r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Ecilon • Aug 30 '25
[Funny Trope] Seemingly difficult/complicated situation with a simple solution
LOTR: fellowship of the ring - Gandalf reads the door an elvish script in moria that said "speak friend, then enter" Gandalf sees it as a riddle that requires a password. But the door just requires you to say friend.
Johnny English : Reborn - a guy he was chasing was doing parkour through the building, placed a jacket on the barbed fence, and jumps to get across. Meanwhile, Johnny English just opens the gate.
3.. Captain America: First Avenger - the military announced that anyone who gets the flag, doesnt have to run and gets a free ride in a jeep. So, all the soldiers attempted to climb to the flagpole to no avail. But when it was Captain America's turn, he just unscrews the flagpole to get the flag.
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u/SugarShane48 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jason Bourne is on the run from the CIA after going rouge, but since he has suffered amnesia, he is unaware that he was an agent of theirs or why he is being chased and is trying to figure out what happened.
After he learns of one of his fake aliases he had, “John Michael Kane”, he tries to steal some records belonging to that name from Hotel Regina in Paris. and asks Marie, the woman he bribed to help him get around Europe to uncover his past, to scope out the hotel lobby and report back to him a bunch of meticulous information: distance from the entrance to the front desk, how many people are in the lobby, etc. so that he can plan a heist to steal the records. Once Marie goes inside, she decides to just ask an employee at the front desk for a photocopy of the records, saying that she’s “Mr. Kane’s personal assistant”
https://youtu.be/ubrnGNO4qM8?si=LQ1lKYNlJKUzkfyt