Characters being Crazy-Prepared in Fan Works.
Archie Comics
- Maybe the Last Archie Story: Archie and the gang have to sneak into Sabrina's house quietly to rescue her from a mad doctor. They are wondering wether they should risk breaking one window when Reggie pulls out a hammer and a screwdriver, arguing he is always prepared for anything. However, it is Betty who unlocks the window using one credit card which she always carries around in the event that she cannot go back home because she has forgotten her keys.
- In “Arrowverse: Days of Futures Past
”, Oliver Queen undergoes Mental Time Travel from a dark 2040 back to 2011 so that he can stop this timeline coming to pass. As part of his trip back, Talia and Luke Fox advise Oliver to go to Bruce Wayne for help acquiring the needed resources to start as a vigilante, and Oliver is advised to inform Bruce “Tau Protocol, Sub-Section 8, Clause 5 has been activated”. Tau is a reference to time, confirming that the code is related to time travel, Subsection 8 means that the traveller is someone outside Batman’s immediate circle but who can be considered an ally, and clause 5 means the goal is to completely change history, which would only be allowed if the alternative was a horrifying future. Barbara Gordon notes that the code was intended to be a joke, but it is still acknowledged by the Bat-Family as valid. As part of helping Oliver establish Green Arrow as an independent party, Dick Grayson also relocates to Starling City and agrees to act as Green Arrow for the first few days and on occasions when Oliver has to make public appearances, helping to establish the clues that the vigilante is a separate person.
- This little gem from "The First Guardian":Ichigo snorted, "I have a silver cross and several rolls of duct tape under my bed, a box in a location only I know about in case an Ichigo Kurosaki from the future deems sending me a message necessary, I carry picklocks in all of my shoes, I secretly own a car I keep parked on the other side of town, I had Kisuke make fake European passports for the both of us, I own a condo in Tokyo that I bought while disguised as a foreign woman by the name of 'Falsa', I bought the warehouse my sister's bodyguards use as base so that I could legally build a separate room large enough to fit a Gundam, just in case I do get a Gundam."
- Xander in Working for the Weekend is teleported once a week to an Earth with no humans and since it always happens at the same time, he makes sure to prepare. Not only does he carry numerous weapons (machete, pepper spray, and air horns among them), enough food for a few days, and containers to take any eggs or seeds he finds (on behalf of the Mayor), but he also brings enough of everything for two people just in case someone tags along. Buffy wondered why he dressed like a lumberjack in winter when they ended up on a tropical island, which Xander explains as he never knows where on Earth he'll land so he dresses for freezing cold but includes cooler clothes. He even brings a Bag of Holding supplied by the Mayor.
- Amazing Fantasy: Roderick Kingsley's office is fitted with equipment that destroys all unauthorized audio and video recordings just to prevent his shadier dealings from coming to light, just in case someone tries to bug him or spy on him. This is why Miles isn't able to get an Engineered Public Confession out of him.
- Avenger Knight soon makes it clear that Batman is this even when he's co-existing with the Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to the extent that he has equipped any gadgets he might leave behind at crime scenes are equipped with self-destruct functions so that nobody else can analyse them in depth.
- Battle Fantasia Project: In the remake, a flashback explains Eudial's car exploding with Sailor Venus having stuffed it with the lots of gelignite and the remote-controlled detonator she carries everywhere, planning to blow it up when she returned at the base.
- Child of the Storm:
- Doctor Strange is a massively powerful Seer and Time Master, who has spent literal millennia building plans upon plans upon plans. Which include arranging for/foreseeing that others will make plans, and either incorporating those plans into his own directly, or building them in as back-up to his own plans. His entire method of operation is to have exactly the right people, with exactly the right tools, and exactly the right knowledge and abilities, in exactly the right place, at the right time. Which is both lethally effective and extremely annoying for everyone else involved (to put it mildly). As shown when he slid Gambit into Sinister's path, he can even pull it off on those very few individuals who are immune to his foresight. Since all of this is to deal with Thanos (and, as a side-effect, anything that needs to be dealt with before Thanos), it's not unjustified.
- In the sequel and its side-story, people have started catching on, and in at least one case deducing what they can/need to do, based solely off his proclivity for being prepared for everything. Which he presumably planned for. Please enjoy your headache.
- A much milder variation is Jor-El, who made every conceivable preparation to ensure that Clark not only received a friendly reception, but protection, and full knowledge of who he was, arranging back-up after back-up. Alison Carter, a veteran SHIELD Agent, is impressed.
- Doctor Strange is a massively powerful Seer and Time Master, who has spent literal millennia building plans upon plans upon plans. Which include arranging for/foreseeing that others will make plans, and either incorporating those plans into his own directly, or building them in as back-up to his own plans. His entire method of operation is to have exactly the right people, with exactly the right tools, and exactly the right knowledge and abilities, in exactly the right place, at the right time. Which is both lethally effective and extremely annoying for everyone else involved (to put it mildly). As shown when he slid Gambit into Sinister's path, he can even pull it off on those very few individuals who are immune to his foresight. Since all of this is to deal with Thanos (and, as a side-effect, anything that needs to be dealt with before Thanos), it's not unjustified.
- The Force Is Not A Quirk!: At some point in the past, Dooku spent a great deal of money to create of a special one-of-a-kind communicator that connected to Ventress, with half of the money he spent ensuring that nobody else, not even Palpatine, knew of its existence. This device comes in handy when he starts suspecting Palpatine's treachery.
- Hunters of Justice sees Batman retain his protocols — and create some for teams RWBY and JNPR. And since it's in part a DC Comics fanfic, The Multiverse comes into play as while this version of Yang and Pyrrha escape their respective canon fates (losing an arm to Adam Taurus and being murdered by Cinder Fall respectively), Batman, thanks to tech that the League has, does see versions that didn't escape those fates and designed their armor to prevent it from befalling them.
- Batman notes in his files on RWBY and JNPR that he has started work on Aura-draining nanites in case a member of the group goes rogue or falls victim to mind control. While this does damage their trust in him, this proves invaluable when Poison Ivy manages to mind control Jaune and Ren.
- The J-WITCH Series:
- Like in canon, the vault at Section 13 containing the Oni Masks is protected with an onion-powered anti-Oni ward to keep Tarakudo out. "Walk This Way" reveals that similar wards were placed around the Infinite City, and rebel soldiers have started carrying onions on their person, just in case.
- "Return of the Queen" not only has Uncle make enough of the tattoo-removal potion for everyone in the group, but he has Will use the Heart to absorb it and duplicate the magic, which ends up being a warranted precaution.
- In "Ghosts and Shadows", when Caleb sneaks back to Meridian, he carries a bunch of onions with him. Unfortunately, he wasn't quick enough on the draw.
- "The Precious Mask" reveals that Jade's been keeping the Horse Talisman at the shop, partially because of Caleb's chi magic mishaps. "Gladatorial Clash" reveals that she's been keeping all the Talismans close after Alchemy joined the group.
- In "Gladatorial Clash" Caleb tried to bring onions along again, but this time Blunk ate them before they snuck into the castle. Jade also expected Cornelia to try and use the Heart to sneak over to Meridian and try and find Elyon, and knowing that she couldn't stop her, wrote a note for her Astral Drop to give to Jackie in case they weren't back in a couple hours, likely due to being captured.
- In "The Underwater Mines", Alchemy brought along several of the Talismans, as well as some walkie-talkies. Tohru also developed an onion-based anti-Oni chi spell in case Tarakudo attacked.
- In "Fright Night Fight", Jade brings along the Monkey Talisman so that she can turn Scruffy into Cerberus as a Halloween prank, and the Ox Talisman so that Paco can spare with her evenly with her Guardian strength. Both of these come in handy for the chapter's fights.
- In "A Chantastic Prison Break", Caleb, anticipating that they'd encounter Tarakudo at the prison break, had his sword coated with onion juice, and they brought a smokescreen with onion powder that Cornelia could manipulate via her powers.
- In "A Jolly J-WITCH Xmas", Cornelia brought seeds with her, since plants don't really grow much in the Arctic.
- In "Facades of Evil", not only does Uncle bring along a tracking spell in case the Knights ditch Caleb's jacket so that Blunk can't track him, but Tohru also brought another tracking spell, allowing them to follow after Blunk is captured and the jacket destroyed. Additionally, it's revealed that Drago and Nerissa had explosives planted in their Meridian cave hideout since the Knights of Vengeance were founded, just in case they ever needed to destroy the place and flee.
- Kyon: Big Damn Hero: The IDSE appears to be this, preparing tools for interactions with places that may not exist in case they do and any of the tools, such as a Dimensional Anchor, are necessary.
- Nothing Wrong with your TV: Alex (a post-Heel–Face Turn Control Freak) keeps two backups of his remote as well as two single-use remotes that will take him to a universe where he can build a fully functional version and a set of tools to jury rig a remote, just in case he's stranded somewhere without his regular remote. Unfortunately for Alex, Spike rifled through his belongings and ate the lot.
- The Rift Effect (part of the The Omniverse Event): Bernice Summerfield has a way to basically come back from the brink of death - mainly because her friends had become so savvy to the fact that she nearly dies, wherever she goes.
- Manehattan's Lone Guardian: There are several cases of this:
- Those that tampered with Neo Arcadia's Guardians did not want their upgrades getting activated in a timely fashion. There is a set of memory blocks keeping them from realizing that they have upgrades at all, and if they get past that, the password system requires them to enter a code two billion characters in length, with hundreds of characters to choose from. Thankfully, the perpetrators underestimated the Guardians' capacity for growth, and Leviathan is ultimately able to get her upgrades in order just by fighting those who have similar abilities.
- The Pyre of Fears' front door has a window in it created specifically to shrug off ballista bolts, installed by one of the building's prior owners.
- Khaos Omega uses one early in his story series' chronology, specifically Operation Phaaze. A Phazon Leviathan is en route to Norion, and the crew has to power a cannon that can destroy it before it can hit. Anise brings her XQ-designed Chrono Eclipse Cannon just in case the on-site cannon won't fire. She ends up being the cause when she gets knocked into it via the blast responsible for her unique Phazon strain.
- Nights End, Days Begun has Weaver reveal during the USJ Incident that she has left a capsule with some of her bugs with Amy, just in case she's in a situation where her communicator is jammed.
- Spider-Man and Power Girl: Experience with Kang the Conqueror in particular has inspired Reed Richards to devise a means of determining if history has been altered through time travel. When Reed, Johnny Storm and Peter Parker take the dimensionally-displaced Power Girl back to her reality of origin and realise that her reality has been altered, Reed already has access to equipment that will allow him to confirm when the new universe was altered and get some idea as to how it happened.
- There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
- The "Trophy Room" vault that Tony has built inside Avengers Tower is lined with lead-infused titanium in order to completely seal it off if necessary, has its own dedicated arc reactor power source, and in case of emergency can detach from the tower and be carried by repulser anywhere within a five thousand mile radius, including orbit.
- S.W.O.R.D. built a Self-Destruct Mechanism into the Excalibur that's designed to go off if the station's Wave-Motion Gun is ever angled to aim at Earth, as a preventive measure against it ever being turned against the planet.
- "A Tale of Two Rustbuckets": In this Stargate Universe/Battlestar Galactica crossover, the Colonial Fleet is stated to have contingency plans for numerous situations, including such things as the return of the Lords of Kobol, or a revolt by the Junior Pyramid League. Adama implements their first contact plan when he encounters Destiny.
- The Unexpected Rookie: When the Decepticons crash the race and the Autobots transform to fight them, Sarge pulls out a machine gun. How he got it past security (and why he thought he'd need to bring such a thing in the first place) is never explained, but it's certainly useful in helping the Autobots fight the Decepticons.
- White Devil of the Moon: This trope, more than anything, is why Jadeite's attempt on Nanoha's life failed. Everyone at the wedding who could fight came armed and prepared to do so, just in case. Justified if you've seen Triangle Heart 3 because you know what happened the last time the Takamachi family had a get-together.
- Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash has Circe take a lightsaber with her just in case she's attacked at her own wedding, which comes to pass. Ellen is temporarily confused by this action until she's reminded just how much of a chaotic City of Adventure Muffinville is.
- In one story of the Facing the Future Series, while invading the Guys In White's HQ, Tucker brought along hacking equipment in case he came across their computer system, which he did.
- In Batman Revisited, The Question empties a gun hidden in Zsasz's hideout then returns it right where she found it, all in expectation that at some point he'd hold her at gunpoint.
- Here There Be Monsters: After being defeated, Shazam!'s nemesis Dr. Sivana reveals he has a backup plan since he ALWAYS has a backup plan. Then he goes on about the importance of being always prepared.Dr. Sivana: "A Sivana is always prepared. Remember that. [...] The secret of success, the secret of survival, is always to have a contingency plan. I have always planned for escape, always planned for a second strike."
- In Lies On in case of an emergency Light Yagami had stashed around town at least one gym bag filled with a change of clothes, water bottles, and potato chips.
- The protagonist in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns managed to get everyone of the main cast out of Ostagar alive, along with the treaties, because he prepared for the possibility of Loghain not charging when he was supposed to. Granted, he'd had a discussion with the man earlier, when they both traded deep observations of one another. And this is just one of the many examples.
- Vow of Nudity: Serris of Tides carries around more gadgets and tools than every other character in the series combined. This extends all the way to two tiny scrolls that let him self-resurrect from the dead without outside assistance.
- Initially Played for Laughs in Hunting the Unicorn, where the Warblers are frequently unfazed by various situations, and instead focus more on recording Kurt and Blaine because they have a huge betting pool on those two. However, David's habit of writing everything down lets him figure out that Blaine has a stalker, at which the Warblers promptly tell the staff and set up a Hero Secret Service. In the nineteenth chapter, said secret service possibly keeps Blaine alive when the stalker tries to kidnap him, as Wes and David force him to kidnap THEM as well if he doesn't want them to call 911. Meanwhile, one of their many tracking devices ends up recording it.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality depicts Harry as (trying to be) one. The brief appearance of Mad-Eye Moody manages to upgrade his canon use of this trope. Apparently that magic eye of his that he has constantly scanning in every direction doesn't actually need to move—it provides perfect 360-degree vision no matter where it's pointed. He moves it around so that people think he needs to.
- Also, the aurors have a code (RJ-L20) for "a prisoner is attempting psychological warfare and succeeding". The protocol for that code is to relieve the auror who calls it in and ask questions later.
- In Oh God, Not Again!, when Pettigrew is caught, Luna pulls out an animagus-proof jar that her father had her carry around in case she ever ran across an illegal animagus she wanted to capture. Even Harry is surprised by this.
- In Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived, Daphne's discovery of her potential as a Seer allows her to do this on various occasions; one of her visions prompts her to provide Harry with a copy of his wand so that he can take potential captors by surprise, allowing them to take the fake while the real one is hidden elsewhere on his person.
- Delenda Est: Harry never apparates directly to his destination. He apparates to half a dozen locations first. And that's if he doesn't think he's actively being followed. When Voldemort follows him, Harry apparates several times, running several yards before apparating again. When Voldemort still catches up to him, he uses fiendfyre as a distraction, apparates a few dozen times all over the area before apparating away, portkeying to another location, apparating directly over the ocean and waiting until he almost hits the water before apparating to his actual destination. He also has over a dozen safe-boxes filled with spare wands, potions, and multiple destination portkeys hidden throughout Great Britain.
- Hermione in Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, whose method of dealing with PTSD involves carrying around enough supplies to stock half an army in her magic purse absolutely everywhere.
- In Mary Potter 1: The Call to Adventure Slytherin House has evacuation plans for just about everything.Sean Moon: Case B scenarios are those where the majority of the House is in the Great Hall or class or otherwise out of the dorms. Class 5 scenarios involve a major threat to the school. German suggests that the threat is physical destruction or demolition. Evacuation Beta-funf requires us to get you all out of the school, and the seventh-year prefects are to go and lock down the potions labs and dorms so that the damage is minimalized.
- Rage:Harry: If you were a Ravenclaw you would know all of this but you would probably only bring the most common documents. Only a Slytherin would see the benefit of bringing the most random forms just on the off chance that someone would need it. They like the shock of being prepared and outsmarting everyone in the room.
- In Harry Potter and the Quantum Leap Hermione thinks of 151 things that could go wrong with transporting Norbert the baby dragon to the top of the Astronomy Tower and comes up with an appropriate plan for each and every one.
- In A Second Chance at Happiness? Maybe? Charlus preserved some of his late first wife's blood on the off-chance that he might someday have to blood-adopt a bastard child to make it look like they were born legitimately.
- Released From Fates Games:A lesser known pureblood house of Morgan were survival nuts who conducted illegal experiments to make sure they had a contingency plan in any emergency. They had documented and conducted as many what-if scenarios as possible over the years to ensure that they were prepared for anything. Most of the experiments were dangerous.
- In The Price is Right Harry decides to carry his miniaturized school trunk around with him at all times.What if there was a fire? Some inexplicable fire caused by unknown magic or someone in the room spontaneously combusting, and everything was destroyed? What if random kidnappers of remarkably prodigious skill broke into the school and dragged him away in a potato sack just like in those movies? What if he fell in a puddle and needed a change of trousers? He heard that the Potions professor liked to give detentions where they scrubbed out cauldrons, what if he needed his rubber gloves and face mask? Some of the portraits looked rather lonely, what if he ended up deciding to play a game with them? He'd need his playing cards and board games in that case.
Really, it was only good sense that he bring everything with him. - In Don't Trust Dumbledore despite the total absence of evidence of time travel up until Harry and Draco's unintended trip to the past, the Gringotts goblins have procedures and paperwork for just that eventuality.
- In Butterflies Bearing Beater's Bats Hermione has a code phrase in case her future self needs to send a message back to her.
- In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Bill survives being trapped in a pyramid for several months because shortly after his employment as a cursebreaker he had two of his teeth removed and replaced. One is filled with powdered nutrient potion, while the other contains powdered stasis potion.
- Tracey name-checks the trope regarding Hermione in Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path, after Hermione pulls off a spectacular job of quickly preparing a needed legal document and having it reviewed by a goblin ally, having said document ready to go before it's confirmed it'll be needed.
- In Head Start Harry has taken elaborate precautions to keep nefarious individuals from obtaining any of his blood or hair.Harry: My robes have been layered with charms and runes that act as the first layer of protection from wear and tears with anti-hair summoning charms along with anti-compulsion charms. Sewn under it is a material similar to Kevlar that helps to prevent stabs and cuts if the first layer gets penetrated, followed by another layer of materials with the same charms and spells to prevent stronger compulsions and curses. I am also wearing a small tank top and shorts of a tough material with similar spells to ensure that my skin will still be protected in the event I must remove my robes from a fire.
Flitwick: Then what about the hair on your head and the blood from your hands or legs? They are exposed, especially your head.
Harry: Runic bracelets to ensure that blood and hair cannot be removed from my body, and a small stick-on tattoo at the back of my neck for my head. My shoes also have runes to prevent any sweat or blood coming out from my feet.
- Njal Gets Burned: Njal keeps lawsuits against random neighbors on trading cards, just in case he or his friends end up facing them in court. He's not even the only person doing this.
- Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion:
- The entire Reversion experiment was ordered by Tallest Miyuki and the Control Brains as a means of making the Irkens once again capable of living independent of their PAKs, just in case of the slight chance that an enemy ever manages to disable the Control Brains and threaten to remotely shut down all the PAKs.
- As Zim explains to Dib, as a part of Irken culture being built entirely around conquest, they've dedicated a lot of time and effort towards being prepared for any potential obstacle they might face. Even Earth gaining magic and psionics as a result of the Childergy event doesn't throw Zim off any aside from the fact that he now has to scrap all his old plans and start over from square one.
- In Endless Summer Days, the Global Justice Network (along with numerous other agencies around the world) have that they call the "Crazy Eight": plans for scenarios they think will never come up, including time travel. When Ron seems to be in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, having remembered the entirety of the current day's events, they first test him for psychic potential and then activate the code for time travel, which automatically deactivates the moment it's activated, making it only useful for time travelers.
- Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand: As revealed in chapter 18, Kairi keeps a hidden blade up her sleeve in the event she's captured and tied up.
- Long Lost Loud: Lincoln apparently destroyed any evidence of himself being a part of the Loud family. For example, cutting himself out from group pictures with him in them or replacing his name tag on the family's trophy cabinet with his parents' names. He even roped in his grandad and Clyde into it before becoming a ghost.
- Everything Has a Price: When Peter sees Tony's car outside his apartment building, deducing that he's here for him, he sneaks into his room to set up a tape recorder and all of his computers in the event that Tony will possibly blackmail him so that Peter can use the tape to blackmail him to leave him alone. Peter then enters his apartment like normal, and not to Peter's surprise, Tony tries to forcibly recruit him.
- In Peter Parker's Field Trip (Of course it's to Stark Industries), when Tony found out about Peter's school trouble involving his "internship", he has Karen notify him when the trouble escalates where he then calls the Principle just as Peter was in his office and then walks in in-person so that he could tell him off personally.
- Burning Bridges, Building Confidence:
- Cole Sullivan arrives at Francoise Dupont already prepared to deal with Lila and her followers, ready to record every conversation she has with her. Justified by the fact that her cousin Marinette confided in her about all the trouble she was having ever since Lila returned to class. Further downplaying the extent of her preparations is how, despite being fully aware that Lila's favorite tactics include turning her classmates against those she dislikes, Cole doesn't make any effort whatsoever to reach out to or connect with any of them, considering them all to be Fair Weather Friends and not worth her time or effort. This makes it all the easier for Lila to turn them against her. And despite being aware that this would happen, it still wears on her.
- Cole also anticipates that her becoming the new Fox Heroine will not be received well by those who liked her predecessor Rena Rouge. Predicting that those familiar with the Fox Miraculous will attempt to 'reclaim' it, she has Trixx and Tikki reshape it into an armlet, incorporating its original design into Vexxin's gear as a choker. This decoy immediately pays off twice in rapid succession against Rena Rage and Revengance.
- Changing Gears: U.A. has a massive manual for deciding how to award Rescue Points during the entrance exam, including two entire pages devoted entirely to people destroying the Zero Pointer.
- Looping Back to the Beginning: Mei Hatsume has a form specifically for time travelers.
- Duran And Kiyohime's Omake Theater: The local pet store really is equipped for all kinds of pets, including those with internal artillery.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Progress, the Cake family is insured against acts of goddesses. Which comes in handy when Pinkie Pie accidentally freaks out Princess Luna, and she trashes part of the place. They live with Pinkie Pie, getting an extremely comprehensive insurance policy probably seems like a sensible precaution. Of course, 'extremely comprehensive' policies may not cover against 'Acts of Goddesses'...
- In Whispers, Moonthistle carries a saddlebag packed with a random assortment of tools that she might need someday ("I made a list.")
- Amber Night and the Curse of the Diabolical Pastry Thief: The eponymous Amber Night had a number of encounters for which she just happened to have the right tool for the job.
- One of Moodbeam's friends had only one weakness: Nutella, which Amber Night just happened to have. You know, just in case.
- It also just so happened that she recorded her entire quest to recover her Pop Tarts. She then proceeded to use the film as blackmail to get the princesses to give her back the Pop Tarts. It didn't work, but by selling it, she did apparently make enough bits to buy Canterlot Castle.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
- Vix-Lei carries various things around in case of "emergencies". Including a large rubber lizard that was in her coin bag. (And a pony-sized eyepatch.)
- The human Pinkie Pie just happens to have had mango juice on hand for Night Blade for a few days already, despite not knowing him until the day before she needed it.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- Way back when she first took Trixie on as a student, Luna put a tracking charm on her, just in case, and never actually undid it, again just in case. It comes in handy when Trixie disappears entirely, due to a case of accidental reality-hopping (long story).
- Before he was sealed away in Tartarus, Tirek left fragments and copies of his soul scattered about the place, with the intention they'd one day absorb enough negative emotions to become their own individuals. Luna and Celestia thought they'd gotten all of them, but as it turns out, they missed a few... One of which turns out to have been hidden almost under Luna's nose, right on the edge of the Everfree Forest itself.
- Sunsplit Saga: In Sunsplit, Twilight Sparkle, who has more than one backup quill, she has "an array of colorful feathers from her saddlebags", along with a "ballpoint pen", that she only brought out, because all her quills were gone, and won't burn up as her quills did.
- A Diplomatic Visit:
- Rarity's reasoning for bringing along a two-story tent - now she has space to share with anyone who didn't think to bring a tent of their own.
- Chapter 6 of the sequel Diplomat at Large reveals another case of this for Rarity - she has wedding dresses and tuxedos already made for her friends, and wedding dresses for other certain couples as well, such as Lyra and Bon-Bon (which she needed when they had a sudden proposal and wedding).
- As she explains in the epilogue of the third story, Diplomacy Through Schooling, Celestia has contingencies for what to do if assorted random citizens of Ponyville become alicorns. She says she came up with them when she had one of those days where she felt like stretching her imagination.
- In Marked for Death, being crazy-prepared is how your group of missing-nins survive and win. Planning with multiple contingencies is highly encouraged, although sometimes the planning doesn't always account for everything. When that happens, shits hit the fan as in Chapter 65, in which the players didn't account for the opposing jonin to be awake, forcing them into a mortal battle before the team run away, only to be chased by Hot Spring and Leaf nins when the rolls just didn't work out..
- In "Being over-Prepared Is Impossible", over-preparedness is the essence of Kakashi's teaching style. One of team seven's mottos is along the line of "You can't be over-prepared as long as you can still carry it".
- Read the Fine Print (Evangelion): Even though nobody ever wants to go camping with him, Kensuke Aida always packs extra food just in case he needs it. He also insists on "securing the perimeter" by setting traps around his tent.
- Rise of the Minisukas: Both Seele and Gendo have actually considered the possibility of future people going back to the past and trying to mess up with their plans. Although Gendo himself considers no amount of foreknowledge to be a threat to him, he has prepared counters for any time-traveller... except for Aoba, who is too unpredictable."Are you suggesting the Ishim possess foreknowledge of events to come?"
"Are you saying you haven't considered the possibility of such Ikari?" He has in fact considered it, and he has come to the conclusion that no amount of foreknowledge would be a threat to him. He had counters prepared in case of any wayward time travelers, no matter who they were. Well, except for Aoba. That man was a wildcard, but too useful to get rid of.
- OSMU: Fanfiction Friction: Basil Valentine uses his Psychic Powers to pick up the Mobile Unit van and send it careening towards the nearest road. As the van rolls, Orla realizes that it's sorcery and reaches behind her Hammerspace spine to produce four necklaces with bezoar stones in their centers, urging Opal, Omar, and Oswald to wear them in order to prevent Basil's powers from affecting them. It's never explained why she has the necklaces to begin with nor why they were stored in her Hammerspace spine.
- Mr and Mrs Gold: While Rose/Belle was interested in Rumpelstiltskin’s dagger, she took precautions and made sure to have countless replica daggers hidden all over Storybrooke and the Enchanted Forest. Some of them aren’t even spelled right.
- In This Bites!, Mr. 3, when he catches up to Cross and Soundbite in Rainbase, has learned from his experience with Soundbite's powers, so he came prepared: breath control to keep him from hearing his breath, a wax vest to mask his heartbeat, and earplugs to guard against Soundbite's distractions. The Unluckies, Ohm, and the Foxy Pirates are among others who used forewarning to guard against Soundbite's powers.
- Cross manages to be this to a lesser extent due to knowing most of the plot up to Dressrosa, such as saving most of the gold they got from Skypiea to both repair/save Merry and purchase Keimi.
- Remnant's Reclaimer: Huntsmen have a code and a passphrase for time travelers.
- In Episode 67 of Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Beelzebub put a shield over himself in case Tails tried to attack him, planted a self-destruct mechanism in his lair in case Sonic and friends tried to free the slaves there, and installed an escape pod - complete with Warp drive and communications - in his chamber in case Sonic and his friends attacked him directly and he was forced to flee.
- Maledict doesn't pull any punches in the Episode 75 rewrite either. He puts a Warpspace jamming field to prevent the heroes from fleeing and summons the Galaxy Crusher to take the entire Milky Way Galaxy hostage and bully Sonic into submission. He also was prepared to change his master plan if something failed - when Tsali betrayed him, Maledict shut his body down with a reset phrase he programmed into Tsali years before. He also knew exactly where the Metarex were if needed, in case his pawns ever found out the true identity of his "M" alter ego.
- Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion posits that the main galactic civilization, and by extension the Galactic Empire that rules it and the Old Republic before the Empire, is ready for an insane amount of events, to the point that a junkyard planet turning out to be a planet-sized Killer Robot and biscuits mutating in giant monsters can be dealt with effective standard procedures (and the latter being quite annoying for baron Orman Tagge, as it's one of his companies that makes them and they have procedures to avoid it happening). Thus Tarkin is legitimately surprised when he finds out there's another planet whose condition is so vile the Death Star is the pragmatic solution.
- In a non-canon chapter it turns out the Imperial Navy has two standard procedures for Captain Harlock stumbling in their dimension and starting to kill their officers: they know they can't shoot down the Arcadia and facing him into a starship fight would wreck a perfectly good Star Destroyer and traumatize the crew, but by committing suicide or facing him into a Duel to the Death the officers limit the damage.
- Alpha from Clash of the Elements is a deconstruction of this trope. He is so prepared for every possible scenario, including the possibility that everyone he knows on the planet could one day become corrupted or be forced to reveal information to the enemy that he has been consumed by a feeling of paranoia that has left him unable to trust let alone form a bond with the people that stick around him, save for Mario that is.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- In An Ideal Gift, Mikey foresaw that Irrilia would grow impatient with the tea leaves they had just harvested and switched the bowl with a bowl of leaves that had already been prepared.Michelangelo: Because mah ninja skillz is awesome-sauce!
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: Shawn, the zombie survivalist. Not only does he wear a (possibly bulletproof) coat at all times, it's loaded with almost anything you could think of in its many pockets. He also has a number of watches with different alarms to warn him what time it is, and has even installed an ELECTRIFIED BOMB PROOF DOOR TO HIS ROOM IN HIS DORM.
- From Concert to Chaos : As a part of her plan to sabotage the Vocaloids' concert, Zatsune rigs the area around the stage with electric barriers and around the audience with walls of fire. Also, she somehow manages to lure the police away to the other side of the town by making a fake report and disconnects all the phone lines.
- In Worldwar: War of Equals, once the aliens are confirmed to be a threat, most of the world stocks up on weapons, beef up their militaries, research anti-satellite weapons, and even restart some previously canceled weapons projects all to combat the incoming invaders.
- With This Ring: Batman takes the cake. He managed to take down Constantine when John was under a spell that made him invisible and so that no one wanted to even look at him. Batman noticed that no one was going into a certain part of the room or even looking at that part of the room, so he started attacking it to make sure.
- The Russian Research facility in regards to speedsters. They have cameras that can record at high-speed, shrapnel mines designed to kill and corral speedsters, gas dispensers, walls made of different materials with differing densities and a high-voltage current so you can't just vibrate through them, and a nuclear self-destruct device, just in case.
- Deconstructed in the very first paragraph of Fly Before You Walk:Despite what one might think, Batman didn’t always have a plan. Sometimes, if the situation called for it, he could wing it pretty good. He certainly preferred to have a plan, for sure, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t improvise. It helped his image as the Dark Knight that he always seemed to have meticulously planned everything down to the minutia, but no one could be that well prepared, even Batman.
So, when an alarm went off at the Cadmus Lab, Batman figured it was a good excuse as any to go poking around.
