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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In book 5, while climbing into the NASA Causeway via an old ladder, Captain Bob starts to say "This thing is old. It's a wonder it hasn't fal--" before it promptly falls, sending him into the water (and he can't swim; fortunately, Joe saves him).
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** Again in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry remarks to Ron at one point about Trelawney's frequent "predictions" about Harry's impending doom: "If I'd died as many times as she said I would, I'd be a medical miracle." [[spoiler:Cue three years later, when Harry [[HeroicSacrifices "dies"]] but manages to [[NegateYourOwnSacrifice come back without lasting harm]].]]

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** Again in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry remarks to Ron at one point about Trelawney's frequent "predictions" about Harry's impending doom: "If I'd died as many times as she said I would, I'd be a medical miracle." [[spoiler:Cue three years later, when Harry [[HeroicSacrifices [[HeroicSacrifice "dies"]] but manages to [[NegateYourOwnSacrifice come back without lasting harm]].]]

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** In “Cupcake Wars!”, Mrs. Nicely tells Angela not to spill any cake batter, and she says she won’t, but due to accidentally setting the electric whisk on high speed, she does.
** Also in “Cupcake Wars!”, Tiffany tries to up her sales by writing people’s names in icing on their cupcakes. Angela says, “Who wants their name on a cupcake?”, but then the named cupcakes sell greatly.
** In “Healthy Holiday!”, Angela says that all the staff at the spa they’re staying at are in bed, right before a staff member busts in.
* ThemeTwinNaming: The Payne twins are called Eileen and Myleen.

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** In “Cupcake Wars!”, "Cupcake Wars!", Mrs. Nicely tells Angela not to spill any cake batter, and she says she won’t, won't, but due to accidentally setting the electric whisk on high speed, she does.
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does. On her part, Tiffany tries to up her sales by writing people’s people's names in icing on their cupcakes. Angela says, “Who "Who wants their name on a cupcake?”, cupcake?", but then the named cupcakes sell greatly.
** In “Healthy Holiday!”, "Healthy Holiday!", Angela says that all the staff at the spa they’re they're staying at are in bed, right before a staff member busts in.
* ThemeTwinNaming: The Payne twins are called Eileen and Myleen.
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** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': Four words: "No posts on Sundays."
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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Tamlin told Amarantha that he'd rather sleep with a human rather than her - leading to his court being cursed with being unable to remove their masks, and the only way to break this curse is to make a human girl who passionately hates the Fae love him.
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* In ''Literature/TheHobbit", Smaug says "Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep. And where are his son's sons that dare approach me?" Bard, the leader of the Lake-men's successful defense against the dragon, is Girion's heir.
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* ''Literature/TheEnchantedFiles'': In ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'' / ''Cursed'', at the end of one diary entry, Angus writes of his next home that "I also hope it will not have a cat." The very next page reveals that the Carhart house ''does'' have a cat, and a rather vicious one at that.
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* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'':
** In “Cupcake Wars!”, Mrs. Nicely tells Angela not to spill any cake batter, and she says she won’t, but due to accidentally setting the electric whisk on high speed, she does.
** Also in “Cupcake Wars!”, Tiffany tries to up her sales by writing people’s names in icing on their cupcakes. Angela says, “Who wants their name on a cupcake?”, but then the named cupcakes sell greatly.
** In “Healthy Holiday!”, Angela says that all the staff at the spa they’re staying at are in bed, right before a staff member busts in.
* ThemeTwinNaming: The Payne twins are called Eileen and Myleen.
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* In one ending of ''Literature/RomeoAndOrJuliet'', Juliet says "Hope we can... ''iron'' out our problems" after Romeo decides to stay at her house for longer than intended, only for her dad to run in and immediately start beating Romeo to death with an iron pole.\

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* In one ending of ''Literature/RomeoAndOrJuliet'', Juliet says "Hope we can... ''iron'' out our problems" after Romeo decides to stay at her house for longer than intended, only for her dad to run in and immediately start beating Romeo to death with an iron pole.\

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* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', Winston and Julia agree that even though the Party controls absolutely everything else in their lives, it can never [[spoiler:stop them from loving each other]]. Take a guess as to what happens.

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* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': Winston and Julia agree that even though the Party controls absolutely everything else in their lives, it can never [[spoiler:stop them from loving each other]]. Take a guess as to what happens.



* The Literature/{{Animorphs}} were particularly savvy about this, often making reference to the "Irony Gods" who punish phrases such as "It can't get any worse."

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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
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The Literature/{{Animorphs}} main characters were particularly savvy about this, often making reference to the "Irony Gods" who punish phrases such as "It can't get any worse."



* When Emma is describing the hiking trail she's urging Lori to take at the opening of ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity: Snowbound]]'', she is excessively optimistic:

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* ''Literature/AuntDimity'': When Emma is describing the hiking trail she's urging Lori to take at the opening of ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt ''Aunt Dimity: Snowbound]]'', Snowbound'', she is excessively optimistic:


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* ''Literature/TheBlackArrow'':
** When the old bowman Nick Appleyard hints that enemies might be hiding in the nearby grove, Bennet Hatch snorts that Nick is absolutely safe in the lands of Sir Daniel. Six exchanges later, one arrow strikes Nick between the shoulder blades, slaying him.
--->"Ay!" returned Appleyard, "y'are a wise man to go to war, Master Bennet. Birds are a good sentry; in forest places they be the first line of battle. Look you, now, if we lay here in camp, there might be archers skulking down to get the wind of us; and here would you be, none the wiser!"\\
"Why, old shrew," said Hatch, "there be no men nearer us than Sir Daniel's, at Kettley; y'are as safe as in London Tower; and ye raise scares upon a man for a few chaffinches and sparrows!"\\
A few seconds later...\\
An arrow sang in the air, like a huge hornet; it struck old Appleyard between the shoulder-blades, and pierced him clean through, and he fell forward on his face among the cabbages.
** Just before his death, Nick was arguing that, should one rogue who hates Sir Daniel's men have the chance to kill one of them, he would choose Bennet -who burned the town of Grimstone- over one old bowman who is about to die a natural death anyway.

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