Already Done for You/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Plot Twist where another character in the story has accomplished one of your mission objectives for you.

• Straight: Bob and co arrives at the stronghold of The Dragon Captain Badd, only to find out that Aloof Ally Felicia has already offed him.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob and co arrives at The Very Definitely Final Dungeon to fight Emperor Evulz, only to find out that Aloof Ally Felicia has already offed him.
  • Every time you reach a Boss Battle, the other characters have already beaten it for you. When you reach one boss that makes a showy entrance, but is then mobbed by NPCs, you start thinking the game is just trying to annoy you.
• Justified: Felicia need to get the MacGuffin that Badd/Evulz possess, which Bob and co also seek.
• Inverted:
  • Felicia bites more than she can chew fighting a dragon, and drag Bob and co into helping her defeating said dragon when they pass nearby. Suddenly, Giant Space Flea From Nowhere!
  • Alternately: Bob and co defeated the enemy, then Felicia shows up stating she wanted to beat it and is told it's done already.
• Subverted:
  • Badd gets up after Felicia fell him, and now fights Bob and co. Felicia escaped.
  • Alternately: because the MacGuffin Bob and co seek is now in Felicia's hand, the fight is now Bob and co versus Felicia.
• Double Subverted:
  • Badd gets up, and promptly fall and dies from severe bleeding.
  • Alternately: Badd gets up and kills Felicia with a last shot before he dies. Bob and co escaped from the stronghold with the MacGuffin for zero effort.
• Parodied: Bob and co never get to fight any boss, because Felicia offed them all.
• Deconstructed: Bob and co never level up since Felicia gets all those humongous Experience Points from boss fights, leaving Bob and co underleveled.
• Reconstructed: The Man Behind the Man sends The Dragon to delay the heroes in order to successfully escape, but Felicia manages to apprehend him while Bob and co fight The Dragon
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes Felicia kill the bosses before Bob and co arrive, otherwise it's Bob and co's job to kill the bosses.
• Averted: All bosses must be fought.
• Enforced: "We need to show the players that this Felicia girl is awesome beyond Bob and co's league."
• Lampshaded: "Well, at least that girl spare us the trouble offing this guy."
• Invoked: Bob and co rushes through an underground passage filled with high-level monsters, hoping that this time Felicia will do the job defeating the high-level boss for them too.
• Exploited: Bob and co drop hints about which bosses they plan to kill soon.
• Defied: Bob and co spray Felicia with sleep gas before they go fight a boss.
• Discussed: "You killed him? ...DAMMIT! I WANTED TO DO THAT!"
• Conversed: "Oh hey, that stuck-up bitch Felicia acutally did something beside stand there and snark! That's nice."

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