— #153 A character receives a prophecy or curse of the form 'X cannot happen until Y,' where Y is seemingly impossible. X is frequently (but not always) the character's death or defeat., Y ends up happening somehow, usually through some or, with X promptly following. Over-reliance on this phrase by the baddie usually leads to a delicious moment. It often involves a, followed by the newly minted drawing his sword and. Met his end at the hands of a man 'born' via C-section, for example. When the clause includes an exhaustive list — neither by night nor by day, or neither by man nor by beast — a such as a werewolf or a such as twilight may slip through because being half of each, it's neither fully. As can clearly be seen from the Mythology section, this trope is definitely.
A subtrope of and; compare. Can be a form of. For some other instances of impossible conditions being met, see and. For when condition Y isn't really fulfilled but a half-assed excuse is used to justify X happening anyway, see. Its more comic is. Since this trope is frequently used as a surprise twist, major spoilers abound below!
M-macbeth Serial
Negative, a / villain introduced in the storyline is regularly quoted saying 'Mr. Negative was never born, so he is ever living!' He loves saying things like that. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Negative wasn't born, he was made.
Macbeth is a 1971 British-American historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, it retells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder. The film stars Jon.
The human trafficker who took on the identity of Martin Li is the one who was born, but that's besides the point. • In one issue of, in a story very much inspired by, the warrior takes on a warlord called Magg-Deth whose medallion is proof against sorcery, but whose guilty conscience over murdering Ban-Dro, his rival, to take his throne plagues him with visions of the rival's visage and a sword that will slay him one day. Three beautiful witches that Dagar becomes involved with visit Magg-Deth with a prophecy about how only an entire nation can slay him, and only after that nation has entered the Dark Fortress that the warlord calls home.
But as Dagar reveals during the final showdown with him, he is the, which makes him an entire nation. Needless to say, Magg-Deth dies by Dagar's blade soon after. • In one of the episodes meets a beast that 'cannot be defeated by the hand of a mortal man' and promptly kills it with a kick. • In, Thessaly is told that 'no one and nothing' can defeat the monster coming after her. So she sends Fetch, a ghostly being who is quite literally no one and nothing. • In the comic book version of, Batman teams up with Kid Eternity, who has the power to summon great heroes of the past, to battle General Immortus. However, when Immortus reveals prevents anyone born of woman from defeating him, Eternity can't think who to summon - 'Even Hercules and Gilgamesh had mothers!'