Wasn't Captain Obvious already stating the obvious? I thought this trope was supposedly more about how people are impressed with the protag doing mundane and obvious things.
Speak of which, I recall Awkward Zombie doing a strip about it. [1]
There seems to be a bit of overlap, but Captain Obvious seems more like a character type/behaviour, whereas this is more a one-off thing, with people being impressed with the character for pointing out something obvious.
RE: The comic
It's also fun to note that Edgeworth's lawyer superpower is canonically basic logic.
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More specifically, this is a bait and switch, thats why they have it reference sherlock. Sherlock is a great detective known for making incredible deductions no one else could, wich usually results in an amazed response from watson. With this trope, Sherlock seems to make a deduction and watson is amazed as usual, but then it turns out he just noticed the obvious.
It seems a better title to rename this to "stating the obvious", which I'm surprised isn't actually a trope just yet.
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