This Cannot Be!: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Senna:''' It couldn't end here. It couldn't end like this. This was [[Dimension Lord|to be my universe]]. Everworld [[Take Over the World|was mine]]; it couldn't end like this.}}

* [[The Dragon|Ishamael]] says something along these lines each of the three times Rand "kills" him in the first three books of the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series. {{spoiler|He may have a point, though, since he survives the first two times and is quickly reincarnated the third.}}

* In most English translations of the Polish folktale "The Two Babies Cast Into The Water," the father of the two babies (who have been put through the [[Moses in the Bulrushes]] treatment by their [[Wicked Stepmother]]) screams exactly this trope when the stepmother lies to him that his former wife has given birth not to human children, but to a dog and a cat. (The two children survive their ordeal and grow up to become a [[Brother-Sister Team]], with [[Action Girl|the sister a little more competent than the brother]].)

* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'' the villain's last words are "You're a Betan! You can't do--"