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I\'m placing one zero context example, and one incomprehensible example here in the hopes that someone will either elaborate and make it into something that can be put back on the page, or make them go away. First, incomprehensible:
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I\\\'m placing two zero context examples, and one incomprehensible example here in the hopes that someone will either elaborate and make it into something that can be put back on the page, or make them go away. First, incomprehensible:
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* The plot of \'\'Literature/InterstellarPig\'\', basically. Barney plays a round of the eponymous board game with his new friends, then gradually notices them getting up to some strange business, and starts nosing around himself when he notices a few things in his house that seem relevant. The next time they invite him to play, [[spoiler: humans have been added to the game, represented on the cards by Barney, because by that point Barney\'s found the \'\'real\'\' Pig, and also his \
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* The plot of \\\'\\\'Literature/InterstellarPig\\\'\\\', basically. Barney plays a round of the eponymous board game with his new friends, then gradually notices them getting up to some strange business, and starts nosing around himself when he notices a few things in his house that seem relevant. The next time they invite him to play, [[spoiler: humans have been added to the game, represented on the cards by Barney, because by that point Barney\\\'s found the \\\'\\\'real\\\'\\\' Pig, and also his \\\"new friends\\\" are actually aliens who are willing to kill for the thing. Also, [[TakeThat humans have the lowest possible intelligence score]], because Barney refused to leave well enough alone]].
** [[spoiler: Later \\\'\\\'inverted\\\'\\\', as the contest to claim the Pig is supposedly a quest for ultimate power and to prevent the extinction of your species... when the whole thing is a set-up to make various races hunt for what amounts to a glorified tape recorder so it can gather information on them.]]
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* This happened to InspectorGadget all the time.
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* Happens with Commandant Lassard in the fifth PoliceAcademy.
** To the point of him \\\'\\\'helping\\\'\\\' the kidnappers get away.
** Subverted in that, when he finds out the truth, he doesn\\\'t faint or feel embarrassed. He immediately disarms the head kidnapper with a single move, who doesn\\\'t expect it from an old man.
** [[spoiler: Later \\\'\\\'inverted\\\'\\\', as the contest to claim the Pig is supposedly a quest for ultimate power and to prevent the extinction of your species... when the whole thing is a set-up to make various races hunt for what amounts to a glorified tape recorder so it can gather information on them.]]
Next, Zero-Context:
* This happened to InspectorGadget all the time.
and
* Happens with Commandant Lassard in the fifth PoliceAcademy.
** To the point of him \\\'\\\'helping\\\'\\\' the kidnappers get away.
** Subverted in that, when he finds out the truth, he doesn\\\'t faint or feel embarrassed. He immediately disarms the head kidnapper with a single move, who doesn\\\'t expect it from an old man.
