Nothing Can Stop Us Now: Difference between revisions

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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~~|Robeasts~~]] 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...

* ''[[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...

** On the other hand, [[The Dragon|Great Marshall of Hell]] from ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' was more careful about using it. Seemingly he learnt his lesson {{spoiler|since he was a resurrected Dr. Hell}}

* 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.

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*** Nor did they know {{spoiler|that the Dutchman would be turned against them}}.

* ''[[Westworld]]'': Welcome to Westworld, [[Tempting Fate|where nothing can go wrong]]... go wrong... go wrong...

* ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''. Xur, the resident [[Big Bad]], receives an incomplete transmission from Earth saying simply "The last Starfighter...". He automatically completes the sentence himself: "...is dead. The last Starfighter is dead. [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]!" No prizes for guessing how that worked out for him.

* ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''. Xur, the resident [[Big Bad]], receives an incomplete transmission from Earth saying simply "The last Starfighter...". He automatically completes the sentence himself: "...is dead. The last Starfighter is dead. Nothing Can Stop Us Now!" No prizes for guessing how that worked out for him.

* Uttered by Professor Z, [[The Dragon]] of ''[[Cars]] 2''. Cue Finn McMissile's arrival.

* The big song of ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'' is a heroic example.

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{{quote| "''Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside;''<br />

''corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide!''" }}

* In ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', after defeating the Mafic Dragon, just when the hero is about to collect the Chaos Focus Gem and accept it into the Supreme Arcane Staff, Ledgermayne snatches the gem and crushes it into pieces, afterwards telling the hero to go back to the Tower of Magic and await Lore's demise. It even says "There is nothing on Lore that can stop us now," before teleporting back to the para-elemental plane of magic. However, Ledgermayne made one ~~mistake -- it~~ didn't check to make sure there were no shards left from the Gem, so, being the optimistic fellow he/she is, the hero accepts the shards left behind into the staff itself.

* In ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', after defeating the Mafic Dragon, just when the hero is about to collect the Chaos Focus Gem and accept it into the Supreme Arcane Staff, Ledgermayne snatches the gem and crushes it into pieces, afterwards telling the hero to go back to the Tower of Magic and await Lore's demise. It even says "There is nothing on Lore that can stop us now," before teleporting back to the para-elemental plane of magic. However, Ledgermayne made one mistake—it didn't check to make sure there were no shards left from the Gem, so, being the optimistic fellow he/she is, the hero accepts the shards left behind into the staff itself.

{{quote| '''Hero''': I'm not just going to lay down and die, Ledgermayne. This will ''have'' to be enough to stop you.}}

* Metal Gear Solid

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* In a variation of this, ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' had one character die a couple episodes after discovering his own [[Plot Armor]]. Though technically speaking {{spoiler|it was his friend that said they were immortal, the one that actually died wasn't nearly as arrogant, and even called him out for [[Tempting Fate]]}}.

* ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'':

** In "Totally Outrangous: Part 1 - The Beginning" ~~-- Pizzazz~~ of the Misfits says that "they [The Misfits] got it made." Before the Eric could announce the Misfits as the winner of the rigged Battle of the Bands, the Holograms start playing "Only The Beginning"

** In "Totally Outrangous: Part 1 - The Beginning"—Pizzazz of the Misfits says that "they [The Misfits] got it made." Before the Eric could announce the Misfits as the winner of the rigged Battle of the Bands, the Holograms start playing "Only The Beginning"

** Used straight by Eric when he's dealing with mob in "Intrigue At Indy 500", just after saying that, the host of the party announces that driver the mob was afraid ~~of--got~~ a new sponsor, Starlight Music.

** Used straight by Eric when he's dealing with mob in "Intrigue At Indy 500", just after saying that, the host of the party announces that driver the mob was afraid of—got a new sponsor, Starlight Music.

** Used straight again by Eric when talking to the Misfits in "Glitter N' Gold"~~--thought~~ he doesn't get screw right after saying that.

** Used straight again by Eric when talking to the Misfits in "Glitter N' Gold"—thought he doesn't get screw right after saying that.

** The Stingers in the team-up song, "Now", sings "Now, (now,) nobody can beat us".

* Another rare non-villain moment: during the ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' episode "Catch the Butterfly", Pablo, Tyrone and Uniqua sing a song called "How Hard Can It Be?" {{spoiler|as the coach, currently floating on a river, falls into pieces.}} Lampshaded during the song:

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* ''[[Donkey Kong Country (Animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' combines this with [[Chekhov's Gag]]: King K Rool is setting up a trap in the middle of the jungle with a barrel suspended on a vine, and he instructs Krusha to drop the barrel when he says "Now!" He then proceeds to get the barrel dropped on himself several times due to not being careful what he says, and eventually gives up. Later in the episode, he gets his hands on the Crystal Coconut, and is running through the jungle with it at breakneck speed, gloating to himself.

{{quote| '''K Rool:''' NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!!!<br />

*the barrel falls on him*~~<br />~~

*the barrel falls on him*

'''Krusha:''' He definitely said now this time. I heard him. He said "now." }}

* ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]'' has this exchange:

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* [[World War II]]:

** The initial duration of Operation Barbarossa was planned to be about three months.

** 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 ~~[[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|~~victory is certain and inevitable."]] Then came [[Shocking Defeat Legacy|Midway, Stalingard, and El Alamein.]]

** 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.

** Herman Goering, Air Marshall of the ''Luftwaffe'', was heard to boast that the ''Luftwaffe'' would easily brush aside the British Royal Air Force and ensure uncontested German supremacy of the skies for a German invasion of Britain. Turns out, the RAF had other ideas.

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