Basic Trope: A character says or does something that suggests nothing bad will happen, thereby daring fate to make something bad happen, and then it happens. * Straight: Alice says "How could this possibly get any worse?" and it starts raining. * Exaggerated: Alice says "How could this possibly get any worse?" and she gets run over by a stampede. * Justified:The universe has a cruel sense of Irony and Alice is its Butt Monkey. * Alternatively, Alice had been placed under a curse by a witch doctor in which any time she utters the phrase "How could this possibly get any worse?", she is punished by the gods. * Inverted: Alice says "How could this possibly get any worse?" and then finds money. * Subverted: Alice says "How could this possibly get any worse?" and nothing