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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': A disc-jockey triumphantly announces that his station is "WZAZ in Chicago, where DISCO LIVES FOREVER!".. seconds before the eponymous plane knocks over the station's transmission tower.
* ''Film/BabylonAD''. The [[EvilMatriarch High Priestess]] of the [[CorruptChurch Noelite sect]] is on the phone with [[TheMafiya Russian mob boss]] Gorsky.
-->'''High Priestess:''' Mr Gorsky, when I kill, I kill for good.\\
'''Gorsky:''' Are you threatening me?\\
'''High Priestess:''' Bless your soul.\\
'''Gorsky:''' You'll need a nuke to kill me!\\
''(Gorsky's security system detects an incoming missile)''\\
'''Gorsky:''' Bitch...
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': The future has been saved, and Doc is trying to land the [=DeLorean=] during a very heavy lightning storm. Marty warns him to be careful: "You don't want to get struck by lighting!" Guess what happens next.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'''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.)
** [[AllThereInTheScript Mayor Jenkins]] in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is particularly prone to these.
*** "Last night's violence will never happen again!"
*** "Our police have the situation well in hand!"
** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
*** The Joker is shooting at an armored truck using handguns and a shotgun when someone on the inside remarks that he's going to need something a lot bigger to get through it. Cue the rocket launcher.
*** 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 [[Franchise/StarWars pull a snowspeeder]] and jackknife the truck into the air.
*** Both Batman and the mob consistently treat ComicBook/TheJoker like more of a nuisance than a true threat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain This REALLY comes back to bite them in the ass later.]]
---->'''Batman:''' One man or the entire mob? He can wait.\\
'''Maroni:''' Some two-bit whackjob, wears a cheap purple suit and makeup. He's [[FromNobodyToNightmare nobody]], [[BystanderSyndrome he's not our problem....]]
*** There's also the early scene where Harvey Dent makes the statement that "[[TheHeroDies you either die a hero]] or live long enough to [[FaceHeelTurn 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.]]
** ''Film/TheBatman'': When chasing Oswald Cobblepot, Batman and his Batmobile get caught in a gas truck explosion. Thinking his pursuer had perished, Oz starts his EvilGloating, until Bruce springs out of the flames and flips the gangster's car, reminding him of his place:
--->'''Penguin:''' Hahaha! I got you! [[EvilGloating I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU!]]\\
''[Batmobile drives out of the flames and sends Penguin's car flying]''
* A pretty blatant example occurs in ''Film/BattlefieldBaseball''. The Gedo coach wonders out loud, while looking around, if there is a WorthyOpponent that was brave enough to assault his headquarters. [[spoiler: Cue Jubeh, arriving at the scene with an explosion, followed by TheCavalry to do exactly that.]]
* Oskari in ''Film/BigGame'': "We're safe here, right?" It takes less than a second before Hazar bursts in through the ceiling, kicking the movie's finale into motion.
* In ''Film/BridgeOfSpies,'' lawyer James Donovan convinces the judge sentencing a convicted spy to give him 30 years imprisonment instead of the death penalty because he might be useful if the Soviets ever capture an American spy and the two countries want to do an exchange. The judge dismisses it as lunacy. No points for guessing what happens next.
* ''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 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/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''
** While Butch and Sundance are acting as payroll guards, their employer tries to reassure them about the threat from bandits.
--->'''Percy Garris:''' About a half hour more, and we can start to worry, as soon as we get to that pass up there. We'll be all right till then. [snip] You got to relax, you fellas. You got to get used to Bolivian ways. You got to go easy. [snip] [shots ring out and he falls dead].
** Early in the movie, Butch and Sundance are pursued by a posse led by the lawman Joe [=LeFors=]. After traveling to Bolivia, at the end of the film they are trapped in a room by some police officers. Little do they know that a Bolivian Army detachment has arrived outside and is ready to riddle them with bullets.
--->'''Butch:''' Hey, wait a minute.\\
'''Sundance:''' What?\\\\
'''Butch:''' You didn't see [=LeFors=] out there, did you?\\
'''Sundance:''' [=LeFors=]? No.\\
'''Butch:''' Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble. ''[they charge outside]''\\
'''Bolivian Army officer:''' Fuego! (Fire!) ''[gunfire]'' Fuego! ''[gunfire]'' Fuego! ''[gunfire]''
* ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'':
** During his BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame in the middle of a rainstorm, Bishop Pickering says to his caddy, Carl, "The Good Lord would never disrupt the best game of my life. I'm infallible, young fella!"
** Also, from the mouth of Judge Smails: "Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir, and I never slice!" Well, there's a first time for everything...
* In the opening of ''Film/CampRock 2'', the protagonist sings about how much she's anticipating the holidays. The words 'drama-free' are tossed around. And ''then'' the plot kicks in...
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': "So you're gonna kill us with your soup cup?"
* In TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', Alex is being interviewed while being fed by the widower of the woman he raped in front of him. During the interview, he says, "I get the feeling something bad is going to happen." Two seconds later, he's out like a light.
* This exchange in ''Film/{{Critters}}'', conducted in [[FunWithSubtitles subtitled]] "Critterese":
-->'''Critter #1:''' They have weapons.\\
'''Critter #2:''' So what?\\
''[BLAM! A shotgun blast smears Critter #2 across the landscape.]''\\
'''Critter #1:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck!]] ''[runs off]''
* ''Film/DannyTheDog'':
** Bob Hoskins delivers the line "I tell you: this is gonna be one lovely day," ''just'' before his car gets T-boned by a garbage truck and then riddled with bullets.
** And at the end of the movie, he gives us the second instance of this trope when he has his nice car parked in an alley during the final battle, saying "This will keep her out of harm's way." [[CarCushion Guess what happens.]]
* ''Film/{{DEBS}}''. While the protagonists are investigating a bank vault, Amy says "See? That wasn't so hard." Then a TrapDoor opens under her, sending her down a secret underground slide.
* ''Film/TheDescent'':
** Though the rest of the cast are hardly innocent of this, Juno tempts fate at least five times in :
--->'''Juno:''' Everything's going to be fine. Better -- it's going to be great!\\
'''Juno:''' You want adventure Holly, when have I ever let you down? Tomorrow's going to be awesome.\\
'''Juno:''' Relax, I've never been lost in my life!\\
'''Juno:''' We'll be fine.\\
'''Juno:''' It's about us. Getting back to what we used to be.
** After Sarah becomes stuck in a tight cave tunnel, Beth tries to calm her down by essentially telling her that this is the worst thing that will happen to her, and everything will be alright after she calms down and works herself free. Things get MUCH worse. ''Particularly'' cruel of fate in this instance, as when Beth says "the worst thing that could've happened to you has already happened" it seems like she's referring to the brutal deaths of her husband and daughter. Fate looks at this [[{{Woobie}} poor woman]] and says "Nope. Better [[spoiler:kill all of her friends]] too."
* ''Film/DieHard2'': The first person to be killed is the church custodian. [[spoiler:Baker and Thompson, two of Colonel Stuart's men (disguised as airport maintenance workers) trick him into letting them into the church, and he starts musing about the current proposals to shutter the church. He says, "Yeah, I kinda feel like a piece of me is dying along with this church." Baker immediately says, "Well, you're right about that," then pulls out a pistol and shoots the custodian.]]
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'':
** Bethany gives up after Jay destroys her car's transmission and plans to walk back home. As Jay's yelling at her, he shouts out "Guys like us don't fall out of the fucking sky, y'know?!". A few seconds later, Rufus makes his entrance... falling out of the sky. Jay tries for two for two ("Beautiful, big-tittied women don't fall out of the sky!") but it doesn't work.
** Azrael and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad has cornered Bethany, Jay, Silent Bob, Rufus and Serendipity in a bar and are planning to kill them. Silent Bob has the golf club he swiped from the bishop of the church they were at and, not thinking of it, Azrael tempts Silent Bob into hitting him with it, telling everyone "Please! I'm a fucking demon.". Silent Bob shrugs, winds up... ''and smashes in Azrael's chest in''. Looking down at the gaping hole in his chest, he can only croak out [[IronicEcho "But...I'm a fucking demon..."]] before dying. Turns out the bishop blessed the driver so he can have a better golf game.
* Taslima in ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' remarks that L.A. is "not so bad once you figure it out." She is fatally shot as she ''finishes the sentence.''
* ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}'' gives Reed Richards the line, "A few days in space, what's the worst that could happen?", [[IronicEcho sarcastically echoed]] by Ben after turning into The Thing.
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' has this once Cornelius spots a suspicious-looking device on the wall:
-->'''Cornelius:''' It's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a...\\
'''Ruby Rhod:''' No no no no no no. 'Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?\\
''[[[InstantlyProvenWrong the alarms go off]]]''
* ''Film/TheFightingSeabees'': One of Donovan's men is shot by a Japanese sniper right after saying "There aren't any Japs here."
* Film/ForrestGump:
-->'''Lt. Dan:''' Where's this god of yours now?\\
'''Forrest:''' ''[narrating]'' It's funny Lt. Dan said that, 'cause right then, [[HostileWeather God showed up.]]
* Happens subtly in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. "I am fucking bored to death, man!" Not for long, you aren't.
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' offers a classic example of an enemy who appears to be retreating, but is actually just getting out of the way of something worse. At the climax of the rather lengthy Paris chase scene, Snake Eyes abruptly lets go of the Cobra operatives' car after hanging on to it for the entire chase.
-->'''Baroness:''' He gave up!\\
'''Storm Shadow:''' He never gives up.\\
WHAM! ''[their car gets brutally T-boned by an oncoming train]''
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'':
--->'''Nick:''' That's it, only three of them?\\
'''Roache:''' No, there's more. ''[showing more eggs in vicinity]''\\
'''Nick:''' Only 20? I think it's much more than this.\\
''[soldiers light the stadium]''\\
'''Roache:''' Start counting.
** In ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014), Ford Brody comes home after months of military service but quickly has to leave when he learns his father in Japan has been arrested. He's annoyed with having to leave his family so soon, but Elle assures him the trip will just be a few days. "It's not the end of the world." [[SarcasmMode What subtle foreshadowing]].
* ''Film/TheGoldenChild''. When Jarrell is taking the test to obtain the Dagger he says, "This is a piece of cake!" Not long after that he almost falls to his death and a rope bridge explodes.
* A bullied Spider in ''Film/GoodFellas'' tells Tommy to "go fuck yourself", despite knowing what Tommy could do for such a nasty insult.
* ''Film/TheGreatRace''. While Max and Professor Fate are on a small iceberg, Max thinks there may be a storm.
-->'''Professor Fate:''' You thimble-headed gherkin, do you realize the odds against a storm in this part of the ocean at this time of year? 100-to-1.\\
''(thunder, immediately starts to rain)''
* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
** From the first movie: Harry's abusive uncle claims that, because it's Sunday, they're not going to have to deal with any letters. [[spoiler:Cue several owls swarming the house and filling it with letters.]]
** Also doubles as a BrickJoke in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', when Tina and Newt argue about Jacob being Obliviated and Tina says "Who's gonna marry ''him''?" to Newt's comment on how American laws about marrying {{Muggles}} are backward. [[LaserGuidedKarma Meet your new brother-in-law, Tina.]]
* Two perfect examples played straight in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'':
-->'''Hellboy:''' We'll be OK so long as we don't separate.\\
''[cue huge spiked walls rising from the ground separating the group into teams]''\\\
'''Hellboy:''' I'll be fine. Hey, how big could it be?\\
''[cue corridor-sized tentacles reaching around to grab Hellboy and pull him into the fray]''
* In ''[[Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves]]'', Wayne and Gordon land in a bowl of dip and Gordon worries about getting eaten during a party going on in the house. Wayne assures him that "They're teenage girls, how much can they eat?". Guess what happens next.
* Taken to ridiculous heights in ''Film/HotShots''. One character, [[MeaningfulName appropriately named "Dead Meat" Thompson]] [[{{retirony}} receives a visit from his wife as he's preparing to fly a training mission]], and what follows is an enormous list of things he has to live for, including his beautiful wife, that he's carrying his (unsigned) life insurance papers with him, and that he's figured out how to solve the problem with global warming and the real culprits in the Kennedy assassination but hasn't told anyone and has the evidence on him. No, he doesn't make it back home... He also breaks a mirror, walks under a ladder, and has a black cat cross his path. Also, his kids are scraping asbestos off the pipes back home, so it's apparently hereditary.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'':
** "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.
** In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'', Coin gives a speech at Snow's execution, exhorting Katniss to strike down the dictator and bring freedom. Naturally, Katniss shoots Coin, having realized that she wasn't any better than Snow was.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'':
** Played with in the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', when Indy and his Peruvian guide are at a temple chamber containing an ancient idol.
--->'''Satipo:''' There is nothing to fear here.\\
'''Indy:''' That's what scares me.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
*** Indy and his father are spying on the Nazi villains from a nearby ridge. After they notice that the Nazis have recently acquired a tank, Indy's father warns him to get behind cover before the Nazis spot him. Indy's response: "Dad, we're well out of range." Seconds later, a shot from the tank blows up the Jones's car parked a few feet away.
*** Dr. Elsa Schneider's exclamation of "We have got it, come on! It's ours Indy, yours and mine!" as she obliviously crossed the Great Seal with the Holy Grail definitely counts as TemptingFate. Surprisingly, she received a second chance when Indiana caught her before she fell into one of the cracks in the earth from the earthquake she started up. However, she pushed her luck too far when she tried reaching for the grail instead, causing her hand to slip from Indiana's grip.
* ''Film/JamesBond'' villains do it sometimes.
** ''Film/GoldenEye''
*** The opening of the movie with the Dam infiltration:
---->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Half of everything is luck, James.\\
'''James Bond:''' And the other half?\\
''[alarm goes off]''\\
'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Fate.
*** One of the best examples is evil hacker Boris Grishenko who, after surviving the destruction of the Janus Base and his boss's demise, delivers his CatchPhrase "I am invincible!" -- scant seconds before huge vats of liquid nitrogen decide to disgorge their contents in his direction, flash-freezing him to death on the spot.
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. While talking to the gangsters Goldfinger boasts that "My plan is foolproof!" Not with Bond around it isn't.
* In ''Film/{{Jennifer}}'', AlphaBitch Sandra Tremayne attempts to murder the titular character while shouting to her clique, "Let's show her what happens to [[spoiler: cat-killers]]!" Sandra herself [[spoiler: killed the cat in question]], and sure enough, she gets her wish... [[spoiler: at the fangs of a giant snake.]]
* In ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'', the protagonist and his band of freelance zombie-killers find themselves backed into a room by a swarm of the dead. Someone is stupid enough to ask "How can this be worse!?" which of course causes the lights to go out. Juan is [[YouJustHadToSayIt understandably annoyed]] with the speaker.
* In the film ''Film/{{Juice}}'', BigBad Bishop chases Q into a building while shooting at him. Q is able to go to an elevator filled with people. Bishop enters the elevator just before the door closes. Q looks around at the people with him, smiles and says: "What are you going to do, shot me in an elevator?" Cue Bishop pulling out his gun and shooting. Good thing he was a lousy shot and hit no one inside the elevator before the door opened on the next floor.
* The raptors in ''Film/JurassicPark'' are contained, right? "Unless they figure out how to open doors." Guess what happens.
* ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' (2005): "Don't be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel!"
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'':
** Sarah tells the Goblin King that his Labyrinth is "a piece of cake." The results are unfortunate.
** "It's not fair!" also means something has gone awry. Jareth even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it at one point: "You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is."
** While passing through the goblin city Sarah says "I think we're gonna make it" and Hoggle replies "Piece of cake". The goblins immediately appear and attack.
* In the 1994 adaptation of ''Film/TheLittleRascals'':
-->'''Alfalfa:''' ''[while running around in his underwear]'' Things can't possibly get any worse!\\
''[turns around and runs straight into [[TheBully Butch and Woim]]]''\\
'''Alfalfa:''' Then the clouds opened up and God said, "I hate you, Alfalfa!"
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** In ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', Bofur remarks that their harrowing chase through Goblin Town could have been worse. Then [[spoiler:the giant corpse of the Goblin King falls on top of them]]. They survive, though.
--->'''Dwalin:''' You've got to be joking!
** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers 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]].
** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing 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.
*** 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.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra'' (2004). Ranger Brad gets killed moments after warning everyone about the horribly mutilated farmer that had been found earlier.
-->'''Ranger Brad:''' Say, I must be crazy walking around in these woods at night with a horrible mutilation practically around the corner. Oh well.
* Occurs in the climax of ''Film/{{Maleficent}}''. Stefan taunts Maleficent for being a fairy without wings. Just then, her wings return after Aurora freed them.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'' Pepper comments that she expected Obadiah's suit (actually Tony's recovered MK I) to be ''bigger''. Oh, how right she was.
** 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.]]
** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': The Warriors Three and Sif discussing what to do after Loki takes the throne. Hogun suggests they go and find Thor, Volstagg gets very nervous because that would be a betrayal.
--->'''Volstagg:''' Sssh! Heimdall might be watching!\\
'''Guard:''' ''[enters the room]'' Heimdall demands your presence! ''[leaves the room]''\\
'''Volstagg:''' [[OhCrap ...We're doomed.]]
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Villainous example with Hela after she has Thor pinned down and believes him beaten.
--->'''Hela:''' What was it that ''you'' were the god of, again?\\
''[[[BoltOfDivineRetribution thunder rumbles]]]''
* One of the best exchanges from ''Film/MenInBlack'': a bad-tempered farmer named Edgar is investigating the flying saucer that just crash-landed on his pickup truck. As he peers into the smoking crater where the truck used to be, shotgun in hand, the unseen (by the audience) alien orders:
-->'''Alien:''' Place... projectile weapon ... on the ground.\\
'''Edgar:''' You can have my gun ''[racks shotgun]'' when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.\\
'''Alien:''' Your proposal... is... acceptable. ''[eats him]''
* ''Ministry of Fear'' (1944), the FilmNoir spy movie by Creator/FritzLang. The Nazi spy says "You wouldn't shoot your own brother" to his sister as he escapes out the door. There's the crack of a shot and a hole appears in the door; moments later his dead body tumbles through.
* 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.]]
* ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'': Oakland GM Billy Beane superstitiously does not attend games, but with the A's about to set a record winning streak and already up by eleven runs, he is persuaded by his daughter to show up to the arena and celebrate his accomplishment. "You won't jinx it," his daughter promises. The opposing team has an eleven-run rally after he arrives.
* In ''Film/MouseHunt'', after the auction ends disastrously, Nathan Lane tries to reassure the auction goers by saying "This house will last ''forever''!" Just after he says that, the house collapses indignantly.
* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'':
** ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'': "It's just [[TomeOfEldritchLore a book]]. No harm ever came from reading a book." Oh, yes it can, Evey. Up to and including [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
** ''Film/TheMummyReturns'': Lampshaded.
--->'''Evelyn:''' It's just a box. No harm ever came from opening a box.\\
'''Rick:''' Yeah, right, and [[CallBack no harm ever came from reading a book]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt You remember how]] [[SealedEvilInACan that one went?]]
%%* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "He is NOT a murderer!"
* ''Film/OceansTwelve'': Tess has to bail out most of the cast by [[CelebrityParadox impersonating her own actress]]. Matt Damon's character tries to reassure her that no-one she's going to run into actually ''knows'' Julia Roberts, and the last thing anyone will be is personal. In walks Bruce Willis, AsHimself. Their reactions are priceless.
* In ''Series/OddSquad: TheMovie'', Weird Tom tries to blow off an attempt to get into the closet where a self-multiplying and very dangerous creature is being stored as an attempt to take back headquarters when suddenly, the counter behind him goes from 4096 to 0. [[FromBadToWorse The situation only gets worse from there.]]
* ''Film/OurManFlint''
-->'''Lloyd Cramden:''' We've just had our first break. According to this dispatch I just received, our team of agents has them cornered! At any second... ''(gets another message)'' It was a trap. We just lost another team of agents.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': One of the videos on the Pan Pacific Defense Corps page is a news report on a {{Kaiju}} attack ending with the reporter saying, "I can only pray that this is the end of it."
* In ''Film/{{Paul}}'', the statement "I doubt we'll ever see those guys again!" just ensures that 'those guys' show up at a random bar to delay our heroes as the feds are closing in. They also give one of the agents final confirmation that they're really chasing an alien.
* ''Film/PearlHarbor''. A Japanese bomb lands next to a sailor and doesn't go off. Not realising the tiny spinning propeller at the back of the bomb is the fuse, he shouts "It's a dud... IT'S A DUD!" '''KA-BOOOOM!'''
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'':
*** "Actually, you don't need ''everyone''. About six of us will do. ({{Beat}}) Ohhh, dear..."
*** "The bright side is, you're back and made it off free and clear!" (cue the Flying Dutchman bursting out of the sea literally right behind them)
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': "How soon can we have the ship ready to pursue?" (cue one of the masts of said ship falling over)
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. After the Freelings rescue Carol Anne from the other side, the spiritual medium Tangina says "This house is clean". A short time later the ghosts re-appear and try to grab Carol Anne again.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Westley and Buttercup are discussing the final dangers of the fire swamp. To be fair, Wesley had already seen the R.O.U.S.'s, he was just trying to make sure Buttercup didn't freak out.
-->'''Buttercup:''' ''[while in the Fire Swamp]'' Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.s?\\
'''Westley:''' Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist... ''[Westley is attacked by a R.O.U.S.]''
* In the UsefulNotes/ColdWar AlternateHistory movie ''Film/{{Red Dawn|1984}}'', Soviet paratroopers have just landed in an American town. We see a bumper sticker saying "THEY CAN HAVE MY GUN WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!" The camera then moves down to the owner of the car lying dead with a Colt .45 in his hands, which is then souvenired by an enemy paratrooper.
* ''Film/{{Resident Evil|2002}}'': Right after entering the code to open a door, J.D. says "See how easy that was?" Seconds later he's dragged to his death by zombies behind the door.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'':
-->'''Freddy:''' Hey, these things don't leak, do they?\\
'''Frank:''' Leak? Hell no! These things were made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers!\\
''[slaps tank, which instantly leaks]''\\
'''Freddy:''' [[OhCrap Oh, fuck!]]
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'':
** "It's all right, Janet. Everything's going to be all right." Then, things get worse.
** "I'm here! There's nothing to worry about!" Cue Creator/TimCurry.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, like so many other horror movie tropes, in ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''.
-->'''Randy:''' Never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, say "I'll be right back." 'Cause you won't be back.\\
'''Stu:''' I'm gettin' another beer, you want one?\\
'''Randy:''' Yeah, sure.\\
'''Stu:''' ''I'll be right back!''\\
'''Randy:''' You see, you push the laws, and you end up dead, okay? I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife.
* This trope is featured prominently in the short film from the Nestle UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Anthology entitled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgmCOjwtTg Sign Seeker]]'', where the protagonist spends the entire morning tempting fate, looking for specific "Signs" from the universe to signal to him if today is the day he will ask the girl he likes if she would like to go on a date with him. [[spoiler: This is one of the rare, positive examples of this trope: it plays the trope straight and is still funny while NOT making the person who is tempting fate miserable in the process.]]
* ''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.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/{{Star Trek|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.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** 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.
*** 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]''
* ''Franchise/StarWars:''
** ''Film/ANewHope'':
*** Vader saying "There'll be no one to stop us this time!" The subsequent cut to two pathetic droids trekking through the desert hardly seems to contradict this, but...
*** Even within the movies, "ultimate power in the universe" is exactly how Motti describes the Death Star. [[spoiler:As in, before it was blown up.]] [[GenreBlindness Shouldn't imperial Admirals have acknowledged that as an important lesson in humility after that?]]
*** An iconic example, inside the Death Star's trash compactor:
---->'''Leia:''' It could be worse.\\
''[ominous roar]''\\
'''Han:''' It's worse.
*** And:
---->'''[[SmugSnake Tarkin]]:''' Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
** A bit of EU information on ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' has it that Admiral Ozzel, that mustached guy in the beginning, says to an aide that with the control of the ''Executor'', he has become the ultimate power in the universe. Moments later, Vader contacts him to deliver his [[YouHaveFailedMe "letter of termination"]].
** The Sarlacc's description in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', when Han finds out he will be terminated immediately:
--->'''Han:''' Good. I hate long waits.\\
''[...]''\\
'''C-3PO:''' In his belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Captain Typho says "I guess I was wrong. There was no danger at all!" right before Padmé's ship blows up and kills her BodyDouble.
** Just before the mine heist in ''Film/{{Solo}}'', Tobias Beckett tells everyone to stick to the plan. "No improvising." This, of course, guarantees that ThePlan goes OffTheRails.
** Of course, anytime ''anyone'' in the franchise says, [[ObligatoryJoke "I have a bad feeling about this"]], he or she is Tempting Fate; rest assured, those words mean something bad ''will'' happen soon. To wit (in chronological order):
*** 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 (spoken by Obi-Wan as "I have a bad feeling about this.");
*** The execution beasts are let into the arena (spoken by Anakin as "I've got a bad feeling about this.");
*** Obi-Wan's fighter is attacked by spider-drones as he approaches General Grievous' ship (spoken by Obi-Wan as "I have a bad feeling about this.");
*** The ''Millennium Falcon'' is attacked in the Akkadese Maelstrom's Maw Cluster by a summa-verminoth (inverse spoken by Han as "I have a really good feeling about this.");
*** 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-2SO as "I have a bad feeling about this;" apparently Cassian interrupting only made things worse.);
*** The ''Millennium Falcon'' is drawn by a tractor beam into the Death Star (spoken by Luke as "I have a very bad feeling about this.");
*** The trash compactor starts to close in on the heroes (spoken by Han as "I've got a bad feeling about this.");
*** The tunnel the ''Millennium Falcon'' is using to evade the Imperial forces turns out to be a space slug (spoken by Leia as "I have a bad feeling about this.");
*** Jabba rejects Luke's message and has 3PO and R2 enslaved (spoken by C-3PO as "I have a bad feeling about this.");
*** Luke and Han are almost offered by the Ewoks as sacrifices (spoken by Han as "I have a really bad feeling about this.");
*** 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.");
*** 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]]); and
*** Rey, BB-8, Finn, Poe, and C-3PO are sucked into a quicksand pit on Pasaana (spoken by Lando as "I got a bad feeling about this.").
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TheTerminator'': At the police station, Lt. Traxler tells Sarah "You'll be perfectly safe. We've got 30 cops in this building." Shortly thereafter, [[CurbStompBattle the Terminator shows up to the station and effortlessly attacks them, with Traxler dying during the assault]].
** Cyberdyne in the original universe (before the T-800, Sarah, John, and an employee of the company [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod terminated the company with extreme prejudice]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] yet failed attempt at preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt) found out the hard way that naming your supercomputer "Skynet" is just as taboo as naming your ship "Titanic".
* In ''Film/TimeBandits,'' they're on the ship when Randall says, "Nothing can go wrong." Cue a giant walking off with the ship as a hat.
* In the rather bad action movie ''Film/TitanicII'' someone had the brilliant idea to name a ship ''Titanic'' and set it on the same route as the original. Things get worse not too long after.
* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'':
** Earl and Valentine have resisted temptation (free beer) and left Perfection, Nevada for a new life. As they're driving along Valentine says, "Now there's nothing, and I mean nothing, between us and Bixby!" Seconds later, they see Edgar Deems high up on a power pylon. They stop to help him, and later events force them into a battle to the death against the Graboids.
** At one point the town residents say that eventually someone will notice the road's blocked and the phone lines are down and come check up on them. It then cuts to show someone ''did'' show up to check up on them... but was eaten by the Graboids.
** ''Film/Tremors5Bloodlines'': A secondary character shouts "You can't kill me! I'm African!" seconds before an Assblaster crashes on top of him.
* During the climax of ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'', criminal mastermind Dane brags to Ryback that there is nothing he can do to shut down his satellite weapon. Ryback responds by shooting the laptop controlling the weapon, with the bullets going through the laptop and hitting Dane as well. Dane's last words: "I didn't think of that."
* ''Film/{{Vamps}}'': Vadim and Ivan’s opinion of a club girl having the word “juicy” on her clothes.
* Lampshaded thoroughly in the first few minutes of ''Film/WalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory''. The machete fight was after they played catch with live snakes and jousted on tractors.
-->'''Nate:''' There's nothing I won't do with this long, long life of mine... That's what's great about being young. So much time to do great things.\\
''[later]''\\
'''Dewey:''' You know how mad Pa gets when we play with his machetes.\\
'''Nate:''' Come on. There's nothing wrong with a little machete-fighting.
* ''Film/{{Water|1985}}''. British government mouthpiece Sir Malcolm Leveridge is giving a TV interview.
-->'''Sir Malcolm:''' This is a localized incident that you people are blowing out of all proportion. Under British rule this island has always been a model of civility, common sense, and tranquility. ''(RPG-7 rocket blows up a building behind him)''
* ''Film/WhatAWayToGo:'' Workaholic [[Creator/DickVanDyke Edgar Hopper]] announces over the phone to [[Creator/ShirleyMacLaine his wife]] that "..a little hard work never killed anybody!" And promptly keels over dead.
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': Grandpa Joe and Charlie are in the Fizzy Lifting Drink room. Grandpa Joe says "A swallow won't hurt us!" After they each take a swallow, they float into the air -- and almost get chopped to pieces by a huge exhaust fan in the ceiling, barely managing to escape. LaserGuidedKarma kicks in when it's revealed at the end that the only reason they get a happy ending is because [[spoiler: even after he learns he's been disqualified from a promised prize for rule-breaking (as the other kids were in addition to suffering strange fates for such), since he stole the drinks, Charlie still refuses to give Arthur Slugworth, ostensibly a rival confectioner, a sample of the Everlasting Gobstopper. As it turns out, Slugworth is actually a Wonka employee used for this Secret Test Of Character]].
* At the end of ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies'', the casino owner can't believe that hundreds of people just dropped dead in his establishment (the Djinn claimed their souls), causing him to say "What's next?! Frogs and locusts?!". Guess what the Djinn conjures up when the owner inadvertently makes a wish.
* ''Film/TheWitchFiles'': While flying to Hag's Rock on a broomstick, MJ says "I've got this", immediately before losing control and crashing.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The Juggernaut gave his BadassBoast towards Kitty Pryde, only to get knocked out cold.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Before they go to Russia, Erik Lehnsherr says that the young mutants are not ready to face Sebastian Shaw, but Charles Xavier insists that they will surprise him and that they are an exceptional bunch of young people. A second later, as they're approaching the recreation room, they can see Raven Darkholme dancing on a chair while Angel Salvadore flies around her, Alex and Sean are breaking chairs on Armando Muñoz (who keeps yelling "Harder!"), and Hank [=McCoy=] is hanging off a light fixture.
*** "Gentlemen, this is why the CIA is no place for a woman." [[spoiler:Cue huge crash as Emma Frost is busted out of her cell.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': Wade bets Francis that things can't get worse from "round-the-clock torture." Oh, how wrong he is.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': After Cyclops, Jean and Nightcrawler [[spoiler:free Wolverine from the Weapon X facility, Scott Summers states that he hopes to never see Logan again]].
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'':
-->''[Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal]''\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' What a filthy job.\\
'''Igor:''' Could be worse.\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' How?\\
'''Igor:''' Could be raining.\\
''[[[CueTheRain it starts to pour]]]''
* ''Film/Zombi3D'' has the GenreBlind General Morton, with the help of [[ThoseTwoGuys Coleman and Cheney]], burn a corpse infected with the Death One virus despite the environmental hazard warnings of Dr. Holder and his assistant, brushing off their concerns with the cheesy one-liner "That's ridiculous, pure ScienceFiction!" Actually, he ''is'' a character in a ScienceFiction movie, and yet, [[FlatEarthAtheist he consistently denies it]] [[RuleOfThree a total of three times]] [[CassandraTruth within the movie.]]
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* A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near ''Film/Batman1989'''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.)
* [[AllThereInTheScript Mayor Jenkins]] in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is particularly prone to these.
** "Last night's violence will never happen again!"
** "Our police have the situation well in hand!"
* ''Film/TheBatman'': When chasing Oswald Cobblepot, Batman and his Batmobile get caught in a gas truck explosion. Thinking his pursuer had perished, Oz starts his EvilGloating, until Bruce springs out of the flames and flips the gangster's car, reminding him of his place:
-->'''Penguin''': Hahaha! I got you! [[EvilGloating I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU!]]\\

-->'''Percy Garris''': About a half hour more, and we can start to worry, as soon as we get to that pass up there. We'll be all right till then. [snip] You got to relax, you fellas. You got to get used to Bolivian ways. You got to go easy. [snip] [shots ring out and he falls dead].

-->'''Butch''': Hey, wait a minute.
-->'''Sundance''': What?
-->'''Butch''': You didn't see [=LeFors=] out there, did you?
-->'''Sundance''': [=LeFors=]? No.
-->'''Butch''': Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble. [They charge outside]
-->'''Bolivian Army officer''': Fuego! (Fire!) [gunfire] Fuego! [gunfire] Fuego! [gunfire].
* ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'': During his BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame in the middle of a rainstorm, Bishop Pickering says to his caddy, Carl, "The Good Lord would never disrupt the best game of my life. I'm infallible, young fella!"

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the Joker is shooting at an armored truck using handguns and a shotgun when someone on the inside remarks that he's going to need something a lot bigger to get through it. Cue the rocket launcher.
** 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 [[Franchise/StarWars pull a snowspeeder]] and jackknife the truck into the air.
** Both Batman and the mob consistently treat ComicBook/TheJoker like more of a nuisance than a true threat. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain This REALLY comes back to bite them in the ass later.]]
--->'''Batman:''' One man or the entire mob? He can wait.\\
'''Maroni:''' Some two-bit whackjob, wears a cheap purple suit and makeup. He's [[FromNobodyToNightmare nobody]], [[BystanderSyndrome he's not our problem....]]
** There's also the early scene where Harvey Dent makes the statement that "[[TheHeroDies you either die a hero]] or live long enough to [[FaceHeelTurn 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.]]

* Though the rest of the cast are hardly innocent of this, Juno tempts fate at least five times in ''Film/TheDescent'':
-->"Everything's going to be fine. Better -- it's going to be great!"\\
"You want adventure Holly, when have I ever let you down? Tomorrow's going to be awesome."\\
"Relax, I've never been lost in my life!"\\
"We'll be fine."\\
"It's about us. Getting back to what we used to be."
** After Sarah becomes stuck in a tight cave tunnel, Beth tries to calm her down by essentially telling her that this is the worst thing that will happen to her, and everything will be alright after she calms down and works herself free. Things get MUCH worse.
*** ''Particularly'' cruel of fate in this instance, as when Beth says "the worst thing that could've happened to you has already happened" it seems like she's referring to the brutal deaths of her husband and daughter. Fate looks at this [[{{Woobie}} poor woman]] and says "Nope. Better [[spoiler: kill all of her friends]] too."

* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Azrael and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad has cornered Bethany, Jay, Silent Bob, Rufus and Serendipity in a bar and are planning to kill them. Silent Bob has the golf club he swiped from the bishop of the church they were at and, not thinking of it, Azrael tempts Silent Bob into hitting him with it, telling everyone "Please! I'm a fucking demon.". Silent Bob shrugs, winds up... ''and smashes in Azrael's chest in''. Looking down at the gaping hole in his chest, he can only croak out [[IronicEcho "But...I'm a fucking demon..."]] before dying. Turns out the bishop blessed the driver so he can have a better golf game.
** Earlier in the movie, Bethany gives up after Jay destroys her car's transmission and plans to walk back home. As Jay's yelling at her, he shouts out "Guys like us don't fall out of the fucking sky, y'know?!". A few seconds later, Rufus makes his entrance... falling out of the sky. Jay tries for two for two ("Beautiful, big-tittied women don't fall out of the sky!") but it doesn't work.

* Also doubles as a BrickJoke in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', when Tina and Newt argue about Jacob being Obliviated and Tina says "Who's gonna marry ''him''?" to Newt's comment on how American laws about marrying {{Muggles}} are backward. [[LaserGuidedKarma Meet your new brother-in-law, Tina.]]
* ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' gives Reed Richards the line, "A few days in space, what's the worst that could happen?", [[IronicEcho sarcastically echoed]] by Ben after turning into The Thing.

-->'''Cornelius''': It's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a...\\
'''Ruby Rhod''': No no no no no no. 'Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?\\
* [[InstantlyProvenWrong the alarms go off]]*

--> '''Lt. Dan:''' Where's this god of yours now?
--> '''Forrest:''' (narrating) It's funny Lt. Dan said that, 'cause right then, [[HostileWeather God showed up.]]

-->'''Baroness:''' He gave up!
-->'''Storm Shadow:''' He never gives up.
-->WHAM! [their car gets brutally T-boned by an oncoming train]
* American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'':
-->'''Nick:''' That's it, only three of them?\\
'''Roache:''' No, there's more. ''(showing more eggs in vicinity)''\\

''(soldiers light the stadium)''\\

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', Ford Brody comes home after months of military service but quickly has to leave when he learns his father in Japan has been arrested. He's annoyed with having to leave his family so soon, but Elle assures him the trip will just be a few days. "It's not the end of the world." [[SarcasmMode What subtle foreshadowing]].

* 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.]]
* From the first ''Film/HarryPotter'' movie: Harry's abusive uncle claims that, because it's Sunday, they're not going to have to deal with any letters. [[spoiler:Cue several owls swarming the house and filling it with letters.]]
* Two perfect examples played straight in ''Film/Hellboy2004'':

''(cue huge spiked walls rising from the ground separating the group into teams)''\\
\\

''(cue corridor-sized tentacles reaching around to grab Hellboy and pull him into the fray)''
* In ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', Bofur remarks that their harrowing chase through Goblin Town could have been worse. Then [[spoiler:the giant corpse of the Goblin King falls on top of them]]. They survive, though.
-->'''Dwalin''': You've got to be joking!

* Taken to ridiculous heights in ''Film/HotShots''. One character, [[MeaningfulName appropriately named "Dead Meat" Thompson]] [[{{retirony}} receives a visit from his wife as he's preparing to fly a training mission]], and what follows is an enormous list of things he has to live for, including his beautiful wife, that he's carrying his (unsigned) life insurance papers with him, and that he's figured out how to solve the problem with global warming and the real culprits in the Kennedy assassination but hasn't told anyone and has the evidence on him. No, he doesn't make it back home...
** He also breaks a mirror, walks under a ladder, and has a black cat cross his path. Also, his kids are scraping asbestos off the pipes back home, so it's apparently hereditary.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'' "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.

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy and his father are spying on the Nazi villains from a nearby ridge. After they notice that the Nazis have recently acquired a tank, Indy's father warns him to get behind cover before the Nazis spot him. Indy's response: "Dad, we're well out of range." Seconds later, a shot from the tank blows up the Jones's car parked a few feet away.
** Dr. Elsa Schneider's exclamation of "We have got it, come on! It's ours Indy, yours and mine!" as she obliviously crossed the Great Seal with the Holy Grail definitely counts as TemptingFate. Surprisingly, she received a second chance when Indiana caught her before she fell into one of the cracks in the earth from the earthquake she started up. However, she pushed her luck too far when she tried reaching for the grail instead, causing her hand to slip from Indiana's grip.
*** In the PC adventure game, Elsa is more direct in stating that she doesn't believe the Knight's warning about leaving with the grail. She says, "But Indy, the Grail, it can be ours!" After his continued warnings about the seal, she says, "No! I don't believe it! I won't lose it now!" If you don't take the grail first, she tries to leave with it and slips into the abyss she created after crossing the seal.
* In ''Film/IronMan1'' Pepper comments that she expected Obadiah's suit (actually Tony's recovered MK I) to be ''bigger''. Oh, how right she was.

*** One of the best examples is evil hacker Boris Grishenko who, after surviving the destruction of the Janus Base and his boss's demise, delivers his CatchPhrase "I am invincible!" -- scant seconds before huge vats of liquid nitrogen decide to disgorge their contents in his direction, flash-freezing him to death on the spot.

--->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Half of everything is luck, James.\\

''(alarm goes off)''\\

* ''Film/KingKong2005'': "Don't be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel!"
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''

--->'''Alfalfa:'''(while running around in his underwear) Things can't possibly get any worse!'''
--->[turns around and runs straight into [[TheBully Butch and Woim]]]
--->'''Alfalfa:'''Then the clouds opened up and God said, "I hate you, Alfalfa!"'''
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers 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.

--->'''Alien:''' Place... projectile weapon ... on the ground.
--->'''Edgar:''' You can have my gun *racks shotgun* when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
--->'''Alien:''' Your proposal ... is ... acceptable. *eats him*

* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "He is NOT a murderer!"

* ''Film/PacificRim'': One of the videos on the Pan Pacific Defense Corps page is a news report on a {{Kaiju}} attack ending with the reporter saying, "I can only pray that this is the end of it".

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'':
** "Actually, you don't need ''everyone''. About six of us will do. ({{Beat}}) Ohhh, dear..."
** "The bright side is, you're back and made it off free and clear!" (cue the Flying Dutchman bursting out of the sea literally right behind them)
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': "How soon can we have the ship ready to pursue?" (cue one of the masts of said ship falling over)

* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Westley and Buttercup are discussing the final dangers of the fire swamp:
-->'''Buttercup:''' ''(while in the Fire Swamp)'' Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?\\
'''Westley:''' Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist... ''(Westley is attacked by a R.O.U.S.)''
** To be fair, Wesley had already seen the R.O.U.S.'s, he was just trying to make sure Buttercup didn't freak out.
* Played with in the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', when Indy and his Peruvian guide are at a temple chamber containing an ancient idol.
-->'''Satipo:''' There is nothing to fear here.
-->'''Indy:''' That's what scares me.
* In the UsefulNotes/ColdWar AlternateHistory movie ''Film/RedDawn1984'', Soviet paratroopers have just landed in an American town. We see a bumper sticker saying "THEY CAN HAVE MY GUN WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!" The camera then moves down to the owner of the car lying dead with a Colt .45 in his hands, which is then souvenired by an enemy paratrooper.
* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. Right after entering the code to open a door, J.D. says "See how easy that was?" Seconds later he's dragged to his death by zombies behind the door.

''(slaps tank, which instantly leaks)''\\

** This became a FunnyAneurysmMoment after [[UsefulNotes/NewOrleans Katrina]].
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': "It's all right, Janet. Everything's going to be all right." Then, things get worse.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, like so many other horror movie tropes, in ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}''.

* This trope is featured prominently in the short film from the Nestle UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Anthology entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgmCOjwtTg Sign Seeker]], where the protagonist spends the entire morning tempting fate, looking for specific "Signs" from the universe to signal to him if today is the day he will ask the girl he likes if she would like to go on a date with him. [[spoiler: This is one of the rare, positive examples of this trope: it plays the trope straight and is still funny while NOT making the person who is tempting fate miserable in the process.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', [=SpongeBob=] and the gang don't know how to go to the surface.
--> '''Squidward''': The only way we're going out there [[spoiler: is if some Fairy Godmother shows up and helps us breathe air!\\
''(Bubbles the dolphin suddenly appears)'']]
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''Film/StarTrek2009'': 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]].

--->'''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.

** An iconic example from ''Film/ANewHope'':
--->'''Leia:''' It could be worse.\\
''(ominous roar)''\\

** And:
--->'''[[SmugSnake Tarkin]]:''' Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
** Vader saying "There'll be no one to stop us this time!" The subsequent cut to two pathetic droids trekking through the desert hardly seems to contradict this, but...
** A bit of EU information on ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' has it that Admiral Ozzel, that mustached guy in the beginning, says to an aide that with the control of the ''Executor'', he has become the ultimate power in the universe. Moments later, Vader contacts him to deliver his [[YouHaveFailedMe "letter of termination"]].
*** Even within the movies, "ultimate power in the universe" is exactly how Motti described the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''. [[spoiler:As in, before it was blown up.]] [[GenreBlindness Shouldn't imperial Admirals have acknowledged that as an important lesson in humility after that?]]

*** The Millennium Falcon is attacked in the Akkadese Maelstrom's Maw Cluster by a summa-verminoth (inverse spoken by Han as "I have a really good feeling about this.");
*** 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-2SO as "I have a bad feeling about this;" apparently Cassian interrupting only made things worse.);
*** The Millennium Falcon is drawn by a tractor beam into the Death Star (spoken by Luke as "I have a very bad feeling about this.");

*** The tunnel the Millennium Falcon is using to evade the Imperial forces turns out to be a space slug (spoken by Leia as "I have a bad feeling about this.");

* Cyberdyne in the original universe of ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (before the T-800, Sarah, John, and an employee of the company [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod terminated the company with extreme prejudice]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] yet failed attempt at preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt) found out the hard way that naming your supercomputer "Skynet" is just as taboo as naming your ship "Titanic".
** ''Film/TheTerminator'': At the police station, Lt. Traxler tells Sarah "You'll be perfectly safe. We've got 30 cops in this building.". Shortly thereafter, [[CurbStompBattle the Terminator shows up to the station and effortlessly attacks them, with Traxler dying during the assault]].
* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': The Warriors Three and Sif discussing what to do after Loki takes the throne. Hogun suggests they go and find Thor, Volstagg gets very nervous because that would be a betrayal.
--> '''Volstagg''': "Sssh! Heimdall might be watching!"
--> '''Guard''': [''enters the room''] "Heimdall demands your presence!" [''leaves the room'']
--> '''Volstagg''': [[OhCrap ".....We're doomed."]]
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Villainous example with Hela after she has Thor pinned down and believes him beaten.
--> '''Hela''': "What was it that ''you'' were the god of, again?"
--> ([[BoltOfDivineRetribution Thunder rumbles]])

* In the rather bad action movie ''Film/TitanicII'' someone had the brilliant idea to name a ship Titanic and set it on the same route as the original. Things get worse not too long after.
* ''Film/{{Tremors}}''

* ''Film/Tremors5Bloodlines'': A secondary character shouts "You can't kill me! I'm African!" seconds before an Assblaster crashes on top of him.

* Lampshaded thoroughly in the first few minutes of ''Film/WalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory'':

''(later)''\\

** The machete fight was after they played catch with live snakes and jousted on tractors.
* ''Film/{{Water 1985}}''. British government mouthpiece Sir Malcolm Leveridge is giving a TV interview.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
** While Roger is standing guard inside Maroon Studios he says "No one gets the drop on Roger Rabbit!" Seconds later he's [[TapOnTheHead conked on the head and knocked out]] by a frying pan.
** Lampshaded later when Jessica says the only reason she knocked him out and stuffed him in the trunk of a car was because she didn't want him getting hurt. Lampshadeded ''again'' when Eddie responds with obvious irony, "Yeah, that makes perfect sense."
*** Well, it would make perfect sense to a ''toon''.

** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': Wade bets Francis that things can't get worse from "round-the-clock torture." Oh, how wrong he is.

-->''(Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal)''\\

''[[CueTheRain (it starts to pour)]]''

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': The future has been saved, and Doc is trying to land the [=DeLorean=] during a very heavy lightning storm. Marty warns him to be careful: "You don't want to get struck by..." Guess what happens next.

* In ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'', the protagonist and his band of freelance zombie-killers find themselves backed into a room by a swarm of the dead. Someone is stupid enough to ask "How can this be worse!?" which of course causes the lights to go out. Juan is understandably annoyed with the speaker.

* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'':
-->''(Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal)''\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' What a filthy job.\\
'''Igor:''' Could be worse.\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' How?\\
'''Igor:''' Could be raining.\\
''[[CueTheRain (it starts to pour)]]''





* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': "It's all right, Janet. Everything's going to be all right." Then, things get worse.
** "I'm here! There's nothing to worry about!" Cue Creator/TimCurry.

* Occurs in the climax of ''Film/{{Maleficent}}''. Stefan taunts Maleficent for being a fairy without wings. Just then, her wings return after Aurora freed them.
* ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'': Oakland GM Billy Beane superstitiously does not attend games, but with the A's about to set a record winning streak and already up by eleven runs, he is persuaded by his daughter to show up to the arena and celebrate his accomplishment. "You won't jinx it," his daughter promises. The opposing team has an eleven-run rally after he arrives.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'':
-->'''Freddy:''' Hey, these things don't leak, do they?\\
'''Frank:''' Leak? Hell no! These things were made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers!\\
''(slaps tank, which instantly leaks)''\\
'''Freddy:''' [[OhCrap Oh, fuck!]]
** This became a FunnyAneurysmMoment after [[UsefulNotes/NewOrleans Katrina]].
* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. Right after entering the code to open a door, J.D. says "See how easy that was?" Seconds later he's dragged to his death by zombies behind the door.
* ''Ministry of Fear'' (1944), the FilmNoir spy movie by Creator/FritzLang. The Nazi spy says "You wouldn't shoot your own brother" to his sister as he escapes out the door. There's the crack of a shot and a hole appears in the door; moments later his dead body tumbles through.
* ''Film/OurManFlint''
-->'''Lloyd Cramden:''' We've just had our first break. According to this dispatch I just received, our team of agents has them cornered! At any second... ''(gets another message)'' It was a trap. We just lost another team of agents.
* ''Film/OceansTwelve'': Tess has to bail out most of the cast by [[CelebrityParadox impersonating her own actress]]. Matt Damon's character tries to reassure her that no-one she's going to run into actually ''knows'' Julia Roberts, and the last thing anyone will be is personal. In walks Bruce Willis, AsHimself. Their reactions are priceless.
* In the rather bad action movie ''Film/TitanicII'' someone had the brilliant idea to name a ship Titanic and set it on the same route as the original. Things get worse not too long after.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, like so many other horror movie tropes, in ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}''.
-->'''Randy:''' Never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, say "I'll be right back." 'Cause you won't be back.\\
'''Stu:''' I'm gettin' another beer, you want one?\\
'''Randy:''' Yeah, sure.\\
'''Stu:''' ''I'll be right back!''\\
'''Randy:''' You see, you push the laws, and you end up dead, okay? I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife.
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "He is NOT a murderer!"
* This trope is featured prominently in the short film from the Nestle UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Anthology entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgmCOjwtTg Sign Seeker]], where the protagonist spends the entire morning tempting fate, looking for specific "Signs" from the universe to signal to him if today is the day he will ask the girl he likes if she would like to go on a date with him. [[spoiler: This is one of the rare, positive examples of this trope: it plays the trope straight and is still funny while NOT making the person who is tempting fate miserable in the process.]]

* Cyberdyne in the original universe of ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (before the T-800, Sarah, John, and an employee of the company [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod terminated the company with extreme prejudice]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] yet failed attempt at preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt) found out the hard way that naming your supercomputer "Skynet" is just as taboo as naming your ship "Titanic".
** ''Film/TheTerminator'': At the police station, Lt. Traxler tells Sarah "You'll be perfectly safe. We've got 30 cops in this building.". Shortly thereafter, [[CurbStompBattle the Terminator shows up to the station and effortlessly attacks them, with Traxler dying during the assault]].
* ''Film/Zombi3D'' has the GenreBlind General Morton, with the help of [[ThoseTwoGuys Coleman and Cheney]], burn a corpse infected with the Death One virus despite the environmental hazard warnings of Dr. Holder and his assistant, brushing off their concerns with the cheesy one-liner "That's ridiculous, pure ScienceFiction!" Actually, he ''is'' a character in a ScienceFiction movie, and yet, [[FlatEarthAtheist he consistently denies it]] [[RuleOfThree a total of three times]] [[CassandraTruth within the movie.]]
* In ''Film/{{Paul}}'', the statement "I doubt we'll ever see those guys again!" just ensures that 'those guys' show up at a random bar to delay our heroes as the feds are closing in. They also give one of the agents final confirmation that they're really chasing an alien.
* Played with in the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', when Indy and his Peruvian guide are at a temple chamber containing an ancient idol.
-->'''Satipo:''' There is nothing to fear here.
-->'''Indy:''' That's what scares me.

* One of the best exchanges from ''Film/MenInBlack'': a bad-tempered farmer named Edgar is investigating the flying saucer that just crash-landed on his pickup truck. As he peers into the smoking crater where the truck used to be, shotgun in hand, the unseen (by the audience) alien orders:
--->'''Alien:''' Place... projectile weapon ... on the ground.
--->'''Edgar:''' You can have my gun *racks shotgun* when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
--->'''Alien:''' Your proposal ... is ... acceptable. *eats him*

* ''Film/PacificRim'': One of the videos on the Pan Pacific Defense Corps page is a news report on a {{Kaiju}} attack ending with the reporter saying, "I can only pray that this is the end of it".
* ''Film/{{Water 1985}}''. British government mouthpiece Sir Malcolm Leveridge is giving a TV interview.
-->'''Sir Malcolm:''' This is a localized incident that you people are blowing out of all proportion. Under British rule this island has always been a model of civility, common sense, and tranquility. ''(RPG-7 rocket blows up a building behind him)''
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'' "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.
** In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'', Coin gives a speech at Snow's execution, exhorting Katniss to strike down the dictator and bring freedom. Naturally, Katniss shoots Coin, having realized that she wasn't any better than Snow was.

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': The Warriors Three and Sif discussing what to do after Loki takes the throne. Hogun suggests they go and find Thor, Volstagg gets very nervous because that would be a betrayal.
--> '''Volstagg''': "Sssh! Heimdall might be watching!"
--> '''Guard''': [''enters the room''] "Heimdall demands your presence!" [''leaves the room'']
--> '''Volstagg''': [[OhCrap ".....We're doomed."]]
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Villainous example with Hela after she has Thor pinned down and believes him beaten.
--> '''Hela''': "What was it that ''you'' were the god of, again?"
--> ([[BoltOfDivineRetribution Thunder rumbles]])
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''
** While Butch and Sundance are acting as payroll guards, their employer tries to reassure them about the threat from bandits.
-->'''Percy Garris''': About a half hour more, and we can start to worry, as soon as we get to that pass up there. We'll be all right till then. [snip] You got to relax, you fellas. You got to get used to Bolivian ways. You got to go easy. [snip] [shots ring out and he falls dead].
** Early in the movie, Butch and Sundance are pursued by a posse led by the lawman Joe [=LeFors=]. After traveling to Bolivia, at the end of the film they are trapped in a room by some police officers. Little do they know that a Bolivian Army detachment has arrived outside and is ready to riddle them with bullets.
-->'''Butch''': Hey, wait a minute.
-->'''Sundance''': What?
-->'''Butch''': You didn't see [=LeFors=] out there, did you?
-->'''Sundance''': [=LeFors=]? No.
-->'''Butch''': Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble. [They charge outside]
-->'''Bolivian Army officer''': Fuego! (Fire!) [gunfire] Fuego! [gunfire] Fuego! [gunfire].
* ''Film/Tremors5Bloodlines'': A secondary character shouts "You can't kill me! I'm African!" seconds before an Assblaster crashes on top of him.
* In ''Film/BridgeOfSpies,'' lawyer James Donovan convinces the judge sentencing a convicted spy to give him 30 years imprisonment instead of the death penalty because he might be useful if the Soviets ever capture an American spy and the two countries want to do an exchange. The judge dismisses it as lunacy. No points for guessing what happens next.
* In ''Film/TimeBandits,'' they're on the ship when Randall says, "Nothing can go wrong." Cue a giant walking off with the ship as a hat.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. After the Freelings rescue Carol Anne from the other side, the spiritual medium Tangina says "This house is clean". A short time later the ghosts re-appear and try to grab Carol Anne again.
* In the film ''Film/{{Juice}}'', BigBad Bishop chases Q into a building while shooting at him. Q is able to go to an elevator filled with people. Bishop enters the elevator just before the door closes. Q looks around at the people with him, smiles and says: "What are you going to do, shot me in an elevator?" Cue Bishop pulling out his gun and shooting. Good thing he was a lousy shot and hit no one inside the elevator before the door opened on the next floor.
* In ''Series/OddSquad: TheMovie'', Weird Tom tries to blow off an attempt to get into the closet where a self-multiplying and very dangerous creature is being stored as an attempt to take back headquarters when suddenly, the counter behind him goes from 4096 to 0. [[FromBadToWorse The situation only gets worse from there.]]
* During the climax of ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'', criminal mastermind Dane brags to Ryback that there is nothing he can do to shut down his satellite weapon. Ryback responds by shooting the laptop controlling the weapon, with the bullets going through the laptop and hitting Dane as well. Dane's last words: "I didn't think of that."
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
** While Roger is standing guard inside Maroon Studios he says "No one gets the drop on Roger Rabbit!" Seconds later he's [[TapOnTheHead conked on the head and knocked out]] by a frying pan.
** Lampshaded later when Jessica says the only reason she knocked him out and stuffed him in the trunk of a car was because she didn't want him getting hurt. Lampshadeded ''again'' when Eddie responds with obvious irony, "Yeah, that makes perfect sense."
*** Well, it would make perfect sense to a ''toon''.
* ''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.
* 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.]]
* ''Film/{{Vamps}}'': Vadim and Ivan’s opinion of a club girl having the word “juicy” on her clothes.
* ''Film/WhatAWayToGo:'' Workaholic [[Creator/DickVanDyke Edgar Hopper]] announces over the phone to [[Creator/ShirleyMacLaine his wife]] that "..a little hard work never killed anybody!" And promptly keels over dead.
* ''Film/TheWitchFiles'': While flying to Hag's Rock on a broomstick, MJ says "I've got this", immediately before losing control and crashing.

* A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near ''Film/Batman1989'''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.)
* [[AllThereInTheScript Mayor Jenkins]] in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is particularly prone to these.
** "Last night's violence will never happen again!"
** "Our police have the situation well in hand!"
* Taken to ridiculous heights in ''Film/HotShots''. One character, [[MeaningfulName appropriately named "Dead Meat" Thompson]] [[{{retirony}} receives a visit from his wife as he's preparing to fly a training mission]], and what follows is an enormous list of things he has to live for, including his beautiful wife, that he's carrying his (unsigned) life insurance papers with him, and that he's figured out how to solve the problem with global warming and the real culprits in the Kennedy assassination but hasn't told anyone and has the evidence on him. No, he doesn't make it back home...
** He also breaks a mirror, walks under a ladder, and has a black cat cross his path. Also, his kids are scraping asbestos off the pipes back home, so it's apparently hereditary.
* Happens subtly in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. "I am fucking bored to death, man!" Not for long, you aren't.

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'':
** "Actually, you don't need ''everyone''. About six of us will do. ({{Beat}}) Ohhh, dear..."
** "The bright side is, you're back and made it off free and clear!" (cue the Flying Dutchman bursting out of the sea literally right behind them)
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': "How soon can we have the ship ready to pursue?" (cue one of the masts of said ship falling over)
* A bullied Spider in ''Film/GoodFellas'' tells Tommy to "go fuck yourself", despite knowing what Tommy could do for such a nasty insult.
* In the 1994 adaptation of ''Film/TheLittleRascals'':
--->'''Alfalfa:'''(while running around in his underwear) Things can't possibly get any worse!'''
--->[turns around and runs straight into [[TheBully Butch and Woim]]]
--->'''Alfalfa:'''Then the clouds opened up and God said, "I hate you, Alfalfa!"'''
* ''Film/DieHard2'': The first person to be killed is the church custodian. [[spoiler:Baker and Thompson, two of Colonel Stuart's men (disguised as airport maintenance workers) trick him into letting them into the church, and he starts musing about the current proposals to shutter the church. He says, "Yeah, I kinda feel like a piece of me is dying along with this church." Baker immediately says, "Well, you're right about that," then pulls out a pistol and shoots the custodian.]]

* Oskari in ''Film/BigGame'': "We're safe here, right?" It takes less than a second before Hazar bursts in through the ceiling, kicking the movie's finale into motion.

* ''Film/{{Tremors}}''
** Earl and Valentine have resisted temptation (free beer) and left Perfection, Nevada for a new life. As they're driving along Valentine says, "Now there's nothing, and I mean nothing, between us and Bixby!" Seconds later, they see Edgar Deems high up on a power pylon. They stop to help him, and later events force them into a battle to the death against the Graboids.
** At one point the town residents say that eventually someone will notice the road's blocked and the phone lines are down and come check up on them. It then cuts to show someone ''did'' show up to check up on them... but was eaten by the Graboids.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'':
-->''(Froederick and Igor are exhuming a dead criminal)''\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' What a filthy job.\\
'''Igor:''' Could be worse.\\
'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein:''' How?\\
'''Igor:''' Could be raining.\\
''[[CueTheRain (it starts to pour)]]''
* ''Film/JamesBond'' villains do it sometimes.
** ''Film/GoldenEye''
*** One of the best examples is evil hacker Boris Grishenko who, after surviving the destruction of the Janus Base and his boss's demise, delivers his CatchPhrase "I am invincible!" -- scant seconds before huge vats of liquid nitrogen decide to disgorge their contents in his direction, flash-freezing him to death on the spot.
*** The opening of the movie with the Dam infiltration:
--->'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Half of everything is luck, James.\\
'''James Bond:''' And the other half?\\
''(alarm goes off)''\\
'''Alec Trevelyan:''' Fate.
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. While talking to the gangsters Goldfinger boasts that "My plan is foolproof!" Not with Bond around it isn't.
* American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'':
-->'''Nick:''' That's it, only three of them?\\
'''Roache:''' No, there's more. ''(showing more eggs in vicinity)''\\
'''Nick:''' Only 20? I think it's much more than this.\\
''(soldiers light the stadium)''\\
'''Roache:''' Start counting.

* ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'': During his BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame in the middle of a rainstorm, Bishop Pickering says to his caddy, Carl, "The Good Lord would never disrupt the best game of my life. I'm infallible, young fella!"
** Also, from the mouth of Judge Smails: "Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir, and I never slice!" Well, there's a first time for everything...

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': The future has been saved, and Doc is trying to land the [=DeLorean=] during a very heavy lightning storm. Marty warns him to be careful: "You don't want to get struck by..." Guess what happens next.

* A pretty blatant example occurs in ''Film/BattlefieldBaseball''. The Gedo coach wonders out loud, while looking around, if there is a WorthyOpponent that was brave enough to assault his headquarters. [[spoiler: Cue Jubeh, arriving at the scene with an explosion, followed by TheCavalry to do exactly that.]]

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

* ''Film/TheGreatRace''. While Max and Professor Fate are on a small iceberg, Max thinks there may be a storm.
-->'''Professor Fate:''' You thimble-headed gherkin, do you realize the odds against a storm in this part of the ocean at this time of year? 100-to-1.\\
''(thunder, immediately starts to rain)''

* ''Film/TheGoldenChild''. When Jarrell is taking the test to obtain the Dagger he says, "This is a piece of cake!" Not long after that he almost falls to his death and a rope bridge explodes.

* ''Film/DannyTheDog'':
** Bob Hoskins delivers the line "I tell you: this is gonna be one lovely day," ''just'' before his car gets T-boned by a garbage truck and then riddled with bullets.
** And at the end of the movie, he gives us the second instance of this trope when he has his nice car parked in an alley during the final battle, saying "This will keep her out of harm's way." [[CarCushion Guess what happens.]]

* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' offers a classic example of an enemy who appears to be retreating, but is actually just getting out of the way of something worse. At the climax of the rather lengthy Paris chase scene, Snake Eyes abruptly lets go of the Cobra operatives' car after hanging on to it for the entire chase.
-->'''Baroness:''' He gave up!
-->'''Storm Shadow:''' He never gives up.
-->WHAM! [their car gets brutally T-boned by an oncoming train]
* From the first ''Film/HarryPotter'' movie: Harry's abusive uncle claims that, because it's Sunday, they're not going to have to deal with any letters. [[spoiler:Cue several owls swarming the house and filling it with letters.]]
* Also doubles as a BrickJoke in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', when Tina and Newt argue about Jacob being Obliviated and Tina says "Who's gonna marry ''him''?" to Newt's comment on how American laws about marrying {{Muggles}} are backward. [[LaserGuidedKarma Meet your new brother-in-law, Tina.]]

* ''Film/{{DEBS}}''. While the protagonists are investigating a bank vault, Amy says "See? That wasn't so hard." Then a TrapDoor opens under her, sending her down a secret underground slide.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2AFzrKTRpw This short film]]: "These guys stink! I can take them on all by myself!"

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy and his father are spying on the Nazi villains from a nearby ridge. After they notice that the Nazis have recently acquired a tank, Indy's father warns him to get behind cover before the Nazis spot him. Indy's response: "Dad, we're well out of range." Seconds later, a shot from the tank blows up the Jones's car parked a few feet away.
** Dr. Elsa Schneider's exclamation of "We have got it, come on! It's ours Indy, yours and mine!" as she obliviously crossed the Great Seal with the Holy Grail definitely counts as TemptingFate. Surprisingly, she received a second chance when Indiana caught her before she fell into one of the cracks in the earth from the earthquake she started up. However, she pushed her luck too far when she tried reaching for the grail instead, causing her hand to slip from Indiana's grip.
*** In the PC adventure game, Elsa is more direct in stating that she doesn't believe the Knight's warning about leaving with the grail. She says, "But Indy, the Grail, it can be ours!" After his continued warnings about the seal, she says, "No! I don't believe it! I won't lose it now!" If you don't take the grail first, she tries to leave with it and slips into the abyss she created after crossing the seal.

* In ''[[Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves]]'', Wayne and Gordon land in a bowl of dip and Gordon worries about getting eaten during a party going on in the house. Wayne assures him that "They're teenage girls, how much can they eat?". Guess what happens next.
* In ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'', the protagonist and his band of freelance zombie-killers find themselves backed into a room by a swarm of the dead. Someone is stupid enough to ask "How can this be worse!?" which of course causes the lights to go out. Juan is understandably annoyed with the speaker.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Azrael and his QuirkyMiniBossSquad has cornered Bethany, Jay, Silent Bob, Rufus and Serendipity in a bar and are planning to kill them. Silent Bob has the golf club he swiped from the bishop of the church they were at and, not thinking of it, Azrael tempts Silent Bob into hitting him with it, telling everyone "Please! I'm a fucking demon.". Silent Bob shrugs, winds up... ''and smashes in Azrael's chest in''. Looking down at the gaping hole in his chest, he can only croak out [[IronicEcho "But...I'm a fucking demon..."]] before dying. Turns out the bishop blessed the driver so he can have a better golf game.
** Earlier in the movie, Bethany gives up after Jay destroys her car's transmission and plans to walk back home. As Jay's yelling at her, he shouts out "Guys like us don't fall out of the fucking sky, y'know?!". A few seconds later, Rufus makes his entrance... falling out of the sky. Jay tries for two for two ("Beautiful, big-tittied women don't fall out of the sky!") but it doesn't work.

* In ''Film/IronMan1'' Pepper comments that she expected Obadiah's suit (actually Tony's recovered MK I) to be ''bigger''. Oh, how right she was.

* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': "So you're gonna kill us with your soup cup?"

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', Ford Brody comes home after months of military service but quickly has to leave when he learns his father in Japan has been arrested. He's annoyed with having to leave his family so soon, but Elle assures him the trip will just be a few days. "It's not the end of the world." [[SarcasmMode What subtle foreshadowing]].

* Taslima in ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' remarks that L.A. is "not so bad once you figure it out." She is fatally shot as she ''finishes the sentence.''

* In the opening of ''Film/CampRock 2'', the protagonist sings about how much she's anticipating the holidays. The words 'drama-free' are tossed around. And ''then'' the plot kicks in...

* This exchange in ''Film/{{Critters}}'', conducted in [[FunWithSubtitles subtitled]] "Critterese":
-->'''Critter #1:''' They have weapons.\\
'''Critter #2:''' So what?\\
''[BLAM! A shotgun blast smears Critter #2 across the landscape.]''\\
'''Critter #1:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck!]] ''[runs off]''

* 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.]]
* 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.]]

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': A disc-jockey triumphantly announces that his station is "WZAZ in Chicago, where DISCO LIVES FOREVER!".. seconds before the eponymous plane knocks over the station's transmission tower.

* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' has this once Cornelius spots a suspicious-looking device on the wall:
-->'''Cornelius''': It's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a — it's a...\\
'''Ruby Rhod''': No no no no no no. 'Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?\\
* [[InstantlyProvenWrong the alarms go off]]*

* The first ''Film/ResidentEvil''. Right after entering the code to open a door, J.D. says "See how easy that was?" Seconds later he's dragged to his death by zombies behind the door.

*** Even within the movies, "ultimate power in the universe" is exactly how Motti described the Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''. [[spoiler:As in, before it was blown up.]] [[GenreBlind Shouldn't imperial Admirals have acknowledged that as an important lesson in humility after that?]]
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': "Looks like I was wrong. There wasn't any danger at all!"

*** 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-2SO as "I have a bad feeling about this.");

--->'''[[SmugSnake Tarkin]]:''' [[FamousLastWords Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.]]

* Happens subtly in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. "I am f**king bored to death, man!" Not for long, you aren't.

* During the climax of ''UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'', criminal mastermind Dane brags to Ryback that there is nothing he can do to shut down his satellite weapon. Ryback responds by shooting the laptop controlling the weapon, with the bullets going through the laptop and hitting Dane as well. Dane's last words: "I didn't think of that."

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''. After the Freelings rescue Carol Anne from the other side, the spiritual medium Tangina says "This house is clean". A short time later the ghosts re-appear and try to grab Carol Anne again.