I think movie nerds are basically there to warn everyone as they always know the back story.
On reading this thread the first thing that popped into my head was - and quite possibly one of the first examples of this.
Was the Twilight Zone episode the Monsters on Maple Street.
This is the one where all of a sudden everyones technology cuts off. So no electricity working, no phones, no cars will turn over, nothing.
Everyone is thinking nothing of it, till tommy said this is just what happens in my comic books. Its aliens doing it.
And then a mass conspiracy starts of who is the hidden alien in the street which wouldn't have happened without the nerd saying this.
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