Basic Trope: A work makes a prediction about the future that doesn't come to pass.
- Straight: Tropers, a film released in 1989 but set in 2015 predicts that North Korea would no longer exist. It doesn't come to fruition.
- Exaggerated: Tropers makes many predictions, none of which come true.
- Averted: Tropers makes no future predictions, as it's strictly set in 1989 and beforehand.
- Downplayed: Tropers predicts the Soviet Union would collapse in 1992, when it actually collapsed in 1991.
- Justified: Tropers is actually a Alternate History film where North Korea did collapse.note
- Inverted: Bob at one point jokingly predicts that Donald Trump will become president.note
- Subverted: The North Korea prediction was actually just speculation by Bob, who lives in 1989 when the film is actually set...
- Double Subverted: ...but there's an epilogue set in 2000, when the North Korean government falls for real.
- Parodied: Tropers predicts the Sun will explode in 1990.
- Defied: Bob makes a resolve to only allow "the truest of predictions".
- Invoked: Bob sets up a plan to bring down the North Korean government by running Kim Jong Il over with a car, which is such a ludicrous method of assassination that he bets it won't come true in Real Life.
- Exploited: Claire is an in-universe Moral Guardian who doesn't want the work to be taken seriously as a piece of political theory, and she succeeds because of the failed prediction in 2000.
