scène à faire

— Accordingly, tropes (recurrent scenes or motifs) or scènes à faire (sequences of events that necessarily result from the choice of a setting or situation) are not entitled to copyright protection. For example, courts have found that drunks, prostitutes, vermin, and derelict cars are scènes à faire in works about policemen in the South Bronx; conspiracies, characters with superhuman qualities, and advanced technology are scènes à faire in the action-adventure and science fiction genres; heroes performing feats of miraculous strength, fighting megalomaniac villains, and leading double lives are scènes à faire in works about superheroes; and lying under a chicken, sitting in a refrigerator, and facing the possibility of being scrambled or fried are scènes à faire in works about the personification of an egg.