- A thing happens and two people exchange money at the back
- Fourth wall breaking
- "Give up all your weapons" and that one guy spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out of his pockets
- 'A terribly loud crash' meowing/car sirens heard offscreen
- Alternatively, a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going "oops" in the most casual voice
- Alternatively, alternatively, terribly loud crash with sirens and cat screeching, person - off camera - "I'M OKAY"
- Character being all "you expect me do to X?" Gilligan Cut to character doing X
- The squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they all tell equally terrible, completely contradictory lies.
- People completely missing the unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them.
- Alternatively, people absolutely seeing the unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and then not giving a fuck
- Bonus points if it's a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like "yep, same shit as always."
- Someone pretending they don't know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of a scene that they now (*leaving* "tell Tom he can come out now" *Tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
- Choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
- The "hands go down" trope e.g. "any questions?" *everyones hands go up* "...that aren't sarcastic" *everyones hands go down*
- ACT NATURAL
- "We've got company" *enemies attack*
- Two characters giving extremely biased flashbacks to the same event that paint each other as an incompetent person.
- Scenes where the character walks into the room, sees something scary, and walks out with no reaction or change of expression.
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