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Often includes [[Monologuing]], accompanied by stock quotes such as: "[[You Have No Chance to Survive]]! I ''don't'' think we'll meet again... Goodbye!"

{{quote|'''Iceclaw:''' If Tigerstar can harm cats like he can and walk in their dreams, why doesn't he just do it to Firestar, take revenge, and get it over with?

'''Vicky:''' Because Tigerstar wants a long-drawn out kind of vengeance, involving as many cats as possible, so that Firestar truly suffers. ... }}

* Uncharacteristically occurs with [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Grand Admiral Thrawn]], usually one of the more [[Genre Savvy]] people in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. He has just betrayed Mara Jade by tricking her into revealing Talon Karrde's location, leading to his arrest by Imperials who will torture him if he doesn't hand over important intel, and then smugly mouths off to her face about it. Mara predictably goes [[Berserk Button|berserk]] and attempts to attack Thrawn, at first physically then through the Force. Both of these fail, leaving Thrawn with the question of what to do with a still visibly enraged and always emotionally unstable Jade. Instead of killing her, he allows her to live, and lets her out of his sight aboard his ship before letting her go. Jade then predictably hacks into the computer network of Thrawn's ship, uses it to find Luke Skywalker, and saves him. The next one-and-a-half books can be accurately described as Jade [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|sticking it to Thrawn]] which eventually leads to his plans collapsing and his death.

* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' had a very... ''[[Invoked Trope|unique]]'' case. Realizing that he is a mad genius billionaire with access to world-ending technology and a strong desire to actually use it, the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|sets up a geas that makes the tropes of a Bond movie reality. He plans to make it so that the only person who stands a chance of thwarting his plan is a solitary British secret agent... and if one of those manages to get through, then he'll shut off the geas so that said agent is nothing more than a solitary man hundreds of miles away from any back-up who can easily be killed}}. Small problem: {{spoiler|despite all his precautions, the [[Big Bad]] completely fails to realize by the end that the geas he thought he ended is still operating, even when he's got the hero and his fellow agent bound up and prefers to monologue at them rather than just kill them}}.