Knowing: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Knowing. Pick one to read it.

• Red Herringin 2,958 titlesPlayed straight every time the protagonist wants to stop a disaster from happening.Read →
• Conveniently Interrupted Documentin 77 titlesLucinda's predictions end with a date and an ambiguous "EE" as it was pulled away from her while she was still writing.Read →
• Magical Defibrillatorin 154 titlesA weird version of this. The EKG is clearly showing v-fib (i.e. the thing you actually want to defibrillate) and the EMT administers defib, which correctly stops the heart.Read →
• Dramatic Shatteringin 157 titlesAfter going through the list of numbers and their respective fatal disasters, John eventually comes to the sequence of numbers 10/27/08/48; the date that his wife died.Read →
• Shoot the Shaggy Dogin 1,154 titlesJohn: I thought there was some purpose to all this. Why did I get this prediction if there's nothing I can do about it?Read →
• Rule of Symbolismin 2,297 titlesPractically the whole damned movie, but that print of the 17th-century Matthäus Merian engraving◊ marked Ezekiel InoteBiblical scholars and investigators into evidence for aliens regard this controve…Read →