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** '''You'd Expect''': Randy to ignore Wade and continue the match.
** '''Instead''': Randy chases Wade and gets counted out as a result.
* On Aug. 4, 2014 episode of RAW, Seth Rollins was given a change of an opponent, Heath Slater rather than Rob Van Dam, in order to increase his chances of choosing a match if he could beat Slater in under 15 minutes. The move was done by the Authority, but Dean Ambrose shows up to bother Rollins.
** '''You'd Expect''': The Authority to remove Ambrose from the area, or Rollins to ignore him in order to beat Slater.
** '''Instead''': {{Spoiler| The distraction was too much for Rollins, leading to Slater to beat Rollins allowing Ambrose to choose a lumberjack match for Summer Slam.}}
* On Aug. 11, 2014 episode of RAW, [[Stephanie McMahon]] claims that Megan Miller, a physical therapist, [[Kayfabe| was having an affair]] with Daniel Bryan, Brie’s husband. Brie shows up to confront Miller.
** '''You'd Expect''': Brie was come to her senses and wonder if this was nothing more than a trap.
** '''Instead''': Brie slaps Miller and attacks Stephanie. {{Spoiler| Brie was later “arrested” for assaulting Miller.}}
** '''To be fair''': Brie had to know something was up, resulting in her attacking Stephanie.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** '''You'd Expect''': The emperor destroys the enemy army. Orbital fire, [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]], [[One-Man Army|doing it personally]]. You've got a lot of options when you have spaceships, troops, guns and enough [[Psychic Powers]] to make [[Physical God|the gods themselves]] run screaming.
** '''Instead''': He rescues Angron and retreats with his ship, thus killing most of the gladiators and giving Angron a grudge that would later cause him to join the traitor legions.
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* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]], an [[Impoverished Patrician]] [[Starving Artist]], unknown yet talented playwright, is offered the Patronage of [[Magnificent Bastard|Cardenal Richelieu]], [[Man Behind the Man|The most powerful man in all France]] and [[Renaissance Man|known playwright]], who will only [[Executive Meddling|''edit one or two verses'']] of [[New Meat|Cyrano’s unproduced play]], ''"Agrippine"''.
** '''You’d Expect:''' A serious, talented [[Starving Artist]] who [[New Meat|has never been represented in scene]] [[Paying Their Dues|will recognize this as a golden opportunity and be tolerant of a]] [[Man Behind the Man|powerful]] Mecenas [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|with a lot of money]] [[Renaissance Man|who really has experience with playwriting]] [[Executive Meddling|and whom really]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|could improve]] ''"Agrippine"''.
** '''Instead:''' [[Small Name, Big Ego|Cyrano arrogantly]] invokes [[Protection From Editors]] and [[Ungrateful Bastard|nastily rejects the patronage]]. To put things in perspective, rejecting Cardenal Richelieu’s patronage in [[The Cavalier Years]] Paris it’s like someone in [[Marvel Universe]] rejecting [[Doctor Doom]]’s patronage, or someone in [[DC Universe]] rejecting [[Lex Luthor]]’s patronage ''when he was [[President Evil]] of the United States''.
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** '''Instead''': The Buckeyes try and get the ball up the court quickly, resulting in a bad shot and an early exit from the tournament.
* [[World War II]], the invasion of Normandy: [[Adolf Hitler]]'s armies defending France are equipped with many deadly, high-powered Panzer tanks that will prove to be a nightmare for the Allies when they try to liberate France.
** '''You'd Expect''': That ''Der Fuhrer'' would authorize his generals to unleash the Panzers whenever it was tactically necessary, and use their resources as efficiently as they can.
** '''Instead''': Hitler orders that the Panzers can only be used with his personal authorization. He's also completely terrified his subordinates, and lets them know that he [[Berserk Button|hates being woken up in the middle of the night]]. Unfortunately, when the invasion of Normandy begins, Hitler is asleep and his stooges are too terrified of his wrath to go in and wake him up so he can give the order to use the Panzers. The end result is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the Allies, and the beginning of the end for [[Nazi Germany]].
* It's 1187, and Saladin, having marched 30 000 men into Palestine, has to, somehow, beat the 20 000 men that the Crusaders could call up. The Fatimid king can only beat the crusaders on the field instead of sieges - and Saladin prepares to exploit this, baiting a trap for Guy of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem by besieging a fortress which belongs to another high commander of the Crusaders, Raynald of Châtillon. Saladin leaves his main army behind to further improve his chances of making the bait work.
** '''You'd Expect''': As Raynald pointed out - stay where they are, in a safe place near an oasis. However, he was called a coward...
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