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| 21st Jun '10 at 06:39:11 PM | flaminghomer |
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There must be one for this already, but I can\'t find it. What do you call the trope when a character in the past refers to a fantastic new (at the time) invention, predicting that in the future (i.e. now) it will be commonplace? Sort of like {{It Will Never Catch On}} and {{This Is Going To Be Huge}}, except the prediction in the past turns out to be correct. {{Murdoch Mysteries}} does this at least once an episode.was:
There must be one for this already, but I can\'t find it. What do you call the trope when a character in the past refers to a fantastic new (at the time) invention, predicting that in the future (i.e. now) it will be commonplace? Sort of like {{It Will Never Catch On}} and {{This Is Going To Be Huge}}, except the prediction in the past turns out to be correct.