I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
A character finds themselves in an important prophetic dream, receiving vital information from a dead relative in a near-death experience, or just having a terribly good time in their head, when they hear the phone ringing or someone shouting their name and they are defibrillated back to the land of the living, just before the really good bit.
Can result in
Inevitability Clarification
Sometimes, people just absolutely sure about how events will play out. In their eyes, it's already a Foregone Conclusion. They're so sure, in fact, that they feel the need to stress how it's not a matter of if things will turn out like they believe. It's a matter of when.
Note that this trope requires putting particular emphasis on using when and not if; a statement that casually assumes a future event will happen doesn't count. Also, this trope doesn't necessarily require the statement to end up being right. In fact, examples of this are often followed by
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Characters: HeroesOfTheNewWorld Revision [577] | 8 seconds ago |
Laconic: RatedMForMoney Revision [10] | 11 seconds ago |
YMMV: IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Revision [184] | 20 seconds ago |
YMMV: Fallout2024 Revision [151] | 25 seconds ago |
VideoGame: ApeEscape Revision [240] | 29 seconds ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Forum Games Could the above avatar get past the Arstotzkan border? | 17 seconds ago |
Forum Games Bad Trope Ideas | 17 seconds ago |
Forum Games Guess the Mythological Character | 38 seconds ago |
Forum Games 10 Location List Game | 1 minute ago |
Video Games Splatoon | 1 minute ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Anti-Education Mama Created 1 hour ago | 1 minute ago |
Knievel Knock-off Created 2 weeks ago | 17 minutes ago |
Bemoaning The New Body Created 2 days ago | 26 minutes ago |
Defeat By Transformation Created 1 week ago | 1 hour ago |
Joke Action(feel free to suggest examples) Created 5 days ago | 1 hour ago |
Example of:
Catlike DragonsExample of:
Evil Is One Big, Happy FamilyExample of:
Wrong-Name OutburstExample of:
Howl of SorrowExample of:
Of Corpse He's AliveTropes Community Podcasts