Expectation
Expectation noun - The act or state of looking forward to some occurrence.
Something else is an antonym for expectation.
Something else
Both terms in one sentence
- It's only a subversion if the creator sets up the trope within the work, creating an expectation that the trope will be used, and then does something else.
Source: Not a Subversion - First, the expectation is set up that something we have seen plenty of times before is coming, then that set-up is paid off with something else entirely.
Source: Subverted Trope
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Something else and Expectation. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/expectation/something_else
Expectation & Something else. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/expectation/something_else>.
Something else or Expectation. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/expectation/something_else.
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