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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
13th Jun, 2021 09:31:27 AM

Not Hyperbole if someone says something that sounds like exaggeration or metaphorical, and turns out to mean it literally.

IE, Superhero Alice tells Supervillain Bob she's going to punch him to the moon. Bob laughs, then his face hurts and he spends the next month cobbling together a ride back to Earth out of stuff various missions have left behind on the moon.

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LTLoefer Since: Jan, 2019
13th Jun, 2021 10:16:17 AM

hmm, im wondering whether there is a more specific one. Something like prophecy born in vengeance

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
13th Jun, 2021 10:37:53 AM

For defying death by a driving desire for revenge, Purpose-Driven Immortality, overlapping with tropes like Born-Again Immortality, Escaped from Hell, and Revenant Zombie depending on how exactly they come back.

LTLoefer Since: Jan, 2019
18th Jun, 2021 03:19:27 AM

Purpose-driven immortality would be a sister trope to what I had in mind; thanks.

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