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* Frequently [[Played With]] in ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]''--[[Troperiffic|lots of tropes]] show up naturally, but everyone who ''actively tries'' to [[Invoked Trope|invoke a trope]] will end up just failing at best, or running into [[Deconstruction|consequences]] at worst. Most notable is {{spoiler|Blaine}}'s past attempt to invoke ''[[Sex Equals Love]]'', which... [[Break the Cutie|didn't work.]]
** Another case is where Blaine hits his head and the [[Easy Amnesia]] / [[Tap on the Head]] tropes are ''very'' much averted.
* Played with, though also straight, in the ''[[
* Subverted in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5659618/1/Mikami_VS_The_Cybermen_A_Tale_Most_Epic Mikami Vs. the Cybermen]. After eight days straight of writing, he mentions how surprised he is that he hasn't run out of ink. {{spoiler|[[Double Subverted]] right afterwards, when he dies of thirst.}}
* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8065617/1/ Markings of The Mind]'' [[Teen Genius]] Light Yagami is placed in solitary confinement for fifty days... [[Sanity Slippage|and goes stark raving mad.]]
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** Linguini and Colette's [["Falling in Love" Montage]] is [[Mood Whiplash|rudely interrupted]] when Remy falls off Linguini's head, and is abruptly faced with the very real danger of being a rat in the middle of the street.
* In the [[Final Battle]] of the first live action ''[[Kekko Kamen]]'' film the title character is fighting a very butch mook who is revealed, with much gloating from the [[Big Bad]], to be immune to all of her powers. The heroine then picks up a gun from a fallen mook and uses it.
* In the Macaulay Culkin movie ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'', the [[Big Bad]] spends the entire movie trying to break into the Rich family vault so he can steal their money. By the time he actually makes it in, however, he finds that is full of nothing but keepsakes and photo albums, leading to this:
{{quote|'''Van Dough''': But where's the gold... the diamonds... the negotiable bearer bonds? The money! ''[points his gun at them]'' ''Where is the '''money?!'''''
'''Richard Rich Sr.''': In banks. Where else? And the stock market...real estate... }}
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* James Patterson has this as a side effect of the [[Author Tract]] in ''Cross Country'', Alex Cross's ex girlfriend gets brutally murdered by an African mercenary. He heads to Africa. {{spoiler|The second he gets out of the airport, he's kidnapped. By the police. Then it gets worse.}} You could basically cut out several hundred pages from the middle of the book, and all you'd miss would be the [[Author Tract]] and Reality Ensuing, over and over again.
* Pretty much the entire reason for the ''[[Lawrence Watt-Evans|Three Worlds Trilogy]]'' is Reality Ensues plus [[Deus Angst Machina]]. [[This Loser Is You|The protagonist fails]] [[Boring Failure Hero|at everything]] and a whole bunch of people die because he's just an ordinary person up against insurmountable odds. [[Grimdark]] only begins to describe it.
* In the ''[[Warhammer
** In a [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel, Cain notes that many battle sisters do something similar, [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|fighting with their faces exposed]] claiming that faith will be their armor. Many of them die horrible deaths thanks to the [[Bug War|Tyranids]] as a result.
* ''[[Mansfield Park]]'': [[Prince Charming Wannabe]] Henry Crawford ultimately ''doesn't'' love the heroine enough to [[Ladykiller in Love|give up his lady-killing ways]] and crushes everyone's hopes of their marriage when he runs off with her (married) cousin. What, you were expecting the [[Handsome Lech]] to completely change his ways because of [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|the influence of a girl he couldn't control]] and to deserve the heroine because [[Stalker with a Crush|the more she tried to get rid of him, the more he harassed her]]? Not in [[Jane Austen]]!
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Any tabletop RPG player knows this can happen to the heroes or the villains. It doesn't matter how dramatic the story has made it, one lucky roll from either side can make a climactic showdown [[Chunky Salsa Rule|very, very brief]]. The extent to which this happens can tell a lot about the nature of a game and GM. [[wikipedia:GNS theory|GNS theory]] covers this as well; Simulationists want this trope in force, while Narrativists want "plot first."
** Games that heavily avert this trope (such as ''[[Dungeons
** Grittier, meaner, more brutal games (''[[The World of Darkness]]'', ''[[Dark Heresy]]'', ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'', and so on) intentionally invoke this trope to help create the feel of danger, failure, and high stakes. Some games, such as the old [[West End Games]] ''D6 [[Star Wars]]'' adaptation, have rules written to invoke this trope and then blatantly tell the GM to lie and keep the PC's relatively safe, allowing them to feel like reality may ensue when it probably won't. Some games even shoot to overplay this trope in the name of schadenfreude; for instance, in ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'', your character is incompetent, your boss is insane, and your teammates will throw you under the bus at the drop of a hat—so sure enough, you're pretty much guaranteed to suck, fail, and die repeatedly [[Black Comedy|for laughs]].
** ''[[GURPS]]'' defaults to a gritty, dangerous rule system where this trope is in full force, and combat is lethal. But the GM can change that, for example by using the various Cinematic Combat rules, or ignoring the bleeding rules. And then there are the ''Silly'' Combat rules, which throw reality right out the window in favor of rules like Bulletproof Nudity, [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] (the [[Trope Namer]]), [[Bottomless Magazines|Infinite Ammunition]], and [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting|Martial Arts Anonymous]].
** ''[[Dungeons
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* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[The Darkness]]'', Uncle Paulie, is built up as the catalyst for all of the misery in Jackie's life, from {{spoiler|the death of Jackie's girlfriend}} to getting blown out of a window by a bomb. Jackie finally makes it to Paulie, and {{spoiler|Paulie goes down just as easy as the [[Mooks]] Jackie had been slaughtering to reach him. After all, Paulie's a normal human being, and a rather overweight one, at that. Jackie has the personification of all evil living inside of him. If anything, it's more of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] [[Cutscene Boss]] than a final boss fight}}.
* In [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], with the addition of the Sonic Boost in recent games we see a more realistic take on what happens when an object gets hit by another object moving at the speed of sound.
* Most strategy games would make missions where you cause an enemy commander's [[Final Death]] to be long base sieges. ''[[Dawn of War]]'' sees {{spoiler|the Imperial Guard's General Sturnn}} off in the middle of the Disorder campaign, at the start of a mission that gives the player only a standing force and no base to rush him with. There's a longer part of the mission afterwards, and his passing is barely mentioned subsequently. Only in a [[Crapsack World]] [[World Half Empty|Half Empty]] like ''[[Warhammer
** It's not even a particularly spectacular fight. Fight can be summed up as {{spoiler|Gorgutz picking up Sturnn and beating him into bloody pulp.}} Then again, what you do expect from fight between {{spoiler|beefed up Ork and normal human?}}
** In a similar case is in ''Dawn of War II: Retribution'' in the Tyranids campaign Sgt Merrick is faced with the Hive Tyrant, and the Nid just hacks him in less than three seconds.
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*** Interestingly, it ''almost'' worked. Roku had gotten Sozin to halt his plan. Later, a volcanic eruption threatened the village Roku lived in. Sozin showed up to help his old friend, who was rescuing the villagers...then Sozin had the sudden epiphany, that if he just left and ''let'' Roku die, he could resume his plans of world conquest.
* A rather jarring example on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': after moving into the gritty, more realistic Citiesville, the girls' attempts to fit in are all met with either laughter or cold dismissal. The final straw was when the mayor of Citiesville called them in after they had stopped some bank robbers - not to congratulate the girls, but for blowing up a bridge to stop their getaway:
{{quote|'''Mayor:'''Let me tell you some words. [[What the Hell, Hero?|At what point did it seem like a good idea to blow up the Citiesville Bridge?]]
'''Blossom:''' Uh...
'''Mayor:''' NO! Do you realize the two crooks that you caught stole approximately four hundred dollars? Do you realize that you did over three '''MILLION DOLLARS IN PROPERTY DAMAGE TO THAT BRIDGE?! IT'S NOT REPLACEABLE!''' }}
** An even better (worse?) example was when Rainbow the Clown suffered an accident that turned him into the sound-and-color-hating "Mr. Mime." He almost succeeds in turning Townsville into a silent, monochromatic wasteland, but the girls set everything right with [[The Power of Rock]]. Rainbow's mind is freed from the evil and he thanks the girls for saving him - at which point they beat the tar out of him and have him carted off to jail, because... well... he broke the law.
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