A Birthday, Not a Break: Difference between revisions
Updated wikilinks
Coffee Lover (talk | contribs) (→Film: Grammar work) |
(Updated wikilinks) |
||
| (8 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 5:
Compare/Contrast [[Ironic Birthday]], which is when the bad thing in question has to be kept a secret, and the character in question doesn't remember his/her own birthday until the party.
{{examples}}
== [[
* The events of ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods]]'' occur during Bulma's birthday party.
* In ''[[Ultimate Fantastic Four]]'', Dr. Doom, age 11, had his father drop his entire family history on him, and then leaves him alone in the parlor. Several hours later, Victor realizes that it's his birthday.
* In ''[[Trese]]'', it is only after a major battle with an old war demon that the heroine, Alexandra Trese, and her companions remember that it is her birthday. By this time, a lot of damage has been done to the city, Trese herself is recovering from some battle wounds, and her two sidekicks have very nearly been murdered by their own father.
== [[Fan
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
* In the surprisingly good ''[[The Young Ones|Young Ones]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5011650/1/The_Unforgiven The Unforgiven]'', this trope gradually unfolds through [[Named by the Adaptation|Miranda Balowski’s]] journals and memorial service: {{spoiler|she spent her sixteenth birthday giving birth to Vyvyan, and her parents threw them both out of the house shortly afterward.}}
Line 17 ⟶ 21:
* In ''[[The Room]]'' Johnny discovers his future wife and best friend had an affair, his future wife was leaving him and his best friend no longer likes him. [[Driven to Suicide|He ends up killing himself because of it.]] And this all happened on his birthday.
* In ''[[The Amityville Horror|Amityville 2: The Possession]]'' Sonny succumbs to [[Demonic Possession]] and slaughters his parents and siblings shortly after his birthday party.
* In ''[[House on Haunted Hill (1999 film)|House on Haunted Hill]]'', Evelyn Stockard-Price's body is rotted out while her soul is sucked out by the Darkness on her birthday.
* The first victim of the demonic invasion in ''[[Demons 2]]'' was a girl named Sally Day who was celebrating her birthday.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Shelter", a suburban doctor's birthday party is interrupted by a nuclear alert, followed by all the guests desperately trying to break into his fallout shelter, which has only enough room for the doctor's family. {{spoiler|The alert turns out to be a false alarm, but the relationships between the doctor and his friends are damaged, perhaps irreperably.}}▼
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' Buffy's birthday in seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is marked by some sort of tragedy or crisis that she has to deal with.▼
* A minor example, in an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', Phoebe has to break the news to Precious, the woman whom Mike was in a relationship with while he and Phoebe were separated, that not only are they getting back together (thus ending his relationship with Precious) but he also proposed to her. Precious then remarks "This is the worst birthday ever!"▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'' series, Kel is out training to become a knight, and rather focused on [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|not freaking out about climbing tall trees]], and covering her tracks. She then realizes its her birthday.
* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', when the Baudelaires are in jail for allegedly murdering Jacques in ''The Vile Village'', Klaus suddenly remembers that it's his thirteenth birthday.
** Violet goes through the same thing in ''The Grim Grotto'' when they return to the abandoned submarine.
* In ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', after Tom, Jay, and Daisy have their big confrontation, Nick Carraway recalls that he just turned thirty today.
* ''[[Percy Jackson & the
* ''[[Enola Holmes]]'': Enola is horrified by the day her mother chose to ran off on. Slightly subverted, in that her mother had her reasons . . .
* PK Pinkerton in ''[[The Western Mysteries]]'' comes home to find his parents scalped, his father dead and his mother dying. He doesn't remember it's his birthday until he sees his favorite kind of cake on the table. Red licorice strings spell out "HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY PINKY".
==
▲* In the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Shelter", a suburban doctor's birthday party is interrupted by a nuclear alert, followed by all the guests desperately trying to break into his fallout shelter, which has only enough room for the doctor's family. {{spoiler|The alert turns out to be a false alarm, but the relationships between the doctor and his friends are damaged, perhaps
▲* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' Buffy's birthday in seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is marked by some sort of tragedy or crisis that she has to deal with.
▲* A minor example, in an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', Phoebe has to break the news to Precious, the woman whom Mike was in a relationship with while he and Phoebe were separated, that not only are they getting back together (thus ending his relationship with Precious) but he also proposed to her. Precious then remarks "This is the worst birthday ever!"
* One episode of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' has the daughter of a deceased cop Walker was friends with raped when she goes to her very first bar on her 21st birthday.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'', Cassius realizes it's his birthday right before the battle where he's killed, after having noticed a ''ton'' of bad omens about the battle.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies]]'', the AWACS Sky Eye tells the pilots it's his birthday in the [[Back From the Brink]] mission, implicitly asking them to give him victory for a present. Happens again exactly one [[In-Universe]] year later, during the decisive battle for Farbanti.
* In ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War]]'', Grimm reveals that his birthday is coming up next week during a [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene|quiet break]] between the two final battles.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
| |||