Some tropes are so pervasive that they're like air, normally difficult to notice. Then one day, it suddenly hits you: of course, The Epic! Or Bank Robbery, or Magic Carpet, or what have you. Oddly, nothing comes up on a site search, so you take it to YKTTW in puzzled disbelief. But we must have this, you say. It's so obvious! Surely it's here somewhere. I really can't believe that we don't have this yet. Come on, people! It's the True Meaning of Christmas! It's one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, and it's all over the place. And The Great Crash of 2008 had nothing to do with its absence!