Tempting Fate / Web Animation

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• Awesome Series: In Metal Gear Awesome, after being incinerated by lasers and blown up by mines, Snake mentions: "Oh gee whiz, I sure hope a tank doesn't totally come out of nowhere and OWN me!" Cue the tank totally coming out of nowhere and owning him.
• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • The hosts Wiz and Boomstick proudly proclaim "It's over! It's finally over! We never have to hear about it again!" at the end of Superman vs. Goku, one of the most widely requested fights of the series. Unfortunately for Ben and Chad, the voices of Wiz and Boomstick, and the rest of the crew, it quickly became (and still remains) the most hotly contested fight outcome in the shows history because Goku was weaker than Superman by a factor of about 100, so much that it became a running gag and one of the first episodes with a follow-up.
  • "Ratchet and Clank vs. Jak and Daxter": After Ratchet and Clank crash their ship into Jak and Daxter's house, Ratchet reassures the latter duo that "this isn't so bad", since the house was still standing and mostly-intact. Almost immediately the spaceship partially stuck within makes an explosion that utterly destroys the house.
  • "Black Widow vs. Widowmaker" has Widowmaker declare she can survive anything when Black Widow has her in a choke hold. Black Widow decapitates her seconds later.
• At the end of DKC: Return to Krocodile Isle, a fan-made animated Donkey Kong short, King K. Rool watches a TV interview featuring Donkey Kong himself. As the interviewer asks DK if there's anyone he'd like to see join the "upcoming event", K. Rool picks up and opens an envelope with a familiar wax seal. Then DK gives his response: "Nope! No one comes to mind. I mean, who else is there?" As he says this, K. Rool looks up from the envelope with a wicked grin.
• DSBT InsaniT: Done a few times, but the best example is when Frog points this trope out...and promptly realizes he fell for it in 'The Party'.
  Martha: Koden, this party is already a disaster, it can't get an—
  Frog: Don't say it! Whenever you say 'It can't get any worse', IT ALWAYS GETS WOR— Oh no! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
• Etra chan saw it!: Akane boasts that her partner's wife will never find out about their affair. The wife did find out and Akane is forced to reap what she sowed.
  Karin: "Such unreliable words..."
• In a Garry's Mod video called "Sniper Goes To The Opera", a woman says to her kid "And that's why, little Billy, you can never play in the street. You might get yourself killed out here", while both are standing in the middle of the road. She tries desperately to invoke this by pushing the kid closer to the middle and repeating the last sentence a few times, but nothing happens.
• GEOWeasel:
  • Parodied when Nar has to say the fate-tempting line twice for it to take effect.
  • In a later episode:
    Nar: What could possibly go wrong?
    Weas: A lot, now that you said that.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, this happens twice:
  • In episode thirteen:
    Marneus Calgar: I guess my day isn't completely ruined. After all, I have yet to see Ca—
    [Glory Hound and Calgar's personal Ironic Hell Cato Sicarius jumps in]
  • Another, in April Fool's episode:
    Fabulous Custodian: Nothing could possibly ruin this day!
    [cue Fucking Horus himself]
• In part 2 of Metroid Confusion, the two protagonists are blasted into space by a nuclear explosion. As they drift pointlessly through space on a piece of rock, the following exchange occurs:
  Scythe: Look on the bright side. It could be worse.
  Chiton: How could it possibly be worse? [rant detailing the situation they're in]
  Scythe: It could be raining.
  Chiton: You idiot! It cannot rain in space!
  [cue the rain... in space]
• Monkey Wrench: As they're preparing to drop off their client Nobert at the space station terminal, Shrike asks Beebs what he'd bet that their rivals Scratch or Tyneen will show up at the last second. A bewildered Beebs asks why he'd want to win that bet. Cue last second ambush, and Beebs shoots a dirty look at a rather sheepish Shrike.
• The Most Popular Girls in School: In Episode 19, the producer notices that every girl in the school are attractive...
  Cameraman: It's pretty much impossible to find an ugly one in this bunch!
  [cue Judith Dinsmore and Rachel Tice walking by]
  Judith: Heyyyyy!
  Producer: Ughh, spoke too soon. Man, I'm just barfing all day today.
• Parodied and subverted in an episode of Pucca. The introduction of the ship Gigantic by the captain includes calling her "unsinkable" three times, and the floor show in the dining hall involves a song including the lyrics "Because the ship can never sink." She hits the iceberg without incident, prompting the captain to cry "I told you it was unsinkable!" Later Double Subverted.
• Red vs. Blue gives us this gem:
  • "It's quiet. TOO quiet." -bullet whizzes past his head- "And suddenly it's very loud. I liked it better when it was quiet!"
  • And another one from Church:
    Church: As long as we're all happy, as long as we're all calm, and there's nothing that will get us excited or riled up.
    [KABOOM]
    O'Malley: Attack! Attack!
    Church: I could almost feel that coming... right as I finished the sentence.
  • "Nothing short of an aspirin overdose will stop this plan from succeeding!" Said by Captain Butch Flowers, who apparently died of an aspirin overdose administered by a time-traveling Church.
  • Grif makes this mistake while as the Blues are being attacked by multiple copies of Wyoming.
    Grif: Man, someone does all the battling and we just get to kick back and let 'em take the glory while we enjoy the benefits. We don't have to do anything!
    Sarge: [growls]
    Grif: [sighs] You know, one of these days, and I don't know when, I'm gonna learn to shut my fuckin' mouth.
• RWBY:
  • In the episode "Heroes and Monsters", Roman Torchwick gives a Motive Rant to Ruby about how she should die if she wants to be a hero, and how he'll do what he always does: lie, cheat, steal and survive. He gets rewarded for this speech by being made into Griffon food.
  • Even earlier in "Fall", when Yang is going to take on Mercury in the tournament, Ruby, Blake and Weiss are watching from the stands and Ruby shouts "Break a leg, sis!" down to Yang. Not long afterwards◊, Yang is actually suckered into "breaking his leg" on live TV as part of the villain's plan and ends up getting disgraced and arrested. Ouch.
  • In the Volume 6 Adam Taurus short, we see Adam's past up until his takeover of the White Fang and preparing to attack Haven. His last words was "It's time I got what I deserved..." The very next scene is from after the attack where he was beaten by Blake and had his plans foiled and he's shown staggering away from the fight, as dazed as Qrow in a drunken binge.
• 'Shrooms'. In "Supernatural Happenings", Red boldly insults a house full of ghosts, thinking they'll leave if he stands up to them. The camera HUD even changes to say "TEMPTING FATE" as he challenges them.
• From Team Fortress 2's "Something Completely Different": "This thing is indestructible!" A train destroys the two sentries and dispenser.
• Zero Punctuation:
  • It illustrates this concept with DC character Dr. Fate being offered cake.
  • There's also the "[PROTOTYPE] vs inFamous", where Yahtzee declared both games to be equal and jokingly said that if the game studios want him to pick a winner, they'll have to send him their best images of the rival game's main character wearing women's lingerie. Much to his surprise and horror, they complied.
    Yahtzee: Thanks to Radical Entertainment and Sucker Punch Productions for being such good sports. You sick, sick fucks.

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