History TemptingFate / Film

** As Grond is about to breach the gates of Minas Tirith, Gandalf attempts to rally the troops by ordering them to stand their ground, no matter what comes through. The doors bust open and cue ''armored attack trolls'' charging in to lay waste to the defenders.

* ''Film/{{Bullshot}}'' (1983). AbsentMindedProfessor Fenton: "Oh you Scotland Yard chaps see spies behind every bush. What could possibly happen out here in the English countryside?" Cue dramatic music and [[{{Villain}} Otto von Bruno]] and [[FemmeFatale Fraulein Lenya]] smirking evilly behind the bushes. After they've successfully kidnapped the Professor, von Bruno boasts: "[[NothingCanStopUsNow No-one can stop us now!]]" Cue dramatic music and the hero "Bullshot" Crummond, his LanternJawOfJustice defiantly out-thrust.

* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': "It's all right, Janet. Everything's going to be all right." Then, things get worse for [[FanNickname Asshole]] and [[FanNickname Slut]].

* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': Vadim and Ivan’s opinion of a club girl having the word “juicy” on her clothes.

* 'Film/TheLordOfTheRings''

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Return of the King'', Aragorn asks the Pirates to turn back. Their response: "Ha! [[YouAndWhatArmy and whose army?]]" Cue the Undead Army's arrival.
** "[[NoManOfWomanBorn No man can kill the Nazgûl]]" Sorry dude, that's a ''woman'' and a ''hobbit''.
** "Not by the hand of man shall he fall." Oh, that makes him [[SarcasmMode sooo much safer]]. They only left out, let's see, women, children, hobbits, elves, wizards, [[Podcast/RiffTrax An ear infection]], giant eagles, Ents, Sauron, other Nazgûl, ''dragons''...in short, many, many things that are more likely to kill him than a puny ''man'' and a few that aren't.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': The Battle of Helm's Deep is going well, initially, and King Théoden asks, "Is this it? Is this all you can conjure, Saruman?" The Uruk-Hai then suicide-bomb the Deeping Wall (in a [[FantasyGunControl world which has never seen explosives]] before), and Théoden gets an OhCrap moment.
** Théoden also did this before the battle when he said, "No army has ever breached the deeping wall or set foot inside the Hornburg."
** Right before that, from Grí­ma Wormtongue, after Saruman acknowledged that they need tens of thousands of Uruk-Hais : "But my Lord, there is no such force !". Cue the [[MillionMookMarch CGI force]].

*** Finn and Rey accidentally unleash three rathtars while trying to close the blast doors on the mercenaries confronting Han (spoken by Han as "I've got a bad feeling about this."); and
*** Poe gets hit by a TIE Fighter while trying to neutralize a Dreadnaught, causing a weapons malfunction that BB-8 can only fix by using his head (spoken by BB-8 [[TheUnintelligible in binary]]).

* In an early scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Harvey Dent makes the statement that "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Any viewer who's familiar with the Batman franchise [[ForegoneConclusion already knows which of those two possibilities awaits in Dent's own future.]]

** Later in that same scene, the Joker's semi and the Batpod are playing chicken when Batman fires something. The Joker says, "He missed!" -- except what Batman fired was a cable, which he uses to [[StarWars pull a snowspeeder]] and jackknife the truck into the air.

* ''Film/StarWars:''

* After a failed assassination attempt on the Austrian Chancellor in ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', he tells his wife that nothing is going to happen to him, just before an aide [[spoiler:notices a bomb about to explode, as insurance in case the original plan - killing him at a performance of ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' - failed.]]

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Rocket Raccoon makes the offhand comment, "I don't got that long a lifespan anyway." By the end of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: he is the only Guardian left, having managed to outlive the rest of them.]]

** Vader saying "There'll be nothing to stop us this time!" The subsequent cut to two pathetic droids trekking through the desert hardly seems to contradict this, but...

* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': Avi and Tony have just discovered that the one behind the theft of the diamond is Boris, an ex-KGB spy. Tony points out that Boris is highly trained and would be impossible to find. Que Boris entering the jewellery store downstairs of the discussion, looking to sell the diamond.

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

* Two perfect examples played straight in ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'':

* A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near ''Film/{{Batman}}'''s beginning: "The future? You mean when you run the show? You ain't got no future, Jack!" (This culminates in an IronicEcho at the factory, when Napier kills the lieutenant with a single shot.)

* ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009): Scotty says he's going to beam Kirk and Spock into what he thinks is a cargo hold "where there shouldn't be anyone around". It's no surprise at all when they materialize in the midst of a control room full of armed Romulans.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison taunts Spock by noting "You wouldn't break a rule, how could you break a bone?" This comes back to bite Harrison in the climactic fight, [[spoiler:when a grief-stricken Spock breaks Harrison's arm]].
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at one point.
-->'''Scotty:''' Not to tempt fate or anything, but where is everybody? *cue several {{Mook}}s*
** In the opening, when Spock starts to chew Kirk out for saving him at the expense of violating the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] and showing themselves to the natives, Kirk brushes him off with a flippant, "What's the worst that could happen?" Cut to the natives, who were earlier praying to the erupting volcano, bowing before an abstracted sketch of the ''Enterprise''--their new God. Made even more amusing by the sacred scroll depicting the volcano that Kirk stole simply getting dropped to the ground and ignored by the native who was holding it.

* ''Film/HungerGames'' "It's all right Prim, your name's only in there once. You're not going to get picked." No points for guessing whose name gets drawn.

*** The bulk of Rogue One is killed in an onslaught, and what's left is eradicated by the Death Star, but thankfully not before the Death Star plans are successfully stolen and conveyed to the owners of the Tantive IV on board (spoken by K-2S0 as "I have a bad feeling about this.");

*** Upon learning the ambassadors are Jedi, Nute Gunray launches a full-scale attack on them, starting by blowing up their craft as they're drinking at the Trade Federation control ship's bar, followed by, in that order, the deployment of lethal gas, a squadron of battle droids, and a smaller yet more potent squadron of droidekas;
*** The execution beasts are let into the arena;
*** Obi-Wan's fighter is attacked by spider-drones as he approaches General Grievous' ship;
*** The bulk of Rogue One is killed in an onslaught, and what's left is eradicated by the Death Star, but thankfully not before the Death Star plans are successfully stolen and conveyed to the owners of the Tantive IV on board;
*** The Millennium Falcon is drawn by a tractor beam into the Death Star;
*** The trash compactor starts to close in on the heroes;
*** The tunnel the Millennium Falcon is using to evade the Imperial forces turns out to be a space slug;
*** Jabba rejects Luke's message and has 3PO and R2 enslaved;
*** Luke and Han are almost offered by the Ewoks as sacrifices;
*** Finn and Rey accidentally unleash three rathtars while trying to close the blast doors on the mercenaries confronting Han; and
*** Poe gets hit by Kylo Ren while trying to neutralize a Dreadnaught, causing a weapons malfunction that BB-8 can only fix by using his head.