History TemptingFate / Film

* ForrestGump:

* ''OurManFlint''

*** Suffice it to say, [[TheUnintelligible BB-8]]'s utterance of the phrase at the start of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' indicates that things are only going to get a whole lot darker from there.

*** Luke and Han are almost offered by the Ewoks as sacrifices; and
*** Finn and Rey accidentally unleash three rathtars while trying to close the blast doors on the mercenaries confronting Han.

** Both Batman and the mob consistently treat SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker like more of a nuisance than a true threat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain This REALLY comes back to bite them in the ass later.]]

* [[AllThereInTheScript Mayor Jenkins]] in ''BatmanReturns'' is particularly prone to these.

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'':

* The raptors in ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' are contained, right? "Unless they figure out how to open doors." Guess what happens. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the Podcast/RiffTrax.

* ''TheGreatRace''. While Max and Professor Fate are on a small iceberg, Max thinks there may be a storm.

* Is the main theme of ''Film/BasicInstinct". Nick ends up getting closer to getting killed.

*** Well, it would make perfect sense to a ''toon''.

* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'': Earl and Valentine have resisted temptation (free beer) and left Perfection, Nevada for a new life. As they're driving along Valentine says, "Now there's nothing, and I mean nothing, between us and Bixby!" Seconds later, they see Edgar Deems high up on a power pylon. They stop to help him, and later events force them into a battle to the death against the Graboids.

* ''Film/Moneyball'': Oakland GM Billy Beane superstitiously does not attend games, but with the A's about to set a record winning streak and already up by eleven runs, he is persuaded by his daughter to show up to the arena and celebrate his accomplishment. "You won't jinx it," his daughter promises. The opposing team has an eleven-run rally after he arrives.

* ''Film/FantasticFour'' gives Reed Richards the line, "A few days in space, what's the worst that could happen?", [[IronicEcho sarcastically echoed]] by Ben after turning into The Thing.

* In ''[[HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves]]'', Wayne and Gordon land in a bowl of dip and Gordon worries about getting eaten during a party going on in the house. Wayne assures him that "They're teenage girls, how much can they eat?". Guess what happens next.

'''Critter #1:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck!]] ''[runs off]''

* ''{{Caddyshack}}'': During his BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame in the middle of a rainstorm, Bishop Pickering says to his caddy, Carl, "The Good Lord would never disrupt the best game of my life. I'm infallible, young fella!"

* During the climax of ''UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'', criminal mastermind Dane brags to Ryback that there is nothing he can do to shut down his satellite weapon. Ryback responds by shooting the laptop controlling the weapon, with the bullets going through the laptop and hitting Dane as well. Dane's last words: "I didn't think of that."

* ''Film/XMen'':

* In ''Series/OddSquad: TheMovie'', Weird Tom tries to blow off an attempt to get into the closet where a self-multiplying and very dangerous creature is being stored as an attempt to take back headquarters when suddenly, the counter behind him goes from 4096 to 0. [[FromBadToWorse The situation only gets worse from there.]]

** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', the Juggernaut gave his BadassBoast towards Kitty, only to get knocked out cold.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': "Gentlemen, this is why the CIA is no place for a woman." [[spoiler:Cue huge crash as Emma Frost is busted out of her cell.]]

* In the film ''Film/{{Juice}}'', BigBad Bishop chases Q into a building while shooting at him. Q is able to go to an elevator filled with people. Bishop enters the elevator just before the door closes. Q looks around at the people with him, smiles and says: "What are you going to do, shot me in an elevator?" Cue Bishop pulling out his gun and shooting. Good thing he was a lousy shot and hit no one inside the elevator before the door opened on the next floor.

** "I'm here! There's nothing to worry about!" Cue TimCurry.

* Cyberdyne in the original universe of ''TheTerminator'' (before the T-800, Sarah, John, and an employee of the company [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod terminated the company with extreme prejudice]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] yet failed attempt at preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt) found out the hard way that naming your supercomputer "Skynet" is just as taboo as naming your ship "Titanic".

** Earlier in the movie, Butch and Sundance were pursued by a posse led by the lawman Joe [=LeFors=]. After traveling to Bolivia, at the end of the film they are trapped in a room by some police officers. Little do they know that a Bolivian Army detachment has arrived outside and is ready to riddle them with bullets.