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* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' probably executed this in the most humorously absurd manner. When Burgundy and company start butting heads with another news group, they bring along multitude of weapons. Soon, other rival news groups join, and they all get into one large and epic battle royale. At different times, one person gets killed with a trident, another gets caught in a net and dragged on the floor by two horses, someone gets a hold of a grenade, Luke Wilson's character's gets an arm chopped off, and then his other arm is ripped off by a {{bear|sAreBadNews}}.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(after getting his arm chopped off out of nowhere)''" Ugh! I did ''not'' see that coming!"
* It's an invoked RunningGag in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' between Quicksilver and Hawkeye that plays to the RuleOfThree. The first two times are snarky, with Barton's being an IronicEcho, and the third is played for drama [[spoiler:when Quicksilver saves Barton's life and that of the child he was protecting, making this trope also his LastWords]].
* Thanos seems set up to repeat the iconic [[BadassFingerSnap snap]] at the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', only this time with the intention of destroying the entire universe and then recreate it in his image. Cue the snap and... [[spoiler:nothing happens. Tony swiped the Infinity Stones during his final attempt to steal the gauntlet, leaving Thanos to [[OhCrap blankly stare at him]] as Tony snaps him and his entire army to dust.]]
** For that matter, Captain Marvel probably didn't see [[spoiler:Thanos removing the Power Stone from the gauntlet in order to blast her unconscious.]]
** Tony certainly couldn't expect [[spoiler:past!Hulk slamming a door open on his face after walking down the stairs.]]
* In ''Film/BigGame'', ''Nobody'' expected that a 13-year-old badass Finn would be going through his RiteOfPassage the same day and in the same place the president is being hunted down.
-->'''Chief of staff''': Who the hell is that?
* ''Film/ChildsPlay3'': Chucky sets up to kill Colonel Cochrane... only for his leaping out of hiding with a knife and screaming to give Cochrane a HollywoodHeartAttack. Chucky's expression shifts from horrific rage to complete disbelief.
-->'''Chucky:''' Oh, you gotta be fuckin' ''kidding'' me!
* The Joker's reaction to the eventual result of his social experiment in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' can be seen as an emotive example of this trope. Of course, being the Joker, he's not put off for long.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', the fallen angel Azrael has our heroes at his mercy and tempts Silent Bob to hit him with a golf club he has in his hands. Both Silent Bomb and Azrael are both shocked when [[spoiler:Silent Bob ''caves Azrael's chest in'']]. Once they get free, Serendipity suggests that [[spoiler:the golf club that Jay and Silent Bob stole from Cardinal Glick for ignoring their warnings was blessed to give the Cardinal a better golf game, unwittingly turning it into a holy weapon]].
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's plot to prove that Ava is truly sentient [[spoiler:his real one, that is]] works flawlessly, and even Caleb's moves to stop Nathan are mostly for naught. Nathan was all set to win, then the one thing he didn't see coming was [[spoiler:Kyoko's [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebellion]] and murder attempt on him, which gave Ava the opening needed to kill him]].
* Creator/TheCoenBrothers movie ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' centers around a slimy car salesman trying to get out of financial trouble by hatching an EvilPlan to have some men kidnap his wife and pretend to hold her for ransom so he could get some money from her wealthy father to pay off his debts. The plan spirals completely out of control and causes the deaths of about five or six people, including the wife. It still falls into DidntThinkThisThrough territory as he didn't factor in how his teen son might react to his mother being kidnapped.
* In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Kerim gives a speech on this trope:
-->This is a billiard table... And you have hit your white ball and it is traveling easily and quietly towards the red. The pocket is alongside. Fatally, inevitably, you are going to hit the red and the red is going into that pocket. It is the law of the billiard table. But, outside the orbit of these things, a jet pilot has fainted and his plane is diving straight at the billiard room, or a gas main is about to explode... And the building collapses on you and on top of the billiard table. Then what has happened to that white ball that could not miss the red ball, and to the red ball that could not miss the pocket? The white ball could not miss according to the laws of the billiard table. But the laws of the billiard table are not the only laws.
* Played at [[spoiler:and ultimately subverted]] in ''Film/TheGame1997'' when [[spoiler:Nicholas invades the building of the organization that's been running his life for the past few days with what one of the lead actors recognizes as a ''real'' gun, not one of their props, and she pleads with him that it's all a big surprise party and they're not really trying to kill him and he ends up shooting his brother just as it turns out there really ''was'' a cake and it all flies horribly off the rails, driving him to jump from the rooftop... and then it turns out that, no, that was a squib, the gun's loaded with blanks, and even that was all in the script]].
* Near the end of ''Film/TheGodfather'' Vito Corleone has died not long after capitulating in the mafia war and handing the reins of the enervated Corleone Family to his son, Michael, who aggravates his Capos by his refusal to defend their interests as the other families muscle in. The other families plot to unceremoniously assassinate this 'weak' Don, who [[spoiler: instead has every one of them killed first, concurrently, while standing as godfather at his nephew's baptism. The relative ease of all the hits and lack of protection on the targets show just how little they thought of Michael and how unexpected his decapitation strike really was.]]
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists eco-terrorist Emma Russell]] wants to stop humanity from completely destroying themselves and their world by forcibly awakening and releasing the hibernating {{Kaiju}} around the world to restore the damaged ecosystems with their unique vegetation-producing radiation. However, the main reason why her plan goes off the rails is because she doesn't count on one Titan in particular, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]], being a hostile alien who has neither the ability nor the intention to heal the planet in any way, and he instead wants to [[HostileTerraforming destructively terraform it]] in a way which will destroy humanity and could thoroughly clear off all life that isn't him. The specifics of Ghidorah's true nature and why he isn't at all compatible with the Earth's natural order make him an OutsideContextProblem that ''none'' of the cast were expecting.
* PlayedWith in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork''--Harry predicts that Kevin will reuse the paint can trap from the first movie, and he and Marv successfully dodge the attacks. They just don't count on Kevin actually taking that bit into consideration, and dropping a ''sewer pipe'' on them when they think he's out of tools.
-->'''Marv:''' [[OhCrap Oops.]]
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': In universe. There's only one crown for the victors. [[spoiler:Katniss]] wears it.
* Invoked in the opening sequence of ''Film/JackReacherNeverGoBack.'' After the sheriff handcuffs Reacher, Reacher tells him ''he's'' about to be arrested himself, for kidnapping illegal immigrants on land owned by the U.S. Army. When the M.P.'s arrive, the sheriff knows it's for real.
--> Wood: "Who the hell are you?"
--> Reacher: "The guy you didn't count on."
* Said verbatim by Griffin in ''Film/{{Jumper}}'' after [[spoiler:[[BigBad Roland]] escapes through a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent jump scar]] and takes [[LoveInterests Millie]] with him]].
-->'''Griffin''': Well... crap. Didn't see that coming.
* In ''Film/KickAss'', Frank D'Amico never imagined that by framing the cop who refused to take his bribe, he would turn him into something far more dangerous. Big Daddy was so ridiculously efficient in destroying D'Amico's operation that if Kick-Ass wouldn't have [[SpannerInTheWorks accidentally provided him with a lead]], D'Amico probably wouldn't have realized who was after him until he was about to die.
* In the climax of ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Wolverine has spent the last of his energy (and the super serum) attacking the Transigen troops and is clearly running on fumes. Cue Dr. Rice emerging from his vehicle with gunmen in tow, standing a safe distance from Wolverine's claws. He cheerily gloats, knowing that Wolverine can't bridge the gap and successfully charge him. [[spoiler:And of course neither he nor the audience expect the Wolverine to [[CombatPragmatist pull out a gun]] and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim gun his opponent down]].]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie''. Despite being told by both Mike and Tom to ''not'' try tunneling out of the Satellite of Love, Crow shouts out "I didn't expect ''this''!" once he breaches the hull. Then, it turns out he ''did'' expect this ("Oh, wow, look at that: 'Breach hull, all die!' Even had it underlined!"), he knew what he was doing!
-->'''Crow:''' [[DidntThinkThisThrough Oh, believe me, Mike, I calculated the odds of this succeeding against the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid and...]] [[TooDumbToLive I went ahead anyway]].
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'''s Agent Sands had a nice [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] scheme going. A number of things went wrong, including Cucuy going FaceHeelTurn and Mariachi and crew deciding to help the President instead of letting him die, but the one hitch that Sands truly did not see coming was [[spoiler:Ajedrez turning out to be not only TheMole, but Barillo's daughter]]. [[spoiler:Ajedrez]] even lampshades it: "You never saw it coming, did you?"
** Which makes for a nice bit of irony (or something) as [[spoiler:he shortly after loses the ability to see ANYTHING coming in an EyeScream moment]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/PhoneBooth'' where The Sniper threatens to kill Stu if he reveals who he is talking to. When Stu claims he's talking to his psychiatrist The Sniper bursts out laughing, seeing the move as inspired and preventing the police from listening in.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** No one (possibly including himself) knows what Jack Sparrow's going to do next.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': A NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering Pirates are voting on who will be their leader. Naturally, they all vote for themselves.
--->'''Elizabeth:''' [[SarcasmMode Elizabeth Swann]].\\
'''Barbossa:''' Barbossa.\\
'''Jack Sparrow:''' [[spoiler:[[SincerityMode Elizabeth Swann]].]]
* In ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'', Ed Harley wants revenge against the kids who accidentally (and carelessly) kill his son. He has an old backwoods witch, Haggis, call upon a demon to do so. [[spoiler:But he didn't count on enduring his victims' death agonies every time "Pumpkinhead" makes a kill. Or having his soul condemned to hell for invoking a demon to murder for him.]]
* ''Film/RichieRich'' fits this trope as the Riches do in fact keep a vast vault filled with valuables, but it's all family memorabilia and things with ''sentimental'' value. Their money, rather sensibly, has been ''invested'' and isn't vulnerable to just being swiped.
* The Italian movie ''Scialla'' has the protagonists Bruno and Luca survive the mob thanks to this trope. Luca had ''stolen drugs and money from the mob boss' own home'', and was so pissed that not even Luca's father Bruno giving him back everything as soon as he found out calmed him. The boss was about to make an example of them... Then realizes that Bruno was his favourite high school teacher that he still adores, and lets them go. The boss' underlings and Luca even {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.
* ''Film/Serenity2005'':
** Mentioned as par for the course with the film and the series, with this early exchange:
--->'''Jayne:''' ''[on the fact that he's armed to the teeth]'' I get excitable as to choice. I wanna keep my options open.\\
'''Mal:''' I don't plan on any fighting taking place.\\
'''Jayne:''' Well what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
** This trope comes in when the Alliance releases the Pax. No one could have foreseen the [[spoiler:Reavers' creation]]. Of course, their failure to do so is a classic case of the IdiotBall, as what kind of a moron doesn't run proper clinical trials before [[spoiler:dosing an entire planetary population]].
** This trope also comes in later in the movie when [[spoiler:the Alliance's trap is derailed as ''Serenity'' [[GiveChaseWithAngryNatives charges at them with an army of Reavers]]]].
--->'''Zoe:''' You know they're gonna see us coming.\\
'''Mal:''' No. They're not gonna see ''this'' coming.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Sonic, Tom and Maddie are cornered on the top of a building, surrounded by Robotnik's drones set to open fire on them. The protagonists note that while Sonic is fast enough to avoid them, his friends aren't. So Sonic's solution... is to push them off the building [[note]]Don't worry, he saves them with a ring as [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil seen in the first initial trailer]].[[/note]]. Even Robotnik notes he wasn't expecting that.
--> '''Robotnik:''' I was ''not'' expecting that... but I was expecting not to expect something. So it doesn't count.
* ''Film/TheSpanishPrisoner'': Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that [[spoiler:Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on]].
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Khan launches a surprise attack against the ''Enterprise'', severely damaging her. Kirk, however has an ace in the hole: [[OverrideCommand an identification code]] that would enable the ''Enterprise'' crew to remotely command ''Reliant'' to lower her shields then lock them out while they open fire.
** ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': Scotty sets up the stolen ''Enterprise'' to run on automation, adding "A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her.". When they arrive at the Genesis world, they find themselves having to fend off a Klingon bird-of-prey. After initially subduing the bird-of-prey with a torpedo barrage, they try to raise shields when the ''Enterprise'''s computer overloads, with Scotty saying he didn't expect to go into combat, allowing the Klingons to recover and fire a shot that knocks out their automation and leaving them helpless. Kirk's only alternative is activating the ship's SelfDestructMechanism, taking out most of the Klingons who try to seize it.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** When Luke and Obi-Wan got Han to take them to Alderaan, the sole plan was to drop off the droids as instructed. They has no way to predict that [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan would no longer be there]] or that they would be captured (along with Leia, already a prisoner) by the moon-sized SpaceStation that destroyed it.
** Emperor Palpatine thought it impossible that the natives of Endor (human child-sized savage creatures) [[RockBeatsLaser might be able to take advantage of their native terrain against the Empire's finest troops]] (though said natives did have help from a Jedi, a droid who could hack anything, and several crack shots). And he apparently never considered that a guy who [[LoveMakesYouEvil turned to the Dark Side to save his wife]] might [[LoveRedeems turn from it to save his son]]. If you take that plot from the EU, you could say that he ''did'' have a plan to survive the latter... but not for the Rebellion succeeding in blowing up the Death Star.
* ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'': The Shriekers break all the previously established "rules" of Graboids, being smaller, faster, much more numerous, and hunting above-ground through infrared rather than below using sound. And that's before taking into account their reproductive cycle or capacity for ''further'' mutation, which sequels would explore. So naturally when first introduced they catch their would-be hunters flatfooted. Burt sums it up best with this line:
-->'''Burt Gummer:''' I feel I was denied... ''Critical''... '''Need-to-know'''... '''''Information.'''''
* This is the whole plot of ''Film/UnderSiege'' with Steven Seagal. Who would have thought that this annoying ''cook'' could be a threat to the very well conceived plan executed by the bad guys.
%%* This is the plot of ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'' and a lot of other action movies, like the ''Film/DieHard'' series, other of Seagal's movies and many others.
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* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' probably executed this in the most humorously absurd manner. When Burgundy and company start butting heads with another news group, they bring along multitude of weapons. Soon, other rival news groups join, and they all get into one large and epic battle royale. At different times, one person gets killed with a trident, another gets caught in a net and dragged on the floor by two horses, someone gets a hold of a grenade, Luke Wilson's character's gets an arm chopped off, and then his other arm is ripped off by a {{bear|sAreBadNews}}.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(after getting his arm chopped off out of nowhere)''" Ugh! I did ''not'' see that coming!"
* It's an invoked RunningGag in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' between Quicksilver and Hawkeye that plays to the RuleOfThree. The first two times are snarky, with Barton's being an IronicEcho, and the third is played for drama [[spoiler:when Quicksilver saves Barton's life and that of the child he was protecting, making this trope also his LastWords]].
* Thanos seems set up to repeat the iconic [[BadassFingerSnap snap]] at the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', only this time with the intention of destroying the entire universe and then recreate it in his image. Cue the snap and... [[spoiler:nothing happens. Tony swiped the Infinity Stones during his final attempt to steal the gauntlet, leaving Thanos to [[OhCrap blankly stare at him]] as Tony snaps him and his entire army to dust.]]
** For that matter, Captain Marvel probably didn't see [[spoiler:Thanos removing the Power Stone from the gauntlet in order to blast her unconscious.]]
** Tony certainly couldn't expect [[spoiler:past!Hulk slamming a door open on his face after walking down the stairs.]]
* In ''Film/BigGame'', ''Nobody'' expected that a 13-year-old badass Finn would be going through his RiteOfPassage the same day and in the same place the president is being hunted down.
-->'''Chief of staff''': Who the hell is that?
* ''Film/ChildsPlay3'': Chucky sets up to kill Colonel Cochrane... only for his leaping out of hiding with a knife and screaming to give Cochrane a HollywoodHeartAttack. Chucky's expression shifts from horrific rage to complete disbelief.
-->'''Chucky:''' Oh, you gotta be fuckin' ''kidding'' me!
* The Joker's reaction to the eventual result of his social experiment in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' can be seen as an emotive example of this trope. Of course, being the Joker, he's not put off for long.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', the fallen angel Azrael has our heroes at his mercy and tempts Silent Bob to hit him with a golf club he has in his hands. Both Silent Bomb and Azrael are both shocked when [[spoiler:Silent Bob ''caves Azrael's chest in'']]. Once they get free, Serendipity suggests that [[spoiler:the golf club that Jay and Silent Bob stole from Cardinal Glick for ignoring their warnings was blessed to give the Cardinal a better golf game, unwittingly turning it into a holy weapon]].
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's plot to prove that Ava is truly sentient [[spoiler:his real one, that is]] works flawlessly, and even Caleb's moves to stop Nathan are mostly for naught. Nathan was all set to win, then the one thing he didn't see coming was [[spoiler:Kyoko's [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebellion]] and murder attempt on him, which gave Ava the opening needed to kill him]].
* Creator/TheCoenBrothers movie ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' centers around a slimy car salesman trying to get out of financial trouble by hatching an EvilPlan to have some men kidnap his wife and pretend to hold her for ransom so he could get some money from her wealthy father to pay off his debts. The plan spirals completely out of control and causes the deaths of about five or six people, including the wife. It still falls into DidntThinkThisThrough territory as he didn't factor in how his teen son might react to his mother being kidnapped.
* In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Kerim gives a speech on this trope:
-->This is a billiard table... And you have hit your white ball and it is traveling easily and quietly towards the red. The pocket is alongside. Fatally, inevitably, you are going to hit the red and the red is going into that pocket. It is the law of the billiard table. But, outside the orbit of these things, a jet pilot has fainted and his plane is diving straight at the billiard room, or a gas main is about to explode... And the building collapses on you and on top of the billiard table. Then what has happened to that white ball that could not miss the red ball, and to the red ball that could not miss the pocket? The white ball could not miss according to the laws of the billiard table. But the laws of the billiard table are not the only laws.
* Played at [[spoiler:and ultimately subverted]] in ''Film/TheGame1997'' when [[spoiler:Nicholas invades the building of the organization that's been running his life for the past few days with what one of the lead actors recognizes as a ''real'' gun, not one of their props, and she pleads with him that it's all a big surprise party and they're not really trying to kill him and he ends up shooting his brother just as it turns out there really ''was'' a cake and it all flies horribly off the rails, driving him to jump from the rooftop... and then it turns out that, no, that was a squib, the gun's loaded with blanks, and even that was all in the script]].
* Near the end of ''Film/TheGodfather'' Vito Corleone has died not long after capitulating in the mafia war and handing the reins of the enervated Corleone Family to his son, Michael, who aggravates his Capos by his refusal to defend their interests as the other families muscle in. The other families plot to unceremoniously assassinate this 'weak' Don, who [[spoiler: instead has every one of them killed first, concurrently, while standing as godfather at his nephew's baptism. The relative ease of all the hits and lack of protection on the targets show just how little they thought of Michael and how unexpected his decapitation strike really was.]]
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists eco-terrorist Emma Russell]] wants to stop humanity from completely destroying themselves and their world by forcibly awakening and releasing the hibernating {{Kaiju}} around the world to restore the damaged ecosystems with their unique vegetation-producing radiation. However, the main reason why her plan goes off the rails is because she doesn't count on one Titan in particular, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]], being a hostile alien who has neither the ability nor the intention to heal the planet in any way, and he instead wants to [[HostileTerraforming destructively terraform it]] in a way which will destroy humanity and could thoroughly clear off all life that isn't him. The specifics of Ghidorah's true nature and why he isn't at all compatible with the Earth's natural order make him an OutsideContextProblem that ''none'' of the cast were expecting.
* PlayedWith in ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork''--Harry predicts that Kevin will reuse the paint can trap from the first movie, and he and Marv successfully dodge the attacks. They just don't count on Kevin actually taking that bit into consideration, and dropping a ''sewer pipe'' on them when they think he's out of tools.
-->'''Marv:''' [[OhCrap Oops.]]
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': In universe. There's only one crown for the victors. [[spoiler:Katniss]] wears it.
* Invoked in the opening sequence of ''Film/JackReacherNeverGoBack.'' After the sheriff handcuffs Reacher, Reacher tells him ''he's'' about to be arrested himself, for kidnapping illegal immigrants on land owned by the U.S. Army. When the M.P.'s arrive, the sheriff knows it's for real.
--> Wood: "Who the hell are you?"
--> Reacher: "The guy you didn't count on."
* Said verbatim by Griffin in ''Film/{{Jumper}}'' after [[spoiler:[[BigBad Roland]] escapes through a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent jump scar]] and takes [[LoveInterests Millie]] with him]].
-->'''Griffin''': Well... crap. Didn't see that coming.
* In ''Film/KickAss'', Frank D'Amico never imagined that by framing the cop who refused to take his bribe, he would turn him into something far more dangerous. Big Daddy was so ridiculously efficient in destroying D'Amico's operation that if Kick-Ass wouldn't have [[SpannerInTheWorks accidentally provided him with a lead]], D'Amico probably wouldn't have realized who was after him until he was about to die.
* In the climax of ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Wolverine has spent the last of his energy (and the super serum) attacking the Transigen troops and is clearly running on fumes. Cue Dr. Rice emerging from his vehicle with gunmen in tow, standing a safe distance from Wolverine's claws. He cheerily gloats, knowing that Wolverine can't bridge the gap and successfully charge him. [[spoiler:And of course neither he nor the audience expect the Wolverine to [[CombatPragmatist pull out a gun]] and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim gun his opponent down]].]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie''. Despite being told by both Mike and Tom to ''not'' try tunneling out of the Satellite of Love, Crow shouts out "I didn't expect ''this''!" once he breaches the hull. Then, it turns out he ''did'' expect this ("Oh, wow, look at that: 'Breach hull, all die!' Even had it underlined!"), he knew what he was doing!
-->'''Crow:''' [[DidntThinkThisThrough Oh, believe me, Mike, I calculated the odds of this succeeding against the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid and...]] [[TooDumbToLive I went ahead anyway]].
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'''s Agent Sands had a nice [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] scheme going. A number of things went wrong, including Cucuy going FaceHeelTurn and Mariachi and crew deciding to help the President instead of letting him die, but the one hitch that Sands truly did not see coming was [[spoiler:Ajedrez turning out to be not only TheMole, but Barillo's daughter]]. [[spoiler:Ajedrez]] even lampshades it: "You never saw it coming, did you?"
** Which makes for a nice bit of irony (or something) as [[spoiler:he shortly after loses the ability to see ANYTHING coming in an EyeScream moment]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/PhoneBooth'' where The Sniper threatens to kill Stu if he reveals who he is talking to. When Stu claims he's talking to his psychiatrist The Sniper bursts out laughing, seeing the move as inspired and preventing the police from listening in.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** No one (possibly including himself) knows what Jack Sparrow's going to do next.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': A NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering Pirates are voting on who will be their leader. Naturally, they all vote for themselves.
--->'''Elizabeth:''' [[SarcasmMode Elizabeth Swann]].\\
'''Barbossa:''' Barbossa.\\
'''Jack Sparrow:''' [[spoiler:[[SincerityMode Elizabeth Swann]].]]
* In ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'', Ed Harley wants revenge against the kids who accidentally (and carelessly) kill his son. He has an old backwoods witch, Haggis, call upon a demon to do so. [[spoiler:But he didn't count on enduring his victims' death agonies every time "Pumpkinhead" makes a kill. Or having his soul condemned to hell for invoking a demon to murder for him.]]
* ''Film/RichieRich'' fits this trope as the Riches do in fact keep a vast vault filled with valuables, but it's all family memorabilia and things with ''sentimental'' value. Their money, rather sensibly, has been ''invested'' and isn't vulnerable to just being swiped.
* The Italian movie ''Scialla'' has the protagonists Bruno and Luca survive the mob thanks to this trope. Luca had ''stolen drugs and money from the mob boss' own home'', and was so pissed that not even Luca's father Bruno giving him back everything as soon as he found out calmed him. The boss was about to make an example of them... Then realizes that Bruno was his favourite high school teacher that he still adores, and lets them go. The boss' underlings and Luca even {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.
* ''Film/Serenity2005'':
** Mentioned as par for the course with the film and the series, with this early exchange:
--->'''Jayne:''' ''[on the fact that he's armed to the teeth]'' I get excitable as to choice. I wanna keep my options open.\\
'''Mal:''' I don't plan on any fighting taking place.\\
'''Jayne:''' Well what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
** This trope comes in when the Alliance releases the Pax. No one could have foreseen the [[spoiler:Reavers' creation]]. Of course, their failure to do so is a classic case of the IdiotBall, as what kind of a moron doesn't run proper clinical trials before [[spoiler:dosing an entire planetary population]].
** This trope also comes in later in the movie when [[spoiler:the Alliance's trap is derailed as ''Serenity'' [[GiveChaseWithAngryNatives charges at them with an army of Reavers]]]].
--->'''Zoe:''' You know they're gonna see us coming.\\
'''Mal:''' No. They're not gonna see ''this'' coming.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Sonic, Tom and Maddie are cornered on the top of a building, surrounded by Robotnik's drones set to open fire on them. The protagonists note that while Sonic is fast enough to avoid them, his friends aren't. So Sonic's solution... is to push them off the building [[note]]Don't worry, he saves them with a ring as [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil seen in the first initial trailer]].[[/note]]. Even Robotnik notes he wasn't expecting that.
--> '''Robotnik:''' I was ''not'' expecting that... but I was expecting not to expect something. So it doesn't count.
* ''Film/TheSpanishPrisoner'': Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that [[spoiler:Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on]].
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Khan launches a surprise attack against the ''Enterprise'', severely damaging her. Kirk, however has an ace in the hole: [[OverrideCommand an identification code]] that would enable the ''Enterprise'' crew to remotely command ''Reliant'' to lower her shields then lock them out while they open fire.
** ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': Scotty sets up the stolen ''Enterprise'' to run on automation, adding "A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her.". When they arrive at the Genesis world, they find themselves having to fend off a Klingon bird-of-prey. After initially subduing the bird-of-prey with a torpedo barrage, they try to raise shields when the ''Enterprise'''s computer overloads, with Scotty saying he didn't expect to go into combat, allowing the Klingons to recover and fire a shot that knocks out their automation and leaving them helpless. Kirk's only alternative is activating the ship's SelfDestructMechanism, taking out most of the Klingons who try to seize it.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** When Luke and Obi-Wan got Han to take them to Alderaan, the sole plan was to drop off the droids as instructed. They has no way to predict that [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan would no longer be there]] or that they would be captured (along with Leia, already a prisoner) by the moon-sized SpaceStation that destroyed it.
** Emperor Palpatine thought it impossible that the natives of Endor (human child-sized savage creatures) [[RockBeatsLaser might be able to take advantage of their native terrain against the Empire's finest troops]] (though said natives did have help from a Jedi, a droid who could hack anything, and several crack shots). And he apparently never considered that a guy who [[LoveMakesYouEvil turned to the Dark Side to save his wife]] might [[LoveRedeems turn from it to save his son]]. If you take that plot from the EU, you could say that he ''did'' have a plan to survive the latter... but not for the Rebellion succeeding in blowing up the Death Star.
* ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'': The Shriekers break all the previously established "rules" of Graboids, being smaller, faster, much more numerous, and hunting above-ground through infrared rather than below using sound. And that's before taking into account their reproductive cycle or capacity for ''further'' mutation, which sequels would explore. So naturally when first introduced they catch their would-be hunters flatfooted. Burt sums it up best with this line:
-->'''Burt Gummer:''' I feel I was denied... ''Critical''... '''Need-to-know'''... '''''Information.'''''
* This is the whole plot of ''Film/UnderSiege'' with Steven Seagal. Who would have thought that this annoying ''cook'' could be a threat to the very well conceived plan executed by the bad guys.
%%* This is the plot of ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'' and a lot of other action movies, like the ''Film/DieHard'' series, other of Seagal's movies and many others.
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