Talk:Plot device

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[edit] Additional plot devices

Maybe those are plot devices, I'm not sure:

  • Amnesia
  • Unescapable Location
  • Chase
  • Hostage situation
  • Fight
  • Internal crisis
  • Dispute
  • Trial

Could somebody comment on them? Peter S. 12:32, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


Could also refer to Mary Sue and the Evil Overlord and "Overused Science Fiction Plot Devices" websites.

Who in their right mind would consider evil overlords overused? Just imagine how much better TV would be if more were used. Pat Sajak- Uh oh, looks like Baron von Chaos has replaced the all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii space on the wheel with another bankrupt, and the free spin now has some poison arrow launcher rigged up to it. Good luck contestants!

[edit] How about the following under Plot device?

  • Evil characters are now Good and Good Character are now evil switch. Hero either goes into alterantive universe by accident such as in Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" or goes back in time and changes the past as in epsiode of "Danny Phantom". In either case "Good" Characters are now "Evil" and "Evil Characters are now "Good".
There seems to be a de facto collection location for these at Mirror Universe (Star Trek). Kineticman 17:19, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Evil gang aginst Hero. Various Evil Villinas having been defeated by hero, gang up against hero and put him/her in deadly peril. Despite this, hero escapes and deposes Evil Villians
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