prokopetz:

More favourite tropes:

• Overstated warning of very minor threat
• Understated warning of incredibly dangerous threat
• Comically inadequate safety measures
• Safety measures that seem comically inadequate, but actually work
• Advisory of oddly specific danger
  
• Advisory that suggests oddly specific precautions, but doesn’t say why
• Conspicuous over-preparedness for contextually unlikely threat
• Conspicuous under-preparedness for contextually imminent threat
• Apparently harmless thing turns out to be dangerous
• Apparently dangerous thing proves so, but not for the expected reason