Cue the Flying Pigs/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone says something will happen when pigs fly... and a pig comes flying in.

• Played Straight: Charles says "Alice and Bob will get together...when pigs fly!" A winged piglet appears as Alice and Bob are walking down the street, holding hands.
• Exaggerated: An entire herd of winged pigs makes an appearance after that remark.
• Justified:
  • Charles is Tempting Fate
  • The same mysterious force that causes Alice and Bob to get together causes the pigs to fly, possibly in response to Charles' comment.
• Inverted:
• Subverted: Charles makes his comment, and nothing out of the ordinary happens.
• Double Subverted: But then a football ("pigskin") comes flying through the window.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied: A honey-glazed ham falls from the ceiling into Charles' hand.
• Lampshaded: "So...about those pigs, Charles..."
• Averted: No pigs or pig parts appear when Charles makes his comment.
• Enforced: Tempting Fate
• Invoked: Making a comment like Charles' above.
• Defied: Charles cuts himself off the moment he's about to say the phrase, thinking he's going to be Tempting Fate.

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You'll go back to Cue the Flying Pigs, when pigs fly!