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[[File:TzeentchDidntSeeThatComing.jpg|link=Warhammer 40,000|frame|Call it a hunch, but [[Captain Obvious|I'd say things didn't go as planned here]].]]
 
{{quote|''Mentsch tracht, Gott lacht.'' ("Man plans, [[God]] laughs.")|'''A Yiddish proverb'''}}
|'''A Yiddish proverb'''}}
 
Ah, nothing denotes how [[Crazy Prepared]] [[The Chessmaster]] is like the good old [[Gambit Pileup]]. Truly, there is ''nothing'' these twelfth-level omni-geniuses have not [[Clock King|contemplated in their equations]] and planned for with contingencies [[Time for Plan B|B]][[Crazy Prepared| through Z^42.]]
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Compare [[Spanner in the Works]], which very often is the unknown factor. See also [[Didn't Think This Through]].
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Fan Works ==
* This tends to happen to heroes of [[Peggy Sue]] fanfics when the changes they make to the timeline come back to bite them in the ass. An excellent example of this occurs in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] and the Nightmares of Futures Past]]''; Harry rants to Dumbledore about his living conditions with the Dursleys at one point, and Dumbledore responds {{spoiler|by using memory charms on the Dursleys in an effort to improve the situation. When an unknown third party later removes the charms and Vernon ''remembers being charmed'', Harry's already-rocky relationship with the Dursleys turns downright venomous, culminating in a savage beating during the first year/second year summer break that leaves Harry in critical condition.}}
* {{spoiler|Tzeentch's failure to see the C'tan plans coming}} was what forced {{spoiler|the canon!40k gods}} to work together in ''[[Thousand Shinji]]''. Continues into ''[[The Open Door]]'', where newChaos forces occasionally find themselves facing things even the supposedly-omniscient {{spoiler|and inheritor of Tzeentcch's mantle}} Tzintchi fails to see coming and thus pay for it.
* Pops up left and right in ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', to both GDI and Nod. After all, GDI never saw the initial Nod assault coming, nor did Nod ever see {{spoiler|Havoc's mini-guerilla war}}, {{spoiler|fifty thousand GDI Marines}}, or {{spoiler|a ''division'' of Mammoth Tanks}} coming.
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', the completely unexpected appearance of mobs of skahs in Ehndris diverts the baddies' attention and gives John and Ringo the chance to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Raleka as they race to get into the warehouse.
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* ''[[Bob and George]]'': Our [[Idiot Hero]] is on the edge of a cliff with The Yellow Demon jumping at him -- [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000709c so he runs back and the cliff falls]. Bet you the demon didn't see it coming.
** And the sickly Met Demon actually has an attack. [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050524c X uses the trope name]
* The defunct webcomic ''Filthy Lies'' had one character daydream a ''[[SelfHarry InsertPotter]]'' fic[[Self-Insert Fic]] where he was a [[Jerkass Stu]] (using Felix Felicis, for example, to have a threesome with Hermione and Ginny) induring the events of ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''...who, during the climax, ended up screwing everything up so that all the good guys died. {{spoiler|He even took the big moment away from Snape by accidentally bumping Dumbledore off the top of the tower with poor broom handling before Snape could perform Avada Kedavra.}}
{{quote|'''Snape:''' I did ''not'' see that coming.}}
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', when Abe disarmed the elf. Anybody who forgets he's fighting a wizard after having to overcome his spells just to get there ''deserves'' to be {{spoiler|1=[[Macross Missile Massacre|spammed]] by [http://egscomics.com/?date=2009-07-04 exploding crows]}} on the spot.
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