Tempting Fate/New Media

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • This thing is indestructible. A train destroys the 2 sentries and dispenser. From Team Fortress 2's Something Completely Different.
  • At the end of the Lonelygirl15 episode "Backyard Bikini Patrol", Sarah remarks, "Us girls had a kickass day today. And, you know what? Tomorrow is gonna be even better!" The following day, in "Tick Tick Boom", villain Salinas sends her a video of her boyfriend Bound and Gagged with a bomb strapped to his chest.
    • Also in "Partner Swap", the day before prom night, Emma comments, "I have this feeling that we're going to have the most memorable night of our lives." In the next episode, "Prom: It's To Die For", Gina is killed.
  • Occurs all the time in the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. Whenever an agent says anything along the lines of "At last, a break from badfic." or "Now I can catch some sleep." he/she/other/it get sent to another mission. Lampshaded by references to the "Laws of Narrative Comedy". If a mission is described as appearing "not too bad", it will rapidly get worse.
  • Desu Des Brigade: After learning of the aforementioned Project D being done at a NASA base, Hitch said, "I am so outta here the moment they mention space vampires!" Much later in the review, near the end, when the vampire tells Kuki about their battle with evil aliens across the universe...

Hitch: Done. I am not doing space vampires! No! Done. Done! Dammit!!

  • In part 2 of Metroid Confusion, the two protagonists are blasted into space by a nuclear explosion. As they drift pointlessly through space on a piece of rock, the following exchange occurs:

"Look on the bright side. It could be worse."
"How could it possibly be worse?" (rant detailing the situation they're in)
"It could be raining."
"You idiot! It cannot rain in space!"

  • It seems that when anyone tries to review the godawful Batman and Robin film, it is almost a requirement to suggest that it won't be as bad as it's made out to be ( like Riff Trax and The Nostalgia Critic, with the latter providing a quote). In the case of the Critic, not less than 15 seconds after saying so, he tries (and fails) to pop a cyanide pill.
    • Throughout the Critic's review he's been doing this a lot. He said that a current scene would be even cheesier if a certain special effect is used or quote is said. And then that happens anyway.
  • Zero Punctuation illustrates this concept with DC character Dr. Fate being offered cake.
    • There's also the "Prototype vs In Famous", where Yahtzee declared both games to be equal and jokingly said that if the game studios want him to pick a winner, they'll have to send him their best images of the rival game's main character wearing women's lingerie. Much to his surprise and horror, they complied.

Yahtzee: Thanks to Radical Entertainment and Sucker Punch Productions for being such good sports. You sick, sick fucks.