History Main / NecroNonSequitur

** Aeschylus was told that he would die as a result of a falling house. [[ProphecyTwist He was killed by a tortoise dropped on his head by an eagle.]]

* In Franchise/TheDCU, supervillain Major Disaster sells his soul to the demon Neron in exchange for the power to be able to create this kind of chain of events.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', [[spoiler:Morpheus]] meets his end due to one of these. [[spoiler:It is implied that it wasn't so much this trope as a GambitRoulette set up by himself.]]

A SubTrope of YouCantFightFate. When this is an InvokedTrope, see RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts. Compare ForWantOfANail. Contrast DiceRollDeath.

* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' had a character who killed similarly. He was killing because he was paranoid - he [[IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat thought everyone could do that]] and that every single bad thing in his life was caused by someone setting it up to happen to him.

* In ''Fanfic/ABadWeekAtTheWizengamot'', ex-Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge throws a rock through the open window of Dudley Dursley's home meth lab, which starts a highly-improbable chain of events that ends with Number Four Privet Drive exploding and Fudge being decapitated by a flying toilet seat.
* In ''Fanfic/MakeAWish'' a considerable number of Death Eaters and other villains suffer injury or death in various bizarre and mostly-accidental circumstances. A couple of the more notable ones are Lucius Malfoy and several Mooks plummeting to their death when they try to Portkey to Harry while he's standing on a hotel balcony; a group of bandits in Egypt deciding that a sandstorm is the perfect chance to check out the boss' locked strongbox containing what they ''think'' is a Nundu ''statue'' and the Lestranges using a deliberately-faulty third-party Portkey only to end up in the soda machine where Harry had just spent the coin with the tracking charm they were following.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3639659/3/A-Bad-Week-at-the-Wizengamot A Bad Week at the Wizengamot]]'' ex-Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge throws a rock through the open window of Dudley Dursley's home meth lab, which starts a highly-improbable chain of events that ends with Number Four Privet Drive exploding and Fudge being decapitated by a flying toilet seat.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Cassandra", the eponymous computer has the ability to predict the future, and knows that she will be killed by one Dave Lister. Said character explains to her that he has no intention of doing so, and makes a point of peacefully walking away from her. But not before spitting out his chewing gum and absent-mindedly sticking it to the wall...

* The vast majority of ''Series/JonathanCreek'' murders fall under this.

# the writers were concentrating on ways to create a CruelAndUnusualDeath in order to generate pure, unadulterated horror.

* The music video for Music/{{Leningrad}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6a0z-f9dI Kolshik]]'' has bubbles blown by a little girl in the audience of a circus causing a chain of events that lead to multiple deaths and the location burning down. THe original video starts with the location on fire and then [[HowWeGotHere plays the events]] [[RewindGag in reverse]].

### Blood work confirmed anaphylactic shock; he was poisoned by someone he was having an affair with, using his shellfish allergy -- for bonus points, the jerk's ''wife'' fed the other woman a big meal of shellfish, so ''she'' would introduce the tropomyosins to his system through his ''urethra'' during a '''[[DeathBySex blow-job]].'''

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
** The Feng-Shui assassination technique used by minor antagonist Kenzo in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' exploits this. He's able to read the Feng-Shui of an area to position himself in 'lucky' spots to avoid damage while pushing his opponents into 'unlucky' spots. Once in these unlucky spots, his opponents are usually hit by stray projectiles, or placed in other deadly situations, all of which happen by mere coincidence and the target's bad luck.
** [[spoiler:[[Music/ElvisPresley Wonder of U]]]], the [[FightingSpirit Stand]] of [[spoiler:[[BewareTheSillyOnes Tooru]]]], the BigBad of ''Manga/{{Jojolion}}''. Not only can it cause freak accidents to happen to anyone who expresses intent to pursue it or its user, it goes a step further by [[RealityWarper warping reality]] in such a way that normally harmless things become deadly. Anyone targeted by it can have their fingers [[MadeOfPlasticine cut off by falling leaves]], or suddenly die from their pimples turning poisonous.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', [[spoiler:Morpheus]] meets his end due to one of these. [[spoiler:It is implied that it wasn't so much this trope as a GambitRoulette set up by himself.]]

* The fanon version of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s Eldrad Ulthuan (the single most powerful Eldar farseer) devotes his immense powers of foresight to [[MemeticTroll this kind of stupid prank at the expense of his entourage]] (fatality optional), leading to heartfelt comments of "Eldrad: What a ''dick''"). Examples include:

* The fanon version of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s Eldrad Ulthuan (the single most powerful Eldar farseer) devote his immense powers of foresight to [[MemeticTroll this kind of stupid prank at the expense of his entourage]] (fatality optional), leading to heartfelt comments of "Eldrad: What a ''dick''"). Examples include:

** Aeschylus was told that he would die as a result of a falling house. [[ProphecyTwist He was killed by tortoise dropped on his head by an eagle.]]

* Many of Kenny's deaths in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' go down like this.

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths list of unusual deaths]].