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Synchronicity
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Nepworks
Since: Feb, 2020
22nd Jan, 2021 11:17:51 PM
I think it's just Dramatic Irony. Being a flashback doesn't change that.
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
23rd Jan, 2021 02:06:07 AM
^ One could make the same case for Call-Forward, it being a tragic incident doesn't change that.
Nepworks
Since: Feb, 2020
23rd Jan, 2021 07:21:58 AM
You're right my b
in a flashback when a character facetiously says "i hope [this thing] happens" when we've already seen it happen in the main story. usually it's a tragic thing. kinda like harsher in hindsight or reverse funny aneurysm or reverse foreshadowing. like in three billboards when the daughter is like "i hope i get raped" or in the wilds when fatin tells jeanette "this plane could take a nosedive into the ocean and i would not give a shit who you are"
i guess it's kinda like tempting fate but we've already seen fate play out so there's the added irony?