Tempting Fate/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':

** While the Gaang's ship is under attack, Sokka says, [[Rock Bottom|"Things couldn't get much worse!"]], then a giant sea serpent pops out of the water.

*** The trope is however swiftly subverted, as a stray shot causes the serpent to attack their pursuers instead, prompting a "Thank you, the universe!" from Sokka.

** In the two-part episode "The Boiling Rock", the Warden says that no one has ever escaped from his prison. {{spoiler|By the end, 5 people have escaped -- Sokka, Zuko, Hakoda, Suki and Chit Sang.}}

** Having captured Toph in a metal container, and in the process of carting her home, Xin Fu gets sick of her yelling and taunts her, saying, "You might think you're the greatest earthbender in the world, but even you can't bend metal!" Guess what skill she proceeds to teach herself and use in the next few hours.

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' has "Harley's Holiday", where a semi-rehabilitated Harley Quinn ends up being pursued by the police, as well as Batman and Robin, after a simple misunderstanding. After taking [[Spoiled Sweet]] Veronica Vreeland hostage, she then ends up being pursued by gangsters who wish to ransom off the debutante. After Veronica realizes Harley really doesn't mean her any harm, she agrees to drop all charges, provided she gets out of this in one piece. A delighted Harley states: "For the first time today, things are finally looking up!" [[Batman: The Animated Series/Funny|Enter Veronica's hysterical Army general father, bearing down on them in a tank, Patton-style.]]

* Waspinator, the designated [[Butt Monkey]] of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' gets it in "Changing of the Guard":

{{quote|'''Jonathan:''' Okay, we should be perfectly fine as long as no one says --

'''Evelyn:''' I think we lost him!

''(the Scarab King [[Offscreen Teleportation|suddenly pops out of nowhere]])'' }}

* Egon Spengler of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' once remarked, "Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky."

** From their ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Family Guy Presents Laugh It Up Fuzzball|parody]] "Something Something Something Dark Side:"

{{quote|'''Rebel 1''': I think we're doomed.

'''Rebel 1''': Uh, Jim? Robot camels... }}

** In "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" Stewie changes the failing Cabana Club into the sucessful pLace. When Brian notes that nothing can stop them now, Andy Dick shows up.

{{quote|'''Timmy:''' The Darkness is never coming back!}}

** [[Catch Phrase|What else could go wrong?"]]

::Guess what's happening on Yugopotamia right now?

* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': One of the mini-shorts has a camper raking a big pile of leaves and saying "I can't imagine having to do that again." The plot of the short has Skip and Chip driving an out of control speedboat, so we expect the speedboat to ram into the leaves. {{spoiler|Instead, it rams into another campmate who happens to walk by.}}

** In "A Hard Day's Knight", Candace agrees to dress up like a princess for their medieval fair. After a few moments she wonders "Wait a sec. Could this be one of those things that backfires horribly on me? Nah." Throughout the rest of the episode, she suffers indignity after indignity.

** In "Doof Side of the Moon", Candace teams up with Irving's brother Albert to bust Phineas and Ferb for their latest project, a skyscraper so gigantic that it reaches to the moon. Albert assures Candace that the tower is so huge, "no force on Earth" could get rid of it before her mom comes home. This is only [[Exact Words|technically true]], as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Lunar Rotate-inator causes the moon to turn around, dragging the tower away in the process.

** In the very first episode, Twilight Sparkle brushes off Princess Celestia's advice to make some friends, saying "The fate of all Equestria doesn't depend on me making friends". By the next episode, it's clear that actually, it does.

** In "Look Before You Sleep," Twilight ends up lecturing Applejack and Rarity after their bickering spoils Twilight's first slumber party, and ends her rant with "Is there anything else that could possibly go wrong?!" The thunderstorm outside swiftly worsens, and a lightning bolt strikes a nearby tree and threatens to send it crashing into Twilight's house.

'''Danny:''' Have you seen his grades? '''(together with Tuck)''' ''Never gonna happen''.

'''Dash:''' Hey! This is Fenton wipe! *glares at Danny*

* From the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "Return of the Fly":

{{quote|'''April:''' Gee guys, this is really boring, I wish something would hap-