I noticed there are a lot of rather tenuous examples on the REALLIFE page, mostly of the form "someone said something about X either dieing or not dieing, and then later on they died".
If there's some particular connection, I can understand it, but then there are ridiculous examples like this
Back in 2007, George W. Bush used the phrase "Mandela's dead" as an awkwardly worded metaphor for what Hussein did to Iraq. As of the 5th of December, 2013, the phrase "Mandela's dead" applies quite literally.
It was going to happen eventually, and there's no particular connection to the original quote. The main page even says
Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as people dying, that's not necessarily this trope. Everyone dies eventually, as far as we know. It would be this trope if the death had some link to how they appeared on screen.
I noticed there are a lot of rather tenuous examples on the REALLIFE page, mostly of the form "someone said something about X either dieing or not dieing, and then later on they died".
If there's some particular connection, I can understand it, but then there are ridiculous examples like this
Back in 2007, George W. Bush used the phrase "Mandela's dead" as an awkwardly worded metaphor for what Hussein did to Iraq. As of the 5th of December, 2013, the phrase "Mandela's dead" applies quite literally.
It was going to happen eventually, and there's no particular connection to the original quote. The main page even says
Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as people dying, that's not necessarily this trope. Everyone dies eventually, as far as we know. It would be this trope if the death had some link to how they appeared on screen.
edited 13th Jul '14 2:43:44 PM by storyyeller
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