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The famous last words of any villain at the height of their power, just before the tide begins to turn in favor of the heroes and everything starts to go wrong for the villain, who can then only scream "[[Big No|Noooo!]] [[This Cannot Be!|This can't be happening!]]"

To stop us now and change our fate

Before we rise }}

* Starship's ''Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now''.

 

== Musical ==

** But the Arbiter appearing at the same time near the control room sure did.

** In ''[[Halo]] 3'', after Truth's plans to cause galactic omnicide are stopped, Gravemind chimes in that his are still on track:

* In ''[[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.}}

{{quote|'''Liquid Snake''': Nothing will be able to stop Metal Gear nooow..}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[Captain SNES]]'', the simple fact of saying "I'm Invincible!" leads to an instant defeat, to the point that ''[[Invoked Trope|tricking the opponent into saying it]]'' (such as saying "I'm Invisible" and waiting for them to correct) is a valid battle tactic.

** As does Mopey [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=585 here].

 

* Goes double for humor of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''

* At the end of the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "The Earth King" {{spoiler|the usually [[Genre Savvy]] Sokka says "Come on. What could possibly go wrong?". Cue cuts to different plot revealing ways it will, by Ba Sing Se being taken over by [[Magnificent Bastard|Azula]] and the Fire Nation}}.

* Dr. Drakken in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is prone to this, to the point that his sidekick Shego [[Genre Savvy|will try to stop him saying it]].

* 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]]'':

** 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".

{{quote|'''Greenback''': Only one thing can stop me now!

'''Stiletto''': And what is that, Barony?

'''Narrator''': And tune in next time for the next exciting installment of ''The Invasion of Colonel K''! }}

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': Zim's supposedly impervious Voot Runner was reduced to a pile of flaming rubble by a [[Butterfly of Doom|bee]]. After a fairly risky rescue operation to get it out of the hands of the Saucer Morons, Zim comments to GIR: