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* ''Series/AlexRider'': It's very blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but the Kyra who approaches Alex asking for help during the storming of Point Blanc uses the 1889 code to open a door, rather than the 0000 code Alex and Kyra added to the system, meaning this is not the real Kyra.

--> '''Michael:''' Remember when I said it was gonna break?

* ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'': "Hey, everyone! I found the source of the ticking; it's a pipe bomb!" [[TooDumbToLive "Yay!"]] '''[[EarthShatteringKaboom BOOM]]'''

* A particularly hilarious example occurs in the 4-player ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' race between LetsPlay/ProtonJon, LetsPlay/SuperJeenius, LetsPlay/PCULL44444, and LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun, when Patrick is having trouble with a shark in Terra Tubes:
-->'''Patrick:''' I was doing, I was doing alright and then the shark started killing me and then I dodged him and he's chasing me and it's making me sad, but I'm going through this thing quickly now... and he's gonna make me die on these spikes down here-- SHIT! *Achievement Unlocked! Called It: Narrated your own death*

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' devotes an entire mini-rant to ''heavily'' chastizing the ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'' NES adaptation for doing this, by having a fallen soldier mention a monster roaming in the woods ''right'' before you encounter and fight it as a boss:
--> '''Nerd:''' Then immediately, you fight the evil He-Monster and She-Monster of the trees, which is what the guy just told us about. Doesn't it seem cheap, that right after he tells us about a certain monster they appear? It doesn't build up any mystery. Remember the first Zelda game? You knew that you had to fight Ganon, the instruction manual talked about him, characters in the game talked about him. But at the time, nobody knew what Ganon looked like. It created all this suspense. But imagine if they never talked about him until right before you walked into that room. It's like: "Oh, there's this monster you gotta fight. Oh, there's the monster! Fight him!"

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', during Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast, Henry Bemis was reading a newspaper headline that read "H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction". Mere seconds later, the vault he was in was rocked by a massive explosion, and when he emerged after regaining consciousness, there was nothing but devastation, as far as the eye could see.

* ''VideoGame/BlackMesa:'' Shortly before your first encounter with the HECU troops in "We've Got Hostiles", Freeman has to work his way past some turrets and laser-tripmines they've set up, obstacles that would seem a bit odd to introduce if the marines were the good guys. Then the typically calm, human-sounding Black Mesa Announcement System gets taken over [[KilledMidSentence mid-announcement]] by a creepy, [[MachineMonotone robotic]] and ''very'' hostile-sounding Military VOX. Any remaining illusion that the HECU are a benevolent rescue squad is shattered in the next room, when their troopers start [[CavalryBetrayal gunning down the surviving scientists]] to cover up the incident.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'', the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything know-it-all book]] tells Ctyx that The Fractured are planning to perform a ritual. Two strips later, Tiffany and Teresa enter a room where said ritual is being performed with three sacrificial men, [[BigDamnHeroes just in time to save the day]].

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* ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'':
** After sending Skid and Pump off to the house on the hill, Roy mentions it's the place his uncle takes him. When Skid and Pump burst into the manor in the next scene, a creepy stranger locks them inside and references Roy tricking them into coming, revealing him to be Roy's uncle.
** When Jaune presents the Happy Fella doll she bought for Pump, it has Dexter's white eye, indicating he's already possessing it. Lila understandably begins to panic, and Dexter tries to break out the doll's box shortly after.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'' defeating the final boss opens a portal to a room with an altar where the MacGuffin can be placed to end the game. Also in the room is a gold statue of another Noita and a message in the game's runic language reading "WHAT YOU DESERVE". All of this is warning that the Work is the ''wrong'' place to complete the ritual, as it will turn the Noita ''and the entire world'' to gold.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ("Tick, Tick, Tick") involves hunting down a killer obsessed with Nikki Heat (and Beckett, because he thinks they're literally the same person). They catch him with time to spare and Beckett goes home. Castle continues looking over evidence because something bothers him, realizes the man they thought was responsible was being set up, and rushes to warn her. A few seconds later, her apartment explodes. (In this case, the warning was enough time for her to take measures to protect herself from the blast.)

* ''Film/Terminator2'': After the villanous [[BlobMonster T-1000 terminator]] dissolves in a vat of molten steel, [[KidHero Jon]] asks if the same method will work on the arm and the CPU of [[SkeleBot9000 T-101]] they need to destroy to prevent the reinvention of the genocidal AI Skynet. Their friendly terminator T-800 takes a long meaningful look at the arm and responds: "Yes, throw it in." A few moments later T-800 explains that they must also lower ''him'' into the vat, because he has similar technology, and as long as he exists, the danger of Skynet's resurgence remains.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Just before Venca's identity is revealed there are a number of hints. The bodies of the other children in the laboratory are mangled in the same way as Venca's victims and when 001 tells Eleven about his childhood, he mentions being put in hospital and having several tubes hooked up to him. Just like the tendrils that fuse into Vecna.