I hate this trope

When a character states something so completely obvious to everyone in a scene for the sake of audience exposition. It's a silly, easy, and convenient trope.

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[tobyjack]

The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison specifically chosen to kill Kuzco. Kuzco’s poison.

[wookiesin]

In regards to Han in TFA, it shows how Finn and Rey comes from different backgrounds. Finn was raised as a soldier, and was likely educated on the history of the Rebellion including one of their generals, Han Solo. Rey comes from a world in the ass end of nowhere, so she mostly heard stories about the famous smuggler, Han Solo.

[itsthemumu]

Aragorn: Draw out Sauron’s armies. Keep him blind to all else that moves.

Legolas: A diversion!

[StarWarsStory]

Ironically the Jedi droid Huyang could've been the plausible "fish out of water" when it comes to knowing Corellia's current affairs.

[Cameron]

I genuinely thought the line was her pointing out the fact that an assassin droid came from one of their facilities and how thats odd rather then bringing up the obvious

[danielambrose]

Homer: Well, here we are at the Brad Goodman lecture.
Lisa: We know, Dad.
Homer: I just thought I'd remind everybody. After all, we did agree to attend this self-help seminar.
Bart: What an odd thing to say.

[ajzeg]

I also love how in the Falcon scene Chewie replies “I don’t know” to Finn asking about Han being a war hero.

[nicholasborkowski]

Spaceballs. There is the big exposition dump using dialog between characters that would obviously already know the information. And then Helmet looks right through the fourth wall at the audience and says "Everybody got that?!"

[batfreak]

This is true and the Force Awaken is a perfect example on how it could be done. That scene even tho is exposition the funny a quirky way it is done its why we can let is slide. I always laught when She says: "This is the Milenium Falcon the ship thatmade the Kessel Run in 14 par secs" and Han goes: "12! pft fourteeen 😒".

[nope]

Eh, depending on how frequent a piece of media uses it, it's just something I shrug off.

[weegee_hates_the_blind]

“Hey, I think I’m gonna take a trip up to Madison”

“The capital of Wisconsin?!?!”

[AlfonsoSRT]

I understood it as Hera being surprised that these droids are coming from a place under New Republic juristicion.

[GAINAX]

I think Hera was trying to convey that Corellia is under New Republic jurisdiction, not the fact that Corellia is a ship yard. Neither Ahsoka nor Sabine are New Republic officials so they might not know.

I do hate the trope you're getting at though, but I think it made sense here.

[andredulac]

I understand what you're saying, but to me the scene works because she wasn't trying to explain what corelia is "ha yes, the rew republic shipyard !", she was more surprised " what ? the new republic shipyard ? you're joking right ?"

[xSuperFryx]

I like how they made the Mandalorian a fish out of water character and it just makes him look stupid lol.

Like really man you don’t remember the Jedi it really hasn’t been that long since they were gone.

[MarcusFrederiksen]

Maybe Hera's response could have been: "What would this droid be doing at a New Republic shipyard?"

[justinjeffries]

Tbf didn't she say it was a question, like "The droid's from the shipyards?" It's a kind of question that happens 🤷🏿‍♂️

[frostyfrenchtoast]

The As You Know trope is so funny, if done well it can warm up the audience to the characters like in TFA, if done poorly it can feel like everything leading up to the information dump was pure dumb coincidence

[instantbadass]

The ones that annoy me are "lets go over the plan again" or, and this ones a little different and happens mainly in sitcoms, when some thing happens at one location, andthen it cuts back to the characters home or whatever, and then they finally talk about what happened. Like disd you just drive home in silence?

[DarthAndylus]

I personally find it kind of funny and can act as a reminder or also build some hype (ie "omg we are going to Corellia!!!). This is as long as it isn't like a full-on 1 one-minute explanation which to me would just be bad writing (the whole show don't tell thing) lol.