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** In Season 7, Euron Greyjoy comes out of nowhere and creates and mans a fleet out of apparently nothing then destroys two different fleets with apparently negligible losses and thereby prevents the show from ending.

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** In Season 7, Euron Greyjoy comes out of nowhere and creates and mans a fleet out of apparently nothing then destroys two different fleets with apparently negligible losses and thereby prevents the show from ending. Also in this season, the Lannister-Tarly army somehow takes the castle of Highgarden with minimal effort, both killing Olenna Tyrell and looting enough gold that Cersei can pay off a debt to the Iron Bank and also hire mercenaries to bolster her forces.
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* In the last episode of series three of ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'', a killer makes two attempts on the life of therapist Morgan Lamb. She manages to outwit and then outrun him, and takes sanctuary at the police station where she strikes up a rapport with Chandler. Finally, the killer dies after throwing himself off a building, dying in his mother's arms with the words: "I'm sorry...sorry I didn't kill Morgan." All's well that ends well -- except that the police take the killer's mother to the police station, she spots Morgan in her safe room, distracts the police and promptly stabs Morgan to death with a shard of glass from a coffee table.

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* In the last episode of series three of ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'', ''Series/WhitechapelTVSeries'', a killer makes two attempts on the life of therapist Morgan Lamb. She manages to outwit and then outrun him, and takes sanctuary at the police station where she strikes up a rapport with Chandler. Finally, the killer dies after throwing himself off a building, dying in his mother's arms with the words: "I'm sorry...sorry I didn't kill Morgan." All's well that ends well -- except that the police take the killer's mother to the police station, she spots Morgan in her safe room, distracts the police and promptly stabs Morgan to death with a shard of glass from a coffee table.
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* The Diabolus has occasionally been employed by''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. A particularly impressive example of their partnership is the famous ''Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]", where an unfortunate, timid man has locked himself in a bank-vault to get the peace to read his many books -- and because of that, survives a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt nuclear holocaust]], leaving him the last man alive in the world. Then he realizes that this gives him plenty of time to read his beloved books, and thus unwittingly invokes the Diabolus Ex Machina, who promptly breaks his glasses.

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* The Diabolus has occasionally been employed by''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. A particularly impressive example of their partnership is the famous ''Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]", where an unfortunate, timid man has locked himself in a bank-vault to get the peace to read his many books -- and because of that, survives a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt nuclear holocaust]], leaving him the last man alive in the world. Then he realizes that this gives him plenty of time to read his beloved books, and thus unwittingly invokes the Diabolus Ex Machina, who promptly breaks his glasses.
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Just For Pun is a disambiguation


** Actually inverted [[spoiler:([[JustForPun doubly]], once because evil swaps with good and once because the returning-home-spell doesn't change her fate in the other dimension)]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland Doppelgangland]]" when [[EvilTwin Evil Vampire Willow]] from the Wishverse comes to the Buffyverse, gets the I-want-to-go-home going and after saying goodbye the viewer is reminded that she gets back to the exact moment she came from, only to [[spoiler:die a second time]].

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** Actually inverted [[spoiler:([[JustForPun doubly]], [[spoiler:(doubly, once because evil swaps with good and once because the returning-home-spell doesn't change her fate in the other dimension)]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland Doppelgangland]]" when [[EvilTwin Evil Vampire Willow]] from the Wishverse comes to the Buffyverse, gets the I-want-to-go-home going and after saying goodbye the viewer is reminded that she gets back to the exact moment she came from, only to [[spoiler:die a second time]].
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insufficient context. ship sinking must refer to a specific scene intended to disprove a pairing, and the show must mention the idea of the pairing previously. per TRS https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1640420480098263500


** The crown jewel of this trope may be Angel [[FaceHeelTurn losing his soul and becoming evil again]] after [[spoiler:he and Buffy have sex, giving him a moment of pure, perfect happiness, which turns out to be his CurseEscapeClause since the curse that restored his soul was meant to make him suffer]]. In one fell swoop the OfficialCouple is [[ShipSinking broken up]] and a new BigBad with intimate knowledge of all the heroes is introduced, all because Angel will lose his soul if he ever has a moment of true happiness...something that was never mentioned until after it already happened.

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** The crown jewel of this trope may be Angel [[FaceHeelTurn losing his soul and becoming evil again]] after [[spoiler:he and Buffy have sex, giving him a moment of pure, perfect happiness, which turns out to be his CurseEscapeClause since the curse that restored his soul was meant to make him suffer]]. In one fell swoop the OfficialCouple is [[ShipSinking broken up]] up and a new BigBad with intimate knowledge of all the heroes is introduced, all because Angel will lose his soul if he ever has a moment of true happiness...something that was never mentioned until after it already happened.

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