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* In ''Webcomic/{{Shadowgirls}}'', the AlphaBitch sets up [[CoolLoser Becca]] to get gang-raped at the party. [[spoiler: And the Deep Ones starts killing people]]

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Shadowgirls}}'', the AlphaBitch sets up [[CoolLoser Becca]] Becca to get gang-raped at the party. [[spoiler: And the Deep Ones starts killing people]]
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* [[AnythingThatMoves Zii]] from ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' relates in flash-back how she once set up a "surprise 6-some" for [[DoesNotLikeMen Yuki]]. It did not turn out as expected, and Zii found out that Yuki's BerserkButton is [[GroinAttack male genitalia]].

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* [[AnythingThatMoves Zii]] Zii from ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' relates in flash-back how she once set up a "surprise 6-some" for [[DoesNotLikeMen Yuki]]. It did not turn out as expected, and Zii found out that Yuki's BerserkButton is [[GroinAttack male genitalia]].
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* ''Film/TheRoom''. Johnny's fiancee decides to come out with her affair with his best friend during the surprise birthday party she's throwing for him.

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* ''Film/TheRoom''.''Film/TheRoom2003''. Johnny's fiancee decides to come out with her affair with his best friend during the surprise birthday party she's throwing for him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBirthday'' is an animated short centered entirely around this with Bob's wife Margaret trying to throw a surprise party for him. She keeps trying to steer Bob into the living room where all the guests are hiding, but Bob's so preoccupied with other things that Margaret never gets a chance. It won the Best Animated Short UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in 1994.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBirthday'' is an animated short centered entirely around this with Bob's wife Margaret trying to throw a surprise party for him. She keeps trying to steer Bob into the living room where all the guests are hiding, but Bob's so preoccupied with other things that Margaret never gets a chance.chance (and when she finally manages, the guests have the unpleasant surprise of Bob entering the room PantsFree). It won the Best Animated Short UsefulNotes/AcademyAward in 1994.
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In TV-Land, parties are an occasion for [[WildTeenParty teenagers to go wild]] and SpinTheBottle, families to play ParlorGames, and [[NastyParty psychotic hosts to massacre their guests]]. Then there is the Surprise Party; and 90% of the time, surprise parties in fiction ''will'' end in disaster. This might vary from something as small as [[ItsACostumePartyISwear someone getting humiliated]] or [[BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty showing up naked]], to something as threatening as [[Film/{{Cloverfield}} your city getting invaded by a giant monster]] or [[DeadlyPrank the surprised man dropping dead from the shock]]. Can be PlayedForLaughs or for {{Drama}}.

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In TV-Land, parties are an occasion for [[WildTeenParty teenagers to go wild]] and SpinTheBottle, families to play ParlorGames, and [[NastyParty psychotic hosts to massacre their guests]]. Then there is the Surprise Party; and 90% of the time, surprise parties in fiction ''will'' end in disaster. This might vary from something as small as [[ItsACostumePartyISwear someone getting humiliated]] or [[BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty showing up naked]], to something as threatening as [[Film/{{Cloverfield}} your city getting invaded by a giant monster]] or [[DeadlyPrank the surprised man dropping dead from the shock]]. Can be PlayedForLaughs or for {{Drama}}.
[[PlayedForDrama Drama]].
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* ''Film/GetShorty'' pushes this to the funniest extreme. The scene starts with a long sequence of [[TheMafia Mafia]] Boss Momo wheezing his way up a long flight of steps, and from the way it's filmed, the lack of music, and the plot thus far, the audience is naturally expected that he's going to get assassinated any minute. He opens the door to his darkened apartment, and suddenly the lights go on, revealing a surprise birthday party in his living room. Momo dies of a heart attack from the surprise.

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* ''Film/GetShorty'' pushes this to the funniest extreme. The scene starts with a long sequence of [[TheMafia Mafia]] Boss Momo wheezing his way up a long flight of steps, and from the way it's filmed, the lack of music, and the plot thus far, the audience is naturally expected that he's going to get assassinated any minute. He opens the door to his darkened apartment, and suddenly the lights go on, revealing a surprise birthday party in his honor in his living room. [[DiedOnTheirBirthday Momo dies of suffers a heart attack and dies from the surprise.birthday surprise]].



** The IncitingIncident for the whole series: Chris Sr. never shows up to his 36th birthday party because he is killed in a car crash while driving there.

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** The IncitingIncident for the whole series: Chris Sr. never shows up to his 36th birthday party because [[DiedOnTheirBirthday he is killed in a car crash while driving there.there]].

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