Plot
Think up
Think up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- A form of "elliptical storytelling", where non-essential details of the plot, setting, or characterization are deliberately left out for the reader to think up on their own.
Source: Dashed Plot Line - The idea being that an actor with poor English skills was accidentally hired, so the creators had to think up the ridiculous plot device of Poncho being mute because he'd been shot in the tongue.
Source: The Speechless - It's lampshaded within the plot saying that smart villains hate needless complications and that a brain tumor is destroying his rationality and caused him to think up a plan that's so incredibly convoluted.
Source: Fan Fic / Titan Legends
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