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Maybe [[Our Vampires Are Different|Your Vampires Aren't Quite So Different After All]]. Maybe the villain is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], or the [[Mooks]] can [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|actually shoot straight]]. Perhaps the [[Love Interest]] is ''not'' [[Immune to Bullets]], or perhaps talking is not, [[Talking Is a Free Action|despite what you may have been led to believe]], a free action. Or maybe the protagonist should have been better about cleaning up his/her loose ends, because the [[Tethercat Principle]] is actually ''not'' in effect and those [[Butt Monkey]] [[Mooks]] are angry. Or the plucky [[La Résistance]] [[Rock Beats Laser|has beat the Empire despite being technologically inferior,]] only to realise too late that [[Insane Admiral|Admiral I.N. Sane]] ''hasn't'' forgotten his [[Kill Sat|orbit-to-surface]] [[Nuke'Em|nukes]]. [[Overly Long Gag|Or...]] Whichever, it's that moment when the audience goes "[[Fridge Logic|that makes logical sense]] but [[The Coconut Effect|our tropes don't cover]]..."
This can sometimes be seen on the hard end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], though [[Dystopia Is Hard|it isn't necessarily so]]. See also [[Twist Ending]], [[Mood Whiplash]], [[Ascended Fridge Horror]] and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. [[Defied Trope]] may lead to this, as may [[Deconstructed Trope]]. Commonly found in the company of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]. Not to be confused with [[Hilarity Ensues]], although they can overlap, depending on usage. Compare [[Magic
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]''', as that would just be [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundant]]. We all know that reality is not a work of fiction, [[Wild Mass Guessing]] notwithstanding. Reality already ensues all the time in [[Real Life]].
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* ''[[Black Orchid]]'' doesn't just lampshade this, a mook gives a half-page [[Character Filibuster]] on the subject. Then he shoots the [[Decoy Protagonist]] in the head and sets her corpse on fire to make sure she's really dead.
* In ''[[Irredeemable]]'', the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Face Heel Turn|superhero-turned-supervillain]] [[Villain Protagonist|titular character]], in a flashback from his early teens, hears his foster mother is about to commit suicide. He gets here in a fraction of a second. But sounds takes almost ten seconds to travel two miles. She was already dead before he left his school desk.
* Amusingly one of the first times [[
* In the first ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' comic, they're tied up on top of an active volcano and a husky cult leader intends to kill them. [[Convection, Schmonvection|The large amount of heat from the volcano]] causes the cult leader to spontaneously combust. However, the comic decides to play it off as a [[Deus Ex Machina]] for the sake of humor.
* This is pretty much the central premise of [[Watchmen]]: what happens to superheroes when [[Reality Ensues]]? What becomes of people who dress up in costumes and take the law into their own hands in a world as full of political and social complexities as the real world? They die. They go insane (presuming they weren't [[Black and White Insanity|insane already]]). [[He Who Fights Monsters|Or they become monsters.]]
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