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{{Inverted}} when a hero looks on the verge of defeat before revealing that they expected this all along, in which case a BigDamnHeroes moment may ensue.

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{{Inverted}} {{Inverted|Trope}} when a hero looks on the verge of defeat before revealing that they expected this all along, in which case a BigDamnHeroes moment may ensue.



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* ''Fanfic/TheArithmancer'': In Chapter 12 of the sequel ''Annals of Arithmancy'', Barty Crouch Jr [[LaughingMad laughs "like a madman"]] after being captured by Light forces and in response to the announcement that he's to be executed, because he created a [[SoulJar Horcrux]] to safeguard his life just in case that happened. After interrogating him on some of the specifics and finding out he has indeed outsmarted them all with his plan, Hermione casts a spell to put him into a [[FauxSleep perpetual coma]] instead to neutralize any threat he may otherwise pose.
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-->'''Matau:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Alright, who fired the tickle spinner?]]

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-->'''Matau:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Alright, who fired the tickle spinner?]]spinner]]?
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* Toward the end of ''Film/DieHard'', when Hans has Holly at gunpoint and orders [=McClane=] to drop his gun, he brings up the "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" thing from before. This gets [=McClane=] laughing, which in turn [[ActuallyPrettyFunny gets Hans laughing]], while Holly [[OnlySaneMan looks back and forth at them in sheer disbelief]]. Hans is laughing because he thinks he has [=McClane=] dead to rights, and of course [=McClane=] is laughing because if the [[CrazyPrepared loaded gun he has taped to his back]].

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* Toward the end of ''Film/DieHard'', when Hans has Holly at gunpoint and orders [=McClane=] to drop his gun, he brings up the "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" thing from before. This gets [=McClane=] laughing, which in turn [[ActuallyPrettyFunny gets Hans laughing]], while Holly [[OnlySaneMan looks back and forth at them in sheer disbelief]]. Hans is laughing because he thinks he has [=McClane=] dead to rights, and of course [=McClane=] is laughing because if of the [[CrazyPrepared loaded gun he has taped to his back]].
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* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Non-laughter example in Chapter 331 "The Last Great Twist", part of the FinalBattle against Dark Lord Vearn. Vearn is normally a smug, cackling villain, which has escalated to HotBlooded over the course of the fight. But when Dai finally has him impaled through the heart and is spamming lightning magic to slowly cook him to death from the inside out... Vearn suddenly [[DissonantSerenity loses all intensity]] and looks at Dai with an expression of ''pity'', gently asking him to stop for his own sake. He then reveals that [[spoiler:his entire campaign throughout the series was just a smokescreen for hiding a chain of {{Fantastic Nuke}}s around the human world [[YouAreTooLate which are about to detonate and kill everyone]], and he only lured Dai to his palace because he actually ''respects'' Dai and wanted to let him die a hero]].

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* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Non-laughter example in Chapter 331 "The Last Great Twist", part of the FinalBattle against Dark Lord Vearn. Vearn is normally a smug, cackling villain, which has escalated to HotBlooded over the course of the fight. But when Dai finally has him impaled through the heart and is spamming [[ShockAndAwe lightning magic magic]] to slowly cook him to death from the inside out... Vearn suddenly [[DissonantSerenity loses all intensity]] and looks at Dai with an expression of ''pity'', gently asking him to stop for his own sake. He then reveals that [[spoiler:his entire campaign throughout the series was just a smokescreen for hiding a chain of {{Fantastic Nuke}}s around the human world [[YouAreTooLate which are about to detonate and kill everyone]], and he only lured Dai to his palace because he actually ''respects'' Dai and wanted to let him die a hero]].
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* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Non-laughter example in Chapter 131 "The Last Great Twist", part of the FinalBattle against Dark Lord Vearn. Vearn is normally a smug, cackling villain, which has escalated to HotBlooded over the course of the fight. But when Dai finally has him impaled through the heart and is spamming lightning magic to slowly cook him to death from the inside out... Vearn suddenly [[DissonantSerenity loses all intensity]] and looks at Dai with an expression of ''pity'', gently asking him to stop for his own sake. He then reveals that [[spoiler:his entire campaign throughout the series was just a smokescreen for hiding a chain of {{Fantastic Nuke}}s around the human world [[YouAreTooLate which are about to detonate and kill everyone]], and he only lured Dai to his palace because he actually ''respects'' Dai and wanted to let him die a hero]].

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* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Non-laughter example in Chapter 131 331 "The Last Great Twist", part of the FinalBattle against Dark Lord Vearn. Vearn is normally a smug, cackling villain, which has escalated to HotBlooded over the course of the fight. But when Dai finally has him impaled through the heart and is spamming lightning magic to slowly cook him to death from the inside out... Vearn suddenly [[DissonantSerenity loses all intensity]] and looks at Dai with an expression of ''pity'', gently asking him to stop for his own sake. He then reveals that [[spoiler:his entire campaign throughout the series was just a smokescreen for hiding a chain of {{Fantastic Nuke}}s around the human world [[YouAreTooLate which are about to detonate and kill everyone]], and he only lured Dai to his palace because he actually ''respects'' Dai and wanted to let him die a hero]].
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* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'': Non-laughter example in Chapter 131 "The Last Great Twist", part of the FinalBattle against Dark Lord Vearn. Vearn is normally a smug, cackling villain, which has escalated to HotBlooded over the course of the fight. But when Dai finally has him impaled through the heart and is spamming lightning magic to slowly cook him to death from the inside out... Vearn suddenly [[DissonantSerenity loses all intensity]] and looks at Dai with an expression of ''pity'', gently asking him to stop for his own sake. He then reveals that [[spoiler:his entire campaign throughout the series was just a smokescreen for hiding a chain of {{Fantastic Nuke}}s around the human world [[YouAreTooLate which are about to detonate and kill everyone]], and he only lured Dai to his palace because he actually ''respects'' Dai and wanted to let him die a hero]].
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* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': {{Inverted}} and {{Exploited}} by Touma in book 2, when he faces the [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] alchemist Aureolus Izzard. After witnessing the power of Touma's AntiMagic right hand Imagine Breaker, Izzard ''cuts off Touma's arm'', apparently securing his victory. However, by this point Touma has figured out two things: first that Izzard's apparent SpellConstruction is just to help him focus, and his power is actually [[MagicIsMental controlled by his thoughts]]; second that [[WrongContextMagic he has no idea what Imagine Breaker is or how it works]]. Touma then makes a SlasherSmile and begins laughing like a maniac while pretending Izzard's attacks are no threat to him at all.[[note]]Aided by his NotQuiteDead ally Stiyl using subtle illusions to throw off Izzard's aim, though this detail is dropped in adaptations.[[/note]] This psyches out Izzard enough that it starts making his attacks genuinely weaker, and by the time Touma is in punching range he's so afraid that the stump of Touma's arm ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns into a dragon and attacks him]]''.
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* ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Happens during the [[TropeNamer trope-naming]] scene for IAmNotLeftHanded.

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* ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Happens during the [[TropeNamer trope-naming]] scene for IAmNotLeftHanded. Twice!
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyMovie2'': Retak'ka goes from seeming to suffer from [=BoBoiBoy=] Solar's light beam attack to laughing, before turning to face the blast head-on and tell his opponent to give him back more of his [[LightEmUp original power]]. Solar realises this too late, and Retak'ka leaps forward to grasp him by the neck, shortly before absorbing his power completely.

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** One for the audience when a few minutes later, having drunk the antidote and evaded the pursuit to a waiting airplane, Jones boards the plane, notices Lao Che and waves him a cheery triumphant goodbye. He then closes the airplane cabin door, revealing the owner of the plane as... Lao Che! This guy just can't catch a break.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}''. After Dutch incapacitates the title creature, it activates a device on its wrist and starts laughing at him. Dutch realizes the device is a SelfDestructMechanism and starts running...

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** One for the audience when a few minutes later, having drunk the antidote and evaded the pursuit to a waiting airplane, Jones boards the plane, notices Lao Che and waves him a cheery triumphant goodbye. He then closes the airplane cabin door, revealing the owner of the plane as... Lao Che! This guy just can't catch a break.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}''. ''Film/{{Predator}}'': After Dutch incapacitates the title creature, it activates a device on its wrist and starts laughing at him. Dutch realizes the device is a SelfDestructMechanism and starts running...
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. In "Mad Love", Harley Quinn has captured Batman and is going to drop him into a tank of piranhas to prove her love for The Joker. She's freaked out when Batman, famous for being TheStoic, starts laughing at her, mocking the idea that The Joker regards her as anything but a tool, so he'd never believe she had killed his greatest foe. [[spoiler:This is all a BatmanGambit to get Harley to fetch the Joker, giving Batman a chance to escape.]]
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* ''Film/DoctorStrange'' has the main character fight off a number of the villain's henchmen and effectively banish them to various parts of the world using a set of portals. He then manages to subdue the villain, Kaecilius himself with a device. There's a few minutes conversation between Strange and Kaecilius and then Kaecilius starts chuckling, which naturally prompts Strange to ask what's so funny.

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* ''Film/DoctorStrange'' ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' has the main character fight off a number of the villain's henchmen and effectively banish them to various parts of the world using a set of portals. He then manages to subdue the villain, Kaecilius himself with a device. There's a few minutes conversation between Strange and Kaecilius and then Kaecilius starts chuckling, which naturally prompts Strange to ask what's so funny.
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* Toward the end of ''Film/DieHard'', when Hans has Holly at gunpoint and orders [=McClane=] to drop his gun, he brings up the "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" thing from before. This gets [=McClane=] laughing, which in turn [[ActuallyPrettyFunny gets Hans laughing]], while Holly [[OnlySaneMan looks back and forth at them in sheer disbelief]]. Hans is laughing because he thinks he has [=McClane=] dead to rights, and of course [=McClane=] is laughing because if the [[CrazyPrepared loaded gun he has taped to his back]].

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