Marge: And my necklace!
Homer: Ehh, that's no big loss.
Marge: Homer, that necklace was a priceless Bouvier family heirloom.
Homer: Oh, you've probably got a whole drawer full of 'em.
Marge: Well, yes I do. But they're all heirlooms, too.
Homer: Ehh, that's no big loss.
Marge: Homer, that necklace was a priceless Bouvier family heirloom.
Homer: Oh, you've probably got a whole drawer full of 'em.
Marge: Well, yes I do. But they're all heirlooms, too.
There are some characters that care so much about their clothing/a particular item that they will pull out extras if necessary. This generally occurs at the most unlikely times. Spare glasses appear from nowhere in the middle of a fight or uniforms/outfits are replaced on the fly. Fights will even pause for this to occur.
Related to Crazy-Prepared and Not Rare Over There. Can be applied to Beauty Is Never Tarnished.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Bleach: Ishida pulls out a uniform from his backpack, says "Good thing I brought a spare," and Orihime asks why he brought it.
- While it's reasonable he'd have packed clothes (even in the original plan they expected to be spending a few days away from home), he brought a spare cape. ...Which brings up again that he's wearing a cape.
- In Buso Renkin, Papillon always seems to have an extra mask hidden in his speedos.
- In Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, after Meru's trolling of the class with abusive messages is temporarily stopped when her phone runs out of power, she just opens her shirt, revealing several phones strapped to her chest. The protagonist compares her to Rambo.
Comic Books
- Comically averted in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine. Peter Parker not only didn't have a spare, but he didn't even have his regular suit with him (he was in East Germany on assignment for the Bugle). He ended up buying a not very authentic Spider-Man costume from a tailor whose son was going to use it for a costume party.
Film — Animation
- While it's not unlikely to the audience, the Grand Duke is overjoyed to see that Cinderella has another glass slipper in store.
- In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Rude pulls a second pair of Cool Shades out of his pocket when the pair he's wearing are broken. He repeats this in Final Fantasy VII Remake. More then once.
Film — Live-Action
- Rat Race: After Merrill angrily smashes her phone after yelling at one of her workers, she tells Vera that she "carries extras".
- In Sky High (2005), super strong hero The Commander, when told his son was designated a sidekick, goes to angrily call the school to complain, only to crush the phone when he angrily pushes the buttons. He then opens a kitchen drawer which has several extra phones and starts dialing again.
- In Baby Driver, as the crew are sitting debriefing after a successful heist, Baby quietly sits around listening to music with his Cool Shades. One of his cohorts casually nicks the pair off him while in a conversation with another person, to which Baby silently pulls out a second pair and resumes. When the same guy gets frustrated, he then smacks Baby's new pair off his face and leaves, to which Baby pulls out a third pair.
Live-Action Television
- The clothes on Gilligan's Island. Gilligan, the Skipper and Hinkley wear the same clothes every day but Ginger, Mary Anne and the Howells apparently packed trunk after trunk of different (and, for Ginger and the Howells, fabulous) clothes for their three-hour tour.
- Subversion: In an early episode of Married... with Children, the local mall stops selling Peggy's bras, so Al goes out of town and buys enough backups for years.
- In an episode of House, Wilson forced House to attend his father's funeral out of state and was Crazy-Prepared to the point of packing two non battery-powered flashlights.
- Matlock: The manufacturer of Ben's seersucker suits goes out of business, but his tailor buys a good stock of the suits just for Ben.
Music Video
- In Stevie Ray Vaughan's video for Cold Shot
, the woman playing his wife/girlfriend grabs his guitar out of hand — twice — only to have him reach behind the couch and grab another one.
Video Games
- Ace Attorney
- Edgeworth replaces his silk cravat after someone cries and wipes her nose on it in Investigations.
- Also Adrian and her glasses. Whenever she's thoroughly shocked, her glasses shatter, and she immediately pulls out a spare. It's certainly normal to have spare glasses, but seven pairs of her glasses end up shattering, far more than the number of glasses most people carry around with them. Or generally own at a time.
Web Original
- Kamina in DOUBLE K keeps at least three pairs of his trademark Cool Shades on his person at all times.
- In Dead Winter, Black Monday Blues has spare sunglasses.
- In The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon, the killer is slowly beating his victim to death with a spoon. Eventually, the spoon breaks and the victim breathes a sigh of relief. At this point, the killer opens his jacket and reveals numerous identical spoons strapped to his chest.
Western Animation
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "Busted" involves Bloo breaking a bust of Madame Foster, trying to avoid a severe punishment from a fastidious Mr. Herriman. When he finally fesses up, Herriman isn't concerned—the bust gets broken so much, he has a closet full of spares. Unfortunately, Frankie waking up inside the closet causes her to knock over the shelves and break them all.
- In Hey Arnold!, Arnold loses his grandfather's antique watch. He has to go down into the sewers to retrieve it, where he has to face swarms of rats and the Sewer King. After he finally gets the watch back, his grandfather loses it the same, but it turns out he had a full drawer of them.
- The Simpsons:
- In the episode mentioned above, Marge's necklace is stolen. She is later shown to have a huge ball of identical necklaces from which she pulls another one.
- In another episode, Homer accidentally squirts chocolate onto Tom Wolfe's trademark white suit. Wolfe simply tears off the dirty suit to reveal an identical one underneath.
- In another episode, Homer destroys the painting that hung over the couch. Marge merely sighs and opens a closet full of copies of the painting.
- And in another episode the family goes shopping at a 33-cent store. Marge finds a bunch of her green dresses for sale: "33 cents? I paid almost double that!" She then puts a bunch of dresses in her cart, stocking up.
- In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Dragonshy", an avalanche leaves the group covered in dust, ruining Rarity's scarf. She pulls another one out of her saddlebags.
- Rarity: This is why a girl always packs extra accessories.
