I Was Having Such a Nice Dream
A character finds themselves in an important prophetic dream, receiving vital information from a dead relative in a near-death experience, or just having a terribly good time in their head, when they hear the phone ringing or someone shouting their name and they are defibrillated back to the land of the living, just before the really good bit.
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Inevitability Clarification
Sometimes, people are just absolutely sure about how events will play out. In their eyes, it's already a Foregone Conclusion. They're so sure, in fact, that they feel the need to stress how it's not a matter of if things will turn out like they believe. It's a matter of when.
Note that this trope requires putting particular emphasis on using when and not if; a statement that casually assumes a future event will happen doesn't count. Also, this trope doesn't necessarily require the statement to end up being right. In fact, examples of this are often followed by
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