, be nice to Jowan because he'll end up a party member (it counts because he almost was), the Shadow in Sonic Heroes is real becaus eall evidence points to the contrary, and his personal favorite, the entire Law of Video Game Religions:

If a religion is an important part of the story, it is either evil or incorrect, or at least inconclusive (until sequels make them evil/wrong). The exception is a cult. Cults are permitted to be right: However, they are required to be evil regardless of if they are or not. only one series has broken the 'evil cult' rule, and only another series has had a religion important to the story that is proven right.

This troper managed to blunt the pain of a divorce with a combination of GenreSavvy and a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as his ex-wife was packing up to leave. Said I: "I already know how this story's going to end. I'm going to meet a girl right at the moment I think everything's hopeless. A couple of awkward initial dates and an amazing amount of patience on her part will lead to one of those stories of redemption like every chick flick you've ever seen. Fast forward a few years and I'm going to be one of those Little League dads with awesome kids and somewhere around the 'this would've been my 20th wedding anniversary with my first wife' point I'm going to look back and think 'what was I thinking back then marrying my first wife, a petty, vindictive, manipulative person who was only good for one thing and wasn't all that good at that.' And I'm going to kiss my wife and hug my kids and they're going to ask 'why the good mood?' and all I'll be able to tell them is that life is awesome and it's awesome to be able to share it with the people I love. Roll credits, fade to fucking black." And mark my words, I believe every word.

This troper sincerely hopes that you are not WrongGenreSavvy.

This troper, while watching ''Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel", correctly guessed that a character in a wheelchair would be hospitalized within seconds of seeing that she was near a staircase. He also guessed that Toby would, at some point, jump on stage and fill in for a missing chipmunk in front of his high school crush, which would make her immediately fall in love.

When this troper first saw the trailer to {{Marley and Me}}, I instantly (and correctly) predicted "That dog is gonna die". Apparently, you can still like the movie even though EVERYONE is telling you how sad it is. I didn't see it, I just walked in during the ending. I shoulda bet 5 bucks.

This troper's mom was watching some random Disney Channel Original Movie one afternoon (I don't know which one it was), when there was a scene with a girl climbing on a shelf stocked with buckets of worms. I randomly popped off "That shelf is going to fall over, and when help arrives, she'll be covered in soil and worms". Guess what happens a few seconds later...

This troper can most of the time predict what's going to happen in a movie after watching it for a few minutes unless it has a really big plot twist.

This troper's family has a standing rule: when you go out and there's even a slight chance of rain, bring an umbrella so that it ''doesn't'' rain. You know what? It works.

This troperette's friend Kaycee seems to have a knack for this. Once, we were stuck in the rain, and a homeless guy was right next to us. #QUOTE#Me: We should probably give him some monetary compensation for his various losses... #QUOTE#Kaycee: Food. He needs food. 'Cause if we give him some money, then the mafia will come knockin' round his door. Stay here. Hey, do you think noodles are cheap? Sure enough, she had bought food for him. I learned later that same day that the beggar used to be Dad's friend who was involved in the mafia.

I did it again. We were watching an episode of TheClevelandShow (I never saw it before), and this Holt guy seemed to murder his mother. Me? I said, "Betting he didn't murder his mom." A few minutes later, my prediction came true: was a sex doll. Then Cleveland tried to get the guy a real girl. "DomesticAbuser," I said. Again, came true. Gorram you TVTropes!

Tell me any sort of plan, offer me something to do or anything like that and I will predict possible outcomes for you. It goes something like: "I see three possibilities here: either, it is going to be absolutely awesome, it is going to fail miserably or it will be sort of mediocre and noone will remember." Come to think of it, it is a bit like what Adam sometimes does on Mythbusters before they start a test.

This Troper's mother is bizarrely good at predicting things in movies. This can range from guessing twists and events that have hardly been foreshadowed at all, to saying a character's line during the dramatic pause ''before'' said line (albeit sometimes a paraphrase). It takes something really special to catch her offguard.

Real-life {{Fetch Quest}}s throw me off a little. I once tried to apply for a job at a place run by a nice old man who'd lost the guidebook for some of the software on his computer. He said if I could work the software, he'd give me a job. Turned out the software is ''really complicated'' and the guidebook costs over $30. To this day, it makes me worry I'm still stuck on that level or won't get 100% completion or something... so, yeah, I may be a little WrongGenreSavvy.

This troper was playing Bayonetta with his brother watching. I shit you not, within thirty seconds of meeting Cereza; #QUOTE# Brother: Oh my God, it's Bayonetta as a child! *when asked how he came to this - correct- conclusion* "It's the glasses."

This troper was talking with her friends about the recent release of ''Avatar'' on DVD. I explained to them that I had never bothered watching the movie because I felt that I already knew how it would end. When asked to make a prediction, I had to assure my friends that I really had never seen the movie after responding with the following: #QUOTE#'''Me:''' The humans will try to get the mineral that's under the aliens' village and they'll all have a big epic fight and the aliens will somehow win, even with their less sophisticated weapons, and the main character will probably fall in love with some alien chick and decide to stay on the alien planet.

When doing group projects for school, I also tend to be pretty genre savvy when it comes to figuring out who's actually going to do their work. Several times now, I've predicted that someone would not do their share (doing a particular amount of research, finishing some PowerPoint slides, bringing candy, etc.), and proceeded to surreptitiously do it for them, just in case I end up correct. My intuition is nearly always right with this, although this is one situation in which I would prefer to be proven wrong more often....

Can't watch CSI with my parents anymore. Can't watch anything where the characters have a big reveal at the end, with a chance of someone monologuing on how they did it, with flashbacks. Unfortunately, my parents can't do anything, because I taught them the concept of Chekhov's Gun. Any character who's interviewed for less than a minute is usually the BigBad. The protagonist will always wait to the very last second before leaving a bomb scene so that the production team can justify burning that much gasoline to create the explosion. Said protagonist will not duck, or cower. Anyone less badass than him in the vicinity will.

This troper can ''finally'' call herself GenreSavvy. She was watching television with her dad when an anime movie called Sword For Truth came on. Five minutes in a giant tiger shows up and starts munching on RedShirts. A mysterious man walks up to th tiger. She suggested the man would easily cut the tiger in half. Her dad predicted the tiger was the guy's pet. was right, cut the tiger neatly through the middle.

This troper was at a sci-fi convention with several friends, running a booth for one person's company. It was a fun time but also somewhat stressful given that there was a clique of people we had a falling out with for reasons not worth going into. We agreed that we were just going to ignore them and be the bigger persons. Still, this didn't stop one member of the clique from being particularly obnoxious every time he passed the booth we were running. He suffered from an annoying habit of laughing before telling a joke and he usually wore loud Hawaiian shirts. By an amazing coincidence, my cosplay costume had a loud Hawaiian shirt. So I wound up doing an impression of this guy for two people, going "ha-ha-ha. I laugh at my own jokes so you know I'm funny." They began laughing and urging me to stand up and do it for everyone. I said "No, because the minute I gather a crowd he's going to walk through here while my back is turned." Guess who rounded the corner not ten seconds later, prompting an even greater well of laughter than the original impression?

This Troper has seen enough KidComs and TeenDrama's to know when some of his friends are going to hook up, how, and is a ShipperOnDeck for most of them. He is also fully aware that he is the GenreSavvy, {{Nerd}}, SmartGuy, PluckyComicRelief.

This troper's teachers asks him the trick questions. You know, the kind which have a painfully obvious answer that's actually wrong. This troper was GenreSavvy enough to realize it. That's when they started mixing in some obvious questions to throw him off. That's when this troper's WikiWalks come in handy.

This troper is incredibly GenreSavvy to the point that when a friend described the plot of the novel ''Possession'' to her (and this troper knew nothing about the book except that it was presumably a romance) she guessed quite a bit of it, much to her friend's surprise.

This troper once eavesdropped on a bunch of friends sitting togther at a restaurant talking about how one kids mother thinks "Nirvana is a metal band" and other random stuff, and suddenly this troper felt like she was in a MTV scripted comedy show.

This troper can be so {{Genre Savvy}} that school (social) life tends to bore her. (First person->) I don't particularly pay attention to who's dating who, but at one point when the subject came up said "Eh, it doesn't matter, 99% of teen relationships are doomed to fail" apathetically. Not exactly a {{Nietzsche Wannabe}}, but I haven't been wrong yet :) The other day this guy (I'll bet he's a trope, but for now lets just call him obnoxious without reason and the kind of person adults seem to think all teenagers are) after annoying me with random sh* t like "Do you like me?" (me, deadpan) "No, I hate you" said "You know how last year you didn't get dux of the school last year? I found out that you should have got it because you were top, but Hannah got it instead because you got it last year. Aren't you mad?". Hannah's actually my friend, and having {{Seen It A Million Times}} in teen (drama) shows, I realised that the aim was to create the whole "How dare you say that!" "I hate you" thing going on, and just ignored it and chuckled that I had been involved in subverting/averting something. (Subverted because I might tell my friend later what he tried XD But wait, that might have the same effect and create rising resentment that will explode years later... DAMN YOU GENRE SAVVINESS!)

This troper made the mistake of saying "I'll never have any siblings". Few weeks after "Sweetie, your father and I...". I soon realized this was working to my advantage. I guess they wont be twins. And they wont be a boy and girl. Sadly, she was right, but forgot her new powers and commented that they probably will come out healthy and happy, to assuage my mothers fears. Now, there's nothing wrong with Down Syndrome, but really, both of them? Do you know how rare that is? And this troper was stupid enough to say the dreaded line. (We all know what that is.) Now my little brother has leukemia. This troper is now much smarter, and is happy with what she has, and will never use her soap opera genre savvy again.

This troper recently became so genre savvy,that she predicted an outcome of most events during one day at work (she works on busy trains as a trolley dolly)She was looking at people and f.eg noticed a man,soundly asleep when the train stopped 'I bet he just misses his station at this very moment'.Guess what.He woke up just before the doors closed,he sweared and rushed out of his seat, losing his stuff behind...because he almost missed his stop!.

You can't survive England without this, as this Troper found out. Having been caught in rain several times (Once it hailed AND rained hard, and all I was wearing was jeans and a short sleeved shirt. Needless to say, everything was soaked through), he now takes his coat and/or umbrella with him even when it's sunny. People look at me strangely, but he always have the last laugh when it rains, they get wet, and I'm toasty. It's also the reason he doesn't scout for girls around his area, as he knows they sleep with anyone/everyone (I'm not being sexist, it's proven) and if he screwed one of them he'd end up ejaculating penicillin.

One time, during a campaign of a game of D20 Modern, the players were in New York City, being chased by Gorgons, and had to steal a plane to get out. This Troper's character ended up having to stay behind in a HeroicSacrifice and was killed by the Gorgons. Upon arriving in Vancouver, the players discovered New York had been destroyed in a nuclear explosion. After the session ended, this Troper approached the GM, and offered to play as a US Government agent hunting the players down, as they had stolen a plane, and were assumed to be behind the blast. This got a big shocked stare out of the GM, and he asked me how I knew what was coming up in the campaign. My response? "I'm dangerously Genre Savvy."

One time, this troper, his brother, and their friend had done something that he doesn't even remember. Anyway, his brother was coming up with this whole convoluted plan on how to make sure my mom wouldn't find out, but before he could finish, this troper inturupted him. "Why are we coming up with this anyway, Mom won't punish us if we just tell her what happened instead of trying to cover it up." They disagreed, and just for the hell of it I decided to go through with the plan, for shits and giggles. Guess what Mom lectured us on?

This troper was watching Criminal Minds with her father. It was an episode she'd already seen so she asked him halfway through what his predictions were. He then guessed two pivotal plot points and the exact point that they would save the victim. She had to hide her surprise.

This troper realized she was GenreSavvy when, after boarding a plane, she noticed immediately that a boy of around ten and his father were on the seats next to her, and that the boy was ''adorable''. She took her seat with two guesses for each one-episode characters in the "Holiday Special" of her life's sitcom. Father was either going to be a lecherous bastard who would grope her when she got up to the restroom, or he was going to be a perfectly charming man, a single dad, taking his boy on vacation to visit grandma. The kid had no other options. He was going to be an obnoxious brat, and by the end of the trip, I'd want to knock him over the head, amazing father or not. I thankfully got the good dad option, but it cemented my belief that, once a troper, you never stop being one. Even when offline

While driving through a state that I won't mention the name of (we'll just call it Hell) with my dad (I was in the passenger's seat) I saw a cop going in the opposite direction. About a minute later I felt the urge to look back and saw the cop coming up behind us and was right about to tell my dad to pull over when the cop turned his lights on. Since we were from out of state (far enough away that my dad couldn't fight it in court) the cop fined him, even though he wasn't actually speeding (which is why I called it Hell earlier). Then, right when we pulled back onto the road I thought "watch, the state border is probably right there" and sure enough, right over a hill, was the border.

This troper plays with this trope in a rather unusual way; inflicting, I suppose you could call it, or perhaps occulting. Essentially, you force people to try to predict you on the basis of tropes that were not actually true in the first place. If you act sufficiently unusual, yet close enough to a common trope, most people will try to predict you based off of that trope. It's a fairly delicate trick to maintain, and doesn't work near as often on tropers savvy enough to consider that I may be subverting the trope. I stumbled upon it quite on accident. Generally, I was just an AsianAndNerdy NiceGuy. When eventually the latter no longer covered for the former, I got in one fight with TheBully, but ended it almost immediately in CombatPragmatist style (slipped a pencil from my hoody pocket into the left hand, had it pressed into his throat before he could blink. Resisted the siren call of IAmNotLeftHanded, but only barely.) I promptly forgot about the incident until rumors filtered back having undergone such dramatic GossipEvolution that apparently I was some sort of BadassBookworm that had learned some secret oriental martial art and had pulled a 4 inch knife from Hammerspace (only the middle part is even close to true, though it's hard to call them secret arts when they both have rather long, detailed articles in TheOtherWiki.) It was at this point that it occurred to me that being completely unpredictable is alright, but being easy to mistakenly predict is much more practical. Haven't been in one fight since.

This troper is gifted at prodicting romantic comedies almost to the point they are not enjoyable anymore...almost. This also leaks into my real life were I can tell which couples are working, not working, going to break up, get together, have an issue, one participant is gay, one participant is using the other, basically anything relationship related outside of my own overtly chaotic non-sensical self-contradicting love life. I can see it allllll. Only one break up to date has come out of nowhere..ONE!

One of This Troper's film teachers seems to have made it his life's mission to destroy the SuspensionOfDisbelief by making everyone overly Genre-savvy...

This Troper is ridiculously GenreSavvy, to the point of having been able to predict major and minor plot developments in ''both CodeGeass and DeathNote'', and accurately guessing the identity of the murderer (and the victim, before he died) in MurderOnTheOrientExpress. She has also predicted the major plot twist of a book's sequel a year before the sequel came out, and conceptualized and sketched a potential scene from an RPG game only for it to actually occur (albeit worded slightly differently) two sessions later. (The predicted RPG scene involved the MentorOccupationalHazard.)

This lurker is a ''real-life'' genre savvy. Especially with relationships. Seriously, I've predicted how and when and the main reason and excuse the people for three break-ups already. It's also probably the reason I'll never be getting a girlfriend - I'd be insufferably clairvoyant about the future of our relationship.

I tend to do something similar, but with, um, ''everything''. I felt that I was edging so close to being neurotic that I stopped; imagine thinking you "know" everything about a relationship ahead of time. I'm still pretty bad, but I've learned to relax. --{{@/Jonn}}

When I started to play ShadowOfTheColossus, when I saw the cutscene where the Dormin are making the deal with Wander, I realized that, "Oh, they will turn him into a monster in the end and won't be able to save the girl". And then, I checked the summary of the game and my guess was proven right.

When I went to see ''{{Tangled}}'' with my friends, I sat next to a family made up of a dad, a young girl, and a little boy. At the part where Flynn and Rapunzel finish their duet and are about to kiss, the little girl whispered to her brother "Something bad's going to happen." [[AlmostKiss She was right ]].

This troper once showed up at work early, and nobody was there. All the lights were on, and it was just creepy. I was constantly thinking to myself, "If I were in a horror movie, everyone in the audience would be yelling, 'Get out of there, you idiot!!!'" No zombies showed up though, which was mildly disappointing.

This troper is so genre savvy that he knows he is one of two things. He is either:

A) A DoggedNiceGuy in zany sitcom who will finally get what he deserves by working and hoping his hardest '''''or'''''

B) An UnsympatheticComedyProtaganist in a dark, independent film whose idealistic dreams will get smashed at every oppurtunity just because they can.

Two from this troper: First my ex girlfriend was genre savvy enough to not let me film us doing things because "It'll end up on the internet if we split up" It would have. And second, maybe not genre savvy since it was probably predictable, but I predicted the ending of the WWE Backlash 2004 main event just from the participants and location It was in Canada, and Chris Benoit beat Shawn Michaels with a sharpshooter

When I was little (maybe around five or six), my family had a picnic with another family that had kids our age. My mom immediately sat me beside the son of the other family, who was around my age. To this day, I'm not sure how I knew about the trope (since I'd only just begun reading and they don't really use those tropes in little kid books), but I realized she was trying to set us up to be childhood friends/future love interests. I did not want that to happen, so I went through great pains to make sure we didn't get along. I think he might still hate me a little bit.

My girlfriend and I once decided that we wanted to get a little adventurous, so we decided to find someplace to park and...adventure. We eventually found a place and commenced preparations, but then took a look around. We were in a darkened college parking lot. Lined with tall trees. At night. I'm pretty sure there was even one single, flickering streetlight. We gave each other a look that said "if we proceed any further, we are definitey going to be murdered by a masked man," and decided we no longer wanted to be adventurous.

My friend pulled a prank on me in Minecraft. He set up a sign saying "Dig right here!", but I knew now to dig down so I moved over. I then dug while standing a block away. Turns out the blocks he had me dig up held torches, which supported the sand block ''I was standing on,'' causing me to fall far and lose lots of health. He knew as well as I do to never dig down...luckily, he gave me some glass to make up for it, as well as some pork to heal myself from the giant fall with.

A good friend of mine, who happens to be a huge {{Scream}} fan, was looking through her DVD's one day. In the cabinet, she found the DVD for Scream 4, with something inside it. She took that thing to her mother, and asked "What's this?" to which her mother replied, "I's an ice pick, a replica of the weapon the killer used in the last Scream movie." My friend thought for a second, and then said, "Mom, in the last Scream movie, lots of people were killed because they gave out the costumes that the killer had, and they couldn't figure out who it was. And now they're giving the ''weapons'' out?!"