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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
29th Mar, 2020 04:39:35 AM
Correlation/Causation Gag for the first scenario.
Edited by eroock
KTera
Since: Oct, 2010
29th Mar, 2020 07:17:05 AM
And You Thought It Was a Game for the second one.
Tsundoku
Since: Feb, 2020
29th Mar, 2020 06:58:58 PM
Thanks!
What is the name of the trope when a kid/s (probably not part of the main cast) is playing and by pure coincidence what ever action s/he are playing suddenly actually happens near by (the action involving a member/s of the main cast) and the kid/s are all like whoaaa!??! Some off the top of my head examples (that I may be remembering wrong) include:
When the action is a coincidence to a game -In the recent Shazam film. A kid is playing with two super hero doll/action figures and he makes them fly into each other. Then, coincidentally, right outside his window the films superhero and supervillain fly into each other. -In one of the Nolan Batman films two kids in the back of a car are using finger guns to pew pew pew a near by car, the car then actually blows up because Batman fired a missle at it from the bat mobile because is was in the way of some important bat business.
Possibly a different trope, when the action is caused by the game, rather than coincidence -In an episode of Family Guy; Steve and his friends find a laptop in Stan’s office and proceed to play the ‘video game’ installed on it only to discover they are controlling an actual CIA drone. -In the film Wargames; David Lightman hacks into a United States Military super computer, runs a nuclear war simulation he thinks is a video game, turns out it’s not and he almost starts World War III.