The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

When the land becomes barren, horticulturists clear a new plot and leave the old plot to revert to its natural state.

The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in a murder plot.

Its existence is hinted at in the storyline of both Marathon and Marathon 2, and its release from Lh ' owon's star becomes a major plot point during Marathon Infinity.

She views Heathcliff as a romantic hero, despite Catherine's warning her against such a view, and becomes an unwitting participant in his plot for revenge.

This plot point becomes important near the end of the film when Robby refuses to kill the " Id monster " because the robot recognizes that the creature is an alter ego / extension of Dr. Morbius.

") Cleaning out the closet becomes the show's plot, inventorying much of the contents along the way: a photo album, a rusty horseshoe, a ten-foot pole.

James followed with The Princess Casamassima ( 1886 ), the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in far left politics and a terrorist assassination plot.

Heinlein did use a similar plot in the short story "— All You Zombies —", in which a character becomes both of his own parents.

His eidetic memory becomes a minor plot point.

Time becomes available for significant background and character / plot development.

The plot centers on a young boy who becomes a hostage after he is accidentally closed inside a moving van.

With all of the events occurring in a single night, the plot becomes more stimulating as well as lending more plausibility to the series of unlucky coincidences that conspire against the visitors.

Without this ' device ' the hero would never find the headquarters and be unable to reach the climactic scene ; however the character becomes less of a plot device if the author gives them a back-story and a plausible motivation for defecting and makes them an interesting character in their own right.

In a parallel plot, an underprivileged youth from Brooklyn, Lesra Martin ( Vicellous Reon Shannon ), becomes interested in Carter's life and destiny after reading Carter's autobiography, and convinces his Canadian foster family to commit themselves to his case.

This was followed by a lengthy nine-issue story arc, " The Fear Machine ", revolving around a masonic plot to collect people's fears, in order to resurrect a demon known as Juntakillokian, and his efforts to prevent this with the help of environmentalists, including Mercury, a young psychic girl, and Marj, her mother, with whom he becomes romantically involved.

For the book, Seltzer took liberties with his own material, augmenting plot points and character backgrounds and changing details ( such as character names — Holly becomes Chessa Whyte, Keith Jennings becomes Huber Jennings, Father Brennan becomes Father Edgardo Emilio Tassone, et cetera ).

The holodeck was used as a plot device to explore metaphysical questions, in such episodes as " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", in which a holodeck character becomes self-aware and contemplates the nature of his identity and continued existence.

The continual litigation that was a theme in that book becomes the central theme and plot device in A Frolic of His Own ( 1994 )— which earned him his second National Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction — where it seems that everyone is suing someone.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

There is no more `` plot '' than that ; ;

A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often.

In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

Since this curl is not the same at every point, its plot is a bit more interesting:

By turning these space to public use, the building got 20 % plot ratio more as bonus.

Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

Autocorrelation can be visualized on a data plot when a given observation is more likely to lie above a fitted line if adjacent observations also lie above the fitted regression line.

By 1917 Chaplin was also introducing more dramatic plot into his films, and mixing the comedy with sentiment.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

The plot centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space ; however, in contrast to the Universal Century continuity, the Gundam pilots of Gundam Wing are more closely allied to each other than they are to any particular side in the conflict unfolding around them.

Many at the time felt that Salisbury had been involved in the plot to gain favour with the King and enact more stridently anti-Catholic legislation.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

These developments represented a fundamental change in literary criticism, which came to focus more on character and less on plot.

In these stories Hergé placed more emphasis on characters than plot, and indeed Tintin's most memorable companions, Captain Haddock and Cuthbert Calculus ( in French Professeur Tryphon Tournesol ), were introduced at this time.

He borrowed it from the writings of the 16th-century chronicler John Mair or a 17th-century ballad presumably to make the plot of his novel more gripping.

The visual spectacle is given more attention than the dialogue and underlying story, though the main points of the plot are covered.

His films often eschew traditional narrative structure, lacking clear plot progression and focusing more on mood and character development.

As with other action films, martial arts films are dominated by action to varying degrees ; many martial arts films have only a minimal plot and amount of character development and focus almost exclusively on the action, while other martial arts films have more creative and complex plots and characters along with action scenes.

The film was light on plot and focused more on the comedy and musical numbers.

Yoshiyuki Tomino's original plot for the anime was considerably much more grim, with Amuro dying halfway through the series, and the crew of the White Base having to ally with Char ( who is given a red Gundam ), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon.

Over time, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to incorporate the idea of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds ; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which normally do not overlap ( see below or Multiverse for more information ).

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

In terms of plot, or perhaps more accurately plot device, Plautus served as a source of inspiration and also provided the possibility of adaptation for later playwrights.