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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Curiously, [[The Dragon|Baron Ashura]] tends to utters that sentence in two types of situation: when [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell is showing another of his [[Robeast]]s to [[Two-Faced|him/her/it]] (cue Mazinger Z obliterating the Mechanical Beast twenty minutes later); or when one of his/her/its schemes succeeds or is about of succeeding. Examples of the second use are when a Mechanical Beast has utterly trashed Mazinger Z, when he managed to steal a sample of Alloy Z...

* It is ''disturbingly'' frequently used by [[The Dragon|Prince Garuda]] from ''[[Combattler V]]''. When he {{spoiler|blew [[The Hero|Hyoma's]] arms off}}, when he blackmailed the Japanese Government in blowing up the Nanbara Connection -the HQ of the heroes-, when he deceiving the Japanese police to get the Combattler team under arrest... Some would think he would learn NOT tempting fate after the first time.

* ''[[Death Note]]'': Episode 36, the one before the series finale, ends with Light (who is actually the series' [[Villain Protagonist|protagonist]]) saying "This is my win", and by that {{spoiler|revealing himself as Kira, while thinking the SPK members are going to be killed by Mikami's Death Note}}. However, when {{spoiler|Near and the other SPK members don't die}}, it becomes clear that Light has been [[Out Gambit|out gambitted]].

** An example of this presumed causation working its way into the text: the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Spiral". Dawn reassures Buffy that things can't get worse. Immediately, an arrow flies into their RV. Buffy tells Dawn, "This is your fault for saying that!"

* Near the beginning of the sixth season of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Gul Dukat has a particularly good one just before Sisko gets the wormhole aliens to destroy the Jem'hadar fleet. This is followed by a very bad villainous BSOD, worsened when one of Dukat's officers shoots his daughter Ziyal for betraying the Cardassian-Dominion alliance by breaking a group of terrorists out of prison. At the end, Dukat, having gone over the course of the episode from the effective leader of the Cardassian empire and one of the three most powerful beings in the Alpha Quadrant to a war criminal in a prison cell, has obviously cracked and is huddled up in the corner of the prison talking to Ziyal.

** Lampshaded in "The Satan Pit":

{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' "'No turning back'? That's as bad as 'Nothing can possibly go wrong'!"}}

** Two weeks after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, [[The Nazis|Goebbels]] wrote "We hardly find it necessary today to rely on a belief in our national invincibility to predict that victory is certain and inevitable." Then came [[Shocking Defeat Legacy|Midway, Stalingard, and El Alamein.]]

** The Allies expected the war to be over by Christmas after the Normandy landings.

* There was an indie band called Repliforce. Their motto was "No one can stop us" (this and their name are references to ''[[Mega Man X]] 4''). They lasted about two or three years. The real [[Tear Jerker]] was that their final album was actually called "No One Can Stop Us".

* There have been several ships named ''HMS Invincible''. Of these, one was wrecked off the coast of Norfolk, another sank during a storm, and another blew up when exchanging fire with a German warship during [[World War I]].

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