When a character has suffered some humiliating setback, and tries to console himself by saying that at least he has something or someone still likes him, this is often a cue for that someone to leave them or that something to be destroyed.

A variation has the character reporting a sob story to a friend, who tries to cheer him up by saying what happened wasn't so awful, only for the story to progress from the merely disappointing on to the truly horrific.

A subtrope of TemptingFate.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Film ]]

* In ''Film/{{UHF}}'', the protagonist George discovers at one point that he is broke, can't pay the rent, and has just run his uncle's business into the ground, with no hope of being employed by anyone in the city (as he's already been fired from every business and his uncle will certainly not offer him another job after he's ruined his TV station). He recalls his girlfriend, saying, "Well, at least I have Terri..." Cue phone call from Terri calling to tell him that he is an insensitive creep for failing to show up at the birthday dinner he promised, and that she never wants to see him again.
* In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', a caviar factory owned by Film/JamesBond's [[EnemyMine former enemy turned ally]] Valentin Zukovsky is the site of a lengthy battle between Bond and several {{mooks}}. While surveying the damage done to the factory after the battle ends, Zukovsky comments to his assistant that, "we may not have a roof, but at least, we still have four good walls." Seconds later, all four walls simultaneously collapse.
-->'''Valentin Zukovsky''': The insurance company is NOT going to believe this!
* At the climax of ''Film/MouseHunt'', the Smuntz's last attempts to drive the mouse away result in the house getting flooded and several walls being destroyed. And this happens in the middle of the auction to sell the house. All the would-be buyers start to leave...
-->'''Ernie Smuntz:''' Hey! Don't go! ''[waves an arm at the flooded house]'' A demonstration of how durable a [=LaRue=] really is! Now you know this house will last '''forever'''!\\
''[As if on cue, the house collapses.]''

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* One DaveBarry column offered this ParodyCommercial for a soft drink:
-->''(The scene opens up with a boy in a Little League uniform, looking very sad. His father walks up.)''\\
'''Father''': What's the matter, Son?\\
'''Son''' ''(bursting into tears)'': Oh Dad, I struck out and lost the big game. ''(Sobs.)''\\
'''Father''' ''(putting his arm around the boy's shoulders)'': Forget it! Let's have a nice cold can of {{Bite the Wax Tadpole}}!\\
'''Son''': And then I murdered a policeman.

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[[folder: Theatre ]]

* In ''OnceInALifetime'', when George's movie appears to be a fiasco, May tells him that "we've got a gold dinner set, anyway. A hundred and six pieces, and every piece with your initials in diamonds. That's not bad for two months' work." This is the cue for two pages to appear, carrying said dinner set out.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''LiveALive'' has a brutal deconstruction in form of [[spoiler:Oersted. After everyone turned his back on him because of an accident he committed (killing the king), he is convinced (by his remaining friend, who died soon after) that there's one person that believed in him: The Princess. So long as she believes in him, he kept fighting. So he set off to save her, only to find out that the accident was orchestrated by a jealous friend, and when he killed the friend, the Princess said that she already lost faith on him and committed suicide in front of him. Oersted in turn ''[[DespairEventHorizon snaps]]''. Then in retaliation, [[FallenHero he becomes the Demon King that he fought all this time]] [[FaceHeelTurn and then killed everyone there and then tried to kill everyone from different timelines]].]]

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* ''Webcomic/MenInHats'':
** [[http://www.meninhats.com/d/20040507.html Jeriah tells Gamal a story]] about finding a quarter and losing his book of poems that only gets worse despite Gamal's attempts to reassure him:
--->'''Jeriah''': Actually, the quarter turned out to be a worthless iron shard.\\
'''Gamal''': Oh, well... At least you still have your health.\\
'''Jeriah''': The shard gave me tetanus.
** In [[http://meninhats.com/d/20031231.html this strip]], Gamal talks about fantasy novels. After Aram gets bored and leaves him, he tells the fantasy novel at least it still likes him. "Actually I don't," the novel says.

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* In episode 13 of ''NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'', after being ignored by all the other characters, Kabuto consoles himself with, "At least Orochimaru still loves me." Cut to Orochimaru saying, "You're creepy, go away."

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* In a Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', after an army of Homer clones destroys [[ButtMonkey Old Gil's]] farm, Old Gil sighs and says "At least I still have my health." Cue the Homers eating him alive. His skeleton is left behind to say "Awwww..."
* At the end of [[DaffyDuck Daffy Duck's Quackbusters]] Daffy is completely bankrupt and can't pay his rent, and a repo crew come in to take all his stuff. Daffy then says "One thing's for sure, I've got nowhere else to go but up!", then a wrecking ball crashes in his office.
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