SeptimusHeap
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(Edited uphill both ways)
Jun 28th 2014 at 1:37:29 AM
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Well, you could bring up this issue in the Trope Repair Shop.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Statzkeen
Since: Mar, 2014
Jul 3rd 2014 at 9:42:20 AM
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I may do that. I was mostly throwing it out to see if anyone else agreed or had a dissenting opinion.
I was about to add a new page (Gear Shift Speed Surge, which is searchable under YKTTW but doesn't actually appear in the list, and says it was already launched yet actually wasn't), when I came upon this trope. Here's the problem - this trope is really two different tropes.
The "oh we need to go faster, so let's just shift gears / mash the gas / pull the throttle and speed up" even when they are already at max speed - that's one trope. But there's also just plenty of stuff here covering actual uses of overdrive or high gear. These are not the same thing.
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